Post by Aria Hale on Feb 4, 2016 1:29:50 GMT -5
*-- Aria Marie Hale --*
Name :: Aria Marie Hale
Nickname(s) :: Reet
Age :: 19
Gender :: Female
Residence :: Deerfield County, Ohio, USA
Face Claim :: Annasophia Robb
Appearance ::
Aria stands roughly 5’7” (well, 5’6.75” but she likes to round) tall and is very slender, which is half genetics and half lifestyle (see personality). She has sun-bleached golden hair that reaches about halfway down her back and is usually pretty on the straight side. She’s not a girly-girl though. She doesn’t wear a whole lot of make-up unless there is that annoying zit to conceal (happens to the best of us) and she does make an exception in the case of lip gloss. She wears a lot of colors in her clothing, but always a pair of blue jeans. Unless it’s way hot, then jean shorts. She rarely pulls her hair back, even when most people would be thoroughly annoyed by long hair. Nope, she loves the feeling of breeze blowing it, so she’s all for allowing that to happen. Her eyes are unusual though, matching her unusual personality with their ice blue-grey color.
Personality ::
Aria is a spirited one, but does know moderation. In some ways, she is very mature, in others, she might as well take up permanent residence in Neverland. She’s grown up being the athlete (but not a jock sort), not the girly girl. She was on the softball team all her years in high school and soccer before that. She spent the majority of her life in California, where she enjoyed great friends and acquired a love for water (see history for more). Her father raised her on the “110%” spiel, and her mother on the optimistic view, so she’s overall a very happy, determined person. She full out believes the idea that your day is not made or wrecked by what happens to you, but by how you react to it. She’s had some, ahem, challenges in her life, but she keeps on being as positive as she can. In fact, her optimism and determination could almost be called a shield to her real self buried deep: the part that hasn’t fully gotten over those early heartbreaks (again, see history). Her life theme is a mix between “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift and “Happy” by Pharrell Williams.
In the same sense, she knows when to be serious, and has the ability to change from fun to serious in about one second. That and she knows when each is needed. For example, in her father’s death, she was extremely solemn at the funeral, but was the first to suggest they do something cheery to remember him the next day. Unfortunately for her, her idea of throwing a little party for his memory didn’t go through with the rest of the family. She still makes cookies on the anniversary of his birthday every year, even though she isn’t the best cook in the world.
Family ::
Andrew Hale - father, deceased (2012)
Jill Hale - mother
Sebastian Hale - older brother
Adeline Hale - younger sister, stillborn
History ::
Aria was born second in line in a small family in California to Andrew and Jill Hale. Her father was a lawyer and her mother a computer technician. For 3 years, she was the baby of the family and received a good deal of attention and encouragement. Then something horrible happened. While pregnant with Aria’s younger sister, Jill fell ill for some time. She managed to pull through it, but the child did not. The family was crushed by the loss, but in an effort to not damage the two pre-K children, they almost overemphasized optimism and determination for those two. In fact, Aria did not find out she was almost an older sister until she was 9, which, needless to say, was a bit nasty. It was also the year that she joined the school soccer team. When she found out the bad news, she went into hyper-depression, so her mother immediately enrolled her in every activity she could think of to distract her, and it worked to a degree. Surfing lessons and soccer games and art classes eventually covered up her grief with a new desire: to prove herself. For unknown reasons, this little girl got in her head that it had been her fault Adeline had died, so she figured the harder she worked, the better she could make it up to the world.
When she was 12, it only got worse. Her father had gotten a rather high-profile case of a man who had gone on a rampage with a 45 and killed 8 people. Andrew was to defend him. Needless to say, it didn’t work out. The man was sentenced to life in prison. His girlfriend took it a little hard. In fact, so hard that she hunted down Andrew Hale and shot him in the head. Jill, dealing with the grief of her two kids on top of her own, decided it was time to start over. She moved the family to Deerfield County, Ohio to get away from California and all its rotten memories. She was determined to make a new life for herself and the kids. Aria went back into the world of sports (she was never re-enrolled in art classes) and did soccer and swimming and, in high school, softball. However, while she enjoyed these things, she felt stifled.
As soon as she could legally do so, though only with her mother’s help, she rented an apartment straight out of high school and got a job as a file clerk at the local doctor’s office, which is where she is now. She’s making just enough to pay the bills and surviving on Ramen recipes. She is in the mode of searching for a way to incorporate her love of sports in these years of trying to raise enough money to attend college. Thankfully Deerfield State offered her a softball scholarship, so she had high hopes. Plus, staying local is just cheaper. She is currently in the process of trying to find someone to rent out the spare room in her apartment to split the bill and, well, company would be nice.
Site Alias :: AB
Roleplaying Experience :: About 9
Code :: Brickpants
Sample RP :: See Lucy Pevensie
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