Basics

Name: Addison Marie Hodges
Date of Birth (& age): December 23, 1998 (23)
Place of Birth: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
Language: English
Marital Status: Single
Sexuality: Lesbian
Family: Parents (Benjamin and Louise), brother (Marshall, -4 yrs)
Friends: None in Illinois (yet!)
Pets: A half-moon beta named Rockstar



Physical Description

Height: 5'8"
Weight: 124 lbs
Hair: Red/Strawberry Blond, very fine and to the small of her back
Eyes: Hazel
Limb Dexterity: Rightie
Typical Clothing/Equipment: Jeans, plaid shirts or graphic tees, unless she's streaming on her OnlyFans. Then she goes for either very skimpy or something that's costume-esque. She has a piece of raw citrine that she wirewrapped herself to make into a pendant that she always wears.



Now and Then (facts and history)

Her parents were highschool sweethearts who found out they were going to be parents in their final year of University. Despite being desperately in love, they never got married, claiming not to need a piece of paper to make their love 'real'. When they had a second child, Marshall, four years later, their families urged them - Gently on Benjamin's side, critically on Lou's - once again to get married, but they still expressed that it just wasn't for them. This proved to be a wise decision when two years later, just after Addison's sixth birthday, they decided to split up. There were no massive fights, no screaming arguments or painful words thrown back and forth. In fact, it was as amicable as the severing of a relationship of twelve years could be. But Louise's parents, never fully accepting Benjamin or the bastard children he'd (in their eyes) forced upon their daughter, distanced themselves from the children the moment they were able to do so.

Louise loved her children with everything in her, but she knew that it would be better for Benjamin to take on the majority of custody. She was afraid that they would feel the coldness of grandparents that had never really bonded with them. She spoke to Addison and Marshall on the phone three or four times a week, and saw them on weekends, alternate holidays, and a month every summer. And even though she doted on them in that limited time, there was still moments when Louise's mother would huff at Marhsall's childhood exuberance, or her father would deny affection when Addison reached out for a hug, which was hard on both children.

Thank god for Benjamin's side of the family. Because of them, Addison and Marshall never felt a lack of love. If ever there was a moment during their visits with Louise, they would come home just in time for Sunday dinner at Lachlann and Sorcha's house. There was always some combination of family there, and they were all warm and inviting, and gave the children the familial love that they craved. And Addison's favourite was her Uncle Alex. She didn't even try to pretend that he *wasn't* her favourite, and would immediately flock to his side whenever she could. He was so like her father, but so unlike him at the same time. He had a soft voice, still touched by the accent that her father barely spoke in anymore, and warm hands that would teasingly bonk her nose, or stroke long strands of hair off her face when she started to doze off in his lap after dinner.

When the children were twelve and eight, Benjamin sat them down after dinner one night, and told them gently that they were going to be moving. Much like Lachlann had done so many years before, Ben had gotten a job that required them to move to Colorado. The bright side, he pointed out to his sulking children that night over a dinner of pizza from the good place - because he wasn't above cushioning blows with extra cheese, or garlic-knot bribery! - was that they didn't have to move to an entirely new continent. Just to a new state. And there would be skiing, and wilderness to explore, much more so than in Chicago. Marshall, who had always been pretty adaptable to most things, made sure his dad knew that his best friend Brandon would be coming to stay every summer, and maybe during the winter too, and was fine with the state of the world after that. Addie took a little more convincing, but it was only because she was about to start eigth grade, and that was important because she was going to be joining a new school for her last year there, the last year before high school, and she had been excited to be one of the big fish in the pond at her small private school in Chicago. But there was, as Benjamin told her sadly as he smoothed back her touseled hair in that familiar way that always melted her heart, nothing anyone could do about it at that point. It was done, and they were moving.

Addison hated it at first. Colorado was so different from home, and she missed her friends and her family. She missed Sunday night dinners at her grandparents' house, and missed playing Jenga with her uncles while waiting for dessert to be served. Losing the feeling of happy chaos that came from big families gathering together was painful, and it caused her to shrink into herself for the first few weeks. But after a few hikes in the fresh air, a squirrel that lived in the tree in their yard that Marshall named 'Squoop', and a girl in her homeroom that she fell in love with immediately, she had to admit that maybe it wasn't so bad. And by her thirteenth birthday, when she had a solid group of friends to celebrate, she found herself thanking her dad for bringing her to Aurora.

Addison started doing YouTube when she was seventeen. At first her channel was pretty generic. She mostly recorded vlogs, occasionally throwing in a video of her cooking something. It was a slow start, as it almost always is for that kind of thing, but soon enough she had enough followers to start getting ad revenue. And then, sponsorship offers began coming in. It was then that she realised that if she was going to do this, if this was going to be a way to make actual money,