Post by Kristen Buchanan on Aug 21, 2016 20:17:21 GMT -5
*KristenBijouBuchanan!
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}i might only have one match
but i can cause an explosion~
but i can cause an explosion~
*whoyoucontrol!
full name: Kristen Bijou Buchanan
nicknames: Kris
age: 36
birthday: August 1st
sexual orientation: hetero
occupation: Kristen generally stays at home taking care of her four children, though she does check in on the businesses in which she's invested: B&R Couture & Ellis Law
living arrangement: Kristen lives with her husband and children in a house that was once owned by Tyler's grandmother and their daughter's namesake
vehicle: Powder Blue Toyota Highlander
*lookscankill!
appearance: Kirsten is a slender woman who, after giving birth to four children, has to work her butt off with early morning exercise in order to keep herself in shape. Her long, curly blonde hair, sparkling blue eyes, and dynamic smile project an aura of child-like innocence, which is only tempered by her quick tongue and her biting sarcastic wit.
style:Despite her family’s wealth, Kristen avoids name-brands. While at work at B&R Couture, she wears Beth’s and Kate’s designs as a subliminal means of advertising their work. Unless she’s going out with her friends or attending a function with her husband, Kristen is quick to wash off her make-up, throw on a pair of worn sweatpants or jeans and a comfortable t-shirt, and slide into a pair of flip-flops.
play by: Kate Hudson
*removethatmask!
general personality: Deeply opinionated and fiercely hot-tempered, Kristen is quick to argue her point and is unafraid to cross swords with anyone she disagrees with. Because her family placed such little value on women, she is untrusting of men and never misses an opportunity to prove that she is just as good, if not better, than any man. This distrust has, on occasion, led to her stick her foot in her mouth. Gifted with a sarcastic wit, Kristen’s sharp tongue makes it easy for her to fit in with her best-friends—Beth Barker, Wes Ellis, and Kate Roberts.
She can also be incredibly demanding, sometimes insisting on getting something from someone else—such as respect—from someone else while hypocritically not giving it in return.
*homesweethome!
spouse: Dr. Tyler Buchanan•OB/GYN
children: Jacob Buchanan•son, Student
Eli Buchanan•son (adoptive),Student
Van Buchanan•son, Student
Lila Buchanan•daughter, Pre-school
mother: Antoinette Lefabre•Deceased
father: Louis Lefabre•Deceased
siblings: Vanessa Lefabre•sister, Deceased
Jared Lefabre•brother, Incarcerated
Brandi Lefabre•sister, Deceased
Colby Lefabre•brother, CEO, Le Monde Lefabre
other: Anthony "A.J." Lefabre•nephew, Musican
Alia Lefabre•niece
Aria Lefabre•niece
hometown:Los Angeles
*waybackwhen!
history: As the youngest daughter in the wealthy, “old society” Lefabre family, Kristen has spent most of her life fighting against the belief that her only value lay in the kind of man she married. Subjected to her sister Brandi’s ridicule and mockery, Kristen learned how to defend herself at an early age.
Believing Jared and Brandi to be little more than criminals, Kristen enrolled in UCLA after high school and majored in business with the full intent of getting a job at the family company and cleansing it of the illegal activities her elder brother and sister were rumored to have engaged in.
It was a decision that would lead to the unraveling of her family. Brandi—allied with her brother’s rival, Xander—used the threat of Kristen taking over LML to turn Jared against the rest of the family and provoked him into attempting to kill their baby sister. Vanessa, furious at Jared for ordering a hit on his own sister, sold her shares in the company—along the shares of Kristen and Colby—on the condition that he pay twice their value and that he and Brandi stay away from the rest of the family, forever.
Kristen, along with Colby, was livid at being cut out of the family business without her consent and, declaring Vanessa a coward and a traitor, refused to speak to her eldest sister. When Vanessa, blindsided by being ostracized by the people she’d tried to protect, began to withdraw and started drinking excessively, Kristen was forced to take up the responsibility of keeping the house in order and stepped into the suddenly vacated role of ‘parent’ to Colby. She would soon discover that her problems with her family were far from over.
After Colby was nearly killed when a drunken Vanessa crashed the car on the way to the hospital, a doctor informed Kristen and her brother Brock that—due to impossible differences in blood-type—there was no way Colby was their brother. They both, at first, dismissed it as a ridiculous mistake in the lab but eventually began to ask questions when they discovered a forged birth-certificate for Colby as well as an unfinished will of their father’s which specifically disinherited the youngest Lefabre.
Becoming suspicious, Kristen and Brock relentlessly sought out answers to the strange clues they were beginning to stumble upon. They would find the answer in a picture left behind in Vanessa’s hospital room that showed a newborn Colby being cradled in the arms of his mother—Vanessa. Shaken after receiving confirmation from Vanessa, Kristen and Brock agreed to never tell Colby the truth.
Unfortunately, during an argument with Colby about whether Vanessa—who had begun to appear insane—should be released from the sanitarium she’d been committed to, Kristen let the truth of Colby’s parentage slip.
After receiving the same treatment that they’d dished out to Vanessa earlier, Kristen decided it was time she struck out on her own and defined herself outside –and in spite—of her family. She moved out the family estate and stayed temporarily with pseudo-boyfriend Adam Prescott, got a job working at B&R Couture, and begun to construct a life separate from the Lefabre legacy—although finding herself pulled back in from time to time.
While working at the boutique, Kristen met two men. The first, Tyler Buchanan, piqued her interest at first and the two seemed to be heading down the road toward dating. But an encounter with Kristen's deranged sister Vanessa outside of a frat party resulted in Tyler getting shot trying to protect Kristen. Concerned that being around her would jeopardize his life, Kristen cut all contact with the medical student in an effort to keep him safe.
Later, she met blind rich boy Max LeBeau who seemed to ease Kristen's concern that men were only interested in her for her money (which Max had in spades) or her beauty (Max couldn't see her). However, this illusion was eventually shattered when Kristen discovered that, despite truly being interested in her, Max was also plotting a hostile takeover of her family's company--which was being run by her nephew Colby. Angered and unwilling to listen, Kristen broke up with Max and returned working at B&R, which she had quit to be Max's assistant.
It was, again, at the store, where Tyler found her after months of having her ignore and avoid him. Following a rather heated debate, the Buchanan boy finally convinced Kristen that he was genuinely interested in her and that he wasn't concerned about what her family might to do him. Caving, Kristen began dating Tyler and, for once, she has started to let go of her apprehension of being seen as nothing more than a trophy.
In her professional life, Kristen has gone from being a mere employee at B&R Couture and has now become a co-owner. When Griffin Litrell, Kate's ex-boyfriend, demanded immediate repayment for a loan that he'd given to Kate to fix the plumbing in the store, Kristen provided the funds along with a more substantial investment to be used in expanding the business.
Kristen's personal life was, however, thrown into chaos a few months later when she discovered that she was pregnant. Freaked out by the prospect of becoming a mother and all the changes that entailed, she reacted badly when Tyler--her boyfriend and father of the child growing inside of her--asked her to marry him. Believing Tyler was only asking her to marry him because she was having a baby and it was the "right thing to do," Kristen rejected him and, in doing so, ended their relationship.
Keeping Tyler at arms length, Kristen went about dealing with being a mother on her own, fully prepared to do so as a single parent. That was until she ran into Tyler at the hospital following an appointment with her doctor, an appointment wherein she learned she was having a boy, and an appointment she'd failed to let Tyler about ahead of time. Frustrated at Kristen for her behavior and her refusal to see that he loved her, Tyler drew a line in the sand and told Kristen he was going to marry her, he was moving in, and they were going to raise their child together and she was going to like it.
Shocked by this suddenly more forceful Tyler, Kristen found herself at a loss for words and, surprisingly, agreed. With Tyler's help and that of her friends, Kristen eventually settled into the fact that her life was changing...for the better...and began to embrace and look forward to the idea of becoming Mrs. Kristen Buchanan and raising her child with someone who really cared for her and not for what she was.
However, while she still managed to keep herself away from her toxic family, Kristen still found herself pulled into the Lefabre drama at various points, especially after Colby filed for divorce and shot his soon-to-be ex-brother-in-law, Jackson Reeves. Standing by Jessica, despite Kristen's dislike for Jackson, Kristen warned Colby to stay away from his wife.
Several months would pass before Kristen--getting ready for her August wedding to Tyler--discovered that Jessica was pregnant with Colby's baby. Moved by Jessica's fear of Colby and determined to protect an innocent baby from the Lefabre business politic, Kristen convinced Tyler that they should pass the baby off their own, a fraternal twin to their own unborn child.
Ten years have passed since Kristen first became a mother and, since then, she and Tyler have added another son, Van, and a daughter, whom they named Lila after Tyler's grandmother, to their family. As her family has grown, her involvement in the day-to-day running of B & R has dwindled to the point that she only stops in a couple of times a week to double-check the books and keep updated on any new developments.
As Tyler progressed through medical school and, eventually, graduated, became licensed, completed his residency and branched out to open his own practice, Kristen has dedicated herself to raising their children. Her outside the home activities, however, have shifted from working outside the home to using the money that she inherited to invest in other people's dreams. For Kristen, the money in her bank account is, for all intents and purposes, stained with blood and she cannot bring herself to spend it on her own needs and wants. Instead, she has decided to do good things with it and fund efforts that help those in need.
*thepuppetmaster!
name: Brandon