Post by Basha Falstone on Oct 9, 2010 13:15:13 GMT 10
BASICS
Character name: Basha Lee Falstone
Age and year at school:(You won't necessarily get this age, but it should be the age you pictured them to be) 15, Second year
Gender: Female
Gift/Talent: Academics
Will your character be boarding at DSGT? Yes
APPEARENCE
Hair:(Colour, length, style) Brunette, long, slight wave worn either up, ponytail or long (depending on what she is doing)
Eyes:(Colour, style) Brown
Body:(Shape, height,) slender, 5’7”
Face Claim/Character Model: Demi Lovato
SPECIFICS
Gift/Talent: Mathematics (Has been on the honor roll every term (even when she was an addict). Has won several awards related to academics. )
Likes: Math, science (she likes to take classes in that as well), classic literature, black and white movies, popcorn with raisinettes, twizzlers (red or cherry)
Dislikes: Black licorice, the thought process that pretty girls can’t be intelligent, not being able to figure out something math related, violence, people who don’t support soldiers
Strengths: Mensa level IQ, level headed, extremely organized, likes to be involved in the school , nice, friendly, outgoing, she has managed to stay clean. (Is a former drug addict)
Weaknesses: still sometimes has cravings (though, she hasn’t given into those), has a hard time saying no to helping people and groups, sometimes extends herself too much
Dreams/Goals: To go to either an Ivy League school in the states or Oxford, then to work in the Peace Corp and eventually run her own charity, using her training in math and science to help this. Along with working on theoretical mathematics or physic theories. (She hasn’t decided which one)
Siblings: Not at the school (Has one brother Jeff who is a Marine stationed currently in Afghanistan)
THE AUTHOR
What's your name? Cindy
How old are you? 41
Are you male or female? female
Where'd you hear about us? online search
Any other characters on the site? If so, who? Angelina Morrison
Got any gifts or talents of your own? same as before.
SAMPLE
Please give us a sample of your writing in at least two (good sized) paragraphs and in character!
The sky was a nice blue and it was unseasonably warm for September in New York. The crowd was starting to disperse a little as Bea stood by the fence, facing the last place her parents were. Her mind went to where it always went to on today, how much she missed them.
Nine years, it had been nine years, since the plane had hit the building and took her parents’ life's along with many others with it. It wasn’t that her life had turned into something out of a Dickens novel since becoming an orphan, her aunt and uncle loved her and her brother as if they were there own, still she had to wonder if things would be different had her parents lived.
Turning towards the young man in the Marine uniform Bea simply wanted to hug him but instead told him her news. ”I wanted to tell you in person. I was accepted at Derosiser’s Academy. I leave tomorrow morning.” Given the circumstances, her brother being deployed and her being at the memorial service on 9/11 the school was allowing her to start a little late.
Jeff eyes met hers. ”Well, congratulations. I know how much you wanted to go there.” He paused but she knew the next question. ”How is everything else going?”
By everything he meant her staying clean. Last year had been nothing short of hell for her and her family. High school had started out all right but she started hanging out with the wrong people and quickly fell into things that should have been left alone. September she tried her first taste of drugs by December she was hooked on amphetamines. The need to be the best had taken its toll on her. It wasn’t her family, no, it was her all her. She had made herself too pressured and that combined with her current outside influences, at the time, made a snowball effect. Last February she had gone to rehab for sixty days and had been clean ever since.
Though, school became more of a chore because either people didn’t want to believe she had changed or wanted nothing to do with her because she had. It was then that she started to look at other schools. So she answered him the only way she could. ”I’m okay. I mean if I said the temptation wasn’t there on occasion it would be a lie but I get past it and I have my supports in place.”
The young man moved closer and hugged the girl while saying in a quiet voice. ”Well, just keep it that way or I’ll have to come find you at that school.” He stepped back from her. ”I think it’s time to go.” With that Bea walked with her brother to where her aunt and uncle were standing. In another hour they would be saying good-bye to Jeff and so it was off to see him go.
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