Post by quinn skylar merlotte on Dec 18, 2013 17:44:50 GMT -5
QUINN SKYLAR MERLOTTE
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FULL NAME: Quinn Skylar Merlotte.
NICKNAMES: N/A.
AGE: twenty-one.
SEXUALITY: straight.
STATUS: single
GROUP: student
GRADE: sophomore
MAJOR: culinary arts
JOB OCCUPATION: Campus Store.
HAIR: Blonde and long. It’s naturally straight with only a slight kink from hats or sleeping habits. Usually she just leaves it like that unless she’s awake early or had coerced a friend into helping her; she’s not the greatest with styling products..
EYES: blue-green.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: She has quite a few little ones scattered that are mostly faded, but there’s still a pretty noticeable one around her left elbow from a bad accident during an Aussie Rules match when she was eighteen. She broke her arm and the bone came through the skin leaving a rather nasty scar.
TATTOOS: Cherry Blossom tattoo on her left foot .
PIERCINGS: Ears twice, cartilage piercing and conch in her right ear..
PLAY-BY: Annasophia Robb!
LIKES: surfing, baking, mountain climbing, Aussie Rules Football, soccer, kayaking, buttercream, vanilla essence, freshly baked bread, chocolate truffles, cranberry juice, New York City, being outside, iced coffee, crafting, buttons, Skype, shorts, lakes, beach bars, green tea, yoga, the ocean, beaches, dolphins, dancing, testing new recipes, her freedom, chasing her dreams..
DISLIKES: being “baby-faced”, getting her ID checked all the time, arguing, bullies, feeling indecisive, stuttering, snorting when she laughs, trips to the hospital, burning cakes, French fries without sauce, cosmetic counters, “handsy” strangers, broccoli, fighting with her dad, missing home, feeling overemotional, unfinished projects, soap operas, violent movies, fur coats.
FEARS: failing, never being good enough, scorpions.
SECRETS: She dreams of one day owning her own bakery, but she’s scared of people killing that dream and calling it silly..
PERSONALITY: Quinn is very active and athletic. Sports have always been a huge part of her life, but there’s a lot more to her than the football or the surfboard. She’s competitive but surprisingly quiet and shy. She spent a lot of her life being ridiculed or trying to live up to certain expectations so it’s left quite a reserved girl behind. Quinn is a dreamer who often has her head high in the clouds when she’s not competing or working off the daily stresses. Recently she’s become a lot more determined, but she lacks a lot of self-confidence and often needs the reassurance of her peers. Still, with her friends, she is quite laidback and fun, but she’s definitely not a leader when it comes to social interactions. If she’s angry or frustrated then she bottles it up and tries to channel it into her sports or her baking, but if she doesn’t get to one of them in time then she can turn into an emotional mess. She’s one of those who cries when they get really angry and can’t control it. She’s self-conscious about certain traits that got her bullied in her past, like the little snort that sometimes escapes when she laughs. She’s not a confrontational girl unless it’s been building for a very long time. Normally she’ll just try to get out of an aggressive situation as fast as she can. When it comes to romance, Quinn freezes up! She’s never really had anything that she would call a relationship and so she’s a little naïve and thanks to the low self-esteem that she’s developed growing up, she doesn’t think herself anything special. When a guy does show interest in her she’s usually too busy internally freaking out to do anything about it. She’s a little bit of a romantic though, just totally clueless!
MOTHER: Skye Katelyn Merlotte, deceased.
FATHER: Levi Justin Merlotte, 61.
SIBLINGS: N/A
OTHERS: Zack Liam Kennedy, 22, best friend.
PETS: Harry, a Beagle!
HOMETOWN: Coles Bay, Tasmania.
HISTORY: Levi and Skye had been trying for a family for a number of years after they married. They were high school sweethearts and married when they were both barely in their twenties, but a family seemed like something they would never be blessed with. They tried all the old wives tales, took advice from the doctors, but it seemed as though they would only ever have each other. Skye was all for adopting a baby, but Levi wanted his own flesh and blood to raise. They fought about it, but their marriage remained strong and the couple slowly gave up hope as they became godparents and aunt and uncles, but never had their own little baby.
Skye was in work in one of the tourist parks when she took ill and collapsed. At the hospital she admitted to feeling a little off for a few weeks, but had assumed it was just because of the stress of peak season and the hours she had worked to make sure the park was running smoothly. The doctors revealed that, finally, she was pregnant. Skye couldn’t believe it and Levi began fussing and flapping about his wife to make sure that nothing ruined their chance to be parents. The doctor they spoke to confirmed that Skye was almost four months pregnant. A little further down the line, the same doctor accidentally used the pronoun “he” in reference to the baby, leaving Levi convinced that they were having a little boy. Skye tried to tell him that it was just the generic reference instead of calling the baby “it”, but Levi was already running about and preparing for all the things he would teach to his little boy. Imagine his surprise when it turned out his wife was right and the doctors delivered a healthy baby girl just a week before her due date!
Quinn Skylar Merlotte still received the name her father had chosen for his son, which is something she’s still not sure she appreciates. However, she was a much loved child by both her mother and father. Tragically, Skye’s time with her daughter was cut short. When Quinn was just four, Skye died when a bushfire hit the community. She survived through the night but the doctors told Levi that there was really very little hope of Skye pulling through with the injuries. She passed away the following afternoon, leaving Levi with a little girl who shared his wife’s same blonde hair, light eyes and cute nose.
As Quinn grew a little older, she began to realise that her dad didn’t do the same things that her mother had done. He didn’t read her fairy stories or let her run around dressed like a little princess and play silly imaginary games. She didn’t know, but for Levi it was too painful to have those reminders when his wife was no longer around for it all. Sadly it was Quinn who suffered because of his heartache. The little girl had no option but to try and find other ways to make her dad happy and she knew that those things involved footballs, waves that once knocked her off her feet and mud. She turned into quite the little tomboy and Levi, not knowing what to do with a little girl, let it happen. Still, Quinn wasn’t the son he always wanted and without the female role model in her life she missed out on a lot of important lessons that most girls ought to have growing up.
In school, Quinn was one of the main targets for the bullies. She didn’t have a feminine style like most of the girls and Levi kept her hair cropped around her chin in a blunt cut. Add that to the sports she did outside of school hours and she was a little on the odd side for most of the kids in her class. Zack was the only one to befriend her when he transferred to the island from Sydney when he was nine. At first he didn’t. In fact, he challenged her to a penalty shoot-out competition, but once she beat his ass he decided that she was worth ruining his chances with the popular kids. They were pretty inseparable from that moment on and Quinn finally felt like she had someone in her life who cared. He also helped her escape a lot of the bullies’ taunts. She didn’t realise, but she actually acted on a lot of Zack’s little advice. When they were fourteen he mentioned that if she grew her hair then the girls might stop picking on her in the locker room for being “such a boy”. By the time she turned fifteen, her hair was down her back and some of the remarks had stopped. He accompanied her when she went shopping and helped choose the clothes that suited her and didn’t look like they could be part of his own wardrobe. His mother helped her out, too, often taking on the role of mother to help Quinn understand a lot of the things that girls ought to know. The bullying never stopped completely; Quinn was always a little too weird for the majority of her peers. When most of the girls were finding make-up she could barely tell the difference between eyeliner and mascara and trying to work it all out had hurt her head back then. Also, a lot of the girls from her teams began to move on from sports and spend more time trying to impress boys.
She never stopped trying to seek her father’s approval, but Levi, even in the moments he felt proudest of his little girl could only ever see his wife’s features in her. The older she got the prominent they became. All she wanted was his affection, but Levi always found a way to keep some distance between himself and his daughter. Quinn only pushed herself harder, adding more sports to her extra-curricular list, even the ones that put her in the hospital with busted joints and fractured bones when she wasn’t careful. Luckily, she only ended up there three times throughout her teenage years, but every weekend held a competition of some kind, whether it was as part of a team, in the water, or on the field. Zack was always there to support her and knew that she pushed herself to get approval from Levi, but the man rarely showed up, often telling her that he forgot all about it. Zack never liked it, but he kept quiet and just supported Quinn, treating her to shakes at the beach bar.
It was in high school that Quinn discovered her love for bakery at first. Later, she got recipes from Zack’s mother and other locals who she knew and she spent a few evenings a week just experimenting and baking when her dad was working late at the surf resort. She’d leave a plate out for him if she went to bed before he came home, but she never thought back then that it would be a life for her. Quinn got a job at the juice bar in the bar and worked there for a few hours after school, somehow squeezing the shifts into her busy schedule. Zack asked her why she was pushing herself like that and she told him that she did have plans to go to university and that was a plan that needed money. Zack knew all about Quinn’s “dream plan” and money definitely was the biggest problem the young girl would have. Levi did have a fund set up, but with the way their relationship was Quinn was starting to realise that it was easier to rely on herself for everything.
When she did finally speak to Levi about college, he told her it would be best if she could wait an extra year, just until he had a little more money saved. Quinn agreed, opting to work and continue with her sports for another year, even though she said goodbye to Zack who was returning to Sydney for university. She missed him, but his mother was always inviting her over for lunch and they had baking afternoons together. She asked her about college and Quinn embarrassingly told her that she wanted to study culinary arts, even though so many people thought it was a waste of money. Zack’s mother told her otherwise and encouraged her to go for it if that was her dream. She had only ever told Zack about her dream to have her own bakery and like always he had supported the idea. Too many times had Quinn been mocked for something in her life and it had left her scared of telling people about her dreams and wishes in case they told her she couldn’t do it.
The year dragged by without the continuous company of her best friend. Her relationship with Levi was practically non-existent; the man couldn’t look at his daughter without seeing so much of his wife and it killed him. Sticking to the plan she had always dreamt of, Quinn applied and got accepted to her first choice university and waited for Zack to return to the bay before she told Levi. She manage to corner her dad when he came home for lunch and told him that she had her acceptance letter. He didn’t seem interested at all until she mentioned New York City and then he had something to say. First it was money, then it was that she wasn’t old enough and then he tried to tell her that she had to wait another year. For the first time in her life, Quinn snapped. She yelled back at Levi saying that she had her own savings from the last three years, and that he had no right to tell her what she could and couldn’t do with her life when this was the first thing she had done for herself. He seemed shocked, but Quinn didn’t let up until she had let everything out and the tears were streaming enough that Zack was pulling her outside. She had lived her whole life to make Levi proud and yet he barely gave her a well done on a good game, or congratulations when she won something. Going to New York to study Culinary Arts was literally the first thing she had wanted to do for herself.
When Quinn did go home again that night with Zack at her side, just in case Levi said anything else, they were surprised to find nothing more than a photograph and a cheque on the kitchen counter. The photograph was of Levi and Skye holding Quinn on the day that she was born. It was the perfect family they had strived to have and yet it had never been their reality for more than a fleeting moment. The cheque covered the cost of her NYU course, which left Quinn to keep her money for an apartment and anything else she needed until she found another job. The goodbye between father and daughter was as awkward as their relationship had always been and the tension was still there as Levi tossed the football towards Quinn. It was almost as if he was saying to her that she still had some work to do before he could be impressed. It kind of ruined the moment, but Zack ushered her to the plane and he accompanied her to New York when she did finally make the move to her small apartment.
She got a job working at Tiffany’s and began her classes at the university she had dreamt of for the last few years. The only thing that bothered her was that she looked so much younger compared to the rest of the students that she often got ID checked more, despite being almost two years older than most of the freshmen! She joined the soccer team, since that was the only sport the school had that she played, but there were student clubs for some of the rest and so the water sports club gave her access to the kayaking, surfboarding and others. It was nice to make friends who didn’t think she was weird for being active, but the only thing that didn’t change was her skills at romance. She still had a habit of standing there, blinking, turning red and then stuttering something stupid before making off like Cinderella at midnight. Still, New York had captured her heart and Quinn knew that if she ever had a chance of making her dreams come true it would be here that she did it.
YOUR ALIAS: KIM.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In the night sky.
SAMPLE:Pssh!
