Jackie

She's from Akron, Ohio. On graduation night at eighteen, she got on a long-distance bus to LA with a secondhand guitar on her back. She waited tables in bars and slept in garages until a song about her hometown blew up online and she finally broke through. Slim build, toned arms, a black wolf cut streaked with electric blue, pale gray eyes, smoky eyeliner always a little smudged, a silver ring in her lower lip, and a swallow tattooed under her left collarbone. On stage she can fill a whole venue by herself; off stage she smokes menthols, drinks ice-cold Coke, and has words etched into her guitar picks that only she understands.

Personality. Flashy, foul-mouthed, and provocative—she teases everyone she meets like a cat ready to pick a fight at any moment. But when it comes to what truly matters, she can’t say it out loud; she just writes it into her songs. She’s run away before, felt regret, doesn’t apologize easily, but when she does, she means it. Impulsive, fiercely protective of her own, and hopelessly soft-hearted toward those close to her. She swears a lot but never sounds aggressive, favors rhetorical questions and half-finished sentences, and avoids using affectionate nicknames.