[b]19. VALERIA RODRIGUEZ-SMITH[/b]

(originally made for Just the Audition: I Was a Teenage Monster (polyvore))

JTA: I WAS A TEENAGE MONSTER (POLYVORE)

CS: https://urstyle.com/styles/489764

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⚰ Name: Valeria Rodgriguez-Smith
⚰ Age (and apparent age, if relevant): Appears to be 16, but is, in reality, as old as life and death itself
⚰ Faceclaim: Shay Mitchell
⚰ Species: Goddess...sort of. Valeria and her two sisters (Xinyu Rodriguez-Smith and Serena Rodriguez-Smith) are the three Fates, reborn again into the tumultuous world of 2017, with all its honking cars and advanced technology. Valeria is the middle sister, meaning that she is "life"-she determines when threads of a person's life need to be spun and cut. Xinyu is the youngest sister, meaning that she is "birth" (she spins the thread of human lives) and Serena is the oldest sister, meaning that she is "death" (she is responsible for cutting the threads of people who are fated to die). 
⚰ Gender: Female
⚰ Sexual/romantic orientation: Lesbian
⚰ One-adjective description: Determined
⚰ One-adjective description of their eyes: Sharp

⚰ Personality: Valeria is practical and pragmatic and gets things /done/. She values efficiency and a good work ethic, and she is quite the perfectionist when it comes to many aspects in her life. Valeria is a veritable battle-axe of a girl-she /will/ get what she wants, even if she has to constantly harangue an unfortunate soul to do so. Valeria never takes no for an answer, and she can be very, very pretentious. She's nigh-on indomitable and ever the realist, with no dreamy delusions of adventure (like one of her sisters) or beauty (like her other sister). Valeria is a social justice warrior wielding flamethrowers of compassion: unstoppable, unforgettable, and undeniably destructive...unless she gets the results that she wants. 

Valeria is very driven and passionate-she whole-heartedly believes that everyone deserves a chance at a good life, though both her feet are planted firmly on the ground. She's especially passionate about saving the environment and feminism, the first because /she's/ going to be around forever, and she sure as hell doesn't want to be living on a lifeless planet, and the second because she's seen too much female oppression in her long, long existence. 

Around the people at school, however, she is cool-headed and slightly callous. Valeria doesn't have time to take anyone's stupid sh/t. She's forever rushing from one place to another, whether it be a student council meeting, tutoring in Spanish and calculus, or her midnight parleys with her sisters, Valeria just doesn't stop moving. She has the unfortunate habit of interfering in /everyone's/ business. Valeria has absolutely no regard for one's "finer feelings" and "sensitivities"-she says what she means, head-on, without any subtlety whatsoever. Valeria always insists on being perfectly civil, though, even if her civility is tinged with a bit of good old-fashioned sarcasm. Valeria wields assertive behavior and bold bluntness like a weighty longsword, and the gods know that she is not afraid to use it.

⚰ Likes: pantsuits, no-nonsense dresses without any superfluous frills and/or decoration, black pumps, sharp pencils, being organized, all shades of dark blue, coffee without any added milk, cream, or sugar, dark-haired girls, girls who kick a$s, people who get straight to the point (she has no patience for people who uselessly skirt around a topic), punctuality, people who have a keen eye for small, specific details, being bossy, hosting all manner of fundraisers, community service (she isn't afraid to get her hands dirty to get things done), doing what needs to be done, organizing/planning events, practicality and productivity, being obeyed, helping others, fighting for what she believes in, studyblr accounts, economics and math, environmental science and sustainable development plans, the environment in general, minimalistic elegance

⚰ Dislikes: trashy pop music, dirty clothes, rumpled clothes, stains on her clothing, messiness and sloppiness, people who are disorganized, people who are unprepared, people who are late, incompetence, sugary drinks (soda? Ew. Frappuccinos from Starbucks? Even more /ew/.), stupid rap music with lyrics that make no sense or lyrics that are sexist, "frat" boys and preppy white boys, sexist people, homophobic people, the color cherry pink (it's so garishly bright that it hurts her eyes), cheap knock-offs, people who have no regard whatsoever for others, people who are constantly being careless, chocolate cake with too much frosting, "fake" people, people who don't care about the environment, history classes (all the books are just /so/ biased), overly extravagant/gaudy decorations

⚰ 3 traits they find attractive: bluntness, efficiency, and assertiveness

⚰ 3 traits they find unattractive: excessive sentimentality (often to the point of being maudlin), sexism, and blatant disrespect and carelessness

⚰ How did you become a monster?: There's not really a "how"...Valeria and her sisters have always just /been/. They've been reborn again and again and again, and Valeria has to say that this life has been her favorite so far (she thought her favorite was when she and her sisters were worshipped as goddesses in a country in the Mediterranean, but even Valeria has to appreciate the modern miracle of strawberry milkshakes)

⚰ Who knows they’re a monster?: Nobody but Valeria's two sisters

⚰ What powers do they have?: Valeria sees the threads that Xinyu spins and Serena cuts in shimmering colors, but the color starts to fade to gray when it is almost time for Serena to cut their threads. Valeria is the only one capable of determining when someone is to be born and when someone is to die. She is also responsible for all the events in between someone's birth and death-all the challenges, all the sorrows, and all the happy moments that define the human existence are because of /her/. Valeria creates the complexities of a person's life through tying or untangling knots in his or her thread.

⚰ What weaknesses do they have?: Valeria is just as human as anyone else at school. She bleeds, she feels, and she ages just the same. Eventually, she and her sisters will die and then be reborn into a different life, just like they have been for millennia. She is also not very good at listening to anybody else's opinions or admitting that she is wrong.

⚰ What’s high school like for them?: Valeria has taken high school by the storm-she is the student council president, she oversees many fundraisers and school events, she tutors kids in Spanish, economics, environmental science, and calculus, she is the president of the National Honor Society and the National Spanish Honor Society /and/ the National Math Honor Society, she maintains a 4.0 grade point average, she is an officer in various other community service or eco-friendly oriented clubs throughout the school...all while constantly monitoring the threads of life for signs of graying and signs that knots need to be tied or untied. Valeria is /that/ girl-the girl who is involved in everything while somehow getting A's the entire time. She's a perfectionist who fully intends on getting a 1600 on the SAT, a 36 on the ACT, and an acceptance letter from an Ivy League that she deems is good enough for her.

Valeria and her sisters were adopted by a couple when they were squalling babies in an orphanage in New York City. Steven Smith married Isabella Rodriguez only a few months before their adoption, and when they discovered that Isabella was incapable of bearing children, they decided to adopt. Valeria was reborn into this life with sun-kissed skin and dark brown hair, while Xinyu was given small, slanted eyes and black hair and long limbs, and Serena dark skin and curly hair and a petite stature. The orphanage told the Rodriguez-Smiths that the three girls were named prior to their arrival: Valeria for "bravery" in Spanish, Xinyu for "new rain" in Mandarin Chinese, and Serena for "peace" in various languages derived from Latin.

Their adoptive parents have no idea of their true nature, though Valeria thinks that their mother suspects /something/. Ah, well, nothing to be done about that. Valeria wants to live fully and completely in this lifetime: finally, women are /almost/ equal with men. Finally, it's acceptable for her to go to school (and excel in it, for that matter) and get a job and run a business instead of sitting at home doing chores (none of the three sisters have /ever/ married-well, there was this one time when they were reborn into a Navajo tribe in New Mexico, and Serena loved and almost married a man, but Valeria saw his thread graying and Serena was forced to cut it, thereby ending his life-but that's all in the past now). Valeria really puts herself out there in high school. She is always finding some new cause to take up, some new club to join, and some new fundraiser to organize. She keeps herself busy, and she finds that she likes it that way.

Valeria is lesbian, though not entirely aware of it-she has a lot more to worry about right now, but you can bet that her sisters have /definitely/ picked up on it.
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⚰ What do they want?: Valeria wants peoples' lives to be easier, especially since she is to blame for all the challenges that people face through those deceptively harmless knots she ties in the threads of their lives. Not the lives of her fellow classmates, mind you-most of them have it easy enough-but the people in poor countries who have to walk miles and miles for water, whose kids are dying of malnutrition, and who have no electricity or plumbing systems. Valeria is determined to help them in this lifetime in a way that she can (because untangling knots in a thread of life can be dangerous if it isn't done at the right time). Valeria also wants people to stop destroying the environment (don't these people know that once the damage is done, it could be irreversible?!) and is really damn tired of seeing women being treated differently because of their gender. 

Valeria has her whole life mapped out for her-she's going to major in business at a prestigious university, then go on to work for a company specializing in green energy or sustainable development or the like, while donating money to major feminist organizations and perhaps even getting a degree in law so she can become a bona fide environmentalist via the courtroom.

⚰ OPTIONAL EXTRAS ⚰

⚰ Moodboard: https://www.polyvore.com/valeria_aesthetic_board/set?id=222857809

⚰ Playlist: 
1. "Sit Still, Look Pretty" by Alessia Cara
(Oh, I don't know what you've been told/But this gal right here's gonna rule the world/Yeah, that is where I'm gonna be because I wanna be/No, I don't wanna sit still, look pretty)

2. "Titanium" by Sia and David Guetta
(You shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium)

3. "Run the World (Girls)" by Beyoncé
(Boy I know you love it/How we're smart enough to make these millions/Strong enough to bear the children/Then get back to business)

4. "Breath of Life" by Florence+the Machine 
(I was looking for the breath of a life/A little touch of a heavenly light)

5. "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry
(No, I don't even know your name/It doesn't matter/You're my experimental game/Just human nature/It's not what, good girls do/Not how they should behave/My head gets so confused/Hard to obey/I kissed a girl and I liked it/The taste of her cherry chap stick/I kissed a girl just to try it/I hope my boyfriend don't mind it)

6. "Victorious" by Panic! At The Disco
(Tonight we are victorious/Champagne pouring over us/All my friends, we're glorious/Tonight we are victorious)

7. "Emperor's New Clothes" by Panic! At the Disco
(Heroes always get remembered/But you know legends never die)

8. "The Greatest" by Sia and Kendrick Lamar
(I'm free to be the greatest, I'm alive/I'm free to be the greatest here tonight, the greatest)

⚰ Wardrobe: 
⚰ Aesthetic Collection: http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/collection?id=6685533

⚰ Supporting Characters: Xinyu Rodriguez-Smith (birth and a fellow Fate, Valeria's younger sister, FC=Li Bingbing), Serena Rodriguez-Smith (death and a fellow Fate, Valeria's older sister, FC=Janelle Monae), Steven Rodriguez-Smith (adoptive father, Caucasian), Isabella Rodriguez-Smith (adoptive mother, Mexican)

⚰ Story: http://www.polyvore.com/three_fates/set?id=222823373#fans
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