Cristina Valente
Mar 27, 2011 12:52:23 GMT -5
Post by Cristina Valente on Mar 27, 2011 12:52:23 GMT -5
YOURSELF
NAME
Jane!
AGE
20
GENDER
Girrrrrl
CHARACTER
NAME
Cristina Rosette Valente
AGE AND GRADE
Sixteen / Sophomore
GENDER
Female
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Straight
TALENT
Fashion Design
LOOK-A-LIKE
Ariana Grande
PERSONALITY
Cristina is a bit of a drama queen. When she does things, they are not done halfway. It’s how she gets her point across. She takes certain situations and amplifies it making it appear bigger than it really is. Her reactions to issues or problems are usually over the top and it’s usually hard to settle her down afterwards. Her temper is a force to be reckoned with. She is by no means a person who takes things sitting down, but instead faces them head on. The numerous of fights she’s been in at school is pretty much how she played the field when it came down to it. Growing up with older brothers, who didn’t exactly treat her like fine china, it was fairly easy to get pulled into their antics. Most of the time, she was an easy target for a noogie, a wet willy to the ear or being sat upon until she squealed uncle. Nonetheless, she picked up a few tricks from their countless wrestling struggles for the remote to the point where she was able to join in and win it off them. She was no stranger to roughhousing and knew how to defend herself when the moment called for it.
She can be a bit moody, sifting through emotions like a deck of cards and it’s hard to keep up with. You never know what you’re going to get when go up to her. For the most part though, Cristina is a nice girl once you really get to know her. Once you’re considered a friend in her book, her loyalty turns into protective mode. She isn’t really the sympathetic type so coming to her with advice isn’t the best idea because words aren’t really her forte, but she’s more than happy to offer a hug when it’s needed. Cristina is also a little on the inquisitive side usually wanting to the details of everything or anyone. She doesn’t realize how intrusive her questions can be when meeting someone new. Her curiosity always got the better of her and so asking questions helped quench it to an extent. However, if she notices how uncomfortable it makes someone by her intrusion then she stops and changes the topic to something else.
School isnt’t exactly Cristina’s forte. She really despises going to class. It annoys her how she learns something new one day then something completely different the next day and she hadn’t even grasped the lesson before it. Memory isn’t something that she can rely because her memory is horrible. Cristina has a bad habit of being forgetful about everything, ranging from a birthday date, when an assignment is due to where she left her money stash. There was an ongoing joke in her family that she would most probably have Alzheimer’s by the time she was 30. Nonetheless, she considered herself a pretty average student usually maintaining B’s and C’s and the occasional A. There had never been a D or an F on any of tests or assignments so she was pretty thankful for that. Studying was something she really had to do because she wasn’t blessed with retaining information very easily.
Cristina has never had a boyfriend and she’s never been interested in really having one. She’s broken a few hearts by admirers because of that. Although, she’s pretty ashamed to say that she’s never had a first kiss and something she‘s scared to admit to anyone. It’s almost frowned upon in teenage society, according to this century everyone should’ve had their first kiss by now. She’d been so busy with the situation of her brothers leaving, her father being away and worrying to keep her mother company that the last thing on her mind was going out with a boy. She had plenty of friends, though. She was pretty popular in middle school because of the different way she dresses and the number of offers she gave to anyone if they needed a new outfit or something stitched up. It didn’t really go to her head or anything. She’s a very grounded girl with a good head on her shoulders.
APPEARANCE
Cristina’s height is the only thing that really bothers her about her overall appearance. She stand below average at an even five foot and gets a little snippy when people call her out on it as if she didn’t already know. Despite that, she’s pretty content with herself. She doesn’t consider herself to be beautiful or gorgeous, she saves those words for who she thinks deserves it, but doesn’t necessarily think herself ugly either. Her body is slim in stature with smooth skin that is occasionally bronzed by means of going to the tanning salon. She has an oval face with dark brown eyes and a bright smile that shows off a prominent dimples on both cheeks; the left more so than the other.
Her clothing style is a little on the unique. She goes for what’s in this season, but changes it up so it fits what she likes. It makes her stand out all the more, if her hair didn’t already do that. She has long locks that are dyed every so often in an unnatural, but nice shade of red. Her usual black hair color can sometimes be seen as her roots if she hasn’t retouched in a while. Cristina takes the time to style her hair, fixing it up differently every once in awhile, looking things up in magazine to get inspiration. Her curls are natural, which are rarely seen as she takes the time to straighten them out with a flat iron.
HISTORY
Belinda Medina grew up in the heart of Staten Island. At the age of seventeen after she graduated from high school, she went on a trip with a group of her closest friends for a month to Italy. It gave her a chance to see the hometown of her grandparents. One week into her visit she met Leonardo Valente, a twenty year old charming Italian who worked as a baker. They hit it off and spent every single day together, until it was time for her to leave. Belinda had a scholarship to Stanford University to study Law. They wrote each other often through emails as out of country phone calls were too expensive on a full time college student. It didn’t take her very long to realize that she was in love with a man that she may not ever see again. The last email she sent was a farewell because she didn’t want to become attached any longer. Her roommate’s best friend held an interest for her and she craved something more than a long distance relationship. There was no reply to that email so she took it as a sign that he agreed, but was she surprised when he showed up two weeks later on the steps of her dorm hall entrance. They were wed only a few months later in front of a judge with her parents as witnesses who flew out to meet the Leonardo who stole their only child’s heart. They found a small, affordable apartment just off campus while Leonardo searched for a job. He came from a poor family with not much money to their name. He had a hard time searching for work and refused to have a career in one of those fast food chains. With not many options he discussed the option of joining the army with Belinda. She agreed it would be a good move for him despite how it ate at her heart. He took all the tests and swore in. Belinda was proud and distraught at the same time. She debated over her schooling choice and in the end made the decision to drop out from Stanford and enroll in a two year early education course. That decision was an ongoing argument between her and her husband. That was the last thing he wanted for her to do, but she didn’t listen to him, stating that she would always be happy as long as she was with him. That happiness intensified when they started their family. She gave birth to a boy, Roland Giovanni and a year later another, Vincenzo ‘Vinny’ Mateo. They were relatively easy births, it was the last one that gave her a hard time.
Cristina Rosette Valente was born late afternoon on July 15, 1994 after her mother spent the last hours of labor yelling at a startled army uniformed husband how this was his fault. Cristina proved to her parents that having a child no matter what age was going to be hassle. She cried all the time; morning, noon and night despite the many times Belinda fed, bathed and dressed her. When she learned to walk, it was a hard task to keep track of her, even her older brothers lost her when they played hide and seek. It was a habit of hers to wander off under the radar, which kept both parents on their toes at all times. As soon as she could talk, it was hard to get her to shut up. She babbled constantly and fell heavily into the ‘why?’ part of childhood, wanting to question everything and anything. A quirk that grated on her older brother’s because they had little patience when it came to her curiosity. Cristina didn’t let up when she started school often being sent up to principal’s office for fighting. It was the same thing at home too. Her older brothers made it a point to avoid and ignore her as she used them for blackmail or got them into trouble for things that she did. Needless to say they weren’t very fond of their little sister. Meanwhile, with his contract up, Leonardo was living on the saved wages his services in the army had earned him, putting off looking for a job until he needed to. It wasn’t something Belinda agreed to, but she figured her husband could with some time with their kids that he missed while out on the base. It wasn’t until Cristina’s father reenlisted into the army two years after the event of 9/11 did she change for the better. Upon his departure for the Army base in California, he asked his sons to watch over the household and protect their girls and he begged little Cristina to be good for her mom and brothers. She took the promise to heart. A mere three months after his arrival to base in Georgia, Leonardo sent word that he would be shipped off to Afghanistan at the end of the week. Cristina was only ten and had trouble understanding, but knew her father wouldn’t be back for a long time by the tears from her brothers and mother. He would come home for a week or two after a couple of months and then when his rotation was up, he had to head back to give other soldiers a chance to see their family. Cristina cherished those visits and started helping her mother around the house with chores and being a more tolerable sister.
One weekend, she watched her mother stitch up a badge onto Roland’s ROTC uniform. She was instantly fascinated and so Cristina asked her mother to teach her. By age eleven, Cristina knew how to sew by machine and with needle and thread, she even took up knitting. She used saved up money from birthdays and Christmases to buy fashion magazines, clothes or fabrics. Her love for designing clothes and making new fashions out of them only grew as she got older. She sewed up a new dress shirt with the abundance of stored fabric she had in her closet for her oldest brother, Roland when his prom came around because they didn’t have the money for a tuxedo. Then she knitted up a quilt for her other brother, Vinny when he was struck with phenomena after an ice skating accident where he fell through the ice. The three siblings had gotten closer after their father left. The older two making it a point to watch out for her. She joined the Home Economics club where she was taught more valuable techniques and left with a hand made stuffed animal and pillow. The pillow in which she gave to her oldest brother, Roland because he was following after their father into the service. He signed up for the full eight years and was sent off to Germany as a infantry man while Vinny wasn’t too far behind as he was part of the ROTC at the high school. Pretty soon, he too left for the army as a mechanic. Cristina wondered what were the odds of half her family leaving for the army. When her father and brothers called, there was always tears and she would hold onto the sound of their laughter, jokes and proclamations of ‘I love yous’ until the next time they contacted. One day, Cristina’s mom came to her with an acceptance letter to an Arts Academy in Kansas City. She argued against the older woman for the first time since she was little about how she couldn’t leave her alone, but Belinda refused telling her about the Fashion Design department and how she sent in her application after she heard about it from her hair dresser who’s daughter didn’t get in. Still, Cristina was reluctant, but when her father called from his station in Afghanistan and told her how proud he was and that she should did, did Cristina finally relent. He would return by her junior year if not sooner. By the time her freshman year rolled around Cristina packed and left to academy.
ROLE PLAYING SAMPLE
Derek would say he was a pretty honest guy. He didn’t like to beat around the bush, wanting to get straight to the point of whatever situation. Usually when he asked a girl to hang out it, he’d try to get the girl’s number or get her to agree to come to his dorm room, but for some reason, he didn’t find Vanessa to be that type of girl. There was no particular goal in mind at the end of this, so he figured he‘d just go with the flow and whatever happens, happens. She definitely wasn’t easy, which he found to be intriguing. Of course, there was a line that couldn’t be crossed and it was because she was already spoken for by her boyfriend. There wasn’t any disappointment in that fact, but he didn’t think that just because she was taken meant that she didn’t have other options. Derek wasn’t sure if he was presenting himself as an option because she obviously wasn’t interested in him in that way. For now, he considered that getting to know her - however weird that sounded for him - was good enough for him.
This wasn’t really something that Derek is looking forward to. He didn’t have any sort of experience with this volunteering thing and didn’t know what to expect from it. There was relief on his part when Vanessa suggested an animal shelter. He counted his lucky stars that she didn’t decide on cleaning up another park or something. He figured an animal shelter was good. It sounded like they might have some sort of fun working with animals. Anyone could do this. As far as he knew, they might give him tasks like walking the dogs, which he was hoping for because that meant he and Vanessa could step out for a walk through the city and hang out at the park for a bit. He smiled, shaking his head at her phrase and walked inside, not really knowing what to expect. There was a woman behind the front counter, who he nodded at in greeting before turning to look at Vanessa, “What a party,” he said to her sarcastically, under his breath.
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[/size]NAME
Jane!
AGE
20
GENDER
Girrrrrl
CHARACTER
NAME
Cristina Rosette Valente
AGE AND GRADE
Sixteen / Sophomore
GENDER
Female
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Straight
TALENT
Fashion Design
LOOK-A-LIKE
Ariana Grande
PERSONALITY
Cristina is a bit of a drama queen. When she does things, they are not done halfway. It’s how she gets her point across. She takes certain situations and amplifies it making it appear bigger than it really is. Her reactions to issues or problems are usually over the top and it’s usually hard to settle her down afterwards. Her temper is a force to be reckoned with. She is by no means a person who takes things sitting down, but instead faces them head on. The numerous of fights she’s been in at school is pretty much how she played the field when it came down to it. Growing up with older brothers, who didn’t exactly treat her like fine china, it was fairly easy to get pulled into their antics. Most of the time, she was an easy target for a noogie, a wet willy to the ear or being sat upon until she squealed uncle. Nonetheless, she picked up a few tricks from their countless wrestling struggles for the remote to the point where she was able to join in and win it off them. She was no stranger to roughhousing and knew how to defend herself when the moment called for it.
She can be a bit moody, sifting through emotions like a deck of cards and it’s hard to keep up with. You never know what you’re going to get when go up to her. For the most part though, Cristina is a nice girl once you really get to know her. Once you’re considered a friend in her book, her loyalty turns into protective mode. She isn’t really the sympathetic type so coming to her with advice isn’t the best idea because words aren’t really her forte, but she’s more than happy to offer a hug when it’s needed. Cristina is also a little on the inquisitive side usually wanting to the details of everything or anyone. She doesn’t realize how intrusive her questions can be when meeting someone new. Her curiosity always got the better of her and so asking questions helped quench it to an extent. However, if she notices how uncomfortable it makes someone by her intrusion then she stops and changes the topic to something else.
School isnt’t exactly Cristina’s forte. She really despises going to class. It annoys her how she learns something new one day then something completely different the next day and she hadn’t even grasped the lesson before it. Memory isn’t something that she can rely because her memory is horrible. Cristina has a bad habit of being forgetful about everything, ranging from a birthday date, when an assignment is due to where she left her money stash. There was an ongoing joke in her family that she would most probably have Alzheimer’s by the time she was 30. Nonetheless, she considered herself a pretty average student usually maintaining B’s and C’s and the occasional A. There had never been a D or an F on any of tests or assignments so she was pretty thankful for that. Studying was something she really had to do because she wasn’t blessed with retaining information very easily.
Cristina has never had a boyfriend and she’s never been interested in really having one. She’s broken a few hearts by admirers because of that. Although, she’s pretty ashamed to say that she’s never had a first kiss and something she‘s scared to admit to anyone. It’s almost frowned upon in teenage society, according to this century everyone should’ve had their first kiss by now. She’d been so busy with the situation of her brothers leaving, her father being away and worrying to keep her mother company that the last thing on her mind was going out with a boy. She had plenty of friends, though. She was pretty popular in middle school because of the different way she dresses and the number of offers she gave to anyone if they needed a new outfit or something stitched up. It didn’t really go to her head or anything. She’s a very grounded girl with a good head on her shoulders.
APPEARANCE
Cristina’s height is the only thing that really bothers her about her overall appearance. She stand below average at an even five foot and gets a little snippy when people call her out on it as if she didn’t already know. Despite that, she’s pretty content with herself. She doesn’t consider herself to be beautiful or gorgeous, she saves those words for who she thinks deserves it, but doesn’t necessarily think herself ugly either. Her body is slim in stature with smooth skin that is occasionally bronzed by means of going to the tanning salon. She has an oval face with dark brown eyes and a bright smile that shows off a prominent dimples on both cheeks; the left more so than the other.
Her clothing style is a little on the unique. She goes for what’s in this season, but changes it up so it fits what she likes. It makes her stand out all the more, if her hair didn’t already do that. She has long locks that are dyed every so often in an unnatural, but nice shade of red. Her usual black hair color can sometimes be seen as her roots if she hasn’t retouched in a while. Cristina takes the time to style her hair, fixing it up differently every once in awhile, looking things up in magazine to get inspiration. Her curls are natural, which are rarely seen as she takes the time to straighten them out with a flat iron.
HISTORY
Belinda Medina grew up in the heart of Staten Island. At the age of seventeen after she graduated from high school, she went on a trip with a group of her closest friends for a month to Italy. It gave her a chance to see the hometown of her grandparents. One week into her visit she met Leonardo Valente, a twenty year old charming Italian who worked as a baker. They hit it off and spent every single day together, until it was time for her to leave. Belinda had a scholarship to Stanford University to study Law. They wrote each other often through emails as out of country phone calls were too expensive on a full time college student. It didn’t take her very long to realize that she was in love with a man that she may not ever see again. The last email she sent was a farewell because she didn’t want to become attached any longer. Her roommate’s best friend held an interest for her and she craved something more than a long distance relationship. There was no reply to that email so she took it as a sign that he agreed, but was she surprised when he showed up two weeks later on the steps of her dorm hall entrance. They were wed only a few months later in front of a judge with her parents as witnesses who flew out to meet the Leonardo who stole their only child’s heart. They found a small, affordable apartment just off campus while Leonardo searched for a job. He came from a poor family with not much money to their name. He had a hard time searching for work and refused to have a career in one of those fast food chains. With not many options he discussed the option of joining the army with Belinda. She agreed it would be a good move for him despite how it ate at her heart. He took all the tests and swore in. Belinda was proud and distraught at the same time. She debated over her schooling choice and in the end made the decision to drop out from Stanford and enroll in a two year early education course. That decision was an ongoing argument between her and her husband. That was the last thing he wanted for her to do, but she didn’t listen to him, stating that she would always be happy as long as she was with him. That happiness intensified when they started their family. She gave birth to a boy, Roland Giovanni and a year later another, Vincenzo ‘Vinny’ Mateo. They were relatively easy births, it was the last one that gave her a hard time.
Cristina Rosette Valente was born late afternoon on July 15, 1994 after her mother spent the last hours of labor yelling at a startled army uniformed husband how this was his fault. Cristina proved to her parents that having a child no matter what age was going to be hassle. She cried all the time; morning, noon and night despite the many times Belinda fed, bathed and dressed her. When she learned to walk, it was a hard task to keep track of her, even her older brothers lost her when they played hide and seek. It was a habit of hers to wander off under the radar, which kept both parents on their toes at all times. As soon as she could talk, it was hard to get her to shut up. She babbled constantly and fell heavily into the ‘why?’ part of childhood, wanting to question everything and anything. A quirk that grated on her older brother’s because they had little patience when it came to her curiosity. Cristina didn’t let up when she started school often being sent up to principal’s office for fighting. It was the same thing at home too. Her older brothers made it a point to avoid and ignore her as she used them for blackmail or got them into trouble for things that she did. Needless to say they weren’t very fond of their little sister. Meanwhile, with his contract up, Leonardo was living on the saved wages his services in the army had earned him, putting off looking for a job until he needed to. It wasn’t something Belinda agreed to, but she figured her husband could with some time with their kids that he missed while out on the base. It wasn’t until Cristina’s father reenlisted into the army two years after the event of 9/11 did she change for the better. Upon his departure for the Army base in California, he asked his sons to watch over the household and protect their girls and he begged little Cristina to be good for her mom and brothers. She took the promise to heart. A mere three months after his arrival to base in Georgia, Leonardo sent word that he would be shipped off to Afghanistan at the end of the week. Cristina was only ten and had trouble understanding, but knew her father wouldn’t be back for a long time by the tears from her brothers and mother. He would come home for a week or two after a couple of months and then when his rotation was up, he had to head back to give other soldiers a chance to see their family. Cristina cherished those visits and started helping her mother around the house with chores and being a more tolerable sister.
One weekend, she watched her mother stitch up a badge onto Roland’s ROTC uniform. She was instantly fascinated and so Cristina asked her mother to teach her. By age eleven, Cristina knew how to sew by machine and with needle and thread, she even took up knitting. She used saved up money from birthdays and Christmases to buy fashion magazines, clothes or fabrics. Her love for designing clothes and making new fashions out of them only grew as she got older. She sewed up a new dress shirt with the abundance of stored fabric she had in her closet for her oldest brother, Roland when his prom came around because they didn’t have the money for a tuxedo. Then she knitted up a quilt for her other brother, Vinny when he was struck with phenomena after an ice skating accident where he fell through the ice. The three siblings had gotten closer after their father left. The older two making it a point to watch out for her. She joined the Home Economics club where she was taught more valuable techniques and left with a hand made stuffed animal and pillow. The pillow in which she gave to her oldest brother, Roland because he was following after their father into the service. He signed up for the full eight years and was sent off to Germany as a infantry man while Vinny wasn’t too far behind as he was part of the ROTC at the high school. Pretty soon, he too left for the army as a mechanic. Cristina wondered what were the odds of half her family leaving for the army. When her father and brothers called, there was always tears and she would hold onto the sound of their laughter, jokes and proclamations of ‘I love yous’ until the next time they contacted. One day, Cristina’s mom came to her with an acceptance letter to an Arts Academy in Kansas City. She argued against the older woman for the first time since she was little about how she couldn’t leave her alone, but Belinda refused telling her about the Fashion Design department and how she sent in her application after she heard about it from her hair dresser who’s daughter didn’t get in. Still, Cristina was reluctant, but when her father called from his station in Afghanistan and told her how proud he was and that she should did, did Cristina finally relent. He would return by her junior year if not sooner. By the time her freshman year rolled around Cristina packed and left to academy.
ROLE PLAYING SAMPLE
Derek would say he was a pretty honest guy. He didn’t like to beat around the bush, wanting to get straight to the point of whatever situation. Usually when he asked a girl to hang out it, he’d try to get the girl’s number or get her to agree to come to his dorm room, but for some reason, he didn’t find Vanessa to be that type of girl. There was no particular goal in mind at the end of this, so he figured he‘d just go with the flow and whatever happens, happens. She definitely wasn’t easy, which he found to be intriguing. Of course, there was a line that couldn’t be crossed and it was because she was already spoken for by her boyfriend. There wasn’t any disappointment in that fact, but he didn’t think that just because she was taken meant that she didn’t have other options. Derek wasn’t sure if he was presenting himself as an option because she obviously wasn’t interested in him in that way. For now, he considered that getting to know her - however weird that sounded for him - was good enough for him.
This wasn’t really something that Derek is looking forward to. He didn’t have any sort of experience with this volunteering thing and didn’t know what to expect from it. There was relief on his part when Vanessa suggested an animal shelter. He counted his lucky stars that she didn’t decide on cleaning up another park or something. He figured an animal shelter was good. It sounded like they might have some sort of fun working with animals. Anyone could do this. As far as he knew, they might give him tasks like walking the dogs, which he was hoping for because that meant he and Vanessa could step out for a walk through the city and hang out at the park for a bit. He smiled, shaking his head at her phrase and walked inside, not really knowing what to expect. There was a woman behind the front counter, who he nodded at in greeting before turning to look at Vanessa, “What a party,” he said to her sarcastically, under his breath.
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