Candie Morell

## Background Information (Spoilers)

Candie is the daughter of a Scandinavian exotic dancer, Maria Morell aka "Jade".

She grew up with her mom and Candie have never meet her real dad. Maria was very wage to describe him when Candie was little and scarcely talked about him at all, until Candie instigated questions as a young adult.

When Candies mom was young, she travelled to America to find herself spiritually. Maria got estranged by her own family at a young age, which made her question life and its meaning. Luckily, she meet Candie's father who took her in under his wing. Maria danced at a couple local businesses before meeting candies father at one of them. They feel in love, but the shady business that he was into made them fall apart in the end. Maria left before she knew she was pregnant. She continued her travel around the country, not finding any meaning to life or reprieve in this cruel world, until she found out about Candies existence. Maria made the decision to keep her baby, but since she did not have any means to support them both in the US, she moved back to her motherland. She took jobs wherever she could find them and eventually ended up in a finer establishment for exotic dancers. And in nick of time. Short after she got Candie. Maria changed under her travels and in the end she was happy, even though the road was hard she received a healthy beautiful baby girl and a new family at her work place.

Candie often went to her moms work after school to help Maria and the other ladies’ prep for the shows. Fixing their hair, helping them to change and put make up on. Candie also got work as a waitress at the same establishment under the summer breaks to be able to earn some money and sometimes just to help. Even thou her mom worked as an exotic dancer, they almost never got into any real trouble and the few times they did Candie was the one to fear. Her mom saw Candie's special anger bursts as a trait from her father, since he too had problems controlling his emotions in some circumstances.

Candie, who wanted to know more about her father and wanting to follow her mom’s spiritual footsteps, decided to travel to the US. Maria was hesitant to let Candie search out her father, but in the end let her go, so Candie herself could make up her mind about him and maybe grow as Maria did in her travels.

## Personality traits

* Naive
* Blunt
* Action seeker
* Scatterbrain
* Trusting

## Event Arc

### 1st day

The first day in the city Candie meet Salazar at the hospital while fixing her ID card. He kindly borrowed one of his bikes to her so she could get around town. She eventually ended up at Tequila Tony's where she meet Hallelujah for the first time. Candie did not stay long and took a drive to Chumash, where she found a nice but decrepit boat. She thought it would be a great idea to jump of the boat into the deep blue sea, but she did a hard belly flop which lead to her drowning. Lucky some locals found her and took her to pillbox. Candie felt bad leaving Salazar's bike up at Chumash so she wandered thru the mountains to get it back, only to find it gone. After the long hike Candie fell asleep by exhaustion.

### 2nd day

Candie went back to the city the next day. There she wandered around and encountered Claire and Maverick at pillbox, while she searched for Salazar.

### 3rd day

When Candie woke up she saw a tweet by Hallelujah and decided to give her a visit near the apartments. There Candie also met Barry and Alucard for a short while. They all were tired so they didn't stay long and Candie's impatient side kicked in so she started to roam the city again.

She accidentally bumped into Freddy West who was nice and gave her a car ride to Little Liberty. Candie ended up at the duckling tours where she met Alex, Sam and Candi. In their touring she also met John, Paul Goodman, Jack from LL, Goldie and Bell.

### 4th day and ongoing

After several days wandering the city Candie found a reprieve at the Mirror Park tavern. That was also the place where she first met some of her closest friends. Due to the taverns open times, she where able to interact with people more frequently. There she interacted with Mason Brook and later also met Ace Monde, a friend of Mason. She also met Nicole “Nikki” Wright and Asher Cook.

Together Mason, Ace, Nikki and Candie went on a trip to the beach. Which ended with Nikki drowning, twice, and later when they had to fetch Asher up north got into more trouble. Ending with Mason, Ace and Asher crashing with a local. Candie walked around the whole city in a bikini that day.

Unfortunately, Ace started showing signs of memory loss. Candie drew him to Pillbox immediately and didn’t let him go anywhere else until he got checked. The hospital let Ace go early, but too early. The memory loss continued and Mason texted Candie about the situation, while he took Ace to Pillbox. At the same time Ace texted Candie to advice Mason not to worry and mentioned a fiancé. Which Candie never had heard about. When Candie (still in a bikini) meet Mason, he informed her of Ace´s sad background and wanted her to help him remember. This led to a trip around Los Santos, talking and showing Ace what he forgot and collecting memories. Not all came back to him, but at least Ace got some recollections back that day.

….

After being away from the city for a couple of weeks, to visit her mom in Sweden, Candie went back to her favourite meeting place. The Mirror Park tavern. Candie meet all her friends and even got her hair dyed when she had the option presented for her. She was happy to be able to be with her friends again. She was so happy to back that she did not notice things brewing.

The next day Candies friends started to act weird. They seemed out of sorts and when Candie asked they all said the same thing: “Has Ace talked to you yet? If not, I can´t talk to you about it”. At first Candie did not notice, but when J that she did not know to be a friend of Ace, Nikki and Asher, said the same thing she got worried. She finally texted Mason about it, asking why people where acting strange and he gave her the answer: “if Ace haven´t talked to you, I don´t believe I should”.

Candie broke. She felt left out, and people seemed to avoid her by going off to places without her. Even when Candie got kidnapped that day by the Green Goblin and suffered from serious head-pop´s, she tried reaching out via phone calls. But nobody answered.

She had seen her mom experiencing this same scenario with her grandparents and that scared her.

Candie texted Mason back in a sad despair: “I guess I believed in the delusion that you guys where my friends. I guess I was wrong. I will leave you alone.” Candie then drove her car desperately trying to find someone to distract her and to be her friend. But no one was around. She even called Ace when she heard that he had been to the hospital, but Ace was exhausted and Candie did not want to force him to talk to her, so she stayed away. She cried a lot that day and ended her night sleeping by the dumpsters, because she felt like trash.

The day after was a bit better for Candie after talking to Willowa and Doug about the situation. Candie felt even better after meeting Nikki and Asher. They acted “normal” again which made the whole thing easier to swallow. But Candie still did not know how to act when Mason showed up. She tried to avoid him because she felt that he didn´t want her around. Their interaction was strained, until Mason told Candie that he didn’t want her to stay away. Which made Candie feel so much better and relaxed again near Mason. Later that day Candie hanged around Ned Rogan which made her in a even better mood. His shenanigans perked her up. Together they formed the Pink gang.

Ned had not been initiated into the city (being shoot, stabbed or kidnapped) so Candie decided to kidnap him and play hide and seek.

When Candie got kidnapped by the Green Goblin he told her that they were playing a game of hide and seek, which they didn´t (but Candie could not really tell). So Candie wanted Ned to get the good part of the hide and seek kidnapping. Which she gave him…hopefully.

Life continued for Candie, and she even got to experience Ace Monde and Asher Cook´s wedding. It seemed like things were on the right track again. Playing laser tag with friends, talking and floating around with Ned, but something is still off.

## Relationships

Friends

* Ace Monde
* Asher Cook
* Nicole Wright
* Mason Brook
* Ned Rogan

Introduced

* Salazar
* Hallelujah
* Maverick
* Claire
* Barry
* Alucard
* Logan
* Freddy West
* Candi Kaine
* Alex
* Sam
* Jack
* Goldie
* Bell
* Paul Goodman
* Llanzo
* David (aka burgerman aka Stoneman aka bunman)
* Goob
* Morgan
* Willowa
* Linus
* Ned
* Natasha
* Eden
* Sky
* Aveline
* Georgie
* Dough
* Vincent
* Clarence
* Haven
* Trash Kitty