[hider=Cleo Alexandra James] [center][color=teal][h2][u][i]Cleo Alexandra James[/i][/u][/h2][/color] [img]https://media3.giphy.com/media/IyqAFa1YOhJ84/200w.gif[/img] [img]https://media1.giphy.com/media/4T6HWkqq7trZ6/200w.gif[/img] [img]https://media1.giphy.com/media/Fld8Jj9XK9BPq/200w.gif[/img][/center] [u][b][color=teal]๐๐ก๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง[/color][/b][/u] [indent]Standing five feet, seven inches tall, Cleo weighs one-hundred thirty-two pounds, giving her a slightly curvy, petite figure. Her light golden-brown hair falls down right below her shoulders in light waves. It can sometimes be seen straightened or pulled back into a ponytail. Looking upon the woman's square shaped face, you will find defined cheekbones, dark green eyes, a small, triangular nose and thin lips. Her long legs have a slight undertone of muscle, her arms the same. These features have been said to give her a 'natural beauty' look. Cleo wears pale colors most of the time. Her favorite tops are a simple t-shirt or sweater, for bottoms, she wears jeans. Make-up is a trivial thing for the woman, only ever wearing mascara and eyeliner. One thing that she never goes anywhere without is her [url=http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/10182088/P17308724.jpg]cresent moon necklace[/url] that she had had since she was little girl. Growing up on a farm, Cleo has a few scars from her child-hood shenanigans. One is on her right upper arm, from where she fell out of a tree at the age of ten, approximately five inches long, running vertically. Another on the inside of her left ankle, from a broken glass in the barn that she acquired at the age of fifteen. [/indent] [u][b][color=teal]๐๐š๐ฆ๐ž[/color][/b][/u] [indent]Cleo Alexandra James. Nicknames include Leo, CJ and Alex.[/indent] [u][b][color=teal]๐†๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ[/color][/b][/u] [indent]Cis female. Her/she pronouns.[/indent] [u][b][color=teal]๐€๐ ๐ž[/color][/b][/u] [indent]Thirty-seven[/indent] [u][b][color=teal]๐Ž๐œ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง[/color][/b][/u] [indent]Cleo is the local bartender.[/indent] [u][b][color=teal]๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ[/color][/b][/u] [indent][center][color=teal][u][i]Resourceful[/i][/u][/color] || [color=red][u][i]To Kind[/i][/u][/color] || [color=teal][i][u]Intelligent[/u][/i][/color] || [color=red][u][i]Stubborn[/i][/u][/color] || [color=teal][u][i]Conversationalist[/i][/u][/color][/center] Cleo is a kind woman, said to have a motherly demeanor. She likes to look after others and believes that she knows best when it comes to most things. However, on occasion, she can be to kind, doing her best to see the best in who she wants, causing her to trust more than she should in certain situations. She is a realist, calling things and people like she see's them. If you look like crap, she'll tell you. If she thinks you're going to be great at something, she'll tell you. Cleo always worked hard in school, graduating with only one C her whole school career. Being more or less a momma bear, one of her weaknesses is the people that she cares about. Hands down, she would die for these people, which brings us to another weakness: being to damned loyal. Cleo is loyal downright loyal to the people she cares about, always trying to do what is best for them. If you call her at two in the morning, she's there. If someone hurts you, she's hurting them. Put her threw hell, she'll be there until she absolutely can't stand you anymore. The woman is good for conversation, making small talk, though she loves to go more in depth with her conversation. Perhaps this comes from being a bartender, along with her ability to 'read' people. Despite trying to keep her emotions in check, Cleo is an open book, her face never lying about how she feels. She can tell you that she approves of your actions, while her face has a look of disgust. She is very easy to embarrass, almost always blushing on these occasions.Erika is a friendly young woman with a fierce Cleo is outgoing and loves meeting new people, but has no claims about sticking up for herself, the things she believes in, or people that she cares for. Despite being outgoing, it usually takes a little while for her to warm up to people, so she can at times appear shy or disinterested. She's extremely stubborn and has shown tendencies at being recklessly brave at times as well. [/indent] [u][b]๐๐š๐œ๐ค๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐[/b][/u] [indent]Cleo Alexandra James was born in Texas on October twenty-first to a farmer, Keith, and his school teacher of a wife, Marian. She was the second child born to the couple, her brother Lane being her elder by five years. Cleo grew up as a bare-foot child, running through the fields, learning the way things worked on the farm and doing little chores like feeding the chickens and watering the horses. It wasnโ€™t until around age eight that she started getting the bigger jobs such as helping her father plant the crops and harvest them. Celoโ€™s family has always been close. Some of the woman's best memories is going to her family members houseโ€™s for Sunday dinner. The children would run around playing in the yard, the women cooking and gossiping, then men playing horse-shoes. Cleo was always a tom-boy of sorts. She would rather be barefoot than anything, she loved to roll around in the mud, but her mother insisted on her having lady-like attributes. Cleo and her brother were expected to wake up in the early hours of the morning, milk the cows, muck the stalls, etc. for their chores. Afterwards, Cleo would sit at the dining table, her mother telling her to keep her elbows off the table, allowing her to fix her hair a certain way, and telling her to wear skirts and dresses. This mainly started at the age of seven, lasting until the age of fifteen when Cleo put her foot down. No more would she be told how to act properly. Keithโ€™s main influence on the girl was telling her and her brother: โ€œWork hard and you wonโ€™t have to spend your daysโ€™ in the fieldsโ€™ like old pop.โ€ However, Cleo didnโ€™t mind getting her hands dirty and the chores. After all, it was something she believed in. Fatherโ€™s work brought in money, just like motherโ€™s teaching. Sure, it was hard, but her father was a good man, and everyone in town could testify to the fact. Perhaps always wanting the best for his children was why โ€œWork hardโ€ was his most used phrase. Cleo graduated as second in her class high-school class, going to the local college. Her parents were mad at her for this. With her grades, they said, she could get into just about any college that she wanted. But Cleo didnโ€™t want that. She found comfort in more simple things, and always planned on staying home. Finally giving into her parents wishes, she decided to move to Baltham at the age of twenty-six. Here, she quickly made her a new home. Temporarily working as a waitress in a local cafe, she met Brad, a man that she fell in love with over simple conversation through the course of three months when he came in for his usual breakfast every morning. It was at the end of those three months that Brad asked Cleo on a date, and she gladly accepted. The two married a year later, and it was at this time, Cleo moved in with the man, right beside the Warings. It was at the age of twenty-nine that she lost her husband in a fatal car crash. Through the grief, Cleo lost her job. Three months later, she was hired as the local bartender downtown. Walking outside to get the morning paper was the first time that Cleo can recall actually speaking to Emily Waring, a little girl who she treated as her own, unable to have any with Brad. The child seemed to have no actual authority figures in her life, so, Cleo acted as one for her. When Emily who she insists upon calling Em, was old enough to put down an emergency contact for herself, it was Cleo, and she was the one that got called when Cleo got arrested for the first time. Giving the girl scoldings when she came in drunk over the years seemed to do no good, but deep down, Cleo could tell that she was doing some good. [/indent] [/hider]