Camilla

CAMILLA CONSUELA JUANA GONZALES aka "HoneyBear", "Duchess", "Hurricane Cami"

   The fourth of five children, Camilla has had a tumultuous home life. She has two older brothers, Gil and Rudy, who fancy themselves 'gangstas', despite having a rather suburban Midwestern upbringing.

An older sister, Marisol (her mom's favorite), who fancies herself a future celebrity supermodel, and has always been rather mean-spirited toward Camilla... and a rather quiet and surprisingly well-adjusted younger brother, Eugenio, a prodigy, gifted in math and science, who is, for better or worse, considered to be the great hope for the future of their family.

Camilla and her mother, Marlena, do NOT get along.

Marlena is hardest and most abrasive on Camilla. It is because Camilla reminds her so much of herself at a young age - chubby, smart, fearlessly tomboy-tough and seemingly lacking in femininity - and Marlena has never liked any of that about herself. Her other daughter, Marisol, is everything Marlena wished she was at a younger age - thin, feminine, sexy, confidently vain and full of herself. She is also a lot like the 'Mean Girls' that picked on Marlena during her own youth - The ones that Maria eventually began to follow around and obey like a toadie in order to be considered "cool". "High School Stockholm Syndrome".

She took all those pent up feelings of self-loathing out on Camilla until she drove her daughter away, some time near the end of her senior year in high school.

Camilla still tries, desperately, to get along with her family, if only for the sake of her dad, Alex - an orthodontist sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. In her mind and heart, though, aside from her incarcerated father, she considers her boyfriends, Rex Riley and Felix Long to be her ***real*** family.

Despite her mother's wishes that she be less willful, more feminine and 'lose weight', Camilla ignored her and continued to proudly be herself. This included no patience for those who would abuse those 'weaker' than themselves, and NOT taking insults to herself and those she cared about, lightly. Though very loquacious and bright, she was, initially, rarely the type to settle disputes with flowery words when fists would do the job. However, to get her mother to get off her back for a while, she decided that she wouldn't throw a punch, no matter who deserved it, unless they threw the first one.

When she met her boys, she'd been sent to detention, much like her dad, for a crime she didn't commit.

Having embarrassed some of the school's popular mean girls in front of everyone in the cafeteria at lunchtime - Verbally defending herself against the cheerleaders' catty insults about her weight with, instead of the usual knuckle sandwiches, a very loud and scathing onslaught of rapid-fire barbs to "*Ashley Simone Sternhagen (la-di-fuckin'-da)*" and her squad of hangers-on - Camilla was later framed for "stealing" the girl's phone. Camilla maintained that she didn't do it... because if she had, she wouldn't have been *caught*. When Ashley demanded that Camilla's locker be checked, the phone was found there. Despite the fact that Camilla's lock had obviously been tampered with in order to have the phone placed there, and, just to shut Ashley up (mainly due to the fact that her uncle was school superintendent, an her well-to-do parents had a very positive ((and lucrative)) reputation with the school district due to charity work and donations), Camilla was given 2 days detention. She served 3, just to hang around with Rex and Felix an extra day after meeting and immediately connecting with them. After all, what were they going to do to her? Give her detention?

 After obtaining her vengeance for that miserable experience with the Ashley and the Cheerleaders, Camilla, out of spite, dedicated herself to learning to actually be a proper thief. Having grown into ***a very good*** thief, Camilla brings her skills to bear in surviving the very weird life that she and her boyfriends currently find themselves living.

Though she has picked up a penchant for "The BeatSpeak" from Rex and his grandfathers, Camilla will often pepper her lingo with ample amounts of alliteration, as well as what Rex calls "The Ace Ventura", that is, drawing a breath and letting loose with a long-winded shpiel on any given subject until she runs out of breath.