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~ Twilight : The Next Generation ~

||Jennifer E. Newton||

A human girl with a low self esteem, high IQ, and overactive imagination; she is convinced something is going on in Forks, and she is uniquely suited to find out what.

Why?

Because as a newcomer, she has no attachments.

As a reader, she expects the fantastic.

As a writer, she observes the world around her.

And as a scientist, she demands an explanation.

(Her schedule)

Physics
English
History
Trigonometry
Lunch
Algebra
French
Phys ed

Yeah, it's a long day

(Her song)

Believe, The Bravery



(Her Family)
The Newton Brood

- Jessica and Mike Newton, the parents, are model caretakers, albeit with modest ambitions.

-- Jessica still harbors a hatred for the Cullens, and seeks on an unconscious level to venge herself on Bella Swan vicariously through her children, by having them snatch the pretty boys out from the clutches of the vampires. Despite this repressed loathing, she loves Mike and her children deeply, and really does care about them, but can't understand that their goals in life could possibly be different from hers. {color=black}

-- Mike is the breadwinner of the family, often absent; he works an engineering job at a technical firm in Seattle, and defers to Jessica on domestic matters. He shares a closer relationship with the boys then his daughters, although he and Jen bond over the occasional physics conundrum. {color=black}

- Annabelle Newton (18 years), the eldest, is a pretty, popular upperclassman, just daring enough to be attractive but not rebellious enough to upset her parents. She has a boyfriend, a car, and a clique, and probably takes after Jessica the most. {color=violet}

- Jennifer Newton (17 years), the prodigal daughter, is recently returned from boarding school with a head full of fantasy books and a near-insatiable desire to find something interesting in Forks. {color=indigo}

- Emma Newton (15 years), the family's optimist, is a colorful, crazy, creative and happy-go-lucky girl guaranteed to bring excitement with her wherever she goes. She disdains popularity in favor of individualism, winning puzzled frowns from her mother, but the respect of her elder sister Jen, whom she looks up to. {color=mediumspringgreen}

- Jeff and Conner Newton (13 years), the twins, are identical and inseparable. In their last year of Junior High, they don't interact with the girls much. They're far and away the 'coolest' kids in the family, skateboarding and playing in a garage band with some friends from school; they're also energetic and hard to control at the best of times, and as the forth and fifth kids, their mother gives them a freer reign then any of the others.

-- Jeff can be distinguished by slightly longer hair and darker clothes; he plays the drums for their band, which has gone through many names over the past few months but is currently ADD. {color=navy}

-- Conner has slightly shorter hair and tends towards more colorful clothes; he also talks slightly more, and plays lead guitar. {color=red}

- Aristotle, the family cat, is a regal black animal as large as some dogs. He comes in the house to eat, and occasionally sleeps on someone's bed, but spends more time living outside in the wilds of Forks. {color=grey, when he deigns to speak}

"Reality:
That annoying thing that stands between me and happiness."

||Human||





I Blow Out 17 Candles

On... July 19th

I'm Here Thanks To... Jessica & Mike Newton

I Love science, poetry, mystery, complex characters, novelty, excitement, nighttime, fantasy, and books that contain any of those things. Also, éclairs and goth rock and gargoyles. Other good things, although 'love' may be too strong, include sincerity, intelligence, and that boy from Physics - the mysteriously vanished Isaac Cheney.

I Can't Stand boredom, mundanity, shallow people, and occasionally reality when it contains any of those things. The rest of the Newton brood can be irritating sometimes too, it’s such a quintessential big, happy family. Oh, and when there’s a perfect word for a situation, or a quote, and you use it, and no one else gets it. People who don't like me. Arrogance, smugness, and that Cullen boy.

My Mask Is: “Newton? Oh, yeah, she’s a genius. Sweet girl, but too quiet. Not good at socializing at all, always has a book in front of her face. Literally, she can read and walk at the same time. We have a pool going on how long it’s going to take before she snaps. It’s a tossup between her shooting up the school or Girls Gone Wild when that happens.”

(Quoted from one of her friends back at boarding school)

But Really: “I’m darker then any of my friends realize, I think. Not that I’ve contemplated suicide or anything, but sometimes life doesn’t seem worth living. I hate shallow people, but I suspect I’m not too deep myself – at least, I’ve never felt really overwrought emotions for anything. I wish I had a cause. Something – or someone, for that matter – that I could be passionate about, and dedicate myself to, heart and soul.”

“Why can’t real life be more like books? If it followed a narrative logic, there would always be a plot, and a goal. Instead, it’s kind of pointless. I’m just drifting, drifting along…”

(Quoted from her journal)

My Story So Far Has Been… Second eldest of the Newton brood, as she sometimes refers to her siblings, Jen never had much of an identity of her own. She either reflected the people around her or was simply absent, daydreaming or reading a book, off in her own world. She never liked Forks much, even as a child, considering it the epitome of banality, which she loathes above all else. She had few friends, and was constantly drowned out by her siblings, and it weighed heavily on her spirits. Fortunately, her grades were through the roof (not too hard when you have no life); so she applied to an out-of-state boarding school for high school and not only was accepted, but received a hefty scholarship. So her parents, who always treated her with a kind of bemused benevolence, shook their heads but let her go.

Away at school, she made some progress towards pro-activity and independence. She had some friends. She picked up the habit of calling herself by her surname – Newton – to set her apart from all the other Jens. She wrote a serialized story for the school newspaper, developed a taste for goth rock, and began to play piano (with the grandiose intention of some day being keyboardist in a band). It wasn’t perfect, but it was good enough – until, at the end of her junior year, the school declared bankruptcy, and was forced to close.

So Jen Newton has just returned to Forks and been enrolled in the local high school for the upcoming year. She’s not happy about it. Around here she’s back to being surrounded by siblings she can’t relate to and parents she suspects, with some chagrin, she may be smarter then. Around here if she drops a word like ‘esoteric’ or quotes Hamlet in conversation she’ll probably be asked to explain. Around here she has no friends to speak of, only classmates she hasn’t seen in two years, if she ever knew them at all. And of course, the constant rain.

She was planning to keep her head down, finish her novel, and get into a good college. But she's noticed something strange about a handful of her fellow students. They hate each other - and they share a strange, artificially pretty quality, or a bizarre confidence - some kind of mental glow. Driven by an implacable curiosity, Jen decided to try and team up with Isaac Cheney to figure out what's going on. Something's rotten in the state of Forks.

When Isaac disappeared the next day, Jen found a new partner in the fabulous Genevive Jadena Paige, a French girl with a vampire obsession. It was Genevive's theories that made Jen begin to suspect the truth about the so-called 'Forks Cliques,' which soon was confirmed by Isaac himself, who revealed to Jen he had been turned into a vampire himself on the day he vanished. Unbeknownst to Jen, however, this knowledge puts her in grave danger...