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[@HushedWhispers] (Added in some line breaks to the CS because I wanted extra gifs - hope that's okay! Also minor spoilers for who [@Liriia] is making...)

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” 
[b]― Charlotte Brontë, [i]Jane Eyre[/i][/b]
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[color=6d98f3]|Name|[/color]
[indent]Astrid Marie King[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Nickname|[/color]
[indent][color=6d98f3]Az[/color] and/or [color=6d98f3]Azzy[/color] are both acceptable versions of her name. Because of her brother, she tends not to go by her surname (ever) if only to avoid confusion.[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Birth Date|[/color]
[indent]1st of December, 1999[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Age|[/color]
[indent]Seventeen[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Gender|[/color]
[indent]Female[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Sexuality|[/color]
[indent]Pansexual[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Sexually Active|[/color]
[indent]No[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Relationship Status|[/color]
[indent]Single [sup]And shy.[/sup][/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Role|[/color]
[indent]Member of Team Blue[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Years At Camp|[/color]
[indent]Two – started when she was fifteen.[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Team Color|[/color]
[indent][color=6d98f3]❤[/color] Blue [color=6d98f3]❤[/color][/indent]
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[color=6d98f3]|In Depth Appearance|[/color]
[indent]Standing at 5'1", Astrid is pretty damn small. Despite being naturally slim and dainty she has a face that's still carrying some extra baby-fat, giving her the appearance of someone three or four years younger than she actually is. A strong breeze might blow her over. Nevertheless, she is fairly attractive in a plain, girl next door sort of way. Her ghostly build and large blue eyes are the only features inherited from her mother, and while it's difficult to pin down exactly who she looks like more, family friends have commented in the past that she's the spitting image of her father.

Astrid's natural hair colour is a medium brown, darker than her brother's, but she dyes it to a gloomy shade of purple. Her face is marked by a scattering of small freckles along the bridge of her nose and running lopsidedly up her cheek. The only other distinguishing feature that might be counted is her nail art: she likes to paint her nails and put stickers with little flowers or happy faces or both on them.

Typically Astrid is a bit lazy in how she dresses, almost hipsterish in style. She wears a lot of winged eyeliner. Leather jackets with the sleeves rolled up and plain old shirts, usually in calm blues and greys. She's not one for bright colours. Occasionally Astrid will have the urge to dress more feminine, perhaps in a skirt, but there is always a sense of discomfort around her when her knees are showing.

Scars: Astrid has skinned knees almost constantly and a few scrapes down her legs from when she used to play with the neighborhood cats. One of these is slightly larger, and darker, than the rest that's not from an animal but rather surgery to correct a badly broken bone.  Astrid has no tattoos or piercings.[/indent][hr][hr][center][img]http://45.media.tumblr.com/7738a1c8c4f48073d83167f84013db18/tumblr_np103mDs4k1qdze79o2_r1_500.gif[/img][/center][hr][hr][center][img]http://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjg4LjU3N2VlYS5WZywsLjAAAAAA/tombats-four.regular.png[/img]  [img]http://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjM2LjU1ODJlMi5SMlYwZEdsdVp5QjBieUJMYm05M0lFMWwuMAAA/5th-grade-cursive.regular.png[/img]  [img]http://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjg4LjU3N2VlYS5WdywsLjAAAAAA/tombats-four.regular.png[/img][/center]

[color=6d98f3]|Habits & Quirks|[/color]
[indent][color=white]♡[/color] [color=6d98f3]Eavesdropping[/color] – Astrid has a bad habit of stopping in her tracks to listen in to conversations that she's not welcome in.
[color=white]♡[/color] [color=6d98f3]Stumbling[/color] – Over her words, that is. She tends not to be very eloquent, and gets flustered easily, which in turn makes it even harder to say what she wants to.
[color=white]♡[/color] [color=6d98f3]Crying (in Anger)[/color] – It's a very real problem. When all those negative emotions threaten to swallow Astrid up, she can't really voice them, and the frustration leads to tears and [i]vulnerability[/i]. She hates it.
[color=white]♡[/color] [color=6d98f3]Journalling[/color] – Astrid writes a lot of things in code, or backwards, just for fun, but also out of an innate fear of someone reading it.
[color=white]♡[/color] [color=6d98f3]Puzzles[/color] – The number of Sudoku and crossword puzzles Astrid has worked her way through on the trip to Camp Liberty itself is astounding. She's an addict for that sort of thing and absolutely will not stop until it's solved.[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Likes & Dislikes|[/color]
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[color=008800]❤[/color] Reading. Books in general. Astrid can get lost in anything from a trashy detective pot-boiler to great works of art.
[color=008800]❤[/color] Well-used and well-loved items: thread-bare jumpers, oversized; scuffed shoes; books with dog-eared pages and doodles on them.
[color=008800]❤[/color] Snail Mail – while Astrid isn't one to reject phoning people up, she does like to send her friends real letters, like penpals.
[color=008800]❤[/color] Hiking through deep forests, pretending to get lost (or actually getting lost). It's like Narnia!
[color=008800]❤[/color] General knowledge. She's a trivia whizkid, and what she lacks in talent she makes up for in memory for pointless facts.
[color=008800]❤[/color] The Bohemian life – sipping coffee on a balcony in Paris, doodling phallic objects with smiley faces in a notebook.
[color=008800]❤[/color] Extreme blanket forts inside which, once constructed, Astrid will quite happily bury herself in cushions and deafen herself with music.

[color=FF0000]�[/color] Open bodies of water. Astrid has a minor case of hydrophobia and thalassophobia and a sensible fear of drowning to death.
[color=FF0000]�[/color] The painfully long nights that insomnia brings her. Even midnight walks can't shake the emptiness of these times.
[color=FF0000]�[/color] Losing. The Kings are competitive, after all – they'll fight until the end.
[color=FF0000]�[/color] Speech Therapy. She doesn't need it; she swears she only stutters and stumbles [i]half[/i] of the time.
[color=FF0000]�[/color] Doors that don't have locks. Astrid values her privacy highly.
[color=FF0000]�[/color] Being left out of social situations. For that reason she always forces herself to talk in groups, even if it's nerve-wracking.
[color=FF0000]�[/color] Silence. Dead silence. It's always worse when there's silence.
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[color=6d98f3]|Fears & Phobias|[/color]
[indent][color=white]☠[/color] [color=6d98f3]Drowning[/color] – in part because it's embarrassing to drown in front of people, and in part because she doesn't want to die.
[color=white]☠[/color] [color=6d98f3]Wide Open Spaces[/color] – whenever it's empty of all life except her it's something to be scared of. Astrid is scared of being alone.
[color=white]☠[/color] [color=6d98f3]Abandonment[/color] – a very real fear, perpetuated by pen pals who have stopped responding out of the blue.[/indent][hr][hr][center][img]https://49.media.tumblr.com/e3658ecd63fbdabfe549aae14bf60b18/tumblr_np103mDs4k1qdze79o1_500.gif[/img][/center][hr][hr][center][img]http://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjg4LjU3N2VlYS5WZywsLjAAAAAA/tombats-four.regular.png[/img]  [img]http://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjM2LjU1ODJlMi5SR1ZzZG1sdVp5QkVaV1Z3WlhJLC4wAAA,/5th-grade-cursive.regular.png[/img]  [img]http://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjg4LjU3N2VlYS5WdywsLjAAAAAA/tombats-four.regular.png[/img][/center]

[color=6d98f3]|Good Traits|[/color]
[indent]♡ Creative
♡ Precocious
♡ Competitive
♡ Optimistic[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Bad Traits|[/color]
[indent]♡ Anxious
♡ Scatterbrained
♡ Stubborn
♡ Introvert[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Personality|[/color]
[indent]"[i]I'll make it, somehow.[/i]"

Astrid isn't sure she believes the idealistic nonsense that she spews sometimes, but it definitely helps her get through the day. The idea that college is looming on the horizon – that she can one day go through that beautiful metamorphosis they show in the movies – is repeated like a mantra: [i]that's[/i] the time when she can break out of her shell and party and speak to other people like she's a normal human being instead of some imposter. (She remembers a time when it was meant to be high school that did that for her, and before that, middle school.)

But, still, that lingering feeling of doubt remains, and it's enough for her to seek out other ways to fill her time than doing essays and studying – things like procrastinating, sleeping away the days, attending therapy sessions and longing for better days.

Astrid has always been someone who prefers indoors to outdoors, who would rather read a book than kick a soccer ball around, and she favours pursuits of the mind. Often when she retreats into herself, she returns to creating wide, wild fantasy worlds with characters who [i]never[/i] feel alone. Those who receive letters from her regularly in the months that camp isn't on will know: there has never been a blank sheet of paper that Astrid has not doodled on.

Often and especially at camp, Astrid feels like she has something to prove. With her older brother being so [i]successful[/i], sociable (in a way that reminds a lot of people of Marmite), she is determined to match him stride for stride. Team Blue might have a lot of loud jackasses in it*, and some might think she would better belong in Grey or Green, but she strives to win and has a stubborn streak – a refusal to accept that her team might lose – a mile long.[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Place of Origin|[/color]
[indent]California[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Background|[/color]
[indent]The Golden Child? Astrid is a year younger than her only sibling, Richard King, and she never quite understood why the dynamic in their household was... problematic, to say the least; not until she was a teenager. She knows that her brother suffered – she used to curl up at the bottom of his bedroom door and lean her head against it whenever something went wrong – but whenever she spoke out about it, particularly to their father, it would be turned on her.

Her father is an author, he knows very well how words can hurt just as much as bruises.

So Astrid grew quiet. She lost her confidence. She clung to her brother in almost all situations, especially since high school wasn't treating her kindly. Guilt piled up and piled up from how many [i]problems[/i] she was causing, one after another, and she knew that her inability to be independent was wearing on Richard slowly but surely.

Camp Liberty came at the right time. The summer previous that she'd spent while Richard had gone by himself (as Astrid was still sadly too young) was dire, but the following year she managed to go somewhere that threatened to take her introversion away and replace it with cheerful camp activities and the outside world. Astrid loved it – the people she met there, especially – and finds herself looking forward to the summer more than she does the entire school year.[/indent]

[color=6d98f3]|Extra|[/color]
[indent][sup]Aaaaa, video games?[/sup][/indent]
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Excellent character as always, Haggis. :)

She is accepted and you may place her in the Character Tab. Nice work. :)[hr][h3][b]Update;[/b] Make sure you @mention me whenever you have completed a character sheet! Forgot to say that. And it's quite obvious that I need Co-GM's with such a large cast of writers that I am going to have. Anyone interested, feel free to PM me. I'm using my phone at work, so yeah. I'll get to everything whenever I can.[/h3]

[@Undine]
It's possible but I would have to switch around all of the other genders, as well. And I was up late last night making sure I had an accurate number of genders. But just tell me for which team and I'll see what I can do. :)