<div class="floatright">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/54/1b/f1/541bf1d34d0205f0abb01849276ad8ec.jpg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Naomi Redmond<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>18<br/><strong>CLIQUES:</strong>Potheads, Losers, Punk/Rockers<br/><strong>PLANS:</strong>Working/Singing in her band<br/><strong>DREAM:</strong>To be the next Courtney Love<br/><strong>CAR:</strong>Beat-up old primer-colored Beetle<br/><br/><strong>HOBBIES:</strong>Singing, smoking pot, fucking shit up, having fun, sex, casual vandalism, amateur porn<br/><br/><strong>ABOUT:</strong>Naomi's mom is in a hospital being treated for severe mental illnesses that she will never recover from, which is where she's been since Naomi was seven years old and walked into the house to find her bleeding on the kitchen floor.  She insisted that she<em>hadn't</em>been trying to kill herself, that the knife just slipped while she was cutting some carrots for Naomi's snack, but the truth was obvious.  After walking in to find her mother sitting on the floor, staring down at the long gash in her own arm as her blood pumped out to stain the linoleum, Naomi called 9-1-1 as she'd been taught and tried to staunch the bleeding with a kitchen towel.  The fact that he'd likely saved her mother's life didn't provide any comfort or make the nightmares stop.<br/><br/>After that, she was raised pretty exclusively by her father, who was not a gentle or loving man.  He never abused her, but neither did he spend any time holding her or trying to understand her, either.  Their relationship was, and remains, a fairly cold and detached arrangement, more like roommates than father and daughter.  He drives a truck for a living, and so she is often on her own for weeks at a time, and has been since she was seven.  Of course, back then she was looked after by the older woman who lived in the trailer next door, but she passed away when Naomi was eleven and her father figured she was old enough to look after herself from then on.<br/><br/>She has a reputation as a wild girl in school.  She smokes pot, sometimes takes peyote, 'shrooms and molly, though she never fucks with anything stronger than that, but her reputation says otherwise.  Her weekends, and some weeknights, are spent gigging with her band<del>Di Vinci's Anus</del>/<del>The SlickLitters</del>/<del>Venus</del>/Pearl Lipstick at dive bars, bowling alleys and, generally, anywhere that will have them.  She writes their original songs, serves as the lead singer, and hopes to one day make her mark on the annals of punk rock/grunge music.  She doesn't spend a lot of time with the other kids in high school, aside from the other 'losers' who come from the wrong side of the tracks and prefer the Sex Pistols to Taylor Swift.<br/><br/><strong>MOMENTS OF GLORY:</strong>Successfully getting some of the faculty high by sneaking a plate of chocolate chip cookies laced with THC into the teacher's lounge.<br/><br/><strong>MOMENTS OF SHAME:</strong>Naomi doesn't really do shame, but being caught red-handed smoking up in the boy's bathroom....after fucking a guy in one of the stalls might count.  Or the time she hit one of the popular kid's cars 'accidentally' while backing out of her parking spot in the school lot.  The time someone at school found the video of her engaging in lesbian sex on a camgirl site.<br/><br/><strong>NOTES:</strong>The other members of Pearl Lipstick are in their mid-to-late twenties, and Naomi has a fake ID that serves well enough to get her into the sort of seedy places that hire her band.  The camgirl incident, and any subsequent internet porn videos/photographs, have only happened since she turned 18.  She's wild, not stupid.<br/><br/><strong>THEMES:</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Hole - Gold-Dust Woman</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngmhjiR3QOo</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">The Pretty Reckless - Heaven Knows</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHBxJCq99jA</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">The Slits - Typical Girls</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXGblps64M</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Meg Myers - Lemon Eyes</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqG9hsjLf3M</div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Connections</div><div class="spoiler_body">Leanne Abernathy - Naomi's best friend.  The two of them grew up in the same trailer park and Leanne has a standing invitation to crash at Naomi's place.  They hang out and understand one another better than most people could ever understand them.  Often found hanging out at a junkyard near the train tracks smoking up or drinking.<br/><br/>Benny Rothschild - Friend and occasional casual sexual partner.  They share a love of music and general misfit status.<br/><br/>Phillip Eckhardt - Friend and fellow music-lover.  Chances are she's spent some time braiding his hair while high on one thing or another.<br/><br/>Zoe Porter - Friend and fellow pothead.  They've likely gotten into more than a few discussions about art, music and the way that the rise of street art can be directly linked to the rise of grunge from obscurity to mainstream acceptance.<br/><br/>Marco Benjamin Jr. - Friendly and another one who likes to smoke up.  Naomi is low-key down to fuck, but she kind of enjoys the flirting and fantasy too much to have been straight up about it, yet.  She's definitely going to make her position clear before the summer's over and she loses her chance, though.<br/><br/>Chloe - Displeased with Naomi's friendship with Phillip, a fact that Naomi is oblivious to.  She's under the impression that the two of them are fully chill, even if they're not close.</div></div><br/>