Post by Bethany on May 23, 2016 11:42:24 GMT -5
Billie-Jean Gallegos
She goes by any name, really, but he most common nicknames are Billie, Bills and BJ
She often says she wishes she had a dollar for every time somebody pronounces her surname wrong.
17 years young and born on Valentine's Day
Billie-Jean classes herself as straight but gets major girl crushes
Billie-Jean Gallegos, pronounced gah-YAY-goess, was born and raised in California. There was no particular reason to the choice of her name, other than her mother liking the song 'Billie Jean' by Michael Jackson. Her family roots backdate to Spain and she has family that still live there now, but she doesn't care enough to actually find anything out about it. She can speak Spanish, but she doesn't really speak it often.
Billie is a student at Metric Academy. She has been studying here for the past year. She isn't big into the education scene and doesn't actually know how she got accepted into the school. Her friend from high school actually sent her application off and somehow, she managed to get in.
She is studying Special Effects Make-up for Film and TV. She also models, but she doesn't take it as a class or anything, she only does it for her friends work if they need somebody. Billie actually loves her course and maintains an A grade for most of her modules. However, she does get into arguments with teachers often, as she sometimes has to do work that is below what she is capable of. She doesn't understand the point of learning something you already know. She tends to walk out of those classes. Despite not particularly caring about education for pretty much her whole life, Billie is actually pretty smart. She received A/B's for every exam she ever did at high school,
despite ditching maths and science classes pretty much forever.
Billie stands at a very petite height of 4'11" and weighs around 99lbs. She gets a lot of comments on her height and her figure and it drives her insane. She knows she is tiny and she knows she is very thin. It's not like she is this thin on purpose. She eats more than an average amount of food a day, but she just doesn't put any weight on. She can't help the way her body is and hates it so much when people ask her how she stays so skinny.
The most noticeable thing about Billie is her skill with makeup. She dreams to work in film and television, specialising in special effects makeup. She loves all the gore and the blood she gets to work with and finds it amazing how she can make injuries look so real. She's been into it since she was a child. She always found hospital programs on TV fascinating and always wondered how they made it look so real.
Makeup is a huge part of Billie's life. It is very rare she is seen around the college without makeup. Her flatmates don't ever really see her without it on. It is a huge part of her identity and she couldn't imagine flaunting around school without it. She is a pretty confident person, but without the makeup she feels like a completely different person. She knows she is still pretty without it on, but she likes the way it makes her feel. She doesn't understand how people can walk around looking like a hot mess. Her own eye colour is dark brown, but she wears contact lenses most days to change the colour of her own eyes. She likes the look of blue and green eyes, but she wears a lot of grey coloured lenses too. She loves to change things up and just be different. She doesn't see the point in being a boring person and looking the same as everybody else.
Along with the makeup, her hair is a huge part of her identity. She is always changing her hair up. She loves to go through lots of different colours and styles, but her favourite colours are pastel pink and purple, along with silver. She has been dying her hair since she was around thirteen so it's not in the best condition ever. She tends to wear extensions a lot, mainly because she got her hair cut into a bob and sometimes she still likes to have her hair long.
A lot of people tend to think she is completely fake due to the amount of makeup she wears, alongside wearing extensions and having crazy styles every now and again. She doesn't really care what people think about her. If she is comfortable in her own style, then that's how she is going to live her life.
David Gallegos - Billie's father and the person she trusts the most in the world. They have the best relationship
with each other and David has always had Billie's best interests at heart.
Jenna Jones - Billie's mom who she no longer has contact with.
Lauren Gallegos - Lauren married Billie's dad when Billie was 11. She considers Lauren to be not only a very positive role model
for herself but also one of the people she is closest with. She couldn't ask any more from her and has always gotten along with her very well.
Billie-Jean grew up living with her dad and her stepmom. Her mother left her father for another man when she was only three years old. She hasn't had any contact with her mom since she was about five. David always made arrangements for her to see her mother, but Jenna stopped turning up when she was supposed to be there. It was upsetting Billie too much, so the contact stopped. Jenna has never tried to get back in Billie's life, and although Billie found it hard growing up without her real mom, but she always had the best relationship with her stepmom. She took a very positive role in Billie's life and provided her with as much motherly love as she needed.
The family is pretty much what Billie would class as an average family. They're not poor or anything, but she wouldn't class them as rich, either. She always had everything that she ever needed growing up and never felt any less than the other students her own age. Her dad made sure she was kept up to date with the latest technology and fashion trends so she didn't stand out as any different. Billie had her own style going on from being around thirteen, so her dad always supported her through that, too. He never judged her when she wore some crazy outfits and was always there for her when other girls had been mean about her style.
Lauren moved in with Billie and her dad when she was only 6. She knew as soon as she met her that Lauren was perfect for her dad. He had had girlfriends inbetween her mom leaving and meeting Lauren, but none of them were anything serious. When they realised he was a single parent to a little girl, most of them never offered a second date or returned his calls. But Lauren was different. You could tell she was smitten with David and she also loved Billie from the moment she met her. She was always there for her, through the horrible boys who liked to say all girls had cooties, through the awkward teenage years and the talks about periods and sex that her dad just couldn't do. Billie isn't sure how she will ever thank Lauren for being there for her, but she tries her hardest to show her how much she loves her.
Billie suffers with epilepsy, but most people don't know that about her. She finds it kind of embarrassing so tends to keep it very quiet. She suffers with tonic-clonic seizures and is constantly worried that she will have an epileptic fit in the middle of her classes, which is another reason as to why she walks out of classes if they are teaching things she already knows about. She wants to minimize the chances of people seeing her have a seizure.
She hates the fact that at any given moment her body can stiffen up before her arms and legs will begin twitching. She then loses consciousness and sometimes doesn't remember anything about the seizure happening. They normally last around four minutes, but she has had some pretty bad ones that have lasted quite a long time.
She takes treatment every day which is pretty effective in controlling the amount of seizures she has, but it doesn't stop all of them. She was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was 8, after having multiple seizures in a row. She was in hospital for a couple of days whilst her body recovered, but the medication is working as it should and reducing the amount of seizures she has.
The thing that upsets her the most about her epilepsy is the fact she isn't allowed to drive. She has never been a full year seizure free and therefore, she isn't allowed to even learn how to drive a car yet. She hopes that soon her body will respond better to treatment, giving her long breaks between seizures. She has to go at least a year without one before she can drive. If she has any after that, she must wait another year before she is allowed to drive again. She feels like a loser not being allowed to drive.
likes:
horror films. watching youtube tutorials. dark colours. indie music. swimming.
lana del rey. joined up handwriting. fairy lights. putting new photos into photo frames.
the smell of new tennis balls. crunchy leafs. the smell after blowing out a match or candle.
black cats. going on adventures. oversized sunglasses. hair bows.
dislikes:
cabbage. her epilepsy. pop music. people touching her hair. people mentioning
her height/weight. wet feet. jeans without pockets. moths. the smell of bananas.
snow. people copying her. people with bad eyebrows.
positive traits:
brave. outgoing. calm. considerate. creative. patient. quirky. interesting. spontaneous.
responsible. humble. imaginative. freethinking. colourful. dedicated.
negative traits:
cautious. clumsy. possessive. secretive. vague. self-critical. gullible. rude.
can be selfish. holds a grudge. cantankerous. irrepressible.
Billie-Jean is close friends with Kier. They take a couple of classes together as they are both studying special effects makeup. The two look like they could be the most fashionable pair to ever wander around campus together. They get a lot of funny looks due to their huge height difference, but it makes no difference to Billie.
He was the first person she made friends with when she started at Metric. He has always been a great friend to her and she loves it when they get to hang out together outside of school.
playby:
@jessjanemakeup
lyrics:
Carmen - Lana Del Rey
playlist:
The Devil Within - Digital Daggers
Ride - Ciara
Ignorance - Paramore