Post by annika on Dec 27, 2007 3:16:24 GMT -5
Annika Emerson
Behind the Character
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Name/Alias: Stephanie.
Age: Sixteen.
Activity level: High.
Role-playing level: Advanced.
Experience: About six years.
How did you find us: Proboards Support.
The Basics
Full Name: Annika Elisabeth Emerson.
Gender: Female.
Age // DOB: Sixteen // June 5th, 1991.
Grade: Eleventh.
Financial Situation(well-off, middle, poor): Well-Off.
The Appearance
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Appearance(two paragraphs):
Starting off at the top, Annika has a head of dark brown (Almost always mistaken for black) hair that falls in layers to just past her shoulders. Occasionally, she likes to experiment with temporary colors such as hot pink and light blue. Accessories for her hair are almost always found, things like barrettes and clips. Her face is small and rather baby-ish. Dark brown are the color of her eyes, always accented with black eye-liner and other make-up. Having a fair complexion, she never needed things like foundation and cover-up. And having full lips, she was never a fan of lip-gloss or lip stick.
Her figure is that of an hourglass, no matter how short and petite she may be. At the most, her height is about 5'5" and her weight doesn't top 117 pounds. A skinny yet curvy figure built only on pure metabolism. She has never been one for exercise. It's not that she's lazy, but she just never cared for it. Yet for one as petite as her, she actually has a rather large chest area. Not alarmingly big, but just bigger than what you might expect for someone her size. Adding to that, she doesn't eat like someone her size. Amazingly, she eats and eats (mostly junk food) and fails to gain an huge amount of weight. All of that courtesy of her fast metabolism.
Flaws:
It's not doubt that her small figure be her most noticeable flaw. Standing at only 5'5", she's a rather small person. This is courtesy of being born a preemie. All her life, she has been tiny. Her top weight at the moment is around 117 pounds. Paired with her fast metabolism, she is very skinny and very petite. Also, Annika tends to bruise easily, something that is not good on her part.
Assets:
Even though she is a tiny girl, Annika was gifted with curves. Legs, hips, waist, face, and chest. Guys are least to notice these, and she often gets comments on them. The confident side of her just soaks them in. She got her curves from her mother, who was also a rather petite woman with nice curves.
Celebrity Claim: Hanna Beth Merjos
The Personality
Personality(two paragraphs minimum):
Her personality is fundamentally split into two: The true side and the side she uses as a cover. Her true side is fragile and quiet, and will show occasionally. This side of her rarely talks, and prefers to retreat into a curled up ball. She is very cowardly, and rarely speaks up. A wallflower, you might call her. The one who stands in the back, up against the wall, too afraid to say anything for the fear of quick judgment, saying something wrong, or a quick fist. Who just accepts whatever is given or thrown at her, too afraid to speak up.
The other half of Annika's personality only comes out in public. She is perky and energetic, as if nothing was going on deep underneath. This is her safety net. The guarantee that no one suspects anything. It's all just an act for her, and she has perfected it over the years. To others in public places such a school, she is just any other girl. Annika is happy and hyper, talks quite a lot, and is kind to pretty much anyone. This side of her can also be a bully sometimes. It just comes out, and she can't control it. Her temper gets the best of her. She can yell, scream, curse, and even throw things. It is no doubt that she's the quintessential Jekyll/Hyde.
Likes(at least 10):
Dislikes(at least 10):
Fears(one paragraph):
Most of her life, Annika has lived in fear. While most just see her a scene girl with an unlimited surplus of money coming in from her father, there is a whole other side to her. She is constantly in fear of being caught doing something she isn't supposed to, or being beaten up by her brother. Her biggest fear is that someone will find out her secret, the fact that she is constantly physically abused by her older brother.
Hopes and Dreams(one paragraphs):
Annika has the highest hopes of growing up and becoming a professional singer. With her amazing voice and no limit to college after school, she does have the chance. It's just the fact that she's rather stage fright. Her inability to be able to perform in front of an audience will always keep her back from making that dream come true. Besides that, she is easily put down, and her brother makes it a constant to degrade her and her singing ability. Therefore, over the years, she has come to accept that her singing is horrible and does only sing when she believes she is truly by herself.
The History
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History(three paragraph minimum):
Nicholas and Talia Emerson were high school sweethearts, both attending a prestige boarding school and both coming from wealthy and well-known families in the community of Beverly Hills. Two years after their marriage at age twenty each, they welcomed into the world a baby boy and named him Jude. It was another two years later that Talia found that they were expected yet another child. It was in the stormy and early hours of the 5th of June when Talia brought into the world a premature baby girl at just 18 minutes after two in the morning. Put under immense pressure from her family, demanding the future of the baby be set out before her birth (a future in the family business), Talia ended up going into labor almost two months prematurely. Due to complications during the birth, she was pronounced dead just moments after delivering Annika.
Now, Nicholas was left with the death of his love and now a single father of two. Needing help, he packed the children up from their home in Beverly Hills and headed down to Bel-Air to move in with his family. There, his mother and father helped him care for the children while he still maintained his job as CEO of his family's business. Jude and Annika grew up seeing little of their father and too much of their grandparents, a drunk grandfather to say the least. These events helped to carve into their minds what life was. The elder man would get drunk, curse out the woman, and hit her for things not her fault. With no father there to counter this image, that is what they learned.
It was when Jude was ten and Annika was eight that their father decided to move them back into their home once again. Having not been back since their mother's death, it was hard on all of them, most of all Jude. He had at least known her a little, and had anger toward his sister, for he always saw that it was her fault that Talia was no longer with them. Still, Nicholas was away with work, constantly traveling. A butler lived with them, and occasionally a nanny, but otherwise, the children were left to watch over themselves. A bad decision on Nicholas' part.
Being the older brother, Jude always gave Annika a hard time. From the age of eight and up, she was always been picked on by her brother. It wasn't until she was fourteen that her brother began turning violent. Being as he was sixteen, he began getting alcohol, learning well from their grandfather. Alcohol and her brother were never a good mix, and he soon became more violent and abusive. He constantly would tell her that it was all her fault that their mother died, and how she was such a disgrace. At first, Annika didn't understand why her brother was acting like this. When she tried calling her father and telling him the truth, he brushed it off as if it was nothing and refused to come home at her request. He had learned enough from seeing his own parents, and saw that he could do nothing by being so far away but could not leave his company. Instead, Nicholas decided to ignore it and just continue on to give his children all the money they would ever need in life.
For the past two years now, Annika has come to grip with the regular beatings. Though she has tried fighting back, what can be helped with such a little person against her older brother? And she does not tell anyone for fear that her brother just might kill her. So, she covers it up and goes on with her life. She herself has turned to partying and drugs. Could it all get any worse? Other than her brother, she lives a privileged life of luxury with no limitations and no downsides. Quite the life she has.
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Loose Ends
Other: -Nothing that I can think of.-