Post by Alison Caroline Driscoll on Mar 4, 2011 20:27:08 GMT -7
ALISON CAROLINE DRISCOLL
"Strong inside but you don't know it
Good little girls they never show it
When you open up your mouth to speak
Could you be a little weak"
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I AM BEYOND GOD
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Full Name: Alison Caroline Driscoll
Nickname(s): Lissa, Lissy, Kate, Katie, Sterchens, Sves
Gender: Female
Age: Fifteen
Birthdate: March 1, 1996
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Reincarnate: Yes
I am: Katharine Wright
Played By: Aislinn Paul
Grade: Freshman
Boarding: Yus
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OUR SHINING FUTURE
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Height: 5'1"
Weight: 103lbs
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Light brown
Build: Average
Scars: None (that she wants you to know about)
Piercings/Tattoos: None
Personal Style:
Alison dresses fairly casually, although she does make a point of looking good. She feels that presentation is important, and although she does not see the point of caking makeup on her face (especially since she's only fourteen, and thinks it's ridiculous that so many of her peers feel the need to grow up so fast), she does care about looking neat and presentable. She is pleased that women are no longer relegated to wearing only dresses, although she will frequently wear skirts as that is simply what she is comfortable with. She absolutely refuses to wear anything too revealing.
Appearance:
Alison Driscoll doesn't look like much at first glance. Standing at 5'1", she's just tall enough not to stand out as a midget, but still short enough that she has to look up at most people while talking to them. Her glasses give her a mousy look, a look that she does not particularly enjoy. However, she feels uncomfortable in contacts, and thus has not made the switch over to them yet, and doesn't know if she ever will. After all, she feels right at home in her glasses, why change something if it's not broken?
Alison keeps an eye out for the latest fashions, and will usually adopt them, so long as they don't go against her own moral code. She does not see the point of revealing clothing, and may actually turn up her nose in disgust at some of the worst examples of this. She does place importance on looking presentable as well, although she also to some extent enjoys creating her own trends. She greatly relishes her hat collection and can often be seen around town wearing an assortment of different hats (always sure to keep it stylish, though - no Mad Hatter hats for her, unless the occasion calls for it).
HOPE AND HORROR
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Likes: Reading, Writing,Arithmetic, Chatting on the phone, Clothes, Airplanes, Teasing, Hats, Going out 'with the girls', Family, and Cameras
Dislikes: Feeling left out, Discussing her mother, Messes, Sexism, Colds, Revealing clothing, Being alone, Overly eager boys, Spam (both kinds, really), and Dead Zones
Dreams: Going down in history, or at least being known, for being something other than just 'the little sister'
Fears: Being alone, Spiders, and Losing her father
Habits/Hobbies: Shoving her glasses back up to her forehead when they start slipping, is almost constantly jotting things down in her diary, making sarcastic comments, and becoming increasingly bossy when she's upset.
Secret(s): She is, arguably, just as fascinated with airplanes as her brother, though she tries to pretend that she is not. =P Aaaaaaand she tends to steal away into his room when he's not around and play with model airplanes. But shhhh.
Personality:
OUTGOING - Alison is a very outgoing girl. She likes attention, and she likes conversing with others. Small talk and one liners are a particular talent of hers. For the most part, she is a very open person, although there are a few subjects that Alison will clam up on, which is a source for confusion and perhaps suspicion, depending on who you are. (Hint hint, RSOR recruiters XD). For the most part though, you can tell that she loves people, and she usually knows just what to say.
STUBBORN - Alison is as stubborn as a mule. If you tell her she can't do something, she'll shake her head no and go for it anyway. She also loves to catch people by surprise by doing things that are not expected of her, simply to see how others might take the reaction. To her, it's almost a social experiment of sorts.
SUPPORTIVE - Anyone close to Alison knows that she is supportive to a fault of anyone close to her. Family members and close friends, you've got a very important ally in Alison. She will do what she can to make sure those around her succeed, even if she plays off that she's annoyed about it impeding on her time at first. It's how she was raised.
PRETTY BOY, PRETTY GIRL
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Mother: Carrie Driscoll, deceased
Father: Jonathan Driscoll, teacher in Tenessee
Siblings: Nathan Rhett Driscoll, 17
Other: Weeeeell Oliver's going to be an interesting addition later on. =)
Pets: None
Hometown: Bristol, TN
History:
"Jonathan Driscoll moved to Tennessee from Ohio, having finally found a job to put his degree to use. It was awkward in the least, a new job in a new town, far from his family and friends. Yet with grace he assumed his new role as an English teacher at Tennessee High School in Bristol. Though generally liked among his students, the rest of the faculty seemed to put him at initial distance, save one Carrie Andrews, a young secretary at the school. The two got along well, which led them to meet for lunch every day, which ultimately led to a relationship. Initially it proved to be quite the scandal within the school among the staff. Though when the talk died down, Jonathan emerged much more well liked among his fellow teachers, as Carrie had been well liked among the faculty. Two years later, the pair were married, and a year later Carrie gave birth to their first child, Nathan.
The two were proud parents, and never missed an opportunity to show off their son. Oftentimes Jonathan’s family would fly in from Ohio, and Carrie’s from North Carolina to visit the family. Carrie’s mother remarked once that she was certain Nathan would grow to be a precocious and curious child. As he grew, she could not have been proven more right. Nathan proved curious to a degree that often frustrated his parents, as by four years old he would tear through the house, and had a special taste for dismantling anything he could. It was when he was two that a new addition came to the family, a little girl, Alison. Nathan took mild interest in her at first, but discarded her as a bore until she could talk, at which point he took on a habit of terrorizing her. Alison had difficulty speaking, to which Nathan would take ample pleasure in mocking her."
Despite mocking from her older brother, Alison was a happy baby for the most part. The first few years of her life were indeed remarkably uneventful, and things didn't start getting interesting until she learned to talk. She remained blissfully unaware of her brother's strange conversations with his parents about other brothers and sisters, although she would occasionally make reference to her older brothers as a small child. Brothers in the plural, despite the fact that she only had one.
Other than that, Alison was rather quiet about all of her odd thoughts. This was not to say that she was a quiet child. Oh no, she certainly was not in the least bit. She would often follow her mother around the house, questioning Carrie how to do various things in the kitchen. She would also, at times, pretend to be teaching her Barbies, not so much odd in that she taught her Barbies (after all, plenty of children play school), but odd in the fact that she very much acted as though her Barbies were real students. "Walter Brookins, you stop teasing that girl right now or I will give you detention!" she would tell one of her Ken dolls with such conviction that it was hard to tell if she was really pretending.
While Nathan played with his model planes, Alison would watch from the sidelines, wishing that she could join in, though not daring to voice this.
The little girl got along fairly well in school. She was popular within her grade, and was able to get along well with almost everyone, despite the fact that sometimes she would use outdated words (for example, saying that a boy was a 'dude' when he came to school dressed up with his hair slicked back, a phrase that went out of vogue at the beginning of the 20th century). Most were able to pass this off as the property of a precocious little girl, and that was that.
Alison, by the age of six or seven, was beginning to realize there was more to it than this, however. The 'brothers' she'd mentioned earlier, the brothers her parents assumed were a simple error in her speech as a child, came to have names within her mind. Reuchlin, Lorin, Wilbur, and Orville. She could recall her second oldest brother, Lorin, teaching her how to read, and all of the games that the boys played. She also recalled her closest brother in age, Orville, and how he used to pull her around in his wagon. Why didn't Nate do that? Nate was too busy playing with his planes.
Planes were another odd subject that stirred up strange memories. To be fair, at this point Alison did not know what to call them. Her diary entries began to fill up with more than just the events of the day. The names of her 'imaginary' brothers began to fill up almost every page, along with events that she surely could not have lived through yet felt like she had. Attending college, teaching high school, traveling to Europe with her brothers and meeting royalty...
Eventually, as Alison grew older, she passed this all off as a silly childhood fantasy. A fun one nonetheless, but certainly nothing more than the product of the wild imagination of a little girl. All of this changed when the Driscoll family traveled to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
It was meant to simply be a treat for Nathan, but proved to be so much more. Upon arriving at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, Alison was shocked by what she saw and heard. All of it sounded so familiar, like she'd read it all in letters in years past. Glimpsing the actual memorial itself, and the stone marker, Alison stared in stunned disbelief at the faces of Wilbur and Orville Wright depicted side by side on the memorial. She knew those faces. She grew up with those faces. "Ullam. Bubs." She sighed under her breath, unsure of where these odd names came from but sure that they felt right.
Alison would not have minded staying longer at the memorial, but eventually the Driscoll family had to head home. Alison purchased a childrens book on the Wright Brothers from the gift shop at the memorial. The ride home was oddly silent, something that surely had to have struck the Driscoll parents as suspicious. Instead of Nate jabbering around planes, or Alison teasing him or commenting about having to stop and take yet another bathroom break, the two siblings were apparently contemplative. Not that Alison noticed - She was too caught up in her own contemplations to take note of her brother's odd silence.
When the Driscolls arrived back in Tennessee, Alison headed straight for her room to flip through her book with childish excitement. Future surprises awaited her within the pages of that book. Depictions of the Wright Brothers in drawn form next to real pictures of them. Alison could not help but laugh at some of these pictures. Orville's hair had been darker than that! She became a bit disconcerted, wondering where thoughts like this were coming from, but then it all started to come together. Her fantasies from when she was younger. The two brothers closest to her in age in these fantasies had been named Wilbur and Orville. Was it possible that her fantasies were not fantasies after all?
More glancing through the book sealed it. There were five Wright children, four brothers and a sister. Reuchlin, Lorin, Wilbur, Orville, and Katharine. Katharine. That was her.
Soon the importance of this fell to the wayside, as Carrie Driscoll fell ill with lung cancer. This all felt strangely familiar to Alison, who slowly came to realize that she had a mother who died of a lung disease before as well. While Jonathan worked tirelessly to keep providing for the home (as well as the health insurance Carrie needed to aid her battle with cancer), Nate took care of Carrie, and Alison took care of the housework. It was all too similar, and when Carrie passed away, Alison felt as though she'd lost one of her best friends and closest allies in life.
She retreated to her room, barely speaking to the rest of her family. She was upset, yes, but her silence was more of a thoughtful one. She could hardly express what was going through her mind to her brother and her father, after all. So she wrote it all out in her diary, her refuge. There, she had no qualms about writing about herself as Katharine Wright, and pondering what Wilbur and Orville might do if they were there.
Nathan convinced Jonathan to let him attend Riverdale High School in North Carolina, the high school that their mother attended, and Alison requested the same in the fall of 2010. She doubted Jonathan was all that pleased that both of his children opted to go to a school in North Carolina rather than attend the high school he taught at in Tennessee, but she also reasoned that he likely understood the motivation behind their actions - They wanted to be closer to their mother in any way that they could. At least, that was Alison's reasoning, she didn't know about Nate.
Alison has fit in well in the social circle at Riverdale High. She's done a decent job of concealing any oddities about her, but it's only a matter of time before someone notices that something's not quite Wright about her...
I AM WHO I AM
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Name/Alias: Mandee
Other Characters: Oliver, Chelsea, and Tamara
Age: Twenty-one (22 in just a couple months, wewt!)
Time Zone: Eastern
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