ADDINGTON, london

[london]

VALKYRIE,
CALIFORNIA

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the ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?




i will eat you alive in the city
while they pull up in fancy cars
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WHEN THE OCEAN MET THE SKY ,[/color]
CHARACTER BASICS ,
you missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye[/color]

FULL NAME: london tristan addington
NICKNAMES: lon, lonnie
GENDER: female
AGE: twenty-four
PAST EDUCATION: high school - Seattle, WA - freshman and sophmore years
Chicago, IL - junior year
Washington, DC - senior year

college - Brown University - two years, AA in Liberal Arts
Pepperdine University - Santa Monica, CA - two years, BA in Fashion Design
JOB: fashion designer, specifically women's clothing and handbags
PLAYBY: shantel vansanten

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YOUR BODY MAY BE GONE ,[/color]
CHARACTER APPEARANCE ,
i'm gonna carry you in my head, in my heart, in my soul[/color]

ETHNICITY: british, native american, french
HAIR COLOR: auburn brown
EYE COLOR: gray-blue
HEIGHT: five feet seven inches
WEIGHT: 140
BODY TYPE: thin because she is tall and her weight is evenly distributed over her frame. her figure isn't extremely awe-inspiring, but she has curves in the right places. her boobs are her most prized possession - and they're real - because she doesn't have a butt she feels she can market.
DISTINGUISHED FEATURES: both ears pierced, a star tattoo on the inside of her left wrist and a larger star over her left hip
PERSONAL STYLE: london loves to dress up. usually, she's seen at events and she's wearing fancy dresses, rarely you'll see her in a nice pant suit. she's taller than most women she knows, and she likes to accentuate her height with outfits that show off her long legs and bust. when she's not dressed up - however seldom that may be - she lounges around her home with jeans and tee-shirts on. if she's going out on the town to party, then she's likely to wear skin-tight pants and shiny shirts. she likes clothes that sparkle or have a sheen to them.
OTHER: her goal in life is to look as much the opposite of her mother as physically possible, so she often goes over the top with everything, looks-wise

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IN YOUR MOUTH, IN YOUR SOUL ,[/color]
CHARACTER PERSONALITY ,
the more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind[/color]

STRENGTHS: drawing, planning, determined, knows what she wants, strongwilled, headstrong, honest
WEAKNESSES: anything athletic, sex, money, power, fame, her family
LIKES: drawing, designing, photography, dressing herself up, partying, forgetting, sex, money, being in the spotlight, swimming, beaches, sunlight, getting a tan, supporting herself
DISLIKES: feeling like the victim, lying, her mother, people who know about her past, remembering, being alone, ugly people, animals, beer, public restrooms, driving
FLAWS: manipulative, bitchy, controlling (at times), too independent
HABITS: she twirls her hair with her left hand when she's thinking, nervous or flirtacious. she writes on her hands so she won't forget anything. when she gets angry, she retreats to her bedroom and draws.
SECRETS: she was engaged once. she was pregnant once, in high school, but she lost the baby.
BEST MEMORY: the year she took off from college, she met her future fiance. he was the sweetest guy she had ever met, and she fell deeply in love with him practically at first sight. they dated for a year and then got engaged.
WORST MEMORY: in high school, london dated the star quarterback of the football team - big shocker there, right? - but his best friend had a huge crush on her. she didn't realize the boy's feelings for her, and after an away game on weekend, she agreed to ride back home with her boyfriend's best friend (since her boyfriend was staying overnight at a hotel). well, on the ride home, the best friend just happened to have had too much to drink, and he came on to her. she turned him down, and when she did, he got angry and pulled the car over and raped her. she tried her best to fight back, but alas, she wasn't strong enough to beat off a huge football player. after the incident, they were pulling back onto the road and hit a deer, almost totalling the car. the friend deserted her, bleeding from a gash on her forehead, and she was rescued by an ambulance a few hours later. she slept for two days in the hospital room, but when she awoke she fully remembered the rape and the accident even though she kept it a secret from her boyfriend and family. however, a couple of months later, she realized she was pregnant. she even contemplated suicide but couldn't bring herself to do it. when she told her boyfriend, he broke up with her - not believing her story about the rape - and she felt more alone than any other time in her life. a few weeks later, she had a miscarriage and lost the child.
OVERALL PERSONALITY: after everything that has happened to her, london is a bitch, plain and simple. she is headstrong and willful, always working to do what she wants and to accomplish her personal goals without thinking about others. she's determined to get what she wants out of life, and she will stop at nothing to do that. she's accustomed to being in the spotlight since she was a child, and she doesn't like being out of it and in the background.

however, although she is hard around the edges and isn't a lay-down kind of girl, she does have a sweet inner core in there somewhere. she's headstrong on the outside, but she really just needs affection on the inside. deep down, she wishes she had love, but she is willing to settle for less than that (one night stands, rumored relationships, etc). although she doesn't settle for anything when it comes to her professional life, she does settle when it comes to loving others. she's not used to putting anyone over herself - something she learned from her parents - and it's hard for her to do so.

she's very confident in public, and her insecurities are practically nonexistant. when she's all alone is the only time she will cry, and she actually hasn't cried since the night she was raped. she refuses to, and her body just can't do it anymore. her hard exterior keeps her from being hurt by anyone, and she tries to do all of the hurting instead of being hurt.

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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: she moved around a lot when she was younger, but out of all of the places she's lived, she considers seattle to be her hometown
PARENTS: father - william daniel addington - 61 - stock broker
stepmother - elena greta addington - 43 - journalist
mother - nina abigail defoe - 55 - fashion designer
stepfather - michael samuel defoe - 56 - lawyer
SIBLINGS: brother - william daniel addington jr - 26 - doctor, in residency
stepbrother - jack nathaniel defoe - 30 - bartender
OTHER: cooper porter - 27 - ex-fiance
LIVING SITUATION: valks
HISTORY: london was born to two parents who, at the time, were very much in love with one another. william and nina met when they were fresh out of high school when nina took a trip around europe before starting college. william was a youthful englishman with sights set on the position of prime minister, and nina was a dreaming, young woman born of the highbred stuff that the upper east side of new york is made of. they both had high expectations for their lives. however, after meeting, they fell in love at first sight and got married only two weeks later. exactly nine months following their marriage, nina gave birth to a baby boy whom they named william junior. everything was wonderful for them, and their lives in england couldn't have been happier.

however, a year after they were married, the couple moved to new york - where nina's family originated - and william was called up for active duty into the vietnam war. he was in and out of the conflict for the next year and a half, keeping the couple apart. while on shore leave, william and nina created their second child. william had to return to battle before nina even realized she was pregnant. a few months later, she realized she was pregnant with their daughter and tried to get william to return home, but he couldn't leave his duties in the war. he was away from home when london was born, and his wife never forgave him - even though there was really nothing he could have done otherwise. nina named their daughter london after the town where the parents had met, and she spoiled the little girl as she had never been spoiled by her husband.

william was caught up in the war for another two years, after which he was wounded and sent home with a medical discharge. by that time, his wife resented his absence, and they had grown apart. william did his best to love his children, however, and he quickly fell in love with the daughter who had been born while he was away. london became his pride and joy, and she grew up as daddy's little girl from those days forward. yet again, nina resented her husband for their daughter's love of him when he had been absent and she had been the only one around. when london was six years old, nina moved out of the house and in with her parents where she lived for two years while william raised their children alone.

london grew continually closer to her father who never spoke ill of her mother despite her mother's hatred of him. she began to resent her mother for turning her back on the man who continued to love her. her animosity towards her mother began when her mother moved in with her grandparents. when london turned eight, her mother moved back in with them, but the gap had already been forged. london was never close to the woman who had birthed her, and she grew closer to her father and brother - the two people who had always been there for her.

the family moved around throughout london's school years because her father was in the military service even though he wasn't in active duty. london's mother's hatred toward her husband steadily grew despite william's best efforts to prove his love to her, and finally nina left him when london started sixth grade. after the divorce, william moved his children to seattle and won custody over them when his wife declared she didn't care to have her own children in her household. merely six months later, nina had remarried and moved to new york to be closer to her family as well as to begin her clothing line.

london grew to take care of herself - a product of having to move constantly and make new friends on her own - and she became very independent by the time she was in high school. seattle was the city she lived in the longest with her father and brother, and it's really the city she calls home to this day. she finished middle school there and two years of high school. in her sophmore year of high school, she dated the school's quarterback and that was also the same year she was raped by her boyfriend's best friend. she found out she was pregnant and told her boyfriend who didn't believe her, called her a liar, and broke up with her. shortly thereafter, her father found out he was being transferred again - a move that london didn't regret this time around - and she also lost the baby. the loss and change in her life greatly changed her, and made her closed off to other people. she was outgoing and flirty and all of those normal, girly things, but she never let anyone in and kept herself closed off to emotions.

her last two years of high school were spent in two different schools, and when she graduated, she got into brown university. she attended the school for two years, got an associates degree in liberal arts, and then dropped out to take a trip around the world. she visited the old haunts where her parents had fallen in love and then spent a few months in paris. while in the city of love, she met cooper - her future fiance. he was an american who was a bit older than her and already out of college. when they got back to the states, cooper tracked her down and talked her into finishing her bachelor's degree in california. after a year of dating, they got engaged and planned to marry after london graduated. however, feeling herself growing too close and falling in love, london got drunk one night and came home early from her internship with a local photographer. she intended to tell cooper how she felt, but instead, she found him with another man. petrified that she could have been foolish enough to fall in love after all of the bad lessons she had learned about love throughout her life, she turned her back on him and disappeared from his life. she graduated six months later and moved to valkyrie where she currently resides, working on her own fashion line and trying to forget about her past.

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COLLECTED MY BELONGINGS ,[/color]
ABOUT YOU AND FOR THE ADMINS ,
and i left the jail, well thanks for the time[/color]

YOUR NAME: royalstandard
GENDER: female
AGE: 22
RP EXPERIENCE: about 5 years
OTHER CHARACTERS: none yet!
ROLEPLAY EXAMPLE:

DAMIEN REALIZED HE WAS BEING LAZY. HERE HE WAS, IN THE MIDDLE OF SEARCHING FOR THE GIRL WHO UP UNTIL THIS DAY HAD BEEN SLEEPING SOUNDLY ON HIS LEATHER COUCH IN HIS LIVING ROOM, AND HE WAS GETTING SIDETRACKED BY SOMETHING COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC. MUSIC. PERHAPS HE WAS FEELING A BIT... RELAXED SINCE HE DIDN'T HAVE THE GIRL ON THE COUCH - AND ALTHOUGH SHE HAD BEEN SLEEPING EVERYTIME HE CAME THROUGH THE ROOM, HE STILL IMAGINED SHE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING AT ALL TIMES WHEN HE WAS IN THE ROOM - BUT HE WAS FEELING LIKE SOME MUSIC. HE HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO FIND HER SINCE SHE COULDN'T HAVE GONE TOO FAR AND HE KNEW THIS AREA OF THE CITY BETTER THAN PRACTICALLY ANYONE, SO WHY NOT HAVE A FEW MINUTES TO HIMSELF? OPENING THE TWIN DOORS ON ONE OF THE OAK CABINETS PUSHED AGAINST THE INNER WALLS OF THE LIVING ROOM, HE PULLED OUT HIS MOST PRIZED RECORD. MOST PEOPLE HIS AGE DIDN'T APPRECIATE THE OLDER FORMS OF AMUSEMENT, ESPECIALLY WIZARDS AND WITCHES WHO HAD GROWN UP BEING ABLE TO MATERIALIZE WHATEVER THEY WANTED OUT OF THIN AIR, BUT DAMIEN HAD BEEN IN LOVE WITH THE PHONOGRAPH SINCE HE WAS A CHILD. HIS PARENTS HAD ONE THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO HIS FATHER BY HIS GRANDFATHER, AND THIS ONE IN HIS APARTMENT WAS SIMILAR TO THE ONE HE HAD GROWN UP WITH IF NOT IDENTICAL. PLACING THE RECORD GINGERLY ON THE PHONOGRAPH'S FACE, HE PLACED THE NEEDLE ON ITS TOP AND LISTENED PATIENTLY AS THE RECORD SCRATCHED AND THEN FRANK SINATRA'S VOICE SINGING "FLY ME TO THE MOON" CAME CRISPLY OUT OF THE MACHINE. FRANK SINATRA WAS ALSO A REMNANT OF HIS CHILDHOOD WHEN THE FINER THINGS IN LIFE HAD BEEN ENJOYED. AFTER HIS YOUNGEST SISTER HAD COME ALONG, HIS PARENTS HAD CHANGED, AND THEY CATERED TO HER EVERY WHIM - SOMETHING THAT HAD PISSED HIM OFF AND STILL DID AT TIMES.

WALKING THROUGH THE APARTMENT, DANCING SLIGHTLY AS HE SLID ACROSS THE HARDWOOD FLOORS AND INTO HIS BEDROOM THAT WAS IN REALITY MERELY A GLORIFIED CORNER OF THE FLAT, HE GRABBED HIS COAT FROM WHERE HE'D SENT IT EARLIER AND TURNED TO HIS CLOSET AND HUNG IT NEATLY ALONG WITH HIS OTHER CLOTHES. UNBUTTONING HIS DRESS SHIRT, HE MAGICKED IT ONTO A HANGER AND SENT IT TO THE CLOSET AS WELL AS HE PULLED HIS PANTS OFF AND COMMANDED THEM TO DO THE SAME. WAVING HIS WAND PLAYFULLY IN THE AIR, HE BROUGHT A TEE SHIRT OUT OF HIS CLOSET THAT WAS THE SAME SAGE COLOR OF HIS EYES AND WAS DECORATED WITH A DARKER GREEN PICTURE OF A HELMET PROPPED ON A GUN THAT WAS STUCK INTO THE GROUND AND READ 'VIETNAM' BELOW IT. HE HAD ONLY BEEN A TEENAGER WHEN THE VIETNAM WAR WAS IN FULL SWING, BUT IT HAD BEEN A BIG DEAL IN THE WORLD DURING THAT TIME. THE WIZARDING WORLD DIDN'T GET INVOLVED WITH MUGGLE AFFAIRS VERY OFTEN, BUT DAMIEN HAD ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY THE MAGICLESS PORTION OF THE WORLD, AND HIS MIND HAD BEEN VERY INVOLVED IN THEIR WARS WHILE THEY WENT ON. ENGLAND HAD ONLY GOTTEN INVOLVED IN VIETNAM BECAUSE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND EVEN THEN IT HADN'T BEEN MUCH OF AN INVOLVEMENT IN HIS OPINION, BUT THAT DIDN'T MATTER TO HIM. ALTHOUGH HE WOULD NEVER FIGHT IN A MUGGLE WAR - WIZARDING WARS WERE ENOUGH FOR HIM - HE STILL CARED ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MUGGLES. HIS FAMILY WOULD HAVE THROWN HIM OUT ON THE STREET FOR CARING ABOUT ONE MUGGLE LET ALONE THE ENTIRETY OF THEIR POPULATION, BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT NOW. BEING ALONE HAD GIVEN HIM THE FREEDOM TO LIKE WHAT HE WANTED TO LIKE AND TO CARE ABOUT WHAT HE WANTED TO CARE ABOUT.

PULLING ON A PAIR OF DARK GRAY WARM UP PANTS, HE DECIDED TO START HIS SEARCH FOR THE ANGEL AGAIN. HE SMILED AT THE TERM AS HE HAD USED FOR THE GIRL POPPED INTO HIS HEAD, AND HE POINTED HIS WAND AT THE PHONOGRAPH THAT HAD STOPPED PLAYING THE FRANK SINATRA SONG, AND THE MACHINE LIFTED ITS NEEDLE AND THE RECORD GENTLY TUCKED ITSELF AWAY INTO THE CABINET WHERE IT BELONGED. GLANCING FROM ONE END OF THE FLAT TO THE OTHER, HE REALIZED HE HAD NEGLECTED TO CHECK THE END NEAREST TO HIS BEDROOM WHERE THE STUDY WAS CONTAINED. MOST PEOPLE WEREN'T AWARE OF HIS LOVE FOR LITERATURE AND KNOWLEDGE - NOT A FACT ABOUT HIMSELF HE READILY SHARED - AND HE WAS CONTENT KEEPING HIS STUDY HIDDEN AWAY ON THE FAR END OF HIS HOME WHERE FEW PEOPLE EVER WANDERED. MOST PEOPLE ASSUMED HE WAS A DUMB ASS ATHLETE WHO WAS ONLY A MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX BECAUSE A TWINGE OF GUILT LAY SOMEWHERE BENEATH HIS CRO MAGNON PARTICLE OF A BRAIN, BUT HE WAS QUITE THE OPPOSITE. THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, HE HAD TAKEN PRIDE IN KNOWING ALL THERE WAS TO KNOW ABOUT ANYTHING HE COULD GET HIS HANDS ON. THAT'S WHAT HELPED HIM TO KNOW VOLDEMORT WAS NOT THE ANSWER TO THE WIZARDING WORLD'S PROBLEM, A FACT FEW OF HIS FAMILY MEMBERS HAD GRASPED. PUSHING THROUGH THE DOOR INTO THE STUDY, HE WALKED HALFWAY INTO THE ROOM, GLANCING NONCHALANTLY ACROSS THE SPACE AND NOT EXPECTING TO SEE ANYTHING, BEFORE TURNING TO LEAVE AGAIN. HE WOULD HAVE WALKED BACK OUT WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT IF HE HADN'T NOTICED THE WINDOW ON THE FAR WALL SEEMED TO BE CRACKED, AND HE TURNED TO ENTER FARTHER TO FIX THE PROBLEM. AS HE ROUNDED ONE OF THE BOOKCASES THAT FILLED THE ROOM, HIS HEART LEAPT INTO HIS THROAT AND HE ALMOST CURSED OUT LOUD WITH SURPRISE AS HE SAW THE VERY PERSON HE HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR PERCHED ALONG THE WINDOW READING ONE OF HIS BOOKS.

HIS FIRST THOUGHT WAS ANGER THAT SHE WOULD TOUCH HIS STUFF WHILE HE WAS AWAY AND UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, BUT HE INSTANTLY REGRETTED THE FEELING. SHE HAD BEEN ASLEEP FOR ALMOST A WEEK, AND HE COULDN'T BLAME HER FOR WANTING TO FIND SOMETHING FAMILIAR IN AN UNFAMILIAR SETTING. INSTEAD OF CURSING HIS SURPRISE, HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH TO CALM HIS HEART AND CROSSED HIS ARMS OVER HIS MUSCULAR CHEST AS HE WATCHED THE GIRL READING. WITH THE LIGHT FROM THE WINDOW ILLUMINATING HER FROM BEHIND, HER BLOND HAIR FORMED A HALO AROUND HER FACE AND MADE HER SEEM TO GLOW ANGELICALLY. SHE LOOKED MORE LIKE AN ANGEL THAN EVER. HE WAS REMINDED OF HOW BEAUTIFUL SHE WAS WITH HER FRENCH FEATURES HE HAD RECOGNIZED SOON AFTER BRINGING HER BACK TO HIS FLAT AND HER FINELY SCULPTED EYES. HER BODY WAS... INTERESTING AS WELL, TO SAY THE LEAST, BUT HE HADN'T ALLOWED HIMSELF TO DWELL ON HER CURVES BECAUSE HE DIDN'T CONSIDER HIMSELF TO BE SUCH A LECH TO ADMIRE HER BODY WHEN SHE WASN'T EVEN AWAKE. THAT JUST SEEMED WRONG TO HIM SOMEHOW.

"SHE CAN READ," HE COMMENTED, A SMIRK CURVING ONE SIDE OF HIS MOUTH UPWARD AS ONE EYEBROW RAISED OVER HIS SAGE EYES. "I'VE LEARNED SOMETHING NEW ABOUT MY MYSTERY VISITOR." HE DIDN'T MOVE CLOSER TO HER FOR FEAR THAT HE MIGHT FRIGHTEN HER, HAVING FOUND HERSELF ALONE WITH A MAN SHE DIDN'T KNOW. HIS INTENTIONS WITH HER HAD ALWAYS BEEN THE PUREST - UNLIKE HOW HE HAD BEEN WITH WOMEN IN THE PAST - BECAUSE SHE WAS DIFFERENT SOMEHOW. SHE HADN'T BEEN AWARE OF HIM WHEN SHE HAD ARRIVED IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS LIFE AND THROWN EVERYTHING OUT OF SYNC. SHE HADN'T EVEN BEEN AWAKE BEFORE NOW, BUT HE WAS GREATLY RELIEVED THAT SHE WAS AWAKE NOW. NOW HE COULD LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC THAT HAD BEEN PRESENTED TO HIM BUT HADN'T REVEALED ITSELF YET. SHE WAS LIKE THE BOOKS IN HIS STUDY, PIECES OF INFORMATION THAT HE COULD DIGEST AND KNOW MORE ABOUT. THIS GIRL - HIS OWN PERSONAL ANGEL - WAS A MYSTERY TO HIM, AND THAT INTRIGUED HIM. HE KNEW, AT THAT MOMENT AS HE WATCHED HER READING PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, THAT HE HAD TO KNOW EVERYTHING THERE WAS TO KNOW ABOUT HER.

credit: format by lainey, lyrics by modest mouse

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[Daphne Hayes]

awesome awesome. Love shantel. and London sounds wickedly great!

ACCEPTED!