Post by ella on Aug 3, 2009 19:04:38 GMT -5
the city is at war !
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[/center]character info !
full name • Heidi Matilda Greene
nick names • she’s hated every nickname anyone’s ever come up with: Hi, Dee, and, even worse, Heids.
age • 18
grade • history major, english minor (you know I have no understanding of weird american school systems, so she’s whatever the first year of college is called!)
hometown • new york
sexuality • straight
member group • college
character looks !
[/color][/center]height • 5”7
hair • long, blonde
eyes • dark blue/hazel
play by • scarlett johansson
character personality !
[/color][/size][/center]likes • walking around the city at night, coffee, talking on the phone with friends, gossip, random acts of kindness, boys, flirting, clothes, parties, reading cheesy romance novels (though she’d never admit it), standing up for weaker people, having attention on her
dislikes • mornings, obnoxious people, smokers (nothing against the people in general, she just hates the smell, makes her cough) not having anything to do, horror films, roller coasters, feeling irrelevant, lies
habits/quirks • bites her nails (an awful habit, she knows, but really can’t break, especially when she has papers due)
fears • failing, winding up alone
dreams • wants to get an alright job after college, doesn’t mind where
secrets • she only picked a history major because she loved her high school history teacher
overall • sensible, intelligent, devoted, fun-loving, confident, extrovert, outgoing
character history !
[/size][/color]mother • matilda elena wood; 48; journalist
father • thomas henry greene; 49; dentist
siblings • none
pets • when she was a child, a goldfish named Splash, now dead
other family • grandparents, retired
overall • Matilda and Thomas are, as a whole, a tediously ordinary couple. After school, Thomas went into his father‘s trade of dentistry, managing to build the old family business much higher than previous generations had managed. Thomas is a decent man, earning a decent living, tending to people‘s teeth. It‘s an alright job and he knows it- he has no passion for his career except the fact it pleases his father to no end, and that‘s enough for Thomas, who likes to please. This is why it‘s unusual he fell for Matilda, whose unashamed confidence in herself and her choices leave no room for pleasing others. They say opposites attract; and outgoing Matilda with humble Thomas is a living, breathing example of that. Matilda is a journalist, writes a highly intelligent, funny column about politics in a weekly newspaper. She loves her work and is never happier than when she is writing. After twenty years of marriage she has somewhat softened, not as ruthless as in her prime, young, single and desperate to get ahead. Having children does that to you, and Matilda and Thomas are now contented to take a back seat in family life and let Heidi go it alone, make a life for herself.
Heidi has always lived in New York, and loves the city dearly. Her parents were never too overprotective, Heidi being their only child, they always trusted her to make the right decisions. They cared about her, of course, but never in an in-your-face way, always in the background, silently loving her. As Heidi had no siblings, from an early age she felt the need to get out of their New York town house and go explore, for the outnumbering of parents to child didn‘t suit her. If she kept her cell phone with her and called every couple of hours, all was well with the family. The enormous amount of trust given to her by her parents forced Heidi to grow up young, feign maturity and just deal with it. To this day, she is sensible and practical, and even her partying makes sense in her mind- she plans when she is to lose control.
In school Heidi has never had any particular interests. She excelled at many subjects, but never cared passionately about what she was learning. For her, it boiled down to how she was taught the subject, and by who. In other words, the better the teacher, the more she loved the subject. That remains the only reason for choosing History major, aside from the fact she could actually do the work. Heidi doesn‘t really care what she graduates with, but she is determined she will graduate. As Heidi sees her life, this is the good bit. After college, she‘ll settle into a mundane job, most probably in an office, date a bit, buy a house, hopefully find a husband to inhabit it with her, and start a family. Sorted. Ordinary. Boring. She knows her future will be monotonous, she wouldn‘t have it any other way, but for her that means she should live it up now. Parties, boys, gossip, fun, that‘s what college is about for Heidi. Because after college, it‘s all over- she doesn‘t want to be a partier in her thirties.
about you !
[/color][/size][/center]your name • Ella
your age • 15
roleplaying experience • something like 2 years
how you found us • my dear cola and tisse
roleplay sample •
It was raining hard by the time Heidi reached the park. The grass was wet, the smell in the air was a fresh moistness, and everyone around her was ducking for cover under trees or structures. Heidi had prepared for the rain, and revelled in her chance to walk through a practically deserted park. The park was never empty enough for Heidi to really clear her head when it was sunny, tourists and locals alike splayed out on the grass, enjoying the weather, distracting her, stealing her attention. Not why she was there. It was easier to reflect when there weren‘t other people, as she would be inclined to talk to them, or at least smile. No, Heidi was distracted far too easily, too sociable, always quick to make friends and strike up conversations. She hugged her raincoat closer to her shivering body, blonde hair plastered on her cheek, soaked.
She’d left home three hours earlier, just packed her bags and gone, with sombre goodbyes to a sobbing mother and a proud father. Those bags now rested at her new dorm on the New York University campus, where she was awaiting the assignment of a roommate. To be honest, she was extremely excited about starting college, as she had felt she had outgrown high school before the last semester even began. Now she could be the small fish in the big pond again, and work her way up. But before she could do that, she had felt like she needed a walk in the park, to clear her head of all things high school before she could start a new phase in life. For the most part, it was working. She felt peaceful, anticipatory, and nostalgia for her senior class was almost out of her system. Almost. Looking around at the beautiful green trees, she felt as if she was ready now. She could face college, and she‘d more than bloody well face it, she‘d rule it. Her momentary lapse of confidence had disappeared, her usual outgoing self returned. That‘s why she went on these walks really: to get back to who she really was. She loved doing that.
(364, not terrible I guess)
She’d left home three hours earlier, just packed her bags and gone, with sombre goodbyes to a sobbing mother and a proud father. Those bags now rested at her new dorm on the New York University campus, where she was awaiting the assignment of a roommate. To be honest, she was extremely excited about starting college, as she had felt she had outgrown high school before the last semester even began. Now she could be the small fish in the big pond again, and work her way up. But before she could do that, she had felt like she needed a walk in the park, to clear her head of all things high school before she could start a new phase in life. For the most part, it was working. She felt peaceful, anticipatory, and nostalgia for her senior class was almost out of her system. Almost. Looking around at the beautiful green trees, she felt as if she was ready now. She could face college, and she‘d more than bloody well face it, she‘d rule it. Her momentary lapse of confidence had disappeared, her usual outgoing self returned. That‘s why she went on these walks really: to get back to who she really was. She loved doing that.
(364, not terrible I guess)
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