Board Thread:Creation Box/@comment-4199666-20141127172405

Gender: Female

Birthday: July 18, 1998

Face claim: Alex Steele

Family/Housemates: Her parents and her two younger brothers

Address: 27 Portsmouth Close, Miduna Beach

Personality:

The words most people would use to describe Christina typically fall somewhere along the lines of peppy, weirdly happy or cheerful. Some people (especially her teachers) would also say that she's loud and obnoxious, often interrupting things when she shouldn't. It's not that she intends to be rude, she's just used to growing up in a home where she has to battle for attention, so when she can get it easily, she loves it.

She's a very friendly person to get along with, and she's very outgoing. She'll often go out of her way to ask someone how their day is going, even if she's never met the person. A lot of her interactions are like this, or at least those out of home are. At home she becomes quiet and invisible, locking herself in her room or going out for runs around the town to keep herself occupied. She's developed a very independent lifestyle, doing everything for herself, even if that means being selfish at times.

History:

Shortly after Christina was born in 1998, her parents were already amidst a slew of marital problems. They were having trouble adapting to life with a new baby, paying for their apartment and trying to hold onto jobs, which proved hard when one of them always had to take care of the baby. From a very early age, Christina was exposed to arguments and stressful situations. If she tried to cry to make it go away, she only found herself being yelled at by a mother who was in no way ready to have a child, or she wound up being smacked. By the time Christina had started picking up the ability to speak, she knew to be very quiet when her parents were nearby, although she would babble openly when they weren't in the room.

Things didn't get much better during her childhood either. Her mother was pregnant again in 2003, giving birth to twin boys, Vincent and Andre. Christina finally saw this as an opportunity to have someone to talk to. In fact, she'd have two people. Her brothers didn't really see it this way, instead growing up very close with each other and ignoring her. Christina instead took a fancy to school where her teachers were forced to pay attention to her, and she could make other kids like her if she just told enough jokes or funny stories.

By the time she'd started high school, she was looking for more and more ways to keep herself away from home, so she signed up for band even though her music experience was severely limited to her occasionally singing along to the radio. She picked up the clarinet just because she recognized it from Spongebob, but then it turns out, she actually started to like it, and she was pretty gifted at it. She started doing odd jobs around the house, collecting different amounts of allowance from her parents, who weren't speaking to each other at this point, and saving up until she could afford her own clarinet.

She decided to stay in the school band, making friends there and keeping herself occupied. She also got a job when she turned fifteen at Benny's Café. She was hopeful that by working, she'd be able to save up enough money to move out when she turned eighteen and to buy herself a car, and despite a few emergency spending instances, she's been pretty consistent in saving up her money, with about four grand saved up.

Describe your character in a word. Neglected

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