Post by meeshvengeance on Jul 3, 2007 15:43:40 GMT -5
&&General[/b][/url] Keen, Father - Mark[/b][/url] Keen, Aunt - Marie[/b][/url] Keen, Uncle - Phil[/b][/url] Keen, Cousin - Nora[/b][/url] Keen, Cousin - Dan[/b][/url] Keen.
Name Nora-Ashley Keen [Known as Nash]
Nicknames Nash
Age 17
Year Junior
Birthday 27th November
Zodiac Sagittarius
Clique Indie
Gender Female
Orientation straight
Status Single?
Ethnicity Caucasian
&&Looks
Tattoos/Piercings. Ears pierced
Hair Well, Nash is a natural light haired brown girl, but she likes to dye it a gingery or a red colour and maybe dark brown, it all depends really, it's long and naturally straight
Eyes Brown eyed but on a really sunny day, they may even appear to have flickers of amber in them
Height. 5 ft 5
Weight/Build She's not really too bothered about her weight, because she's wheelchair bound, however she has to exercise and doing physiotherapy, her arms and upper body muscles are well toned, because she manually wheels herself around, and she has done since she was 5 years old, so her arms are always in shape, and her torso is average sized, she's very curvy, in a good way though, not at all over weight, she's a great weight for her height and for being in a wheelchair, she's womanly, too womanly for you! Her mother is exactly the same, nice, well rounded and plus size and her husbad loves every inch of her.
Skin Tone white/tanned
Scars She's got 5 scars; on her hips and pelvis from a double hip replacement surgery she had when she was 11, and a scar behind her knee for a surgery she had on the muscles, the ones on her pelvis and hips are quite long and big, because she had metal plates inserted into her to help her hips, and then had them taken out.
Flaws Well here is a flaw, she's wheelchair bound, but it doesn't bother her at all, she sometimes looks very pale because she has Chronic Anaemia, she uses her energy up quickly. Also she's very shy and doesn't like to make herself up, because she'll probably sweat it off or something.
Other She dresses like an indie kid. Band shirts, jeans/plaid pants, shorts. She wears plastic Splints, that are lie shaped like her legs from the knee down and you strap them on, to keep her feet straight, instead of sitting like this /\ her feet will sit like this || (if you are still confused, I'll take a picture of splints and show them to you)
Picture see sig.
Celebrity Lindsay Felton
&&Personal
Talents Can play piano well, and is a good writer, she's witty and a good writer. Also, she has the talent to change the views of people, and she is a calm and patient person.
Bad Habits She's a nail biter, and she has a tendency to be a little zoned out, because she loves to read when she has nothing to do.
Hobbies Cycling in her special trike bicycle that she operates by hand. Reading and writing, playing basketball and watching movies.
Fears Falling out of her chair and making a complete fool of herself, being stranded, rats (eww) and falling into a road.
Wealth Middleclass family, mother is a military housewife, and father is in the Royal Corps of Signals.
Likes
# Loves writing, has always been a hobby of hers ever since she was little, she would write stories, just to keep occupied
# Playing piano, she can sit down and do it yo.
# Fizzy pop drinks, she likes Sprite.
# Military and action movies, her and Nora love watching those, they have movie nights and it is usually some Bruce Willis movie.
Dislikes
# Not being able to drive, she doesn't have the confidence to be a disabled driver, do you really want to unleash her on the roads?! It's bad enough when they try and get her in a electric wheelchair.
# Rats. My god she HATES rats and any kind of vermin!! And birds, like pigeons, she doesn't like them.
# Getting sick with colds and flu, it's so gross.
# Fruit juices.
Personality For a girl with cerebral palsy and epilepsy, Nash is pretty d**n well laidback. She's friendly and open to talk, her favourite thing in the world is young children asking what is wrong with her, or why she is in a ‘pram' she will explain it to them in a way they may understand, she loves their curiosity.
She is well adapt to her wheelchair, she has never known any better and she is a great example of someone who gets on with life as normal as they can, when really they are far from normal.
What really ticks her off, is the people, or more to the point the adults who stare, the people who should know better, who should be the ones telling their children to stop staring. Also, she hates people's first impression of her, they talk to her like she's deaf, and talk about her like she is deaf, like she can hear you because she is in a wheelchair and you're about 2 feet away making a snide remark. Also, a lot of adults talk to her like she is a baby and are very surprised to see she has the full mental capacity of a 17 year old girl, and has more life experience then these adults put together.
But she likes that people are curious, because it means they are open minded and if they ask what is wrong, she is never offended, she likes to explain it, in hopes that people's minds will be diversified. She is forever fundraising for charities that deal with anything related to disabilities and cerebral palsy.
She is deeply offended if you think of her as someone who needs to be bubble wrapped, let her bang into a door, it is nice of you to hold it open obviously, but don't outdo yourself, because in the real world she knows she'll not be treated the same, and she's readying herself to speak out about it.
Nash is dead set against discrimination of people with disabilities, and if something needs to be done, you know she'll be the one to speak, despite being extremely shy!!
When it comes to real needs, you'll see a different side of Nash.
Family Mother - Jo
Pets None
History Nash was born 2 months early, supposed to be a September baby, she came out in July, by a caesarean, in a hospital in Germany. It was a civilian hospital, the first one her parents could get too when they realised something was wrong, and Nora Ashley Keen was born.
She had to stay in intensive care for a few months, and her mother Joanne never left her side.
Her father, is a serving member of the Army, and was posted in Germany for 6 months, so when she was able to fly, they moved back to their hometown, of Northallerton, in North Yorkshire, to an Army base called Catterick.
She was transferred in a Military aircraft, in her incubator, and went straight into Friaridge hospital, where she lived for a few months, and it was discovered that because of lack of oxygen to the brain, Nash was born with Cerebral Palsy.
She attended daily to a children's centre for special needs children, called the Star Centre, however she felt patronised, she was there from the age of 4 to the age of 6, because she just felt like she was treated like a baby. The cerebral palsy had only effected her limbs and mobility, it had in no way, shape or form affected her brain and intelligence.
So her mother put her in the local school, but it wasn't ready for a disabled child, so she was taught at home.
She didn't like it, but she could understand her mother's apprehension on putting her into a mainstream school that wasn't well equipped, but Nash was defiant on not going to a special needs school, she would be educated at a lower level than what she needed to be.
When she turned 14 she persuaded her mother (with her fathers help) to put her in school, at the current time they lived in a small island off of Scotland, called the Shetlands, whilst her father was posted there and she started high school, it was a well adapted school, with lifts, and ramps and wider doors and she had many friends, though she was far from family members, she made a lot of friends, who just ignored the fact she was in a wheelchair, she even held a disability awareness day and students could spend a day in a wheelchair, or with crutches, or a walker or with a blindfold on, to better understand the life of someone like her, and the school took on more disabled teenagers, in the same situation of only being bodily affected, not mentally.
You can imagine how distraught Nash felt when her father was to be posted in Iraq. He was like her rock, because she wouldn't see him a lot, but when the weekend rolled on by they spend most of it together, as well as her mother, she was an only child, her parents decided they wouldn't have another child until they thought they were ready to, they had a lot on their hands raising Nash, she needed a lot of attention and help.
So to hear she wouldn't see her father for 6 months at a time tore her apart.
Even more so when her mother declared they were moving to London, which was her father's hometown, where his twin brother's wife lived, Maria. Maria is of Spanish and Romanian descent and met her husband whilst attending a formal evening an army base in Belize.
Phil, who is Mark's younger twin brother, is also in the army, but a much higher rank and is also away, in Baghdad.
Now here is something you might have been wondering. Why is Nora called Nash? Well, her father and uncle's mother was called Nora, and they both vowed to call their first born daughter Nora, they suspected they would get boys, either one or two at a time because having twin boys was a common thing in their family, so they thought only one of them would be called Nora. However, they both had girls, Nora was named Nora-Ashley, to be said like that, not Nora, but Nora-Ashley, however she thought it was too long and began to tell people to refer to her as Nash, for N-Ash, as that was how she would sign her name, N.Ashley Keen. And people thought she was called Nashley.
Her cousin, is called Nora Isabelle Keen, but she is the Nora out of the two of them.
They are very close, brought closer not just by their name but their fathers both out fighting, they are more like sisters.
So Nash and Jo moved in with Nora and Marie, in their larger home, they were upperclass whereas Nash and her mother were middleclass, though it didn't matter.
Nash's mother was deeply saddened by not having her husband around and it affected her relationship with Nash, she didn't want her to feel like her father wasn't coming back, and avoided talking anything war related, hard for a military family and seeing it all in the news. She would just keep to herself and keep busy so she didn't have to talk about it.
And Nash wasn't fitting in well at the public school nearby, people would come behind her and start pushing her, something she wasn't used to, especially since it was done out of spite.
So, once the summer is over, Nash will join her cousin at Atsuko Boarding School, as a Junior and her cousin a Senior, she is a little worried about how she will fit in, but it moving into the school in the first quarter of the holidays, in order to learn how the place is set out, so she can manoeuvre around with causing a traffic jam!!
&&You
Years of role playing 2 minimum
Sample Post "Seriously, if you don't hurry up, I'm leaving without you, I'm literally going in there and leaving you!" a nasel and slightly deep voice called, as the long light brown haired girl cooed, her hands covered in black tipless sports gloves, her arms thrusting forward as she maintained a safe but quick pace in her manual wheelchair, the spokeso fh er chair were covered in a navy blue Perspex disc, and it had a lime green circle around the edge.
Her cousin was struggling to keep up, Nora was heavily weighed down with books, and her messenger bag and a holdall full of dance clothes and her gym wear.
"Nash!" she whined, dropping her notebook and quickly leaning down to get it, her cute little low heel pumps, a baby pink colour that matched her thin hooded sweater, she had a white tee shirt underneath it, and she had a white clip in her hair, a bow on it, matching the bow on her school.
She was tottering along, and finally caught up with Nash who had kindly stopped wheeling around and waited for her.
"Come on, I could drag myself faster than that woman, come on!" she grinned, and wheeled at a much slower pace, beside her cousin.
"You know, I could walk faster than you could crawl if my knee didn't feel so crappy" she pouted, but it came to a grin as she stopped for a moment, and began to mess with the zip of her jeans, and began to walk again, juggling her bag at the same time as placing her holdall on the back of Nash's chair.
"If I carry that any further, my arm will fall off, you can at least carry it for me, seeing as I had to drag you up that staircase yesterday- Hi Tom" she said, smiling at a boy who went past them and then returned back to her conversation.
"I think I did myself some serious damage! Oh, your mom said that you need to call out maintenance for your backup chair, she moved it yesterday and saw the wheel was loose and two of the spokes have fallen out" Nora said, in her soft voice, pushing short brown hair out of her face.
"Sure thing, I think I need it replaced, I've not used it in a year and I've grown since then, time for an upgrade I think!"
Other Like Nora's profile, this is copyright to me, as these contain personal experiences and refer to my family members, I thought I'd give it a change and actual use something I know about, though neither my father nor brother are in the army anymore, and my dad's twin was never in the army and my dad wasn‘t a corporal but he was in the Corps of Signals (a sergeant major) and they did live in the Shetlands (before I was born with my sister), but the places I refer to, have crept up in my personal history, I was born in Friaridge hospital, and lived in Catterick, my brother was born with cerebral palsy and epilepsy in a civilian German hospital (though his brain was affected and he didn't get transferred back home) and friends of ours lived in the Bulford, I think my brother did at one point too, I do have an older brother who was unruly and rebellious and went to boarding school because he was naughty and because he wanted to be a solider :]
I thought it would be fun to mix fact with fiction. wow, a whole lot of useless information right there, but I just wanted to let you know, I'm not having a wheelchair bound girl to spite wheelchair users, I doing it to add a sense of reality and realism and a bit of difference, for I have never seen a wheelchair using roleplay character, no one is perfect and not everyone can walk :]]
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