Post by electra11 on Aug 15, 2009 23:38:27 GMT -5
About You
Real Name: Charlotte
Age:…13
Other Characters: Amber Starr
Email/Messenger: PM here or on Effanineffable. My email's someoneelse11@yahoo.com
Experience with RPG:…Just since January…of this year
Route I know x2 and Percy from Eff and Endless Night, but I saw the ad on Golden Jellicles
About Character
Name:Courtney Mina Marino
Nicknames: Court, Courtie, Couri Mina, White Cat (From having two different roles as one)
Role: Victoria
Age/Year: 17
Tour Date: Approx. 11 months
Home Town: Eynsham, England
Appearance: Courtney usually twists her dark hair into a bun. It makes her feel more like a dancer. And yes, she walks with 'duck feet'. She has high cheekbones and a gentle smile. She looks a little younger then she actually is, and really doesn’t look twenty. Court's hair is a very dark brown, but she sometimes highlights it with a little blonde or adds even darker brown to it.
She dresses very casually. Jeans, button-up shirts, wrap tops, and old knitwear designed for dancers. A lot of her pants are stained with paint, ink, or have holes in them. Nothing fancy, simple and comfortable.
Celeb Appearance: Jacinda Barrett
Personality: Courtney is usually stereotyped as a ballerina. She's quiet, focused, and absorbed in her dancing. Well, she appears that way, at least. She acts reserved around strangers, so how would they know? Court loves to party just as much as the next person! (Minus any drinking.) As much as she loves dancing, she also adores getting back to her room and working on one of her infamous projects. Wherever the tour takes her, she always has all of this random art stuff crammed into her luggage, which then gets spread over her bed, the floor, and the bathroom. She has been diagnosed with (but not treated for) ADD (no, not hyper ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder. She'll start some elaborate craft, but then get caught up in something, forgetting her old plans. Mostly, she likes doing things with tie dye, or paint, or ink. (Most of her jeans and shirts have either ink or paint spilled over the thighs.) She focuses on things that have been put into the category of 'romantic'. Butterflies, sunsets, swirling pastel colors. But those are things that she loves! Often, Mina combines those ideas with the portrait of a lone ballerina. Melancholy, colorful, standing on her toes with a butterfly cupped in her delicate hand. That's the typical image in one of her paintings. She also likes writing letters to her friends in calligraphy. She doesn't even mail them. All of Court's friends are in the tour. She really didn't make many friends before that.
Courtney's ADD is a little hard for her to handle. She's fussed at for forgetting things, but though she wishes she could do better, she doesn't know what to do. She takes medicine for it, but nothing could completely cure it. Mina struggles with remembering combinations. Not so much in Cats, she has the hang of it now. She just has a little harder time learning the dances then the a 'normal person'.
Unfortunately, Courtney doesn't only have ADD. She also has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She gets unexplainably anxious about some things and her way to calm that is to lie. Couri feels like if she tells everything about herself, she'll be vulnerable to everyone and even more prone to injury. Court has an unexplainable fear of being chased, caught, and hurt (which she feels will happen if she's exposed).She feels like some know too much about her and her lies are like a mask to hide her true face. Her main lie is about her age. This lie has come into being since leaving her family. She feels less connected with them and more able to take care of herself if she tells her friends and the heads of the tour that she's twenty, not seventeen. Mina has been diagnosed with OCD (after she left home) and has been put on a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medication which controls her release of serotonin and regulates anxiety. It helps her, but she's still compulsively lies and obsesses of small details. Courtney always double and triple checks dates and times, afraid that she'll make some mistake with them. She does the same with her dance bag. She always wants to be prepared and is terrified that she'll leave something in her hotel room. She gets very hyper focused about her dancing or on some small part of a painting. A butterfly or a hand. Panic attacks aren't uncommon for her.
Likes:
~Dancing (Esp. ballet)
~Travel
~Sunsets
~Splits and pirouettes
~Tie dye
~Makeup and masks
~Pride and Prejudice (the book)
~Italics
~Romance Languages
~Calligraphy
~Butterflies
~The Cell Block Tango
~Ballroom dancing
~White cats (Persians, Turkish Angoras, alley cats, anything white and fluffy)
~Les Miserables and Chicago (because they were 'forbidden' to her.)
~Royksopp
Dislikes:
~Blisters
~Panic attacks
~Meeting her audience
~Canceling out on friends
~Calling people she doesn't know
~Kids
~Winter
~Broken glass
~American TV show So You Think You Can Dance?
~Soap operas
~Mirrors and videos of herself
History: Courtney was actually born in Italy, but her parents moved to Eynsham, England when she was 9 months old. Once there, her father got involved in politics. He worked his way through the small positions until he was elected mayor. Courtie stared dancing when she was five. She took beginner ballet classes in Oxford. She continued with ballet, branching out with jazz and modern when she was at the proper leval. She had very good instructors and soon became a very good dancer, as she was told. Mina was put in the children's ensemble for her first performance ever, Coppelia. At eleven, she started pointe. The pain in her toes was discouraging, but she struggled to move past that. That year, she was moved into the group of company apprentices. When her dance conservatory performed Swan Lake, she was a young swan. Courtney's parents didn't completely support her passion for dance. They focused on her academic work instead. She was very bright and had skipped a grade in primary school. They were bent on her going to Cambridge and wanted to fully prepare her for that. They believed her dancing took too much time from that.
At thirteen (one year early), Courtney was graduating from secondary school. It was the Eynsham tradition for the school to hold a dance (a mini prom) for the graduates. Courtney was invited, being pretty and nice. Her mother (a 'helicopter parent') took her shopping in Oxford, determined to find the perfect dress. Mina didn't like her mother's protectiveness and determination to be completely involved in her life. Therefore, she went back to the store and returned the gown her mother'd picked out, buying a simpler, shorter dress with the refund. The day of the dance, she went to a friend's house to get ready so her mother wouldn't see what she was wearing. The dance was wonderful for Courtney…a dancer. She danced, chatted with friends, and laughed with her date, a very friendly boy. She was a little concerned by the Eynsham reporter mingling with the secondary school students. Yes, in the next week's paper there was a page on the dance, complete with pictures. One was of her date kissing her before they left. Mina laughed when she saw the picture. The two were just friends, but he did some strange things sometimes. Her mother then saw the picture and nearly had a seizure. She yelled at her daughter about ruining her father's image as town mayor in that short dress. For the first time, Courtney's breathing quickened and she felt feverish and frantic to get out. It was her first panic attack. At the end of the rant, Mrs. Marino (who hadn't noticed Courtney's odd behavior) called her a little sleeper and blamed it on all of those jazz classes. Courtney stormed out of the room, permanently mad at her parents.
Mina spent that summer out of the house as most she could. She took extra dance classes and was The White Cat (for the first time) in a small version of Sleeping Beauty. High school started, she was at a school in Oxford, the nearest and best high school (according to her parents). It was a school with a big music program. Almost immediately there was a musical that the school was performing. Court decided to try being in a musical and got the part of a swing. The production was exhilarating for her and made her eager to try more musicals. Summer came by again and, once more, her ballet school performed Sleeping Beauty. This time, she played Princess Aurora. But after the performances were over, she decided to quit pointe completely. It was fun, but she had never gotten past the pain in her feet. (She kept up with her other styles of dance, jazz, modern, and non-pointe ballet) As school began again, fifteen year old Courtney threw herself into this year's musical, A Chorus Line. She auditioned and, because of her dancing, managed to get the part of Cassie. In her junior year, she was Eponine in Les Miserables. Mina was disappointed by the lack of dancing, though there was beautiful music, so the next year she tried out for Velma Kelly in Chicago. She graduated from high school, seventeen years old.
All throughout high school, Courtney's parents continued to make remarks relating to the secondary school dance. They refused to come see her as Eponine, not in a story with prostitutes. They tried to forbid her to be in Chicago. "Too suggestive for a girl of your age." She ignored them and simply stayed with a good friend while there were rehearsals and performances. When it was time for her to go to college, Court simply informed them that she had no intention of going to Cambridge. If she went to college at all, it'd be to an art school. "An art school!" Her mother shrieked. "I suppose because of the type of boys that go there. Heaven knows what they get up to. Drugs, drinking, vandalism. You'd become one of those red light women on the streets if you went there." With those words, Courtney Marino grabbed her bags from her room (which were already packed) and left. She went to stay with the friend she stayed with during Chicago. She did some research and found the need for Victoria in a tour of Cats. Mina went to London and got the job. She'd written on her application that she was twenty. She had also the copy of the birth certificate that she had with her so it said she'd been born twenty years ago, not seventeen.
Recently, Courtney got a letter from her mother with news that her father had died of a heart attack. Court felt a little sad at the thought that she'd never see him again, but that didn't stop her from sending a reply cut out from a booklet with lyrics from Les Miserables. "Doesn't take a lot of savvy just to be a sleeper. She hoped to horrify her mother, who didn't know what she was doing. That was the only contact they've had since she left home.
Her roles have been (starting with the first):
Coppelia - Village girl (Ensemble)
Swan Lake - Young Swan (Apprentices)
Sleeping Beauty - The White Cat
Guys and Dolls - Swing
Sleeping Beauty - Princess Aurora
Chicago - Liz (Cell Block Girl)
A Chorus Line - Cassie
Les Miserables - Eponine
Chicago - Velma Kelly
Try Out
Other:
~Mezzo-Soprano
~She loves jazz, the music
~Being Victoria is fabulous for her and causes her to laugh since it's the second time she's gotten the part of the white cat. She thinks it must signify something.
~She hates linoleum with the pattern of small squares on them. It makes her feel like she needs to stop and count them.
Keyword: 'Waiting for the Dawn'.
RPG Sample: Courtney sat backstage before her first performance. She was in costume, a lovely white cat. She knew exactly what she was supposed to be doing, and in recent rehearsals hadn't had problems remembering her dances. The lyrics were engraved in her mind now. In addition to singing the songs every spare moment, Couri had also added all of the songs to her iPod. She should have been very confident about the performance that evening, but instead she had a panic attack. There's no way I can do this! She thought wildly. She pulled her knees into her chest and bit her lip.
Seconds later, she sprung to her feet and ran to her dressing room. She stared into the mirror. Everything looked fine. The white wasn't smeared, her whiskers and the lines drawn around her eyes were in the right places. She took a deep breath. This could be okay. It could. It would. Couri knew what she had to do and she'd done it plenty of (well, just enough) times before. She'd performed plenty of times before. Audiences were no big deal. They just sat there. And watched every moved. Criticized your mistakes. Scrutinized your talent. Courtney shivered. Oh Lordy.
I haven't gotten a reply yet, X2 (Well, I just sent the message.), but I wanted to go ahead and post this just so no one else would take Courtney.
That's me. Stingy. Just whatever you think about her lying. I'll change whatever I need to.
Real Name: Charlotte
Age:…13
Other Characters: Amber Starr
Email/Messenger: PM here or on Effanineffable. My email's someoneelse11@yahoo.com
Experience with RPG:…Just since January…of this year
Route I know x2 and Percy from Eff and Endless Night, but I saw the ad on Golden Jellicles
About Character
Name:Courtney Mina Marino
Nicknames: Court, Courtie, Couri Mina, White Cat (From having two different roles as one)
Role: Victoria
Age/Year: 17
Tour Date: Approx. 11 months
Home Town: Eynsham, England
Appearance: Courtney usually twists her dark hair into a bun. It makes her feel more like a dancer. And yes, she walks with 'duck feet'. She has high cheekbones and a gentle smile. She looks a little younger then she actually is, and really doesn’t look twenty. Court's hair is a very dark brown, but she sometimes highlights it with a little blonde or adds even darker brown to it.
She dresses very casually. Jeans, button-up shirts, wrap tops, and old knitwear designed for dancers. A lot of her pants are stained with paint, ink, or have holes in them. Nothing fancy, simple and comfortable.
Celeb Appearance: Jacinda Barrett
Personality: Courtney is usually stereotyped as a ballerina. She's quiet, focused, and absorbed in her dancing. Well, she appears that way, at least. She acts reserved around strangers, so how would they know? Court loves to party just as much as the next person! (Minus any drinking.) As much as she loves dancing, she also adores getting back to her room and working on one of her infamous projects. Wherever the tour takes her, she always has all of this random art stuff crammed into her luggage, which then gets spread over her bed, the floor, and the bathroom. She has been diagnosed with (but not treated for) ADD (no, not hyper ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder. She'll start some elaborate craft, but then get caught up in something, forgetting her old plans. Mostly, she likes doing things with tie dye, or paint, or ink. (Most of her jeans and shirts have either ink or paint spilled over the thighs.) She focuses on things that have been put into the category of 'romantic'. Butterflies, sunsets, swirling pastel colors. But those are things that she loves! Often, Mina combines those ideas with the portrait of a lone ballerina. Melancholy, colorful, standing on her toes with a butterfly cupped in her delicate hand. That's the typical image in one of her paintings. She also likes writing letters to her friends in calligraphy. She doesn't even mail them. All of Court's friends are in the tour. She really didn't make many friends before that.
Courtney's ADD is a little hard for her to handle. She's fussed at for forgetting things, but though she wishes she could do better, she doesn't know what to do. She takes medicine for it, but nothing could completely cure it. Mina struggles with remembering combinations. Not so much in Cats, she has the hang of it now. She just has a little harder time learning the dances then the a 'normal person'.
Unfortunately, Courtney doesn't only have ADD. She also has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She gets unexplainably anxious about some things and her way to calm that is to lie. Couri feels like if she tells everything about herself, she'll be vulnerable to everyone and even more prone to injury. Court has an unexplainable fear of being chased, caught, and hurt (which she feels will happen if she's exposed).She feels like some know too much about her and her lies are like a mask to hide her true face. Her main lie is about her age. This lie has come into being since leaving her family. She feels less connected with them and more able to take care of herself if she tells her friends and the heads of the tour that she's twenty, not seventeen. Mina has been diagnosed with OCD (after she left home) and has been put on a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medication which controls her release of serotonin and regulates anxiety. It helps her, but she's still compulsively lies and obsesses of small details. Courtney always double and triple checks dates and times, afraid that she'll make some mistake with them. She does the same with her dance bag. She always wants to be prepared and is terrified that she'll leave something in her hotel room. She gets very hyper focused about her dancing or on some small part of a painting. A butterfly or a hand. Panic attacks aren't uncommon for her.
Likes:
~Dancing (Esp. ballet)
~Travel
~Sunsets
~Splits and pirouettes
~Tie dye
~Makeup and masks
~Pride and Prejudice (the book)
~Italics
~Romance Languages
~Calligraphy
~Butterflies
~The Cell Block Tango
~Ballroom dancing
~White cats (Persians, Turkish Angoras, alley cats, anything white and fluffy)
~Les Miserables and Chicago (because they were 'forbidden' to her.)
~Royksopp
Dislikes:
~Blisters
~Panic attacks
~Meeting her audience
~Canceling out on friends
~Calling people she doesn't know
~Kids
~Winter
~Broken glass
~American TV show So You Think You Can Dance?
~Soap operas
~Mirrors and videos of herself
History: Courtney was actually born in Italy, but her parents moved to Eynsham, England when she was 9 months old. Once there, her father got involved in politics. He worked his way through the small positions until he was elected mayor. Courtie stared dancing when she was five. She took beginner ballet classes in Oxford. She continued with ballet, branching out with jazz and modern when she was at the proper leval. She had very good instructors and soon became a very good dancer, as she was told. Mina was put in the children's ensemble for her first performance ever, Coppelia. At eleven, she started pointe. The pain in her toes was discouraging, but she struggled to move past that. That year, she was moved into the group of company apprentices. When her dance conservatory performed Swan Lake, she was a young swan. Courtney's parents didn't completely support her passion for dance. They focused on her academic work instead. She was very bright and had skipped a grade in primary school. They were bent on her going to Cambridge and wanted to fully prepare her for that. They believed her dancing took too much time from that.
At thirteen (one year early), Courtney was graduating from secondary school. It was the Eynsham tradition for the school to hold a dance (a mini prom) for the graduates. Courtney was invited, being pretty and nice. Her mother (a 'helicopter parent') took her shopping in Oxford, determined to find the perfect dress. Mina didn't like her mother's protectiveness and determination to be completely involved in her life. Therefore, she went back to the store and returned the gown her mother'd picked out, buying a simpler, shorter dress with the refund. The day of the dance, she went to a friend's house to get ready so her mother wouldn't see what she was wearing. The dance was wonderful for Courtney…a dancer. She danced, chatted with friends, and laughed with her date, a very friendly boy. She was a little concerned by the Eynsham reporter mingling with the secondary school students. Yes, in the next week's paper there was a page on the dance, complete with pictures. One was of her date kissing her before they left. Mina laughed when she saw the picture. The two were just friends, but he did some strange things sometimes. Her mother then saw the picture and nearly had a seizure. She yelled at her daughter about ruining her father's image as town mayor in that short dress. For the first time, Courtney's breathing quickened and she felt feverish and frantic to get out. It was her first panic attack. At the end of the rant, Mrs. Marino (who hadn't noticed Courtney's odd behavior) called her a little sleeper and blamed it on all of those jazz classes. Courtney stormed out of the room, permanently mad at her parents.
Mina spent that summer out of the house as most she could. She took extra dance classes and was The White Cat (for the first time) in a small version of Sleeping Beauty. High school started, she was at a school in Oxford, the nearest and best high school (according to her parents). It was a school with a big music program. Almost immediately there was a musical that the school was performing. Court decided to try being in a musical and got the part of a swing. The production was exhilarating for her and made her eager to try more musicals. Summer came by again and, once more, her ballet school performed Sleeping Beauty. This time, she played Princess Aurora. But after the performances were over, she decided to quit pointe completely. It was fun, but she had never gotten past the pain in her feet. (She kept up with her other styles of dance, jazz, modern, and non-pointe ballet) As school began again, fifteen year old Courtney threw herself into this year's musical, A Chorus Line. She auditioned and, because of her dancing, managed to get the part of Cassie. In her junior year, she was Eponine in Les Miserables. Mina was disappointed by the lack of dancing, though there was beautiful music, so the next year she tried out for Velma Kelly in Chicago. She graduated from high school, seventeen years old.
All throughout high school, Courtney's parents continued to make remarks relating to the secondary school dance. They refused to come see her as Eponine, not in a story with prostitutes. They tried to forbid her to be in Chicago. "Too suggestive for a girl of your age." She ignored them and simply stayed with a good friend while there were rehearsals and performances. When it was time for her to go to college, Court simply informed them that she had no intention of going to Cambridge. If she went to college at all, it'd be to an art school. "An art school!" Her mother shrieked. "I suppose because of the type of boys that go there. Heaven knows what they get up to. Drugs, drinking, vandalism. You'd become one of those red light women on the streets if you went there." With those words, Courtney Marino grabbed her bags from her room (which were already packed) and left. She went to stay with the friend she stayed with during Chicago. She did some research and found the need for Victoria in a tour of Cats. Mina went to London and got the job. She'd written on her application that she was twenty. She had also the copy of the birth certificate that she had with her so it said she'd been born twenty years ago, not seventeen.
Recently, Courtney got a letter from her mother with news that her father had died of a heart attack. Court felt a little sad at the thought that she'd never see him again, but that didn't stop her from sending a reply cut out from a booklet with lyrics from Les Miserables. "Doesn't take a lot of savvy just to be a sleeper. She hoped to horrify her mother, who didn't know what she was doing. That was the only contact they've had since she left home.
Her roles have been (starting with the first):
Coppelia - Village girl (Ensemble)
Swan Lake - Young Swan (Apprentices)
Sleeping Beauty - The White Cat
Guys and Dolls - Swing
Sleeping Beauty - Princess Aurora
Chicago - Liz (Cell Block Girl)
A Chorus Line - Cassie
Les Miserables - Eponine
Chicago - Velma Kelly
Try Out
Other:
~Mezzo-Soprano
~She loves jazz, the music
~Being Victoria is fabulous for her and causes her to laugh since it's the second time she's gotten the part of the white cat. She thinks it must signify something.
~She hates linoleum with the pattern of small squares on them. It makes her feel like she needs to stop and count them.
Keyword: 'Waiting for the Dawn'.
RPG Sample: Courtney sat backstage before her first performance. She was in costume, a lovely white cat. She knew exactly what she was supposed to be doing, and in recent rehearsals hadn't had problems remembering her dances. The lyrics were engraved in her mind now. In addition to singing the songs every spare moment, Couri had also added all of the songs to her iPod. She should have been very confident about the performance that evening, but instead she had a panic attack. There's no way I can do this! She thought wildly. She pulled her knees into her chest and bit her lip.
Seconds later, she sprung to her feet and ran to her dressing room. She stared into the mirror. Everything looked fine. The white wasn't smeared, her whiskers and the lines drawn around her eyes were in the right places. She took a deep breath. This could be okay. It could. It would. Couri knew what she had to do and she'd done it plenty of (well, just enough) times before. She'd performed plenty of times before. Audiences were no big deal. They just sat there. And watched every moved. Criticized your mistakes. Scrutinized your talent. Courtney shivered. Oh Lordy.
I haven't gotten a reply yet, X2 (Well, I just sent the message.), but I wanted to go ahead and post this just so no one else would take Courtney.
That's me. Stingy. Just whatever you think about her lying. I'll change whatever I need to.
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