Name: Rebecca Morris
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Appearance:• Physique: Rebecca is fit, but not much more than that - she still has struggles with carrying particularly heavy textbooks and other such similar items, and her constitution is consequently about average, if not a bit on the weaker side. She fits the classic definition of an ectomorph quite well - save that she's not very tall at all - and because of this, she doesn't gain weight (fat or muscle) very easily at all, and she has a relatively fragile bone structure. As a result of her body type, her pain tolerance and threshold are
very low, although she's adept at moving quickly when she needs to and she's more flexible than the average person. She's slightly long legged, and has a column shaped body type. Her facial features are slightly angular but smooth, and her cheeks and chin are slightly rounded, and she has a relatively high forehead.
• Height: 5'3"
• Hair: Rebecca's hair is a warm, sunny strawberry blonde color, with natural pale, blondish red highlights. It's very full-looking, fine, and smooth in terms of texture, and is very soft and silky to the touch. She keeps it cut exactly at shoulder length, and generally wears it down, although for convenience's sake she's taken to putting it back in a low ponytail in recent days. She takes good care of it too, although she doesn't put much effort at all into its appearance aside from washing it and brushing it out daily.
• Eyes: Her irises are a warm, light honey brown in color, with a slightly darker brown ring around the edges. They usually have a somewhat guarded and uncertain look to them, as she doesn't trust others easily and is very particular about whom she actually allows herself to express her feelings around.
• Skin: Rebecca's skin is a relatively light peach color, with slightly rosy undertones. It is generally quite soft, but her hands are somewhat calloused from the years in which she's done quite a bit of menial housework for her family. She has no freckles, but she sunburns rather easily.
• Scars/Markings/Etc.: She has no scars worthy of note. Because of her upbringing, and because she's never had the desire to, she has no tattoos, and she doesn't have pierced ears.
• Clothing Description: Rebecca has no style of her own, as her clothes are generally quite old fashioned and cover just about every inch of skin that there's possible to cover, making it not very practical for the outdoors. However, as she has very little money of her own and was never allowed to wear 'men's clothes', she's made do with what she has, and plans to attempt to alter some of her clothing to make it more practical for the outdoors when she gets to the tower.
From: Grouse Creek, Utah
Likes:-
Photography: Above all else, Rebecca adores photography, and, though her family does not like her enthusiasm for it, the first time she ever fought them over anything was her ability to engage in this hobby. She was first introduced to it through a class in school she took just to get a mandatory elective out of the way, and fell in love with the process and her ability to capture certain moments in nature. Rebecca also became pretty close to her photography teacher, who helped her improve the proportions of her photos and helped her gain an almost instinctual knowledge of how long an exposure time any shot in any given light would need. Also knowing her home situation, this teacher also gave her a camera of her own near the end of the year, the model being a
Pentax SF-X, the first AF SLR with built-in auto flash. While she hasn't been able to develop any pictures she's taken with it since school ended, most of them occurring on her 'road trip' to Oregon, she looks forward to setting up a temporary dark room of sorts inside or near the tower.
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Reading: Considering the opposition she's often been presented with when trying to read much beyond a couple select classics and the Holy Book itself, Rebecca will read just about anything she comes across, but especially likes nonfiction, as she loves to learn, even if it's not what's expected or wanted of her. Biology has always been a particular interest of hers, even though she did not do particularly well in the class at her school, as plants, animals, and humans never seemed more complicated yet simplified at the same time, and the more she learned on the subject, it raised quite a few questions in her mind about the validity of putting the teachings of religion over the findings of science. With her family, she hasn't been able to read much on the subject aside from a school book, however, so she's made do with reading through old philosophers' speeches and teachings, and recently finished Plato's Symposium.
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Nature: The 'great outdoors' has always fascinated Rebecca, and the colorful varieties of plants and animals that inhabit specific biomes fascinates her. They are also frequently subjects of her photographs, although she's perfectly content to spend a day without taking any photos out in nature. While she doesn't know as much about outdoor survival as she'd like to, she has a good deal of common sense, and figures that there's a lot to it she can learn by firsthand experience.
Dislikes:-
Being Micromanaged: Rebecca abhors being told what she can and cannot do as far as trivialities are concerned, as she is old enough to know many of the things her family banned her from doing are about as harmless as it gets, and she's grown sick of people putting asinine limitations on her to the point of which she's temporarily gone NC with the people who did this to her the most. While she takes instructions relatively well, she's so fed up with people bossing her around that she won't stand for being talked to like a small child or having any privileges 'pulled' by anyone who isn't with law enforcement itself.
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People (in General): In her experience, people tend to be very selfish and hypocritical individuals, and being around them even on an infrequent basis is generally a very draining experience for Rebecca. She is not only a very introverted person, but humanity in general has made her rather jaded, especially thanks to her knowledge of her country's political system as well as the inner machinations of her highly dysfunctional family unit. She has more or less lost faith in humanity in general, and while she was once a lot more generous and selfless, she now generally just keeps to herself. Her ideal job would detail her staying in the tower entirely on her own, but she supposes she can still put a decent amount of distance between herself and everyone else during the day.
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Bodies of Water: Rebecca was never taught to swim. Her parents thought lessons were a waste of money, and she's never even been to a pool in her life. She therefore has a slight fear of them, as she's all too aware of the fact she can't swim.
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Her Own Inexperience: She's acutely aware of just how little she's experienced or 'lived' thanks to the stifling 'protection' of her family, and is ashamed by the lack of knowledge she has about life amongst others. She was never very popular at school, and the friends she had were somewhat horrified by her home situation—and, in turn, she was never allowed to spend time with them outside of school for more than a few hours, as her parents weren't too fond of the people she liked, so she knows little about what typical young adults enjoy, and is about as clueless about pop culture as a typical seventy year old.
Skills: As was mentioned before, she's a very good photographer, and while it may not be a particularly 'useful' skill for others on a practical basis, it is a skill of hers. She's also a very fast learner, and once something is explained to her, she usually gets pretty much instantaneously, not to mention that she's generally pretty good at inferring what she should do in a specific situation, and she's used to improvising a good deal. It's also worth mentioning that she's very aware of her surroundings at almost all times, which is a side effect of sorts of living in slight fear of the people who raised her, and she can stay calm during most crises that she's been presented with over the course of her life, thinking logically and acting quickly to resolve whatever issue had arisen.
Other:-Background (Brief Version): Rebecca is the second youngest of six children of a highly conservative couple from an equally conservative family, and, practically from the day she was born onwards, tradition, religion, and an aversion to social change were practically beaten into her mind and those of her siblings. She has never been allowed to have a job, and has not ever been given money by her family for anything in her life. The only reason she's in Oregon is because she needed a break from humanity to try and discover her own beliefs and values without anyone else coercing her into their own views. She did not inform her family she was leaving, or where she was going, for that matter.
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Theme Song: Runaway by Ryn Weaver
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