Post by Valencia Donahue on Jan 3, 2007 4:48:46 GMT 1
Name: Valencia Evinrude Donahue
Pen Name: Layla Hamilton
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Birthday: December 12
Class: Senior (12th Year)
Nationality: American (Vietnamese)
Blood Type: O
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 127 .lbs
[Yellow]
[orange]Hair[/orange]:
Valencia is a natural brunette, which is an odd color in itself for Asians in general, but is quite possible depending on heritage. At moment, her long hair that flows past her shoulder blades is blonde because she dyed it for her ex-boyfriend. She is currently growing it out and may cut it to get rid of her bitterness towards her ex.
[orange]Eyes[/orange]:
Valencia’s eyes are a silvery gray and as a result, her family thought that she was blind because gray is an almost impossible eye color, considering her entire family tree. The fact that she normally stares out into space instead of at whomever is talking to her also adds to the confusion until she made it clear that she wasn’t blind at all at the age of 10. Her vision is 20/20. Whatever the case, people to this day sometimes still think that she’s blind.
[orange]Build[/orange]:
She’s your average looking woman aside from her conditioned build. Valencia isn’t huge, but you may be able to recognize the results of her physical training if she’s showing enough skin. Her build is generally modest, meaning that her bust isn’t that big, and she’s glad that they aren’t. She’s slender, has curves in most of the right places, and has the body of a dancer, fit and built for performing in general as well. Valencia is athletic enough to take pain as it comes in the event that one of her stunts go awry. In relation to the rest of her body, her limbs and fingers are long.
[orange]Appearance[/orange]:
Not extremely picky with her clothing, she’s often seen wearing jeans, gaucho pants, and the like for her lower body and baby-tees, sweatshirts, and so on for her upper body. If Valencia isn’t wearing boots or sneakers, she’s wearing her jazz sneakers for arch support. Her ears are pierced and sometimes she wears sunglasses. She doesn’t like showing a lot of skin unless she’s performing. She’s fond of her black long coat and leather gloves.
Drawn by Tong Xian Tian
Colored by Kira Karyuudo
Drawn by Ran Ling Xiao
Drawn by Victoria Alexander
[Yellow]
Habits:
One habit that gets people all the time is her tendency to stare through people instead of at people. Call it her “poker face”. This usually led people into thinking that she’s either blind or just plain rude because she sometimes seems like she’s ignoring people, but the fact of the matter is that she’s really daydreaming and thinking to herself. If not the other two that’s mentioned, she’s actually taking in her surroundings. Valencia’s vocabulary is diverse, but sometimes it comes out in a garbled mess because English is her second language.
Hobbies:
It’s hard to sum up every single one of Valencia’s hobbies, but it’s much easier to say that she’s always willing to try something new. Other than that, she’s your average person who walks and wanders around looking for something to do. Whenever there’s nothing to do, during the day she may be performing with the street performers at Pier 39, which is located near the Fisherman’s Wharf and the docks where the tourist boats head off to Alcatraz Island. At night, she might be singing or dancing onstage at some random nightclub. During the weekend, if she’s not working or out on a walk, she’s at some indoor archery range cooling off, shooting things. Valencia also passes her time by taking pictures, sketching, and writing, especially stories.
Personality:
Valencia has an odd, toss-up personality, but her outward appearance definitely proves that not everything is as they seem. Docile and quiet, speaking only when she feels like it, people are often led to believe that she’s highly intellectual and a bit rough when she wants to get the point across. The fact of the matter is that she’s just wise in her own way and simply very meticulous. If it’s going to be done, it better be done right, thanks to her PE teacher, stunt coordinator, and her family background. A dreamer at heart, if she isn’t thinking, she’s daydreaming. Hoo-hah for her imagination and using it constantly for fuel whenever she writes or fights. She’s not only that kind of dreamer, but also the sort who’s always willing to keep going until she reaches her goal. When it comes right down to it, she isn’t lacking in personality, but just picky about who to show it to. It isn’t abnormal to see Valencia dancing in the streets singing her favorite song, or some other nutsy activity, as long as she thinks that she’s not being watched or that she’s in good company.
Extracurricular:
* Note: These are her current achievements and not necessarily all the classes she’s taking all at once. A few are classes that she has already finished. A good amount of them are extra classes she’s taking for college credit. Some are simply clubs.
Occupational Record:
Part-Time Stuntwoman
Part-Time Writer (still looking for an editor)
Dancer
Singer
[Yellow]
[orange]Fighting Style[/orange]:
Valencia has no real martial arts experience and whatever martial arts abilities she displays are purely from what she either made up on the fly or from what she remembered from the choreographed fight scenes she takes part in due to her stuntwoman occupation. In other words, she’s another one of those sorts who simply betters herself through quick wits and tackling learning curves in order to properly utilize her physical attributes.
[orange]Strengths[/orange]:
First and foremost, her encompassing strength lies in her ability to learn. Due to her past, she already has a vast library of solutions to accompany the various scenarios that has been pitted at her. But with the world constantly changing around her, the only choice she has is to adapt and that’s why she must learn from anything she comes in contact with in order to utilize such knowledge when it’s needed. Valencia’s memory is very keen, proven especially in her profession as a stuntwoman, so forgetting is almost impossible unless out of her own will.
Valencia’s sense and perception are extremely sensitive, honed especially since her childhood because her family kept thinking that she was blind. Sense being what she senses and perception being how she interprets such information, which can be applied to the above paragraph. By definition, an absolute threshold is the weakest amount of a stimulus that can be sensed. In example, to an average person, a candle flame can be viewed from a distance of about 30 miles away on a dark night (for vision) and the ticking of a watch can be heard from about 20 feet away in a quiet room (for hearing). In Valencia’s case, her absolute threshold at times can be stronger than most, particularly in her sense of touch, hearing, and sometimes eyesight.
However, the strength of her eyesight doesn’t come from her absolute threshold, but from her remarkable difference threshold. The minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli is known as difference threshold. In example for eyesight, if given two objects that are the “same” color but one is just slightly a shade darker or lighter, the one perceiving the objects may be able to distinguish the difference between the two. For Valencia, she uses this for eyesight the most in terms of motion. In example for her eyesight, she can tell if the person in front of her moved a few inches or not because she stares a lot.
Lastly, her physical strength, since they are a bit more “mediocre” in comparison to her mental strengths. Valencia took gymnastics and dancing (ballroom) since a young age, so her sense of balance is something to talk about, not to mention her acrobatic prowess. Her history as a ballroom dancer makes her quite capable of sensing her partner’s rapidly changing center of balance, providing that her partner has a good sense of balance to begin with. Physically fit aside from certain bouts showing her iron deficiency, she’s very durable and takes to pain “well” in order to do her job as a part-time stuntwoman. Thank goodness for being athletic through the support of her peers.
[orange]Weaknesses[/orange]:
As a longtime resident of San Francisco, Valencia only fought occasionally to defend herself and for recreational purposes. Rarely one to strike first, whenever she’s forced to, it blatantly shows how much of a defensive character she is instead of the versatile types who can go between offensive and defensive at will and skillfully. She often fought those who were weaker than or at the same level as she, so she never got the chance to broaden her horizons and strengthen herself by taking on tougher opponents. Her lack of martial arts expertise and the fact that most fight scenes she takes part in as a stuntwoman are carefully choreographed also makes it tricky for her to handle “real” situations. In short, and with little much else to elaborate upon, say, and explain, her fighting expertise is limited.
Aside from lack of experience, Valencia’s high sensitivity is also one of her weaknesses. Exposure to certain extremes may confuse her or leave her overwhelmed. There’s also the concept of Gate Theory, which suggests that only a certain amount of information can be processed by the nervous system at a time. In example, it is said that pinching your arm while your toe is in pain will help ease it because the information may flood the nervous system with messages so that the news of the pain in your toe does not get through to the brain. In other words, Gate Theory spells out “distraction” for Valencia if she’s trying to focus her attention on one of her senses. Of course, it’s just a concept, but by no means something to be ignored.
She also sometimes shows signs of having iron deficiency, causing her to blackout if conditions are too extreme for her. Communication problems in terms of grammar and Valencia’s speaking volume comes up once in a while because of English being her second language.
[Yellow]
History:
In Southern Vietnam during the communist rule under Ho Chi Minh, Valencia’s mother had it all in Saigon while her father lived in the countryside, surviving with his street smarts. When the time came that they had to leave the country, they both took to the seas in different boats, her mother in a canoe braving the treacherous Pacific while her father was crammed onto an iron ship. When they arrived in the US, they lived separate lives, her mother trying to find a way to live after losing everything and her father trying to get by, starting from scratch in unfamiliar territory. Valencia’s mother worked at a library, her father worked in a mushroom mine. Eventually, the two met in college, fell in love, and the rest is history. On the night that Valencia was being born, her father got into a car accident on the way to the hospital and her mother died giving birth. As a result, Valencia was an orphan until her aunt and her second husband, who were there to witness the birth, offered to take her in. This explains Valencia’s European name and surname.
Her aunt (Phuong) and her uncle (Paolo) were shocked when they heard from a doctor that Valencia was blind, but they resolved to raise their new child the best they could. They took her to a school for blind people where she learned Braille and even got a seeing-eye dog. The two were even thoroughly convinced that Valencia could “feel” colors by their temperature. The years rolled by and eventually, Valencia asked what, exactly, WAS “seeing” and once she learned what it technically was, at least what it meant to her guardians, she revealed that she wasn’t actually blind. She was just influenced in a strange, psychological way into believing that she was blind. This childhood experience began Valencia’s journey of trying to find out what it means to truly see the world as it is.
Phoung and Paolo soon tried to get in contact with the doctor that told them that Valencia was blind, only to find that he was jailed for malpractice some time after the big news a long time ago. They figured that it’d only be a waste of time to look into the doctor’s arrest, so they went to shape up Valencia’s missing childhood instead. The three did everything together like any family would, going places and being involved with each other’s lives. Valencia’s guardians treated her as a mature individual, letting her participate in discussions and listening to her opinions whenever she gave it. You can say that she was enthralled by the beautiful, surrealistic candor of the Cirque du Soleil productions she watched, fascinated in how so much can be expressed without words. This inspired her to take to the stage and her guardians were more than willing to support her.
Phoung and Paolo were fortunate that Valencia was quick in catching up with everything she missed in the past and were extremely proud of her being able to learn more than they expected when they enrolled her in gymnastics, dancing, and circus camp. Unfortunately, there were certain things about her that made it difficult for her to fit in with others, like how Valencia perceived her world and how others perceived it. This led to a certain amount of alienation and Valencia having few opportunities to speak to people aside from those she was familiar with. She grew up learning her mother tongue (Vietnamese) first with its many tonal chords and combinations instead of Americanized English with all its wonky stuff. Valencia understands it all, she just has trouble speaking it.
Life goes on and with teen hood comes life in high school. Hircine High, to be precise. In good ol’ California, Valencia soon became friends with Ruth, a lesbian, whom she stays with in an apartment at this time. Ruth already has a girlfriend so don’t get weird ideas. They were good buddies who accepted each other’s differences and early in Valencia’s senior year, she got a boyfriend with Ruth’s help. Her boyfriend was charming, good-looking, and the whole shebang, but often demanded much out of Valencia to ensure their relationship, like dying her hair blonde. She didn’t mind as long as they were together, much to Ruth’s chagrin, but eventually, there was going to be a straw that’s going to break the camel’s back. In this case, Valencia’s boyfriend was cheating on her. Again. Again. And again. One violent night filled with screaming and throwing furniture later, the two broke up and vowed not to come in contact again. This tossed a bizarre curve into her life after the break up. You know those fairy tale endings where everything goes good and right? As it turned out, Valencia’s li’l fairy tale and relationship had her thinking: “If love is what makes life complete to certain people, what IS ‘love’?”
No use dwelling over it and no use making a big deal over something when there was stuff to do and so little time. Screw love. Valencia began following her dreams a lot more closely, doing what she could to enter the entertainment business in any way she could to be a star of some sort. Drama clubs adored her abilities, but never gave her a leading role. Chorus found her voice majestic, but there was always a better singer. Whatever the case, she was rarely the sort to give up, so Valencia found herself a talent agent that recognized her gifts and this began her part-time profession as a stuntwoman. It was a shaky start, but her stunt coordinator (Rosemary) helped Valencia whenever help was needed, leading to the starring in many films for various stars as someone in the background or as a double for the leading lady.
Valencia found a job that she loved, yes, but somehow she didn’t feel satisfied like the bout of “blargh” after the breakup. She still aspired to be a star, but her flaws were too great to wherever she applied. At least the nightclubs and the streets (Pier 39) were more appreciative of her efforts, but she just wanted more out of life. Valencia then began to write in her free time, hoping to be an author some day, but her grammar problems still persisted, so she’s still searching for an editor. She takes pictures as a hobby more than in hopes of making it into National Geographic, but a girl can dream. And hey, the good amount of San Franciscans who know her can respect that.
[~Creator’s Notes~]:
This is the first time I’ve ever written a bio this long, or rather, one that demanded this much detail. I hope this meets your standards and please let me know if there are any concerns because I’m more of an RPer than an extreme-bio-maker-thing-person-expert. Yes yes, the history sounds plain and bitter, but I’m intending for the bare bones to be built upon through RPing out my character’s story.
Pen Name: Layla Hamilton
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Birthday: December 12
Class: Senior (12th Year)
Nationality: American (Vietnamese)
Blood Type: O
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 127 .lbs
[Yellow]
~{é~{é~{é}~é}~é}~
[/yellow][orange]Hair[/orange]:
Valencia is a natural brunette, which is an odd color in itself for Asians in general, but is quite possible depending on heritage. At moment, her long hair that flows past her shoulder blades is blonde because she dyed it for her ex-boyfriend. She is currently growing it out and may cut it to get rid of her bitterness towards her ex.
[orange]Eyes[/orange]:
Valencia’s eyes are a silvery gray and as a result, her family thought that she was blind because gray is an almost impossible eye color, considering her entire family tree. The fact that she normally stares out into space instead of at whomever is talking to her also adds to the confusion until she made it clear that she wasn’t blind at all at the age of 10. Her vision is 20/20. Whatever the case, people to this day sometimes still think that she’s blind.
[orange]Build[/orange]:
She’s your average looking woman aside from her conditioned build. Valencia isn’t huge, but you may be able to recognize the results of her physical training if she’s showing enough skin. Her build is generally modest, meaning that her bust isn’t that big, and she’s glad that they aren’t. She’s slender, has curves in most of the right places, and has the body of a dancer, fit and built for performing in general as well. Valencia is athletic enough to take pain as it comes in the event that one of her stunts go awry. In relation to the rest of her body, her limbs and fingers are long.
[orange]Appearance[/orange]:
Not extremely picky with her clothing, she’s often seen wearing jeans, gaucho pants, and the like for her lower body and baby-tees, sweatshirts, and so on for her upper body. If Valencia isn’t wearing boots or sneakers, she’s wearing her jazz sneakers for arch support. Her ears are pierced and sometimes she wears sunglasses. She doesn’t like showing a lot of skin unless she’s performing. She’s fond of her black long coat and leather gloves.
Drawn by Tong Xian Tian
Colored by Kira Karyuudo
Drawn by Ran Ling Xiao
Drawn by Victoria Alexander
[Yellow]
~{é~{é~{é}~é}~é}~
[/yellow]Habits:
One habit that gets people all the time is her tendency to stare through people instead of at people. Call it her “poker face”. This usually led people into thinking that she’s either blind or just plain rude because she sometimes seems like she’s ignoring people, but the fact of the matter is that she’s really daydreaming and thinking to herself. If not the other two that’s mentioned, she’s actually taking in her surroundings. Valencia’s vocabulary is diverse, but sometimes it comes out in a garbled mess because English is her second language.
Hobbies:
It’s hard to sum up every single one of Valencia’s hobbies, but it’s much easier to say that she’s always willing to try something new. Other than that, she’s your average person who walks and wanders around looking for something to do. Whenever there’s nothing to do, during the day she may be performing with the street performers at Pier 39, which is located near the Fisherman’s Wharf and the docks where the tourist boats head off to Alcatraz Island. At night, she might be singing or dancing onstage at some random nightclub. During the weekend, if she’s not working or out on a walk, she’s at some indoor archery range cooling off, shooting things. Valencia also passes her time by taking pictures, sketching, and writing, especially stories.
Personality:
Valencia has an odd, toss-up personality, but her outward appearance definitely proves that not everything is as they seem. Docile and quiet, speaking only when she feels like it, people are often led to believe that she’s highly intellectual and a bit rough when she wants to get the point across. The fact of the matter is that she’s just wise in her own way and simply very meticulous. If it’s going to be done, it better be done right, thanks to her PE teacher, stunt coordinator, and her family background. A dreamer at heart, if she isn’t thinking, she’s daydreaming. Hoo-hah for her imagination and using it constantly for fuel whenever she writes or fights. She’s not only that kind of dreamer, but also the sort who’s always willing to keep going until she reaches her goal. When it comes right down to it, she isn’t lacking in personality, but just picky about who to show it to. It isn’t abnormal to see Valencia dancing in the streets singing her favorite song, or some other nutsy activity, as long as she thinks that she’s not being watched or that she’s in good company.
Extracurricular:
- Psychology 2
- PE & Strength Conditioning (Year 4)
- Ballroom Intermediate
- Archery
- Gymnastics & Circus Training
- English 4
- French 2
- PreCalculus
- Chemistry
- Physics
* Note: These are her current achievements and not necessarily all the classes she’s taking all at once. A few are classes that she has already finished. A good amount of them are extra classes she’s taking for college credit. Some are simply clubs.
Occupational Record:
Part-Time Stuntwoman
Part-Time Writer (still looking for an editor)
Dancer
Singer
[Yellow]
~{é~{é~{é}~é}~é}~
[/yellow][orange]Fighting Style[/orange]:
Valencia has no real martial arts experience and whatever martial arts abilities she displays are purely from what she either made up on the fly or from what she remembered from the choreographed fight scenes she takes part in due to her stuntwoman occupation. In other words, she’s another one of those sorts who simply betters herself through quick wits and tackling learning curves in order to properly utilize her physical attributes.
[orange]Strengths[/orange]:
First and foremost, her encompassing strength lies in her ability to learn. Due to her past, she already has a vast library of solutions to accompany the various scenarios that has been pitted at her. But with the world constantly changing around her, the only choice she has is to adapt and that’s why she must learn from anything she comes in contact with in order to utilize such knowledge when it’s needed. Valencia’s memory is very keen, proven especially in her profession as a stuntwoman, so forgetting is almost impossible unless out of her own will.
Valencia’s sense and perception are extremely sensitive, honed especially since her childhood because her family kept thinking that she was blind. Sense being what she senses and perception being how she interprets such information, which can be applied to the above paragraph. By definition, an absolute threshold is the weakest amount of a stimulus that can be sensed. In example, to an average person, a candle flame can be viewed from a distance of about 30 miles away on a dark night (for vision) and the ticking of a watch can be heard from about 20 feet away in a quiet room (for hearing). In Valencia’s case, her absolute threshold at times can be stronger than most, particularly in her sense of touch, hearing, and sometimes eyesight.
However, the strength of her eyesight doesn’t come from her absolute threshold, but from her remarkable difference threshold. The minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli is known as difference threshold. In example for eyesight, if given two objects that are the “same” color but one is just slightly a shade darker or lighter, the one perceiving the objects may be able to distinguish the difference between the two. For Valencia, she uses this for eyesight the most in terms of motion. In example for her eyesight, she can tell if the person in front of her moved a few inches or not because she stares a lot.
Lastly, her physical strength, since they are a bit more “mediocre” in comparison to her mental strengths. Valencia took gymnastics and dancing (ballroom) since a young age, so her sense of balance is something to talk about, not to mention her acrobatic prowess. Her history as a ballroom dancer makes her quite capable of sensing her partner’s rapidly changing center of balance, providing that her partner has a good sense of balance to begin with. Physically fit aside from certain bouts showing her iron deficiency, she’s very durable and takes to pain “well” in order to do her job as a part-time stuntwoman. Thank goodness for being athletic through the support of her peers.
[orange]Weaknesses[/orange]:
As a longtime resident of San Francisco, Valencia only fought occasionally to defend herself and for recreational purposes. Rarely one to strike first, whenever she’s forced to, it blatantly shows how much of a defensive character she is instead of the versatile types who can go between offensive and defensive at will and skillfully. She often fought those who were weaker than or at the same level as she, so she never got the chance to broaden her horizons and strengthen herself by taking on tougher opponents. Her lack of martial arts expertise and the fact that most fight scenes she takes part in as a stuntwoman are carefully choreographed also makes it tricky for her to handle “real” situations. In short, and with little much else to elaborate upon, say, and explain, her fighting expertise is limited.
Aside from lack of experience, Valencia’s high sensitivity is also one of her weaknesses. Exposure to certain extremes may confuse her or leave her overwhelmed. There’s also the concept of Gate Theory, which suggests that only a certain amount of information can be processed by the nervous system at a time. In example, it is said that pinching your arm while your toe is in pain will help ease it because the information may flood the nervous system with messages so that the news of the pain in your toe does not get through to the brain. In other words, Gate Theory spells out “distraction” for Valencia if she’s trying to focus her attention on one of her senses. Of course, it’s just a concept, but by no means something to be ignored.
She also sometimes shows signs of having iron deficiency, causing her to blackout if conditions are too extreme for her. Communication problems in terms of grammar and Valencia’s speaking volume comes up once in a while because of English being her second language.
[Yellow]
~{é~{é~{é}~é}~é}~
[/yellow]History:
In Southern Vietnam during the communist rule under Ho Chi Minh, Valencia’s mother had it all in Saigon while her father lived in the countryside, surviving with his street smarts. When the time came that they had to leave the country, they both took to the seas in different boats, her mother in a canoe braving the treacherous Pacific while her father was crammed onto an iron ship. When they arrived in the US, they lived separate lives, her mother trying to find a way to live after losing everything and her father trying to get by, starting from scratch in unfamiliar territory. Valencia’s mother worked at a library, her father worked in a mushroom mine. Eventually, the two met in college, fell in love, and the rest is history. On the night that Valencia was being born, her father got into a car accident on the way to the hospital and her mother died giving birth. As a result, Valencia was an orphan until her aunt and her second husband, who were there to witness the birth, offered to take her in. This explains Valencia’s European name and surname.
Her aunt (Phuong) and her uncle (Paolo) were shocked when they heard from a doctor that Valencia was blind, but they resolved to raise their new child the best they could. They took her to a school for blind people where she learned Braille and even got a seeing-eye dog. The two were even thoroughly convinced that Valencia could “feel” colors by their temperature. The years rolled by and eventually, Valencia asked what, exactly, WAS “seeing” and once she learned what it technically was, at least what it meant to her guardians, she revealed that she wasn’t actually blind. She was just influenced in a strange, psychological way into believing that she was blind. This childhood experience began Valencia’s journey of trying to find out what it means to truly see the world as it is.
Phoung and Paolo soon tried to get in contact with the doctor that told them that Valencia was blind, only to find that he was jailed for malpractice some time after the big news a long time ago. They figured that it’d only be a waste of time to look into the doctor’s arrest, so they went to shape up Valencia’s missing childhood instead. The three did everything together like any family would, going places and being involved with each other’s lives. Valencia’s guardians treated her as a mature individual, letting her participate in discussions and listening to her opinions whenever she gave it. You can say that she was enthralled by the beautiful, surrealistic candor of the Cirque du Soleil productions she watched, fascinated in how so much can be expressed without words. This inspired her to take to the stage and her guardians were more than willing to support her.
Phoung and Paolo were fortunate that Valencia was quick in catching up with everything she missed in the past and were extremely proud of her being able to learn more than they expected when they enrolled her in gymnastics, dancing, and circus camp. Unfortunately, there were certain things about her that made it difficult for her to fit in with others, like how Valencia perceived her world and how others perceived it. This led to a certain amount of alienation and Valencia having few opportunities to speak to people aside from those she was familiar with. She grew up learning her mother tongue (Vietnamese) first with its many tonal chords and combinations instead of Americanized English with all its wonky stuff. Valencia understands it all, she just has trouble speaking it.
Life goes on and with teen hood comes life in high school. Hircine High, to be precise. In good ol’ California, Valencia soon became friends with Ruth, a lesbian, whom she stays with in an apartment at this time. Ruth already has a girlfriend so don’t get weird ideas. They were good buddies who accepted each other’s differences and early in Valencia’s senior year, she got a boyfriend with Ruth’s help. Her boyfriend was charming, good-looking, and the whole shebang, but often demanded much out of Valencia to ensure their relationship, like dying her hair blonde. She didn’t mind as long as they were together, much to Ruth’s chagrin, but eventually, there was going to be a straw that’s going to break the camel’s back. In this case, Valencia’s boyfriend was cheating on her. Again. Again. And again. One violent night filled with screaming and throwing furniture later, the two broke up and vowed not to come in contact again. This tossed a bizarre curve into her life after the break up. You know those fairy tale endings where everything goes good and right? As it turned out, Valencia’s li’l fairy tale and relationship had her thinking: “If love is what makes life complete to certain people, what IS ‘love’?”
No use dwelling over it and no use making a big deal over something when there was stuff to do and so little time. Screw love. Valencia began following her dreams a lot more closely, doing what she could to enter the entertainment business in any way she could to be a star of some sort. Drama clubs adored her abilities, but never gave her a leading role. Chorus found her voice majestic, but there was always a better singer. Whatever the case, she was rarely the sort to give up, so Valencia found herself a talent agent that recognized her gifts and this began her part-time profession as a stuntwoman. It was a shaky start, but her stunt coordinator (Rosemary) helped Valencia whenever help was needed, leading to the starring in many films for various stars as someone in the background or as a double for the leading lady.
Valencia found a job that she loved, yes, but somehow she didn’t feel satisfied like the bout of “blargh” after the breakup. She still aspired to be a star, but her flaws were too great to wherever she applied. At least the nightclubs and the streets (Pier 39) were more appreciative of her efforts, but she just wanted more out of life. Valencia then began to write in her free time, hoping to be an author some day, but her grammar problems still persisted, so she’s still searching for an editor. She takes pictures as a hobby more than in hopes of making it into National Geographic, but a girl can dream. And hey, the good amount of San Franciscans who know her can respect that.
[~Creator’s Notes~]:
This is the first time I’ve ever written a bio this long, or rather, one that demanded this much detail. I hope this meets your standards and please let me know if there are any concerns because I’m more of an RPer than an extreme-bio-maker-thing-person-expert. Yes yes, the history sounds plain and bitter, but I’m intending for the bare bones to be built upon through RPing out my character’s story.
