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[hr][hr][b][i]Name:[/i][/b]
Bethany Eloise Carter | Bonnie

[b][i]Age:[/i][/b]
Twenty-four

[b][i]Gender:[/i][/b]
Female

[b][i]Nationality:[/i][/b]
American

[b][i]Reason for joining:[/i][/b]
She was looking for a purpose that was more impactful than she had been able to find on her own. 

[b][i]Speciality:[/i][/b][/center] Bonnie is a Survical, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) specialist and educator. Her primary focuses are on wilderness survival, isolation coping, and enemy evasion tactics. Though sufficient in both hand-to-hand combat as well as the use of weaponry, she would much prefer to avoid an altercation entirely. 

[center][b][i]Appearance:[/i][/b][/center]Bonnie’s unmanageable, curly mane and small stature has unintentionally left her desperate for an identity outside of a teen member of the 90’s youth rebellion or a worshipper of Mariah Carey. Messy bangs hang limply down her forehead and brush just above a set of pale eyes. Standing at 5’2, she regularly finds herself battling to prove both her age, though her knack for inappropriate humor certainly doesn't help. 

[center][b][i]Personality:[/i][/b][/center]Bonnie is never afraid to argue, but rarely takes minor altercations personally. This is driven by a deeply rooted stubbornness that has been developing since birth and often a need to have things her way. She had daily practice on this with her siblings and has honed in her debate skills. Disputes come as easy as a conversation about the weather to her and truthfully, are much preferred to small talk. As soon as they are over and she feels that she has successfully gotten her point across, she will be back to inappropriate jokes about her unlucky victim’s mother. 

Much of her communication with her co-campers comes in the form of quick wit and cheap laughs, a coping mechanism of sorts. Coming from the lifestyle that she does, Bonnie is rarely knocked off kilter and is very quick to recover when this does occur. Her aptness to act on instinct may even warrant her being called impulsive. It doesn't help that Bonnie desperately strives for constant movement and action, typically initiating it should there be none readily available.
 
However, there is an underlying warmth to the young woman that quickly rises to the surface upon the establishment of trust and connection, no matter how minute. Those close to her would advocate for the motherly nature and need to protect that she holds. Bonnie seems almost desperate to please those in her life, whether this be by physically caring for them or by simply offering an ear to listen. She will consistently be one of the first to donate time and resources to whatever cause she feels passionate about, though this often leaves her stretched thin and even cynical.

Bonnie finds that she sticks to her traditions and routines almost religiously, as this offers her a sense of comfort and reassurance that she and the others will continue to stay out of trouble. Due to her hypervigilance, she is extremely perceptive about people is often on the offense in her interactions with others. She always tries to stay two steps ahead and her plans nearly always include an alternative, never relenting in her efforts to prove she is not one to be underestimated. 

Bonnie lives by a certain code and expects others to naturally fall in line with her morals and ideals. Loyalty and trustworthiness are two virtues that Bonnie will never compromise on. One step out of line pertaining to either and she will make it a mission of hers to ostracize and humiliate the offender so thoroughly they would never think of acting in that manner again. Once permitted into her inner circle, however, you will be rewarded with the friendship of someone who would do everything in her power to pluck the stars from the sky should you request one.

[center][b][i]History:[/i][/b][/center]Born to a family of self-proclaimed free spirits in the southern half of the United States, Bonnie was never able to call a particular place home. Her and her two siblings lived nomadically out of the family’s camper and all were educated by their own mother while their father picked up small jobs to cover the living expenses they did collect. 

The lifestyle was a dream to most. Never knowing exactly where they would sleep at night or where they would be when they woke in the morning. However, this constant movement and changing left the eldest child, Bonnie, desperate for an achievable goal. Her future was blurry and this left her unsettled. 

At the age of sixteen, Bonnie earned her GED and settled into a permanent home at the southern California border. She mixed herself in with a crowd her mother would have scowled at in an effort to make her ends meet, only staying for as long as was necessary. Years of working service and she eventually found herself in a comfortable nine to five, though she still struggled deeply with finding her identity. 

A few seasons of packed lunches passed before Bonnie set off on a soul-searching journey of her own. The young woman had solo hiked nearly the entirety of the Pacific Crest Trail before finding her next adventure at a hostel in Washington. The men told of a camp built for those like her, a place in which successes and discipline were readily available. Venezuela was all they really had to say before she was ready to sign the dotted line. The reality of Camp Sunshine and the truths she strives to discover about the workings of the place have left her longing to have her desk chair back, however. 
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