Post by cheryl on Jul 25, 2010 12:06:17 GMT -5
Okay so this new character is going to be for after the jump. She's going to be a freshman once the new year starts, so I guess she doesn't need to be added quite yet, but I have all her stuff together so I figure I may as well post her now. I'm going to have another new freshman for after the jump too that I'll post as soon as I finish her bio. I figure with the seniors graduating we'll need some new kids 
Character Name: Astor Olivia Young
Nickname: none really, she mostly goes by just Astor
Age: 14
Birthday: June 21st
Place of Birth: Los Angeles
School: Gould
Grade: Freshman (after the jump she’ll be a freshman, right now she’d be in middle school)
Height: 5’4”
Hair Color: naturally dark blonde but highlights to a lighter, golden blonde
Eye Color: blue
Detailed Appearance: Standing at 5’4” Astor actually has a nice body for someone so young, not that she sees it. She is thin with small but decent curves. Her complexion is normal, naturally a little pale but she tans easily. He hair is worn long and often curled at the ends. It’s a very dark blonde but she gets it highlighted to a lighter golden blonde. While she has quite a flair for fashion and even designs her own clothes, she doesn’t have the confidence to wear anything trendy. She often walks around in jeans and T-shirts, often splattered with paint. She always plans outfits that contain cute skirts and tops and lots of accessories but she never actually wears these things, instead she hides beneath the boring basic clothes that aren’t really interesting in any way, shape, or form. So all and all, while she really is quite pretty, her all together look is quite plain.
Personality: While Astor isn’t quite shy, she isn’t always the most outgoing. She tends to be very complacent and tends to just follow the crowd. She’d like to be more popular and have more friends, but she’s afraid to really put herself out there. Growing up, she was constantly put under scrutiny from her mother. She was never pretty enough, never thin enough, never good enough and due to that, she tends to have a hard time in the self confidence area.
While Astor has never been fat, due to her mother, she thinks that she is. Astor has an eating disorder. She often pleads with herself to convince herself that she isn’t hungry when she really is. She will eat a little bit of course, but only for show. She has ways to make people think she’s eating when she really isn’t. She also will claim to have food allergies that she doesn't really have, to avoid eating. She wants to be perfect, but until she has confidence, she’ll never make it.
She loves fashion and art and tends to be very apt to it. While she knows she’s talented, she is very modest about it all and doesn’t really like to share her work with others just because she’s too self conscious about it. She also tends to be fidgety and she can be a little clumsy. She embarrasses very easily as well and spends a good portion of her day completely mortified. She wants to be liked so she’ll change herself for the benefit of whoever she is with. She is very moldable that way.
Thoughts on High School: She is brand new so none of those things ever affected her. She obviously experienced the earthquake, but growing up in California it wasn’t too big of a deal, even if it was larger than most of the ones she experienced. She heard about the school shooting at the high school, and they had a violence seminar at her middle school after it happened. Astor is just glad that she wasn’t there. She hopes nothing like that happens again. For the most part she’s excited for high school. She’d really like to reinvent herself but she’s not sure that that’s possible.
Town Area: Santa Monica (mom lives there) and Hollywood (dad lives there). Her mom technically has custody but she prefers staying with her dad.
Job: She helps out at her dad’s company—he own’s a fashion line, and she works at her mom’s 50's inspired diner
Transportation: parents, the bus, roller skates
Family Background: Melody Finley – mother, owns a 50s style diner where the waiters and waitresses serve people wearing roller skates and have to all sing along when certain songs are played on the jukebox. It has both drive in and eat in options. –Astor isn’t a fan of her mother. Her mother is constant berating her and telling her how she isn’t good enough and doesn’t measure up. Astor hates her. She also hates her for forcing her to work at the diner just because she hates the fact that Astor actually enjoys working for her dad.
David Young – father, he owns his own fashion line. It’s a small company that mostly sells to high end boutiques. –Astor loves her father very much. He’s always been great to her and she loves working for him. She really enjoys fashion and he even lets her design her own pieces and gets them made for her. Astor knows that her father would do anything for her.
History: Astor was born and raised in LA. Her parents were both born and raised in Texas, but they met at college in Dallas. At the end of college, David got an amazing internship at a fashion company in LA so Melody moved with him. They lived together happily for some time and had Astor. It was when Astor was 12 that is happened. Her father was caught having an affair with a man. By then his father had actually started his own fashion line and her mother had inherited some money and opened up a diner, since she was a chef before that. Once Melody found out that David way gay, she divorced him. She also took custody of Astor, mostly because she couldn’t stand that her daughter always like David better. Since Astor spent so much time with David anyway and even started working a bit at his office, Melody decided to force Astor to work at the diner as well.
Class Schedule: (not sure if this will change or not, but assuming the freshmen classes stay the same, here it is) English, Health, Home Ec, History, Art, PE
Length of Attendance: brand spankin’ new
After school activities: Art Club,
Likes: Art, fashion, feeling like she belongs, all kinds of music, live music, old movies, reading, things that sparkle, makeup, shopping, murals
Dislikes: feeling fat, being hungry, feeling incompetent, being clumsy, working at her mother’s diner, having to roller skate while serving food, dancing in public, being made fun of, being hungry all the time
Other Information:
Face Claim: Ashley Benson
www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/ashley-benson-step-up-los-angeles-premiere-1l807H.jpg
Player: Cheryl
Writing Sample: Astor sat down on the floor in her rolled up jeans and solid white top. She was working on the mural that her mother was letting her paint in the diner. She was working on something really cool…a 50s scene that would match with the place perfectly. There was some paint splattered on her pants, but that was normal for her and not all of it was new paint anyway.
She took a deep breath, smelling the paint…not because she wanted to get high but because it was easier to smell the paint than the scent of burgers that was wafting by. Astor was starving, but then again, she usually was. She’d had a bit of a salad at lunch, but it was dinner time and Astor didn’t want to think about it. She never ate at the diner. It wasn’t healthy enough and Astor knew if she even took one bite a burger that her mom would just remind her that that burger would go straight to her thighs.
“Astor!” her mother called. “I need you to serve the car outside.”
Astor sighed. She hated serving at the diner. If it was up to her, she’d never even come here, but working on the mural was fun. Plus, when she worked on the mural, she didn’t have to wear the lame 50s uniform she normally did. Although she did still have to wear the roller skates. Astor put them on and stood up, wobbling a little before she skated over to the counter where the food for those waiting in the car, using the drive in part of the diner, had ordered.
Skating outside, Astor saw that the car was filled with someone older from her school. And there she was, the lowly freshman, serving them food on roller skates. At lease she wasn’t wearing her poodle skirt, instead she had rolled up paint splattered jeans, which probably wasn’t a vast improvement. She bit down on her bottom lip as she skated over to them. “He-here’s your food,” she stammered as she skated a little too fast and bumped into the car. “Ummm, sorry,” she said, her cheeks bright pink.
Character Name: Astor Olivia Young
Nickname: none really, she mostly goes by just Astor
Age: 14
Birthday: June 21st
Place of Birth: Los Angeles
School: Gould
Grade: Freshman (after the jump she’ll be a freshman, right now she’d be in middle school)
Height: 5’4”
Hair Color: naturally dark blonde but highlights to a lighter, golden blonde
Eye Color: blue
Detailed Appearance: Standing at 5’4” Astor actually has a nice body for someone so young, not that she sees it. She is thin with small but decent curves. Her complexion is normal, naturally a little pale but she tans easily. He hair is worn long and often curled at the ends. It’s a very dark blonde but she gets it highlighted to a lighter golden blonde. While she has quite a flair for fashion and even designs her own clothes, she doesn’t have the confidence to wear anything trendy. She often walks around in jeans and T-shirts, often splattered with paint. She always plans outfits that contain cute skirts and tops and lots of accessories but she never actually wears these things, instead she hides beneath the boring basic clothes that aren’t really interesting in any way, shape, or form. So all and all, while she really is quite pretty, her all together look is quite plain.
Personality: While Astor isn’t quite shy, she isn’t always the most outgoing. She tends to be very complacent and tends to just follow the crowd. She’d like to be more popular and have more friends, but she’s afraid to really put herself out there. Growing up, she was constantly put under scrutiny from her mother. She was never pretty enough, never thin enough, never good enough and due to that, she tends to have a hard time in the self confidence area.
While Astor has never been fat, due to her mother, she thinks that she is. Astor has an eating disorder. She often pleads with herself to convince herself that she isn’t hungry when she really is. She will eat a little bit of course, but only for show. She has ways to make people think she’s eating when she really isn’t. She also will claim to have food allergies that she doesn't really have, to avoid eating. She wants to be perfect, but until she has confidence, she’ll never make it.
She loves fashion and art and tends to be very apt to it. While she knows she’s talented, she is very modest about it all and doesn’t really like to share her work with others just because she’s too self conscious about it. She also tends to be fidgety and she can be a little clumsy. She embarrasses very easily as well and spends a good portion of her day completely mortified. She wants to be liked so she’ll change herself for the benefit of whoever she is with. She is very moldable that way.
Thoughts on High School: She is brand new so none of those things ever affected her. She obviously experienced the earthquake, but growing up in California it wasn’t too big of a deal, even if it was larger than most of the ones she experienced. She heard about the school shooting at the high school, and they had a violence seminar at her middle school after it happened. Astor is just glad that she wasn’t there. She hopes nothing like that happens again. For the most part she’s excited for high school. She’d really like to reinvent herself but she’s not sure that that’s possible.
Town Area: Santa Monica (mom lives there) and Hollywood (dad lives there). Her mom technically has custody but she prefers staying with her dad.
Job: She helps out at her dad’s company—he own’s a fashion line, and she works at her mom’s 50's inspired diner
Transportation: parents, the bus, roller skates
Family Background: Melody Finley – mother, owns a 50s style diner where the waiters and waitresses serve people wearing roller skates and have to all sing along when certain songs are played on the jukebox. It has both drive in and eat in options. –Astor isn’t a fan of her mother. Her mother is constant berating her and telling her how she isn’t good enough and doesn’t measure up. Astor hates her. She also hates her for forcing her to work at the diner just because she hates the fact that Astor actually enjoys working for her dad.
David Young – father, he owns his own fashion line. It’s a small company that mostly sells to high end boutiques. –Astor loves her father very much. He’s always been great to her and she loves working for him. She really enjoys fashion and he even lets her design her own pieces and gets them made for her. Astor knows that her father would do anything for her.
History: Astor was born and raised in LA. Her parents were both born and raised in Texas, but they met at college in Dallas. At the end of college, David got an amazing internship at a fashion company in LA so Melody moved with him. They lived together happily for some time and had Astor. It was when Astor was 12 that is happened. Her father was caught having an affair with a man. By then his father had actually started his own fashion line and her mother had inherited some money and opened up a diner, since she was a chef before that. Once Melody found out that David way gay, she divorced him. She also took custody of Astor, mostly because she couldn’t stand that her daughter always like David better. Since Astor spent so much time with David anyway and even started working a bit at his office, Melody decided to force Astor to work at the diner as well.
Class Schedule: (not sure if this will change or not, but assuming the freshmen classes stay the same, here it is) English, Health, Home Ec, History, Art, PE
Length of Attendance: brand spankin’ new
After school activities: Art Club,
Likes: Art, fashion, feeling like she belongs, all kinds of music, live music, old movies, reading, things that sparkle, makeup, shopping, murals
Dislikes: feeling fat, being hungry, feeling incompetent, being clumsy, working at her mother’s diner, having to roller skate while serving food, dancing in public, being made fun of, being hungry all the time
Other Information:
Face Claim: Ashley Benson
www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/ashley-benson-step-up-los-angeles-premiere-1l807H.jpg
Player: Cheryl
Writing Sample: Astor sat down on the floor in her rolled up jeans and solid white top. She was working on the mural that her mother was letting her paint in the diner. She was working on something really cool…a 50s scene that would match with the place perfectly. There was some paint splattered on her pants, but that was normal for her and not all of it was new paint anyway.
She took a deep breath, smelling the paint…not because she wanted to get high but because it was easier to smell the paint than the scent of burgers that was wafting by. Astor was starving, but then again, she usually was. She’d had a bit of a salad at lunch, but it was dinner time and Astor didn’t want to think about it. She never ate at the diner. It wasn’t healthy enough and Astor knew if she even took one bite a burger that her mom would just remind her that that burger would go straight to her thighs.
“Astor!” her mother called. “I need you to serve the car outside.”
Astor sighed. She hated serving at the diner. If it was up to her, she’d never even come here, but working on the mural was fun. Plus, when she worked on the mural, she didn’t have to wear the lame 50s uniform she normally did. Although she did still have to wear the roller skates. Astor put them on and stood up, wobbling a little before she skated over to the counter where the food for those waiting in the car, using the drive in part of the diner, had ordered.
Skating outside, Astor saw that the car was filled with someone older from her school. And there she was, the lowly freshman, serving them food on roller skates. At lease she wasn’t wearing her poodle skirt, instead she had rolled up paint splattered jeans, which probably wasn’t a vast improvement. She bit down on her bottom lip as she skated over to them. “He-here’s your food,” she stammered as she skated a little too fast and bumped into the car. “Ummm, sorry,” she said, her cheeks bright pink.
