Lauren

### Lauren OOC

Lauren out of character is a member of the Origin Community SMP, they joined in wave 6 and quickly made an impression. They go by They/Them and are very cool. Their friends consist of TinyTert, Nevi, Aiden, person, Zack, and literally all of the active members of the SMP. Lauren was first invited by AquaDragon, who has now been banned from the smp as well as the server. But they are now loved by the community and are considered one of us.

## **Lauren in Character**

Lauren in character is very serious and focused on the future, they're always setting goals to hit by a certain time. Although they learned to focus on the present and not take life for granted.

They can be very rude and self-centered but you'll occasionally get a laugh or smile out of them. overall, they are brave and dangerous, they will take daring leaps off of cliffs into shallow rivers below and have no care for their own safety or health, wanting to make the most of the time they have. despite getting distracted easily, they try to focus hard on things they enjoy and try to push their worries aside. lauren silently wishes for there to be a war so that they can risk their life for justice. lauren tends to keep things to themselves until they blow up at others, whether it be because of something going on or because someone pissed them off. they can be seen shooting arrows toward a self made archery course when they think they need practice or feel like doing archery at targets instead of others.

They wont give up or back down easily, but when they realise they're losing a fight they'll panic. They have Athazagoraphobia, the fear of forgetting. When they died and became a phantom they lost almost all of their memories, so they have a **memory book**, which they write in often so if they forget something they can go through the book and read whats written, doing so keeps them somewhat sane.

## **Backstory**

Lauren wasn't born a phantom, they were from a human family and thus born a human.

At the age of two, laurens parents decided they didn't want them anymore and sent them to an orphanage about four hours away from where they lived to prevent them from ever being tracked down. Lauren lived in the orphanage until the age of six, where they were dopted by an unknown couple for about a week, during which they made their first and last friend, who they considered their *best* friend. After the week, lauren was sent back as the family thought they were too difficult to care for and just didn't want them anymore.

They then spent the next four years of their life in the orphanage, looking at the same picture of them and their best friend every night before going to sleep.  But on june 12, 2015, at the age of twelve, there was an orphanage fire during the night that burned the whole place to the ground and left no survivors. All lauren remembers from that night was waking up to the smell of smoke, then seeing a man run away through the window but couldn't tell who it was. After which they watched everyone around them die and be burnt alive themselves.

When they died they were given a second chance and were brought back as a phantom. The only memories they kept were brief memories of the torture they went through, the fire that killed them, and the knowledge of being given up twice. Due to the loss of memories it sent them into a spiral, terrified that they have lost everything and wont even remember it, as well as fearing they may forget things they experience as a phantom.

## **Appearance**

Lauren has a slightly long, blond pixie cut and pale ivory skin, their white eyes turn grey in the moonlight, as they are in a normal visible state where during the day their eyes are fully white, as if theres nothing there. they have pointy ears, similar to a fairys or pixies. theyre covered with bandages and wraps along parts of their body, covering the few burn wounds that stayed visible after their 'revival'.

They can be seen wearing a white long sleeve collared shirt with a black tie, black corset, and black ants as well as combat black boots and black belt (can be seen in the character image at the top of the wiki).

Lauren can also be seen in a brown trenchcoat overtop a white collared shirt under a dark grey sweatshirt with black ripped jeans and a brown beanie with brown knee high leather boots with buckles and ties.

They can also occasionally be seen in a “tall poppy” shade of red and black striped crop top with a long sleeve form fitting black shirt underneath with black jeans and black combat boots with black leather fingerless gloves that go to just above their wrists.

## **General knowledge**

Lauren is 18 years old as of august 2021, they are a phantom and have lived in summit city for six years after the orphanage fire. They have a fear of forgetting so they keep a memory book in which they write things that happen every day and what they remember from their past as to not forget anything. They are hated by many and are considered a villain to most as they tend to cause havoc and try to ruin the lives of others.

## Important Objects

### **MEMORY BOOK**

the memory book is a book with a worn brown leather cover with the words “MEMORY BOOK” roughly sketched into it. The memory book has dates as far back as 2005 with scattered dated through 2015, when they lost their life to the orphanage fire. Since they got the book they write in it every day and will read through it often. The book helps to keep them from going insane and locking themselves in their room

## Lore events

Event 1 summary - after a voice came to them in the night saying to do so, c!lauren decides to revisit their place of death, the burnt down orphanage. The place that changed their life, or afterlife, forever. ***(January 17, 2022)***

Event 2 summary. -After lauren finds a ladder in their storage room, they have a not-so-nice meeting with the intruder **(*january 18, 2022)***

Event 3 summary (part 1). - a traveler stumbles across laurens house and asks for a tour, upon discovering she has no place to stay nor any money, lauren invites her into their house...for a price **(January 29, 2022)**

Event 3 summary (part 2)- \*hm, what will happen?\* **(february ??, 2022)**

## Limbo

They call it the “field of wilted flowers,” but of course its not just this. Everything here is monotone, as if all the color was sucked out of it. The longer you stay here the more color you lose as well, becoming just as monotone as everything else.

When you arrived the area was already monotone, only grayish tans and shades of gray all around you. You were the only color in the entire place.

After months you only had the thought of knowing you're just like those flowers, you sprouted just to shrivel up and die.

The air is polluted, filling your lungs with ash and dirt from corpses and dead flowers every day, but yet you've gotten used to it.

The sky is a mid gray, each flower being either a shade of gray or grayish tan, only a few instances of light gray.

Sitting in the same spot every day, every month, every year, you stare at the same dead bodies of people you cant picture, their faces are glitched and blurred, leaving no features to identify them. The bodies are all pitch black and damaged.

Staying in the same area every day makes you think, often about how much you missed out on in life and reminiscing what could've been done if you had left that night instead of staying.

As time passes, you too lose your color and become just as monotone as the rest of the place. Days feel like minutes, months feel like hours, years feel like weeks. You don't know how long you've been here, all you know is its been a while.

You can freely walk around, yet it feels like you're chained to the spot you were placed in. the only thing about you that changed throughout the years other than your fading color was your outfit, it slowly changed as each ‘year’ passed by.

After just what felt like a few months, you've lost all your color, you're just as monotone as everything else here.

You only age and grow, your appearance matures but your hair stays the same length, its as if this place wants you to think of it as home, so it gives you the appearance you want, but that is all.

Questions fill your head every day, none of them being answered. Are you dead?..Are you alive?..Will you ever escape this place? ….Does anyone even care that you're gone..?

You're never tired or hungry, the only things you can do here are sit in the field of flaccid flowers and wallow in numbness. The sky doesn't change color, the flowers don't wilt any more than they already have, everything stays the same.

It’s lonely, just the same corpses and flowers as the day before. Nobody to talk to except yourself, its as if you're the only person who has and ever will be here, for eternity.

Your scars still hurt, you've just gotten used to the pain. The scars from the fire, abuse, manual labor.. They hurt every day without a break.

When you first arrived you were scared, you died being numb and were thrown into this place, it was new, you didn't think it'd be as scary as it was, but after a while all your feelings started to vanish, leaving you numb.