Character Bio: Evangeline Avendale

Name: Evangeline Avendale
Traits: Heavy Sleeper, Athletic, Grumpy, Natural Cook, Ambitious
Favorites: Hip Hop, Firecracker Tofu, Spiceberry
Aspiration: Celebrated 5-Star Chef

Evangeline grew up with the perfect role models: her mother, a cop who was tough and brave and a father who was absolutely devoted to his wife and children. Evangeline wanted nothing more than to prove that she could take care of herself, just like Camille could. Believing that being strong and independent means intimidating people, Evangeline is thought to be a mean bitch and those that rub her the wrong way have evidence to prove it. Only those that push past her hard exterior realize that she's actually a wonderful and loyal friend.

Evangeline's desire to have a love as strong as her parents and a husband devoted to her results in a marriage straight out of high school. Neal, not on board with his wife traveling across the country to attend university, discovers that his wife refuses to compromise. The fact that she's only going to make her parents, especially her father, proud was not lost on her husband but he gave in because he wanted her to be happy. While in college, Evangeline began making bad choices and eventually began an affair with a fellow student.

When she returned home for a semester break, Evangeline was confronted with the place that Neal holds in her parents' hearts and chickened out of coming clean about her indiscretions. With the mess mounting around her and the lies piling up, can Evangeline own up to her mistakes and find true happiness or will she continue this double life she's leading and hope no one is any the wiser?

Character Bio: Camille Avendale

Name: Camille Avendale
Traits: Friendly, Genius, Computer Whiz, Commitment Issues, Brave
Favorites: Songwriter, Autumn Salad, Yellow
Aspiration: International Super Spy

Up until the time that she was a teenager, Camille had an easy life. She had a big sister that she got along with, most of the time. She was a straight A student with no problems in school and she had loads of friends. Of course, her life wasn't perfect; she came from a split family with more than its fair share of drama but, all in all, she had it going pretty good. That is, until she found out, through being arrested, that some of her so-called friends had actually conned her into hacking into a government computer to steal top secret military files.

Camille's life went from almost perfect to hellish in one short night. No longer the golden child, she was ignored by her family, save her baby sister who wasn't old enough to understand what Cam had done. Try as she might, she couldn't earn her family's forgiveness and, after graduation, she was informed that, for the well being of her sister, it would be best if she moved out on her own. With no job in sight, it seemed that things were spiraling downwards for our young Camille.

Luckily, she had made an impression on the chief of police, even if it was because she had crossed on to the wrong side of the law. The department needed someone of her brains to help target the cyber terrorists that were becoming a real threat to SimNation. Suitcases in hand, she remorsely hugged her sister goodbye and headed for St. Claire with revenge in mind.

The bitter taste of betrayal still fresh in her mind, Camille is not likely to warm up easily to people. Though she'll be friendly with many, the idea of getting close to anyone isn't something that she is interested in and the number of people who will truly be close will be few. Her only desire is to find the people responsible and make them pay for using the young, naive girl she had been. Will Camille be able to find happiness in St. Claire or will her determination for vengeance leave her with a hard and lonely life? 

Character Bio: Yalena Avendale

Name: Yalena Avendale
Traits: Virtuoso, Good, Neurotic, Bookworm, Genius
Favorites: Country, Grilled Salmon, Green
Aspiration: Vocal Legend

Yalena was lucky enough to be born into a family of immense love and devotion. However, her mother dies when she is a child and her father mentally checks out, unable to cope with a world that his beloved wife is no longer a part of. This leaves Yalena to shoulder much of the responsibility for her younger siblings.

Her father's emotional neglect eventually leads her to seek comfort and love in the arms of an older man whom she meets when she becomes a teen. Infatuation turns to first love which leads to an unexpected pregnancy. Unwilling to tell her father and possibly have the baby's father arrested, Yalena flees town to take refuge with an older brother.

Though she gets older, Yalena's need for love and affection does not help her gain wisdom. Her rush to run away and insistence on independence leaves her broke and destitute, stuck in a job that she hates. She falls for the first man she meets when she starts dating and, once again, finds herself pregnant and unmarried. All the while, she is avoiding the one person who has shown her loyalty and devotion from the day they met.

Can Yalena overcome her issues to find true happiness with someone who really matters or will her string of bad choices only continue?

Character Bio: Vesper Avendale

Name: Vesper Avendale
Traits: Slob, Artistic, Absent-Minded, Dislikes Children, Friendly
Favorites: Pop, Grilled Cheese, Red
Aspiration: Visionary

Vesper is the middle child and the oldest of the twins. She is fiesty in nature, as might be evidenced by her favorite color. Since the moment she could hold on to a small utensil, she has been practicing her art. She started with the xylophone but soon discovered that it was her eyes, not ears, that cherished beauty the most.

Though she can sometimes be mean and jealous of her siblings, deep down she cares for them more than she lets on. She does tend to be rather narcissistic in nature, always thinking that she can do better or should be chosen other than someone else. Her anger and jealousy is short-lived though since she tends to lose herself once again at her easel, forgetting who she was upset with and why. Never one to hold a grudge, she moves on each day with a renewed passion for her art and life.

She never lets anyone choose her path for her and she lives life the way she sees fit. Beauty, and the display of it, is her one passion in life and supercedes everything else; boys, schoolwork, sometimes even family. After her sister's disappearance, Vesper chose to get a tattoo to symbolize her sister's spirit. Regardless of her father's disapproval, Vesper knows she did the right thing. He doesn't know she is seeing a grown man, closer to her father's age than her own but, once again, this is the path she is choosing. He seems to understand her more than any of the young, immature boys she graduated with.

In the end though, all her focus goes towards creating works of art that people will treasure for decades, even after her death. Can she find a balance between her artistic obsession and a healthy family life?

Character Bio: Verne Avendale

Name: Verne Avendale
Traits: Good, Perceptive, Hates the Outdoors, Loner, Light Sleeper
Favorites: Kids, Hamburger, Yellow
Aspiration: Pervasive Private Eye

From birth, Verne has been a bystander. His parents are both strong-willed people who know just what they want out of life. His twin sister has such an eye for art that she had practically been creating the moment she arrived out of the womb. And Uvie, well Uvie was her own spirit and nothing, not even teasing could change her. 

Among them, Verne is much like a lost soul. He spent his whole life standing by their sides and, somehow along the way, he never remembered to figure out his own desires. Cheering Vesper on during her dance recital, discussing the fairies' by-laws with Uvie, and being a straight A student don't give him the answers he needs to decide who he wants to be.

When tragedy strikes home, Verne's disgust with the laziness of the local police department suddenly inspires him. Who else could be losing family members, only to have the uniforms dawdle until the trail is cold? Who out there is missing a loved one, only to be told that, due to lack of evidence, the police don't want to look anymore so they just give up? If Verne can somehow protect another family from suffering the way his has, he will do anything he can. Not in uniform, no. He plans on working for himself to cut through the red tape and bureaucracy of the local 'system' so that people can actually be helped.

Character Bio: Uvie Avendale

Name: Uviana "Uvie" Avendale
Traits: Couch Potato, Easily Impressed, Lucky, Insane
Favorites: Egyptian, Stu Surprise, Purple
Aspiration: Animal Rescuer

Uvie, the eldest of the Avendale children, has a sweet, childlike nature. Ever since she was a little girl, her favorite past times were talking to imaginary friends, playing with her horse (though wooden he was), and imagining fairies and elves in the forest.

She's rather naive and tends to gravitate towards her imagination rather than reality. She seems to have a hard time separating the two and, in combination with that, she does and says what she thinks. Most people do not understand her so it's not unusual that, outside of her family, she has no friends. 

Even her family though, doesn't understand her. Her mother tries and seems to accept her for who she is but her father seems to have a more difficult time with it. He wants to 'fix' her and can't grasp that she is fine the way she is. The elves like her inquisitive nature. The fairies say that she will always bring luck wherever she goes and with whomever she chooses to share her life with. Her best friend is her dog, Rump who she got for Christmas one year. She doesn't see anything wrong with talking to him. He talks back!

Unfortunately, the fairies seemed to be wrong about her luck. Or were they? After her high school prom, Uvie disappeared, without warning, without note, and without any breadcrumbs to follow. Did she find her home among the mystical or are nefarious deeds to blame for her vanishing act?

Character Bio: Shane Avendale

Name: Shane Avendale
Traits: Genius, Loves the Outdoors, Neurotic, Ambitious, No Sense of Humor
Favorites: Hip Hop, Key Lime Pie, Blue
Aspiration: World Renowned Surgeon

Growing up, Shane was happy. Sure, seeing his father be taken by the Grim Reaper at the tender age of one was rather traumatic, resulting in a completely neurotic and worrisome nature. To be honest though, Shane doesn't know if he really remembers the incident or only thinks he does because of his mother's recounting of the story. He was young after all.

His mother; a subject all of her own. She abandoned him when he was just a teen, leaving him to care for his younger brother, Tanner, all alone. He worried and fretted about her, eventually settling into a routine. It wasn't until he had his own children that the resentment truly set in. He could never understand how she could have left him, especially not when he was holding his own babies' tiny fingers. From the moment he held his daughter, Uvie, Rebecca was never mentioned openly again.

Shortly after she became a teen though, Uvie disappeared. Officially, the Twinbrook Police Department declared her dead though there was no evidence to support the theory. Losing a mother had been bad enough, but a daughter was sheer torture. His neurotic tendencies continued, leaving him to nag his other children in hopes that he would never lose them. How much loss can one person really take before they are driven insane?

Character Bio: Rebecca Avendale

Name: Rebecca Avendale
Traits: Loves the Outdoors, Bookworm, Unlucky, Hopeless Romantic, Unflirty
Favorites: Pop, Fruit Parfait, White
Aspiration: Professional Author

Rebecca never had an easy life. She had planned, and succeeded, in moving away from Sunset Valley as soon as she became of age. Unfortunately, her luck followed her there.

Upon arriving in the sleepy town, she thought she found true love in Goodwin Goode. With a name like that, how could she go wrong? But wrong she went when she discovered that, not only was he married, he also had a small daughter. She quickly broke it off and moved on.

Then she found Justin. Justin, who really was her true love. Until he set himself on fire and burned to ash on their son's first birthday. After Justin, she gave up looking for love. But he didn't give up on her. Somehow, she ended up pregnant with her ghost husband's child. Shortly after her second son's birth, Rebecca decided to take a small vacation, to ease away from the stress of being a single working mother who was also trying to fulfill her dream to become a professional author.

And that is where her story ends. She was never seen or heard from after she left for her vacation. Did her luck follow her there, Grim claiming her? Or was her life just too much so she decided to start over?