Kara Brooks [WIP]

[kara]

KARA NICOLE BROOKS

....the mask

Your Name: Kara
Where did you find us?: Advertisement on the Aurora
How long have you been roleplaying?:A few years, but it has been awhile
Password: [admin edit!]

...basic character information

Birth Name: Kara Nicole Brooks
Nickname: None
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Grade: 11
Birth date: October 31st
Program: Bachelor of Arts
Major: Criminal Justice
Animal Identity: King Cheetah

...personality

Likes:

• Running-- she loves feeling of the wind rushing at her, the essence of getting away
  
• Thunder storms-- the storms puts her at peace, for some reason she enjoys the cracking of the thunder and flashing lightening
  
• Outdoors-- she grew up 'exploring' the woods and using it as an escape
  
• Sports-- she is competitive when it comes to sports and is sometimes a sore loser
  
• Friends- -she considers them family and of importance to her
  
• Music-- her favorite is hip hop, the beats and pace liven her up and she can quickly turn from unhappy to rather pleasant
  
• Thrills-- roller coasters are experiences she seeks, she also wants to try sky diving one day
  
• Sunrise/Sunset-- the feeling of the day ending and starting over, she feels she can become anyone with the start of a new day, a saying her father told her before he died
  
• Speed-- weather in a car, on foot, or on a roller coaster she always want to go just a little faster
  
• Night-- the shadowed landscape, bright moon, silence, the feeling the world is asleep; these things make her feel important
  

Dislikes: (at least 10)

• Winter--she hates the cold and does everything to avoid it, when forced to endure it she wears layers upon layers of clothes regardless of appearance
  
• Secrets--she is curious and hates being held-out on
  
• Religion--due to her step-fathers obsession
  
• Liar's--she holds grudges and gives her trust lightly, so being lied to is a tough blow for her
  
• Fakes-- she sets her mind to automatically avoid and dislike all people that deceive
  
• Meeting new people-- she is rather shy when first meeting with people, but much more talkative once getting to know them
  
• Seafood-- for some reason the taste just makes her feel sick
  
• Older men-- mostly because of her step-father and bad male influences throughout her life
  
• Hospitals-- the sight of people dieing with no way to help them troubles her
  
• Loosing-- she is competitive and does everything she can to avoid loosing
  

Fears: (At least 3)

• Ocean-- the constant waves coming at her and the ability to drown scare her
  
• Hunters-- she is always afraid that once shifted she will be hunted after
  
• Spiders-- a phobia she has no reason for, they have just always frightened her deeply
  
• Lack on control-- an experience that destroyed her father
  

Strengths: (At least 3)

• Speed-- well...she does shift to a cheetah for a reason
  
• Persistence-- she does not easily give up and attempts thing until she finds an answer or solution
  
• Risky-- she is willing to get into trouble or injured to help solve a problem or for a chance at a great thrill
  

Weaknesses: (At least 3)

• Stubborn-- she is hard pressed to try new ideas and does not give up on things lightly
  
• Seeing others in pain-- she will risk almost anything in order to help and person or animal in need of assistance
  
• Determined-- she finishes things through...which may take them to far
  

Overall: [400 words minimum]

Personality is really important in understanding your character so we ask that you go into great detail with it. There are so many personality traits that you can describe and it is this that will help RPing with your character become that much easier.

...appearance

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Celebrity Play By: Peyton List
Appearance: [400 words minimum]
It's pretty simple to explain the basic looks like eye and hair color, weight, clothing, piercings, tattoos, make-up, and other extra things. You also must go into detail about what the animal portion of your character looks like. If you're a snake, great but what kind of snake, what do you look like etc. Both of these are important and must be explained as detailed and as thoroughly as possible[/size]

...history

Parents: Julie Brooks-Johnson, Jonah Brooks (deceased), Andrew Johnson
Siblings: Arya Brooks , Sawyer Brooks
[400 words minimum]

Kara was a happy child, always laughing and playing games with her family members. She was the oldest of three, already 4 when her mother became pregnant with boy-girl fraternal twins. She played house with them and helped care for them. Her happiest moments looking back were when the family went on camping trips together, splashing each other in the lake and roasting marshmallows beneath the stars. Her family was middle class and lived in a four bedroom house with woods out back. Her parents were madly in love, she noticed them frequently kissing and laughing lightly at each other. During those times Kara couldn't have been happier, life was so kind to her.

There was a set date of the change, a time when the world felt against her. She was 13 years old, knowing nothing of shifting, when she encountered a black bear in on the edge of the woods of her home. She loved animals, but recalled a warning to avoid bears. Turning to leave she was chased, the result of the chase ended badly, the bear leaving large gashes on her body before running off. She called for her dad constantly until she blacked out. Waking up she found herself in a world unlike the place she was born into. She came to find out she was in a coma for nearly two weeks, and that he dad had committed suicide the day of her attack. He left her a note explaining that the bear was him and he had the ability to shift into an animal, an ability he failed to control. He also noted that this ability could also belong to her and that she needed to control it. He killed himself in shame for what he had done, almost killing her under his lack of control.

From that day on her family was different, her mother locking herself away most nights and leaving the children to fend for themselves. After that Kara took over, helping her brother and sister with homework, making meals, cleaning the house. She did everything to keep their lives normal. She later found that hunters illegally took aim at her father and this provoked his anger. After hearing that she knew that she wanted to stop criminals in all walks of life.

It took two years for her mother to come around, to start caring for them. One day she came home to find a unknown man in her home, he appeared nice at first and though he was older than her mother she accepted that her mother was trying to get past what had happened. Her first impression of the man was wrong, he was a official for the church and held complete control of her mother. She quickly began to hate him, he began to change her mother to believe that her true father was weak and sinful. Everything in their house became oriented around religion and the man, Andrew, way of thinking. She turned against them, wishing her mother would see how horrible he was, she began to spend all her time outside, away from Andrew. She imagined leaving him, escaping her past and starting over, but she had no way out.

One day after school as usual she got into a fight with Andrew, which resulted in her escaping to the woods and trying to run off her anger. In three more years she would be out, free from his house and his rules. During this run she felt something change, a pain erupted inside her and her bones and muscles started to move, shrinking and shifting. Fur grew from her skin and a tail formed. After it was over she felt powerful, able to destroy Andrew and his ways. Using a pond she discovered herself to be a king cheetah.

...connecting human to animal

[One Paragraph Minimum (Can be point form)]
Explain why your character shifts into the animal that it does. Why is it this animal and not a different one? Is it your courage? Your adventure seeking personality? Your hawk-like eyes? Tell us about the connection between your human and inner animal. And please don't say "It was their favorite animal growing up." Good resources to understand this better are questions 6 and 7 in the FAQ's.

...literacy

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-Must be in the 3rd person point of view and in past tense
-REMEMBER we are an intermediate-advanced literacy site. Please keep that in mind.
-Must be at least 3 paragraphs[/size]
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