RIGBY, Aurora Madeline

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...basics*

name...

[/b][/size] Aurora Madeline Rigby
nickname...[/b][/size] Aura is about the only nickname she’s had. She loves it and all, but it’s weird to hear anybody else but her old friends use it.
age...[/b][/size] 17 and it’s kind of awful. She hasn’t got that sweet 16 feeling anymore and she can’t pull any of that ‘responsible adult’ nonsense that comes with 18.
gender...[/b][/size] She’s the sort that’ll flash to prove she’s a girl, like Viola had to in that really confusing soccer movie.
grade...[/b][/size] A senior at Baum Academy. It’s her first year, so be nice!
occupation...[/b][/size] Right now, she’s working for a company called “HA, IN YOUR DREAMS.” She thinks jobs are boring and she’s putting that off for as long as she can.
hometown...[/b][/size] The town of Awesome in the state of Bow Down, Bitches. Okay, but actually, she’s from Fairfield, Iowa.
sexuality...[/b][/size] She’s straight as an arrow, but after the issues she’s had with boys, she kind of doesn’t give a fuck.
personification...[/b][/size] The Cow from Jack and the Beanstalk.
status...[/b][/size] Dormant.
face claim...[/b][/size] Barbara Palvin.[/blockquote]
...appearance*

physical...

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Aurora is the cutest girl you’ve ever seen ever. She’s got these big blue eyes and a pretty little face and her hair has a life of its own, changing color with the seasons. She’s kind of tall, or at least she feels kind of tall, standing at 5 feet and 7 inches. It’s almost like she dances between shorter and taller than that, as she slouches, but her hair has a lot of volume to it. Speaking of dancing, she did just that when she was younger, and it’s given her a bit of grace. Her movements are rather elegant. That is, when she isn’t paying attention. Usually, she doesn’t want to look like a careful ballerina and so she tends to stumble around, trying to be on-purpose clumsy.

And though some people might say Aurora is the cutest girl you’ve ever seen ever {I’m sorry, I’m just in love with Barbara Palvin}, she has trouble thinking so on most days. Her eyes are too blue and the only goal in life her hair has is to be frizzy and uncontrollable. She’s too tall compared to some of her dainty classmates. When she does slip into that fluid-like movement, she feels people might see her as a snob (“well, excuse you, your highness”), but when she pretends to be ungainly, she worries people might think she’s just stupid (“breathe and walk at the same time, much?”) It’s a constant battle of confidence and uncertainty.
clothing style...[/b][/size]
Aurora wears anything and everything. She’ll shop at designer outlets and at thrift stores. She’ll wear light up tennies or expensive high heels. She loves dresses with all her heart: spaghetti strap, floor length, ones just made for summer, and especially poufy princess ball gowns. She wears dresses out more often than she does to school. School calls for jeans and shirts and flats. When she feels like standing out, she’ll spice it up with some nice jewelry or a different hair style. For the most part, she wants to blend in with the crowd. Aurora’s already self conscious enough about her appearance that she doesn’t need to draw attention to her outfits, too.
defining traits...[/b][/size]
Her eyes really are very, very blue. It is super striking and Aurora can say without a doubt that it’s what people notice first about her. When she’s around people she’s just met or feels wary about, her demeanor and laugh are much more reserved than you’d see when she’s with long time friends. [/blockquote]
...personal info*

personality...

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As you’ve just read, Aurora Madeline Rigby is just one big contradiction.

On one hand, she’s confident and outgoing, boisterous and in-your-face. She doesn’t let anything get to her. Insults fly right by her and you can expect her to fire back a snide comment. Aurora won’t take shit from anybody. She simply won’t have it. Aurora is a good friend to have in a fight, honestly. She may not look it, but she knows a thing or two about how to throw a punch. It’s kind of not surprising, having been friends with mostly boys growing up. Mostly, though… Aurora tries to avoid getting in a scrap. Things work out so much better if they’re talked about. And if the people involved don’t want to do anything about the situation, she’ll force them together, being sneaky with her words to somehow get them in the same room. Aurora wants things to always be nice and easy and she’ll do what she has to to keep it that way.

On the other hand, she’s self-conscious and meek, restrained and hesitant. Almost everything gets to her. Every insult settles on her heart and is thought over and over and over for the next week. She might as well be a doormat. Aurora is good to have in a fight you’ve just lost because she can be trusted to take care of you until everything is all better. Growing up with boys certainly made her more comfortable around them, but it also made it harder to connect with other girls. Aurora keeps her distance from any sort of confrontation. She’ll do what she has to to help a pair of friends get back on good terms. If that means not exactly telling the truth, but not telling a lie, to get them both in the right place at the right time to talk things out… then fine. Aurora wants things to always be nice and easy and she’ll do what she has to to keep it that way.

Whether she’s feeling positive or negative, one can always rely on Aurora for a shoulder to cry on. Her advice varies from kindhearted to blunt depending on the situation and on her mood. You can never quite know what to expect from Aurora. More often than not, you can rely on the advice she’s given you, even if she’s a bitch when she gives it. Aurora herself is pretty good at bottling up her emotions. Before she left Iowa, there were three people she’d turn to when she was upset or in need of comforting. She left two of them behind and now she’s hoping to find the third at Baum Academy. It’s not easy constantly hiding how she’s feeling. When she does reach her breaking point, it’s either crying a river or wrecking whatever is closest. It’s almost scary how violent she can get when she’s upset enough.

There are a few other things that are quite noticeable about her personality. She’s very unlucky and she’s got a slow reaction time. Aurora’s not very good at catching things, whether it’s a set of keys or herself after a fall. She really enjoys watching television shows and reading books that leave you asking questions at the end. Since moving to New York, her favorite place to spend time is at the museums. There wasn’t much to look at in Iowa and she finds herself fascinated by most everything new. Sometime, she thinks it might be fun to get into painting. After seeing some of the masterpieces at the Metropolitan, she wonders how well she’d be at expressing herself like that. She’s lost herself in music on more than one occasion. If she gets into it enough, she’ll dance down the sidewalks or miss somebody calling her name.

Her dance lessons have stuck with her and she likes to show off what she learned, so she’ll go to all the social functions she can. Aurora likes to spend time at the Dans Dans La Paix dance studio. She’ll sign up for whatever free classes are being offered, whether it be dancing or painting or music. She likes learning new things, and it’s always a good way to kill time. That’s what is so great about New York. There is a lot more to do here than her hometown. It’s also pretty easy to make friends in these classes for a number of reasons: she may never see them again after this so it doesn’t matter if she embarrasses herself, they hit it off and she’s got a new companion, they don’t know her and so they can’t judge her like her classmates at Baum do (or like she assumes they do). Yeah, she’s a bit paranoid about things like that.

Too long, didn’t read? Aurora is a wild card, simple as that.
life until now...[/b][/size]
When you’re just a kid, there’s not much to do in a place like Fairfield, Iowa. That’s how Aurora Rigby sees it, anyway. There’s lots of stuff for big kids and adults to do, but when you’re still in elementary school, and it’s not easy to get out and explore, Fairfield, Iowa is boring. When she’s not at school, she’s at daycare, and when she’s not at daycare, she’s at home. Aurora doesn’t know really why she has to go to daycare, anyway. She can totally take care of herself and if her parents would just let her stay home alone, they’d realize that!

Aurora isn’t even sure what her parents do, to be honest. That they live on a farm may seem pretty obvious to everybody else, but she doesn’t pay enough attention to realize. Her father does spend a lot of time with the crops and the animals while she’s at school. When her mother is lucky, she works 9 to 5 at a local restaurant. She can take her daughter to school this way and she can pick her up from daycare on the way home. On her unlucky days, she either opens or she closes and she can’t do either of these things.

Her father spends the evenings going into town for a drink or to make business with the other farmers. It wasn’t clear to Aurora what he did then and it’s still not clear to her now. She tries not to think about it. So when her mother gets a closing shift and her dad isn’t answering his phone, Aurora has to ask the care providers for a ride home or another kid’s mom, but there have been evenings where she makes the hour long walk back home. Not once has she told her parents about this, not ever wanting to have worried them.

Aurora’s never really had any trouble making friends, whether it is at school or at the daycare. For some reason, she’s always found it easier to get along with boys. They aren’t as complicated as girls. Then again, most of the girls she knew didn’t have to help out on a farm and they worried about their nails and hair a lot. However, just because she made friends easily doesn’t mean she kept them. She doesn’t know why, but friends don’t seem to last long for her. It sucked then and it sucks now.

If you made Aurora pick one day that really stuck out to her during her childhood, she could tell you easily that it was Christmas Eve during winter break of second grade. Her parents were fighting. Loudly. Right out in the open. They’d sent her to her room but she could still hear them using words that they normally avoided, and in a fit of sudden fear and confusion, she left. In nothing but her pajamas and boots, Aurora snuck out through her window and took off, running far away from home and that noise.

She ran the entire way, with no sense of direction, it being near dark and snowing, and her eyes full of tears. When Aurora did stop, she didn’t know where she was, just that there was a tree nearby and it looked nice enough to lean against. And so she had done just that, crying in the snow, freezing and wondering if she’d done something wrong. That night, she met Jackson Hirsch. He took her inside to get warm and they talked about the holidays and family and they became fast friends.

When school started back up, Aurora was surprised and pleasantly pleased to see that Jackson was in most of her classes. She introduced him to Carson, who’d she had the pleasure of meeting earlier on in the year, and they were this awesome group of best friends. It was great! Living so close to Jackson meant being able to get the occasional ride home from his mom. Her own parents seemed to realize that their fighting scared their daughter away and so they worked on improving their relationship.

Middle school was weird. All the girls and boys were making eyes at each other and there was drama. The worst part was that it was affecting her friends. They were going from a terrific trio to a terrible trio. She could tell how much they were faking it around her, and so she’d invite them out to places and then not show up, just to get them together. It was exhausting. Her parents were growing apart, school was getting more difficult, and everything was… stupid. Aurora found herself visiting Jackson more often, just to talk to him, like she always had. His mother treated her like a second daughter which was really nice when her own mom got really busy.

If only she’d known that things were going to get worse. It was always hovering over her head while she grew up, that she lived in tornado alley. People talked about it a lot and there were always emergency preparedness lessons in class. So, she shouldn’t have found herself so surprised that the summer after eighth grade year was bad. Aurora can’t complain too much about the storm. Her parents are still alive and the only damage they took was to the barn. She wonders to this day how they managed that, what with her general unluckiness.

The second the coast was clear, Aurora made her way to Jackson’s farm, and what she saw was a lot worse than she expected. She did her best to comfort Jackson, the way he’d done for her for so long, but the death of his father hit him hard. Their friendship just wasn’t the same. She found herself visiting just as often, though, hoping to make it clear that she was still there for them. Aurora helped out his mother however she could, but she had to spend a lot of time at home, helping to take care of the animals while her dad fixed the barn.

The second day of her life that sticks out most started relatively normal. She’d finished all her chores and she was having lunch with Kayla (Jackson’s mom) when she was told something that was simply not okay. On her way to talk to Jackson about it, she overheard a conversation between her two best friends that was even less okay, and she went home without a word to either of them. Jackson could go to New York if he wanted, she didn’t care, and they were both crazy if they thought they could get away with treating her like she’s to be owned.

After everything happened, Aurora spent more time by herself. After her dance lessons, she’d explore the city, spending a lot of time at the Convention Center. There was a lot to look at there and it helped keep her mind off of things. She helped out around the house more often, hid out in the barn with a book, or to tended the crops. Aurora did whatever she could to avoid seeing Jackson or Carson outside of school. Classes were awkward enough, she didn’t want it following her around everywhere else.

Thinking maybe she could at least straighten things out before Jackson left, Aurora went to the train station to say goodbye. He totally blew her off and from then on, she found herself confused and angry. With Carson being her closest friend left, Aurora latched onto him, and they had something for awhile. He changed, as everybody will, and got into some things she really disapproved of, and finally she just got sick and tired of the way he treated her.

The only things keeping her in Iowa was her mother, the job she’d managed to pick up at the same restaurant, and the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center. It wasn’t enough to keep her there. After explaining things to her mother, she counted up all her money, and sent an application to Baum Academy. Aurora let Kayla know where she was headed, asking if there was anything she’d like to take to Jackson. Once she’d been (miraculously) accepted to Baum, Aurora booked a one way ticket to New York and said goodbye to everything she’d ever known.

the present...[/b][/size]
Aurora’s first day in New York was scary. Her only support was her great aunt, who picked her up from the airport and let her stay over for the first week. Until the paperwork had been filled out at Baum Academy, she wouldn’t be allowed in the dorms. A room had to be found for her, as she was arriving later in the school year. If Aurora had to sum up in one word how it was staying with her great aunt, she would choose ‘hell.’ The woman was stuffy and strict, she had rules for everything, and the house had that typical old person smell.

Thank her lucky stars, they found her a room at Baum just as her allowed week was ending. Aurora moved in immediately, but she saved unpacking for later. The first thing she did was go to admire the buildings where art and music classes took place. Not shortly after that, she was signing up for the dance team, and drama and art clubs. Only after she was finished exploring did she return to her dorm to unpack. She was clearly living with somebody else, but they were nowhere to be found.

Aurora has two plans now that she’s in New York.

One is to do well in school. Aurora knows that the work is going to be much harder here, seeing as she had to apply to get in. She’s taking more classes than she was in Iowa, and she’s signed up for after school activities that she hadn’t before. With all sorts of new things to distract her in such a big city, she’s sure to fall behind in class work, not to mention she’ll be trying to make friends. In a nutshell, it’s likely Aurora won’t do well until she’s really settled in and comfortable with this new situation.

Two is to find Jackson Hirsch. It’s been a motto since he left that if she’s going to lose a friend, she wants them to at least be on good terms. So if she finds him, and he doesn’t want anything to do with her… well… so be it. It doesn’t mean she can’t just let him know that she’s sorry and she misses him. He’s bound to have new friends by now, and the self-conscious part of her is scared to even pursue a friendship with him again, for fear that she is turned down. It’s not easy.

Aurora’s already written two letters to her mom. She’s taken hundreds of pictures of the campus alone, all of them being sent through email and uploaded on Facebook. New York is absolutely beautiful. There’s a different feel to it than there was in Iowa, and she finds herself awestruck by all of it. The Metropolitan is already one of her favorite places, despite not having been yet. Sometimes you just know, you know? It’s one of the places she plans on frequenting, as well as Times Square and the New York Public Library.
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The Bucket List:

• Solve a Rubik’s cube
  
• Audition for a part in one of Baum’s plays
  
• Get the part auditioned for.
  
• Go sky diving.
  
• Go bungee jumping.
  
• Learn how to use a pogo stick.
  
• Learn how to draw, so she can get somewhere with painting.
  
• Meet the love of her life, get married, have kids, etc etc.
  
• Learn to say hello in 30 languages. (6/30)
  
• Go to Walt Disney World (or) Disneyland.
  
• Donate blood.
  
• Make amends with her best friends.
  
• Pledge to be Veg(etarian) for 30 days. (Record: 13/30)

Likes / Dislikes
+ ice cream, sunshine, Dreamworks movies, art, birthdays, chamomile tea, horror movies, her hair, brushing the farm animals back home, feeling useful
— pizza, nasty weather, the stress after a move, working, anything to do with carrots, bright eye-hurting colors, drugs and alcohol, feeling useless

Favorites…!
Animals: cows, horses, manta rays, and dogs
Colors: green, gold, and lavender
Foods: sushi, potatoes, and pie (especially strawberry rhubarb)
Books: Artemis Fowl, The Caster Chronicles, and anything by John Green
Celebrities: Katherine Heigl, Robert Downey Jr., and Jennifer Lawrence
Flowers: Carnations, Daffodils, and Amaryllises
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...literature*

title... Jack and the Beanstalk
backstory...
The cow owned by Jack and his mom is a very old cow who can barely make anymore milk. Eventually, she isn’t able to do so at all one morning and so Jack’s mom sends Jack to sell the cow at the market so they can have some money and bread on the table. Yeah okay. Maybe that cow just needs some TLC. Anyway, Jack pulls kind of a dumb move and gives the cow to some mysterious man he met in exchange for five ~magical beans.~ Jack’s mom is uber pissed and she sends him to bed without dinner. That’s what you get for giving the poor cow to some weirdo.

...the roleplayer*

tell us about you...

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