Post by Shelby on Apr 9, 2016 12:59:47 GMT -5
BASICS
Name/Nicknames ||
Nora Monroe Acker. Just like the rest of her siblings she was given the middle name representing a movie/Broadway star, and lo and behold, she had been given Marilyn Monroe's last name as her middle name. It's not something that Nora hates; she loves it, actually, and likes to think that she has the spirit of Marilyn Monroe flowing through her body. She has no nicknames that she really answers to. Only Nora.
Age/Birthday ||
Fifteen-years-old, born last on May 2nd.
Reputation ||
Given that this is only her first year at Metric Academy, Nora doesn't have much of a reputation when it comes to the general population. As she moves up through grades, however, she hopes to have more of a reputation with the teachers especially and students that will revolve around her theater acting, much like things are already starting to circulate throughout the academy. Most people, if they really pay attention to her, recognize her as the Freshman who tries out for any role that she possibly can, perhaps making her look desperate or overzealous for the theater.
Job ||
No job, other than to do well in school, and do better in the theater to try and please her mother. She also considers trying to corral her brothers to get more into theater as her job as well, just so that they won't stray from the family legacy.
SCHOOL/SOCIAL INFORMATION
School and Class ||
Nora attends Metric Academy as a Freshman.
Concentration ||
Theater/acting. Mostly in Broadway.
Friend(s) ||
TBA
Enemies/Rivals ||
Nora considers each and every female theater student a threat to her lead role prowess, automatically putting them on her rival list, especially if said females are auditioning for the roles that she wishes to have. She'll never go so far as to sabotage anyone, but she's partial to giving her female rivals the stink eye while waiting to audition, and if they land the role that she wishes, good luck in ever trying to talk to her.
Sexuality ||
Heterosexual.
Relationship Status ||
Single.
APPEARANCE
Height/Body Type ||
Nora is the shortest of her siblings for the time being, though only barely shorter than her brother Newton. She stands at 5'4" and has a lithe, still developing frame and figure. She's in that awkward stage of her teenage years where her torso is trying to catch up with her lanky legs, somethings that she hates though deals with. Perhaps, she hopes, she'll have legs like her mother when she gets older, as well as actual breast. It pisses her off that she slow on the path of bodily development.
Hair color ||
Nora's hair is dark brown, just like her siblings and her mother, and falls in waves to her chest. Often times she will straighten the strands, but those lazy days she'll leave it wavy, maybe pulled up into a messy bun on the top of her head.
Eye color ||
Brown
Clothing style ||
Because she's grown up with two brothers, Nora has liked to separate herself from them when it comes to her appearance. She likes to be girly at times, maybe wearing cute dresses or skirts with a nice blouse or bows in her hair, but there times where she'll wear shirts and jeans or other sort of pants. She likes to be cute, but seem playful all in the same light, as if she's laid back, meaning that, sometimes, she'll wear off the shoulder shirts that will have the sleeves hanging past her hands or she'll wear regular t-shirts. But she likes to dress to impress, like her mother has always told her, in order to get roles and in order to be remembered by others.
Ethnicity ||
White and Hispanic
Playby ||
N/A
PERSONALITY
Likes ||
Acting most importantly, the theater, Broadway shows (her favorite is Phantom of the Opera), pleasing her mother, singing, dancing (though she's got a lot of work with that), messing with her brothers, gum (she has a habit of chewing it too much, which her mother loathes), being lead roles, auditioning (she loves the adrenaline rush of it, trying on costumes, meeting new cast members as long as they don't show her up), taking pictures.
Dislikes ||
Forgetting her lines, looking like a fool, being shown up, people who think they're better than her, anyone messing with her brothers, being made fun of, blizzard like conditions, driving long distances.
Positive traits ||
Energetic, determined, aspiring, charismatic, confident, focused, playful, opportunistic
Negative Traits ||
Impatient, self-critical, somewhat egocentric, opportunistic, dramatic/melodramatic, hard headed, pressuring
Hobbies ||
Acting, though it's more so a way of life than a hobby. Singing and dancing. She likes to take pictures too, mostly of herself, but she likes to snap photos of her brothers and friends, especially when they're not looking so that she can tease them about it later on.
BACKGROUND/FAMILY
Family ||
Father – Restaurant Owner || Mr. Acker is a nice man, good to his children, his wife, and most importantly his restaurant which he runs as a karaoke bar. He is the parent that the triplets can go to when ever they want to talk about something yet are afraid to speak with their mother about it, always listening with an open ear, always willing to help them out as best as he can because he knows how his wife can be. Though he doesn't play favorites, or tries not to, Nora has the sinking suspicion that when it comes to their father Nacho is the favorite. It hurts a little in the pit of her heart, but she wells down the feeling. Her and her father have never particularly been close; she'll talk with her father and he'll always offer to speak with her, but... Nora feels a sort of disconnect from her father, and she can't say or tell why. She loves her father, of course. The two will hug every morning before she leaves for school (before they came to Metric) and every night before she went to bed, saying that they love each other and to have a good day/good night. When back at home and at his restaurant, Nora will often times beg to go on stage to preform, and after getting his blessing to do so, she'll rush onto stage to sing.
He's the one parent that has always been proud of the three kids, and while Nora appreciates it and loves her father for it, she feels that his praise pales in comparison to the praise of her mother when she gives it, which is rare. When Nora does want to talk with her dad she'll often ask about why he decided to open a restaurant instead of doing Broadway like their mother, and then divulge into everything she likes about theater as well as any upcoming roles she's hoping to get. Nora almost has a feeling that her dad doesn't like the fact that she's so devoted to the theater to the point where she'll do almost anything in order to please her mom, but he's never spoken up about it.
Mother – Momager || While she loves her children and wishes the best for them, Mrs. Acker has a hard time balancing her life as a good mother and a manager to her children, which she is often considered as. She wants her children to, like her, be Broadways stars and have their faces and names up in lights, staring in the next best show in their NYC home. In doing so, she badgers them often about their acting in school. She asks about upcoming plays, what they plan on doing for the audition, and if nothing is to her liking she'll usually look through a script herself and show her children what to do instead. She can be overbearing. She'll get frustrated with the children if they don't do as she pleases, and she often notices that the children aren't as closer to her as they are with her father, with the exception of Nora, she just wants to best for them! But that doesn't stop her attitude. She doesn't like when Nigel spends time with his father in the restaurant back in the kitchen because he should be studying his lines and being on stage, and she doesn't like that Newton would rather be back stage working on set rather than in the spotlight. Nora is the one she takes most pride in at times for her willingness to please and for her loving being in the spotlight, but that only makes her much harder on the girl, subsequently making her harder on the boys because they're not as enthusiastic as Nora is.
Nora feels as if she has to do everything perfect in order to get her mother's approval, and even then she almost feels like it's not enough. She'll preform her lines to her mother, look at her unchanging face, and listen to the criticism that she is given until she'll leave to change what ever she had done wrong. Her mother... She just wants to please her! Nora is enthralled with what her mother had done and almost feels guilty that she was a part of what made her mother stop acting on Broadway. So, as a form of repayment, Nora tries her best, and she loves it. She just wants to be the best for her mother, so that she can have that love from her that she desperately wants.
Brother - Nigel "Nacho" Acker || Nacho's much taller and larger frame doesn't stop Nora from being a pest to her eldest bother. She'll oftentimes sneak up behind Nacho, or just run up behind him, and jump on his back, trying to let her hands hang on his shoulders in order to get a ride from him. Usually the endeavor turns into failure; she'll try to jump but either fall or Nacho will try to get her off his back before she can really latch onto him. Usually that'll get her huffy and dramatic until she gets over it and finds a new way to pester her older brother. But, just like her father, Nora feels as if she has always been a sort of disconnected from her eldest brother. She doesn't understand his love for cooking, often teases him about it, but often worries over him. She knows that their mom doesn't like it, so to be their mother's sort of right hand man, she tries to get Nacho into the theater more. She would bring home flyers about the next school play, say that he would make a great male lead, and that he should sign up for it to audition. She would often ask him to practice lines with her so that she could prefect her part in a play while getting him into character as well. But, apparently, it hadn't worked as well as she had hoped.
She falls father apart from Nacho after her goes for cooking at Metric, and finds him a lost cause. Instead of being the bubbly little sister to him, she holds disdain for him, often yelling at him and asking him how he could do this to them. She feels betrayed by him, as if he doesn't love the family any longer and that hurts. A lot.
Brother - Newton "Newt" Acker || Nora always has, and still is, closet to Newt than she is with Nacho. Just like she will with Nacho, she'll often pester Newt to the highest extreme when she can, except instead of jumping on his back, since he's almost the same size as her she'll reach up and mess his hair and rub her knuckles against his skull. She'll often poke fun at the freckles that adorn her second older brother's face, sometimes poking them, even, when she was younger, going so far as to name certain ones that she still remembered to this day. She's closer to Newt because he's more prone to wanting to be on stage, and Nora likes watching him in the spotlight. But she doesn't understand his fascination with wanting to be behind the scenes. Just like her mother, she chides him and says that he has the face of a star, one that shouldn't be hidden behind a curtain. Sure, Nora understands that there needs to be people backstage in order to let the show go on, but the actors are the most important part of the shows!
Just like with Nacho, she would often push and prod for Newt to audition for shows instead of working backstage. She'd bring home flyers for him naming a new play, push it in his face, and say that he needed to star in it. When it came to them going to Broadway shows, she'd often nudge Newt in the shoulder during intermission and always say "don't you think being on stage like them is so much better than being in the back hidden with the... Nobodies?". After Nacho's rebellion to join culinary arts, she grew closer to Newt, often ranting to him. With Nacho's moving farther away from the family, Nora herself puts more pressure on Nacho to follow in the path of acting like their mother.
Backstory ||
Growing up with two brothers to form a triplet hadn't been as difficult for Nora as most people would believe. In the beginning she had started to grow up tomboyish; she wanted to follow her brothers everywhere, to do everything that they were doing in order to keep up with them, but eventually she stopped when her mother got a hold of her and taught her the importance of being an individual and needing to become her own person. It was disappointing because, at first, she thought that meant that because she was a girl that she couldn't hang around with her brothers, but her father had reassured her that that wasn't what her mother meant; she just needed to do what she really loved instead of only doing something to be liked. That helped, sort of, but Nora still tried to keep up with her brothers, always feeling as if she was the least noticeable out of the three, the one who didn't have much of a difference to her other than that she was female. Nacho had his height that he quickly sprang up to once puberty hit, and Newt had those freckles that everyone noticed when he walked by. But what did she have? Her absolute devotion and love for theater and Broadway, much like her mother.
Her and her brothers were introduced into the world of theater and Broadway from a young age; both Mr. and Mrs. Acker had been a part of that world, and with living in the Big Apple where grand productions of Broadway were showcased just about everyday with thousands of people going to shows throughout the weeks the world of art and theater had always been close. Even before they were old enough to truly understand the world of theater and the concept of Broadway with all of the acting, learning lines, and preforming they had been brought to many shows to watch. Nora, at that young of an age, had been enthralled by the theater. All of the costumes, the actors and actresses in the spotlights, and when she got old enough to understand the story lines that were preformed on stage, brought to life. It was... Amazing! Her eyes would light up with every movement of the actors, with every song and dance they would do, and she even became enthralled with the sets that always changed. But, most of all, she wished to be up there. When her mother told her that she had been a part of that world, little Nora had been amazed, exclaiming loudly as she sat on the couch and listened to her mother recounts the days in which she had been on Broadway, picked up by a company that wanted her and her marvelous acting. Nora almost couldn't believe it! Her own mother had been like that, famous? Well, perhaps not famous, but being on stage and acting out scenes beautifully was considered famous in Nora's book, and she wanted everything to be like that.
She started acting in second grade during her very first play. There had been no auditions and instead the teacher had let the kids raise their hands in order to pick a role they wanted. It had been a story of a King and Queen with their three daughters and how they tried to help the 'forest people', people that turned out to be half animal half human. As soon as the teacher called out for anyone to call their position for the Queen, Nora stuck her hand up, stood up on her chair, and yelled that she wanted to be the Queen. Of course, she had gotten in trouble for standing on her chair, potentially hurting herself, but the teacher loved her enthusiasm for wanting the part, so Nora had been given it. That had been the first time that Nora had ever been given a script to read and memorize. Her mother hand helped her with it, became overbearing as usual, but Nora reveled in the attention that her mother gave her.
Soon that one little play turned into more plays, plays that weren't school productions and then school productions as well. Along with her brothers, they were pushed into the acting and Broadway world by their mother, but instead of fighting against it and groaning at every new script she was given, she was excited. She loved the rush of adrenaline that coursed through her body when she stood in front of people to say her lines and portray the character that she was playing, and she loved being able to act as someone else in different, awesome clothing.
At the age of nine she learned what it meant to be a disappointment. She had auditioned for the role of Juliet for her school play in Romeo and Juliet. She had been so excited about the prospect of of being the lead female in a Shakespeare play and about the prospect of being able to kiss the cute boy that was playing Romeo, but then some little chick names Amber Riley had swooped in and stole the role, pushing Nora down into a petty little role that hardly had any lines. She had been devastated, threw her script down after the judges had said their choices for casting, and stomped off, refusing the position that she had been given. She had been given a scolding from both of her parents--her father from the way she acted by being so disrespectful to the judges and other cast members, her mother from the fact that she hadn't gotten the lead role when she had practices and practiced for the role. Nora felt defeated, like an idiot that had cast a shadow of shame upon her family. Her mother hadn't helped, made her feel even worse about herself, and she hated it. She vowed that day that she would never again lose a role to anyone. She would stay up for hours looking at scripts, going over her lines and practicing with her brothers trying different things and trying to find what would work best for her. When going to Broadway shows, instead of watching the actors and actresses for mere pleasure she studied what they did, how they acted, and how they moved their bodies in order to expand herself and learn more from them. She still messed around with her brothers and was the playful little ball of energy, but she started focusing more on what her dreams were: to be on the big screen and be a star like her other.
When she turned ten she started singing lessons after figuring out that she had a good voice, but not good enough, her mother said. Five days a week after school unless she had practice for a play, she went to her singing lessons, learning how to control her voice, as well as find it. It expanded her repertoire of what she was able to do with theater, now being able to get a handle on musicals once her voice became strong and confident enough to be shown on stage. And afterwards she started dance lessons, a harder task for her to accomplish, but she was working on it. Her long legs, now, were making her a little more uncomfortable with dancing. But she worked at it for herself and for her mother, often practicing singing at her father's restaurant.
Through it all her relationship stayed well with her brothers. The kids in school would often poke fun at the three for being triplets, but Nora would always be there to shoot down their retorts and say that she liked being a triplet. Of course many of the girls would make fun of her, saying that she was probably meant to be a guy instead of a girl like she was, especially given how flat chested she was, which would anger her, but Nora tried to pay no mind to it. She kept doing what she was doing, auditioning for plays, learning to sing and dance better, and overall being known around their middle school as the theater girl. Not that her brothers seemed to fare any better; most kids in their middle school knew who they were and always assumed that they'd be auditioning for the plays at school. The theater triplets, the triple T's otherwise known as. Nora kind of liked that.
When the prospect of Metric Academy was brought to their attention, Nora grew excited. Nervous, because that would mean leaving home, but excited nonetheless because of all that she had heard from the high school. They could learn so much more there! It was a preforming arts school, a place that would help her and her brothers' perfect craft! Most of those nights had been sleepless for Nora. She'd often sneak into her brothers' rooms and talk about Metric Academy, telling them that the three of them could rule the theater concentration there, that they would be the best triplets that ever stepped foot onto the campus. "And then afterwards," she always say, "after we graduate, we can rule the Broadway world. People would have to know us from the fact that we're triplets!"
Her happily-ever-after, however, hadn't turned out shortly after making it to Metric. She hadn't known or had any hint that Nacho was doing everything he could to get away from the family's legacy, always having assumed that the three of them would stick together, but when he said, after they moved in, that he was going into culinary arts, Nora was stunned. Hurt, really. She cried as she yelled at Nacho, asking him how could he do this, asking if he was only playing them. But he wasn't. He wasn't going to act. They weren't going to be The Triple T's anymore and that hurt. So now her relationship with Nacho is strained. She doesn't talk with him much and instead always ignores him and gives him the silent treatment. He doesn't deserve her attention if he was going to go behind their backs like that, she thought. And now she's trying to get through her first year at Metric, trying to make a name for herself at school.
OOC NOTES
- When Nora is reading over her lines, there's no getting through to her. She'll transport herself into her own world and ignore the reality around her. It's a fault, but she can't help it.
- When it comes to her nervous ticks, she can't help but chew gum. It's something that she knows her mother loath's because she always calls it unlady like, but it's something that Nora can't stop. If she's nervous and has gum on her, which she normally always does, she'll chew it. At least it keeps her breath minty fresh.
- She's often found singing and humming to herself, and before every performance she can be found clearing her throat to the point where it gets annoying, and then she'll go over her lines in her head, moving her arms to herself.
- She has a camera that her dad gave her for her birthday and uses it almost every day, it not to take selfies, then to take pictures of the nature around her or her brother's. She's certainly not anything like a professional photographer, but she doesn't care. She loves going what she does!