Post by Aliana Marie Rice on Feb 3, 2013 19:04:26 GMT -5
Name:
Aliana Marie Rice
If you're close enough to her, you may call her "Ali".
Age:
17
Sports/Clubs:
Choir and Drama
Appearance:
Aliana is a short and petite, quite skinny due to her high metabolism. Her eyes are dark brown as well as her hair, which is naturally straight though she's gotten a perm in order to maintain the waves, so as not to let it die from using too much heat on it. Heels give her confidence, and while wearing them, she stands at an average height of 5'6 to 5'7, though without, she's actually 5'3. She has chipmunk cheeks, the type you want to squeeze, although she'd bite you before you laid a finger on her face. Aliana seems to always bare a disapproving look on her face, always looking around, judging everyone -- so you can tell easily how fake her smiles are when she flashes you one.
Personality
After being teased for quite some time as a child for not having the nicest clothes or the newest toys, Aliana has built up a defense mechanism, being offended quite easily. She takes teasing to heart, even if you have befriended her. She hates the feeling of embarrassment. If she assumes you're talking about her, she'll tell you off right off the bat regardless if you had been or not. She's stubborn, doesn't give people many chances. You fuck up once, and you are out.
Aliana is quite selfish, being an only child and not really having had much when she was little, she's very protective over her belongings and hates to share anything in fear of losing them. That includes friends. She's sure to keep you close by if you begin to stray away, might even go so far as to compete with your other friends in order to keep you closer to her.
When it comes to friendship, Aliana doesn't allow herself to get very close to anyone. Though she usually sticks to a group of friends, she'll keep to herself most of the time, her main reason for hanging around people being that she hates to look like a loner. Though, on the rare occasion that someone gets close to the girl, she grows extremely attached. It's very rare that Aliana finds someone she fully trusts, so she makes an effort to keep that connection. If anyone tries to get in the way of such a bond between her and said friend, she'll grow upset, like a bratty child over their favorite toy.
Aliana is usually a good student, her grades aren't horrible, and her behavior doesn't get too out of control most of the time (though she does have her moments). There are times however, when she might talk too much and move her attention from the teacher to whomever she is talking to. She's also a bit stubborn when it comes to partner projects where she can't choose her own partner -- since she has her own way of doing things and doesn't want someone else to mess it up. Also, she doesn't like having to interact with new people. Other students either don't like her, or vice versa.
Believing that the human body is a canvas, Aliana has an unusual interest in tattoo design -- something you'd never know just by looking at the girl. When bored of class, she often sketches different designs on paper, or draws on herself using a pen -- and they often look quite lovely. She had taken art classes since middle school, and she's always had a bit of a soft spot for it, but she hasn't shown her work to many people. She hopes to attend art school after she graduates.
If you're friends with Aliana, you'll see that the girl isn't all she seems. She'll let her guard down with you, be herself. She can be a pretty loyal friend, a real person. She's generous, caring, protective, actually. Mess with her or her friends, she'll mess with your face. Don't let her size fool you.
When Aliana wants something, or someone, she wants it bad. She'll stop at nothing to get it. She'll drop all her beliefs for that one thing, not really caring what she has to do to get it. She's very determined, and hates taking no for an answer. And on the off-chance that she doesn't get what she wants, well, she usually feels pretty shot down, but Aliana wouldn't dare show it. She'll try and brush it off as if it were nothing, being too prideful to let people know otherwise.
When Aliana likes someone, it'll show in different ways, depending on the person. If she believes she shouldn't like somebody, maybe because they seem too different from her or because they have a bad rep, she'll pretend to hate them, and be rude to them, for no reason other than the fact that she wants to mask her true feelings. If she thinks it's perfectly acceptable for her to like a certain person, she'll make it obvious. The girl is about as subtle as a gun. She'll let it be known she wants them, but she won't ever say it out loud.
In the relationship department, Aliana isn't what you would all a particularly "good" girlfriend. She's used to hooking up, being casual, considering she doesn't like to be tied down for too long unless she feels she were "meant to be" with a person. When in a relationship, she's pretty stand-offish. She'll keep her guard up because she wants to have control, be dominant. This is something that usually pushes guys away, and she's convinced herself that she's not the "relationship type" -- which is why she doesn't get too serious with anybody.
History
As a young girl, she was raised by her father. Her mother left them shortly after Aliana's second birthday. Growing up, she and her father didn't have much. Living in a rundown apartment, her father being unemployed... it wasn't easy living. She didn't have the same luxuries as other kids had. She envied them. It wasn't until age 9, when her grandfather passed, that things started getting better. He'd always support them as much as he could when alive, lending small bits of cash every once in a while when they were low on rent for their apartment. It turns out, he'd been saving quite a load of money throughout the years, leaving it all to Aliana and her father. It was enough for them to move into an actual house, and for Mr. Rice to start going back to school to study architecture. The money just kept piling in as Mr. Rice became more and more successful in his career, and they'd never have to worry about money again.
Ever since that experience, Aliana never wanted to live through poverty again. It was her one fear. She swore she'd never go back to those living conditions. From now on she'd only have the best, because it's what she deserved. It's what her father always told her. She resented seeing others in the position she had been in. She deemed them unworthy of her presence. She was good now, and she refused to remember her life when it wasn't like this.
Aliana had gone to an all-girls private school for her first year of junior high. She befriended a group of girls who had been privileged practically their whole lives, and she struggled to fit in with them. The girls were quite vain, and superficial. The type of girls who'd have made fun of Aliana, had they known her past situation with money. The more time she spent with them, the more Aliana tried to change herself to look and seem like she belonged in their group. One day, she invited the group of girls over to her house after they'd finished shopping. While going through their new clothes, Aliana's father walked in, and pulled Aliana out, scolding her for spending so much money. He'd been paying quite a lot of money already for private school, and more bills were coming in due to the girl's increase of shopping. "Do you want to go back to how we used to live? Two meals a day, sleeping in a crappy apartment?" he'd said. The girls had eavesdropped on the conversation, under the impression that Aliana had grown poorer, thinking the girl would start relying on them for money, though it hadn't been like that at all. Aliana was shunned from the group, and rumors began to spread about her being a "gold-digger". Being left with little to no friends, she decided to transfer to a public school the next year.
It was surprisingly easy for Aliana to find friends at her new school. She'd picked up a sense of style and social skills from the girls at private school, so it was easy for her to climb her way up the social ladder and befriend the so-called 'popular' kids. Girls had been drawn in to her by the way she dressed, guys were drawn in because, well, she was the new girl. She got along with people quickly, as she's quite a kissup when it comes to trying to impress people.
Aliana had started taking ballet lessons when she was seven, shortly after receiving the money from her grandfather's will. Since she had started class a bit later than the other girls her age, she was made fun of for being older. That stopped eventually, however, as the girl was quite a fast learner, and was advancing ahead of her class. She found it fun, didn't take it too seriously, thought of it as just a hobby, and eventually quit when she'd reached the ninth grade, as she hadn't seemed to find a passion for it.
