CARELLE, VALERIE

[VALERIE CARELLE]

Player's Name: Veritas
Other Characters: Blaise
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Name: Valerie Ashleigh Carelle
Alias: Val
Age: 17
Birthday: July, 6th
Gender: Female
Sexual Preference: Hetero
Occupation: Student

Grade: Junior
Concentration: Performing Arts: Vocals
Class List:
-English 12 -- Russel Connor
-Spanish III
-Government & Econ.
-Statistics
-Physics
-Voice -- Chord D'Antoine
-Cheerleading
-Swimming



Hair: Blonde and perfectly natural, Val doesn't touch her hair with harmful chemicals. It has darkened some since she was a small child, but has still remained vibrant, almost the color of spun gold. Valerie likes to style her hair and generally wears it in a different fashion every day, whether up and off her neck, loose and straightened or teased and wavy. Val makes it a point to take the time every day to style it into perfection, not a single hair out of place.
Eyes: The girl has well-shaped, round, honey brown eyes framed by short, light lashes. For daytime Valerie outlines her eyes with a thin application of eyeliner and uses mascara to give her eyes more definition. She uses natural, light eyeshadow, just a hint of color blended into the skin. She will use heavier make-up if going out at night, or for special occasions, but generally her face is kept very natural, only enough to accentuate her own features.
Height: 5'7
Weight: 126

On the outside, Valerie seems to lead a very charmed life. She's popular, beautiful, captain of the cheer squad, and a talented diva on stage. Things seem to simply fall into place for her without any effort. Perhaps some people are just born being better than others.

However the truth of the matter is that Valerie works very, very hard to keep herself at the top of the ranks. A competitive and dominant personality by nature, she is constantly waiting for someone to cross her, or give her a reason to suspect them trying to usurp her.

She does well in school, yet consciously not well enough to brand her as an academic. Valerie passes with impressive grades, but devotes time she could spend studying to maintaining her group of friends and her image.

She has a personality she falls back on in interactions with others. There are very few people who know the true person beneath the pretty face and reputation. But all as well, she doesn't want people who could take advantage of her to know her innermost workings. Keep your friend's close, and your enemies even closer after all.

She likes to make friends she can control, but does so in subtle, covert ways that barely elude to her true intentions.

Her range of dislike when it comes to some "undesirables" in the school goes from, ignoring their general existence, slight annoyance, overt insults and gossip, to outright disdain and completely destroying their reputation. She's made people and she's broken them and brutally done so.

Her fear of losing her popularity tends to make her cutthroat, even though she masks this iron will well with a pretty smile.

Inside she really is extremely self-conscious and insecure. Valerie is absolutely terrified of losing her status to the point of harmful behavior. She developed problems with anxiety as a child and her precarious position only helps to heighten it.

Valerie grew up in a very strange and tense household. Her father was a workaholic whom she can never recall spending much time with the family. Her mother married young and for money and was extremely judgmental of her as she grew up. As a child she was never encouraged to do things on her own, was put on a strict diet and exercise regimen after her mother believed her to be getting too pudgy, was put into expensive private schools.

Her mother scheduled every aspect of her life, from when and what she was allowed to eat, to what extracurriculars she was to take. She was enrolled in ballet, had private tutors for art, French, piano and voice lessons. She was not allowed to make her own friends, never had time for friends.

It was like jail. She developed an intense and deep hatred for her mother who never seemed satisfied with her despite everything she accomplished. She was a very emotionally distant child and as she grew older she came to a breaking point.

She was quite young when she developed an anxiety disorder, brought on by all the stress and expectations she was constantly expected to reach. Her only escape was through music.

Her voice teacher saw the quiet desperation in which she lived her life and taught her to express herself through music, through singing. Instead of the classics and the arias her mother wanted her to learn, she was suddenly introduced to the world of Lena Horne, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, and Sarah Brightman.

Singing opened a door to an entirely new world for Valerie, she could truly be herself in the moment of a song, no walls, no pretense. It was from then on she was determined to become a famous singer, because it was something she wanted and not something her mother wanted for her.

As she grew older her mother grew less interested in molding her into the perfect daughter as she got more and more caught up in her affairs and disgusting spending habits.

Refuge came to Valerie in the form of Lux Lucis, she wanted nothing more than to get out of her oppressive house and it was child's play convincing her father to let her attend. She always got her way with him, he had very much fallen into the trap of trying to give her things instead of spending time with her.

Much of her obsession with her status stems from the life and habits she lived throughout her childhood. Losing everything and becoming obsolete scares her above anything else.

Some habits die hard.

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Signed: Veritas