Appearance: Aziza is a pretty girl though most people who don't know her well identify her as just African-American, when in actuality she is also half Korean. She is proud of her mixed-race heritage and balances both sides of her culture with grace. She is petite at 5'6, but also voluptuous with the slender build, hair, and eyes of her mother and the rich dark skin of her father. She has a big smile and a friendly, inviting nature, which is apparent just by looking at her. She is a talented dancer and can enjoys almost any style from jazz to hip hop to contemporary, so she has a definite grace and control of her movements that shows.

Persona: Amerie Rogers

Personality: Aziza is friendly with everyone and it takes a lot to really make her angry or upset, though when she does get pissed off she can have a bit of a temper. She is very close with her twin and the two share a bond that rises above the striking differences in personality. Aziza is also a very maternal person, which she attributes to having five younger siblings, but she is always finding ways to give back to her community and family, and is a great believer in karma. She almost always has a smile on her face and is always up for some fun, whatever that might be.

Biological Father	Tomas Owens, 38, auto body/detail shop owner (Gary Dourdan)
Biological Mother	Elisabeth Owens, 38, stay-at-home mom (Lee Mi-Sook
Grandmother	Mei-Yin Xia, 77, retired (Sue-Chin)
Full Brothers	Shawn Owens, 17, student (Usher Raymond); Micah Owens, 11, student (Noah Gray-Cabey); Dominic, 7, student (Zachary Williams); Troy, 7, student (Zachary Williams); Asher, 4
Full Sister	Mahala Owens, 15, student (Cassie Ventura)

Tomas Owens	Elisabeth Owens		Shawn Owens	Mahala Owens	Micah Owens
Mei-Yin Xia			Dominic Owens	Troy Owens	Asher Owens

Pets: The family has three female cats all named Desiree and two male cats both named Desmond; with seven kids and two more on the way, it keeps things simpler to be able to call all the cats "Des."

Friends: Best friend is Natasha Oren but other than that she’s just friendly with everyone she meets; she especially enjoys flirting with Shawn’s friends when she can catch them alone.

History: Aziza's mother is Korean but was adopted by a Chinese family as an adolescent, and so Aziza has essentially been brought up in an African-American/Chinese home despite her actual racial heritage, and her mother often identifies herself as Chinese. Her parents were both adoptees and knew each other from babyhood through their parents' adoptive parents' social group and then later through school, and remained best friends throughout childhood. They made a pact as young teenagers that if neither of them were married by the time they were twenty the would fall in love and have children. Their reasoning at this time was that they were both gregarious, attractive people and if they couldn't find someone suitable at twenty they never would; Aziza's mother also declared at that age that they should have at least one child together because their racial mix would produce "kids that were too pretty to pass up." Tomas worked off and on as a mechanic as a teenager, and Elisabeth started dancing a strip club as soon as she was old enough, loving showing off her body and the large amounts of cash it brought in.

When they were seventeen they fell in love ahead of schedule but right on time they were married at twenty and soon afterward they were surprised to find out Elisabeth was pregnant. They were further shocked to learn that they were expecting twins, but their carefree attitude allowed them to plow forward just enjoying what life threw at them as twenty-one-year-old parents of twins. Shawn and Aziza were always very close growing up and Shawn played almost a more central role in Aziza's childhood than even her parents did. Aziza's parents are very laid-back and liberal in how they raise their kids, and all the children have been used to an environment where exchanging ideas and opinions is welcome, sex is talked about freely, and no subject is taboo.

Aziza's mother found herself pregnant again when Shawn and Aziza were a year and a half old, and this time it was a single baby, Mahala, who joined the family. The young family moved to Ambrose Island, where Elisabeth got a job stripping at the Sway and Foreplay club in town, dancing right through a couple of her pregnancies, getting work at fetish nights and making good money. The three kids were followed four years after that by Micah, and only three years after that Elisabeth was pregnant again, despite the fact that Aziza's parents had not yet tried to have a baby at any point and had been using birth control (for the most part) for years. It seemed that she and Tomas were not only likely to be expecting a baby if they so much as looked at each other, but also that twins seemed to run in the family, as this next pregnancy resulted in identical twin boys, Dominic and Troy. The family of eight was struggling financially and practically, even with Tomas working full-time and Elisabeth at home with the children.

That changed when two things happened: first, Elisabeth's widowed mother, who was in her late sixties but in excellent health, moved in with the family to help look after the children. She only speaks Mandarin, so all the children have grown up fluent in the language. At the same time, Tomas began working for friend of his father's as a mechanic, which he had done for extra cash as a teen. He had a natural ability with cars and started to learn more about painting, detail, and custom work. When Aziza was twelve and her father only thirty-three, all three of her living grandparents sacrificed much to front him money as collateral for a loan to start his own auto shop. He did them proud and started the most successful auto shop on Ambrose Island, handling everything from routine breakdowns and repairs to creating expensive custom cars for the more elite citizens of the island. His business is well-respected and well-known, and if there's a car on the island that has anything extra on it, it's been done by Tomas's Garage. For the first time, the family knew financial security and freedom, which only grew when Elisabeth bought the Sway and Foreplay club; she still goes on stage sometimes, but mostly she is behind the scenes, running the club and managing the girls with a experienced professionalism.

Despite the fact that they were inseparable as children, as Aziza and Shawn entered adolescence they started to drift, and once they became teenagers they had become two very different people. Shawn started to identify more and more with Black culture, while Aziza found herself more attracted to her Asian backgroud, aside from her dance which was definitely flavored by African-American music and style. Shawn was frustrated by the virtual lack of an African-American community on Ambrose Island. He started acting out both in and out of school, and both Aziza and their parents were shocked when at sixteen he was arrested for stealing and totaling a car. He was punished but it barely did anything, and he instead started to stay out of home as often as possible. Aziza tries to reconnect with him from time to time and every so often breaks through, but in the long run she can see how far they've drifted and it makes her very sad because of the close bond they used to share. Other than that though, Aziza is very happy with her life and always keeps herself busy with new and interesting things. Her mother recently found out she was pregnant with a new set of twins so Aziza is looking forward to being a big sister for the sixth and seventh time.

Vehicle: 2006 BMW Twin-Turbo E92 with custom work put in by her dad's garage.

Job: Works as an assistant to the physiotherapist in a facility on the mainland for children with physical disabilities a couple days a week; sometimes pitches in at her dad's garage.

Neighborhood: The Heights, 1402 Hidden Drive

Other Residents: N/A

House Description: This house is small considering the number of people in it but it works; eventually though they will probably have to move as the younger kids get older and the next set of babies arrives. None of the bathrooms are particularly spacious but there are three bedrooms each assigned to the older kids, Shawn, Aziza, and Mahala, and each also has their own bathroom. The seven-year-old twin boys share a room, as do the eleven-year-old boy and the three-year-old twin boys. There is an ensuite on the master bedroom, a guest bathroom downstairs, and the two sets of younger boys each share one bathroom between them.

There is a family room off the kitchen but the larger living room was converted by Aziza's mother into a meditation room for the family's Buddhist practices; it has a shrine, a fountain, incense burners, and is designed in feng shui style to offer maximum tranquility. The back garden is a beautiful landscaped Chinese garden, with a large pond filled with koi and the outdoor kitchen and patio are for barbecues and parties, both of which Aziza's parents like to throw. On the main floor near the kitchen and laundry room there is a bedroom and full ensuite where the kids' grandmother lives.

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