Post by River on Mar 22, 2011 15:18:12 GMT -4
Name: Casey Nailor
Nickname: Beanie or Jumping Bean
Gender: female
Age: 17
Year: 2nd
Sexual Orientation: straight
Relationship Status: single
Religious Beliefs: athiest
Appearance/Wardrobe: Casey has well-tanned skin from living on the streets for several years. She has sharp, calculating brown eyes with subtle gold flecks in them that make you feel like she is constantly watching for you to make just one wrong move. Her hair is wavy brown, hangs to her shoulderblades, and is usually tangled and darkened by otherwise invisible dirt. When clean and brushed, though, it glows with copper highlights. She is usually seen wearing a faded t-shirt and tattered jeans, and she often gets teased about coming to the rich-kids school from a trailer park.
Personality: Casey is a street kid, through and through. Rough and tough on the outside, more than a little broken on the inside. She is untrusting, easily angered and quick to violence when threatened. She used to be very loving, definitely the kind of person who would be popular with kids from all cliques, but the street taught her to bury that part of her, at least to people of middle-upper class society. Most of the homeless in the area know her well, and love her dearly. She opens up when she is around them, she smiles at them, does kind little gestures, tries to help anyone in any way she can. But she has learned to distrust the society she was born into. They broke her.
History: Casey was born a seemingly normal child into a seemingly normal family in New Jersey. Her parents were together and of one mind on most matters, her older brother, Thomas, was a smart boy and they got along fine. But about the time Casey turned 13, she began to get sick. At first it was barely noticeable. She`d be lethargic one day and irritable the next, but her parents wrote it off as puberty. Then it started getting worse. She would get paranoid and angry, and do crazy, reckless things. But more often, she would become almost catatonic, laying in bed and refusing to speak to anyone. She wouldn`t eat, she would simply lie there and stare at the wall. Her first suicide attempt was when she was 14. She stepped out in front of a car on the highway. Her parents, freaked out, committed her to a psychiatric ward until an effective treatment was found. But like so many establishments these days, the place was totally corrupt. They decided that her parents' concern was their excuse to use her as a guinea pig to test all sorts of "treatments" that hadn't yet been tried on humans. She went through all sorts of torturous things, electroshock therapy, isolation, medications that made her hallucinate, the works.
After about 6 months, she began to learn how to hide the pills they gave her so that she wouldn't have to take them. As her mind cleared, she began to realize that her parents were never going to get her out. So one night she faked unconciousness (which nobody thought anything of because her medications often made her sleep for very long spans of time) and hit the nurse over the head. She stole nearly a dozen bottles of the only medication that had ever worked for her, broke a window, and escaped. She hitchhiked all the way to California, where she lived on the streets for 3 years. She got into drugs and drinking, but cleaned herself up and got a scholarship to attend Four Oaks Academy. She had to start as a second year because she had missed so much school, and she couldn't afford to live in the dorms, so she still lives on the street. The school, however, thinks she is a "commuter" student.
Strengths/Talents/Skills: Physically very fit, can hop a 6-foot fence in under 10 seconds, good at writing and drawing, can play most wind instruments well, knows everything that's going on in the city at any given time
Weaknesses: Bad at socializing with "normal" (not homeless) people, horrible at math, cannot play any instrument except wind instruments at all, quick temper, tends to get in trouble for violence occasionally, former drug addict, bipolar
Other: I'm envisioning eventually having a reunion with her brother...
RP example: exempt
Nickname: Beanie or Jumping Bean
Gender: female
Age: 17
Year: 2nd
Sexual Orientation: straight
Relationship Status: single
Religious Beliefs: athiest
Appearance/Wardrobe: Casey has well-tanned skin from living on the streets for several years. She has sharp, calculating brown eyes with subtle gold flecks in them that make you feel like she is constantly watching for you to make just one wrong move. Her hair is wavy brown, hangs to her shoulderblades, and is usually tangled and darkened by otherwise invisible dirt. When clean and brushed, though, it glows with copper highlights. She is usually seen wearing a faded t-shirt and tattered jeans, and she often gets teased about coming to the rich-kids school from a trailer park.
Personality: Casey is a street kid, through and through. Rough and tough on the outside, more than a little broken on the inside. She is untrusting, easily angered and quick to violence when threatened. She used to be very loving, definitely the kind of person who would be popular with kids from all cliques, but the street taught her to bury that part of her, at least to people of middle-upper class society. Most of the homeless in the area know her well, and love her dearly. She opens up when she is around them, she smiles at them, does kind little gestures, tries to help anyone in any way she can. But she has learned to distrust the society she was born into. They broke her.
History: Casey was born a seemingly normal child into a seemingly normal family in New Jersey. Her parents were together and of one mind on most matters, her older brother, Thomas, was a smart boy and they got along fine. But about the time Casey turned 13, she began to get sick. At first it was barely noticeable. She`d be lethargic one day and irritable the next, but her parents wrote it off as puberty. Then it started getting worse. She would get paranoid and angry, and do crazy, reckless things. But more often, she would become almost catatonic, laying in bed and refusing to speak to anyone. She wouldn`t eat, she would simply lie there and stare at the wall. Her first suicide attempt was when she was 14. She stepped out in front of a car on the highway. Her parents, freaked out, committed her to a psychiatric ward until an effective treatment was found. But like so many establishments these days, the place was totally corrupt. They decided that her parents' concern was their excuse to use her as a guinea pig to test all sorts of "treatments" that hadn't yet been tried on humans. She went through all sorts of torturous things, electroshock therapy, isolation, medications that made her hallucinate, the works.
After about 6 months, she began to learn how to hide the pills they gave her so that she wouldn't have to take them. As her mind cleared, she began to realize that her parents were never going to get her out. So one night she faked unconciousness (which nobody thought anything of because her medications often made her sleep for very long spans of time) and hit the nurse over the head. She stole nearly a dozen bottles of the only medication that had ever worked for her, broke a window, and escaped. She hitchhiked all the way to California, where she lived on the streets for 3 years. She got into drugs and drinking, but cleaned herself up and got a scholarship to attend Four Oaks Academy. She had to start as a second year because she had missed so much school, and she couldn't afford to live in the dorms, so she still lives on the street. The school, however, thinks she is a "commuter" student.
Strengths/Talents/Skills: Physically very fit, can hop a 6-foot fence in under 10 seconds, good at writing and drawing, can play most wind instruments well, knows everything that's going on in the city at any given time
Weaknesses: Bad at socializing with "normal" (not homeless) people, horrible at math, cannot play any instrument except wind instruments at all, quick temper, tends to get in trouble for violence occasionally, former drug addict, bipolar
Other: I'm envisioning eventually having a reunion with her brother...
RP example: exempt
