Haven/profile

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## Personality

If you speak to Haven once, she assumes you're buddy-buddy. She'll ask for money, food, or anything else that she could possibly need- A place to stay while she's on trying to get shots of the bigfoot she heard was in town? Who else could she possibly ask but the stranger she just met? She's got a certain charisma that lets her get away with it to an extent.

Unfortunately she doesn't have the best handle on her own money. She vapes, bro, and even when she can't afford it she often slips into her habit. She informs whoever asks that her vape pen is "medicinal", but it's a bit hard to believe.

Haven is abrasive. She is still unable to contain her aggression in a healthy way, and it manifests throughout her interactions with others. Often it seems like she's bursting at the seams. Smoking helps, but at the point she is now it just barely keeps her at a manageable level. Firm claps on the back are common, and if she shoulder checks you expect a bruise.

## Background

Half Okinawan, half American.

Haven hadn't the easiest time as a kid. Her mom passed at 6, and her father found himself pulling double shifts for a shit job that could barely afford her and the bottle he'd lost himself in after. When he wasn't working he'd be drinking away, leaving Haven to herself for long periods of time. After another kid pointed out her dead mom once again, Haven decked him- And quickly figured out the fastest way to get her dad's attention.

It started with angry outbursts, but her coping mechanisms for emotions were steadily becoming more and more aggressive. After nearly kicking a hole into the wall because she was crying over ol' yeller, Haven's school pleaded her father to seek therapy together with his child.

They found the one, and the therapist helped Haven acclimate to her emotions in a more approachable way. They attempted multiple sports related outlets but none of them ended well, with most ending with a blackened eye. Haven's father purchased her a cheap camcorder when she was 16 from the pawn shop, and she's had it ever since.

It started with short clips. She'd record something small and sometimes notice something odd in the background, a flickering light, something that looked like it shouldn't be there. Once her father jokingly said it might have been her mother's ghost, and that spiraled her further into the paranormal aspect. Haven spent hours watching Ghost Hunters and other supernatural investigators before becoming convinced she needed to do it herself. Despite the pleading of her father.

She took off when she turned 17 to mainland USA, moving through the states as best she could with small part time gigs she could manage or the community of investigators that took pity on her. When she heard from her one friend that this guy that took a picture of a fairy knew of a huge supernatural phenomenon happening in NYC, she knew she would finally, *finally*get her break. Or at least find someone who will let her stay on their sofa afterwords.

## Trivia

* She has never, ever, photographed anything remotely paranormal.
* 5'8", but if you ask her she's, like, probably 6' tall.
* Beauty mark on her lower lip!
* Really needs a tripod because everything she has shot looks like a camera was strapped to a small, trembling dog.
* Would punch a ghost.
* Chaotic stupid, overly physical and affectionate.

## Quotes

* > "*Say Something Here*"
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