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| Topic Started: Apr 18 2018, 11:32 AM (104 Views) | |
| General Goose | Apr 18 2018, 11:32 AM Post #1 |
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Don't cast aspersions on my asparagus.
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Name: Camille Amirah Bellegarde Gender: Female Age: 18 Grade: Senior School: George Hunter High School Hobbies and Interests: Writing, art, video games, film and television, reality TV, water polo Appearance: Camille has a tanned olive complexion. She has wavy, dirty blonde hair, that she grows to shoulder-length. She has an oval-shaped face, full and pouty lips, and a larger than average forehead. Camille often looks bored or sleepy, in large part because her green eyes are heavy-lidded and are usually nearly shut. She stands at 5’6” and weighs 165 lb, with a curvy figure. Camille tends to dress in muted colours and in plain and unadorned attire. The exception is accessories. She has a fondness for bright and eccentric scarves, and keychains and badges from her favourite video game franchises. Biography: Camille was born November 15, 1999, in Aix-en-Provence in France, an only child. Both of her parents, and much of her extended family, work in technology. Her mother, Zariya Khelfaoui, was born in Algeria, but emigrated to France as a child, and works in telecommunications engineering. Her father, Gaspard Bellegarde, works as a network engineer. They were an unmarried couple in their mid-twenties when Camille was born, the result of an unplanned pregnancy both decided to celebrate. Both had to put career and educational opportunities on pause, but with heavy support from their extended family and sharing the parenting duties, they soon resumed their work. Camille finds little to complain about with her home life. Zariya and Gaspard are both considerate, well-rounded parents, able to treat her well without spoiling her, make her academic and cosmopolitan without being pushy, and to give her an understanding of their talents and interests without forcing them upon her. As a family, the Bellegardes are all rather mellow and diplomatic in temperament, and so arguments are few and far between and grudges are never held. Often, especially as Camille has approached adulthood, Zariya and Gaspard treat their relationship with their daughter informally, trusting her to make her own decisions and treating her as an equal. Camille was raised trilingual, speaking French, Arabic (with a heavy Algerian dialect), and English. Her Arabic is somewhat rusty these days, due to relatively low usage. Camille has, at times, wished she had a younger sibling. Her parents were not keen on the prospect, however, and Camille was not so passionate as to ever push the case. The heavy involvement of her cousins of the same age in her early life, the bookish Lionel Bellegarde and the artistically inclined Farah Bennabi, has given her relationships akin to a brother and a sister. The trio were frequently competitive, albeit always on friendly terms, with gaming competitions, attempts to one-up each other with pranks, and treks through the outdoors. It has also played a strong role in developing her own interests. In 2008, Zariyah, Gaspard, and Camille moved to San Jose in California. Zariya had received a lucrative job offer working on fibre-optic technology. Gaspard was able to find a job, far beyond the pay and prestige anything he could get in southern France, developing IT networks for Silicon Valley companies. A few months later, Lionel’s parents moved to San Jose too, having received their own job opportunities. Shortly after, Zariyah and Gaspard, sensing the increased legal benefits and social pressure attached to marriage in America, decided to get married. Life without daily visits from her cousins was a massive change to Camille’s life, and so she felt, for those few months until Lionel arrived, like a fish out of water. While always somewhat introverted, able to amuse herself without the company for others, she became excessively shy during that time, made few friends, and performed poorly at school. Once Lionel returned, and visits from Farah became more regular as a result of her parents now able to justify more visits to California, her mood improved. Lionel’s family still lives in California, Farah’s remaining in southern France, but with holidays and online chatting, they stay in regular touch. Their relationship has changed from playmates to confidants, and they spare no secrets from one another. In early 2013, the family moved to Tennessee. Several professional connections of both of her parents had expressed interest in the growing high-tech economy of Chattanooga. Gaspard received several job offers building IT networks for new firms and plants within the city, while Zariya brought considerable experience to the city’s municipal fibre-optic service. The lower cost of living in Tennessee meant that, while the salaries would not be as high as an equivalent promotion in California, the money would go a lot further. Economic factors were thus a big consideration in the move. Camille, now far more confident and self-assured, handled this new change far easier than the one to California. Any culture shocks, she now found fascinating, and handling the new school environment was easy. Her cousins provided a vital support network whenever she needed it. Camille found another support network in the form of more nerdy hobbies, and these more introverted pursuits did help her handle any stages of loneliness. She had always been an avid player of video games of all genres, reader of fantasy and sci-fi literature, and binge-watcher plot-heavy TV shows. Around the time she turned thirteen, those interests began to turn into passions, and she puts extensive effort into finding and learning niche video games, watching and discussing cult TV shows and films, and reading genre fiction. She actively participates in the fan communities surrounding this media, and often has several ongoing media passions at a time. It was in writing fan fiction and drawing fan art that she discovered two more of her passions, art and writing. Camille performs well academically, but not exceptionally so. Due to growing up around an extended family filled with software engineers and tech gurus, Camille has an almost intuitive grasp of STEM subjects, being well acquitted with the basics. At her core, however, Camille is an artistic person, and prefers to put her knowledge of mathematics and computers to more creative and recreational uses, such as elaborate drawings or computer game mods. Physically, Camille is not the healthiest girl. She drinks and smokes, with an almost cavalier attitude to the health consequences. Directly attributable to this smoking is a shortened lung capacity and shortness of breath. She started smoking around 14, largely due to the influence of her cousins. Her parents are aware she smokes, and disapprove of it despite both being smokers themselves. They value her autonomy to such a degree that they avoid heavy-handed tactics in discouraging her from the habit, instead trying to nudge her into reducing her consumption by setting rules that regulate how much she can smoke around the house. This encourages her to instead go to the local park to smoke. Camille's parents view this as a win-win, for she'll either get more exercise or smoke less. Her parents do not discourage her from drinking, on the other hand, and will even buy her drinks for parties and the like. They believe it is much better for Camille to learn how to handle alcohol responsibly in her teens than to start drinking heavily suddenly once she's 21. With largely sedentary hobbies and past times, and a family which did not place a premium on physical activity, Camille quickly became unfit upon moving to California. Playing outside with Lionel and Farah had been the source of what fitness she had up until that point. Recently, Camille has taken up water polo (having mistaken the posters advertising it around school as being for Marco Polo), which has given her back some physical fitness. While her first experience was auditioning for a school team, now she predominantly plays at local community centres and clubs recreationally, her poor stamina precluding more competitive play. Camille has settled in well at George Hunter High, and while she is not universally known, she is usually regarded quite well, and has a circle of friends. In terms of personality, Camille is normally laid-back, subtle, and placid in her actions. She tends to react to most things with a dry wit and a phlegmatic sarcasm. She is hard to offend, hard to annoy, and never one to rush to judgement. This makes her an easy person for most people to get on with, but it is rare that she ever makes an exceptional first impression or an early great connection. Sometimes, this low-key demeanour is mistaken for apathy or callousness, and so can be grating. While quite muted in her own behaviour, Camille does have a taste for the dramatic. While not indiscrete with secrets or the sort of person to weaponise gossip, Camille does enjoy gossiping, and keeping track of school politics and relationship drama. She does not usually take sides or get partisan in such disputes, but instead uses it as a chance to indulge in her hobby of people-watching. Camille is a fan of sitting back, standing in the background, and just watching things play out. She finds this interesting for two reasons. Firstly, it is a source of great inspiration for her writing. Secondly, less nobly, she simply enjoys watching drama, in which she is not partisan and nobody really gets hurt. It is this same reasoning that justifies her fondness for reality TV, viewing it as a natural extension for her proclivity for people-watching. Camille is quite an intensive viewer of reality TV, staying up late to watch extra programs and live feeds, participating in internet discussions, and frequently watching international variants of shows she enjoys. She is a self-professed connoisseur of reality TV, able to talk at length about which shows have the best editing or display the most diverse and interesting cast of personalities, two things she considers essential to a good program. Camille is naturally very curious and inquisitive, but what invites her curiosity is usually a minor detail most would dismiss or overlook. She has an eye for mundane or rather trivial details, and often gets caught up in them, to the exclusion of the bigger picture. This eye for details means that, when she sets her mind to a task, she can perform it exceptionally, overlooking things others would have neglected. However, she can be poor at bigger picture things. This means that, to some people, she is viewed as being great at organisation, able to handle lots of little tasks adroitly. To others, she is terrible at organisation, forgetting even rudimentary tasks. Both perceptions have a degree of truth, depending on if Camille’s attention has settled on the subject or not. As she has gotten older, her interests in writing and art have taken a lewder turn. Eager to earn some money from her creative pursuits and already well aware of the more mature sides of some fandoms, she has recently started doing explicit writing and drawing, including taking commissions and writing erotic roleplay. She takes intense pride in her work, and while she does not mention it too readily, she is not ashamed in the slightest. Camille, bisexual and open to unorthodox relationships, has a live-and-let-live approach to life in general, including sexual morality. Provided it involves consenting adults, she has few scruples about whatever fantasies people have. She accepts the right of others to have stricter moral codes, but also reserves the right to argue against them. Advantages: Camille tends to be rather level-headed and stoic in temperament, which should help her avoid rash decisions and emotionally-driven impulses. Camille is academically smart, has a creative streak, and has a natural affinity for technology and mathematics. She is adept with details and often notices things others overlook. Disadvantages: Camille’s fascination for the trivial and mundane can mean that she neglects the bigger picture, and her unorthodox organisational style can sometimes leave her forgetful and scatter-brained. Her smoking and, until recently, relative lack of physical activity has given her poor stamina and agility, and rather poor lung capacity. |
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V7 peeps: Nick Ogilvie Ashlynn Martinek Bill Winlock Camille Bellegarde V6 peeps: Kiziah Saraki Bradley Floyd | |
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| MK Kilmarnock | May 12 2018, 03:32 AM Post #2 |
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Hate, hate, HATE!!!
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Hey Gianni, she looks pretty good but there's a few things missing. There's no mention of whether or not Camille's parents were married at the time of her birth or if they're even married now. This should be considered an important enough detail to the family structure to warrant a mention. As a resident of Santa Clara, I should mention that San Jose is prohibitively expensive, especially for any family with one or more children. Did the (MUCH) cheaper costs of living in Chattanooga factor into the move? It's hard to otherwise imagine a job opportunity in the tech sector more lucrative than Silicon Valley but this is an easy out to explain it, since similar wages + cheaper living costs = great opportunity. Though funny, the reference to water polo in the biography is very threadbare. We don't know if she does this through GHHS (do they have a water polo team?) or through a community center or local club. Water polo is also a grueling sport that requires a lot of stamina which runs entirely against her stated disadvantage of a poor stamina, so if she struggles in her efforts to perform, that should be included. Speaking of that disadvantage, it might be prudent of you to specifically note a shortened lung capacity regarding her shortened stamina, since that's largely how smoking is going to affect you. When did Camille start smoking? Why did she start smoking? How much does she drink, and do her parents know that she does either of these activities (the latter of which is illegal in the state of Tennessee because the drinking age there is 21). Anyway, I think that is a good start and once you get all this patched up, let me know. |
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V6 Tributes Spoilers, Ricky didn't win V5 Things We Say
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| General Goose | May 12 2018, 06:18 AM Post #3 |
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Don't cast aspersions on my asparagus.
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Thank you very much, and I have made ze edits |
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V7 peeps: Nick Ogilvie Ashlynn Martinek Bill Winlock Camille Bellegarde V6 peeps: Kiziah Saraki Bradley Floyd | |
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| MK Kilmarnock | May 12 2018, 12:05 PM Post #4 |
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Hate, hate, HATE!!!
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V6 Tributes Spoilers, Ricky didn't win V5 Things We Say
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