Daphne Richards
Jul 6, 2011 19:34:57 GMT -5
Post by Daphne Richards on Jul 6, 2011 19:34:57 GMT -5
YOURSELF
NAME
Marie
AGE
22
GENDER
Girlie
CHARACTER
NAME
Daphne Louise Richards
AGE AND GRADE
Sixteen / Sophomore
GENDER
Female
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Straight
TALENT
Fashion Design
LOOK-A-LIKE
Emma Roberts
PERSONALITY
In spite, or maybe because, of her forced pageants past, Daphne is a girl of very simple tastes. She's not that well tuned with technology in the sense that she doesn't feel the need to have everything up to date to be happy, very content with her old MP3 player rather than an iPod and her two years old laptop. She barely ever uses her phone - which is an iPhone, but only because her mother decided that would make a perfect thirteenth birthday present - and her laptop mostly only serves for school purposes and a few emails now and then with old school friends and her father. As for TV, she'd be perfectly content not having one, though she does enjoy watching movies once in a while. Her favorite passtimes constitute of anything that basically doesn't require electricity, except maybe for lightning, like reading, scrapbooking, drawing, singing, and then any other activity that involves being outside. She loves roller skating or going on long bicycle rides, taking aimless walks around the city or doing yoga in the park, as long as she gets to soak up sunlight and breathe in fresh air.
School was always something she really loved, in spite of the difficulties she encountered as a kid due to the numerous times her mom pulled her out of it to send her off to a hair or nails or tanning appointment or bring her on a road trip for some pageant or another. It was probably having to miss it so often that made her long for it more than kids in general, often feeling stupid because she didn't understand what the teacher was talking about whenever she got back, and that lead her to dedicating herself to her studies a lot more as she grew older, not caring if it meant going to sleep extra late and getting back up early just to study, or fighting motion sickness to do homework during the long car rides she was forced on. Her academic skills are still not amazing, but she manages to get good grades, sometimes great when she really applies herself, and she really does enjoy going to school every day and learning new things. She has a very well developped memory and can remember things after reading them only once or twice, but she has difficulty paying attention and retaining information when she only hears it.
She's a friendly girl, but she doesn't really like surrounding herself with a lot of people and she feels extremely uncomfortable in crowds. She's not a very social girl, she much prefers being by herself or with a couple of close friends, and she generally has difficulty finding new people to befriend because she doesn't really feel at ease with the idea of approaching people she doesn't know. The little amount of friends she does have though, she always takes great care of and is extremely loyal to them - when she lets you in, you can be sure that she'll be there for you no matter what. She's also very trusting and forgiving, but she's not naive or stupid - if someone hurts her, she'll be willing to give them a second chance if she knows they genuinly feel badly over it and didn't mean to, but she doesn't let people walk all over her either. She has a very open mind, but her values and morals are very important to her, and though she accepts that not everybody can have the same priorities in life, she refuses to let anybody try and change hers.
Relationships aren't really something she's ever felt drawn to - for as long as she did pageants, her mother wouldn't really even allow her to get involved with a boy even as a friend, just in case, to make sure she wouldn't have any distractions, but as far as that went she didn't really mind. She has had a few crushes over the past few years, but mostly she's always been too shy to approach anyone and she doesn't believe they could ever find interest in her anyway, so they've never amounted to much.
APPEARANCE
Looks have always taken a big place in Daphne's life, though mostly against her will. Being a pageant child, her mothe always had her obsessing over this and that, and the week preceeding any pageant was always hell for her, having to get her hairpieces fitted, her eyebrows waxed, her spray tan done, her flipper teeth made and so on. Though some of the other girls she competed against loved all of that, it was basically torture for her, and it has definitely affected her opinion on personal appearance as she grew older. Standing short at five feet and two inches, she's always had a slim and toned body, the proper curves right in their place. Though her appearance doesn't matter that much to her, she's very health conscious and so keeping in good shape is very important, something she does through various physical activities, generally prefering sports she can practice outside when the weather allows it, like volleyball, tennis, roller blading, jogging or riding her bike, and she does yoga a couple of times a week to improve her flexibility and just relax her mind and body.
As far as her features go, she doesn't really have any complaint to make. She keeps her brown hair at a medium length, reaching a couple of inches below her shoulders or sometimes a little bit longer, and her green eyes are framed by naturally long and curly eyelashes. Her mouth is wide but her lips are full, and her teeth are the one thing that have always despaired her mom, being more on the big side. She has a fair complexion with rosy cheeks and a smooth skin that rarely sees imperfections, which she never covers with makeup under any form. If there is one thing she does care about when it comes to looks, however, it's her clothes. Not in the sense that she has to have trendy, pricy things, but her love for fashion does lead her to taking considerable care as to how she dresses herself, doing so tastefully and neatly. More than half her closet is constituted of clothes she has made herself, since she's not that big a fan of shopping, and as far as accessories go, her biggest weakness is sunglasses. Other than that, she keeps her jewelry simple and understated.
HISTORY
Caroline Wilder was born into a southern family of money and raised accordingly. She did what was expected of her all through her teenage years, moving onto college once she graduated high school but dropping out halfway through the first year as soon as her boyfriend of two years, Peter Richards - who had just graduated college himself - proposed to her. Peter had grown up in the same social circles as her, though he was a lot less obnoxious about the amount of money he had, and so he'd obviously always had the approval of her family. The wedding took a whole year and a half of planning and was a big affair, and once they got back from their honeymoon in a private resort on Fidji islands, they settled down in the city of Nashville, Tennessee, where Peter joined his father's record company, taking it to a whole other level and soon taking the head of the company once his father retired three years later. By then, he felt like it would be a good time to start a family, but Caroline had never really had that strong an urge to have children, and for a while longer she merely told him that it wasn't the right timing, until finally, two years later, she agreed to giving it a try.
It didn't even take more than three months before she found herself pregnant, and then the preparations started, from the renovations for a nursery to buying everything needed for a baby. By the time she was five months into the pregnancy, Caroline decided she wanted to know the gender of her baby, and upon finding out she would be having a girl her excitement grew by a lot, though she wouldn't share why. Four months later, on the 5th of August 1995, Daphne Louise Richards was born, and it didn't even take a year before she was entered in her very first pageant. Peter was unsure whether he really approved of his baby daughter being brought into that kind of world, but Caroline promised that it would only be a temporary thing, until Daphne herself decided if she wanted to keep doing it or not, and he decided that there couldn't really be that much harm to it - after all, she was only six months old, all that could be done with her was put a dress on her and hope she wouldn't fall asleep in front of the judges.
Obviously though, Caroline was not true to her word, and things only got worse as Daphne got older. It was plain to be seen that she didn't really enjoy it, but her mother persisted, and she had to perform no matter whether she liked it or not. The glitz intensified as the years passed, to a point where Daphne not only felt unhappy when she did the pageants, she also felt fake with her fake nails, fake teeth, fake hair, fake eyelashes, fake tan, fake everything. She did win prizes, soon having to dedicate a room to the many crowds and other random items she brought back home, not to mention the many sparkly dresses and outfits her mother kept on buying - which was actually the only part of this whole deal she enjoyed in the slightest bit, the clothes. By the time she was seven, she started getting more involved in picking out what she would wear during pageants, figuring that if there was no getting out of it, she might as well get something from it. Of course, doing so only gave her mother another reason to keep going, claiming that she was gaining more interest in the whole process whenever her father tried to make her stop.
And so the pageants continued, as did the fighting between her parents due to their difference of opinion, and soon it all became too much. When Daphne was nine years old, Peter filed for divorce and then began the real fight - fight for the money, fight for the house, but most vicious of all, fight for Daphne's custody. It lasted a while, and finally, the judge decided on shared custody - one week at her dad's, one week at her mom's. Things didn't get much better for her from that moment, due to her mom's continuous lashes at her father and complaints about how many pageants she had to miss because they fell on the weeks she was at her dad's, and her father who kept on insisting that she should quit the stupid pageants he knew she hated, but by that point, she was scared of doing so, not wanting it to seem like she was siding with her father against her mother. There was no denying, however, that she did enjoy those weeks she spent at her dad's a whole lot more, and when he asked if there was something she would like to do, another activity that she would have picked all on her own, she confided that during the past couple of years, she'd been sketching up dresses that she'd like to wear for pageants, and though he hated anything that had to do with that world, he saw the potential about her studying fashion design and sewing.
Due to her having to go from one house to another from week to week, he couldn't just sign her up for any classes, knowing her mother would refuse to send her during her own week just out of spite, but luckily enough, his job had allowed him to meet many people through the years, and he soon made arrangements with a fashion designer friend of his who agreed to give Daphne two private lessons a week, to make up for the week she would miss, and it didn't take long to see that not only did she really love it, she was good. Her skills grew quickly, mostly due to her passion, and it wasn't long before she moved on to being able to make her own outfits rather than using already made patterns, starting on pageant dresses as soon as she was able, figuring it would make her mother proud. Of course, at the age of fourteen she couldn't quite achieve anything amazing just yet as far as pageant dresses went - her work was great, but not exactly glitzy - and so her mother was anything but impressed when Daphne came along with rather plain dresses, claiming she wanted to wear them, quickly turning down that idea, and adding that she should be focusing her energy on doing better rather than losing her time designing things she would never wear.
She was obviously disheartened once she headed back to her father's the following week, and surprisingly, her father didn't go into a rage against her mother as she sobbed out what had happened, merely comforting her and holding her until she was done crying. That's when he pulled out a small pamphlet her teacher had left for her - a pamphlet describing a boarding school in Missouri, where she could study fashion design all through her high school years, away from home. At first, she hesitated, but soon her father convinced her that it was time she did something for herself, and they sent in the application without consulting her mother, until she received a letter stating she had been accepted. Then, all hell broke loose, but for the first time in her life, she held her ground against her mother, telling her that even if she refused to let her go, she was done with pageants for good. When August came along, she left for her Freshman year at Gordon Parks', and since then, all the letters she's sent her mother have been left unanswered.
[/size]NAME
Marie
AGE
22
GENDER
Girlie
CHARACTER
NAME
Daphne Louise Richards
AGE AND GRADE
Sixteen / Sophomore
GENDER
Female
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Straight
TALENT
Fashion Design
LOOK-A-LIKE
Emma Roberts
PERSONALITY
In spite, or maybe because, of her forced pageants past, Daphne is a girl of very simple tastes. She's not that well tuned with technology in the sense that she doesn't feel the need to have everything up to date to be happy, very content with her old MP3 player rather than an iPod and her two years old laptop. She barely ever uses her phone - which is an iPhone, but only because her mother decided that would make a perfect thirteenth birthday present - and her laptop mostly only serves for school purposes and a few emails now and then with old school friends and her father. As for TV, she'd be perfectly content not having one, though she does enjoy watching movies once in a while. Her favorite passtimes constitute of anything that basically doesn't require electricity, except maybe for lightning, like reading, scrapbooking, drawing, singing, and then any other activity that involves being outside. She loves roller skating or going on long bicycle rides, taking aimless walks around the city or doing yoga in the park, as long as she gets to soak up sunlight and breathe in fresh air.
School was always something she really loved, in spite of the difficulties she encountered as a kid due to the numerous times her mom pulled her out of it to send her off to a hair or nails or tanning appointment or bring her on a road trip for some pageant or another. It was probably having to miss it so often that made her long for it more than kids in general, often feeling stupid because she didn't understand what the teacher was talking about whenever she got back, and that lead her to dedicating herself to her studies a lot more as she grew older, not caring if it meant going to sleep extra late and getting back up early just to study, or fighting motion sickness to do homework during the long car rides she was forced on. Her academic skills are still not amazing, but she manages to get good grades, sometimes great when she really applies herself, and she really does enjoy going to school every day and learning new things. She has a very well developped memory and can remember things after reading them only once or twice, but she has difficulty paying attention and retaining information when she only hears it.
She's a friendly girl, but she doesn't really like surrounding herself with a lot of people and she feels extremely uncomfortable in crowds. She's not a very social girl, she much prefers being by herself or with a couple of close friends, and she generally has difficulty finding new people to befriend because she doesn't really feel at ease with the idea of approaching people she doesn't know. The little amount of friends she does have though, she always takes great care of and is extremely loyal to them - when she lets you in, you can be sure that she'll be there for you no matter what. She's also very trusting and forgiving, but she's not naive or stupid - if someone hurts her, she'll be willing to give them a second chance if she knows they genuinly feel badly over it and didn't mean to, but she doesn't let people walk all over her either. She has a very open mind, but her values and morals are very important to her, and though she accepts that not everybody can have the same priorities in life, she refuses to let anybody try and change hers.
Relationships aren't really something she's ever felt drawn to - for as long as she did pageants, her mother wouldn't really even allow her to get involved with a boy even as a friend, just in case, to make sure she wouldn't have any distractions, but as far as that went she didn't really mind. She has had a few crushes over the past few years, but mostly she's always been too shy to approach anyone and she doesn't believe they could ever find interest in her anyway, so they've never amounted to much.
APPEARANCE
Looks have always taken a big place in Daphne's life, though mostly against her will. Being a pageant child, her mothe always had her obsessing over this and that, and the week preceeding any pageant was always hell for her, having to get her hairpieces fitted, her eyebrows waxed, her spray tan done, her flipper teeth made and so on. Though some of the other girls she competed against loved all of that, it was basically torture for her, and it has definitely affected her opinion on personal appearance as she grew older. Standing short at five feet and two inches, she's always had a slim and toned body, the proper curves right in their place. Though her appearance doesn't matter that much to her, she's very health conscious and so keeping in good shape is very important, something she does through various physical activities, generally prefering sports she can practice outside when the weather allows it, like volleyball, tennis, roller blading, jogging or riding her bike, and she does yoga a couple of times a week to improve her flexibility and just relax her mind and body.
As far as her features go, she doesn't really have any complaint to make. She keeps her brown hair at a medium length, reaching a couple of inches below her shoulders or sometimes a little bit longer, and her green eyes are framed by naturally long and curly eyelashes. Her mouth is wide but her lips are full, and her teeth are the one thing that have always despaired her mom, being more on the big side. She has a fair complexion with rosy cheeks and a smooth skin that rarely sees imperfections, which she never covers with makeup under any form. If there is one thing she does care about when it comes to looks, however, it's her clothes. Not in the sense that she has to have trendy, pricy things, but her love for fashion does lead her to taking considerable care as to how she dresses herself, doing so tastefully and neatly. More than half her closet is constituted of clothes she has made herself, since she's not that big a fan of shopping, and as far as accessories go, her biggest weakness is sunglasses. Other than that, she keeps her jewelry simple and understated.
HISTORY
Caroline Wilder was born into a southern family of money and raised accordingly. She did what was expected of her all through her teenage years, moving onto college once she graduated high school but dropping out halfway through the first year as soon as her boyfriend of two years, Peter Richards - who had just graduated college himself - proposed to her. Peter had grown up in the same social circles as her, though he was a lot less obnoxious about the amount of money he had, and so he'd obviously always had the approval of her family. The wedding took a whole year and a half of planning and was a big affair, and once they got back from their honeymoon in a private resort on Fidji islands, they settled down in the city of Nashville, Tennessee, where Peter joined his father's record company, taking it to a whole other level and soon taking the head of the company once his father retired three years later. By then, he felt like it would be a good time to start a family, but Caroline had never really had that strong an urge to have children, and for a while longer she merely told him that it wasn't the right timing, until finally, two years later, she agreed to giving it a try.
It didn't even take more than three months before she found herself pregnant, and then the preparations started, from the renovations for a nursery to buying everything needed for a baby. By the time she was five months into the pregnancy, Caroline decided she wanted to know the gender of her baby, and upon finding out she would be having a girl her excitement grew by a lot, though she wouldn't share why. Four months later, on the 5th of August 1995, Daphne Louise Richards was born, and it didn't even take a year before she was entered in her very first pageant. Peter was unsure whether he really approved of his baby daughter being brought into that kind of world, but Caroline promised that it would only be a temporary thing, until Daphne herself decided if she wanted to keep doing it or not, and he decided that there couldn't really be that much harm to it - after all, she was only six months old, all that could be done with her was put a dress on her and hope she wouldn't fall asleep in front of the judges.
Obviously though, Caroline was not true to her word, and things only got worse as Daphne got older. It was plain to be seen that she didn't really enjoy it, but her mother persisted, and she had to perform no matter whether she liked it or not. The glitz intensified as the years passed, to a point where Daphne not only felt unhappy when she did the pageants, she also felt fake with her fake nails, fake teeth, fake hair, fake eyelashes, fake tan, fake everything. She did win prizes, soon having to dedicate a room to the many crowds and other random items she brought back home, not to mention the many sparkly dresses and outfits her mother kept on buying - which was actually the only part of this whole deal she enjoyed in the slightest bit, the clothes. By the time she was seven, she started getting more involved in picking out what she would wear during pageants, figuring that if there was no getting out of it, she might as well get something from it. Of course, doing so only gave her mother another reason to keep going, claiming that she was gaining more interest in the whole process whenever her father tried to make her stop.
And so the pageants continued, as did the fighting between her parents due to their difference of opinion, and soon it all became too much. When Daphne was nine years old, Peter filed for divorce and then began the real fight - fight for the money, fight for the house, but most vicious of all, fight for Daphne's custody. It lasted a while, and finally, the judge decided on shared custody - one week at her dad's, one week at her mom's. Things didn't get much better for her from that moment, due to her mom's continuous lashes at her father and complaints about how many pageants she had to miss because they fell on the weeks she was at her dad's, and her father who kept on insisting that she should quit the stupid pageants he knew she hated, but by that point, she was scared of doing so, not wanting it to seem like she was siding with her father against her mother. There was no denying, however, that she did enjoy those weeks she spent at her dad's a whole lot more, and when he asked if there was something she would like to do, another activity that she would have picked all on her own, she confided that during the past couple of years, she'd been sketching up dresses that she'd like to wear for pageants, and though he hated anything that had to do with that world, he saw the potential about her studying fashion design and sewing.
Due to her having to go from one house to another from week to week, he couldn't just sign her up for any classes, knowing her mother would refuse to send her during her own week just out of spite, but luckily enough, his job had allowed him to meet many people through the years, and he soon made arrangements with a fashion designer friend of his who agreed to give Daphne two private lessons a week, to make up for the week she would miss, and it didn't take long to see that not only did she really love it, she was good. Her skills grew quickly, mostly due to her passion, and it wasn't long before she moved on to being able to make her own outfits rather than using already made patterns, starting on pageant dresses as soon as she was able, figuring it would make her mother proud. Of course, at the age of fourteen she couldn't quite achieve anything amazing just yet as far as pageant dresses went - her work was great, but not exactly glitzy - and so her mother was anything but impressed when Daphne came along with rather plain dresses, claiming she wanted to wear them, quickly turning down that idea, and adding that she should be focusing her energy on doing better rather than losing her time designing things she would never wear.
She was obviously disheartened once she headed back to her father's the following week, and surprisingly, her father didn't go into a rage against her mother as she sobbed out what had happened, merely comforting her and holding her until she was done crying. That's when he pulled out a small pamphlet her teacher had left for her - a pamphlet describing a boarding school in Missouri, where she could study fashion design all through her high school years, away from home. At first, she hesitated, but soon her father convinced her that it was time she did something for herself, and they sent in the application without consulting her mother, until she received a letter stating she had been accepted. Then, all hell broke loose, but for the first time in her life, she held her ground against her mother, telling her that even if she refused to let her go, she was done with pageants for good. When August came along, she left for her Freshman year at Gordon Parks', and since then, all the letters she's sent her mother have been left unanswered.