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H I S T O R Y
To paint a picture of the white dahlia, you have to know the basics, need the base to construct the masterpiece. She is fragments of dillusion; she is composed of mismatched, jagged shards of supressed anger.
The first coat on the canvas, the ones who brought darling Ophelia into the world: Vivian and Lucas White. Mother was a writer, a poet; both her and Father dearest were members of terrorist organizations, but he was the man behind all the arson. She'd never touched a gun in her life. Where did it all leave her? In a hospital bed, tube pumping shit into her stomach because being in a coma (two four six eight ten years) meant you couldn't eat, couldn't live, couldn't be. All because government dogs shot holes into her. Filthy mutts.
Sweet Ophelia was never meant to witness the horrors her parents witnessed day to day. Blood was never meant to taint her hands. Screams were never meant to reach her ears.
Born into madness, the white dahlia was shipped off to Sector 17 (it used to be called Melbourne) to live with her grandparents at the age of ten. The world was morphing into everything catastrophic, and the parental unit couldn't bear to have Ophelia raised in such chaos.
but early one morning, on her seventeenth birthday
she purchased a plane ticket, and without
anyone's knowledge or consent,
flew back to Sector 07.
and what
a bloody mess
it'd become.
On her arrival, she discovered the following: (1) mother, in a coma; (2) father, harder to track down than a needle in a haystack; (3) house, obliterated; (4) Sector 07 (formerly New York City), deteriorating; (5)
her hate for the government
(here is where you'd find the infuriated striations of paint across the canvas; crimson-colored, bruise-shaded.)
And so she went underground in search of some answers. From fifteen to twenty-two, she trained, trained,
trained her pretty little derriere off. Growing up into political disarray, her father had made it clear for her: if she was here, she would have to
fight.
Her first mission? Dismantle a live bomb.
She did it in under thirty seconds. |