[hider=Rita J. Shaw] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/Ubo4mXz.png[/img] [img]https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/f2848d7e-4610-4cde-92d7-2fa349912410/d9lsd66-aea408df-0596-4a78-a1bb-0fa1f5a17a42.jpg/v1/fill/w_1111,h_719,q_70,strp/a_girl_with_her_own_style_by_arctic_revoiution_d9lsd66-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9ODI5IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvZjI4NDhkN2UtNDYxMC00Y2RlLTkyZDctMmZhMzQ5OTEyNDEwXC9kOWxzZDY2LWFlYTQwOGRmLTA1OTYtNGE3OC1hMWJiLTBmYTFmNWExN2E0Mi5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTI4MCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.EboVJYsXoutXf1EMK5x3Q2CSrbmSgeixjOvpaQLR7Eo[/img] [color=green][h1]╚══════════════╝[/h1][/color] [i]"Where am I? This sure as hell isn't home... how did I get here?"[/i] [color=green][h3][ [b]18[/b] | [b]6'2ft[/b] | [b]Caucasian (French and other stuff)[/b] | [b]She/Her[/b] | [b][/b] ][/h3] [h1][i][Stranger][/i][/h1][/color] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXXBUaP8vM8[/youtube][/center] [color=green][h3][u][b] APPEARANCE [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Like it? The hair really screams Rita, don't you think?"[/i] [indent][indent]Quite a standout individual in her home town, granted that she was the tallest female at her school and pretty much everywhere she went. Standing at six-two, Rita is taller than a lot of boys and few girls do more than reach her shoulders. It's the last thing that Rita wanted to inherit from her parents because she doesn't like standing out and drawing attention to herself. Rita is a very bony girl that has little to no width to her body, so she's tall but not very big. Her shoulders are relatively thin and despite her height, she barely looks masculine. Her cup size is a 34C and she isn't the type that fills out her jeans. Rita is Caucasian to her bone, but she honestly doesn't know what race she is exactly. Her mother says that she's French, but that doesn't add up at all. Rita's just white in her eyes. She's got brown hair that's shoulder-length with blonde highlights.[/indent][/indent] [color=green][h3][u][b] PSYCHOLOGY [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"What my mother did... it fucked me up, but I am going to do what I can to get back at her."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [color=green][b]MAIN GOAL ⫻[/b] [/color] Rita's main goal is to "fix" what her mother did to her and become the girl she was always meant to be. A wild free spirit, not this contained a paranoid wreck of a girl. She also, deep down, wants revenge against her mother. [color=green][b]PHILOSOPHY ⫻[/b] [/color] In Rita's eyes, nothing should be taken at face value nor is it straight forward. People are some of the most complex people in the world and if anyone tries to present themselves as "simple" then they're probably lying about something. Nothing is ever the way it seems. [color=green][b]SECRETS ⫻[/b] [/color] Rita keeps most of her life private by reflex, merely because she's afraid that people will use it against her as her mother taught. [color=green][b]SEXUALITY ⫻[/b] [/color] Rita has no clue what her sexuality is, she's had fun with both boys and girls but it's all been purely physical. So far she hasn't felt an iota of this emotion called "love". [color=green][b]FEARS ⫻[/b] [/color] While Rita has made huge strides to open up and interact with people, Rita is still very paranoid of other people's intentions. She keeps herself closed off because she's afraid of somebody taking advantage of it. [color=green][b]REPUTATION ⫻[/b] [/color] Rita isn't even from Araminta. She has no clue why she's here, and the same goes for the inhabitants. Rita is a stranger. [color=green][b]QUIRKS ⫻[/b] [/color] Rita has difficulty keeping eye contact with people and has a habit of looking away or letting herself get "distracted" by something. [color=green][b]FLAWS ⫻[/b] [/color] Because of her extreme sheltered upbringing, Rita has horrible social skills. Slang and other terms fly over her head as she doesn't know how to act in every situation and has a habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Very paranoid and overly cautious, and somewhat childish and emotionally immature. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=green][h3][u][b] BACKSTORY [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I hate my mother so much."[/i] [indent][indent]So, if you've been reading everything so far you can probably get a good idea of what I'm going to do here. Rita was born in rural Florida, not too far away from Tampa, to her mother Jane Shaw. Now, Jane has some problems that could not be ignored, yes, she was a very intelligent and talented woman that became a Sergeant in the army. However, she suffered from a myriad of mental disorders that, ultimately, ended up with her being separated from the army and she retired to Florida. She kept to herself, working as a doctor using what skills she could use from the army, and stayed home. She eventually, with some convincing from her family, went out to a bar and met a guy and they had sex. The experience was a great one for her for a large number of reasons, but worst of all she ended up pregnant from it. Jane didn't believe in abortion and kept the child, naming it after her late grandmother Rita. However, Jane was not a great mother, nor was she particularly fit for doing it. Jane homeschooled Rita and kept her isolated from the outside world as possible in an attempt to shield the world from the things she has seen. Rita was homeschooled and was hardly allowed to socialize with anyone that didn't share their last name. While this created a child as intelligent and studious as Jane herself this severely stunted her emotional growth and social skills. If things went the way that they had Rita would never have been prepared for the outside world or to be an adult. And Rita wouldn't have known until it was too late. Life has a way it seems, Rita wondered if it was destiny or something else, but she had made a friend out of a neighbor. A girl her age named Brooke Vanburen. Brooke was the only friend that Rita and Brooke helped her realize something was wrong with her life. They talked through the fence whenever Jane would let Rita play in the yard, but Brooke showed her so much. How Jane was being oppressive to her. This eventually gave rise, with some help, to some small rebellions starting with Rita breaking the routine to talking back to Jane. This ended with Jane putting Rita on lockdown but that didn't help. Rita was smart as she was, eventually, she figured out a way to communicate with Brooke via the usage of letters. It wasn't long however until Jane found the letters and went into a fit of rage. Jane marched towards the door to have a strong word with the Vanburens but Rita got the impression that Jane was going to kill Brooke. In an attempt to "save" her friend, Rita attacked Jane and a fight ensued between the two that ended when Jane fell over onto her back. The woman curled up into a ball and started crying, eventually, the police came in and sorted everything out. After getting the full story from everyone it was decided that Jane would be separated from Rita. Rita ended up in Orlando Florida where her grandparents lived because no other Shaw or Shaw affiliate would touch Rita with a twelve-foot stick. Fortunately, Rita was able to keep in touch with Brooke and was given a cellphone and [i]many[/i] therapy lessons... but Rita felt like an alien where ever she went. It was a slow process but eventually, Rita made friends but still felt awkward with herself. Yes, she was intelligent enough to get through school rather easily but she felt like she didn't belong there. After her graduation, Rita disappeared from her grandparent's home without a trace, she didn't know where she was going but it wasn't there. Eventually, Rita ended up back in her home town and reunited with Brooke. From there the two went through every bar, party, and beach in town with the usage of many fake IDs. It wasn't long until Rita was kicked out of the Vanburen household, but she ended up using her good looks to score a place to stay with some boys. Taking the bus around town before she came across somebody familiar to her: Jane Shaw. Rita and Jane stared at each other silently before Rita blamed Jane for [i]everything[/i]. Jane took everything in stride and apologized for it all, but that wasn't good enough for Rita. Eventually, the girl attacked her mother and in the ensuing tussle they ended up in the street... in the way of a passing vehicle. All Rita could see was the light's blinding headlights barrelling towards her at speeds she couldn't react to... ... Then she woke up in the middle of some weird place.[/indent][/indent] [color=green][h3][u][b] SKILLS & TALENTS [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"I'm smart, but I don't want to be smart. I want to be Rita."[/i] [indent][indent][indent] [color=green][b]Intelligent ⫻[/b] [/color] One good thing that Rita got from Jane is that she knows a lot of different stuff. Even if it takes her a second to call on it, she has a lot of skills and knowledge in a variety of subjects such as first aid, physics, animals, history, etc. [color=green][b]Perceptive ⫻[/b] [/color] Rita's constantly taking note of her surroundings and analyzing every word somebody says down to the letter. She notices things, other people gloss over and is good at putting together motives. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [color=green][h3][u][b] EXTRA-NORMAL ABILITIES [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Extra... Normal? What the hell does that mean?"[/i] [indent][indent] Rita is a Blind. [/indent][/indent] [color=green][h3][u][b] OTHER [/b][/u][/h3][/color] [i]"Something isn't right about this place and it's not just Araminta."[/i] [indent][indent][/indent][/indent] [/hider]