My second character:

Username: ramblingbard
Name: Riley McKenna
Age: 20
Gender: Female

Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - she’s up around seven, out the door by eight, and comes back around nine between classes and working at a local ice cream parlor. 
Tuesday and Thursday - she’s up around eight, leaves around ten, and comes back around six for a few minutes before heading back out until nine or ten (depending on homework) due to sparser classes those two days and then going to various locations to either paint/draw/whatever or just take in the local life.
Weekends - she has a several hour class every other Saturday, but a lot of that is also taken up by working shifts at the ice cream shop. 

Education Level: High school graduate and some college - majoring in art therapy and minoring in sociology
Life Goal: to become a famous artist and be able to live off her earnings without starving or struggling
Current Goal: Become an art therapist and help troubled/mentally handicapped children

[url=http://crunchpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ashley-benson-11.jpg]Appearance[/url]: Standing at only five foot three, she has a slender physique of a dancer though it’s mostly just dieting rather than exercise that keeps her in shape. She doesn’t have much of a pronounced bust, but enough of one that she could play it up if desired. She uses makeup to help make her round eyes seem more almond shaped and help the emerald green color pop, with a bit of natural colored lip gloss just to give her average lips a sheen that makes them look somewhat full. Her golden blonde hair flows down to her bust, styled in layers, with nose length bangs that are in a way that it naturally sweeps to one side. Scar tissue covers a good portion of her body from her upper left arm that stretches across her entire back; it isn’t as bad as it once was, and remains mostly as a spiderweb of white tissue that she is still self-conscious over.
She dresses in form fitting t-shirts that still manages to cover her scars and loose fitting jeans that requires a belt to hold up. Generally she wears sneakers and a bandana or headband to help style her hair. Her style of clothing does change sometimes, depending on her mood, to something more bohemian like peasant skirts and flowy blouses. She tends to prefer bright colors and occasionally pastels; it’s easy to tell when she’s been at the park drawing as she generally comes back with charcoal or chalk on her clothing and face.
She always wears a silver locket that contains a picture of her family from when she was a little girl - mom, dad, her, and baby brother.

Personality: The first thing most people notice about her is that she is friendly, and willing to help someone out - like offering to help people move in if she’s around. She likes to make new friends, and can be quite sweet - never raising her voice, or saying anything mean about anyone else - with a tendency to call people sweetie, or sweetheart, or dear, or other terms of endearment even if she knows their name (usually as an added after saying the name they preferred to be called.) Although she prefers to be around others, she may not initially be social - enjoying to watch how people interact more - but she does enjoy talking to people so long as it’s smaller gatherings. She dislikes being in large groups of people; it raises the odds of someone touching her and she absolutely hates being touched. 
She can be rather forgetful, though, and often has to leave herself notes about lots of things that aren’t routine - like if she has a shift changed. Some friends consider it the burden of being an artist, while others just believe she’s spacy. She generally doesn’t pick up on that stuff though, usually preoccupied with taking in the world around her more than that stuff. It can get in the way of actually learning stuff sometimes, as her mind can wander; to help her focus, she needs to be doing something with her hands so she has taken to always carrying around a small sketchbook and pencil. Some of the spaciness is evident from occasional splashes of chalk or charcoal on her face and clothes when she’s gone out to draw in the park and absentmindedly swept her bangs out of her face or rested a hand on her clothing without cleaning her hands off first.

Reason for moving into the dorm: It was a smaller, more quaint environment with fewer inhabitants, but the main reason is it gave her independence without costing as much as living in a dorm. 

Romantic/Sexual Experience: She has never had sex. As for romantic relationships - there was this boy that tricked her into a date when she was a sophomore in high school. He said it was a group thing and, when no one else showed up, claimed everyone must have bailed on them. It wasn’t bad, aside from several attempts to put an arm around her or hold her hand. After the movie, he admitted it was the only way he could get the courage to ask her out. This actually got him a second date and a relationship budded - nothing much, mostly he’d walk her to class and carry her books while she’d show up to his games and be a personal cheerleader for him. Eventually, after she finally confided in him a bit of why she didn’t like being touched, she even became comfortable enough to hands with him. He was pretty much perfect for her, understanding and patient, but midway through junior year his mother got a promotion - which included a relocation - and he had to move. Their first and last kiss happened right after he told her the bad news and they broke up. 
That was her first and only boyfriend, and there have been no dates ever since.

History: Life was simple when she was younger - mom, dad, got a baby brother when she was almost 4, and they even just got a kitten. Then a fire started and it disrupted her life for almost two years all when she was five; her baby brother died from smoke inhalation, and a flash burn when a fireman was carrying her out mixed with smoke inhalation landed her in the hospital for months. Though the burns weren’t severe enough to require skin grafts, they did leave scars and caused her nerves to become hypersensitive. 
But, life goes on. She spent a lot of time for the year and a half following her release from the hospital going to a therapist that used art therapy to help her understand and cope with what happened. This got her very interested in art, and soon the past remained past; not that she will ever forget it, but it is something she has learned to not let drag her down. She did good in school, always filling her unfilled blocks with an art class, but didn’t participate in clubs; she preferred working on a portfolio instead, using all mediums, subject matter, and styles in hopes of going to a good art college and maybe someday becoming a famous artist. A friend introduced her to deviantArt and suggested she display her stuff on there, which lead to selling prints and eventually using commissions as a way to further explore additional styles and subject matter (never going beyond a PG-13 rating). 
As she got older, her dreams became more realistic and her memory of all those sessions brought her to want to pursue art therapy as a career. When she realized money was tight and even getting into a good college would hurt her family financially, she opted to start working at a local ice cream shop to help build up funding. Her parents insisted on putting her through college, so she enrolled in the local art college in Lovell but she wanted to live away from her parents. To help save them money by not dorming there, she lived with them until stumbling across a flyer hung up at the ice cream shop one day. She contacted Gretchen a few months ago to get a room.

Notes: She absolutely loves kids. 
She’s extremely pyrophobic, like even seeing someone light a cigarette. 
She displays and sells her art, and accepts commissions through deviantart, and has been considering running her own website for it instead. Most of her art that she sells prints of are landscapes/sceneries done in various mediums, though she has sample art for almost any style, subject, and medium for helping gain commissions. (She does not consider this being a real artist as these sales barely help subsidize her rent/food/whatever else she needs to buy when combined with her paycheck from the ice cream shop and it in no way makes her famous.)

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Maybe her and Shae know each more from deviantart than from living in the dorm/house? Just a thought.