Post by Piper McCoy on May 25, 2010 13:07:08 GMT -6
[/color]VALKYRIE,
CALIFORNIA
the ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
we are young, we run free
stay up late, we don’t sleep
got our friends, got the night
we’ll be alright[/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: piper savannah mccoy[/font]
NICKNAMES: p, pipe, mccoy, p. mccoy
GENDER: female
AGE: 17
GRADE: junior
ART INTEREST: video production, music
PLAYBY: katerina graham
YOUR BODY MAY BE GONE ,[/color]
CHARACTER APPEARANCE ,
i'm gonna carry you in my head, in my heart, in my soul[/color]
ETHNICITY: african american and caucasian aka biracial, mullato, mixed.[/font]
HAIR COLOR: black/brown
EYE COLOR: brown
HEIGHT: 5'5"
WEIGHT: 120 lbs
BODY TYPE: athletic
DISTINGUISHED FEATURES: she has her ears pierced, a very white smile, her laugh pretty much sums her up.
PERSONAL STYLE: piper really likes bold colors. neon blue, yellow, lime green, royal purple, anything that just makes you look twice at her. she doesn't follow trends at all, she is her won person and wears things that she likes. she follows her own trends. the thing with piper is that she doesn't settle for one thing for too long before she tries something else. she's always trying to switch it up. she loves going to thrift stores and finding outfits that were popular decades before.
OTHER: -
IN YOUR MOUTH, IN YOUR SOUL ,[/color]
CHARACTER PERSONALITY ,
the more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind[/color]
STRENGTHS: holding a conversation, music, dancing, playing multiple instruments, entertaining people[/font]
WEAKNESSES: church events, helping people, expressing her opinion
LIKES: dancing, music, vlogging, being herself, clothes, bright colors, the way the win feels when you are standing still, 3d movies, reality tv, old school hip hop, her family, education, being her own person, church, her mom's home cooking, reading.
DISLIKES: uncompassionate people, being disrespected or disrespectful, hurricane katrina and what it did, meat (she's vegetarian,) running for fun, injury, homework, death, cats, thai food, sushi, pickles, hair that has big bumps, rom-coms.
FLAWS:
- piper is brutally honest. she has no problem telling you like it is.
- that also has her 'no filter' personality of never really thinking before she says
HABITS:
- when she talks, sometimes she goes off on a tangent before bringing it back to what she was originally talking about.
- she has her ipod on her at all times, and she tends to start bopping to the beat or singing the verse she's listening to
- has her video camera on her always
SECRETS:
- not really a secret but people tend to be surprised when they find out her mother is white and her father is black
- in junior high she had a real hard time with her identity, whether she should call herself black because of her skin, or white, because she was that too
BEST MEMORY: when her church started rebuilding the church that was destroyed by hurricane katrina. it was almost bittersweet but everyone in the community forming together to help was really special.
WORST MEMORY: her family had to evacuate new orleans when hurricane katrina hit and then when they come back it was absolutely devastating when they discovered that the church and their home was destroyed.
OVERALL PERSONALITY: you know i suck at personality, but here i go. piper is upfront and brutally honest. the one thing her mother tells her is that she is read like a book. if she doe not like you, you will know in about five minutes of meeting piper. one thing piper hates is being fake. she won't waste her time pretending to like you. she thinks that is boring, annoying, and doesn't want to waste her or your time. piper is a girl that pretty much tells it like it is. if you don't look good in that dress, she well tell you to change it. she might appear to be bossy, and maybe she is to some degree, but it's just how she comes across.
piper is not a party girl, but boy, does she like to have a good time. it's not that she intentionally wants to be the center of attention because she's not conceited like that at all, but she's one of the people that become the life of a party all the time. she doesn't drink excessively to the point where she passes out and can't remember things, but she has drank some booze on a few occasions. when she's having fun, she like everyone to have fun with her too, if it looks like you aren't having fun, you can bet your bottom dollar that she will come up to you, ask why you aren't dancing, and get you to have fun.
pipe tries to avoid drama as much as she can. she rarely brings it on herself and tries to remove herself from it when it arises. she might seem like this badass bitch who will got all up in your face, but it's not. she hates being catty and according to her, there is a big difference between being catty and being sassy. piper is also a fiercely loyal friend. she will have her friends' backs all the time and would be the first person to stand up to them and tell people to back it up. she believes that friends last forever and help shape the person you will become.
she is an extremely happy and outgoing girl if you haven't gotten that from her yet. however, she isn't the loud and obnoxious type you roll your eyes at when you see. she really is a cool, down to earth chick. she's really passionate too. she basically grew up in a bouncing celebratory methodist church, so she has been dancing since she could walk. she's not really a singer, but her older brother taught her how to dj when she was in the sixth grade, so she's been mixing beats together for a long time. she can also play the guitar. dancing however, is where her talent lies the most, and is one of the reason she's at the academy in valkyrie.
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 orleans, louisiana[/size][/font]
PARENTS:
james franklin mccoy - 55 - pastor
veronica paige hasting-mccoy - 55 - stay at home mom
SIBLINGS:
johnny - brother - 25 - law school
cooper - brother - 20 - college
francie - sister - 14 - middle school student
OTHER: -
LIVING SITUATION: valks
HISTORY: "i grew up in the south. my mom was a very modest white girl, and my father was black. he was a son of a preacher at one of the methodist churches in new orleans. back then, it was still kind of a big deal when couples from different races dated. my grandparents on my dad's side didn't seem to care all that much once they met my mom, but my mom's parents didn't approve. especially after my dad started taking my mom to his church. i guess i should tell you how they met. they were both twenty two and both going to college. they both shared the same church and political beliefs. they fell in love quickly. however, tragedy struck two years later. by now, it was known in the community that a white girl was running with a black guy. my mom's brother didn't like that. he gathered some of his friends and jumped my dad one night outside of a bar. they beat him pretty bad and left him in an alley. he wasn't found until the next day. obviously he survived because i'm alive, but he was in the hospital for a week. my mom left her family and stayed with james' (my dad.) they got engaged in the hospital and once his injuries were all cleared up, they had a big wedding. and when i mean big, i mean huge. veronica, my mom, didn't invite her family because she didn't want anyone there on the wedding day that weren't happy for them. veronica grew really close to my dad's side of the family anyway and not only did my grandpa walk her down the aisle but he also preformed the ceremony.
after the wedding, my parents moved into their own little house near the church and participated church groups and anything else young couples did i suppose. they were both twenty five when they got married, but wanted to wait a few years to have children. when my mom was thirty, she had my older brother, johnny. they always wanted a big family, and after johnny, my mom couldn't conceive. finally after another five years, the ball started rolling again and out came cooper. three years after that, me. and then another three years later, my little sister, francie. though they wanted to have more, my sister's birth was a complicated one, leaving my mom unable to have kids anymore. but, they counted their blessings of being able to have four kids. it was what god must have wanted. despite our mother being white, all the kids seemed to inherited my dad's skin. he likes to joke that we 'must have gotten his skin, but our mother's heart.' really, the color of my skin didn't really affect me until i was in middle school.
i grew up close to all my siblings. you'd think we'd all hate going to church, but in fact, we really loved it. i don't want to downplay other religions but my church didn't necessarily follow what most traditional church services were. one of my friends is catholic and one sunday i went with her and her family to one of their services. i was bored to tears. no one was really allowed to talk, they sang like they were headed towards a funeral, and that kneeling really killed my knees. sorry! but that's just how it was. at my church, it's just like a bunch of friends getting together and having a good time while celebrating the lord. sometimes, we'd go to my grandpa's house after the service for a bbq in the backyard, everyone would be invited and it'd be like another party.
when my dad was forty three, my grandfather died. he had been sick for a long time and eventually just passed away one night. i was still only five when my grandad died, but i remember everyone being sad and the funeral was really lovely. after that, my dad took over as pastor. i know a lot of people were happy because my dad had the same energy his dad had, so it was like he had never died. we moved into my grandpa's place and my grandma stayed there and helped cook and take care of the kids. i always remembered that my grandmother use to sing to us. we got a fair amount of singing at services, but i really liked music. and dancing. my older brother, cooper and i really seemed to be dancing all the time.
when i was in sixth grade i'd be made fun of because i had a white mom, and a black dad. it was cruel, and i learned to just have it roll off my shoulder but i did have a hard time dealing with my skin. my mom still didn't talk with her family, so it's not like a really had a relationship with the other half of my heritage. it just made me wonder if i wasn't surrounded by my dad's side, would i have been different somehow? it just bothered me. bothered me just as much as people still couldn't accept my parents together. it's really ridiculous.
i was fourteen, almost fifteen when hurricane season came around again in 2005. my eldest brother, john, was on his last year in college. coop was starting his last year of high school, i was a freshmen, and my little sister was starting sixth grade. we lived in new orleans and were told to evacuate. we packed up some of our things and we moved up to arkansas while what was known as hurricane katrina hit. it looked bad on the news, all the people still there and all the flooding. the houses were destroyed and we didn't think our house could have been destroyed. we were watching the news late one night when my father saw a clip of our church. the roof was blown off, pieces of the walls were gone, the inside, you could tell, was just a pile of wood. all of us, crammed in that tiny hotel room we had been living in, were devastated at what we were looking at. a couple days later, we decided to go back, the worst of it was over from what we were told and i had a video camera with me. i filmed us seeing finding the church again and then our house. our house was destroyed too. it was like a fire had gone through it. we didn't back everything we ever had and it was so sad to see the place torn apart. i uploaded the video on youtube, and over the next few weeks, i just started documenting our lives after hurricane katrina. somehow, my channel got popular. i don't know if it was because it was katrina or what it was, but i guess people liked seeing my family and i trying to rebuild what was lost. it was like people were just getting a glimpse into one family's struggles of the aftermath.
we had to rebuild the church. in a different location too. a lot of the former members came too, to help. it was finally a sense of community. people working together. i kept updating my vlog and we stayed in new orleans for another two years. my youtube channel started to change from getting my life back to just me. who knew people were interested in what you were like and your life. my dad had family that moved out to california once they realized nothing was going for them in new orleans, so, my dad said they would join them so we all packed, for real this time, and moved out west where my dad is going to be a preacher again and i can finish high school."
COLLECTED MY BELONGINGS ,[/color]
ABOUT YOU AND FOR THE ADMINS ,
and i left the jail, well thanks for the time[/color]
YOUR NAME: laineyyy[/size][/font][/blockquote]
GENDER: femaleee
AGE: 1888... wait, that didn't work
RP EXPERIENCE: enoughhh
OTHER CHARACTERS: none. jokinggg
ROLEPLAY EXAMPLE:bamfffcredit: format by lainey, lyrics by modest mouse
