[OOC] Burning Rubber (Bee and kingkonrad)

[FourtyTwo]

It's here- Ross/Kimberly are done, so I'll set out something completely else. This is your racing CS- and whilst the genres of racing aren't defined, these characters will become a very different parallel to what you've seen so far in the RP. This is more legitimate, proper-straight up racing, and serves as a compliementary work. The worlds of our existing characters and these will coalesce repeatedly- but as you know it, you'll see our characters be flung into the fray more and more. The way I want to start it is with little reference to racing teams until the RP really lifts off- but you'll be filled in as we begin Part One: Pole Position.

Name:
Age:
Disciplines Faced: (Touring Cars, or more Open-Wheelers? Or Drift, or so on- name three, for this character in particular.)
Appearance (picture/short description)
Nationality:
History:
Theme Song

Name: Ryan McKay
Age: 26
Disciplines Faced: Touring Cars (WTCC/BTCC), Endurance Racing (GT3/24 Hours of Le Mans), Open Wheel (Formula F3)
Appearance:


Ryan stands at about 6"1, and is a fairly skinny bloke, almost suited to racing in some regards and responding to the reflexes of what is needed. As seen in the picture, he keeps a tamed mustache and beard that rarely goes beyond this, usually wearing a hat of his current race team. Out of his race suit, he'll usually wear a fleece and a pair of outdoors-type trousers, as well as a pair of Oakleys for good measure. His racing attire changes with the team- but a common theme of Simpson racing gloves, helmet and shoes, as well as a Simpson racing suit with the determined sponsors- predominantly of the FIA standard, with a Carbon Fibre-based X Bandit Pro Simpson helmet being the most easily spottable, with the thermal bandit around the neck. At Forge, their color scheme is predominantly white and dark blue, so this is matched at the moment on his race suit and gear- though it will be of course, subjected to change.

Nationality: English (Canterbury, Kent)
History:
Born in Canterbury, Kent, Ryan grew up with a facination about mechanics, and from around the age of 7, was an avid karter. He found racing facinating, and his parents helped to fund it, as he grew ever more sucessful in the national leagues. By 15, he had won the British Karting Championship for under 16s, and it almost seemed like F1 bosses would pounce on him, as they did with karters of this type. But rather, he found himself a different career, as soon as he learned to drive- and it was there on out, where he found many teams willing to take him on, and help him in his dream of becoming a racing driver, at first in the World Series of Renault, where he raced Clios, and then Megane racing spec cars in the series for Pulse Motorsport, a rookie team, growing in fame as he found himself often on the podium and setting fast times. He was approached by Forge Motorsport to take part in the BTCC, and found himself at the wheel of a Ford Focus ST, modified heavily to conform to the Touring Car standards. Following a rookie year in which he provided many an interesting result, scoring many podiums as well as a victory or two, he went into the next year and made an even bigger impact, winning a third of the races in the season and coming on the smaller two steps of the podium for the other third, a decisive victory which won him the Championship. From here, he moved into the FIA GT3 European Series, following Forge's establishment of a race team in this area, and has raced the Audi R8 GT3 ever since, with a new driver alongside him for most of the season. Following a fairly successful season, in which Forge placed itself second on the Constructors, and Ryan was 2nd and yet unable to win, his impact has been profound in regards to the series' competition- though his partner in the team has also presented themselves as a rising star like him, and as the racing comes to Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi for the finale of the series, Ryan has many choices to make on what next.

Other:
-Likes the outdoors, and in particular, hiking.
-Favors Monster over Rockstar, any day (contra to the hat, yes).
-Ice-Cold under pressure, both defensive and attacking. He can sit behind an opponent for hours, if needed, and pounce intensely.
-Weak with Drift/Tuner Cars
-V. Strong on traditional/fast flowing circuits (ie. Thruxton, Silverstone, Nurbergring-Sud)
-Moderate on Street Races (Singapore, Dubai)

Theme Song: Biffy Clyro OR UNKLE

Race Team Status: Forge Motorsport, GT3 (Endurance) (Livery Example on First Car)

Parts:

Part One: Pole Position
Part Two: Horsepower
Part Three: ????
Future Parts to be Noted Here.

[Bee]

Name: Regina Lam (prefers Gina)
Age: 25
Disciplines Faced: Touring Cars (WTCC/BTCC), Endurance Racing (GT3/Le Mans), Rally (Amateur Leagues), Autocross, Drifting, Street Racing, Drag Racing
Appearance:


Gina stands around 5'10 and weighs in at a mere 135 pounds, making her slim enough to be able to fit into the tight confines of a purpose-made race car. Her hairstyle varies from time to time, but come time to race, she always has it down, no matter the length or style, just for the sake of comfort, convenience, and safety. Outside the race, like her hairstyle, her fashion varies as well, depending on her environment and trend at the time, but she pretty much exclusively wears only Ray-Ban and Oakley eyewear, just for the sake of preference. On the track, she dons a Sparco racing suit that complies with FIA standards, littered with logos of their sponsors and colored with their team's color scheme. Gina also packs on matching gloves, and wears a Carbon Fibre helmet from Sparco that complies with FIA standards.

Nationality: Chinese-American

History: Regina was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China on August 9th, 1989, being the only child at the moment. Her family emigrated to the United States when Gina was just 7 months old, and found themselves situated in Pasadena, California, where Gina would have 3 other siblings due to the absence of regulations controlling the amount of children an individual could have. As she grew up, she was often around her father and he would often tell her about the magic of cars, how they worked, and how they flowed together. Her father had been racing before, racing touring cars on the likes of Macau GP, Suzuka, Twin Ring Motegi, Tsukuba, Fuji Circuit, etc. However, he had been forced to retire once Gina was born, using his winnings to get his family moved to America. Gina grew up surrounded by cars, and at the age of 17, she finally was able to take her first endeavor into the racing world. Her father had been building a Miata that had just been completed, and allowed Gina to use it for an Autocross event held by her high school. Gina took first place overall, taking advantage of the theory her father taught her, the way the Miata was set up, and such. This victory was pretty much the start of her career, as she began to take part in races more often, and in different disciplines. Soon, she was approached by Forge Motorsports, to drive a Touring Car for them along with their other driver. She gladly accepted, and made quite the marks in her rookie year. She started a year after the previous driver, and so she had a lot to prove to get their respect. She got as many poles as she could, and was later asked to move onto GT3, where she is now driving an Audi R8 LMS GT.

Theme Song: Stay Awake - Ellie Goulding ft. Madeon

Other Facts:
- Is fluent in Cantonese Chinese, and Mandarin Chinese
- Faces the stereotype of Female Asian drivers constantly
- Is left handed
- Very good at defending passes, and attacking for passes no matter where it is
- Strong in street races and flowing circuits
- Not as strong in rally races

[Bee]

Name: Elizabeth "Ellie" Dorian

Age: 24

Disciplines Faced: Snowboarding, Skiing, Surfing, Offroading
Appearance:

(TEMPORARY)
Ellie stands at 6 feet 0 inches and weighs about 145 pounds, making her body farther away from the bony side of things. Her features are cute and rounded off, which goes along quite nicely with her bouncy demeanor. Her blonde, wavy hair generally does stay down most of the time, mostly because she hated having it tied up. It goes with her piercing blue eyes quite nicely, which are often covered by a pair of AlpineStars goggles or some sort of sunglasses (whether it'd be Oakleys or Ray-Bans). Because of the nature of the activities she does, she most commonly dresses in thick jackets from North Face, as she as most at home in the snow, or colder climates in general. Her wingsuit is white with gold accents, somewhere on it, there's a Scottish and Canadian flag sewn together as a homage to her nationalities. Her snowboard is rather colorful, black with a pattern that has many, many colors going with it. Ellie likes dressing in colorful patterns, she says it helps attract attention which is essential in her line of work.

Nationality: Scottish-Canadian

History: Elizabeth "Ellie" Dorian was born on February 21st, 1990 in Inverness, Scotland to a teacher and a retired British military serviceman. Growing up, Ellie did have an older sister that was about four years older than her, but that didn't really affect her life that much. Along with making plenty of friends, she did have one particular friend she liked talking to more than others. That person happened to be named Ross Hartley, who she had known since she could walk basically. However, at the prime age of 12 years old, Ellie found out that her family was setting sail to the land known as Canada. That was the last time she saw Ross in person, perhaps they kept in touch via email or something.

Shortly after she arrived in Canada, she promptly began school there. She had a rather tough time adjusting into Canadian life, with things like bagged milk and all. All that was crazy, definitely not like back in Scotland. During her downtime though, her parents took her up to the mountains where it actually snowed. Which was where she discovered the delectable activity of snowboarding and skiing! Ellie picked it up promptly, before long becoming extremely good at it. Every moment of free time she had she was up in the mountains gliding downhill on her snowboard or her ski. As soon as she graduated high school (or the Canadian equivalent), she took to making snowboarding a big part of her life. That transformed into her becoming a teacher for newbies and teaching them little tricks she picked up along the way that helped her immensely.

Her job as a teacher helped her along for a little bit, until she discovered the nice website of YouTube, which was where she discovered she could probably make a career out of snowboarding and skiing. With the help of friends, she had people record her doing various cool things and uploading them onto YouTube. This quickly garnered the attention of many people, and as a result she was fairly popular on YouTube. The website also helped her find another cool activity, known as wingsuiting. "NotThatEllie" was a primarily snow-based channel, having lots of cool videos with her and her snow things - but this discovery intrigued her, and soon enough she added wingsuiting to her channeling, jumping off wherever for an insane amount of times.

The addition of this footage on her YouTube channel saw GoPro come calling to her, adding her on as another athlete. GoPro was such a nice addition, now she had a whole bunch that she could use to do whatever she wanted with it. Her YouTube channel was very popular at this point, but she wasn't sure what exactly about it people liked. She now appears on Seb's channel regularly, doing various things like appearing in his vlogs, or doing footage with him. Her channel had grown from just snowboarding and skiing, to snowboarding, skiing, wingsuiting, parajumping, offroading, surfing, and so many more things. Her vlogs tend to attract quite the bit of people as well, reason being that she has quite the cute accent, a combination between Scottish and Canadian.

Theme Song: Starry Eyed - Ellie Goulding

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Name: Sebastian "Seb" Rietsch
Age: 24

Appearance:


Disciplines Faced: Snowboarding, Skiing, Wingsuit BASE, Paragliding, Rock/Ice Climbing

Seb is around 5"10, with brown shaved hair, and a little stubble on his face, usually being seen with a pair of red-tinted Oakley sunglasses on, as well as a longsleeved grey thermal shirt, when in warmer climes. He seems fairly skinny, but well built for skiing, with a bit of muscle where it counts. Seb can be usually seen on the slopes wearing a dark blue Mammut down jacket, and black salopettes, though for wingsuiting, he usually has a different attire. A blue, with black wingsuit, and a blue parachute is usually his option of colors, having a definite affinity with blue. He usually wears a black Mammut beanie, and tends to his carbon black Salomon snowboard and skis with a very specific love and care. He is definitely an adrenaline junkie, from every pour of his look- a diving Peregrine Falcon on his back reinforcing the image, as well as an Ice Monster of sorts on his right shoulder. He seems to be calm and collected, yet willing to push himself as hard as possible, diving into abysses and cracks that most wouldn't try, aware that he is a little more risque than his opposite, Ellie; though perhaps a little more embracing and reinforcing of when it isn't good to go at others.

Skis (and Snowboard) Color:

Skis (and Snowboard Color Scheme)

Wingsuit

Nationality: Austrian
History:
Seb was born in the mountains of the Tyrolian Alps, in Innsbruck, Austria. His mother was a local teacher, and his father, a ski instructor, in the pistes. The first sport that Seb obviously got into then, was skiing. He had a natural talent for it, and loved the sport, looking into doing more and more crazy things with it. Education was important through his mother, sure; but after school, he'd always hit the slopes, and if it was summer, then he would go to the very top of the glaciers and start there. He picked up rock and ice climbing very quickly at a young age- and found that while he wasn't doing it as a sport, he did it because he wanted to go places so he could ski from. That was always going to be a good motivator, and in the Tyrolian Alps, that was ideal. There was no bound for Sebastian- he had found his calling, or so he felt.

When he was 14, he switched to snowboarding, and picked this up equally as well, finding that his home really was on the snow, going fast. He was considering going for the Austrian Skiing Team at one point, but this fell through due to a string of injuries, and the sudden illness of his father at the age of 16, when he began suffering from Testicular Cancer. He felt depressed, and saddened, finding that his father was no longer able to generally carry on, Seb was deeply depressed. He failed plenty of his exams, and felt like he was in a hole, a gap. Then, a friend told him to take up skydiving, as a side joke in the Chalet Bar. This he did, and he didn't look back.

After starting the AFF course, Seb was addicted. So addicted, he carried on, and got more and more jumps done. He had left education, and now worked full time instructing on the slopes, young but talented enough to teach tourists, and make a buck. His mother fed the family, while he get himself enough cash together to pay for his jumps. His father recovered from his cancer by the time Seb was 18, but he never was as good at teaching as he was before- and helped out at home, something that Seb had abandoned. His career of teaching people how to ski and snowboard was one that was dreary to Seb by now- knowing these slopes since being a toddler, but was one that he had to do. It paid his lifestyle, after all. By the time he reached 200 jumps, Seb had his eyes fixed on one thing only. Wingsuiting.

He was 20 when he did his first jump, and it was again, something fixating. Something that fueled him to carry on. He wanted more and more, and this he started getting, as he jumped more regularly. He was up to 500 jumps by the age of 21, almost spending everything he had earned in a month in getting to the dropzone, and jumping. He was committed, and from there, it spiralled even further. BASE jumping, from a fellow friend he had met in the Dropzone, recomended that he should try the death defying sport. Like with previous things, Seb found that it was even more epic and adrenaline pushing than anything he had done. Combined with a wingsuit, it was insanity, just total madness, seeing the mountain passes and cliffsides rush by. The speed was mad, and it was one that drove him to adore what he did.

By 23, he had flown almost 100 wingsuit BASE jumps, and it occured to him, that he had never once filmed himself doing it. A friend's Go Pro, and a simple upload later, and what happened was absolutely stunning. Seb saw the views spike, at almost two million- the video going viral after it showed a death-defying line through the crack of a Austrian glacial pass. The "Wingman" YouTube channel was born. It was one that stunned Seb, and got him started in his YouTube career, making simple blogs and posting footage. This attracted the attention of GoPro, who signed him on as an athlete. It was here he met Ellie Dorian; a woman of similar conviction like him, who share a passion for speed, snow and adrenaline. They fell into a romance quick, working on similar snow and wingsuit projects for GoPro, in either ads or YouTube videos. It was the end of his job as a ski instructor, and working as a packer at the dropzone. Now, he had sponsorship, his job was his enjoyment in life.

As a result of his more interesting activities in his Vlogging, Seb has also learned how to dive (in Icy lakes), and Paraglide, as a part of his channel's content on Wingman, often scoring a good number of views. His collaboration with GoPro has given him the opportunity to travel, and experience more things than ever in life- though he does feel like a bit of a drifter at times, never feeling stuck down.

Seb is fluent in English, speaking it with a German accent but remaining very clear in his speech- a trait due to his mother and lots of English tourists. He is also fluent in French, and his native German (in Austria at least) to boot. He conducts his blogs in English, just to keep reaching a wider audience.

Theme Song:

Madeon-Home

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Parts:

Part One: Pole Position
Part Two: Horsepower
Part Three:
Windchill

Part Four: Night Work

Future Parts to be Noted Here.

[Bee]

Name: Kimberly E. Rossi-Hartley
Age: 26
Disciplines Faced: hehe
Appearance: Kimberly stands at a nice five foot eleven inches, almost six foot if you look at her from certain angles. In addition to her height, she weighs a taut one hundred and fifty one pounds, stacking on nicely with her athletic frame. Since the first time she met her husband, her assets had grown a little bit, one being from a certain part of life she went through the other being from hours and hours of hard work at the gym. Altogether, she can be considered as exceptionally attractive. Her eyes are a piercing, light blue that only compliment her beautiful, lightly freckled face. Her wavy brown hair reaches down a little bit down her back, very rarely up in a ponytail in her everyday life. Kimberly is rarely seen without makeup though, eyeliner, shadow, blush, and lipstick. Especially lipstick. She has a signature shade, a nice Cardinal/Ruby Red from MAC. It is very apparent that red is her favorite color, especially since said red lipstick apparently "brings out her eyes". In fact, the only time she is without makeup is when she is at home and knows she's staying home, or when she's waking up/going to sleep. Even on errands she has her makeup on. Her style varies heavily, from a whole bunch of Nike clothing to the most feminine of dresses of all time. It really depends on her mood, and what she has going on that day. Generally when she wants to street race, she dresses more towards the athletic side, allowing her full range of motions and whatnot.
Nationality: American
History: Kimberly Emily Rossi was born on July 16th, 1989 in Miami, Florida to Caroline and John Rossi. They were there for only a short time as Caroline and John had to go there for a business meeting of sorts. But, unexpectedly Kimberly had to come along and there she was, the only one out of all of her siblings born outside of California. About a month or so after she was born, she was transported to Mountain View, California where she spent another 10 months of her life, before finally settling in San Jose, California. Growing up there, she was immersed into a world of sports and cars. Her father was a very big fan of sports, but an even bigger fan of cars. Because he was the head of the family, his athletic and mechanical influence spread like the plague to all members of her family, both current and future. Every member of her family had specific areas they delved in in terms of athletics. Kimberly herself was more involved in sports like soccer, softball, track and field, and most prominently basketball. But most obviously, the other parts of her heart belonged to cars as well. She eventually went to Archbishop Mitty, a school very highly known for their athletics. She was immediately put on the varsity teams as a freshman, excelling as a guard on her team. Outside of athletics, she was doing incredibly well as a student, maintaining a 3.9 (unweighted) GPA throughout her career. At the young age of sixteen, Kimberly was bestowed her license - where she received an Acura Integra as her first car. Teaching her how to drive was a very easy task, learning every intricacy there was instantly. However, this was mostly attributed to her having prior experience, her dad letting her goof around with his Porsche as a young girl. Within days of getting her license, she got into her first race - and a few more days after that she got her first ticket for speeding. But outside of that, eventually she was declared an All-American athlete in soccer, softball, and basketball - earning her a full ride scholarship to Stanford. This gave her the opportunity to really pursue her passion, delving into mechanical engineering so she could get a job in the automotive industry.
Theme Song

[WIP]

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Parts:

Part One: Pole Position
Part Two: Horsepower
Part Three:
Windchill
Part Four: Night Work

Part Five: Crossing Paths