Starla De La Rosa's Profile
Age: 37 | Los Angeles | She/Her | VAMPIRE (real not clickbait!!!)
Starla is an incoming freshman who decided later in life that she wanted to persue higher education, feeling emboldened by the encouragement of her boyfriend and son. However, being in an academic setting makes her feel out of place so to compensate she tries to use her vampiric charm to help her make friends! Showing up in dorm rooms late at night uninvited, sighing dramatically while looking towards the woods, and drinking loudly from a thermos labled "NOT BLOOD", all in hopes that she can give another student a "Twilight" experience. This comes off as disruptive and attention seeking and no one seems to be taking the bait... is she even really a vampire anyways?
Family Life:
Starla has an older sister, Mariela, who she used to be close to but has recently drifted apart from. Growing up they got along for the most part but as they got older the bigger the shadow her sister started to cast. Mari was a determined and studious student who always had good grades, entered a career she excelled at, and married a man with a real job. Starla loves her life, unless she starts comparing it to Mari's, so it’s easier if she just keeps her distance.
Starla has a 6 year old son named Desmond with her long term boyfriend. While she loves her son, she has never been a maternal person and finds it hard to step into the role of motherhood. She treats her relationship with him more like she’s an older sister or a cool aunt than a truly responsible parent. Luckily the whole parenting thing comes a lot easier to her boyfriend and he’s able to be the responsible one.
Her boyfriend, Roy Shove-It, is the lead singer of the nu metal band Desmodus Draculae. They’ve been together for about 7 years and are still madly in love with each other. His ability to adapt to any situation and see the bright side of things compliments Starla’s high energy and emotional sensitivity well. He doesn’t think going to college is a measure of success, but he is supportive of any endeavor that Starla wants to take.
Notable life events:
She met her current boyfriend 7 years ago when she watched his band play at a local gig. One year later they had a baby together. It’s around the birth of her son that she started to claim she was turned into a vampire. She seems to have adjusted to being a vampire quite well and lives almost the same life as she did before the incident.
Why they’re a little emotionally weird now:
Being a vampire comes with a lot of perks, but at the end of the day it is still a curse. She knows that she will outlive every person she knows and loves. Including her son. That won’t be for a long while but… she tries not to think about it! There’s also the fact that she needs blood to survive, that her existence will always bring harm to someone else. She’s at a point where she has good control over her bloodlust, but still the urge to rip and tear into her classmates is always there in the very back of her mind. And she doesn’t have anyone she can truly share these troubles with, no one would understand except for another vampire, and the only other vampire she knows is really annoying.
And then there’s the lonely solitude of being nocturnal and never seeing the sun agai- wait? She’s taking a morning class. She picks up her kid from fencing at 3:00pm every wednesday and the sun is definitely up! Is any of this even true??
Supernatural experience:
For over ten years Starla has claimed to have a vampire stalker that wanted to make her his undead bride. 6 years ago she alleges that this vampire suitor turned her into a vampire and proposed to her, but she rejected him. Since then her mysterious groom seems to have backed off, but there are some nights where his presence can still be felt. They still talk occasionally on the phone too.
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Details:
Starla is the life of the party and is very comfortable around people. She sometimes speaks without thinking which can unintentionally annoy or hurt the feelings of others. If she does become aware that she's hurt someone it will eat her up inside until she feels like she’s made things right. She has no fear of conflict and isn't afraid to speak her mind, she has always been someone to stand up to bullies and defend the freaks and weirdos. Although she naturally enjoys meeting new people and experiencing new things, part of her outgoing personality comes from a place of insecurity, and she believes that the more fun she is, the less apparent her flaws will be to others…
Starla does everything in her power to live a leisurely life so when it comes to stress she will typically avoid the situation or give up, which means going to college could be her biggest challenge yet considering every instinct is telling her to drop out. Failure is one of the hardest things for her to cope with, she hates feeling like the dumbest person in the room and will try to divert people's attention by being loud and boisterous so that they don't notice her shortcomings. Ghosts on the other hand are exciting! She's never seen one before but she would love to! Staying up late cramming in the library would be a lot more fun if she knew an apparition was watching her.
When vampires get a little too dramatic about religious symbols… like come on, it is not that serious babes. When people tell her to stop talking in the movie theater, it’s just rude to interrupt someone’s conversation like that! Pay attention to the movie and stop eavesdropping! When people complain about their significant other but then get annoyed when you tell them to dump them. What else are you supposed to say? If they suck they suck!
Blood is definitely a vice! Also occasionally shoplifting.. Just little things but she likes the thrill of slipping something into her pocket.
One of her bad habits is that she likes to flirt even though she already has a boyfriend. He doesn’t really have a problem with it, but it can lead other people on. She doesn’t even realize what she's done until she’s 20 minutes into a coffee date and he’s asking her for her star sign. She also has a habit of chewing on things when she gets bored, and it’s the reason she usually wears chokers instead of dangly necklaces because they always end up in her mouth!
She is ashamed of her age… even though she is immortal! She wishes that if she had to be turned into a vampire it was when she was in her 20s. She doesn’t like feeling like the “mom” or the “elder” in a group, and college is especially making her feel insecure about it. She also feels shame over the fact that she can’t speak Spanish. She can understand it pretty well when she’s spoken to and can mostly read it, but she can’t speak it. Her sister can though! Ugh…
Being a vampire for only 6 years is kind of boring so to make people think she’s older she will make up random history facts and pretend like she was there. Cleopatra was a furry. Ok? Were you there because I was and she was a cheetah named Queen Dottie. George Washington was really just two kids standing on each other's shoulders. YES HE WAS I met him!
She also LOVES nu metal, her boyfriend is the lead of a nu metal band afterall! The louder and more aggressive the music, the better a time she’s having. Open that pit up!
After weeks of sordid glances and half conversations that went nowhere, Starla lures a classmate away from their night class and into the woods to reveal her vampiric nature for them. They are clearly afraid yet too awestruck to run away. She tells them they can never be friends because she doesn’t want to hurt them, but now that they know her secret they’re too entangled in this world to ever turn back. “You’re not a monster, you’re the girl who sits in front of me in statistics! That’s the real you!” they say. “No,” Starla replies, baring her fangs like two pearlescent daggers “everything you know about me is a lie. Just forget you ever met me…” As she turns to flee, her classmate grabs her hand. “Wait,” they say, “you borrowed my notes and I need them back.” Their eyes meet, in the light of the moon Starla's obsidian orbs gleam like wolves' eyes. “Oh yeah,” she says, “my bad.”
Starla says: message me!!!
