Post by york on Jun 27, 2012 21:47:58 GMT -5
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[style=width:350px; font-family: josefin sans; font-size: 30px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align:center; color: #000; line-height: 80%; text-transform: uppercase; padding-bottom: 5px;]YORK TALBOT
CRIMINAL. TWENTY-FOUR. CON ARTIST/IMPERSONATOR. CUNNING. SMART. CONVINCING. SNARKY. LIAR.
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,true][atrb=style, width:130px; height: 200px; background-image: url(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6794nkcpJ1r8vk93o2_250.gif);][/style] | [style=height: 180px; overflow: auto; font-size: 9px;]york grew up on the outskirts of chicago, the poor section of the windy city. she had one older brother and a younger sister, making her the monkey in the middle. due to her family's poor status, they got into a bad crowd in an attempt for more money. one afternoon, the three kids (their brother was 10, york was 7, and her younger sister was 6) were fetching groceries, and on their way home got caught up in a street fight between two gangs. the fight escalated into a full blown gun fight, and as they fled, york and her sister got separated from their older brother. with all the smoke and gunshots, all york could see was him fall. scared out of her mind and choking with fear, she grabbed her little sister and ran the rest of the way home. when they burst into the house, she choked out that her brother giovanni was dead. giovanni's death tore her family apart. her mother began taking anti-depressants to deal with the loss of her son, and she degenerated into full-blown drug abuse. four years later, she died of a drug overdose. this led york's father to a life of crime: the only way he could make money to support his family. he trained his daughter's in the criminal life, making them hardened criminals. while york has dabbled in various forms of the criminal life, she excels at being a con artist. with her natural beauty and ability to make anyone believe her, she can con her way in or out of anything. and this skill was what landed her her current job. while attending a fancy benefit, working to con the wallets off of a few millionaires in chicago's elitist circle, she met up with a man by the last name ross, and she met her match. when she tried to charm him, he charmed her right back, and admitted that he knew what she was up to: having seen her pickpocket at least ten men before him. that was when he offered her a job: charm his former best friend into falling in love with her, marry him, and then ruin his life. seems pretty heartless, right? to york, it was a guaranteed ten million dollars if she was successful, and successful she would be. she was a born con artist. a week later, she was strategically placed on an airplane with the young mr. ewing, her target. she flirted and batted her eyelashes at him, and she had him in the palm of her hand by the end of the flight. she played hard-to-get for a while, refusing to give him her number, but the two 'accidentally' met up again at a cabana two days later where they danced the night away and ended up sleeping together. they began dating, and six months later she was asked to move to boston to live with him. now, two years later, ewing has finally popped the question. |
