Board Thread:Creation Box/@comment-4199666-20150127113649

Gender: Female

Birthday: January 12, 1996

Face claim: Jasmine Villegas

Family/Housemates: Carla & Paloma Sanchez

Address: 9 Cherry Street, Miduna Beach

Personality:

Dia is a very cheerful, outgoing person who has a way of making other people smile when they're around her for long enough. Since she was young, she's always had an infectious smile, and she's almost always happy. She tries not to let things bother her and usually just shrugs off people being rude or mean to her since she knows otherwise. She loves people with a sense of humour and she can joke about most things as well.

She's a very loyal and trustworthy friend, as well as being social amongst other people. She's always willing to put other people's happiness and wishes before her own, and sees other people before herself. The only exception to this is her dancing which she is extremely passionate about. Sometimes she can get carried away with dancing and she will constantly push herself more and more to be better, even when others insist that she is fine. She can also be a bit overly-competitive at times, and will be disappointed in herself if she doesn't win, although she'll still be happy for whoever does.

She is very extroverted and loves talking to new people and getting to know them. She won't judge people, no matter what and she actually genuinely enjoys listening to people's stories. She's great with kids, and other people she may need to be patient with, and loves spending time with them. She spends a lot of time at parties, though she doesn't drink or do drugs, and she is the kind of person who will try to remember everyone's names after she meets them, usually with great success, except in a few instances including one where she met two identical twins separately.

History:

Dia was born in winter of 1996 to Rita de la Cruz and Matias Sanchez, and she lived with her two parents as well as her dad's sister, Carla in a small apartment in Miduna Beach. In the summer of 1998, Carla gave birth to a daughter of her own, Paloma. A curious Dia asked where Paloma's dad was, but she was just told they'd explain it when she was older. Dia was very restless as a child, and it was almost impossible to make her sit still, so her aunt suggested enrolling her in dance classes. Her parents had picked up a job at a factory by this point and was working every day, but they decided that it would be beneficial if they could try and put aside money for Dia to take up dancing lessons. Dia started dancing when she was five, and it made her happier than anything.

Things were going great for Dia. She loved school and how many people there were. She quickly became one of the most popular people in her classes, and usually impressed her teachers as well as other students with the fact that she could speak two languages. Her first grade teacher even set aside an hour each fortnight where they would learn Spanish, and Dia would be asked to help some of the other students who were struggling. Her English, however, was nowhere near as good as her Spanish, and she needed a lot of help with that.

On the 12th of April, 2004, Dia was called up to the principal's office in the middle of the day, where her Aunt Carla was waiting for her with her cousin, Paloma. The factory where her parents worked had been raided by cops and they had go to court and possibly face deportation. Rita and Matias couldn't afford to pay for their legal fees and were subsequently deported to Mexico, while Dia was left in the care of her Aunt Carla. Dia stopped dancing for a while so that Carla could work out how to pay for things without two extra income earners around. Carla ended up taking in a roommate to live in the extra room while she shared hers with the two girls.

Shortly after Dia's twelfth birthday, Carla came into some money after buying a winning lottery ticket which gave them a bit of money. After buying a house and a car to take the girls places, as well as some new dance shoes for Dia, Carla put the rest of the money into a bank account to be used for emergencies only, and things slowly started growing brighter for them. Dia got back into dance lessons and after starting high school, she decided to try out for the cheerleading team after she'd spent a few years out of school popularity. Dia loved school again and loved dancing, and she became happier again. She got a job at Benny's Cafe in Miduna Beach when she turned fourteen and loved that for a while, but eventually quit when she turned sixteen when she got offered a better paying and more enjoyable job at the daycare connected to Miduna Beach Elementary from her career's adviser who thought it would be well-suited to Dia's talents.

She was happy to take the job, and also recommended that Benny hire her cousin, Paloma, to work in his cafe after she left, which he did. Dia worked her ass off, juggling between her job and dance practice and cheerleading, as well as balancing all her school work, but it eventually paid off for her, when she auditioned for a scholarship at Desmond College of the Arts for fine arts and dancing in late 2013 and found out that she'd been accepted. She also decided to dye her hair blonde after high school, and she's kept it like that ever since. She's also made a few new friends since starting college, and has plans to become a professional dancer as well as to travel to Mexico after she graduates and spend time with her parents.

Describe your character in a word. Sweet

How your character would describe him or herself in a word: Confident  