Fandom - Real Life

Name (Full) - Chiara Higgins

Name Meaning - Bright, luminous

Nicknames - Chi

Pronouns - she/her

Birthday - January 5th

Age - 23

Species - Human

Appearance - Average height (5'5-ish?) girl with dark skin with darker freckles scattered across her nose and slightly right under her eyes She has silver eyes and brown hair. She's missing her right leg just under the knee. She has a scar on her forehead above her right eye.

Outfits - She has a silver prosthetic for her missing right leg. She never takes off the black bracelet around her left wrist. She usually wears yellow or black shirts and some sort of blue shade of jean shorts. Her favorite outfit is a yellow crop top hoodie over a slightly oversized black shirt tucked into blue jean shorts. Her current sneakers are black and yellow sneakers with white soles.

Sexuality - Heteroromantic, Asexeual 

Crush? - N/A

Friends - Astra and Olive (Quick's OCs)

Enemies - None

Family - Angela (Mom), Enzi (Younger brother), Tabia (Younger sister), Jioni (Father, deceased) 

Personality (Before the crash) - Chiara loves running and does it competitively. She finds running freeing. She wants to be in the Olympics. She also really loves technology, especially cars. 
Chiara's very responsible, gentle, and nurturing. She's friendly and loves hanging out with her family. She's generally trusting and very loyal and reliable. She's honest and affectionate. She's always open to meeting new people or trying new things!
Chiara's very self-assured, and even a bit confident and rash. She's ambitious and risk-taking. She may even be a bit flirty.

Personality (Right after the crash) - Chiara hates running because she thinks she'll never be able to run again. Instead of being freeing, it's now a reminder of what she used to be able to do. She's very self-conscious about her abilities and body. She's unfriendly and aloof, trying to push people away instead of getting closer to them. She's angry and blunt.
Chiara is no longer risk-taking, instead, she's over-cautious and very careful. She feels like there's a pressure that she has to act exactly like she did before the crash, but can't seem to make herself do that. She avoids getting into cars at all costs.
Chiara is in no way optimistic. 

Personality (Currently) - Chiara likes and enjoys running, but now more casually. She's gentle and nurturing to her family. She's compassionate, warm, and friendly to strangers, and is open to meeting new people. She's open to trying new things, but it's more likely to be things like food instead of activities. She really likes the outdoors and camping, but only when she can go with friends and family. Camping is something her family introduced to her to help her feel better, so it's special to her. 
Chiara's responsible, courteous, and reliable. She's very loyal and is generally trusting. She easily forgives people, and hands out second chances like candy. She will get into cars but hates driving.
Chiara is honest and is trying to be more optimistic. She's still very affectionate. She's empathetic, altruistic, and has a strong sense of values. She's still careful about what she does, but not overly cautious anymore.
Coffee addict. 

Likes - Cars. Camping. Milkshakes. Running. Smoothies. Dark Chocolate. Coffee (mostly what she drinks now). Dogs. 

Dislikes - Driving. Running. Tomatoes. Milk Chocolate. The rain.

Fears - Driving. Strong storms.

Hobbies - Running (usually with Pup). Tinkering with cars. Curling up and watching movies with Pup. Doing homework at Olive's family's cafe.

Backstory - Chiara used to be a competitive runner, she was really good at it, and was planning to be in the Olympics. She also had a old car in her garage that she had been working on fixing up for a while. When she was 22 she got in a car accident and her left leg got crushed. It had to be amputated. For the next while, she didn't do much of anything, feeling broken beyond repair.
When she was 23, around four months after the crash, her family convinced her to get a dog. She went to the shelter and got Pup, a five-month-old puppy, who used to live in an abusive home.
After six months with him, her whole life was changed around. She started running again, though only with Pup and in the mornings, when less people would see her. She finally fixed up that car in her garage and gave it to her brother. She moved out and into her own apartment again and started college, and even got a job as a mechanic. She also met Astra and Olive while out running with Pup and soon became good friends.
Now she's just trying to figure out her life and how she'll continue to move forward.

Occupation - College student and mechanic.

Motto - Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

Trivia -
- Her family convinced her to get a dog because they thought it would make her feel better and help her get back into running
- It's been around eight months since she adopted Pup 
- She mostly drinks coffee now, before the crash she would drink milkshakes and smoothies since coffee isn't great to have before runs.
- She spends most of the little free time she has running and watching movies with Pup
- Angela was a nurse while Jioni was a stay home father. After Jioni died, when Chiara was around 12, Angela started taking more shifts to be able to support the family. This caused Chiara to take care of her siblings, and take odd jobs from the neighbors when she could. She still found time to run, as she was hoping to become a professional runner so that she could support the family forever.
- Enzi is 18, wants to be an engineer, and is the one that Chiara gave the car she fixed up to. He's the one that found the mechanic job listing for Chiara. He's always making lists and scheduling things meticulously, carries like 800 various post-it notes and notebooks and calendars with him at all times, probably spends more time planning and organizing things than actually doing them.
- Tabia is 15, wants to be a vet, and is the one that had the idea that Chiara should get a dog. She loves Pup with all her heart and is very good at making him feel safe. She's always collecting everything, her pockets are constantly filled with odd objects, like bottlecaps, or random rocks, or band-aides. Eventually, it evolved to where she just carries a ton of useful things with her at all times, like she always somehow have exactly what everyone needs. She just have a huge bag she carries with her and she's got matches, scissors, sewing kits, a miniature pack of tools, snack bars, water, makeup, tissues, lotion, candles, a compass, a full first aid kit, etc. She owns 10 different rodents as beloved pets, she has a special pouch for them to chill in in her bag that Enzi made for her.
- Chiara's gotten pretty good at cooking! .... even if she doesn't like cooking all that much...

Name (Full) - Pup

Pronouns - He/him

Birthday - Uknown (Chiara chose November 20th for him as that's five months before she picked him up from the shelter)

Age - Around a year old

Species - Dog

Appearance - Tan dog with brown markings. He has brown eyes and one floppy ear (his left one). He has a scar over his left eye.

Outfits - Usually wears a red bandana. During the winter, Chiara did get him a little doggy sweater, also red.

Personality - Pup is very timid around strangers. He's very jumpy, but has settled down a bit now that he's been adopted by Chiara. He feels as though Chiara is his safe person, and usually looks to her when in an unsure situation or environment. He is untrusting, but very loyal if you earn his trust. Once he trusts you, he'll love to play with you and go running with you.

Likes - Snuggling with Chiara, toy balls, running with Chiara, playing fetch

Dislikes - Storms/thunder and lightning, sudden loud noises, the rain, fireworks

Fears - Practically everything

Backstory - Pup was in a neglective home for a while. He was then thrown onto the streets when he was five months old. Someone took him to the shelter, which is where he stayed for a few weeks before Chiara adopted him.

Trivia -
- I adopted Pup from gaypenguinhaslimes
- Tabia is his back up safe person

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Art of the OC (By me):

Use this for a color ref, not the drawings above.

Art of the OC (By others):

By gaypenguinhaslimes of Pup (This is his original design)

By -cxmet (Top right)