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Name || Susan Juliette Summers
Nicknames/Aliases || Susan detests the nickname Susie! Never call her Susie! She will respond to Susan or Ms. Summers from her students. She is very friendly and impersonal with students. She does not like the nickname Sue, either. Arthur calls Susan a ‘gold digger’, but he’s the only one who can get away with that! In turn, she calls him a brat.
Age/Birthday || Susan is 34 years old, and her birthday was January 19th.
Zodiac || Capricorn
Gender || Female
Sexuality || Straight
Health Issues? || Nothing to note
School/Social Life
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Current Job and Work History || Currently, Susan works as the Science and Chemistry teacher at Metric Academy. Prior to this job, she worked several. Her first job was a cashier at 17; her second job was a second part-time job as a waitress. After a few years she got a job as a secretary in an unpopular dentist’s office, and found her bright attitude was what kept customers coming back. She decided to get her serving job back in addition to that, when money grew tighter. She picked up shifts at Denny’s at odd hours, sometimes working overnights to provide for her and her brother. With Arthur’s encouragement, she got her teaching degree. She worked as a substitute teacher for a while, giving up her secretary job, but keeping her serving position. She was accepted to teach at Metric after applying, and she and Arthur moved over. Ever since then, she’s worked at Metric, and appreciates the consistency. While she did enjoy being a waitress for a few years, the hours were so unreliable!
Reputation || Susan is known as one of the easiest teachers at Metric High School. She loves her subject, and her students. She offers extensive extra credit options for struggling students. She’s also known as one of the pretty teachers, too, but students who talk too perversely about her become targets of her brother’s wrath.
Relationship Status || Single and ready to mingle! She uses Tinder and everything.
Clubs and Organizations || None
Relationships Bank ||
Amy O’Neal – A former student who Susan grew close to. In actuality, she became friends with her when she graduated High School on Facebook. She is friendly with Amy and will often see her on Campus. She also gets along well with Amy’s friends, Max Ace and Todd, though she hasn’t gotten Facebook friend requests from any of them!
Arthur Summers – Her baby brother and, prior to the birth of Adelaide, her whole world. Even now that he’s in college Susan considers him like a mix of a son and a brother since she raised him (if that makes sense at all).
Chardonnay Nicholas – One of Susan’s former students, who she remembers very distinctly. Every so often Susan has a few students who stick out to her. She is very curious as to where Chardonnay’s keen business mind will take her! She is not a stranger to the rumors going around about her and her brother, either, but knows better than to tease them. Still, she can’t help but be a bit nosy! She will occasionally peek around for Chardonnay in the culinary division, but rarely finds her. Every time she sees Chardonnay on campus, she will wave and say hello.
Cliff Arkwright – Natalie’s oldest boy. Susan sees a lot of a younger Arthur in Cliff at times, though she cannot seem to appeal to him at all. Susan tries to offer him as much help in her class as she can, but it never works. She tries to keep an eye on him for Natalie’s sake.
Johnathan Hall – Natalie’s hubby. He’s very cute, but taken! Susan enjoys to spend time with him, though she rarely is alone with him. Usually, she will have him (and Arthur) babysit Adelaide (and Annabelle) when she (and Natalie) want a girls’ night! She trusts him immensely.
Miles Lambert – Miles is one of Susan’s close friends. She finds him incredibly cute, and enjoys teasing him. The two often flirt but Susan isn’t sure if he wants anything serious or not, so she just keeps things as they are. She finds him refreshing, given her track record of men.
Natalie Hall – Natalie is like a sister to Susan. The two of them were actually pregnant around the same time, and throughout their pregnancy Susan joked they should wed their kids to each other to become family by blood. They went through the ups and downs of raising a baby together, and the two often invite both their families over for dinners and other things to spend time together. Natalie’s daughter, Annabelle, is Adelaide’s best friend. Natalie can always count on Susan (or, if she’s busy, her forcing her brother) to babysit for Annabelle if she needs time to herself. Susan tries her best to give her friend advice about Cliff, and keeps her as up-to-date as she can on Cliff’s behavior in her classes.
Wendy Lambert – When Susan first met Wendy she was in Miles’ office, and immediately they became quite the tag-team against poor Miles! Susan finds Wendy’s company fun. Since Natalie is more squared and tame than Wendy, Susan finds a different sort of fun with Wendy. Also, as Wendy is also single, Susan can go out with her friend and they can play each other’s wingman if need be.
Westley Coxx – A mutual friend through the Halls. Susan also knows him from his job at Metric Academy. He’s very flirty and fun and Susan’s not going to lie, he’s totally the type of guy she’d go to for a hookup! However she’s not gone any farther than a few flirtatious exchanges with him as he seems to have his mind set on hitting on others. She will often nudge Natalie and point out how attractive West is, even though her friend is married she can still acknowledge a hot commodity when she sees on, right? Susan likes to call him ‘Westeros’ after the name of the setting in Game of Thrones.
Appearance
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Height/Weight/Body Type || 5’3”; Susan is very petit. The Summers family is all very skinny and, no matter how much she eats, Susan rarely puts on weight.
Hair color/style || Black, kept short in a bob that reaches to about the bottom of her ears.
Eye color/makeup preferences || Very dark blue. Susan will wear some makeup to school every day, to look her best, and likes to collect it. However she doesn’t always use it. She likes to hoard makeup, and is particularly fond of mascara.
Clothing Style || Feminine, she likes to wear cute dresses and blouses paired with skirts or slacks. She keeps it professional for school, but will wear something less conservative if she’s going out with friends.
Notable Traits || She has a very wide, and very white, smile.
Ethnicity || Brazilian-American
Playby || Morena Baccarin
Personality
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Likes || Science; Experimenting; Game of Thrones; TV shows; Soap operas; Reading; Her brother; Her daughter; Natalie; Annual trips to NYC with her family; Weddings; Learning; Successful students; Time-travel films; Makeup; Documentaries; Space/the concept of space travel; Toy Story; Feeling helpful and appreciated
Dislikes || Those who walk away from their families; Hearing about her brother getting into fights; Cigarettes; Being left alone; Failing students (she offers a lot of extra credit); Being strict/harsh; Being yelled at; Her brother’s smoking habit; Ambulances
Nervous Habits || Talking excessively when nervous.
Hobbies || Watching Game of Thrones. Susan has all of the books and DVDs for all the seasons in her apartment. She actively is looking forward to the next season, counting down the time until it airs. When not watching her shows, Susan spends much of her time playing with science experiments in the classrooms – she enjoys mixing different chemicals and performing experiments to see the results! She is constantly doing lab work even when it is not relevant to any course she teaches.
Positive Traits || Empathetic; Nerdy; Intelligent; Dedicated; Family-oriented; Goofy; Strong-willed; Independent; Flirtatious
Negative Traits || Clingy; Overbearing; Nosy; Forgetful; Gullible; Easy; Overemotional; Too trusting; Shopaholic; Impulsive
History
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Family ||
Adelaide Summers – Mother – Deceased || Susan was closer emotionally to her mother. She vowed to name her children, when she had them, after either her mother or father. Adelaide was always an exceptional cook, and Susan looked forward to trying every new recipe she threw together. She was a runaway from her family in Brazil, and met their father in America. When Susan was 18, her parents passed away in a car accident on August 17th. Since then, Susan has been scared of car wrecks, especially her family being in them. Despite moving out to California, Susan and her brother have taken the trip up to NY to see their graves every year.
Wren Summers – Father – Deceased || Her father was always the jokester of the family, and was actually quite like Susan in terms of personality. Susan misses his humor and jokes and tries to embody his sense of humor in her day-to-day life. She will annually go to New York with her brother and daughter to visit their graves.
Arthur Summers – Baby Brother/Son Figure – 19 – Student/Employee at Salem Theater || Arthur and Susan have always had an extremely strong bond. Since Susan had to raise Arthur herself, she grew to see him more as a son than as a brother. Though as he got older that changed and he became more brotherly to her. It’s hard for Susan to describe their relationship in words, but she does anyway. She is extremely proud of Arthur and overbearing to the point of annoyance in his life. Though Arthur can take care of himself, Susan always worries over him and tries to take care of him and provide for him. Unfortunately as he’s getting older, Susan has to come to terms with the fact that she’s not always going to like or approve of his choices in life (like smoking). She relies on her brother for a lot now, for emotional stability (because while Susan is a kite blown about by the wind, Arthur is a rock that keeps her tethered to the ground) and for help raising Adelaide. No matter how old he gets, Arthur will always be her baby brother.
Adelaide Summers – Daughter – 4 || As happy as Susan wanted to be about being pregnant, when she first found out she was expecting, it was straight out of her nightmares. Kasper, her boyfriend at the time, had already left to go back to Hungary due to family circumstances. He couldn’t come back and, after one phone call, Kasper was out of her life forever. It hit her hard, and as Adelaide grows older, the resemblance she bears to Kasper hurts. But as she raised her baby girl, Susan realized that Adelaide was the best gift Kasper could have given her before he left. Though she dreads the day she has to explain to Adelaide why she doesn’t have a father, Susan looks forward to watching her daughter grow up. She’s very much a reminder that what she had with Kasper was real and not some made up fantasy.
Hometown || Binghampton, New York
Current Residence || Susan currently lives in a two-bedroom apartment with her daughter. At the moment the second bedroom is Arthur’s room when he stays over, though since he’s his own apartment now, Susan has been remodeling it into a full room for Adelaide rather than having her share Susan’s room. It’s quaint, located downtown. She likes it.
Vehicle/Transportation || A 2002 Volkswagen that has seen better days. Arthur likes to drive so he’s the one who uses the car most often even though it’s legally in Susan’s name. He takes the car to and from work, and also usually drives for Susan when she needs to go long distances.
Backstory || Susan was the only child of her household growing up. She was raised by two very loving and popular parents, Wren and Adelaide Summers. Ironically, Susan didn’t grow up as a perfect young angel like her brother seems to think she did. In fact, the two are more alike than he’ll probably ever know.
Susan wasn’t really that different than she is now, at first. It wasn’t until middle school hit that she became different. Susan’s attitude became lazier, she did less schoolwork, slept more in class, got involved with the wrong crowd. Susan was best friends with a boy named Johnny, who had a girlfriend Sheryl. Susan was caught at the movies with Johnny by someone, and, long story short, it resulted in some nasty rumors and for Susan to be outcast (8th grade drama… isn’t it wonderful?).
But she didn’t take it standing down—she lashed out at her peers and became cold and rude towards them. Johnny left her as a friend because Sheryl got extremely angry about them spending time together. Susan did well in school but when it came to socializing she did not even try. She cut off all of her hair for eighth grade and did everything to make herself stand out. The end result was that, on her 8th grade graduation day, Susan almost got in major trouble because she almost flipped off her peers when she got her ‘diploma’, turning towards them and shoving her right fist at them with the middle knuckle raised.
Despite everything, though, Susan had her family. She loved her family and wanted to start one of her own someday, a desire that increased when her baby brother Arthur was born when she was 14 and she immediately grew to love kids. She planned to go to a college no one in her school would go to and start over, get a teaching degree, and move on with her life. So during High School Susan focused on her grades and her grades alone, doing her best to ignore her peers. She became cold and put up with the bullies. She never lashed out, not once, and never did her self-esteem really deplete either because she had a goal and hope for the future.
Susan’s attitude problem faded by the time she was a senior, and when most of her classmates seemed to mature, she actually started to get along with them. She made up with Johnny and Sheryl (who had broken up by then, anyway) and then she became much more social. By the time she graduated high school she had good friends and could laugh about the past with them, and holds mostly fond memories of high school.
Devastation hit her, however, when she got a call at her summer job telling her that her parents had both been killed in an accident. The loss was horrible to her and she was suddenly forced to grow up way too fast. Her parents had never been rich, and though they left her everything in their will it wasn’t nearly enough to live off of for very long. The loss of Mr. and Mrs. Summers shook their hometown terribly and Susan was given a lot of breaks. The rent of her apartment was cut in half, so she could afford it with her summer job. Susan fell into a depression, missing her parents, who had been the only people there for her throughout her life. Without them, she felt like there was no one who seriously was there for her. She had friends, but they were just that—friends. She needed family and love.
For about a week she completely forgot about her baby brother, who was there at the apartment, too. Susan went through her life in a slump. She went to work, talked to people with a fake smile on her face, but when she got home she was a wreck, crying herself to sleep and wondering why she was the only one left behind.
As the funeral drew closer, Susan had to make the arrangements. She was numbly signing papers for it when she noticed something placed on her desk. It was a blue flower pen, a pretty thing that their next door neighbor sold. Susan looked down at her little brother, who had been the one who put the flower on her desk. He hadn’t been nearly as shaken by the deaths of their parents as she had, simply because he had no idea what was going on. Except, of course, that his parents weren’t around and his sister was crying every night.
That simple gesture was what woke Susan up. She wasn’t alone—she had Arthur. Her parents had left her to take care of Arthur, of course, and she’d been being excruciatingly selfish for thinking otherwise! She wound up hugging him for the first time since their parents had died that night, and spent the entire night playing with him instead of signing papers, and rocked him to sleep when he cried that night. Instantly she felt guilty. How many times had he cried himself to sleep, completely and utterly confused, with Susan wrapped up in her own little world?
Ever since that, Susan dedicated her life to her baby brother. She didn’t cry as much, and she now had a new goal since college was out the window: raising and living with her brother. The funeral was hard for her to go through, but she had Arthur (even though the 4 year old was very confused) for support.
For a year Susan lived in the same apartment that her parents had rented, but the landlord had no choice but to kick her and Arthur out since they couldn’t afford the full rent along with food, electricity, and clothes. Susan took this pretty optimistically and found a cheaper (though shaggier) apartment, and she and Arthur moved there. She picked up another job and, with this place’s cheap rent, it wasn’t hard to scrape by. Initially, she took the couch, but when Arthur got older (about 10) he pretty much forced Susan to take the bed. Since Susan knew her work performance was suffering due to sleeping on the couch she caved in, and that was how they lived. They had plenty of fun times and Susan noticed Arthur did a lot of things while Susan was at work and he was home from school—like cleaning, cooking (though his meals weren’t exactly good at first, they improved and he, as a result, became a better cook than Susan), and even doing little things that he knew Susan liked. It was completely adorable to Susan.
Susan eventually got a well-paying job in favor of her two minimum wage jobs as a secretary in a psychiatrist’s office. Her boss was kind of creepy and hit on her a lot, but that didn’t matter to Susan because as long as she just smiled and brushed it off she got her paycheck. With her newfound money she wanted to splurge and buy them all sorts of nice things, but Arthur (the ten year old) was the one who convinced Susan to be frugal. She couldn’t get over that!
When Susan told Arthur she’d always wanted to be a teacher, and he told her to do it, she explained that it took a degree. He said she just had to get a degree, and when she said that cost money he convinced her to put aside some of the money that she got at this new job for it. Susan actually thought that was a good idea and looked into online courses, and decided to take them. She felt a lot better doing that, and felt like she wasn’t betraying her younger self and actually was chasing after her dreams.
Between earning her degree and working, Susan didn’t notice too much about Arthur’s school life. She only knew when something was wrong when she was called by a teacher about his bad behavior and lectured him. After that, he caused no more ruckus, and she only knew his final grades. Susan tried to be a good mother figure to Arthur but sometimes she was too busy to ensure he got three meals a day.
When Arthur was about 13, Susan was able to finally enter the dating pool again. She had time now that he wasn’t a toddler. Her first boyfriend that she introduced Arthur to, however, was a disaster. Arthur wasted the man’s money, insulted him, and constantly kicked him under the dining room table. The man never called Susan back after that and Susan told Arthur he shouldn’t be rude. The second man was the same story. Susan lectured Arthur after that, told him to stop being so rude to these men!
After that Arthur and the men still didn’t get along but it was much more passive-aggressive. Arthur indirectly insulted them, shot them nasty looks, ect. Susan, annoyed by this point, just stopped introducing her boyfriends to Arthur. She decided unless it got really serious, to the point of possibly marrying the man serious, she’d never bother introducing him to a man again.
When Arthur got his first job at 15, Susan could finally devote more money towards her degree and took more classes a semester. She got her teaching diploma that summer, and looked desperately for a job opening. She eventually found a position that was a boarding school with dorming and apartments on campus, but it was an academy for the arts. She thought Arthur wouldn’t make it in and thus was willing to give up, but Arthur wasn’t. He filled out an application and told Susan he wanted to act. Susan believed this and quickly was hired for the position. Ever since, Susan’s been a teacher at Metric. Arthur entered the school as a student.
About three years ago Susan discovered she was pregnant and nine months later she had her baby Adelaide Lynn, named after her deceased mother. Susan’s boyfriend, Kasper, who she was very serious about had to move to Hungary. He already moved before Susan discovered she was pregnant and when she finally told him it was too late for him to move back. So Susan broke up with him but said if he could ever come to the states he was more than welcome to meet Adelaide, because she understood the reason he couldn’t come back was too important even though it hurt to be alone with the baby.
Though technically she was never alone—her younger brother Arthur helped her raise Adelaide and grew quite fond of the baby himself. Susan does find it hard to be a single mother again but now she’s much more financially stable than she was when she first raised Arthur. Adelaide’s a handful, but Susan is glad to have her regardless.
Now Arthur is going into college, and Susan couldn’t be prouder. She sobbed when he graduated high school and when he told her about his plans for the future she almost cried again at how sure he sounded. Susan’s pretty satisfied with her life at the moment—though an unfortunate downside to Arthur growing up is that there’s much Susan’s discovering that doesn’t set well with her—like the big fight they had about his smoking habit.
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