Post by Caroline Sutton on Sept 12, 2009 9:35:37 GMT -6
[/color]VALKYRIE,
CALIFORNIA
the ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
least i dont need to beg or borrow.
yes i'm living at a pace that kills.[/font][/center]
WHEN THE OCEAN MET THE SKY ,[/color]
CHARACTER BASICS ,
you missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye[/color]
FULL NAME: caroline isabelle sutton[/font]
NICKNAMES: carly
GENDER: female
AGE: seventeen
GRADE: junior
ART INTEREST: art and academics
PLAYBY: nina dobrev
YOUR BODY MAY BE GONE ,[/color]
CHARACTER APPEARANCE ,
i'm gonna carry you in my head, in my heart, in my soul[/color]
ETHNICITY: white[/font]
HAIR COLOR: brunette
EYE COLOR: brown
HEIGHT: 5'5"
WEIGHT: 119 lbs
BODY TYPE: toned, was a cheerleader at her previous school.
DISTINGUISHED FEATURES: pierced ears, freckles, various scars from practices.
PERSONAL STYLE: carly likes to dress nicely, despite having no financial backing at all. she'll buy knockoffs just because she likes them, not because they look like a designer brand. she really doesn't care about names and labels as long as she looks good, and she always makes a point to look good. she tends to look a little classier than other shak girls but that's only because she tries harder.
OTHER: --
IN YOUR MOUTH, IN YOUR SOUL ,[/color]
CHARACTER PERSONALITY ,
the more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind[/color]
STRENGTHS: adaptable, ambitious, instinctive.[/font]
WEAKNESSES: reckless, rebellious, secretive.
LIKES: her family, parties, sex, boys, dancing, being appreciated, drinking, her hair, makeovers, her old life, scented candles, makeup, clothing that looks good on her, music- any and all, animals, piano, playing with fire, bar hopping, fake ids, reading.
DISLIKES: her new life, green, brussel sprouts, bitchy girls, cliques, trashy magazines, name dropping, staying home on a saturday night, cemeteries, being too hot or cold, her grandfather, being poor, brand names, living up to expectations.
FLAWS: addicted to cocky guys that're bound to hurt her, gets sucked in easily.
HABITS: gets fidgety in awkward situations.
SECRETS: transferred to valkyrie after moving here, disgraced at her other school for getting pregnant at fifteen and having a baby out of wedlock in an area of the states where that's really frowned upon. she adopted out her baby and regrets every moment of it but that doesn't stop her from having a good time.
BEST MEMORY: "being the absolute shit at cheer camp before i got pregnant. i was the girl on top. the one everyone loved and envied."
WORST MEMORY: "giving up my baby only minutes after giving birth. i never even got to see her face."
OVERALL PERSONALITY: life hasn't been all that kind to carly sutton, all the more reason why she'd more of a skeptic than she really lets on. coming from a town where people smile to your face and say everything else they aren't saying behind your back, carly is acutely aware of everyone and what they are doing. she doesn't particularly care what people will say about her, she gave that up long ago when people's opinions drove her out of her last home and away from all of her extended family. she doesn't tend to give a damn about a person's opinion of her, still she likes to know what it is that a person might be saying. she loves to do things that are a little unexpected, and she doesn't skimp on how much fun she's having in the process. most, if not all, of what she does is simply to please her. carly has tried to please everyone but herself for the entirety of her life, people that didn't even deserve a second glance from her. it wasn't her family she was trying to please. it was everyone else. her family accepts her no matter what. so carly has made a point of doing anything that she wants to do. screw everyone else. as long as it's something that could be fun for her, she's subject to at least try it.
the carly that you would meet on the street is completely different from the carly that you see when she's hanging out with her family. around them carly is sweet, sincere, and thoughtful. she really shines around her family and isn't afraid to show just how smart she really is. around strangers, and everyone but her family falls into this category, she's witty, sarcastic, a flirt and a tease, and she doesn't let on to her intelligence. carly has friends, yes, but they are still just another brand of stranger to her. she's learned not to trust anyone with any kind of information so any friends of hers really don't know much about her past, they just hang out with her because she's fun and she knows a lot about making a person look good with little money. carly's a very secretive person. she'd rather talk about designers, music, celebrities, and makeup before she talks about what kind of things she likes to do, what kind of food she likes, or anything remotely close to letting someone in. conversations tend to be short lived around carly because she won't answer anything pertaining to her and she would ask a person about them. she doesn't like insight into anyone and she doesn't like anyone seeing that side of her. that barrier is very rock solid, and anyone who tries to break that down becomes more annoying in her eyes than a comfort. if a person gets remotely close to getting close to her, carly will cut off all ties with that person. no one will know her so that no one will hurt her ever again. that's her outlook.
that doesn't mean that carly is an ice queen. she may not be the most sociable creature in all of valkyrie but if she likes a guy she's going to pursue him. romance is out of the question completely, but she's all for having a good time. kind of the dream girl for guys who hate commitment because there's no such thing with carly. she's good for one night stands, and what appears to be one night stands, but she never lets guys in closer than that. and she swears by birth control. she won't find herself in the situation that got her here in the first place ever again. the next time carly winds up pregnant it will be because she says so. not because she screwed up with a guy. even then it'll be unlikely that carly will ever find a guy who she'll open up to enough to get to that point. so there's nothing for her to worry about. carly is extremely frugal. as a child she was taught that if you can save money, do so, and she does rather well. she still clips coupons with her mother and she's pretty much an expert in thrifty. but carly never comes across as poor. she doesn't look it. though all of her clothes fit her body and suit her like something a designer made, it was made by her mother and sometimes by herself. she knows what looks good on her and she doesn't need brand names to feel like she looks better.
AND WE'LL BOTH GROW OLD ,[/color]
CHARACTER HISTORY ,
well i don't know, i don't know, i don't know, i hope so[/color]
HOMETOWN: keizer, oregon[/size][/font]
PARENTS: charles gregory sutton; father; forty-two; construction worker.
emilia diane sutton; mother; thirty-nine; tailor.
SIBLINGS: nathaniel gregory sutton; brother; twenty-three; out of work mechanic.
wesley daniel sutton; brother; twenty-three; alaskan crab fisherman.
penelope elizabeth sutton; sister; twenty-three; overworked waitress.
OTHER: unnamed baby; female; one year old; adopted.
LIVING SITUATION: shaks
HISTORY: the suttons were a prominent name back in keizer, oregon, a small city just outside of the salem limits. keizer is one of those small kinds of towns where everyone knows everything about one another. grandmothers had knitting clubs, mothers had garden parties, fathers were parts of golf clubs, etc. it was a town where you walked down the street and old folks on their porch would ask you about something that had just happened as you passed them by. everything traveled by word of mouth, and everything was always exhaustingly correct when passed on from one person to the other. thus it was that everyone knew that the sutton family was huge in keizer. the family practically settled the town way back when and had always been active in the community. the mayor had been a sutton all the way up until the 1950s when the last sutton mayor had stepped down to tend to his ailing family. they were huge to the community, often idolized, and definitely the talk of the town. they were the regular kennedy's of keizer, and the suttons had loved it. so everyone knew when emilia denton met charles sutton. they knew that they went to the same college, him studying architecture, her studying fashion design. they knew when they went on their first date to the island that sat in staats lake. they knew when they started getting serious, spending all kinds of time together. they knew when charles proposed in his sophomore year of college, and they knew she said yes. the entire town attending a lavish wedding that had generously been paid for by charles father, ellison sutton. they knew that emilia got pregnant on their honeymoon. they knew almost before she did, that they were having twins.
being under constant watch and scrutiny from the town was difficult, but the suttons had nothing to hide and nothing to fear, that they knew of. it wasn't until three years later that emilia and charles world fell down around them. they'd been in the process of still finishing college, which had taken much longer since the birth of their triplets, when emilia discovered she was pregnant once again. happy, the family told the news at a massive weekly dinner that ellison held every friday night, pretty much a requirement if you had any trace of sutton blood in you. charles stood, told his news, and was in a slurry of congratulations when ellison collapsed to the floor. he was rushed to the hospital and found to have had a heart attack. he slipped into unconsciousness and slowly desintigrated until he passed three days later. ellison's death was the start of all of the hell for the sutton family. it was after his death that they discovered that he had been absolutely broke. the business that he controlled, that every sutton family member had invested in, was destitute and was forced to close taking with it all of the sutton's money and all of their respectability as well. charles was forced to drop out of college, getting a job as a construction worker and praying that he could scrape by. emilia got a job doing the only thing she was good at, sewing, and became a tailor at one of the local shops. all of the suttons had managed to scrape by, but they had officially fallen from grace in the eyes of the townspeople. instead of looking at them with admiration, people would see them and turn to one another, passing on another rumor that was anything but true.
caroline isabelle sutton was born into this life. as a baby she spent her days at the neighbors house, playing with their children because they were kind enough not to shun the family. she grew up in a cramped three bedroom house, sharing a bedroom with her sister. now most would figure that the suttons were unhappy after that, but they were quite the opposite. though charles had truly aspired to be an architect, he was pleasantly happy with the manual labor he performed on a daily basis. their jobs may have been miserable, but the family was super tight knit. emilia and the children would sit on the floor after dinner and clip coupons, laughing and listening to the television as it droned on about life outside of their home. charles would crash in his recliner and fall asleep despite the loud voices coming from in front of his feet. they were happy, and they relied on one another heavily. eventually caroline began attending school. it was a difficult experience for her. children would openly talk about her in class because they hadn't yet obtained their parent's ability to talk behind a person's back. it wasn't until caroline began hanging around her teacher's more that she felt comfortable with being in the classroom. she would sit off to the side, doing the assignment, but she would be all alone until the teacher finished telling the class and came to sit with her. she'd get special assignments to do at home, and she'd get books from her teachers, just anything that she could do to further her education. teacher's took to her like a moth to flame because she was so motivated to learn. they went with it, unaware that she was doing it simply to get away from hanging out with other children.
all of that changed when caroline started middle school. she stopped going by the name caroline and started going by her nickname carly. carly quite the little social monster compared to who caroline had been. she stopped trying to gain everyone's respect and instead she demanded it. she had a completely new wardrobe, made by her mother, that fit her well and looked like something brand name. she commanded attention instead of just seeking it, and it worked. she joined the middle school cheerleading squad her first year and taken over by the time summer came around. in that short year carly had become one of the most popular girls in school, dating the cutest boys, and even daring enough to date high school boys. she had a big group of friends from cheerleading who she wasn't supremely close with, but she didn't care. she had her family for that. come her freshman year of high school she was named co-captain, and destined to be captain the year after that. things got a little out of hand toward the end of her sophomore year when she'd gotten a little too hot and heavy with her boyfriend at a party and got pregnant. she finished out the last three and a half months of school. she backed down as captain, and off the cheerleading squad completely, claiming that her family needed her during the summer and she couldn't go to camps and practices. she was rushed to the hospital at the end of summer when she went into early labor, it was then that the entire town found out why the new talk of the high school had dropped off the face of the earth. her parent's pressured her to give the baby up for adoption claiming that she wouldn't be able to take of the baby and they simply couldn't help her out. she gave her up so she'd have a better life than carly could give her.
she tried going back to school after that, completely shunned by the entire school once again. charles had trouble at work, his co-workers going on about his daughter until he was forced to shut them up himself, getting him fired. emilia was forced out of her job when her boss, one of the cheerleading mothers, cut down her hours until she was forced to quit. finally the family came to the conclusion that they were going to have to move away. no one else would hire them. so all six suttons gathered their things, packed up a moving truck, and moved to valkyrie california where charles had talked to a contracter and gotten a job. now starting her junior year, carly has given up on cheerleading but she's determined to start her life over. a little more rebellious than she'd been before, she's on her own. her brothers are awayon their jobs, nate at the auto shop and renting the room above the garage, wes out in the pacific fishing for...something. charles, emilia, penny and carly are the only members of the sutton family stil living together.
COLLECTED MY BELONGINGS ,[/color]
ABOUT YOU AND FOR THE ADMINS ,
and i left the jail, well thanks for the time[/color]
YOUR NAME: ruby[/size][/font][/blockquote]
GENDER: female
AGE: old xD
RP EXPERIENCE: seven+ years
OTHER CHARACTERS: the unusuals (sarai, maggie, j.r.)
ROLEPLAY EXAMPLE:you know how i do.credit: format by lainey, lyrics by modest mouse
