Post by Maeghan Harris on Dec 22, 2009 3:55:06 GMT -6
[/color]VALKYRIE,
CALIFORNIA
the ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
i'm a lonely girl, i'll tell a tale for you
just trying to make all my dreams come true[/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: maeghan chrystal harris[/font]
NICKNAMES: megs, megie, dustin's little sister, little harris,
GENDER: female
AGE: sixteen
GRADE: junior
ART INTEREST: sketching and likes performing.
PLAYBY: taylor momsen
YOUR BODY MAY BE GONE ,[/color]
CHARACTER APPEARANCE ,
i'm gonna carry you in my head, in my heart, in my soul[/color]
ETHNICITY: caucasian. mother is australian with german blood. father is american with irish blood.[/font]
HAIR COLOR: blonde
EYE COLOR: blue
HEIGHT: 5'7
WEIGHT: 6lb
BODY TYPE: slim
DISTINGUISHED FEATURES: maeghan, like her brother, is known for her slightly baby like face that keeps an air of innocence about her. she also has a birthmark on her lower back in the shape of a slightly disfigured heart shape about the size of a fifty cent coin. she also has bleached blonde hair most of the time.
PERSONAL STYLE: Maeghan always wears whatever is in style and also adds her own tweak. She loves setting trends and tried to be daring with her outfits but generally she wears whatever looks good, especially cute (and short) dresses. Maeghan has a bit of an alternative style too but her outfits often depend on her mood. A darker mood means more black and a happy mood will have her wearing bright bold colours. She also always has a lot of bangles and bracelets on her wrists and high heels and often is seen sporting quirky tights with patterns and bright colours.
OTHER: Pronounces her name 'Mey-gan' instead of the usual 'Mee-gan' ever since she changed the spelling.
IN YOUR MOUTH, IN YOUR SOUL ,[/color]
CHARACTER PERSONALITY ,
the more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind[/color]
STRENGTHS: extremely independent, good at manipulating people, has a talent for drawing and sketching, is actually a very good creative writer,[/font]
WEAKNESSES: a big party, people wanting to get to know her, not good at maths, bad judger of people, finds it hard to trust people, un-coordinated when it comes to ball sports like football, soccer etc.
LIKES: attention, partying, getting smashed, hot boys, being known for being herself and not her brothers fame, true love, black and white photography, cheesy soap shows, horror movies, thrillers, eyeliner, chai tea, writing in her journal, europe, summer time, cigarettes, cucumbers, pancakes with maple syrup, chocolate, truth or dare but always picks dare, toying with boys, pushing boundaries,
DISLIKES: being associated with her famous brother, being ignored, irrelevance, hobos, creepy old guys, the police, being lied to, graffiti, cheap alcohol, loneliness, big blockbuster movies, movies staring her brother, carrots, lame kid movies, coffee, top 40 music, mice and rats,
FLAWS: insecure, doesn't think before she speaks, bit of a snob, easily and very intensely jealous type, reckless partier, wild, always been one of 'those' mean girls, struggles to open up to guys,
HABITS: whenever dustin has a new drama maeghan goes and does something to try and top it,
has a stash of chocolate by her bedside at all times for midnight cravings,
has to make her bed as soon as she gets out of it.
SECRETS: was the only one to get expelled for the cocaine incident on her 16th birthday party. her friends all rated her out because she refused to get dustin to come visit her.
sometimes wishes that dustin would go get killed by some angry fan or something and let her be an only child so her parents would actually notice her.
cried on the entire plane trip to boarding school because there was no one to see her off.
BEST MEMORY: Maeghan's best memory was when she was quite little. Maeghan was about seven and Dustin was only eleven and the director needed someone to play Dustin's little sister in his new movie so they cast Maeghan since she was his sister in real life and was still very adorable. She finally got to shine and had quite a lot of good lines that got her more scenes because she was so good. Dustin wasn't too thrilled but he pretended to be happy for Maeghan while she reveled in the attention that she'd been missing.
WORST MEMORY: Maeghan's worst memory was when she was shipped off to boarding school about a million miles away from her family simply because she was a distraction for her parents who needed to focus on Dustin. They basically told her that flat out and didn't even see her off. She had to catch a taxi to the airport and when she boarded that plane there was nobody to hug her goodbye and wish her luck. She was on her own. As usual.
OVERALL PERSONALITY:
A lot of Maeghan's personality is very heavily influenced by her older brother and the way he and the rest of Maeghan's family treated her as a child, and even still today. As the neglected child of the family, Maeghan is used to being lonely and it's simply a part of who she is now. Growing up, she spent hours, and sometimes even days, without really talking to people because there was never anyone around apart from the maids and other staff in the house. As soon as she was old enough to feed herself and do the basic things for herself, her parents basically stopped paying a lot of attention to her and concentrated on raising their little talented star of the family. In other words, Maeghan is extremely used to loneliness. She doesn't really think about it but it does stop her from really connecting to her friends because she's always a little unsure of how much of herself to give and show because she's always aware that people can disappoint you just like her entire family has. She's never been shy or anything but the first time she meets someone there is always a sense of wariness.
As a result of being quite neglected as a child, Maeghan spent her entire life trying to bring the attention back to her. She's quite the attention seeker and it definitely shows. Maeghan has never been one to shy away from attention at all and will do almost anything to get all eyes on her. At a party you can bet she'll be in the middle of the dance floor with a drink of something dangerous in hand. She's always the life of the party and the nosiest one in the room. If you play truth or dare, she's the girl who always picks dare and complains if it's something lame like 'kiss james'. Please, a kiss is all? No thanks, she wants to make people's jaws drop and she wants to be remembered.
Two other words that are often associated with Maeghan are reckless and wild. Out of control also works. She's always going incredibly crazy things like sneaking out of the dorms to go for a midnight swim and rather than keep quiet, she's always caught yelling out and doing big bombs into the water. A lot of kids try to hide the fact that they're off getting drunk and doing drugs from their parents but Maeghan has always been very honest about it, smoking in her bedroom and grabbing a bottle of vodka from the fridge with her father in plain view. She's been grounded more times than she can remember but most of the time that's only because Dustin deliberately dobs her in and her parents have no choice but to listen to Dustin since he's all they really pay attention to. Despite not being around her parents much anymore since she's been in boarding school, you would think that the attention seeking habit would die down but not so much. Now she just concentrates on getting the attention of everyone else.
Lucky for Maeghan, in boarding school she finally found a way to fit in. Pretty quickly after she was sent there, Maeghan settled into the cool crowd although that might have been due to her last name and it's clear connection to Dustin but she didn't think about that at all. Over the past few years, Maeghan developed into 'that' mean girl and along with her friends, she ruled her year level and most of the school. It's amazing how well the role fits her. She is the type of girl now who looks down upon people who are clearly lower than her and has no trouble in telling someone that their outfit makes them look like an overweight whale. She's always been quite a mean girl but it's only been more so over the past few years. Maybe it's because she's noticed how neglected she is from her family and is getting more angry but either way, the nasty side of Maeghan is rarely hidden anymore. A lot of people even doubt that she has a nice side and she's fine with people making those assumptions.
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: new york[/size][/font]
PARENTS: louise anne harris - mother - hairdresser
eric geoffry harris - father - electrician
SIBLINGS: dustin harris - older brother - actor/uni student
OTHER: amy catherine harris - aunt - waitress
felicity helena harris - cousin - student
samual thomas harris - cousin - student
nicole rebecca harris - cousin - student
LIVING SITUATION: valks with her brother
HISTORY:
Megan Chrystal Harris was born on the 22nd of September in 1991 to Louise and Eric Harris in a small Boston hospital at, unfortunately, a very inconvenient time. You see, Louise had always wanted a baby girl and she and Eric had tried for quite a while after Dustin was born but as he began to show a shine for performing as a young toddler, they started to change their mind on the whole 'another kid' thing and decided that one child was quite enough. Unfortunately just as they decided this, Louise fell pregnant and decided well they might as well have another child. So Megan was born and her older brother got very annoyed at all the attention she was suddenly getting. Hello, she was just a pink screaming baby. He was much more interesting. So Dustin continued to show off as much as possible and later that year, his mother entered him into that infamous talent show that started his career. While his career took off, the babysitting began with Megan just a few months old. These are the times when a baby needs their mother the most and luckily Louise was decent enough to know this so she tried to take Megan around with her as much as possible but there were times where she just couldn't have a distraction from Dustin so Megan was sent from babysitter to babysitter while Dustin went off and did his little auditions and little television ads.
As Dustin and Megan both grew up, Dustin moved from small ads to big movies and Megan moved from the occasional babysitting to basically full time. She was still only young but her parents regularly seemed to forget about her because they were so caught up in Dustin and his amazing talent. It was amazing that her babysitters and nannies knew her better than her own parents but it was true. Even as a young toddler, Megan noticed that her parents didn't come in and kiss her goodnight when she went to bed and if she dared to wake them up in the middle of the night, it was her nanny who came in to comfort her. When Megan was three, and Dustin seven, the family uprooted and moved to New York, a move that Megan was too young to really get upset about but she still cried a little because she had loved their hold house. Still, she got over it because she was only three at the time and three year olds are too young to truly hold grudges and get really upset about something unless it's bath time or something insignificant like that.
By the age of four, Megan had a full time nanny who was basically like a mother to her. Growing up, Megan slowly learned to dislike her nannies though. They were around much more than her parents but seriously. They were only there because they were getting paid. Still, she was at the age as a young child where her big brother was just the coolest kid ever. Hell, he was appearing on tv! Megan started to follow Dustin around and while he was a little annoyed, as every big sibling is when their little sibling follows them around, but still. She was basically his first fan. When Dustin finally started going by his middle name of Dustin as apposed to Christopher, which was he was about ten and Megan six, Megan was still in the adoring mode and demanded to change her name too. But she didn't like Chrystal very much since she could never spell it properly and her mother told her it was a stupid idea since Megan was a lovely name. Megan decided to do something else though. Rather than go by a different name, six year old Megan went through her mother's baby name book and found some different spellings of Megan until she found one that looked cool. Maeghan. It even sounded cooler when she tried to sound it out.
So just like that Megan became Maeghan.
It's funny how a name can shape someone. It was almost as if while she was following her mother's spelling, Megan was still quite content to have her nannies looking after her and such. But as soon as she changed her spelling, the little changes started showing through. She slowly started to act out a little more, throwing more and more tantrums to her nannies when they wouldn't let her stay up just that little bit longer. After just a few weeks of tantrums with her first nanny, the lady quit, claiming that she couldn't control Maeghan anymore. Next came Janet...and then Sarah...and then Kate...and then John...and the list goes on but Maeghan managed to scare them all away in a matter of weeks, or in the case of the particularly strict ones, a month or two. Maeghan turned into every nanny's nightmare. Oh if only there were a real Mary Poppins, but she never came through the big front doors so eventually Louise and Eric gave up and by that time Maeghan was in school anyway so she didn't really need a nanny. She just came home and hung out by herself and chatted to the staff around the house if she was lonely.
When Maeghan was seven years old, Dustin had yet another big hit lined up but there was a problem with casting issues. See, the casting directors just couldn't find someone to fit the role of Dustin's younger sister in the film. It wasn't a big part but she had some cute lines and they were getting desperate when someone spotted Maeghan with Dustin one day. She was perfect. She was dying for some attention and did everything that the directors told her to. She had the part in the bag. Finally. Of course the spotlight was still on Dustin but people began to perk up and smile when Maeghan walked in front of the camera and said her lines with that adorable little expression on her face. Her cuteness resulted in a few extra scenes being written specifically for her and she loved every minute of it. Dustin wasn't too pleased though. At eleven years old, he was just getting used to people loving him and he didn't like it when the spotlight shifted away. Thankfully he was smart enough to appear to be pleased for his sister and they got a couple of cute shots at the premiere that made people smile at the talented siblings. Of course everyone agreed that Maeghan didn't quite have Dustin's charm on screen so she wasn't offered much after that and went back to school like every other child.
School was where things started getting worse for Maeghan though, as she got older and Dustin got more famous. Her last name wasn't exactly common and as she started school, she found herself always surrounded by a lot of friends which was fantastic at first. Maeghan figured it was just because she was a lovely girl and clearly very approachable. This was not the case. A lovely girl? Please, who was she kidding? It became clear after a while with her first group of friends that they were only befriending her because she was related to the famous Dustin Harris. So Maeghan quickly ditched this lot of friends in favor of some girls who just wanted to get to know her instead. Unfortunately these friends turned out to be the same as the last. Thus, Maeghan spent most of her school years going from one group to the next, determined to try and find some friends who actually wanted to get to know her and not her stupid stuck-up brother. She continued to try out for a bunch of movies in hopes that maybe if she was a big movie star that people would be interested in her for a chance but of course most of her movies were flops or just didn't get enough attention, despite her being the little sister of america's current heat-throb. To be honest, Maeghan began to pretty much resent her brother. She saw him off camera and she completely saw through his little nice-guy act. This was probably why every time she got ditched by another group of friends it pissed her off so much. Why were they all so obsessed with him? Couldn't they all see what an asshole he was? He barely ever paid attention to her, just like the rest of her family and he was the reason she was so often alone. Heck, her birthday had almost gone unnoticed but luckily her mother remembered and quickly threw together a party for her but it was clearly last minute.
By the time Maeghan was thirteen, she'd had enough of this constant ignoring. She knew it wasn't normal and she'd had enough finally. Not to mention, she was completely sick of being moved from group to group at school. So what did Maeghan do? Well she started acting up as much as possible. She found herself a nice naughty group at school and began heading out to parties with people far older than her, returning home much later than she was supposed to. She also began leaving her crap all around the house and talking back to her mother as much as possible, anything to get in trouble. It wasn't until her mother found a stash of vodka bottles hidden in her room that her mother finally realised her daughter was getting out of control at only thirteen years old so who could imagine how bad she'd be by the time she was sixteen? Louise really didn't want to think about that so she did the only thing she could think of. Rather than start paying more attention to her daughter and helping her to overcome everything, she decided to send Maeghan off to boarding school a few states away so that she could straighten up on her own while Louise and Eric could concentrate on Dustin and his growing career. Maeghan wasn't exactly happy about this since her mother's explanation was basically 'you're too much trouble right now. we need to focus on your brother' or something along those lines. But still, it meant getting away from all of this so Maeghan packed her bags and said goodbye to her fake friends happily. When the big day came though, instead of her parents sending her off like she expected, a taxi arrived at the front door. When Maeghan questioned it, her parents almost laughed. Them come with her? Heck no. Dustin had a big premiere to attend for his friend's new movie and of course they had to come too. They weren't going to drive several miles just to say goodbye when they could say it here. So with a quick brief kiss on the forehead from her mother and father, Maeghan climbed into the taxi and slammed it hard, blinking back tears that had suddenly welled up in her eyes.
The ride to the airport was a quiet and tense one. Even the taxi driver could clearly feel her anger towards both her parents and her brother as she sat staring out the window, sighing and huffing every few minutes. When she boarded that plane and looked out to see a bunch of people waving madly to love their ones though, that was when it hit her that she really was alone. That's when the tears really poured out. She spent almost the entire plane ride sitting alone with tears staining her cheeks although she tried to hide them from the air hostesses. By the time she arrived all the way in Connecticut though, the tears were long gone and now she was just ready get revenge on her parents. So they thought that sending her across the country would fix everything? God, they had a lot to learn about teenage girls. Once Maeghan arrived on campus of St Peterson Boarding School she made sure to quickly suss out who was worth talking to and made sure to make a name for herself. It wasn't long until she fell into the 'It Girl' clique along with a few other girls. She tried to keep her connection to Dustin quiet here and even though he was well known, no one seemed to really make the connection and she was finally able to live her own life, away from his shadow.
Maeghan never went back home for the holidays and instead chose to hang out at her friends' pretty houses or even on campus occasionally. There were also a few times when she had some small movie offers and spent summer break filming those. Her life was finally going well, apart from a long list of detentions. Hey, she was here to be noticed and that required breaking a couple of rules...Or all of them. Maeghan did everything from shout back at teachers, to start physical fights and verbal fights to hooking up with guys in empty classrooms and getting caught. She sneaked out of her dorm all the time and cut class to go for a walk off campus. She was absolute and complete trouble and made the teachers go nearly insane, it was a wonder she never got expelled. But her parents were paying a fair bit to keep her away from home of course. So Maeghan managed to spend her first two years at St Peterson's getting up to all sorts of mischief with her friends. They were definitely the envy of most of the school. They were all gorgeous, confident and extremely daring. Maeghan ended up with the 'crazy bitch' reputation after starting several fights and the name seemed to stick but she was fine with that while her other friends got labels which weren't nearly as bad like 'the dumb blonde' Emily, 'the quiet one' Lauren and 'the one who actually had brains' Carly. They all got along very well though and proudly strutted around the school like they were the shit.
A few things changed in Maeghan's junior year though. First of all, the fact that Maeghan was Dustin Harris's little sister finally got out and spread around the school like wildfire. Her best friends already knew of course because she'd told them and they'd all demanded to meet him but Maeghan always just said he was busy filming new movies and that quietened them down. Still, now that most of the school knew, she was always getting requests for autographs and God she hated it. It was like elementary school all over again with people sucking up to her to get to Dustin. Those bitches. Maeghan kept brushing off the requests though, pissing off quite a lot of people. They didn't understand why she was so stubborn on refusing to get the autographs. They didn't understand the hatred she held for her stupid glory-stealing brother. If it wasn't for him she wouldn't be so desperate to get attention all the time.
And then came her sixteenth birthday party. Her sweet sixteenth so of course it was going to be big. Since it was during school time, Maeghan and her girls decided to throw a massive party one night on campus. They didn't exactly tell the teachers but the teachers did know it was her birthday so they figured she'd have a party and were going to let it slide. That was until someone spread the word that there were drugs there. A teacher immediately came down and was pretty darn horrified at the sight in front of him. There was loud music pumping while students were spread all around the big hall, 90% of them drunk. There were couples making out everywhere and a few that looked like they were heading a bit further and then in a small corner at the back was the cocaine and Maeghan. She and the other partiers that had been with her were all brought into the headmaster's office and questioned. Now here's the thing. Maeghan's friends had been nagging her about Dustin visiting a lot lately and she'd been pretty bitchy about it so when they were all questioned, separately of course, they did what they had to do to punish her themselves. They all ratted her out. 'It was Maeghan who got the drugs. She made us all do it.' they all said pathetically, fake expressions on their faces. With so many people speaking against her, she didn't really get a fair chance which was annoying because it in fact hadn't been her who'd supplied the drugs, nor her who tried them first. It had been one of the jocks but he'd run off before the teacher arrived so he was off scot free apparently.
Not Maeghan though. When she went into the headmaster's office, he solemnly informed her that as it seemed she was guilty of bringing illegal drugs onto the campus which was one of the biggest rule-breakers possible, she was to be expelled from St Peterson's as of immediately. Maeghan barely even got to defend herself before she was packing her things. She had no clue that she'd been ratted out by her closest friends and they all acted appropriately shocked when she told them the awful news, anger clear on her face. They didn't tell her it was them though but there was definitely something wrong in the air that everyone could feel. Maeghan just assumed it was because she was leaving and they weren't sure what they'd do without their crazy bitch screaming at people who pissed her and her friends off. In a way, it was that too. She had such a big personality that they would definitely feel a bit lost once she left but they refused to change their story and so Maeghan sulkily boarded a plane back to New York with a brief text to her mother informing her that she was coming back.
Now I need to warn you, this is very new. The party only happened about a week ago. Around the same time that Dustin assaulted his girlfriend in their home. As usual, Maeghan just had to make a scene straight after Dustin. Her parents shook their heads at this news and of course cracked it at her when she opened the front door with bleary jet-lagged eyes and messy hair. How could she do this to them? Why did she always make things so difficult? Couldn't she see it was difficult enough with Dustin's dramas? She was such a selfish girl. Blah blah blah. The yelling went on and on and eventually Maeghan tuned out, her eyes vacant until something made her tune back in with wide eyes. "We can't handle all of this stress. I'm sending you to live with your brother." Maeghan nearly fell over at that. Live with her brother that she hadn't seen for about three years now? The brother whom she loathed with every last inch of her? But her mother was adamant. She couldn't handle this stress and just hoped that maybe Dustin, who was an angry wreak of a man right now and Maeghan who was an out of control teenager would be able to fight it all out and sort each other out once and for all. It was a lost cause in Maeghan's eyes but this was her mother and she had to listen to her. Luckily Maeghan hadn't unpacked yet so she said goodbye to her useless parents once more and boarded the next flight to Valkyrie, California.
Oh Valkyrie you are in for a shock. And Dustin had better watch his back because Maeghan Harris is finally in town.
COLLECTED MY BELONGINGS ,[/color]
ABOUT YOU AND FOR THE ADMINS ,
and i left the jail, well thanks for the time[/color]
YOUR NAME: georgie (:[/size][/font][/blockquote]
GENDER: female
AGE: fiteeeen yo <3
RP EXPERIENCE: three years
OTHER CHARACTERS: the sureshes, aimee and dustin!
ROLEPLAY EXAMPLE:i wrote over 3000 words of history and you're still asking me this? xDcredit: format by lainey, lyrics by modest mouse