Carole King (yeah, as in the singer) Thornton

-Carole
-C.T

May 16 1971.

Female

Carole plainly reflects her jauntiness may it be through dressing up or by just how she generally looks. She stands at 5'4, though scaling a bit on the slim to fit side, Carole has not completely outgrown her baby fats. That or the girl just couldn't get a hold of her appetite. "She's a growing girl, after all." Her father would usually say. She has a look of a typical southern cowgirl, dirty blonde hair, sunkisssed cheeks and tan lines and a discernible Tennessee accent that she fruitlessly attempts to hide. Her eyes looks platinum at first glance, but is actually a rich blue tint when you get a real good look at it. Her dimples would show whenever she smiles, which is not so often difficult to make her. She keeps her hair long, up to her waist which her mother would religiously brush or fondly braid into pigtails back when Carole would still let her. Now though, she'd rather just pony it herself. Carole isn't one for dressing up though her aunts would push her to be more ladylike. Overtime she grew accustomed of Sunday dresses, but would still prefer a crop top shirt or flannels donned over or tied to her waist, a pair of faded cut off shorts and boots/chucks any day .

Carole grew up with loving and supportive role models who attentively raised her to be equally the same. She acquired her love for animals from her father who was a vet from the city way before he moved to the country. A good 80 percent of her personality (and looks) came from her mom, a wild and spunky cowgirl who worked as a singer before she met her dad. Despite growing up in the deep south Carole was raised in a non conservative household and her parents would encourage her to do whatever she wants without the limits of orthodox ideologies. Though she partly acknowledges the concept of religion through her mother and aunts who are Christians, and would even assist them in church gatherings but Carole was never really brought up to it. Her parents instead honed her to be an open book, the idea that no one should restrain themselves in getting whatever makes them happy hence her strong will, or a better word would be stubbornness, to achieve what her heart desires even to the point where she does not care of the possible consequences of her actions.

Although Carol was raised to be good, that goodness can only be limited to her closest friends. When faced with a dilemma, she'd instantly choose something that benefits her alone or her friends no matter if its good or bad As long as she's not the one dangling on the shorter end of the stick, she don't give a fuck. It would seem selfish, but to her its a matter of practicality and survival. Her loyalty is unwavering, and would willing to hurt others for the sake of those she cares for if she really has to. This won her a few real friends overtime, some even former rivals who used to hate her guts.

Carole has always been interested in pop music and aspires to be a musician like her mother. She doenst really sing in public though, partly because she thinks singing is lame and is so not like her, and partly because of her insecurity with her accent and raspy voice. It became more of a low-key hobby and she never really put that much attention to it. Though she fondly listens to music in her walkman instead, sometimes unawarely humming and dancing to a good beat.

Olivier Thornton, 39 – Dad. Best friend. Grew up and raised in Los Angeles, he moved to Idaho after he finished his degree to find work as the local cattle vet. A calm and gentle man, Carole inherited her blonde hair and blue eyes from her father, and so is his love and dedication for taking care of animals. Being the kind and supporting father that he is, Olivier always makes time to spend the weekends with her daughter despite his sometimes hectic schedules. Their time would spend watching a local game, riding horses, teaching her how to shoot an airsoft rifle or maybe just sit and chill in the porch.

Margot Thornton, 40 - Mom. Authoritarian. Margot worked as a singer before she had Carole. She named her daughter after her favorite singer, Carole King. Coincidentally, she was singing "So Far Away" the night she first met Olivier at a lonesome dingy bar during the summer of 69'. She worked as a full time housewife when Carole was born, and filled in the role of a disciplinarian, keeping in check of her daughter whilst being a cool and bad ass mom at the same time. Nowadays she works part time at the post office, either distributing packages in the office or hands on delivering them. Carole has an inconsistent relationship with her mother, Margot sometimes having trouble understanding her, as all mothers of growing teenagers do.

Rambo, 3- Family Labrador. Other best friend. Thornton family mascot and baby.

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- Can shoot a rifle good. Spent time with her dad shooting bottles in the ranch. Although she never actually shot a real gun before, and is yet to graduate from airsoft guns to the real thing.

- Basic Survival knowledge such as how to make a fire with two sticks (she still sucks at it), or how to properly cook a squirrel though she wishes to never ever go there. She learned beforehand mostly from camping books or from an issue of National Geographic on her dad's tapes.

- Knows how to properly knot a rope. Also, she can ride a horse like a rodeo queen. Can herd a cattle and distinguish a sick cow among a cattle with just one look.

-Although she's not exactly that good, nor terrible, Carole can sing and sometimes write songs if she feels like it. Her unique voice texture had given her a distinctive style. Give her time to work it out and she'd be a pop star in the making.

Elizabeth Angelika Andrascik

Eliza or Eliza are the most common. She prefers either of these to her full first name.

September 1st, 1974

Female

Eliza is a rather small and young looking lass, even for her youthful age. Standing just above five feet tall, Eliza appears very skinny despite the short stature she already stands at. This causes her to have a very lean and frail appearance. Eliza’s skin is a fair color with a hint of soft pale complexion. With her overall build and stature, Eliza appears very feminine and girly. Some might even go as far to say that she seems weak and frail. Eliza seems rather frightened of her surroundings most of the time and is rarely going to not be cowering in the face of danger.

Upon first glance, one would immediately be greeted with a strikingly bright blonde head of hair that falls and curls ever so slightly around Eliza’s shoulders. Always seeming to get in her way, Eliza’s golden locks are always kept in a very pristine and styled manner. The bangs of her hair, usually styled to either side often droop into her pure cerulean blue eyes after a long day of play with her friends. Eliza meticulously likes to perfect her appearance, always keeping her hair styled with a slight natural curl and accessories like bows and headbands. Along with the beautifying she does to her hair and face, clothing is an important factor in her fashion as well. Preferring dainty and girly clothing, Eliza finds herself wearing an assortment of sundresses or plain t-shirts with flowing skirts. Enjoying longer socks and shoes, Eliza most commonly wears a pair of boots of various colors with socks reaching up to her knees or thighs.

When she speaks, the ears of listeners are graced with a soft and elegantly articulated voice that sounds airy and almost whispery. Often soft spoken and reserved while around any others, it is easy to overlook or disregard the quiet voice of Eliza. To describe Eliza’s mannerisms, the words whimsical and timid would come to mind. She shies away from any sort of conflict, and finds herself frightened and intrigued of many things that many believe to be constructs of her imagination. It is not uncommon that Eliza is seen with an almost blank expression upon her face. It is as if she doesn’t seem to understand what is going on around her, and appears out of it. Her bright and rapturous smile always seems to radiate an air of happiness, as if infectious to those around her.

Eliza has always had two truly distinct moods that every scenario she finds herself in often fit into. Those moods are most easily characterized by either a radiant smile or a flow of tears. This happens because little Eliza is one of the most fragile beings in town, but she can also be very ecstatic and overjoyed with happiness. It is very uncommon to see Eliza in a neutral mood for she always comes up with something to be happy over. This abnormally happy personality is what some believe to be a coping mechanism of Eliza’s. With her parents separated, and Eliza in between households and parents, most would think there would be very little to be happy about. So Eliza decided to be happy about everything.

With a father living in the northern and richer sides of St. Stephens and a mother in the poorer conditions of the southern side of St. Stephens, Eliza finds herself moving around the small town quite a bit. This causes Eliza to be randomly absent on certain days when she would usually play with her friends. This awkward scenario was caused by a recent divorce in the Andrascik family. Eliza was never truly told the reason for the event, but she can only assume that monetary disputes are what caused this complete shattering of her family. With her brother, who she adored and put on quite the pedestal, leaving three years before this divorce, Eliza has found all her solace in her friends. One friend in particular, she has always seemed to go to and rely on for help in any times of need: Felix.

Felix, also known as Felicity has quite the history with Eliza. Having known each other as acquaintances for quite a long time it was not until five years ago that the pair truly became close. One particular event sparked their friendship and it all occurred at a simple and run down convenience store near the south side of St. Stephens. Seeing each other within the store by random chance, Eliza didn’t approach Felix at first. It wasn’t until she saw him attempting to pocket some of the store’s snacks that she attempted to intervene, making her best, albeit completely incoherent argument as to why he shouldn’t do that. After Eliza finished her idiotic monologue, it was then that Felix took her to what he claimed to be a sufficient reason to explain his thievery. Along the way, Felix explained he had found a box of kittens that looked hungry and he was unable to procure food in any other way. Eliza goes through another long winded rhetoric about how stealing was wrong in hopes her lackluster way with words gets through to her acquaintance. When the two arrive back at the box’s location, the box had vanished. Feli throws a fit at the sight, becoming enraged. After a long bit of cowering, Eliza attempted to calm Felix down, starting the blossoming of a great friendship. Felix has now become a sort of protector to Eliza, and she in turn has become a voice of peace in his life.

One of Eliza’s most defining traits would likely be her whimsical outlook on the world around her. Completely convinced that things like magic and monsters exist, Eliza is quite the proprietor of false stories and tales of a vast variety that detail her encounters with such subjects. Whenever something can’t be explained or Eliza for one reason or another cannot understand, she will jump straight into a new and completely incoherent magical explanation. It has become a mixture of novelty and annoyance to her friends, because Eliza can be very stubborn when it comes to this belief and the storytelling can get quite repetitive with the consistency and bulk of her imagination.

Lukas Andrascik, 47 – Lukas is the father of Eliza. Living on the richer side of St. Stephens, Lukas is rather well off. Though, whenever someone asks about what he does, the only reply Eliza seems to formulate is that he ‘works with technology’. Lukas is no doubt the most laid back member of the Andrascik family. He has always cared greatly for his children and pampered them to a certain extent. Eliza always appears to be in a good mood around her father. This is often because of how much he puts up with her constant blathering and overactive imagination. Lukas is definitely the more supporting parent and he is the parent that currently takes care of Eliza full time. Lukas appears rather lean and slightly young for his age. He sports a full set of black hair and it appears the only feature Eliza took from him was his fragile build.

Sophia Antalovich, 45 – Sophia is the mother of Eliza. She lives in a small, two bedroom apartment on the south side of St. Stephens. Quite contrastingly from Eliza’s father, Sophia struggles for money and finds herself working long and stressful hours. This leaves her in a very tired and often stressed out manner when she finds time off of work. As an accountant for a local business in St Stephens, her wages are low. Sophia’s affection for her children is often an off and on thing that depends greatly on how her mood and her day are. Rarely do they fight, but sometimes it appears that Sophia is too tired to worry about Eliza. This greatly depresses Eliza, who wishes her mother would be more happy all the time like her. Eliza tries to help her mother out as often as she can, but it always seems that Sophia wishes to appear self sufficient and strong, so she often denies Eliza’s help.

Jakob Andrascik, 24 – Jakob is Eliza’s brother and the original giver of her nicknames. He was always rather playful around his sister which led to the two developing a very close relationship. Eliza learned to rely on Jakob, but when he left on a full ride to a prestigious college, Eliza was left alone. Jakob was always a realist in comparison to Eliza. He worked hard throughout the end of his high school years and has been what some would call a genius ever since. He also has a much more solemn side that Eliza seems to be missing.

To Be Determined

Eliza is seen writing constantly in her free time. Numerous notebooks have been filled with scrawlings and writings of a vastly varying quality. Over the time she has spent honing and training her words, Eliza has become a talented writer, articulated and eloquent in her choice of words. She focuses mainly on poetry, but Eliza has tried her hand at fiction writing. Due to her vast imagination, she tends to make quite interesting stories and with her talented way with words, writing is a number one talent of hers.

With such an overactive imagination and skewed visions of reality, Eliza hasn’t left everything to her mind. Sometimes she grows curious enough to do her research, and thus she found the world of astrology. It wasn’t long before Eliza became infatuated with the ideas and theories based around celestial bodies and their meanings. It is not uncommon that Eliza will bring up her knowledge of the stars as if to give insight on a current situation, whether those around her care to hear it or not. Signs of planets, stars, constellations, and all of their meanings have been meticulously memorized so Eliza can know exactly what does and does not pertain to the current situation. Astrology is often one of her main sources of guidance.

She is such a quiet young lass, Eliza is. Despite her often blank expression and dazed state of daydreaming though, her mind is constantly at work taking in everything around it and analyzing it, albeit it is analyzed in a very illogical way. Incorporating all her senses, Eliza has great perception in any environment. This assists her in spotting things before others or recalling things that the average person might forget. Small features she can pick out while speaking with others have often assisted her in conversations as well.

Eliza is very comfortable around others much more so than she is when she is alone. This leads her to flock to others to avoid being exiled in a way. This mentality has granted her the uncanny ability to blend in with a group. In attempts to maintain order or stay on people’s good side, Eliza is extraordinarily empathetic. This assists her in understanding and maintaining relationships with those she chooses to be around as well as assisting in helping Eliza go unnoticed in larger venues with many crowds. She may not like to be out of place, but to help cope, she has learned to find a place or at least pretend to do so if it comes to that.

The daintiness and airheadedness of Eliza only extend so far. When it comes to street smarts or book smarts, she may be lacking, but inside her head, Eliza is always analyzing, contemplating, and discovering. She has a knack for understanding how things work, and in particular, Eliza understands how people work. This talent of hers likely developed due to Eliza’s subconscious need to fit in and be around others. She has grown capable of subtly influencing conversation and interaction with small tricks and she also tends to be able to pick out small details that others wouldn’t see giving her insights into how her conversational partner thinks and acts.

Emily Nutter

Nut

January 18, 1971

Female

The first thing people tend to notice about Emily is that she is freakishly big for a girl her age. Her height is whopping five foot nine and she has the wide, strong arms of a lumberjack. Her long, originally blonde hair - which she dyed brown - would look quite pretty is she washed them more frequently than every other week.

She wears black shirts with the logos of her favorite metal bands such as Iron Maiden, Metallica and Slayer, baggy grey army pants, and, if the weather gets rough, a grey bomber jacket. She is usually seen keeping her head down, with Radar O’Reilly headphones on her ears and her hands buried deep into the pockets of her pants. She walks in bold steps, with the soles of her big black boots thumping as quickly and heavily as the drums in her hellish songs.

There is one moment that Emily thinks has defined her life. That was the afternoon when her older brother Eddie brought home the tape with Metallica's Kill Em' All album. By the time the album finished, she was ready to throw all her Madonna and Cyndi Lauper albums and teen magazines into the ditch. Finally she found music that spoke to her: gritty, brash and hard as cement.
Her newfound passion for metal music did indeed make her behave as if possessed by a demon. She started to swear profusely, steal cigarettes from her dad and watch a lot of horror movies. However, it would be unfair to say that her rebellious attitude would not find some other outlet if she did not get into metal. Emily always felt a bit like an outcast and she just needed something that would allow her to express that.

The reasons for her inability to get along with most other girls are rooted in her family upbringing. Emily’s mother died when she was four years old, while her father, from whom Emily inherited her intimidating frame, had to work hard as a lumberjack to support Emily and her three older brothers. As a result, Emily was practically raised by her brothers who told her just what they knew – that if someone insults you, the correct reaction is to smack that person on the head. It is no wonder that Emily spent much of the grade school in detention.

It also makes it easy to understand how she became a metalhead. For much of her childhood, she was half-heartedly trying to embrace traditionally ‘girly’ things and encountering heavy metal showed her another way.

Her personality does however make her a rather controversial figure in her school. She is trying to act as if no insult can undermine her sense of self-worth. She appears confident and quite outgoing, frequently telling other girls about her encounters with boys, most (or all) of which never happened.

However, the truth is that she is repressing the anger caused by the fact that she does not really feel accepted for who she is and despite her tomboyishness, she wants to feel attractive, although she is afraid that if she takes too much care with her appearance, she would become a ‘square’.

Also, although she looks mature, we have to remember that she is still a fourteen year old. She will pretend to be braver than she is and do reckless things, only to end up in situations where she is scared out of her wits.

Richard Nutter, 47 – Richard is a lumberjack and a true working man. He was devastated by the death of his wife, which however instead of bringing him closer to his children made him throw himself into his work furiously – both to provide for his children and alleviate his pain.

He is, to a certain degree disappointed in his two older sons, and is deathly afraid of what will Emily do, suspecting that she got into occultism and drugs. However, he has neither time nor energy to acts on those suspicions.

Billy Nutter, 25 - Emily’s oldest brother and initial father figure. They were very close until he left for college. Emily was eleven years old at the time, and she never felt this kind of abandonment until then. Even worse, Billy never liked to come back to Red Herrings – especially after he dropped out from college. He never told his dad about this and the reason why he rarely came back to Red Herrings is that he was afraid he would see through his lies. Richard of course realized this almost immediately, but never said anything.

When Billy first left Red Herrings, he was feeling resentment about the fact that he was always the one to take care of everything in the house. He became a drifter to “find himself” – which Emily sincerely hopes he does at some point.

Eddie Nutter. 20 - The ‘shithead’ brother. He was always the Nutter boy who got into all the trouble and was a bit of a bully, making Emily do all of his chores for him – unless Billy intervened. He did however introduce Emily to metal, and for that she will be forever grateful to him, although Billy’s own music tastes became more Patrick Bateman-like since then.

It would seem that Eddie will end up in jail at 20, but at 18 he got pregnant with Jenny O’Malley, the girl next door. College was not an option for him anymore (not that he ever really considered it), but Jenny became a calming influence on him. After their marriage, Eddie turned from a wild child to an obedient, if rather prickly and passive-aggressive husband. He works as a car mechanic and pays Emily to babysit his daughter.

Jessie Nutter. 17 - The youngest of the older brothers. He is meek and subservient, so Emily often had to smack him on the back of his head to make him help her with standing up to Eddie. He is also easily the most studious of the Nutter children, and is not shy about his good grades. For that reason Emily frequently gets extremely annoyed with him, as she was never able to apply herself to the same extent – and because Jessie is the brother she is the closest with age-wise, he is the one with whom she is competing, although she would never admit that. Still, she hopes Jesse will be the one Nutter boy who will go to college and end up rich and successful.