Post by DEVIN LENORA STAVROS on Jun 22, 2013 9:42:04 GMT -8
| [atrb=style,width: 420px; background-color: efefef; background-image: url(http://24.media.tumblr.com/0478144b9f16c95a37367d1aca56b45c/tumblr_mkfax8tDxp1s97ldco1_500.png); padding: 5px, bTable] DEVIN L. STAVROS EIGHTEEN | HERETOSEXUAL | UNEMPLOYED | COLLEGE STUDENT | LUCY HALE THE INTERVIEW HELLO. THANKS FOR COMING IN TODAY. SHALL WE START WITH YOUR NAME? Name seems like a good place to start, doesn't it? Unless you plan on calling me "you" the entire interview. My name's Devin Lenora Stavros. Devin and Stavros are both from my father; I don't know why he picked Devin, because it doesn't really mean anything. It just comes from a Gaelic or an English surname, originally. Stavros is Greek for 'cross', which I actually find to be really funny, given how proper and religious both my parents are. Lenora is something that my mother chose; she loves old orthodox type names. I'm pretty sure she can trace her family tree back to the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf days, just so she feels like she's a part of something. She liked Lenora because she used to read a lot of Poe, not because it was anything significant. It doesn't mean anything. Just a shortened version of Elenora. Pretty boring, right? THAT'S A NICE NAME. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? I'm starting my freshman year of college this fall, at the local university. I'll be studying as a premed. I either want to become a neurosurgeon or a psychiatrist. I'm still not all sure, but I've got time to figure it out, because med school takes years. I graduated from Brunswick HS not too long ago, honors, exceptional grades. It wasn't hard to get into college. I'm looking forward to moving on to the next step of my life, though. INTERESTING. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FUN? I think that would depend on who's asking. My parents, you see, they've both got sticks up their asses, if you'll pardon my French. You might think they aren't that bad, but they are. If you only knew how often I got grounded last year... [shakes her head] you'd understand if you lived in my house. It's not even that what I like to do is bad, per se, they would just rather make sure I study all the time. Strict parents create sneaky children, though. I've become adept at sneaking out from my second story bedroom window, not an easy task, I'll tell you. Our house is right near the woods, so that's where my friends and I spend a lot of time. It's "adventurous", if you want to call it that. I've spent most of my Saturday nights there, with a bonfire and my friends and a stolen case of beers. I'm not that hard to please, really. I'm the boring twin [laughs]. I love a good challenge, though. Truth or dare was my favorite game growing up, and I still love to play it, if I can find a way to take it to the next level. If you tell me that I'm not able to do something, or not capable, I will prove you wrong. I'm a thinker. That being said, I have this whole book of critical thinking questions. I go through those things on a monthly basis, and have to find new places to buy them online. [laughs] You have to promise not to laugh at me, alright? I'm really into astronomy. Space is this big unexplored place, and I can see it from my backyard, I've got a big fancy telescope and everything. If we lived closer to the ocean, I'd love to scuba dive. Did you know that we've only explored five percent of the ocean? I think that's insane. If I wasn't going to be a doctor, I'd just pack up and become a cartographer, you know? Sailing around, mapping out the ocean as I came across the new areas. Who knows what you'll find? I could honestly live being a nomad, but that's not what fate has in the cards for me. I've got college and a career, that's what will make my parents happy. Oh, college, I have a scholarship for volleyball. I played varsity in high school. I'm pretty good, I think, and I like it. Not, say, professional level or anything, but good enough that the college is willing to give me money so I can go to school there and play for them. WOULD YOU SAY THOSE ACTIVITIES REFLECT WHO YOU ARE? I guess that depends on who's telling you what I'm like. My mother has called me the antichrist a couple of times, which always makes me laugh. For a Christian woman, it does seem weird that she would give her daughter a name that's one letter away from 'devil', doesn't it? [shrugs] I'm not very exciting, truth be told. I'm pretty social, but I'm not like... a party animal, or anything. Liv, that's my twin, she's more of an adrenaline junkie than I am, but she's smarter than me in that she doesn't push our parents' buttons. I can be a smartass, and it gets me in trouble. I don't try to be, really, I'm just honest to a fault. I don't really worry about hurting other people's feelings, or burning bridges, or anything like that. No filter, but I'm sure you've heard teenage girls say that at least a thousand times before. My father had me tested for 'psychological issues' when I was a sophomore. They think something's wrong with me, but there's not, not really. I'm just no good at making emotional connections with people. Liv is probably the only person I'll get really upset if someone hurts, because she's the only one I really care about. I'm not alone. I've got friends, I just tend to alienate them every so often. I'm not attached to many people. Let's see, what else... I'm really intelligent. When I was getting psychologically tested, they gave me an IQ test, and I scored 163. To be considered a genius, you need to score at least a 160. That's right when all the pressure started, too. I take it well, I think. I'm cool under pressure. I don't mind school, anyway. I like obtaining knowledge. I'm 'nerdy', I guess you could say. I don't really care, you can call me that if you'd like. Other people's opinions have never really affected me. A COOL CAT LIKE YOU MUST HAVE A TON OF SUITORS FLOCKING TO YOU, HUH? Cool cat? I haven't heard that one in a while. Anyway, the short answer is no. I'm straight, which, thank God, because my mother would have an absolute fit if I ever tried to come out of the closet, but I don't really date. I'm not attracted to a lot of people. I guess you could say that I'm a sapiosexual, in that I find intelligence to be the most attractive people thing in a person. I can't date a dumbass, or I would wind up killing myself. Don't give me that look, I'm serious. I couldn't do it. People who are just blatantly idiotic make me want to repeatedly slam a door on my head, so I could never imagine dating someone like that. I don't date. People have asked me out before, sure, but I typically say no, because I don't want to lead anyone on. I'm not like that. If someone doesn't have a chance with me, I'm not going to make them think that they do. Sometimes that makes me a 'bitch', but either way, I was going to end up being a bitch eventually. COOL BEANS. THEY SAY YOUR FAMILY SHAPES WHO YOU ARE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURS? Cool beans, now? You really don't have to try to talk like that to... connect with me, if that's what you're trying to do. It's making me uncomfortable. My family? My family is insane. Both of my parents came from a big family, so now we've got a big family. My mother is a widow, she had two children with her old husband before he died. They're the oldest out of all of us. I'm nice to them, as nice as I can be, but I'm not really close to Brianna. Then, my dad met my mother after he moved to the States, it was love at first sight, they waited until marriage, blah blah blah. Then they started cranking out babies as fast as they could. Altogether, I've got six blood relatives: Wesley and Brianna are my half siblings, I just mentioned them. Then there's the rest of us, and we're all half Greek. Chrysanth came first, and she got a Greek name to appease my father's parents. Chrysante means 'golden flower' or 'marigold', depending where you look. A little while after Chrysanthe came Alek, which is another Greek name, meaning 'defending men', or something along those lines. Then my mom gave birth to Liv and I, which was a surprise. They hadn't been trying to make a household of six kids, but then again, nobody really tries to have twins, do they? Chrysanthe is alright, and we get on fine. Alek and I were inseparable until I was about twelve. Now I can't really stand him, truth be told. He's the rat of the family, always trying to get us in trouble. I can't blame him. He was outnumbered by girls. Anyway, my mother's side of the family lives in Albany, New York, and we see them a lot. They can be overbearing, but they try their best to be good aunts, uncles, and grandparents. I try to recognize that. My father's family still lives in Greece, and we see them every two years, which is absolute hell. They're all extremely traditional, and whenever I go over there, I'm practically bombarded with questions, like when I'll start looking to get married and giving them great-grandchildren, or why my skin isn't darker, or if I've been eating enough. Truth be told, I usually just keep my head down whenever we're out there and hope my siblings manage to fend for themselves. AND YOUR LIFE? TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PAST. I'M EAGER TO HEAR. I can't imagine why, I've lived the most mundane life. Born into an upper-middle class family, I grew up as one of the two babies of the family. I grew up, became who I am today. I started playing volleyball in middle school, and really loved it. I graduated top of my class from high school, got into college, and here I am. I really don't know what you want me to say, honestly. I'm only eighteen, my life has hardly started yet. Let's see... in my household, you learn what the rules are real fast. When you break the rules, there's hell to pay. I can't complain, because my childhood really didn't make or break me. I didn't get attached to anyone, with the exception of Olivia, but I had shared a tight space with her for nine months before I figured out that humanity is a disappointment, so I guess that makes sense. But yeah, my parents were very strict, orthodox Christians. No Harry Potter or anything like that, it's 'of the devil'. No, I'm serious. I've been smacked before, but then I learned to smack back, and that ended that real fast. Mostly, my parents just make empty threats, if they're saying anything about raising a hand against me. They quote scripture, sometimes, about respecting your parents, and they ground me a lot. I think they're starting to give up on me, but I still live at home, so I still have to play by their rules. Is this enough? Can we move on? What about a secret? Everyone has a secret. Okay, skip straight to the heavy stuff. [long pause] Do you remember when that kid went missing for a week earlier this year, only for his body to be found in the rubble of that old bridge? Well... [sighs] that's my fault. He was a friend of mine. We were all out in the woods, maybe under the influence, you know, summer after our senior year. Anyway, Elijah and I were playing truth or dare, and I dared him to go out on the bridge. Alicia begged him not to, that thing was really old, dangerous. He was a lot like me, you know? Probably out of service for fifty years, made of wood, not real sturdy. So, he went out, but before the five minutes was over, the whole thing collapsed. With Elijah still on it. We ran down right away, of course, to check on him, but when we got there... [voice breaks] there was nothing we could do. He wasn't even dead, not all the way, but we couldn't help him. We stayed with him until he passed, and then we packed up all our trash and went home. Never told a soul until this day. Alicia and I stopped talking, and she moved away for college soon after. There's not a day I don't think about it. ALRIGHT. TIME'S ALMOST UP. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DREAMS. QUICK! My dreams? To be honest, I don't know what I want. Wish me luck, because I'll need it. AND THAT'S A WRAP. IT WAS NICE GETTING TO KNOW YOU. Yeah, of course. Same to you. BEHIND THE MASK ADDIE | AGE | EST | HA | SK, AC, MB, CW no thank u c: |
