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| tetsucabra | Mar 17 2018, 06:00 PM Post #1 |
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Name: Kayla Harris Gender: Female Age: 18 Grade: 12 School: George Hunter High School Hobbies and Interests: Sewing, science fiction, fighting video games, anime, cosplay Appearance: Kayla stands at 5'5" and weighs 110 lbs, being borderline underweight but is otherwise perfectly healthy for an average young adult. Kayla is of African-American descent; however, her skin has a light brown tone due to her father being mixed race with Irish blood. She has a round face with large brown eyes, a small nose, and thick lips. She has some light freckles across the bridge of her nose. Her black and naturally kinky hair reaches down to shoulder length when straightened, but Kayla usually keeps it tied up and out of the way in a messy bun. She also wears rectangular-shaped black prescription glasses to correct her nearsightedness. Kayla tends to favor wearing cute clothes that are comfortable while making her stand out with pastels and bright colors that pop. She isn't one to dress up unless it's for a formal event that requires it, so on most days she can be seen wearing just a t-shirt and pants. In colder months she'll wear sweaters and hoodies, and she usually sticks to sneakers and flats for footwear. On the day of the abduction, Kayla was wearing a slightly oversized light blue and white pullover hoodie stylized after a cartoon shiba inu, a gray graphic t-shirt with the phrase "JAZZ MACHINE" superimposed behind a cartoon illustration of a robot playing the saxophone, a light blue and white plaid skirt that reaches down to just above the knee, white knee-high socks, and black Converse sneakers. Biography: Kayla was born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 30th, 1999, to parents Rodrick "Rod" and Angela "Angie" Harris, an account manager for an environmental remediation company and a freelance journalist specializing in art respectively. Kayla is near the middle of birth order with her 5 siblings: Jazmine (22), Octavius (19), Marquis (15) and twins May & August (11). Kayla also shares a home with her border collie Charlie (8) and her tabby cat Felicia (4). Kayla currently lives in a suburban area in northeast Chattanooga near her cousin Teddy Nunes-White who attends George Hunter High School as a senior as well. Kayla's home life is normal yet chaotic. Living in a home occupied by eight people with varying personalities, Kayla commonly gets into fights and squabbles with her siblings over trivial things like what to watch on TV or over bathroom rights on school day mornings. Both of her parents tend to stay out of fights their children have and use a somewhat laissez-faire parenting style to encourage their children to resolve their own arguments, although both parents can be disciplinarians when the situation calls for it. Regardless, Kayla loves all her family and would do anything for them if they needed her. It was from her paternal grandmother Arlene where Kayla first developed her passion for sewing. Arlene was a widow and a retired seamstress who worked as a tailor for most of her life, and she was always working on a new project when Kayla's family visited. Kayla would watch her grandma closely, and eventually she worked up the courage to ask her directly to teach her. Arlene enthusiastically taught her basic techniques when Kayla was 4 years old, and by the time Kayla entered kindergarten she was already working with a sewing machine with some supervision. Kayla would regularly make doll clothes for her friends and eventually she became skilled enough to make real clothes later in life, both for gift-giving along with being an economical skill for herself. Kayla was a social child who made friends quickly when starting school. However, she had a hard time with the concept of sharing and taking turns and was something of a schoolyard bully to the point that she would sometimes be sent home with disciplinary notes. She has become a little better behaved over time, however there are still occasions where she gives unwarranted criticism and has little tact for the words she uses when talking or confronting others. Kayla developed a passion for reading, specifically science fiction works, due to her father. Rod would regularly read to her stories like The Iron Man and The Little Prince before bed, and Kayla was hooked on the fantastic imagination of those kinds of stories along with how scenarios as extraordinary as involving aliens and technology could still be applied to her life. Since then she has started branching out to enjoying science fiction media in general, but nothing beats a good book about aliens in Kayla's mind. In 2007, Rod was given the opportunity to move from Atlanta to Chattanooga, Tennessee for a rival company that offered him a substantial pay raise from where he was working at the time. He talked it over with Angie and weighed out the pros and cons, and they decided to go through with the move. Kayla adjusted well to the move; although she was initially sad about leaving her friends behind and being farther away from her grandmother, she easily accepted the change in environment and made plenty of new friends who shared her interests. In 2009, Kayla's maternal uncle and his family moved down to Chattanooga from Newark, New Jersey as a change of pace, and Kayla was formally introduced to her cousin Alice, who would later change her legal name to "Teddy" after coming out as trans when Kayla was in the 8th grade. Alice would routinely hang out over at the Harris' household during the day while both of her parents worked, and eventually Kayla started to see her as one of her own siblings; the pair became inseparable. Octavius was an avid fan of video games; Kayla sometimes played cooperative games with him, but otherwise wasn't too invested in gaming. However, when Kayla was 12, Octavius bought a copy of Soul Calibur V; with the adrenaline rush of close matches and the highs and lows that came with winning or losing, her brother had unintentionally indoctrinated Kayla into the world of competitive fighting video games. After school and on weekends, the two of them played for hours at a time, either competing against each other or just watching the other play online matches. Kayla's interest in fighting games expanded into other territories like Tekken and Guilty Gear, but Soul Calibur remained as her favorite series. By time Kayla was 13, she started competing in local tournaments; although she has never made it past the first couple of rounds, she just enjoys the chance to get to play with similar enthusiasts along with the chance to fight over which characters are the best. It was also around this time when Kayla took an interest in anime, being influenced by her cousin Teddy and other friends who introduced her to shows like Death Note and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Her favorite genre is science fiction with series like Space Dandy and Steins;Gate or anything somewhat related, but she also enjoys shows that are mindless fun like Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. Kayla became concerned for Alice during the summer between seventh and eighth grade; she started acting noticeably out of character with acts such as purposefully talking at a lower pitch and cutting her hair very short before school started up again. These little acts eventually lead to her confiding in Kayla—Alice was transgender and identified herself as a boy. This revelation initially shocked Kayla, but she immediately hugged him and accepted the news. Kayla understood how important her acceptance was for Alice as she was the first person he had told; in addition, Kayla believed that her cousin and best friend that she grew up with would always be the same person, even if God had messed up with his physical body. During her sophomore year, Kayla jumped into the world of cosplay, feeling that her sewing skills were adequate enough to pull off complex costumes and characters with some help from friends for makeup options. Her first project was Hisako from Killer Instinct for a Halloween costume contest which landed her second place behind a participant dressed up as Harley Quinn. With this success Kayla started posting her projects online on Tumblr, and she started attending local cons and game tournaments in full costume to show off her seamstress skills in public. Sometimes she has even worn milder costumes to school, just to see if anyone noticed as a personal social experiment. Kayla has a mixed reception among her peers. She is well regarded with some of the members in the anime, gaming, and fashion clubs along with the K-pop club which she was dragged into by a friend; however, Kayla has her own share of adversaries due to her lack of a word filter and reputation for giving unsolicited criticism with the more artistic student body. She performs okay academically in school, doing the bare minimum and coasting by with C's where she can afford it. Her favorite subject is science as she enjoys learning about how the world and life in general mechanically works, and it's the only class she tries to actively participate in aside from art electives. Her weakness is in math where a lot of the high concept material tends to go over her head, and even when she studies hard she only skirts by with a passing grade. After high school, Kayla has no concrete idea about what she wants to seriously do for a career. She's considered working as a tailor or a similar trade as a day job, but for now she plans on attending UT-Chattanooga as an undeclared major. Advantages: Kayla's social aggressiveness and bossiness may help in group situations where someone must take on a leader role. She will likely take on high risk scenarios if the potential reward is worth it, especially if Teddy or any of her other good friends are involved. Disadvantages: Kayla may be physically overpowered with ease due to her small body size and stature compared to other participants. Her lack of tact may be detrimental, causing tension with other personalities during the game. Edited by tetsucabra, Apr 18 2018, 10:33 PM.
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| MK Kilmarnock | Apr 6 2018, 09:46 PM Post #2 |
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Hate, hate, HATE!!!
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Hey, Tetsu. Digging Kayla, but she is currently denied pending some changes and clarifications as outlined below: Kayla is of African-American descent along with some Irish blood from her father, and as a result her skin is brown but with a lighter complexion. < Lighter than what? Fully flesh out the comparison. Arlene was a widower < She's a widow. A widower is male. Since then she has started branching out to enjoying science fiction media in general, but nothing beat a good book about aliens in Kayla's mind. < Tense issue. You go from present to past in the same sentence. Easy fix: "but nothing beats a good book about aliens in Kayla's mind." In 2007, Rod was given the opportunity to move to Chattanooga for a rival company < Sorry to seem like a nitpicking dingbat, but where are they moving from? Did she remain in Atlanta from 1999 to 2007? I was born in Dover, NH, but I never actually lived there at any point in my life... see what I'm saying? Kayla became concerned for Teddy during the summer between seventh and eighth grade; he started acting noticeably weird and did out of character acts such as purposefully talking at a lower pitch and cutting his hair very short before school started up again. < Okay, so this whole paragraph has raised an interesting question with me, because I'm under the impression that when first introduced to Teddy, he was introduced as, well, Teddy, but this paragraph seems to be telling a different story. Was Teddy actually still Alice at this point or did Kayla just think he was cisgender and not trans? Whichever way you go is going to require a lot of clarification. I just want you to know the dedication that goes into this: I had to review exactly when Hisako was publicly revealed in order to make sure the timeline matched up for Kayla to dress up as her. Fortunately, all timelines are a go (she was releaved at PAX East in March of 2015, plenty of time for a Halloween contest). Everything else is good. So go ahead and run through those changes then drop a post and we'll try and wrap this up! |
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| tetsucabra | Apr 18 2018, 10:36 PM Post #3 |
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Sorry for the wait and thank you for the critique again, Kilmarnock. I appreciate your dedication to preserving the peace of the time stream; time cops are a thankless but necessary job. I've taken your corrections and suggestions and also changed a couple of things that I wasn't happy with myself; it's my own fault for trusting what I write at 2 in the morning to be good to go for submitting in daylight hours. Kayla Update v0.9.12.7 Let me know if there's anything else that could go for a touch up! |
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| MK Kilmarnock | Apr 19 2018, 01:31 PM Post #4 |
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Hate, hate, HATE!!!
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