Post by Lorelei Velasquez on Sept 7, 2014 10:46:26 GMT -5
Name: Lorelei Velasquez (Skittles)
School Attending: Spica
Age/ Year in School:
School Attending: Spica
Age/ Year in School:
14/Third Year
~ Appearance ~
Face Claim: Shizuru Masamune-Noble Works
Hair Color: black
Hairstyle: Long and slightly unkempt, ties it into a ponytail when working and pigtails while not
Eye Color: Red
Height: 5'1
What kind of clothes does you character wear when she's not in uniform? She prefers jeans and her old t-shirts, most of which are stained with grease. She has adopted a thick leather biker jacket into her collection of clothes as well though for some strange reason it's badly scratched along the back and shoulders.
What Sports/activities is you character involved in?
She'd like to start an automotive club.
Swim Team:Yes
Is your character on the Student Council? No
Please explain your character's personality in 200 words or more: Much like her older sister, Lorelei tends to have really dramatic moods. When she's happy, she tends to be really happy, when she's sad, she is really sad. However, most of what she is happens to be stuck up and bratty. She believes that she is better than most people, a way of thinking reinforced by her mother. Because of that idea, she tends to completely ignore things she's not good at and refuse help when it's offered. Lorelei is also not very good at making friends, her pride tends to get in the way and comes out at the worst times, especially if she feels challenged in any way.
Much more than people, Lorelei loves mechanical devices, motorbikes most of all. She's always wanted a dirtbike to race though she's never had the opportunity. Building and fixing things is generally her first reaction to stress and talking to her about machines is a good way to calm her down when she's in an unpleasant mood. It's not that uncommon to see her drawing diagrams in her notebooks during classes she has trouble with, though this lack of attention doesn't really help. However, if somebody needs something fixed, she's happy to help, after all, it reinforces her pride and self confidence when people admit to needing her.
What does you character think of the Etoile position as a whole? The etoile position is a glorified snitch. Their just used to give the students the illsuion of friends in charge when the Etoiles are actually just tools of the staff to make sure the other students have somebody to blame if unpopular decisions are made. The etoiles are just speakers for the propaganda of the authorities.
Does your character want to be an Etoile someday? Not yet
What does your character think of the current etoiles?
What does your character think of the other schools? Miator is just a bunch of pansies, Le rim is pretty ok though, they're normal.
~History~
Please write in 100 words or more your character's history before she came to Spica.
History before Astraea Hill:
Lorelei grew up in Columbia under the watchful eye of her mother. She had never met her father but her mother told her that he was a very powerful and dangerous man. They lived very comfortably though her mother never worked. When she was seven years old, Lorelei heard her mother talking with a friend about her father and how he paid her lots of money. Her mother's friend seemed scared and that was the first time Lorelei saw that her father's name had power that she could use. One day, some kids were picking on her and she threatened to tell her father. She hadn't met him but they didn't know that. After that, she wasn't bothered by anyone. Kids started to listen to her more and do whatever she told them to do. Her mother encouraged this behavior and made sure that anything Lorelei wanted, she got.
Unfortunately, her world came crashing down last year as her father disappeared from the country. Gone was this threat and people kept saying that he wouldn't be coming back. Kid's who had previously been mistreated starting rising up and getting back at Lorelei and there was very little she could do to stop it. Things went from bad to worse when several people broke into her house one night and kidnapped her. After a few terrifying hours, she was rescued by a woman claiming to be her half sister and her husband. The next few months were unpleasant as they never stopped traveling. She hated her sister although her husband was nice and knew a lot about cars. It was decided without her consent that she would be enrolled and sent off to school in Japan where she could be hidden. Her sister and brother in law crammed as much Japanese into her as they could so she could at least get by before they sent her off. In some ways, it was a relief, getting away from her sister, but she was now in an unfamiliar place with people she didn't know and nothing at all was there to remind her of home.
First Year: Lorelei spent a lot of her first year trying to figure out what she was going to do. Adjusting to a new life and a new place was difficult for her, especially when she had so much trouble with the language. However she has gotten better at Japanese, though it's still rather poor. She made a few friends and a few enemies and even managed to come to peace of sorts with Coyote. Though that's less peace and more of a wary truce for her. The biggest thing was that she broke into a zoo and stole an otter pup that she named Brutus. She's been slowly training him up to be the perfect sidekick and has become the closest friend she has.
Second Year: Lorelei tried to make new friends, she really did. But her suspicious nature continued to get in the way, plus her fear of losing Brutus didn't help. She's taken to muttering to herself in spanish sometimes and listening to other people's conversations. Her Japanese has improved but not nearly as much as it would have if she'd spoken with more people. She still makes a fair amount of mistakes in normal conversation though she can hold her own. She's finally decided that when school gets started again that she will start a club for mechanics, even if it is just her, at least then it will be a place where she fits in.
Third Year:
Fourth Year:
Fifth Year:
Sixth Year:
Sample Post: From what her sister had said, Lorelei had expected something far better and more interesting than what she saw in the school. She hadn't wanted to come, everyone was chatting quickly in japanese, a language she still hadn't quite figured out and occasionally she would hear snippets of other languages in the halls. Nobody seemed to speak spanish, at least, nobody she'd met. It really was frustrating. Lorelei pursed her lips and glared out the window. She wanted to go home, away from the stupid dorm and back to her school where people knew who she was and knew who she was. Here she was just anonymous and another face in the crowd. She hated that feeling.
She looked down at her notebook as the teacher continued to drone on. Her pencil scratched along the paper so that it looked and sounded as if she was taking notes but she hadn't bothered extending the lead so the paper remained unmarred. She hadn't found any gearheads either. There didn't seem to be a club for it, at least, she hadn't been able to translate one from the massive list of clubs. It seemed like every silly little activity had to have its own club here. Probably because somebody had the bright idea of forcing three schools into one. The teacher called on her to answer a question. Since she hadn't been paying attention, she had no idea what the question was, let alone the answer. Lorelei stood up and said "Can you please repeat the question slower?" Playing the slow foreign student generally worked, especially since it wasn't far off the mark. The teacher repeated the question and Lorelei answered it, though only partially correct. It was enough, the teacher began explaining more things as Lorelei sat down and began to pretend to take notes again.
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~ Appearance ~
Face Claim: Shizuru Masamune-Noble Works
Hair Color: black
Hairstyle: Long and slightly unkempt, ties it into a ponytail when working and pigtails while not
Eye Color: Red
Height: 5'1
What kind of clothes does you character wear when she's not in uniform? She prefers jeans and her old t-shirts, most of which are stained with grease. She has adopted a thick leather biker jacket into her collection of clothes as well though for some strange reason it's badly scratched along the back and shoulders.
What Sports/activities is you character involved in?
She'd like to start an automotive club.
Swim Team:Yes
Is your character on the Student Council? No
Please explain your character's personality in 200 words or more: Much like her older sister, Lorelei tends to have really dramatic moods. When she's happy, she tends to be really happy, when she's sad, she is really sad. However, most of what she is happens to be stuck up and bratty. She believes that she is better than most people, a way of thinking reinforced by her mother. Because of that idea, she tends to completely ignore things she's not good at and refuse help when it's offered. Lorelei is also not very good at making friends, her pride tends to get in the way and comes out at the worst times, especially if she feels challenged in any way.
Much more than people, Lorelei loves mechanical devices, motorbikes most of all. She's always wanted a dirtbike to race though she's never had the opportunity. Building and fixing things is generally her first reaction to stress and talking to her about machines is a good way to calm her down when she's in an unpleasant mood. It's not that uncommon to see her drawing diagrams in her notebooks during classes she has trouble with, though this lack of attention doesn't really help. However, if somebody needs something fixed, she's happy to help, after all, it reinforces her pride and self confidence when people admit to needing her.
What does you character think of the Etoile position as a whole? The etoile position is a glorified snitch. Their just used to give the students the illsuion of friends in charge when the Etoiles are actually just tools of the staff to make sure the other students have somebody to blame if unpopular decisions are made. The etoiles are just speakers for the propaganda of the authorities.
Does your character want to be an Etoile someday? Not yet
What does your character think of the current etoiles?
What does your character think of the other schools? Miator is just a bunch of pansies, Le rim is pretty ok though, they're normal.
~History~
Please write in 100 words or more your character's history before she came to Spica.
History before Astraea Hill:
Lorelei grew up in Columbia under the watchful eye of her mother. She had never met her father but her mother told her that he was a very powerful and dangerous man. They lived very comfortably though her mother never worked. When she was seven years old, Lorelei heard her mother talking with a friend about her father and how he paid her lots of money. Her mother's friend seemed scared and that was the first time Lorelei saw that her father's name had power that she could use. One day, some kids were picking on her and she threatened to tell her father. She hadn't met him but they didn't know that. After that, she wasn't bothered by anyone. Kids started to listen to her more and do whatever she told them to do. Her mother encouraged this behavior and made sure that anything Lorelei wanted, she got.
Unfortunately, her world came crashing down last year as her father disappeared from the country. Gone was this threat and people kept saying that he wouldn't be coming back. Kid's who had previously been mistreated starting rising up and getting back at Lorelei and there was very little she could do to stop it. Things went from bad to worse when several people broke into her house one night and kidnapped her. After a few terrifying hours, she was rescued by a woman claiming to be her half sister and her husband. The next few months were unpleasant as they never stopped traveling. She hated her sister although her husband was nice and knew a lot about cars. It was decided without her consent that she would be enrolled and sent off to school in Japan where she could be hidden. Her sister and brother in law crammed as much Japanese into her as they could so she could at least get by before they sent her off. In some ways, it was a relief, getting away from her sister, but she was now in an unfamiliar place with people she didn't know and nothing at all was there to remind her of home.
First Year: Lorelei spent a lot of her first year trying to figure out what she was going to do. Adjusting to a new life and a new place was difficult for her, especially when she had so much trouble with the language. However she has gotten better at Japanese, though it's still rather poor. She made a few friends and a few enemies and even managed to come to peace of sorts with Coyote. Though that's less peace and more of a wary truce for her. The biggest thing was that she broke into a zoo and stole an otter pup that she named Brutus. She's been slowly training him up to be the perfect sidekick and has become the closest friend she has.
Second Year: Lorelei tried to make new friends, she really did. But her suspicious nature continued to get in the way, plus her fear of losing Brutus didn't help. She's taken to muttering to herself in spanish sometimes and listening to other people's conversations. Her Japanese has improved but not nearly as much as it would have if she'd spoken with more people. She still makes a fair amount of mistakes in normal conversation though she can hold her own. She's finally decided that when school gets started again that she will start a club for mechanics, even if it is just her, at least then it will be a place where she fits in.
Third Year:
Fourth Year:
Fifth Year:
Sixth Year:
Sample Post: From what her sister had said, Lorelei had expected something far better and more interesting than what she saw in the school. She hadn't wanted to come, everyone was chatting quickly in japanese, a language she still hadn't quite figured out and occasionally she would hear snippets of other languages in the halls. Nobody seemed to speak spanish, at least, nobody she'd met. It really was frustrating. Lorelei pursed her lips and glared out the window. She wanted to go home, away from the stupid dorm and back to her school where people knew who she was and knew who she was. Here she was just anonymous and another face in the crowd. She hated that feeling.
She looked down at her notebook as the teacher continued to drone on. Her pencil scratched along the paper so that it looked and sounded as if she was taking notes but she hadn't bothered extending the lead so the paper remained unmarred. She hadn't found any gearheads either. There didn't seem to be a club for it, at least, she hadn't been able to translate one from the massive list of clubs. It seemed like every silly little activity had to have its own club here. Probably because somebody had the bright idea of forcing three schools into one. The teacher called on her to answer a question. Since she hadn't been paying attention, she had no idea what the question was, let alone the answer. Lorelei stood up and said "Can you please repeat the question slower?" Playing the slow foreign student generally worked, especially since it wasn't far off the mark. The teacher repeated the question and Lorelei answered it, though only partially correct. It was enough, the teacher began explaining more things as Lorelei sat down and began to pretend to take notes again.
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