Post by Landon Whittemore on Mar 11, 2010 3:12:50 GMT -5
Character Name: Landon Luna Whittemore
Nickname: Lan, LL, Whit, Whittemore
Age: 15
Birthday: September 20th
Place of birth: San Francisco, CA
School: Gould
Grade: Sophomore
Height: 5'6"
Hair Color: brown
Eye Color: blue
Detailed Appearance: Landon has a rather eclectic look about her that sometimes looks cluttered. Her style of course varies depending on her mood so just when you think you have it pinned down, it just might change. However, more often then not, she's in tons of layers and wearing tons of accessories...rings, bracelets, necklaces, scarves...sometimes all at once. She likes to keep things interesting with her look.
Her long brown hair is naturally wavy and like with her clothes can sometimes change it based on her mood. She often leaves her natural waves and likes to part her hair effortlessly in the middle, yet straight hair, curly hair, or a side part could be in the mix sometimes. She's very experimental with her look, among other things. Her makeup varies as well...one day neutral...another bright red lips...another none at all. She's a true chameleon.
She has a natural peaches and cream complexion with light freckles and although she does get tan in the summer sometimes, she doesn't go out of her way to tan so she's usually on the pale side. Her build is slender and fit...she doesn't work out really but has been blessed with a good metabolism that comes with young age, so she stays pretty thin without trying. Her height is average, 5'6", sometimes made taller by heels although she usually sticks to sneakers or flats.
She has a very natural beauty about her but she doesn't flaunt it. She isn't out to prove anything to anyone when it comes to her looks. She just does what she feels like and figures that everyone else with either accept it or not. Style-wise, she is very much her own person and while she isn't opposed to following a trend if she likes it, she doesn't let her life or wardrobe be guided by them. She likes both unique and vintage things. She collects artsy pieces and accessories that she likes to mix and match. She even sews and knits some of her own things. She sees her style as somewhat of a canvass and likes to play it up and experiment based on her every whim and desire.
She does come from money so she can afford and does own some designer things but you'll see her scoring the Rodeo Drive designer boutiques just as often as she'll be digging through the discount bin in a vintage store in Venice. She doesn't care about price and although she does avoid labels (meaning she won't wear anything that screams the brand name all over it), it doesn't matter to her if a shirt is a Marc Jacobs or a no name brand. She buys things based on how she likes the look of them and that alone.
Personality: Landon is kind of all over the place. She's very sweet and nice of course...and will go out of her way to help just about anyone whether she knows them or not, but unless you know her really well...she might seem a little out there. Like her style, she is very artistic. She likes to explore different things and wants to see everything. She is always open to new ideas and new ways of thinking or learning. She can even be open minded to a fault sometimes. She's always looking at something different, or reading something different, or talking about something different.... She lets her mouth move before her brain thinks things through and is sometimes hard to follow or understand. She is passionate about everything she does and isn't afraid to show her excitement over something new. For her, the world is constantly changing and she's just trying to keep up and take it all in.
She's very open to new experiences, however if she feels oppressed by something or if something is bringing her down and ruining her energy, she freaks out. Things have always sort of gone her way without her really trying so she doesn't know how to handle it when something doesn't. She likes to be constantly on the move...constantly doing something...she just doesn't like when that move is based on her mom's newest boyfriend. She likes having control of what she does. She keeps busy and that includes people. She's never had a boyfriend...but she's by no means a prude. She doesn't believe in relationships and thinks that the only person who really cares about her is her brother. She loves her brother dearly and would do anything for him.
She'll talk to anyone whether they're a cheerleader or the biggest nerd in school. She likes to give everyone an equal chance. She believes in second chances so won't get upset if someone wrongs her, at least not the first time. She does have trouble finding close friends because she's so all over the place socially, but that doesn't matter because she has her brother, and he is her best friend. She talks a lot and she talks fast so its hard to find people to keep up with her, but Landon is kind of okay with that. The way she sees it, she is who she is and that's it. She isn't willing to change for anyone and hasn't found anyone worth trying to change for.
She's very artistic and partakes in all forms of art. She might not be the best at all of them but she likes it all and appreciates all forms of art. And she is good--really good, probably because art is one of the things she's most passionate about. Her favorite forms are painting, photography, making clothes, and of course music. Landon loves music and listens to all kinds from indie to alternative, punk to hip hop to electronica to country to new aged-Gregorian chant if its out there...there isn't one genre of music she hasn't been able to appreciate. She loves live music and goes to a lot of concerts and festivals...she's even followed some around in the summers. She is very much a modern day hippie, although she doesn't really consider herself to be so. She just is who she is--there is no censoring that.
Thoughts On High School: For Landon, its a social thing. She likes school because she likes having tons of people around her. The fire, earthquake, and shooting were all very scary of course, but Landon looks at them as just being part of the real world. Stuff like that happens and no one can control it. Landon's brother, Kye was shot in the leg during the shooting, but he's okay now and she's really thankful for that. She was with him and helped him through it but she doesn't really like to think about it because it was way scary. Landon likes to just focus on the good things and sort of forget about the bad.
Town Area: Venice Beach
Job: works at her mom's gallery sometimes
Transportation: rides from her brother
Family Background: Mother: Annalynn Whittemore - age 36, owns an art gallery in Venice Beach. Landon’s relationship with her mother is strained at best.
Mother's current live in boyfriend: David Bray, owns several medical marijuana bars in Venice Beach. He’s a total creeper, he always hits on Landon when Annalynn isn’t around.
Father: Ian Rodarte - age 37, lives in LA and owns a photography firm. Landon only met him about a year ago. Their relationship is awkward at best. He’s really not a bad guy, he’s just made some huge mistakes in his life.
Sister: Delilah Stewart - age 16 - junior at Gould. Landon only found out that she had a sister about a year ago. She’s not sure how she feels about her.
Brother: Kyler Hartley Whittemore - age 16 - junior at Silver - goes by Kye. He's an uber nerd but Landon loves him and considers him her best friend. She thinks that he’s the only person she can ever truly count on.
Grandmother - Abigail Whittemore - age 58 - New York society woman
Grandfather - Richard Whittemore - age 62, Hedge fund Investor, lives in New York City
History: Annalynn Whittemore grew up in a high profiled New York society family. And she hated it. She always wanted to get out and she finally did...the moment she turned 18. She moved out to San Francisco, mostly because it was as far away as she could manage. Annalynn soon found herself very much in love with the city and very much in love with the man she met there, Ian Rodarte. Ian was a photographer and they were living together when she found herself pregnant. She had Kye and was very happy even though she got quite a surprise when she was pregnant yet again shortly after Kye was born. It was during her pregnancy with Landon that she learned that Ian had been unfaithful to her...and had fathered another child with another woman. Annalynn left Ian and never looked back. Although he'd tried to contact her several times while Kye and Landon were growing up, Annalynn never allowed him any contact with his children. However about a year ago after they moved to LA, Kye found out their father was there and looked him up. It was at that time that Landon and Kye met their father and found out they had a half-sister. Their relationship isn’t the best, but it isn’t awful either.
Ian was born and raised in San Francisco. He was very young when he met Annalynn but he loved her very much. He made one drunken mistake with Delilah's mother, and oh did he pay for it. Annalynn left him and cut him out of his children's lives. Angry, he moved away, to LA and he even thought maybe he'd cut Delilah out as well, but he couldn't do that, and while Delilah's mother did not want much to do with him either, she at least let him send money, although she only allowed him visitation with her daughter when she got sick. After Delilah's mom passed away, Ian took the girl in and loves her very much but he regretted not getting to know his other children. About a year ago, his son found him and since then he’s gotten to know Kye and Landon a little bit, but usually Ian tries far too hard and it’s kind of awkward when they’re all together.
Landon grew up in San Francisco. Her mother was an artist, very eccentric and tended to move them around based on whatever guy she was seeing. They lived in the city, in Sausilito-which is across the bay, and at one point on an old fishing boat in the bay. Landon never liked this...moving in with different guys all the time, but always just dealt with it. It was only more recently when she actually hated the fact that her mother moved around so much, and that was upon her mother meeting David Bray. He jumped on the bandwagon of opening medical marijuana places when California made it legal. He decided to move down to LA because it was bigger in Southern California, choosing Venice Beach as the absolute best location for everything. Of course, Annalynn followed him there, dragging Kye and Landon with her, for their biggest move yet. Annalynn opened up an art gallery in Venice and while she is somewhat successful and David is very successful, most of their money still comes from Annalynn's very rich parents who Landon hardly knows since they almost never visit New York and her grandparents almost never visit California. While Landon doesn't hate LA, she does still very much hates David. Also, David is a total creeper and is always trying to get into Landon’s pants. Both Landon and Kye tried to tell their mother this, but Annalynn wouldn’t believe them, saying they were just bitter about the move. Right now, the whole family is under a lot of stress. It’s sort of come down to Landon and Kye vs everyone else.
Class Schedule: Home Ec
Art
World Lit
Physical Science
Typing
Geometry
Attendance Length: about a year so since the middle of freshman year
After School Activities: Rock Climbing, Art Club, Drama, Film Club
Likes: art in all forms, meeting new people, making friends, having a good time, hooking up, trying new things, painting, photography, graphic design, fashion design, knitwear, sculpture, all kinds of music, being alive and living every day to the fullest, her brother, make up, old movies, talk radio
Dislikes: relationships, feeling pressured to be normal, feeling like she's stuck in a box, her mom's boyfriends, not having a dad, her grandparents half the time, feeling like she can't be creative, being bored, when people don't "get it" as she says, super hard drugs--she's tried & not for her
Other Information: Landon doesn't really have a sexual preference, she just considers herself experimental because its fun to sleep around with everyone and she's never been in a real relationship anyway
Landon: i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm130/cherylpleasantport/landon/ll10-1.jpg
Kye: pb: Mike Bailey i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm130/cherylpleasantport/landon/llbro.jpg
Delilah: pb: Olivia Thirlby i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm130/cherylpleasantport/landon/llsis.jpg
Face Claim: Kaya Scodelario
Player: Cheryl
Writing Sample: Landon sat in her brother's car smoking a cigarette. It was lunch time but she didn't really feel like eating. She didn't really feel like being in school either, but she wasn't planning on skipping or anything...just a cigarette break and then she'd go back and find something interesting to do or someone interesting to talk to.
Landon talked to pretty much everyone whether they liked it or not. Sure, some people found her annoying but there were very few people that she didn't like. And now with all the Silver students joining Gould, there were ever more new people to meet. Landon liked that.
She exhaled smoke and twirled a strand of her hair. She was leaning back in her seat, with her legs stretched out, crossed at the ankles and her boot clad feet hanging out the window. She wore a short skirt with fishnets but her legs were crossed just the right way so she wasn't flashing anyone.
Finishing off her cigarette she stubbed out the butt in the ash tray and pulled out another. One more...just one more. Landon didn't always chain smoke, but sometimes she got into the mood to. But just as she lit it, she saw someone...someone attractive that she hadn't seen before.
"Hey you," she called out to them. Maybe they'd just blow her off, but Landon had never exactly been shy. She did hope they came over, mostly because it would make things more exciting at the moment and Landon lived for excitement.
Nickname: Lan, LL, Whit, Whittemore
Age: 15
Birthday: September 20th
Place of birth: San Francisco, CA
School: Gould
Grade: Sophomore
Height: 5'6"
Hair Color: brown
Eye Color: blue
Detailed Appearance: Landon has a rather eclectic look about her that sometimes looks cluttered. Her style of course varies depending on her mood so just when you think you have it pinned down, it just might change. However, more often then not, she's in tons of layers and wearing tons of accessories...rings, bracelets, necklaces, scarves...sometimes all at once. She likes to keep things interesting with her look.
Her long brown hair is naturally wavy and like with her clothes can sometimes change it based on her mood. She often leaves her natural waves and likes to part her hair effortlessly in the middle, yet straight hair, curly hair, or a side part could be in the mix sometimes. She's very experimental with her look, among other things. Her makeup varies as well...one day neutral...another bright red lips...another none at all. She's a true chameleon.
She has a natural peaches and cream complexion with light freckles and although she does get tan in the summer sometimes, she doesn't go out of her way to tan so she's usually on the pale side. Her build is slender and fit...she doesn't work out really but has been blessed with a good metabolism that comes with young age, so she stays pretty thin without trying. Her height is average, 5'6", sometimes made taller by heels although she usually sticks to sneakers or flats.
She has a very natural beauty about her but she doesn't flaunt it. She isn't out to prove anything to anyone when it comes to her looks. She just does what she feels like and figures that everyone else with either accept it or not. Style-wise, she is very much her own person and while she isn't opposed to following a trend if she likes it, she doesn't let her life or wardrobe be guided by them. She likes both unique and vintage things. She collects artsy pieces and accessories that she likes to mix and match. She even sews and knits some of her own things. She sees her style as somewhat of a canvass and likes to play it up and experiment based on her every whim and desire.
She does come from money so she can afford and does own some designer things but you'll see her scoring the Rodeo Drive designer boutiques just as often as she'll be digging through the discount bin in a vintage store in Venice. She doesn't care about price and although she does avoid labels (meaning she won't wear anything that screams the brand name all over it), it doesn't matter to her if a shirt is a Marc Jacobs or a no name brand. She buys things based on how she likes the look of them and that alone.
Personality: Landon is kind of all over the place. She's very sweet and nice of course...and will go out of her way to help just about anyone whether she knows them or not, but unless you know her really well...she might seem a little out there. Like her style, she is very artistic. She likes to explore different things and wants to see everything. She is always open to new ideas and new ways of thinking or learning. She can even be open minded to a fault sometimes. She's always looking at something different, or reading something different, or talking about something different.... She lets her mouth move before her brain thinks things through and is sometimes hard to follow or understand. She is passionate about everything she does and isn't afraid to show her excitement over something new. For her, the world is constantly changing and she's just trying to keep up and take it all in.
She's very open to new experiences, however if she feels oppressed by something or if something is bringing her down and ruining her energy, she freaks out. Things have always sort of gone her way without her really trying so she doesn't know how to handle it when something doesn't. She likes to be constantly on the move...constantly doing something...she just doesn't like when that move is based on her mom's newest boyfriend. She likes having control of what she does. She keeps busy and that includes people. She's never had a boyfriend...but she's by no means a prude. She doesn't believe in relationships and thinks that the only person who really cares about her is her brother. She loves her brother dearly and would do anything for him.
She'll talk to anyone whether they're a cheerleader or the biggest nerd in school. She likes to give everyone an equal chance. She believes in second chances so won't get upset if someone wrongs her, at least not the first time. She does have trouble finding close friends because she's so all over the place socially, but that doesn't matter because she has her brother, and he is her best friend. She talks a lot and she talks fast so its hard to find people to keep up with her, but Landon is kind of okay with that. The way she sees it, she is who she is and that's it. She isn't willing to change for anyone and hasn't found anyone worth trying to change for.
She's very artistic and partakes in all forms of art. She might not be the best at all of them but she likes it all and appreciates all forms of art. And she is good--really good, probably because art is one of the things she's most passionate about. Her favorite forms are painting, photography, making clothes, and of course music. Landon loves music and listens to all kinds from indie to alternative, punk to hip hop to electronica to country to new aged-Gregorian chant if its out there...there isn't one genre of music she hasn't been able to appreciate. She loves live music and goes to a lot of concerts and festivals...she's even followed some around in the summers. She is very much a modern day hippie, although she doesn't really consider herself to be so. She just is who she is--there is no censoring that.
Thoughts On High School: For Landon, its a social thing. She likes school because she likes having tons of people around her. The fire, earthquake, and shooting were all very scary of course, but Landon looks at them as just being part of the real world. Stuff like that happens and no one can control it. Landon's brother, Kye was shot in the leg during the shooting, but he's okay now and she's really thankful for that. She was with him and helped him through it but she doesn't really like to think about it because it was way scary. Landon likes to just focus on the good things and sort of forget about the bad.
Town Area: Venice Beach
Job: works at her mom's gallery sometimes
Transportation: rides from her brother
Family Background: Mother: Annalynn Whittemore - age 36, owns an art gallery in Venice Beach. Landon’s relationship with her mother is strained at best.
Mother's current live in boyfriend: David Bray, owns several medical marijuana bars in Venice Beach. He’s a total creeper, he always hits on Landon when Annalynn isn’t around.
Father: Ian Rodarte - age 37, lives in LA and owns a photography firm. Landon only met him about a year ago. Their relationship is awkward at best. He’s really not a bad guy, he’s just made some huge mistakes in his life.
Sister: Delilah Stewart - age 16 - junior at Gould. Landon only found out that she had a sister about a year ago. She’s not sure how she feels about her.
Brother: Kyler Hartley Whittemore - age 16 - junior at Silver - goes by Kye. He's an uber nerd but Landon loves him and considers him her best friend. She thinks that he’s the only person she can ever truly count on.
Grandmother - Abigail Whittemore - age 58 - New York society woman
Grandfather - Richard Whittemore - age 62, Hedge fund Investor, lives in New York City
History: Annalynn Whittemore grew up in a high profiled New York society family. And she hated it. She always wanted to get out and she finally did...the moment she turned 18. She moved out to San Francisco, mostly because it was as far away as she could manage. Annalynn soon found herself very much in love with the city and very much in love with the man she met there, Ian Rodarte. Ian was a photographer and they were living together when she found herself pregnant. She had Kye and was very happy even though she got quite a surprise when she was pregnant yet again shortly after Kye was born. It was during her pregnancy with Landon that she learned that Ian had been unfaithful to her...and had fathered another child with another woman. Annalynn left Ian and never looked back. Although he'd tried to contact her several times while Kye and Landon were growing up, Annalynn never allowed him any contact with his children. However about a year ago after they moved to LA, Kye found out their father was there and looked him up. It was at that time that Landon and Kye met their father and found out they had a half-sister. Their relationship isn’t the best, but it isn’t awful either.
Ian was born and raised in San Francisco. He was very young when he met Annalynn but he loved her very much. He made one drunken mistake with Delilah's mother, and oh did he pay for it. Annalynn left him and cut him out of his children's lives. Angry, he moved away, to LA and he even thought maybe he'd cut Delilah out as well, but he couldn't do that, and while Delilah's mother did not want much to do with him either, she at least let him send money, although she only allowed him visitation with her daughter when she got sick. After Delilah's mom passed away, Ian took the girl in and loves her very much but he regretted not getting to know his other children. About a year ago, his son found him and since then he’s gotten to know Kye and Landon a little bit, but usually Ian tries far too hard and it’s kind of awkward when they’re all together.
Landon grew up in San Francisco. Her mother was an artist, very eccentric and tended to move them around based on whatever guy she was seeing. They lived in the city, in Sausilito-which is across the bay, and at one point on an old fishing boat in the bay. Landon never liked this...moving in with different guys all the time, but always just dealt with it. It was only more recently when she actually hated the fact that her mother moved around so much, and that was upon her mother meeting David Bray. He jumped on the bandwagon of opening medical marijuana places when California made it legal. He decided to move down to LA because it was bigger in Southern California, choosing Venice Beach as the absolute best location for everything. Of course, Annalynn followed him there, dragging Kye and Landon with her, for their biggest move yet. Annalynn opened up an art gallery in Venice and while she is somewhat successful and David is very successful, most of their money still comes from Annalynn's very rich parents who Landon hardly knows since they almost never visit New York and her grandparents almost never visit California. While Landon doesn't hate LA, she does still very much hates David. Also, David is a total creeper and is always trying to get into Landon’s pants. Both Landon and Kye tried to tell their mother this, but Annalynn wouldn’t believe them, saying they were just bitter about the move. Right now, the whole family is under a lot of stress. It’s sort of come down to Landon and Kye vs everyone else.
Class Schedule: Home Ec
Art
World Lit
Physical Science
Typing
Geometry
Attendance Length: about a year so since the middle of freshman year
After School Activities: Rock Climbing, Art Club, Drama, Film Club
Likes: art in all forms, meeting new people, making friends, having a good time, hooking up, trying new things, painting, photography, graphic design, fashion design, knitwear, sculpture, all kinds of music, being alive and living every day to the fullest, her brother, make up, old movies, talk radio
Dislikes: relationships, feeling pressured to be normal, feeling like she's stuck in a box, her mom's boyfriends, not having a dad, her grandparents half the time, feeling like she can't be creative, being bored, when people don't "get it" as she says, super hard drugs--she's tried & not for her
Other Information: Landon doesn't really have a sexual preference, she just considers herself experimental because its fun to sleep around with everyone and she's never been in a real relationship anyway
Landon: i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm130/cherylpleasantport/landon/ll10-1.jpg
Kye: pb: Mike Bailey i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm130/cherylpleasantport/landon/llbro.jpg
Delilah: pb: Olivia Thirlby i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm130/cherylpleasantport/landon/llsis.jpg
Face Claim: Kaya Scodelario
Player: Cheryl
Writing Sample: Landon sat in her brother's car smoking a cigarette. It was lunch time but she didn't really feel like eating. She didn't really feel like being in school either, but she wasn't planning on skipping or anything...just a cigarette break and then she'd go back and find something interesting to do or someone interesting to talk to.
Landon talked to pretty much everyone whether they liked it or not. Sure, some people found her annoying but there were very few people that she didn't like. And now with all the Silver students joining Gould, there were ever more new people to meet. Landon liked that.
She exhaled smoke and twirled a strand of her hair. She was leaning back in her seat, with her legs stretched out, crossed at the ankles and her boot clad feet hanging out the window. She wore a short skirt with fishnets but her legs were crossed just the right way so she wasn't flashing anyone.
Finishing off her cigarette she stubbed out the butt in the ash tray and pulled out another. One more...just one more. Landon didn't always chain smoke, but sometimes she got into the mood to. But just as she lit it, she saw someone...someone attractive that she hadn't seen before.
"Hey you," she called out to them. Maybe they'd just blow her off, but Landon had never exactly been shy. She did hope they came over, mostly because it would make things more exciting at the moment and Landon lived for excitement.
