Post by nora on Mar 25, 2010 22:17:42 GMT -6
[/color]VALKYRIE,
CALIFORNIA
the ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
i had thought all my battles had been won,
only to fund out that the war had just begun.[/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: nora channing russo[/font]
NICKNAMES: anything you want
GENDER: female
AGE: twenty
UNIVERSITY YEAR: sophomore
MAJOR: biology
MINOR: culinary
JOB: none
PLAYBY: alessandra ambrosio
YOUR BODY MAY BE GONE ,[/color]
CHARACTER APPEARANCE ,
i'm gonna carry you in my head, in my heart, in my soul[/color]
ETHNICITY: italian[/font]
HAIR COLOR: dirty blonde
EYE COLOR: brown
HEIGHT: 5'6
WEIGHT: 135lb
BODY TYPE: lean and fit but at the moment, extremely prego
DISTINGUISHED FEATURES: ear piercings, belly button, large scar in the palm of her right hand
PERSONAL STYLE: nora is pretty self-respected when it comes to her body. despite having the body, before being pregnant, she was pretty conservative. dresses and skirts are worn an a regular basis. she believes they are very feminine and appropriate. she has loved to wear comfy clothes such as sweats and t-shirts. tight fitting jeans or shirts aren't clothes she wears too often. though no matter what she wears, nora believes that looking presentable is a must while in public. which means she always has to be showered, wearing nice clean clothes, and having at least a little bit of makeup applied to her face. she has no problem with looking natural but if natural is not nice then cover up is a must. jewelry and accessories aren't always needed in nora's case. that's just an extra twenty minutes in the morning of getting ready.
OTHER: none
IN YOUR MOUTH, IN YOUR SOUL ,[/color]
CHARACTER PERSONALITY ,
the more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind[/color]
STRENGTHS: cooking, keeping promises, lying, hiding emotions, giving advice, playing the female role[/font]
WEAKNESSES: being a pushover, being too trustworthy, her emotions, kids, animals, family, forgiving
LIKES: mexican food, babies, ocean, summertime, all animals, being the care-taker, bubble baths, outdoors, camping, traveling, cooking, culinary, board games, letters, going on walks, guys, wishing on shooting stars
DISLIKES: dancing, heights, airplanes, roller-coasters, asian food, being lazy, winter time, waiting, technology, lairs, teeth grinding, spiders, morning sickness, drugs, alcohol, parties, sports
FLAWS: getting too emotional, taking control
HABITS: cleaning, constantly
SECRETS: pregnant by her college freshman teacher, cheated on her boyfriend, scared of being a mother
BEST MEMORY: finding out she was pregnant
WORST MEMORY: her parents death
OVERALL PERSONALITY: Nora is a down right loving girl. She believes that everyone deserves a chance, no matter who they are. Which is why she is so friendly. She will lend a helping hand to just about anyone. Which to say can get her into trouble because she is just a little bit too trusting. Some have been known to take advantage of that trait. Nora is a pushover, so anyone she feels she is close to could get her to do just about anything. Unless of course it has to do with things she just dislikes. Need a place to stay? Nora is your girl. She is also very good at comforting people, especially during rough times and she can keep a secret like no other. Needless to say some of those secrets are her own.
She may be very sweet but she lies to be that way. Nora never lies in bad ways but in ones that benefit herself and others around her. Like keeping the secret of who the real father of her baby is. And she doesn't use her lying ability to manipulate others either. But in a way, she is a bit of a hypocrite. The people and the things they do that she doesn't like are in ways who she is. She lies and she had cheated. Nora cares so much about what others thinks of her though. Making a good impression on others is her goal and she would hate to disappoint those she loves. Which leads to her over-protectiveness. She may not be as straight-forward as she should be but she is definitely not afraid to stick up for the ones that matter most.
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: chicago, michigan[/size][/font]
PARENTS: george russo, would have been 54, restaurant owner
isabella russo, would have been 52, restaurant owner
SIBLINGS: nico russo, 22, older brothers
OTHER: son-to-be-daughter, arabella
LIVING SITUATION: valks
HISTORY: nora channing russo was born to full blood italian her parents in chicago, michigan. of course, once she was brought into the world she wasn't the only child to her family. her older brother nico played a big role in her life. especially when it came to her childhood. for someone reason her parents decided not to have kids after nora, so nico was all she had. he was her best friend. they were two peas in a pod and did just about everything together. her brother even went to the extent of taking dancing classes with her has a child. he was also great company for her when their parents weren't around. her family owned a chain of italian restaurants and her parents were always traveling from one place to the next. sometimes it was required for her family to move from place to place. so new school and new homes were common, though nora always considered chicago being her official home. eventually moving become too much of a hassle, so both nora and her brother moved in with their grandparents, whom barely spoke english. nora didn't care much for her grandparents, or for any family for that mattered but she was rewarded by learning fluent italian. which helped when they took family trips to italy. moving to her families homeland was always a dream but something that just wouldn't happen in life. especially if she expected to make something of herself. her brother made sure to uplift her thoughts into thinking she would. nico was very inspirational.
though, during her high school years things got complicated considering nico was way too overprotective of nora. very few boyfriends were in the pictures and as a teen it frustrated nora. at times she wished nico would just disappear so she could live her own life. she wanted to be the type of girl who would learn threw her own mistakes but her brother just wouldn't have it and eventually she gave up trying to be independent. she knew nice would be there for the rest of her life. at least until her junior year of high school. eventually her brother gave into one boy and his name was tommy. nora met him during her junior year in high school and in her eyes he was more than perfect. she figured he must mean something considering that nico approved. she claimed she was in love and spent most of her time with tommy. especially the summer after junior year when her parents passed away in a car accident. it was a devastating blow but something she quickly, considering she rarely saw them. fortunately, her parents left everything to nora and her brother. the family fortune. the restaurants. the house. anything you could name that belonged to her parents. however, nora didnt have the skills to run the restaurants and decided to leave the ownership with her grandparents and cousins. nora and nico still receive earnings from the restaurant. nora was to consumed with her life with tommy, which lasted throughout graduation and their first year in college.
she went into chicago state, wanting to major in child studies. nora wasn't quite sure where she would take her education but as long as it dealt with children. however, nora made a big mistake that would change her life forever. she cheated on tommy with her processor who taught her child psychology class. this wasn't a relationship to get straight A's. nora actually fell for mr. riley. they had so much in common, they had chemistry, but of course it was kept secret. eventually one mistake led to the next and before she knew she was pregnant. afraid on the consequences she claimed it was tommy's baby but for someone reason he couldn't handle that sort of responsibility so he left her. nora was completely distraught and upset but she couldnt imagine what the truth would do to him, knowing that she cheated and instead of letting mr. riley know, nora fled chicago, hoping to get away without the truth getting out. she didn't want to ruin his career.
no nora convinced nico to move and now they are living in valkyrie, where nora hopes to make a new start as a 7 month pregnant women. unsure of what would come of her future but with each passing day nora can't help but find herself lonely and needing a man in her life. preferably someone who wanted to be a father. may she could give mr. riley a call.
COLLECTED MY BELONGINGS ,[/color]
ABOUT YOU AND FOR THE ADMINS ,
and i left the jail, well thanks for the time[/color]
YOUR NAME: kels[/size][/font][/blockquote]
GENDER: female
AGE: nineteen
RP EXPERIENCE: 4 years
OTHER CHARACTERS: none yet
ROLEPLAY EXAMPLE:Oliver stared blankly up at the ceiling of his daughters bedroom. Glow in the dark stars helped his eyes adjust to the darkened room. Those silly commercials that advertised the glow in the dark stars and solar systems weren't lying. Even as a twenty-one year old male, Oli cold feel a sense of being outside when in reality he wasn't. He in fact grew up in the same room his daughter was now occupying and needless to say that those stars were passed down. As a child he found the glow in the dark stickers far more comforting than any old night light. It seemed as though Jayden would agree. His daughter had the sense of the night even as an infant. Something that both he and his wife agreed on since they both grew up with them. Jayden had them in their old house and she would continue to have them even though she was living in his old bedroom. Of course the amount of stars and planets on the ceiling had grown in size but the more the merrier.
It was moments like these that made Oli wish he was a child again. There were so many wrongs he would have made right if given the second chance. Of he should have taken the advice from his parents who told Oliver earlier on when he was a teen that life wouldn't be easy. It was then did he wish he would have listened and taken his parents words to heart. More teenagers in the world no a days took a lot of things for granted, just as Oli did. He remember what it was like to turn thirteen years old and feel like you were on top of the world. At thirteen he felt like an adult and tried to act as one even though he wasn't. It wouldn't be till years later did he wish that he could have lived his teens to the fullest instead of defying his parents every moment he got. Needless to say Oliver couldn't be all the regretful. If things hadn't gone the way they did in the past then he never would of had his daughter Jayden. The two years she had been in his life seemed like a life time and the days, months, years were passing faster then he would have thought. Guess it was true that the older you get the faster time flies.
So it was this moment, as Oliver laid snuggling his two year old daughter in her new toddler bed, that mattered most to him. She was his world. Her smile alone made his day so much more easier. Being a full time father and a single parent was hard but to know that the tiny girl laying in his arms was the reason why he strived everyday made it all worth it. A year ago Oli had his wife to help. It was then that his load had been a lot less dense then it was now. Amy, just like Jayden, had been Oli's world. It was the simple story of high school sweethearts falling in love. He could honestly say she saved him from a lot of trouble he could have gotten into has a teen but despite their love for each other, his parents just wouldn't accept them together. That didn't stop him from proposing to Amy during the graduation ceremony or from having Jayden six months later. It was then did life seem perfect to Oliver, so much so that his life seemed bitter sweet. Why was he married to the girl of his dreams and having a child with her? Did he deserve it?
Fate sure didn't think so. A year after their precious Jayden was born, his life and dreams came to a shattering end. That phone call from the police replayed over and over in his head. Even as he lay with the only thing that mattered most to him. Of course it being the anniversary of his wife's death wasn't making his thoughts any less sorrowful. Maybe that's why he had been laying with his daughter for two hours even after she had fallen asleep. What else could he do? In all fairness it seemed pointless to just lay in agony, so cautiously Oli maneuvered his hand from behind Jayden's head and quietly exited her room. He ran his hand threw his shaggy dark chocolate hair and exhaled a deep sigh that he had been holding in for quite some time. There was too much on his mind for him to go to sleep so instead he retreated to the living room where his father was sitting, reading a newspaper under a dim light. There was no way talking to his parents would make his situation better. At times he felt they were more happy then sad that Amy was gone. "I'm going out. Tell mom that Jayden is in bed. I'll be back later." No others words needed to be exchanged. His father, being a male and all, probably understood his son more then anyone. They did share half of the same genes after all.
So with that Oliver grabbed his leather jacket from the hall closet and his keys from on top of the dresser then headed out the front door. It wasn't all to late but late enough that the only place that were open happened to be the night clubs. Sometimes he liked to go to the beach and sit until dawn but that give him more of a reason to think about Amy. As much as he loved his wife, Oli needed to move on, especially if he intended on caring for Jayden. Her alone made all his choices and decisions risky. He never wanted to make a wrong move but he found himself submerge within the club crowds. Drinking was a bad habit and was something he rarely did but it was true when it came to alcohol relieving all your worries. At least for him it did. So Club Nova it was. Oli had grown accustomed and attached to the bartenders, plus the night crowd seemed to range around his age. Which was good when meeting new people. Being the friendly and helpful guy he was, making friends was hardly a task. Being raised the way he was, others always came first but lately it seemed like it should be the other way around. It was hard for him to open up and trust others like they did him.
credit: format by lainey, lyrics by modest mouse
