daniella anne cade

[daniellacade]

-- DANIELLA ANNE CADE !

-- NAME: Daniella Anne Cade
-- NICKNAMES: Dani, Ella
-- AGE & BIRTHDAY: Twenty-eight; February Twentieth
-- BIRTH PLACE: Capeside
-- ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
-- OCCUPATION: Chef and co-owner of a new restaurant.
-- PLAYED BY: Jayma Mays

-- PERSONALITY !

-- COMPETITIVE: Daniella has come from a life of sports and other activities. She has long since been one to try and fight her way to the top. Sometimes she gets a little too far out of hand. While she can usually catch herself, she has been known to get a bit overwhelming. She tends to apply the urge to win in every aspect of her life. She strives to excel and would jump through hoops to make sure it happens- she’ll do whatever it takes, whether it’s to win a game or to bring her place of business up to the top. She fights fair, most of the time. This is both a positive and negative part of her personality. She can get somewhat obnoxious if she’s playing a friendly game, because of how competitive she is. If the game is super intense, she could possibly get a bit angry. At the same time, she tends to get what she wants and never gives up, ensuring that she does what makes her happy. She doesn’t back down for anything.

-- OUTGOING: Because she’s been involved with so many things in her life, she’s been thrust into situations with people she’s never met more times than she can count. She isn’t afraid to put herself out there and be the life of the party. She’d rather make a fool of herself and make a couple of friends than remain reserved and spend the duration of her time in said event alone. She’ll go talk to anyone, make friends with anyone, and remain friends provided they aren’t overly obnoxious. She’s not the most popular person but she has enough people in her life to keep her entertained. Always has. They always tend to be from a wide variety of social groups as well, making her not fit into any one clique, but rather remain on the outskirts of everyone’s group. She prefers it that way. She’s a very friendly person and very approachable.

-- DWELLER: One thing she is unable to do is let things go. If someone does something bad to her, they get on her bad side immediately and it takes a whole hell of a lot for her to forgive them. Even if it’s just a small thing, unless she really cares about the person, she’ll hold a grudge. The same thing goes for times when she makes mistakes. She continues to relive various moments in her life over and over again, wondering if she did the right thing, coming up with alternate solutions. She’s relived the day she moved from Capeside more times than she could even fathom. She always has “what if” situations rolling around in her head. What if she had done something differently? How would her life be different? Worse? Better? It’s something she tends to do with everything in her life. A lot of this sparks anxiety in her, too, which has put her through a couple of cycles of therapy as well as put her on anti-anxiety medication, because there are times when dwelling tends to hinder her day-to-day life.

-- DISTANT: Ever since the incident with the baby, it’s like Dani has had the life sucked out of her. Right after it happened she spent quite a long time just moping around, not sure what to even do with herself. Now, she’s found herself in a groove. She’s able to accurately fake being happy and lively, although anyone who knows her would know that she isn’t telling the whole truth. Sure, she’s doing better with the whole thing, but being someone who dwells, moving on isn’t her strong point. She’ll avoid certain topics that deal with something that could trigger a bad memory, and she doesn’t like to form many close personal relationships because she’s held onto the ones she’s had in the past. Most people who knew her in Capeside knew what happened. Very few she met after moving have any idea that Emily ever existed. Something in her eyes tips off that she isn’t as happy as she’s leading on to be, but she’s doing fine the way she is nevertheless. Everything that happened, well… It’s just something she’s had trouble letting go. It’s not that she’s unhappy, no. She’s content with her life. Her friends. Her career. But she just has a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach that has made her more reserved than she was in High School.

-- LOVES: cooking, food, pasta, soccer, trying new things, wine, sleeping, her anti-anxiety medication, her ex, her family, her best friend, her restaurant, crayons, walking, going to the gym, holidays, bows.
-- HATES: the idea of going through another pregnancy, thinking too much, being afraid, fish, unsanitary conditions, horses, burning herself, loose change, a disorganized kitchen, being told that 'coloring' is for kids, trying to use chop sticks, fast food, losing.

-- HISTORY !

Daniella had always been a “Jack of all trades”, so to speak. Ever since she was young, she’d had a wide variety of interests, and was restless enough to go through them all. An outgoing and fearless child, she flitted from activity to activity, making friends in softball, ballet lessons, piano lessons, dance, gymnastics. The only thing she ever really excelled in, however, was soccer, so that was the only thing she kept up through her otherwise quiet childhood. She grew up in a nice family (consisting of her parents and an older brother) and had a fair amount of friends- until the age of twelve, the only terrible thing that happened was her grand-mother’s passing away. She lived a calm life, happy, normal.

When she was twelve, her parents announced that they were getting a divorce. She took it hard, as would any young girl. Her parents had seemed so happy, and to find that they were not, well- it was enough to shake her up, that was for sure. The divorce was long and nasty, the hearings lasting until she was well into her fourteenth year of life. By the end, the custody battle had been settled: her father got her every other weekend, every other holiday, and for one month out of the summer. Dani had always been a “daddy’s girl”, however, and began to spend most of her time at her father’s house after school, which only pissed her mother off and sparked more fights between her parents. She could hardly bring herself to care at that point, though. She was beginning to get more defiant.

This was also the point in her life when she found out that cooking was the only thing that could calm her down. She had always dabbled in it throughout her life, but as she started to cook for her father (who, let’s face it, could burn toast and had ordered out every night for three weeks straight until Dani took over) that she realized it had a way of soothing her. So from that moment on, whenever something in her day went wrong, she took over dinner preparations. Not that either of her parents were complaining.

When High School ruled around, she took it by storm. She was friends with anyone who would be friends with her, captain of the soccer team, and focused on her academics. She wasn’t too high on the social hierarchy but she got around to feel like she was. She wasn’t the Homecoming Queen, but she was on the ballot. Dani was content with her status in the school, and plus- she only needed one person, anyways.

She met her old High School boyfriend during Freshman year, but they danced around a relationship until they were Sophomores. Both being very laid back people, they had a steady relationship- a healthy number of spats, but never a fight. When on the offs, they could always count that before the end of the night, one of them would appear on the doorstep, looking to make up. They were inseparable, and by the time graduation rolled around, totally in love. Both had every intention of remaining in town for college, and if the relationship survived that, ideas of marriage were never too far out of reach. They were happy, after all, and why disrupt happiness?

The July after graduation, however, Dani found out that she was pregnant. She and her boyfriend decided to keep the baby and to brave it out. It disrupted things. Both opted for the career path instead of college, considering they had no money to their names. By the time she was in her seventh month, they had everything figured out- a steady cash flow, a very small apartment to live in, items for the baby- a girl, who they decided to name Emily.

As far as everyone was concerned, the baby was healthy. Dani only missed her due date by a couple of days and her boyfriend was right by her side while she went into labor. They were young, and scared, but they loved each other and were convinced that everything was going to work out. But at some point the baby had gotten tangled in the umbilical cord and suffocated, not making it out of the womb alive. That was a slam on the couple- Daniella in particular. She didn’t know what to do with herself. A month after the incident, the only thing she did know was that she couldn’t stay in Capeside. The humiliation of getting pregnant, the despair at losing her child, the constant reminder everywhere she looked. She needed time, she needed air, and the town was the very last place she was going to get it.

So she left. She assured her boyfriend that she loved him, but she needed to go- and it was obvious she did. The life that had once filled her was gone. She had very little that could keep her going, so she ran. She was enrolled in a culinary arts school, finding that she just wanted to cook all of the time, and she moved into a cheap apartment in New York. She excelled, and invested herself in her career to try and forget everything that had happened.

Nine years later and it’s obvious that she’s moved up the chain quite well. She’s now a well respected chef. She still isn’t quite so full of life, but she’s able to fake it, and that’s alright with her. She’s denied most prospective of a personal life since then, only having a couple of boyfriends and sexual partners throughout this time, never forgetting the life she left behind in Capeside. Recently, a bout of nostalgia sent her right back home with her long time best friend, and they opened up a restaurant right in her hometown. Now she’s trying to deal with being back, and while she has yet to see her ex… She knows it’s inevitable.

-- OOC !

-- NAME OR ALIAS: ashley
-- AGE: eighteen
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