Post by CADY GRANDT on Feb 15, 2012 21:53:31 GMT -5
...Cady Auden Grandt *
* When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? *
[/size]* When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? *
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...basics*
name Cady Auden Grandt
nickname Just Cady. Her full name isn’t Catherine or something like that anyways.
age 17
gender female
grade Junior at Baum
hometown Deer River, MN
sexuality straight
personification Frankenstein’s monster
status Dormant
face claim Lights (Valerie) Poxleitner
...appearance*
hair color It’s naturally a chestnut brown, but she dyes it a shade perilously close to black.
eye color Hazel
build Short and skinny; stick- like arms and legs with just a tad of muscle definition, but not much.
height 5’4
clothing style Ripped sweatshirts, cropped tank tops, studded leather jackets, skinny jeans, bright red mesh wedges, and combat boots are all items you’d find in her closet.
distinctive traits She has many different tattoos… quite a lot for the tender age of 17, come to think of it.
...personal*
personality
ATTENTION SEEKER//LOUD//IMPULSIVE:
Cady has a reputation for having a big mouth. She isn’t afraid to make a spectacle (good or bad) in order to turn heads towards her. The way she dresses also echoes this part of her personality; it is difficult for her to cover up her need for attention because it is practically bleeding through for the world to see.
If someone wrongs her, they best watch their backs; she has absolutely no problem nor self-consciousness holding her back from bitching loudly and wildly in public. However, despite her constant talking and rambling, she’s found it hard to make friends in the past. Perhaps her boisterousness drives most anyone away. Perhaps part of her likes this.
LONER//SELF-LOATHING:
Thus is the paradox of Cady. She loves getting stares and being talked about, but hates socializing on a deeper level. Simply because she convinced herself she hasn’t met anyone worth being friends with yet. Either that, or she’s convinced herself that no one would ever take a liking to her. She enjoys people watching, however, and observing the personalities and relationships among other. She often imagines herself in other people’s shoes, though not in a sympathetic way, but a jealous, curious way.
Like any teenage girl, Cady struggles with her appearance. But there’s something deeper within her, constantly nagging and mocking—her own internal monologue. Though she enjoys the adrenaline of receiving attention for any action, that joy can be muffled, at a whim, by the voice inside her head.
She is convinced she is good for no one, and that no one is good for her.
HONEST//DIRECT//OPINIONATED:
She knows to use her words to ask for something she wants. When people ask her for advice, or an opinion, she knows no other way but to answer candidly. A developed pessimist, she’s not exactly a person you’d want to talk to after having a rough day, but she would give you her honest opinion about that hideous haircut you got yesterday.
LOOSE//UNRESTRAINED:
Due to her misconstrued views of what love and friendship are and should be, along with her underlying desire to please, Cady appears to have no problem getting—and giving—others what they want. Especially the males that have taken interest in her. And after, she has no problem acting aloof and numb to the whole situation. She can be overemotional, but figures that life is no fairytale, and will never be, especially for her.
She also makes sure she gets want she wants when the need arises—and can come off as demanding, cross and domineering to those around her.
HOPELESS ROMANTIC//WISTFUL:
Cady longs for her childhood, she longs for the day she believed other people could improve her as a person. But once she adopted a me-against-the-world attitude, it spiraled out of control. She is acutely aware of this however, and sometimes celebrates it with private sessions of clichéd love songs and movies, wishing the world was what it wasn’t. She feels almost as if she is covering herself with what she has become over the years.
past
Amelia Auden didn’t want to get pregnant at that time. She didn’t want to be kicked out of her house. She didn’t want to feel alone. She didn’t want to be the classic teenage pregnancy story, word for word. She hadn’t wanted to give Cady up for adoption. But she did.
Cady never met Amelia, as she had left the small town of Deer River, Minnesota to leave her murky, unfavorable past behind and start anew. All Cady knew of Amelia was her name. She didn’t even know her father’s name.
And of course, Cady’s adoptive parents, Sharon and Keith Grandt, told her all they knew of Amelia, albeit they didn’t know much at all. Sharon was a soft-spoken blonde woman with creases of worry outlining her rounded face; Keith was a sickly, frail man that spent most of his time in and out of the hospital from overworking his weak heart.
Sharon and Keith had trouble trying to have their own child, and after many years of tears and a crumbling marriage, they found Cady, who filled the void, but not like their own child would have. They were kind and just parents in general, but still rather standoffish and detached. Cady was plagued by the tangibility of this her whole life, though Sharon and Keith alike denied it upon their graves during every screaming match.
Cady never felt as if she was comfortable within her family, unlike all the others she observed. She felt she was a foreign puzzle piece, edges bent and fraying from years of being pushed and smashed down into a place she didn’t fit. She felt this same way in school, not bending to meet the education system halfway, likewise to her peers. In sixth grade and middle school, she became the freak who dressed like a “band-groupie-hooker” (that gem of a nickname was coined by one of her classmates in the seventh grade), talked a little too much, a little too loud, and spent a little too much time around boys. She had no interest in sports; she’d always been more on the aesthetic side, and competition ruined her because she knew she could never compete in any realm against those who were well liked.
present
Cady had had enough with her stupid school, her constant arguments with anyone that came within ten feet of her—it became more and more apparent she needed a change of pace and scenery. She had never been more excited and altogether relived when Keith and Sharon finally suggested boarding school faraway for their “troubled child”. She had never nodded her head more rigorously in agreement when Sharon proposed that she “needed a new, fresh start where no one had any preconceptions about her.”
She was, of course, secretly hurt that her parents were just shipping her off, practically giving up on her, but the prospect of a clean slate fought off the potential shrieks and accusations. Off to Baum she went, with no plans to write Keith or Sharon. They’d never been very close. Not that either party made any effort to remedy this.
family
PARENTS AND SIBLINGS
Biological mother- Amelia Auden. Cady knows nothing more about her than the fact that her last name is her own middle name.
Biological father- unknown.
Adoptive mother- Sharon Millsen-Grandt: prim and proper, Sharon grew up in a household where respect for authority and elders was mandatory. Her own mother convinced her that a woman’s place is at home, bearing and raising children. This mindset made it particularly difficult when she and Keith couldn’t conceive, and even harder when Keith became too sick to work.
Adoptive father- Keith Grandt: A five o’clock shadow and a large, toothy smile are his distinctive features, even when laying on a hospital bed. His catch phrase is “I’m fine, it’s just a little cold is all!”
Siblings- none.
likes
-Sappy books and movies (that’s a secret, shhh)
- People watching
- Halloween
-Neutral, earthy colors
-Cold weather
- Having time to spend by herself
-People staring at her, in a pleasant or unpleasant manner
-Gossip magazines
-Running, working out
dislikes
-Crowds
-Sharing secrets
-Authority
-Promises, treaties, agreements (too quick to make and too easy to break)
-People who appear to have lots of friends; no faults
other notes Though she revels in confrontation and speaking her mind, she never feels as if she gets her point across to other people. Why do people see her and stare, but have nothing to say to her? She can’t comprehend it, and it bothers her more than anything.
...literature*
book title Frankenstein
backstory So this guy Victor Frankenstein goes all science happy and finds a way to create life. He gets so excited and obsessed he sews together parts of cadavers and makes his make-shift person come alive, only to be so scarred by its ugliness he leaves the poor thing to fend for itself. When it first awakens it is naïve and innocent like a child, but because of its looks no one is ever kind to it, thus making it grow to hate the world.
...roleplayer*
name Piper
age You never ask a lady her age!
gender I believe that’s answered above.
rp experience I’ve written…Nancy Drew computer game…fan fiction… alternate endings…that doesn’t really count…and it’s embarrassing…so I’m just gonna…bye…
how you found ouac Scouty Dearest
rp sample
I'm putting this back up later, I promise!
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