Post by Kenzie on Mar 26, 2013 16:24:00 GMT -5
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Name ||
Kara Elizabeth Cullen
Nicknames/Aliases ||
She has a lot of unflattering ones. She’s not really a fan of nicknames and will only respond to Kara, though people like to call her other things, often when she’s fighting them.
Age/Year/School ||
18, her birthday was November 12th
Reason for Enrolling ||
Kara is a violinist. While she’s aggressive and always itching to fight, when she has her violin in her hands and begins to play a calmer side of her can be seen.
Major/GPA ||
As and Bs. Her conduct reports are... questionable, but she doesn’t usually misbehave or throw punches in school, so she gets away with it.
Gender ||
Female
Sexuality ||
Homosexual/Lesbian
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Job ||
Kara works part-time in the local diner as a waitress. She hates her job and tends to be very rude (especially to male customers), but for some reason has yet to be fired. It’s very likely the only reason she hasn’t been is because her boss likes how she looks in a skirt.
Reputation ||
Kara is very well known as a raging man-hating bitch.
Friends ||
Her best friend was Audrey, a transgender girl who was her neighbor for a long time. She used to attend Metric but dropped out a few years ago. Throughout their friendship Kara was her protector and often stood up for her when she was being teased, often by the boys in their childhood classes when she came out as trans. Though she’s moved across the country Kara still talks to her often. She’s glad that Audrey’s life seems to be going well now, she’s got a job as a model. Kara could not be prouder of her.
She gets along pretty well with Maxine Rossi, who she met in the park one day when her friend was trying to come on to her. Kara doesn’t like her friend but thinks Maxine is cool as well as hot. She hasn’t talked to her really since, but knows if she sees her face around she’ll have someone to talk to. Both Maxine and Kara are pretty low maintenance friends and don’t need to talk to each other often.
Kara met a girl Onyx who she hit it off with, but after the incident with Keegan dispersed and Onyx decided to go with him to the last dance after he creeped on her, Kara’s respect for her dwindled. She still finds the girl attractive, though.
Enemies/Rivals
Kara’s biggest nemesis right now is Keegan, who is the definition of a sleazy man and the very example of why she claims all men are pigs. He doesn’t know how to say no, and Kara kicked his ass once and will gladly do it again if she has to. In fact she’d love to seek him out at a bar someday and kick his ass there. She knows Chad through him and finds Chad just as vile – he’s a womanizing player who uses kindness to get into girls’ pants while Keegan relies on more force and aggression. Both make her ill. She doesn’t like Ethan either – he’s Maxine’s friend who couldn’t take a hint that she wasn’t interested.
She’s not a fan of Chardonnay or Arthur though she hasn’t had to interact with either in years. She just remembers how crappy they made the project into the woods and the rumors she hears about them make her roll her eyes. Arthur was in her and Audrey’s house when they were in High School and embarrassed Audrey – for that she forever hates him.
Relationship Status ||
Single
Clubs and Organizations ||
None
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Height/Weight/Body Type ||
5’3”. Kara is tiny but strong in her arms. She has a lot of pent up rage and though her fighting doesn’t have any sort of technique, she knows self-defense and how to use her small stature to her advantage when fighting someone.
Hair color/style ||
Dark brown, with red highlights.
Eye color/makeup preferences ||
Brown, and none.
Clothing Style ||
Sweatshirts, jeans, tee shirts. She isn’t very feminine and prefers a tomboyish fashion. She likes blacks and gothic fashions and the only feminine things she’ll wear, like skirts and blouses, are gothic fashion inspired. She usually has a watch on her wrist.
Notable Traits ||
She has a ‘resting bitch face’.
Ethnicity ||
Japanese
Playby ||
Hikari Mitsushima
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Likes ||
Women/girls, female protagonists, art, classical music, her violin, music, vampires, horror stories, gore, fighting, dancing to loud music, goofing around
Dislikes ||
PDA/couples, men, her job, twilight jokes because of her surname, rape jokes, the police, MRA, pickles, overly strong perfume, the color green, the scent of most colognes, academics, strawberries, objectified/oppressed women (she feels the need to stand up for them), womanizers/players,
Nervous Habits ||
She has a habit of chewing gum, or just chewing in general.
Hobbies ||
writing music in her spare time – she’s actually quite good at composition. She’d never want to be a full composure for a long song, but she does love to write stuff for the violin.
Positive Traits ||
Opinionated, tough, thick skinned, honest, fierce, sassy, witty, hard to distract, confident, strong feelings of justice,
Negative Traits ||
Sexist/misandrist, judgmental, shallow, stubborn, aggressive, bitchy, bigoted, headstrong, obnoxious, crude, impolite, lazy,
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Family ||
Hallie Cullen – Mother – 42 – Dishwasher || Hallie is the only family left alive in Kara’s life that she loves.
Ulrich Monterey – Father – 46 – Unknown || Kara’s misandrist behavior and beliefs can be traced back to her father. He abandoned she and her mother when Kara was 6 years old. When Kara tried to find him when she got older she realized that Ulrich was a horrible, scummy human being. She wants nothing to do with him and his ass, who currently resides in the jail in her hometown.
Ruben Cullen – Uncle – 47 – Former Police Officer || Kara never had a high regard for her uncle. He was always cruel to her and her mother when they needed himself and always looked at Kara with a perverted eye—Kara’s certain that had her uncle never been arrested, he would have tried something on her when she hit puberty. Her uncle was arrested for the murder of her aunt, and Kara holds little to no respect for him whatsoever. Since he was a police officer—a very proud one, too—Kara also holds little regard for the police, associating all of them with her uncle, assuming that they’re all just like he was.
Marion Cullen – Aunt – Deceased || Kara’s aunt was one of the nicest woman that Kara knew—and now she’s dead, thanks to her uncle Ruben. Kara blames the majority of the male population for her aunt’s death—she sees the fact that Ruben was always angry as “normal” male behavior, and it disgusts her. It was through Marion’s old violin that Kara got into musical performance and, subsequently, Metric Arts. She’s doing this for her aunt—she wants to make her proud up in heaven by joining an all-female symphony. Kara still has Marion’s violin, and refuses to get rid of it, even if she does someday buy herself a more elegant one appropriate to be used in the symphony she wants to join.
Ulrich Monterey – Father – 46 – Unknown || Kara’s misandrist behavior and beliefs can be traced back to her father. He abandoned she and her mother when Kara was 6 years old. When Kara tried to find him when she got older she realized that Ulrich was a horrible, scummy human being. She wants nothing to do with him and his ass, who currently resides in the jail in her hometown.
Ruben Cullen – Uncle – 47 – Former Police Officer || Kara never had a high regard for her uncle. He was always cruel to her and her mother when they needed himself and always looked at Kara with a perverted eye—Kara’s certain that had her uncle never been arrested, he would have tried something on her when she hit puberty. Her uncle was arrested for the murder of her aunt, and Kara holds little to no respect for him whatsoever. Since he was a police officer—a very proud one, too—Kara also holds little regard for the police, associating all of them with her uncle, assuming that they’re all just like he was.
Marion Cullen – Aunt – Deceased || Kara’s aunt was one of the nicest woman that Kara knew—and now she’s dead, thanks to her uncle Ruben. Kara blames the majority of the male population for her aunt’s death—she sees the fact that Ruben was always angry as “normal” male behavior, and it disgusts her. It was through Marion’s old violin that Kara got into musical performance and, subsequently, Metric Arts. She’s doing this for her aunt—she wants to make her proud up in heaven by joining an all-female symphony. Kara still has Marion’s violin, and refuses to get rid of it, even if she does someday buy herself a more elegant one appropriate to be used in the symphony she wants to join.
Hometown ||
Jerome, Illinois
Vehicle/Transportation ||
Her feet.
Backstory ||
When Kara was 6 years old, her father just left in the middle of the night. Kara can still remember the day clearly, waking up to hear rustling in the apartment’s kitchen. She approached her bedroom door hesitantly and watched as her father swung a backpack over his shoulder and headed to the door. In a quiet voice Kara asked where he was going and he tried to ease her into him leaving. He told Kara he just forgot something at work and would be back the next day. He ruffled her hair and left. Kara watched out of the living room window as her father got into the car with a mysterious woman driving and he never came back the next day. Kara told her mother what she saw and it devastated her mother, to the point that Kara could do nothing but watch as her mother tried to make ends meet and raise her little girl herself.
Kara’s family wasn’t a good one. Her mother’s brother, Ruben, was a police officer but a corrupt one. Whenever she and her mother went to Ruben to beg for some extra cash or a meal, he gave them grief about it and was very manipulative, forcing Ms. Cullen to drop to her knees and literally beg for his help. Kara didn’t like the way that her uncle looked at her, either, and every time that Kara was given a compliment from Ruben it felt tainted. He said she was gorgeous but there was something perverted about his tone, about his desires, and Kara shut herself off from Ruben completely. The only saving grace when they went over to her Uncle’s place was her aunt Marion, a sweet woman who always tried to help Kara and her mother as best she could. Ruben beat and abused Marion but neither Kara nor her mother knew that—not until Marion died 2 years alter after a domestic dispute got violent.
Kara was numb for those 2 years until the death of her aunt—she had no hobbies, no friends, and no life. When her uncle Ruben was arrested for the murder of her aunt Marion, Kara and her mother were Marion’s next of kin and allowed to go through Marion’s old things at their old house, to collect memorabilia. Kara’s mother was reduced to a sobbing mess when she saw the things Marion kept, the photographs and the very same house that her sister-in-law had died in but Kara was numb. Kara was numb until she went to the attic and found an old violin that once belonged to Marion. Kara was only 8 years old but quickly figured out how to hold the violin, her hands moving the bow along the strings. The sound was rusty and flat at first but quickly Kara managed to make a melody out of the sound. It was that sad melody that she played that helped ease Kara out of her numbness—she started crying while playing, eventually getting to the point where she could no longer play and was help in the arms of her mother, as she bawled about the horrible things that Ruben had done.
Kara took the violin, and practiced it every day. It became her most treasured possession, and the woodwork had the name Marion engraved on the back, adding a personal touch to it from her aunt. Kara went to middle school shortly after that.
Middle school was an experience, all right. Unfortunately, Kara found herself on the receiving end of a crush from a particularly violent boy—this boy was one of the types who teased and picked on his crushes. Kara felt horrible as the bullying commenced and every time he roughhoused her she hated him more and more. The teachers didn’t do anything about it, saying boys would be boys, and some even thought it was ‘cute’, but to Kara it was just disgusting.
Eighth grade was when Kara met her father again. Her mother got a phone call from the local jail. She and Kara went there 3 hours later after much debate to visit Ulrich, who tried to apologize to them and tell them he was sorry, that he never stopped loving them, ect. He almost managed to convince Ms. Cullen to bail him out when another woman came down—the one Kara saw him get in the car with—come for the same reason. Ulrich thought that his ex-wife wouldn’t come down to bail him out when it looked like no one was coming. Hallie was betrayed, and Kara felt nauseated. She formed a hatred for her father, and stormed out of the jail, leaving him to rot. Her mother was not far behind.
In a bad mood the next day at school, Kara had little patience for the boy’s bullying. When his roughhousing got physical, to the point that he was jostling her shoulder, Kara whipped around and punched him in the face, using the surprise to knock him down and straddle him, delivering punch after punch to his nose while screaming ”Die Men, Die!” The boy was terrified of her after that, having nearly been beaten to death. It took the teachers pulling her off of him to stop her punches, and even then Kara tried to kick the boy and draw more blood.
She was sent to the principal’s office and her mother was called in—as were the boys’ parents. Kara was suspended and her mother didn’t like that, lecturing her until Kara told her what had happened. Kara’s mother couldn’t stay angry at her for fighting back, though she did chastise her daughter about using unnecessary force. Her mother thought that Kara had pent up rage issues and signed her up for training in the violin. While playing the violin, Kara felt calm. It was through the lessons she was offered a place at Metric Academy in the fall of her freshman year.
Kara was reluctant to go, but violin was her passion. Her mother sent her to the school proudly, telling her that her aunt Marion would be proud. Kara agreed to go, though she promised her mother she’d try to work on taming her temper. Her misandrist beliefs, however, are not going away any time soon.
Kara came out as a lesbian to her mother last year, and her mother was not surprised and supports her completely. Her mother does try to get Kara to believe not all men are like her father, uncle, and the boy who picked on her were, but all Kara hears is ”not all men” and zones out of the conversation completely.
At Metric, Kara got a job at the local Salem dinner to get some money to spend for herself. Kara absolutely hates the job and is actually quite rude to her customers at times—but the only reason she’s not been fired yet is because her boss likes her fiery attitude and thinks she’s got a pretty face.
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Notes ||
- Though Kara identifies as a feminist, I want to make it clear that she’s not a feminist, but a misandrist, the opposite of a misogynist. She hates men without giving them a chance to prove they can be decent. It’s possible she may grow out of this, if she’s faced with decent men who she can forge friendships with. Or perhaps not... who knows what the future holds for Kara. Certainly not me...
- stretching page....
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- dont mind me.... stretching...
- The song lyrics are from You Call me a Bitch Like It’s a Bad Thing by Halestorm.
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