Yemmi Day Holland {WIP}

[Yemmi Day Holland]

Yemmi Day Holland

....the mask

Your Name: Rain
Where did you find us?:proboard support
How long have you been roleplaying?:A year
Password: [admin edit!]

...basic character information

Birth Name:Yemmi Day Holland
Nickname: Nope Just Yemmi
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Grade: 11
Birth date: April 15th
Program: Bachelor of Science
Major: veterinary medicine
Major Explanation: Yemmi Wants to be a a vet because her Father was a vet though he only dad only treated dog s and cats. Yemmi can't stand those she wants to treat more exotic animals. This is what really connects her to her major because she wants to treat animals out on the African plains... Like where giraffes live.
Animal Identity: Giraffe

...personality

Likes:(at least 10)

• exotic animals - like rhino's and zebras and giraffes
  
• colors- She likes rainbow colors not black and white
  
• blood- She has a fetish with seeing blood she finds it interesting animal or human
  
• heat- It gives her an excuse to wear short skirts
  
• blaring music- drowns out the stupid people
  
• movies- very entertaining
  
• That she is different- Her life was a little complicated and her social skills are a little awkward
  
• skirts- but they have turnability
  
• green stuff- she's a veg head
  
• Running- but just for fun
  

Dislikes: (at least 10)

• Being judged- She is a little different doesn't mean she is crazy!
  
• She has to hide her scars- Ya she's a cutter but she likes people to know
  
• Snow- To cold
  
• Cats and dogs- Why when you could own or see something so much cooler
  
• indoors- So stuffy nothing to do there
  
• Not knowing what to say when she is talking
  
• School- The grown ups there always bring down her mojo
  
• Being sick- She catches viruses so easy.
  
• Death- It always seems to creep around her.
  
• Ants- Those pesky little creatures are so bothersome...
  

Fears: (At least 3)

• Death- Not her own but everyone's around her
  
• Being stuck in doors- It's quite horrible all she wants is to be outside
  
• Not being able to become a vet- It's really important to her.
  

Strengths: (At least 3)

• She isn't afraid of blood- Really good for being a vet
  
• Doesn't care what other people say- she's to crazy for that.
  
• running/ tallness- Those are just cool
  

Weaknesses: (At least 3)

• She is very awkward social butterfly.
  
• She blames her self for every death that happens around her.
  
• She gets sick so easily- It's a giraffe thing
  

Overall: [400 words minimum]

Yemmi is an odd girl. She is also curious just like a giraffe would be. She is curious on how to fix animals from sickness and bodily wounds. She loves to work on bigger more exotic animals. She really wants to work out in the African plains on the animals there. Yemmi has always hated small animals like dogs and cats. She finds them boring.

One other reason Yemmi wants to become a vet is her obsession with blood. This is very unlike her shift the giraffe but came about when her father and mother died. She found that blood was the one thing that kept us alive.

Yemmi has other obsessions than blood. One would be bright colors. She loves having things of many colors on her at all times and some times she doesn't match then that well. Another obsession would be skirts. It's hard to find something besides a skirt or dress in her wardrobe.

Something else that Yemmi loves is running. She is just like a giraffe that way. She loves feeling the wind in her face. She finds running as a stress reviler though she could never to it competitively.

...appearance

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Celebrity Play By: Kate Nash
Appearance: [400 words minimum]
Well the first thing you notice about Yemmi is her height. She is mostly legs at six foot two. She is way tall. Good thing she never wears heels or she would tower over every one.

Her hair is a natural brown that feathers out but she has put a touch of red in it so she looks more edgy. The length hits right past her shoulders. She usually keeps it down but some times Day puts it up.

The difference in In Yemmi's and Day's styles are astounding, Once you get a glance of her you can tell how she feels that.. or who she is that day.

When Yemmi feels like being day people would almost call her emo or goth. Though Day does not like to be called theses stereotypes. Day seems to wear all black with one flash of color some where. She almost always wears pants and black tennis shoes. As Day she wants to cover the scars that litter her arms. Not all of them from her cutting but still. She wears long sleeves in the winter or in the summer. She doesn't like explaining to people what she does and why. Another thing Day does that is different from Yemmi feels like being Yemmi is that when she is day she actually wears her reading glasses. Yemmi doesn't like that she has to wear glasses because she believes they make her look weird but when she is Day she wears them even when she isn't reading.

When Yemmi is feeling, like well Yemmi it is a whole different story. Yemmi hates having one color on here. She tries to stay away from black or whit but she can't stand the color grey. ICK! Yemmi is either wearing a Skirt or dress at all time. She likes how they twirl and look. She is never found without a colorful pair of tennis shoes. Even when Yemmi is wearing a dress she has a trusty pair of chucks on her feet. The thing with Yemmi and colors is she has to have as many colors on her as possible. She really isn't the best at matching and can be seen with every color under her sun on her. She loves bright colors and if they are bright then they go together.

Yemmi likes to wear short sleeves because she doesn't care if others see her scars. Some are not that noticeable but if you focussed on her arms you see the left over scars. Every once in a while new ones pop up on her arms but now she prefers to cut on her stomach and legs.

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...history

Parents: James Holland deceased at 42(47) and
Glinda Holland* (would be 43) Deceased at 27
Step mom: Ember Holland deceased (37)
Siblings: Peter Holland diseased at two(6)
[400 words minimum]
Glinda and James married each other when she was tent- two and he was twenty six. It was true love. They tried to have a child for years . Then finally on Glinda's twenty seventh birthday they find out that she was pregnant. Over joyed the two found out that it was to be a girl. But wait not just one two! The couple had already named the two girls Yemmi Lee and Day Rose. But through out the pregnancy there were many problems. The lose of one twin right before the third trimester hit them hard so the combined the twins names to just having Yemmi Day.

The next big problem happened the day Yemmi was born. During the birth there was complications the doctors couldn't help killing Glinda in the long run. This was disastrous sending James into a long depression so he could barely look at Yemmi as a baby let alone raise her. Plus, Glinda had the shifting gene and never told James not knowing how and now he never would know.

James moved around for many years after his wifes death leaving Yemmi to her own devices from a baby until James found Ember. She was ten years younger then him but drop dead gorgeous.They dated for years until she was ten when Ember came up pregnant. This really caught Yemmi'd\s attention. She had been long forgotten by her Father and she had no friends or real contact with other kids being home schooled by her various Nannies.

When Peter was born Yemmi got even less attention. She began finding ways to get attention like the baby was. One day when the family decided to go out for a day in the park. (To socialize the baby) Yemmi was running around by her self and fell pretty hard and broke her arm and scraped up her face. Ember and her father ran up to her almost forgetting about the baby. This reaction made Yemmi curious.

There for she started her bad habit of cutting. This is also when Day came about. Yemmi wanted the attention of her parents when Day just wanted to be in the moment and feel the rush of the cut. This was so conflicting to Yemmi making her start calling herself Day at times and Yemmi at others. This began confusing her parents. Her mysteriously showing up with cuts and changing her name from one point to the other.

They would have stuck her in therapy once she turned eleven but her father became ill. He had brain cancer that was spreading fast. Yemmi didn't want attention any more but Day still wanted to feel good. Yemmi sat by her Father everyday and did as she was told. Ember just cried. Peter was barely a year and her father died.

Yemmi was eleven and became very confused. Her emotion spiraled and she became Day for months Ember didn't know how to deal with her and was more worried about Peter and being a young single mom. She stuck Yemmi (Day at the time) to be a baby sister for the little guy when she went off to work or whatever she did. Yemmi/Day didn't know how to take care of a one year old. She was use to taking care of her self but to take care of others was a new one for her.

Everything was going fine. It was a good day when Yemmi was being Yemmi and not Day. Yemmi was eleven and peter was almost three. Yemmi was itching to go outside because the sun was shining bright. She looked at Peter and he was beginning to learn how to run just like her and she liked it. Yemmi was beginning to enjoy her little brother.

She let herself and brother outside. They were playing together in the front yard when Yemmi Really had to pee. Peter refused to go inside so Yemmi let Peter stay outside. Yemmi went to the bathroom and was walking out the door when Peter Ran out in the road. Yemmi ran out half way in the yard. Not that she called out she was never that talkative and she didn't trust her voice.

Peter was ran over y a little old lady who was doing nothing wrong. Yemmi once again Became Day. She cut more just to feel and gave her self stitches if she cut to deep. She blamed her self for all the death that was happening around her. First her Twin then her real mom. Then Dad now Peter.

Ember blamed Yemmi or Day or who ever she felt like being that day for what happened to Peter. Yemmi blamed herself too. Her arms looked like hamburger by the time Ember started to notice. Yemmi's thirteenth birthday was sneaking up on them at this time.

Ember was looking up doctors and places to put Yemmi so Ember could finally be free. Yemmi felt more like Day because she knew today was her thirteenth birth day and no one cared.

Ember walked into Yemmi's room to tell her she was going to be put into a program when Yemmi began to shift. Her neck is what ached the most when it started growing and busted through the roof of the house then her bone cracked and she felt as though she was dying.

Once Yemmi became a giraffe her instinct came over her and she tried to run. Ember was in front of her and Yemmi started kicking and running the house turning into shamble and.... Eventually killing Ember.

The police officers came after Yemmi was back to being Yemmi. They questioned about her the house being in shambles her arms being scarred and bloody and about how Ember died. Yemmi or at that moment Day just sat in a chair. She mumbled under her breath still freaking out about changing still in shock.

They of course looked through her records and saw that she was about to be sent to a crazy house so they had their psychiatrist check out and confirmed she was crazy.

From there Yemmi was sent to Pine View. A place where she would get help with her cutting and hallucinations (AkA her saying she became a giraffe.) and her newly diagnosed multiple personality disorder with some depression and Bipolar meds on the side. Yemmi missed the out doors which made her even more crazy she wanted to run and play. She wanted to be helping and not being helped.

For three years she was stuck in the Pine View. Yemmi told every attended she was lying about shifting until finally one believed her. Finally one of the attends was a shifter to. He looked past the rest of Yemmi's craziness and told her he believed her. He told her about a school and asked if she would want to go...

Yemmi only asked if she could go outside and when the answer was yes she couldn'd wait to get out of there. She was shipped off to This academy with a few bottles of pills she flushed and a shiny new razor in her pocket ready to run.

...connecting human to animal

[One Paragraph Minimum (Can be point form)]
Why did Yemmi become a giraffe? One would be because her height is alarming. She is overly Tall and so are giraffes. Another reason would be her love of the heat and hate of the cold. Giraffes are from Africa and it is of course always hot there. Yemmi loves to run to have fun just like giraffes. Day is shy like giraffes and they both despise ants which giraffes can't like because they get in their noses and mouths as they eat. Plus, Yemmi easily gets sick as d giraffes in weather like the snow and such.

...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.
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Yemmi was so excited. She was about to go outside. The sun was bright and beat down on Yemmi's skin. She smiled a crazy smile. She felt like Yemmi today and wore a bright yellow shirt with a smiley face printed on it. She had a bright red belt with a orange skirt. Her running shoes were a bright orange. She twirled letting her skirt fly up a little to high.

Yemmi laughed and held out her arms. In the sun light her scars burned bright. She ran her fingers over old ones and picked at the fresh ones that were around her elbow. She wasn't afraid who saw. She had been in an institution for almost three years. Yes she was one of the craziest there, but there had been worst real crazies the ones you find in horror films.

Yemmi smiled again feeling her feet itch with anticipation. She loved running it was one thing that made her feel free and healthy. She laughed real hard and dug her sneaker in the ground ready to take off. With one last twirl of her skirt she was off happy to out of those four white walls. Happy to be outside in the sun and not the snow. She ran. Around the the trees that scattered the land. She stopped not quite out of breath. She twirled in her skirt one more before stopping and sitting in by a tree.

Her back fell against the trunk of the tree and studied her arms again. She was happy a smile permanently planted on her face. She was Yemmi. A regular girl. A fun loving ,crazy , insane, girl who killed people. The corners of her smile began to drop. She shook her head. Trying to stay happy. Stay excited. Yemmi got up ready to run again. Ready to feel the sun bet down on her. She had to stay happy.

[A.dministration]

Hey there! (: First, welcome to Shifter Academy! I'm Kevlar and I'll be guiding you through your application process. (:

There are a few things that I'd like to point out to you to help you create a character that'll be welcomed and accepted here at Shifter Academy!

Firstly, I don't think a giraffe is the right animal for Yemmi/Day. Although you tried to justify it because of the two-sided nature of Yemmi's personality, you didn't capture a giraffe fully. Although they do, in fact, like the play with toys and all of that, they're quiet animals. They're also pretty social. They're not that bold or 'crazy'; they prefer a quiet life and just do creative things every once in a while, such as using their long necks to get a special leaf or something.

Second, I notice that later in her history you say that she was given plenty of medication and then released. Doctors really aren't that...well, dumb. The way you wrote it in Yemmi's history is that she was the craziest in Pine View (which probably wouldn't be true because she's really only seen as a girl with Dissociative Identity Disorder and hallucinations), you basically said that they didn't pay attention to her for three years and just kept her around, rather than trying to treat her. That's not very realistic and neither is having a Shifter nurse. The shifter nurse would understand Yemmi but probably wouldn't have the authority to say "okay, she's fine, let's just let her go". Most doctors know that their patients would lie to get out of a bunch of mess, so they'd try to keep her longer. It just doesn't seem realistic, you know?

Third, you've got a lot of randomly capitilized and lower-cased words that don't need to be. Such as not capitalizing Day as her name, etc.

Fourth, your character is riddled with contradictions, putting her shift aside. You say that she likes being different, justifying it by saying that she's crazy. And then her dislikes say that she doesn't like to be judged because she's "a little different" but it "doesn't mean she is crazy", a direct contradiction to what you said above that. And if you're going to have two completely different personalities, there should probabl be a distinguishing line between what Yemmi likes and what Day likes, you know? Since they aren't completely the same person and they don't have the same kind of ways to act.

Fifth, Day in general doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Why would she cut herself to remind Yemmi? It seems like you're making Day the pessimist and Yemmi the optimist who loves life. But you also say that Day is the practical one who chose Yemmi's career, which contradicts what you said in the Major explanation. You have to make distinguishable differences from Yemmi and Day if you're going to have her have a split personality. A practical person, no matter how optimistic, most likely wouldn't cut just to create marks on her body, you know?

Sixth, your role play sample didn't meet the minimum requirement! If you can't write 400 words for a post (which is our minimum here) then how will you be able to keep up? You also didn't describe what she looks like in her giraffe form, which is a requirement for the appearance section.

Seventh, it seems like you need to sit down and think about this character a bit more. She's not ready to role play; she's too scattered and all over the place. You'll need to get her better explained before you can join the site. Because we're intermediate/advanced and we want you to be able to keep up, you know?

I know this really seems like a lot but we want to help you to become a better role player and that starts with a strong character! I really like the ideas that you put forward for her originality and we want you to keep that but to evolve it into an even better character! What you've got so far is a really good start and I think that you can make it excellent. (:

If you have any question, feel free to PM this account!
And Bump this thread when you're done! (:
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