Post by kayla.jayn.warren on Jun 14, 2011 23:44:25 GMT -5
KAYLA JAYN WARREN
OPTIONAL lyrics or quote for your character. please be short
| B A S I C S |
Name Kayla Jane Warren
Nicknames
PB Laura Marling
Age 20
Sex Female
Year Sophmore
Major/Concentration Music/Vocal
Minor
Occupation She would probably have a part time job because she sends back money to her brother every month to support her son, but I have no idea what to write her.
Organizations
Location Chicago, IL is where her Brother, Sister, and four year old son live though she grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and she still has the accent.| P E R S O N A L I T Y |
Kayla has always been the nice girl. That doesn't mean everything to her is black and white, she's good, others are evil. No, Kayla's past has not been easy she has not skated through life smiling with her head in the clouds playing cupid. Kayla has already sped through every human emotion in the book except hatred. That is one thing she has yet to experience. She cannot find it in herself to even hate her mother after years of neglect and intolerance. Sure, she has felt spite and certainly jealousy is a big emotion in her books. Never Hatred.
As the oldest child in her family she did become the responsible one as older siblings often do, Kayla is the one in a group of friends who makes sure people don't get lost as a result of years of looking after her younger sister. Her brother is a mere two years younger than Kayla, her sister Grace however is ten right now. After having a child, this trait only strengthened.
While she is outgoing, friendly, and courteous she has enough faults to even her out. Over compliance is something she cannot seem to get rid of, she has always been the girl to give up the fastest and let go of her opinions quickly. That was certainly a factor in making her a teen mother.
Cowardice; Sure she can raise a child at 16 and travel to a completely different place leaving her family behind without any help but not without a good measure of tears and cheap chocolate ice cream., she tries too hard. While Kayla usually smiles and works easily without a whole lot of laziness she cannot handle the world. She religiously washed her hands after every meal and has a few pairs of rubber gloves in her messenger bag at all times. She cannot handle a bug or any sort of living creature not fully domesticated making her all in all a bit of a pansy. Sometimes she comes home early just to sit and cry then play some music until she stops worrying about whichever fear it is today.
Afraid of rejection; Nobody really works so well with rejection, social or otherwise though Kayla has never dealt well with it. She has this need to be liked that makes her sometimes so stressed out over someone she doesn't know well it just gets weird. Sorry, I honestly had no idea how to explain being needed to be liked. It's not an easy feeling to describe.
Strengths:
While she could not live up to Sarah Michelle Conlin's standards (her biological mother. Sarcasm on the full name) Kayla can sing. She can really sing, when one gets to know her you figure out pretty darn fast she loves music.
Kayla has always been good with the guitar and piano but never really got into it the same way she did singing, hence, that's not her focus major.
Though one very cliché talent she has picked up over the years is knitting. No, I am not joking, this girl can knit. She rather likes it as well, don't mess with her knitting skills.
I will edit these later.
Weaknesses:
Everyone has their fatal flaw. Trusting is a good quality in most cases, but there is an invisible line as there is for most things and Kayla crossed that line long ago. From high school she was the -excuse the language- school slut. A combination of trusting people, seeing the best in them, and over compliance made her the girl who though she had found the one every 3 months. It was a bit of a joke for everyone but her. When she was 16 it finally caught up with her, getting her pregnant with her son Alec.
Jealousy as I mentioned before is always something Kayla has struggled with, because of her tenancy to fall in love at the drop of a hat she has always gotten jealous after she got herself into the mess of affection again. When she was younger her parents said she was always the kid who cried the easiest without getting something she wanted. Truth is, Kayla is a coward and gets very jealous, very quickly.
| H I S T O R Y |
Kayla was born to a perfect, neat, family of doctors and mathematicians with the surname of Conlin. She was an only child without much family other than her biological parents Sarah Michelle Conlin and Jonathan Carter Conlin. A traditional family that held and courtesy and mathematical ability in high esteem. Kayla, being an only child was expected to live up to her parents seemingly impossible standards. She was to be kind a courteous, she was to be strong -but not too willful- and she was to be essentially prefect with an affinity to math, science, and last but certainly not least she was to be a doctor.
When her parents had her, this is the child they expected after having gone through hell and back to get her mother pregnant as they did not want a child that was not their blood. When she was a child they quickly learned she did not like blood and often ran away at the sight of an injury. Forget her being a doctor. She showed signs of dyslexia and lacked any interest in science. Her math skills were very much lacking
Her parents were not pleased. Most of all, her Mother. Sarah Michelle Conlin was not the type of woman one would look at and pity, she was not the type of woman to accept failure or defeat. She did not simply smile and tell her young daughter it was okay, that she must have other skills. No, the most respected Sarah Michelle Conlin would never say such a with. Instead, she tried to drill it into her. Starting with intense training, 6 am to 10pm everyday Kayla saw tutors. They tried to get it all in her head, to make her learn the math, the science, and get over her squeamishness of blood and sickness. No, Kayla was not the daughter they wanted.
Kayla showed improvement sure enough, but not enough for her Mother. It was a slow process and it would be years before Kayla would be average and then keeping up with work at any kind of school would be feeble and miserable when she had trouble reading at times and the numbers just swam in front of her. Sarah eventually sent the tutors away when Kayla was 8 and then the neglect began.
First her mother was cold and not attentive then it got worse. Her father went away for business more and more simply to be away from his maddening wife and left Kayla and Sarah home. After a while, Sarah would have servants bring meals to her room, conveniently forgetting to have anything sent to Kayla and the young girl began to fend for herself. She entertained herself and even had to make her own food morning and evening as her mother laid a strict rule that the servants were not to do a thing unless Sarah specifically requested it. They all feared her mother. Why everyone in that house let this go on for so long, Kayla still wonders
When her father lost a large sum of money the wealthy lifestyle was cut down upon the servants were gone after her mother decided they were needed no longer and everything fell to pieces. Sarah began the hitting slowly and rarely at first, then it became more frequent until when one would see Kayla at age 10 you would notice the bruises.
They sent her away to boarding school when she was eleven but the moment she returned home the court cases began. A neighbor had reported the frequent abuse, a family she had known since she had been born by the name of James and Rosa Warren had been the complainers as Kayla had spent as much time as possible at their house growing up and with their children Silas and Grace (though Gracie was only two at the time). After her parents were persecuted for neglect and abuse the Warrens adopted her.Sarah and Jonathan did not care and continued on in life as if they had never had a daughter.
That's when she began to (for want of a better word) blossom. She discovered music mostly. Her voice as most found was exemplary and a talent not to be wasted. She learned guitar and piano and joined the school band. When she finally began to write her own songs at 13 it became clear that the girl was not meant for a life of anything Sarah and Jonathan could have intended for her.
She, Grace, and Silas have become like siblings, though Kayla does not argue much there will always be a dose of sibling rivalry.
When she was sixteen and going to a public high school she met a guy named Harris. It was a quick progression from seeing movies and going out to dinner to getting pressured into things she would rather not do. When she found out she was pregnant with Harris's son he and his family packed their bags and left the state with no intentions of returning. This left her with a baby and not a whole lot of options. Long story short, Kayla kept the child and when she went to college her brother and parents took her son and they are now living in Chicago along with the entire Warren family.| A P P E A R A N C E |
Kayla has always been curvy and of an average height (5"5), being the 'princess' and the 'small indoors person' in her family she never got outdoors much with pale skin and the only callus's she has are on her fingers from years of forgetting her guitar pick at home. Kayla has always been pretty, never gorgeous but with a simple attractiveness that did not fade or even falter over her lifespan. Not really sure what else I can say here.
| S K I L L S |
“ Zoe is over there,” she points to a door painted yellow, pink, green, blue, and silver. It looks awful. “She gets her own room because she’s seventeen. Once she moves out, Sadie gets her room and Maya can be on her own. Their both sixteen so they are next in line for separate rooms.” I wonder briefly if she ever shuts up, or if I will ever get a word in.
“ For now though, Sadie and Maya share that room over there with the light blue door, the white door is the bathroom, All the kids share that one so if you aren’t opposed to waking up early you can have it to yourself on a school morning or whatever. Though, every morning at seven am, Sadie likes to blast music so you can’t possibly sleep too late. It’s uber annoying! Then the door painted black is Coral - and I guess now Libby’s- bedroom. Coral is like super Goth ever since-” She stops in her tracks. An emotionless mask is thrown over her face hastily.
“What?” I press her, but she just stands there. After a moment Jodie shakes her head and all she says, though not with the same unstoppable enthusiasm as before she points to the last door, painted a bright eye popping red.
"That's us!" For once, a short sentence is all I could think.| P L A Y E R |
Name I am going by Kayla here but June is fine even though it's my real name.
Age 15 (a few months until I am 16, don't judge!)
Gender Female
How you found us Through an advertisement you posted on my website xD
Who else do you play? Nobody (yet.)
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