Aeliana Longford

## Personality

Aeliana wasn't the girl to wear her heart on her sleeve. She became cold and distant at a young age. Most people-- and therapists, blame it on her father's sudden death. It's rare to find Elena without an insult accompanying her, awaiting to say hello to whoever dares to look at her wrong. Just like the many that surround her family, there's a certain rumor going around that maybe the Ice queen isn't as cold as everyone thinks she is.

It's not like anyone truly believed that though, because neither did Elena.

Aeliana never had to beat around the bush to get her true feelings known. She's blunt and to the point, passive aggressiveness wasn't something she stood by, she believed if you wanted something, you had to get it yourself. If you felt a certain way about someone-- you had to say it. Of course, this logic only stood to the people beneath her, and to Elena-- there was many people who weren't even on the same level as her. It's easy to get a big head when your family owns the school. But it wasn't because of no reason, Elena works hard to be at her best. She was expected to be, and so she is.

Expectations are something she doesn't slack off on-- not that Aeliana was ever lazy. But if there is something expected of her-- or rather asked to do by someone she respects, there was always a way she would find what she needed.

She's competitive, but unlike some, she doesn't let anyone stand in her way. When Elena puts her mind to something, it's hard to stray her on a different path. It's easy to take one look at the girl and say she's an outright terrible person, although first glances doesn't get you anywhere. Double takes are permitted, but people are going to have to try harder to crack the shell that Aeliana Longford hides behind.

## Background

November 7th, 2002. Another Longford was born, normally it'd be a day for such to celebrate new life in the family, even though some might've been disappointed she wasn't a male, there was darker times head of them. The mother had passed away during childbirth, but at least she had gotten to name her beforehand. Welcome to the world, Aeliana Cosimia Longford. Little did she know, that the day she was born might've been one of the best birthdays of her life. *Only because she didn't remember it.*

Growing up, her father was always distant. The more looks back, she notices how hard it was to try and get him to engage with her, the more she thought about it-- the worse it felt. Since she was young, Aeliana craved confirmation, all she wanted was the plain and simple, 'I'm proud of you.' But she never got it. Perhaps it was because she reminded him too much of her late mother, or because her father was going through so much stress getting ready to take over the headmaster position from her grandfather. Longfords were groomed to become the next in line to take care of their prestigious school as soon as they were barely ready. And with her father, well, it was hard to say if he ever was.

Despite their strained relationship, He ever missed one of her birthdays. Always brought a gift, stayed for the cake, and might've gotten too drunk once or twice a few times, but he still cared. He might have not shown his love in the way Aeliana wished he did, but he still loved her... even if sometimes it was hard to convince herself of that fact. After all, she was fairly young when the accident happened, so an eight year old interpreted love extremely different than older kids. When he missed her eighth birthday that day, she never would've realized it was because of an hunting accident earlier that morning. Aeliana just pictured it as if he didn't love her anymore-- so he didn't care enough to show.

Mid birthday cake, the caregivers, maids, and the friends that she was forced to have stopped singing, and her family sat her down and told her the real reason why he didn't show. He was dead. From that point on, Aeliana had always been afraid of another birthday-- something bad was always bound to happen. But everything aside, Aeliana was sent to live with her uncle, where he became the sole guardian of her. Throughout the rest of her years, her family continued to teach her the ins and outs of Sliver Oak Academy, that one day she would study there, and soon be in charge of that very same-school.