RAINE, Autumn

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...Autumn Raine*
*They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.*

...basics*

name AUTUMN RAINE– no, not even a middle name; being totally honest, she doesn't find it to be very peculiar at all.
nickname Most people are loath to call her by anything short of her full name; she's lucky to ever receive just 'Autumn', let alone anything shorter.
age She is trapped somewhere between youth and adulthood, with just twenty-one years under her belt.
gender Female, as it would seem.
grade A Barrie University Freshman, eager to obtain a proper education.
hometown A vehicular home, somewhere near Saticoy in the Oxnard Plain of California.
sexuality Hopelessly heterosexual.
personification Briar Rose, the sleeping beauty herself.
status Fast asleep!– er, dormant.
face claim Becky Lou Filip.

...appearance*

hair Flowing waves of chocolate brown, reaching past her shoulders and ending at her chest.
eye color The color of slate.
build Svelte, but not scraggy; a hundred and ten pounds.
height 5'6".
clothing style Autumn Raine knows little and cares not of the vogue. She prides herself on the fact that she strays from it, though she hasn't a distinct style besides; really, between oddly patterned dresses and bland gray sweats, Autumn's wardrobe has few themes, barring that of a low price tag.
distinctive traits Her hands and feet are callused from years of barefoot exploration through the mountainous terrain surrounding her home– a feature that pleases Autumn, considered by her as symbolic of her beloved childhood.

...personal*

personality

To call Autumn bohemian would be one hell of an understatement– and with a name like Autumn Raine, who could be surprised? Having spent most of her life living in the car from which she was hailed, Autumn is incredibly naive regarding the world she's walked into by moving to New York City, and with obvious reason. Most technology is unfamiliar to her, society itself a foreign principle, and she doesn't do a particularly good job of hiding her mystification at the elementary– Autumn is really little more than an alien, stumbling about an entirely unfamiliar city, brimming with fascinating and novel things that most would consider soporific.

Despite the unsurprising confusion she's met upon entering this new world, Autumn is an unwaveringly cheerful woman, full of vim and vigor as she boldly challenges the infinitely unfamiliar things she finds there. Optimism certainly doesn't run short with her, and she strives to spread it to those around her– and, while her lighthearted nature is indeed quite infectious, Autumn Raine does tend to grow annoying in her efforts. She has an awful habit of wanting to fix things– well, specifically, people– and can't help but try fixing things, can't sit still when she knows there's something to be fixed. She treats troubled people a bit like her personal projects, the wounded animals found in the woods just waiting to be nursed back to health.

She undoubtedly means well, but sometimes meaning well is a bit of a curse, and Autumn Raine is certainly a testimony to that. Her hopeless attempts to help are bountiful but ultimately useless, if not detrimental, to her cause, and what friendships she might manage to attain are easily demolished by her futile endeavors. Nonetheless, she's certainly admirable when it comes to her little people projects; though she often has a hard time wrapping her head around them, she's never short of perseverance, determination to make things right, to fix things as she always wants to.

Though exasperating at times, Autumn Raine has a big heart, and its hard not to love her, at least a little bit. Well, until she sticks her nose into your business– true, curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back, right? She loves to know things, especially after knowing so little of the real world throughout the rest of her life. Autumn is easily fascinated, especially by people and their lives; there's no shortage of questions when she's around, and upon meeting someone she's quick to wonder where they're from, who they are, what they like, who their parents are.

And she'll really and truly believe whatever you say in response to such questions. Lying is a completely foreign idea to her (like just about everything else), and she herself is an incredibly honest– blunt, even– person. She hasn't quite figured out the eloquence of keeping her damn mouth shut yet, and as such tends to make small observations much better kept to herself, be they kind or insulting. Autumn has it figured out that everyone is, like her, entirely happy with themselves, and loves to comment accordingly. Autumn Raine is, most definitely, the idiot to admit that, yes, you do look quite fat in that dress. And out of it, too.

If there's anything that Autumn loves, it's adventure, be it on paper or in reality. Living a childhood comprised of literature and exploration, Autumn's days barely differed from one another, though her own impassioned belief is that each day can only be more exciting than the previous. Contrary to the expected, Autumn Raine is fully literate. With a disappointingly limited and outdated library, Autumn quickly went through what few books she owned– and then went through them again, and again, and again, until she was disgustingly familiar with every page of each of them. And while she's ravenously gone through many more volumes since abandoning her restricted life in California, Autumn will never find any piece of reading more wonderful than her collections of fairy tales and Charles Dickens and travel guides. She especially loved such marvelous tales of true love and princesses, trapped in towers or eternal sleep until freed by her magnificent prince.

And the best thing about books– oh, the absolute best thing about books– is that they provide adventure. Oh, oh, who didn't love a good adventure? Isn't that why Autumn Raine left her Flower Child life, so day-to-day and simple, to come to this new land of taxicabs and skyscrapers? For adventure– no, there's no expansive jungles or rolling seas, but it's an adventure nonetheless, and so Autumn could want nothing else. She wants for her life to be an adventure, just like those she's read of in her books, though she admittedly does miss the darling nature that surrounded her in California.

And, just like those she's read of in her books, Autumn desires her prince, wherever he happens to be hiding. Autumn Raine isn't really fickle, as much as naive in the department of romance, knowing only of those she's read of and not of those encountered in reality, especially after having met few boys her age before leaving the Oxnard Plain. She simply has a bit of a problem when it comes to a member of the opposite sex, an insuperable, indomitable problem. Autumn Raine falls madly in love with them.

Well, for a time being. At least, until they're gone, and she meets a new boy, a new potential prince, to fall deeply in love with. It isn't lust, and Autumn most definitely isn't a whore of any sort– quite the opposite, she hasn't even had her first kiss. She gets twitterpatted, falls in love, head-over-heels and everything, throwing coherence and intelligence behind her in favor of... well, absolute hopelessness. She's a romantic person by nature, who dreams of someday falling for her perfect Prince Charming, spurred by a desperation to love and be loved by someone to the point of trailing after men like a lovesick puppy dog.

It's pathetic, really.

past

Harrison was once a normal man; or, at least, 'normal' as it would be considered by mainstream society. At twenty-one, he aimed to someday be a lawyer, though he stemmed from an affluent family and needed nothing more monetarily. At twenty-one, he had a pretty little girlfriend and all the latest technological gadgets, and a plethora of friends. At twenty-one, despite all that, he was unhappy. It just wasn't him, is what he told people. He wanted to be free, not another drone that went through college and then law school and then became a lawyer who would someday raise his own little drones to go through college and then law school. Or, maybe (for some nice variation), med school.

It just wasn't him.

And so, when he met little Sunshine Raine in California– her name only the first of a great number of peculiar things Harrison would discover about her–, Harrison let her take him away from his life as a twenty-one year old in Massachusetts, let her take him away to a new and unorthodox life without rules or regulations. That, he said, was him, right and proper, and so he would come to be living from his car with her, happily lost amid the rolling hills of the Oxnard Valley.

Autumn Raine was born to live in what would seem to be a lifelong camping trip, with occasional trips to small nearby towns that themselves seemed huge to Autumn (let alone the metropolis she would end up living in years later). She was born out of a hospital, at least– the "natural" way, with a midwife as substitute for a doctor–, before she began her life with Rainbow (Harrison was quick with the name change) and Sunshine Raine, a pair of jubilant parents happy to teach Autumn about the important things, rather than the horrific ideals about war and violence that filled the world.

You see, even a nonconformist is, in their own way, prone to conform. As, after all, they conform not to conform. Quite simply. And this was exactly what Autumn's parents did, and in doing so, pushed their beliefs upon their blind little child, sculpting her into the perfect little nature-loving Bohemian. Until, at least, Rainbow Raine realized that it was insanity. Maybe he was enlightened? Maybe he simply "matured", if one could call such a thing the definition of maturation. Nevertheless, Harrison grew tired of being a hippie, as many people like him are prone to do, and longed to return to reality, so far away as it now seemed.

And he would have gone– really, he would have– if not for his beautiful daughter, his beautiful influenced daughter. He hated to imagine what sort of case this would make in a court; battle for custody between two hippies, one desperate to stop being a hippie. So, rather than leave with Autumn, Harrison prepared Autumn to leave, personally homeschooling her as best as he possibly could. He taught her to read, from which point he did little beyond buying her new textbooks (and a few other books for her leisure, which she cherished above all else) and offering occasional supervision.

Of course, he told her about the outside world– he explained to Autumn Raine of the magical boxes called television, and such exotic things as soda pop, and of trains and planes and lions and tigers and everything else that did not exist in their sadly secluded world. And then, when she was seventeen, he finally left, taking neither her nor her obstinate mother along with him as he disappeared into the world beyond.

And soon after, Autumn followed blindly in his footsteps, though she took several years to leave the small town of Saticoy that she had fled to, waiting only until she had gotten somewhat adjusted to the change from car to town (monumental as it already was) before allowing yet another monumental change in leaving California and going to the gargantuan New York City.

present

After making her citizenship in the United States proper (it was a bit of a mess before), Autumn applied to Barrie University in New York City, at the ripe age of twenty. She was reluctantly accepted despite her shaky education (as she had done a surprisingly impressive job in entrance exams and the like), and spent a final year in California before moving to New York City for the spring semester at Barrie, still unaware of the beauty that sleeps within her.

Her college life is fairly average, if looked at from a standpoint of solely grades– being quite intelligent herself, and blessed with the determination and curiosity that most educators adore, she excels in most of her classes. Autumn Raine's social life, on the other hand, is another story entirely, and she still isn't one hundred percent sure where it stands. It seems to Autumn that every girl she befriends ends up abandoning her after a short while (usually after Autumn tries to fix a broken relationship or something along those lines), and every boy she meets thinks she's a ridiculous, stammering fool– but despite all this, Autumn maintains her usual cheer, and still pursues new friends along with her unknown prince, wherever he might be.

family
HARRISON FRANZ RAINBOW RAINE HARRISON FRANZ, father, forty-two, student
SUNSHINE RAINE, mother, forty-five, unemployed

likes
o Books - or, stories, in general– especially romance.
o Nature - in all of its many forms.
o Adventure - her very favorite thing in the whole entire world.
o Her Prince - who seems to manifest in every single boy she meets, unfortunately.
o Acoustic Music - she herself plays both the guitar and, curiously, ukulele.
o Running - she isn't fast, though.
o Fixing - even when it isn't already broken.
o Smiles - everyone smiles differently, and she loves to see it.
o Learning - learning anything at all, really.
o Her father - a wonderful man, whom she misses dearly.
o Caffeine - what a remarkable invention!
o Remote Controls - not the television, as much as the remote.
o Peanut Butter - a recent and wonderful discovery, on her part.
o Everything - almost, at least.

dislikes
o Conformity - it's from the way she was raised.
o Meat - she is a vegetarian, herself, and it horrifies her.
o Being Disliked - though it happens quite often.
o Hygiene - though she does, reluctantly, shower. occasionally.
o The Zoo - though she quite likes the animals. just not the imprisonment.
o Trains - they're unpleasantly loud, and she refuses to ride one.
o Money - it confuses her quite a bit.
o Alcohol - she doesn't understand it, but it's effects terrify her.
o Sleeping - such a waste of time that could be spent adventuring!

other notes

...literature*

book title Sleeping Beauty
backstory Okay, so... there are two main stories, the original fairy tale and the Disney adaptation. I based this off the Disney one, which is pretty well known: Princess is born, party is held, but this one chick wasn't invited because she's a real bitch. she crashes it, all green and shit, and is like "I curse you because I am mad that nobody likes me" and so the curse is all like Princess will die when she's sixteen BUT WAIT there are some good fairies who are like noooo we are powerful but not powerful enough, so they make it so she doesn't die, but falls asleep to be awakened by true love's kiss. etc. etc. taken into the woods by the good fairies, meets her true love sixteen years later, and then goes back to the castle because the bad fairy has found her. there, she pricks her finger, falls asleep, and then is kissed and wakes up.

Meanwhile, the other story has nothing about the fairies leaving, but briar rose instead stays in the castle and the king banishes spindles, which are prophesied to be the cause of her death by the evil fairy. however, one old lady does not know about it and keeps her spindle; curious briar rose finds it on her birthday, wants to try, pricks her finger. prince still finds and kisses her, etc. and then there's a second part where she has two kids and the prince takes her to meet his ogre step-mother, who demands that briar rose and her children be made for dinner. she gets fed some animal meat instead, until she finds out the ploy and prepares to kill the cook who tricked her. but the prince gets back and she jumps into a pit of snakes. the end.

So yeah here is my unorthodox Briar Rose, who is not even blonde! What?!?!?!

...roleplayer*

name BIZ
age ATIN
gender ADUDE
rp experience I can't believe it's only been a month since I joined OUAC
how you found ouac But I can't even remember
rp sample SEE PASCAL FISCHER

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