Post by aster on Jul 7, 2005 22:24:42 GMT -5
Character Common Name: Elizabeth Dale Eaton; prefers going by Dale
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Position in School: Sophomore, with double majors in Marine Biology and English
Appearance:
Hair color: Light brown with streaks of lighter blonde in it, just past the shoulders
Eye color: Dark brown
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 125 lb.
Dale's appearance is 2 parts plain and functional, 1 part a mild attempt at cute. While for the most part she sticks with pants and sweaters or t shirts with sneakers [perfect outfits for going out exploring and observational research], she does keep her hair neat, always make sure her clothes are clean and pressed.
She generally wears her hair up, bangs parted to the side since because she's growing them out, they're too long to have in her face, but too short to pull back into a ponytail. Other days she'll wear it back in hairclips. Reading glasses for when she's studying, a pair of oval shaped, black rimmed frames. She's got a slim, wiry build to her, mainly from being out all day 'gallavanting about as it were' either reading or taking water samples for her biology studies or gathering odd bits of things like rocks or bird feathers or eggshells or seashells, or swimming.
Scar wise, she's got a few.
The various nicks and scrapes on her knees from falls on rocks as a girl, a few places on her hands where she accidentally cut herself with a scalpel during dissection [Dale isn't terribly nimble with everything. Cameras yes, sharp objects no. She wears thicker gloves than those wimpy little plastic ones now]. She has an ovular face, tapering just a bit with a wide forehead, expressive eyebrows that she can happily wiggle, and thin lips that can split into a wide smile whenever she's happy or laughing.
Thanks to being out in the sun during the day, Dale tends to get a bit of a dark tan [and freckles on her nose] during the spring in summer months, lightening in the fall and winter.
Particularly susceptible to cold, you can ensure the day after the first frost she'll be wearing nice wool gloves in any and all places deemed too cold for her fingers to take it. She got really good at writing with her fingers gloved because of this thankfully. In terms of piercings and markings like tattoos, while she doesn't have any of the latter, she does have two cartilage piercings in each ear, and one in each lobe, usually adorned with small gold studs or tiny hoops.
Personality:
Dale's personality and opinions have always been a mix of cheerful whimsy mixed with scientific fact. While on the one hand she finds a bit of wonder in the mechanics of biology and how things live and work, she is laidback and open enough that she's come to terms these days with the truth that science and logic can't possibly explain everything.
She came to terms with this when she first started studying marine biology and read the works of some of the very researchers and scientists she'd admired when she was a teenager. What she found is most of them analyzed living creatures as if they were just mindless drones, obeying the whims of hormones, with no real thoughts or feelings of their own.
Something Dale found well, rather insulting.
Sure, people were at the top of the food chain and evolution and what not, thanks to some luck and a bit of ingenuity. However merely calling all beasts dumb brutes with no real type of intelligence besides some baseline, or assuming an animal would only act intelligently if there was a fish in it for them [since a lot of intelligence studies do take place in water parks, and frankly, living in a giant fishbowl probably didn't stimulate much interest in anything] was well, downright egotistical and narrow minded.
In Dale's mind the animal world held just as much emotion and meaning to at least some animals. Like dolphins. How could creatures that required so much trust and faith in their fellow companions to just survive every day possibly be mindless and stupid and uncaring? It simply did not add up right to her.
Then again, a lot of what people tended to think when it came to environmental problems was pretty narrow minded and egotistical. Don't even get her started on the stupidity of the American government's head of the EPA and the fact they took several threatened species out of federal protection. It sort of nags her a bit; she's fairly passionate about issues that involve the environment and nature, but she's also not about to beat her opinions into another person's head just because they disagree with her.
After all, it's a free world, and she's got better things to do than going around converting everyone else to her set of opinions. But depending on the kind of person she's talking with, she will have to bite back the urge to get angry with them as she can't stand people who are either extremely narrow minded or just caustic to views differing their own..
Aside from when she gets in a heady discussion about things she cares a lot about, publicly Dale is the epitome of a cheerful dreamer, striving to for her proverbial Everest and a tad anxious about what'll happen when she gets there. Doing her best to keep an open mind in all situations she finds leaves her very accepting at both trying new things and meeting new people, something she generally enjoys. People who've known her a short time generally find her pleasant and engaging to talk to, almost excitable depending on the subject.
Others who have known her longer also find she is rather scrutinizing and analytical of things that fascinate down to the smallest detail, but are quite glad to know that the genial personality she shows to everyone isn't just a facade.
In private she's quiet and introverted, speculating on everything from people she knows, some interesting new article she's read, or pouring over some literature she just bought. While she loves to go exploring and roaming outside during the day, when twilight comes around she's more for turning in early and having a quiet evening at home than to go out carousing.
Beer she never cared for since the smell makes her queasy, and she has a wicked weakness for curling up on her bed with any sort of feel good movie and some bagels with cream cheese when she doesn't have any schoolwork to do, or turning on a cd player with some quiet piano tracks and opening a good book. It's not that she's shy or not outgoing; she's just more of a homebody than a wanderer, though she's good at making anywhere she stays for a specific length of time a home for herself.
A great of doing that is by collecting odd things she finds around her area. Whether it's bits of rocks, bird feathers or egg shells, or maybe pebbles from the beach, if it catches Dale's eye, odds are she'll be pocketing it and taking it home. Despite these odd collections, she's actually pretty organized, having gotten more efficient about storing and caring for her treasures over the years.
Save for the bird feathers that get pressed and placed in an album [usually on a page with info about the bird it's from if she already has a feather like it, if not she starts a new page], the rocks and other things get put on different shelves, the eggs in a tacklebox from a hunting and fishing store she bought since it suited her needs perfectly.
Dale is also completely fearless of animals of any kind. In the entirety of her two decades of life, what with all the different animals she'd seen or come near to or owned as a pet, not once has she been bitten, harmed or threatened by a one of them, be they domesticated or wild. Something in her nature just strikes them as very open and calming and since animals tend to react more from fear when they sense it, they generally quiet down when they don't feel like there is anything to be afraid of.
Being human of course, Dale's pretty good with most forms of technology, and has a cellphone and a new computer her dad gave her for her 20th birthday. Other than those, her tv and vcr, and camera for photo observations, Dale tends to be pretty low tech. If anything it seems so much MORE work to get the hang of a million and one different gadgets that could break on you rather than keeping it simple.
Likes: Marine animals, photography, movies, bagels, the great outdoors, the ocean, tidal pools, stars, good conversation, people she can talk to and keep it fun and casual, hiking or trekking, pets, collecting odd knickknacks, quiet evenings, literature, climbing trees
Dislikes: Narrowminded people, unnecessary cruelty to animals, discussions that are more name calling and slander than intelligent argumenting, being lost in the literal and mental sense. She fears graduating and finding whatever hard work she does either gets ignored, or not taken seriously because it doesn't conform with everyone else's views. Also fears that by the time she graduates there won't be much of an ocean left to explore and take joy in.
Magic Capabilities:
If Dale had any latent magical power, it'd more than likely be a close affinity with animals. She's always felt close to living creatures in a way, reacting to them with a mix of joy and curious wonder. If she's walking across campus and happens to spot a mother bird feeding her young, odds are she's going to stand there and watch for a few minutes until she either reminds herself of something important she has to do, or finds something else to watch.
She's also never been afraid of other animals; due to her father also being a marine biologist, she's gone out on trips with him many a time, and even 'met' her first dolphin when she was just 5 years old. To this day she'll swear Munchkin swam over and hung out around the boat just to see her and refused to leave until Dale waved or spoke to the little dolphin, at least a phrase or two.
She's not entirely closeminded to the idea of magic and elves and the like, not to the point where she'd vehemently deny such things could never exist. But at the same time, given the time she's living in and being raised in a scientific community, she can't help but also question how such things COULD exist.
More than likely if she ever saw any proof of such things, she'd be readily accepting, since it's not like a person can deny what's so blatantly right there in front of their faces. After all, people believe giant squid exist, and all anyone's ever seen of them are bits of decayed corpses that wash up on beaches. If squids are allowed to exist, then if an elf walked up to her, pointy ears and the whole shebang, surely they too exist.
Personal and Family History:
Born in Britain early February of 1984, Elizabeth Dale Eaton came into to the world to proud parents world renowned marine biologists Ashley and Kennard Eaton, a rosey cheeked baby girl, and their only child, and her full name resulting from Elizabeth being their choice to name a girl, and Dale if it was a boy.
Good thing she wasn't born a boy because the middle name of Elizabeth might have caused a few problems in grade school. Her father, well known and published in scientific circles as an expert on cetacean and pinniped behaviour, took time off from some of his projects that were further from home than others until Dale was about the age of four, and from that day Dale's life was one of world travel and an exposure to so many different kinds of people it was almost dizzying to imagine.
First was the time spent in New Zealand, from the time she was four until she was 10, studying Dusky dolphins, listening to killer whales call at night, or occasionally spotting Minke whales headed to Australia. Aside from the obvious enrichment of science in her life, her parents also encouraged other outlets; particularly reading. It was a good hobby to have when one only had so long of a stay in different parts of the world, and the Eaton family library had a range of books from science fiction to history to high fantasy.
The one that was gladly lacking was romance, which her mother remarked more than once wasn't much more than porn soap operas on paper. Dale took quite a liking to reading books involving animals in some way; Watership Down and Anne MacCaffrey's Dragonrider series are both regarded rather fondly by her as a result, among other works like Black Beauty. It also inspired her to be more eager to talk to people and learn about them, almost analyzing what bits of their lives they shared with her as closely as her parents did their dolphin data or journal research.
Once her dad wrapped up there, Patagonia Argentina became her next home, learning Spanish while she was there and adopting her first pet in a cranky armadillo that wandered around their research station turned home. He became a pet when he started coming by for scraps every night, and was named Bernardo after one of her father's assistants who shared a similar cranky temperament.
The dry desert climate was a stark contrast to the misty green lands of New Zealand, but the people were friendly and welcoming to anyone new, practically eager to make strangers feel at home. They stayed there all too short a time [2 years], and headed back to Britain.
Coming home to the damp and coldly moist land where she was birthed was a bit of a shock for Dale at first. Where all her classmates before had been wild and out of doors at all times to go exploring or fishing, or to swim, the students attending school with her now were almost reserved, miniature adults in some ways.
They were hard to win over at first, but childish curiousity eventually won over some of them. Though even that close circle of friends at times had to stare at her oddly when she reveled in the days it rained. Spending all that time in Patagonia in the dry 100 degree weather made her appreciate the sensation of a good rain. Just as Dale had settled herself down nicely in Britain again, her parents had to pick her up and transplant her, this time to Alaska to study seals and humpback whales. If there's one place Dale has vowed to never live again, it's Alaska. Way way way way too cold.
She finished out high school in Juno, and took some community college courses while there before trying to pick universities to apply for. After selecting a handful of colleges in a smattering of places around the globe, and getting accepted by a number of them, she politely declined all but the one nearest to her birthland, Esras University. As enjoyable as it'd always been to travel and see different parts of the world, Dale by now is quite ready to settle down for a few years and get to know a land that calls her its citizen yet she barely knows.
She also knew, from personally witnessing the workings of the world of marine biology firsthand, that it would bode well for her to have some sort of Plan B to fall back on in case following in her mom and dad's footsteps proved less than fruitful, or just plain didn't pan out for her. Calling back on a life spent meeting people and learning their stories, as well as reading all sorts of written works, she chose English, if mainly for its flexibility and applicability to a multitude of jobs.
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Species: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Position in School: Sophomore, with double majors in Marine Biology and English
Appearance:
Hair color: Light brown with streaks of lighter blonde in it, just past the shoulders
Eye color: Dark brown
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 125 lb.
Dale's appearance is 2 parts plain and functional, 1 part a mild attempt at cute. While for the most part she sticks with pants and sweaters or t shirts with sneakers [perfect outfits for going out exploring and observational research], she does keep her hair neat, always make sure her clothes are clean and pressed.
She generally wears her hair up, bangs parted to the side since because she's growing them out, they're too long to have in her face, but too short to pull back into a ponytail. Other days she'll wear it back in hairclips. Reading glasses for when she's studying, a pair of oval shaped, black rimmed frames. She's got a slim, wiry build to her, mainly from being out all day 'gallavanting about as it were' either reading or taking water samples for her biology studies or gathering odd bits of things like rocks or bird feathers or eggshells or seashells, or swimming.
Scar wise, she's got a few.
The various nicks and scrapes on her knees from falls on rocks as a girl, a few places on her hands where she accidentally cut herself with a scalpel during dissection [Dale isn't terribly nimble with everything. Cameras yes, sharp objects no. She wears thicker gloves than those wimpy little plastic ones now]. She has an ovular face, tapering just a bit with a wide forehead, expressive eyebrows that she can happily wiggle, and thin lips that can split into a wide smile whenever she's happy or laughing.
Thanks to being out in the sun during the day, Dale tends to get a bit of a dark tan [and freckles on her nose] during the spring in summer months, lightening in the fall and winter.
Particularly susceptible to cold, you can ensure the day after the first frost she'll be wearing nice wool gloves in any and all places deemed too cold for her fingers to take it. She got really good at writing with her fingers gloved because of this thankfully. In terms of piercings and markings like tattoos, while she doesn't have any of the latter, she does have two cartilage piercings in each ear, and one in each lobe, usually adorned with small gold studs or tiny hoops.
Personality:
Dale's personality and opinions have always been a mix of cheerful whimsy mixed with scientific fact. While on the one hand she finds a bit of wonder in the mechanics of biology and how things live and work, she is laidback and open enough that she's come to terms these days with the truth that science and logic can't possibly explain everything.
She came to terms with this when she first started studying marine biology and read the works of some of the very researchers and scientists she'd admired when she was a teenager. What she found is most of them analyzed living creatures as if they were just mindless drones, obeying the whims of hormones, with no real thoughts or feelings of their own.
Something Dale found well, rather insulting.
Sure, people were at the top of the food chain and evolution and what not, thanks to some luck and a bit of ingenuity. However merely calling all beasts dumb brutes with no real type of intelligence besides some baseline, or assuming an animal would only act intelligently if there was a fish in it for them [since a lot of intelligence studies do take place in water parks, and frankly, living in a giant fishbowl probably didn't stimulate much interest in anything] was well, downright egotistical and narrow minded.
In Dale's mind the animal world held just as much emotion and meaning to at least some animals. Like dolphins. How could creatures that required so much trust and faith in their fellow companions to just survive every day possibly be mindless and stupid and uncaring? It simply did not add up right to her.
Then again, a lot of what people tended to think when it came to environmental problems was pretty narrow minded and egotistical. Don't even get her started on the stupidity of the American government's head of the EPA and the fact they took several threatened species out of federal protection. It sort of nags her a bit; she's fairly passionate about issues that involve the environment and nature, but she's also not about to beat her opinions into another person's head just because they disagree with her.
After all, it's a free world, and she's got better things to do than going around converting everyone else to her set of opinions. But depending on the kind of person she's talking with, she will have to bite back the urge to get angry with them as she can't stand people who are either extremely narrow minded or just caustic to views differing their own..
Aside from when she gets in a heady discussion about things she cares a lot about, publicly Dale is the epitome of a cheerful dreamer, striving to for her proverbial Everest and a tad anxious about what'll happen when she gets there. Doing her best to keep an open mind in all situations she finds leaves her very accepting at both trying new things and meeting new people, something she generally enjoys. People who've known her a short time generally find her pleasant and engaging to talk to, almost excitable depending on the subject.
Others who have known her longer also find she is rather scrutinizing and analytical of things that fascinate down to the smallest detail, but are quite glad to know that the genial personality she shows to everyone isn't just a facade.
In private she's quiet and introverted, speculating on everything from people she knows, some interesting new article she's read, or pouring over some literature she just bought. While she loves to go exploring and roaming outside during the day, when twilight comes around she's more for turning in early and having a quiet evening at home than to go out carousing.
Beer she never cared for since the smell makes her queasy, and she has a wicked weakness for curling up on her bed with any sort of feel good movie and some bagels with cream cheese when she doesn't have any schoolwork to do, or turning on a cd player with some quiet piano tracks and opening a good book. It's not that she's shy or not outgoing; she's just more of a homebody than a wanderer, though she's good at making anywhere she stays for a specific length of time a home for herself.
A great of doing that is by collecting odd things she finds around her area. Whether it's bits of rocks, bird feathers or egg shells, or maybe pebbles from the beach, if it catches Dale's eye, odds are she'll be pocketing it and taking it home. Despite these odd collections, she's actually pretty organized, having gotten more efficient about storing and caring for her treasures over the years.
Save for the bird feathers that get pressed and placed in an album [usually on a page with info about the bird it's from if she already has a feather like it, if not she starts a new page], the rocks and other things get put on different shelves, the eggs in a tacklebox from a hunting and fishing store she bought since it suited her needs perfectly.
Dale is also completely fearless of animals of any kind. In the entirety of her two decades of life, what with all the different animals she'd seen or come near to or owned as a pet, not once has she been bitten, harmed or threatened by a one of them, be they domesticated or wild. Something in her nature just strikes them as very open and calming and since animals tend to react more from fear when they sense it, they generally quiet down when they don't feel like there is anything to be afraid of.
Being human of course, Dale's pretty good with most forms of technology, and has a cellphone and a new computer her dad gave her for her 20th birthday. Other than those, her tv and vcr, and camera for photo observations, Dale tends to be pretty low tech. If anything it seems so much MORE work to get the hang of a million and one different gadgets that could break on you rather than keeping it simple.
Likes: Marine animals, photography, movies, bagels, the great outdoors, the ocean, tidal pools, stars, good conversation, people she can talk to and keep it fun and casual, hiking or trekking, pets, collecting odd knickknacks, quiet evenings, literature, climbing trees
Dislikes: Narrowminded people, unnecessary cruelty to animals, discussions that are more name calling and slander than intelligent argumenting, being lost in the literal and mental sense. She fears graduating and finding whatever hard work she does either gets ignored, or not taken seriously because it doesn't conform with everyone else's views. Also fears that by the time she graduates there won't be much of an ocean left to explore and take joy in.
Magic Capabilities:
If Dale had any latent magical power, it'd more than likely be a close affinity with animals. She's always felt close to living creatures in a way, reacting to them with a mix of joy and curious wonder. If she's walking across campus and happens to spot a mother bird feeding her young, odds are she's going to stand there and watch for a few minutes until she either reminds herself of something important she has to do, or finds something else to watch.
She's also never been afraid of other animals; due to her father also being a marine biologist, she's gone out on trips with him many a time, and even 'met' her first dolphin when she was just 5 years old. To this day she'll swear Munchkin swam over and hung out around the boat just to see her and refused to leave until Dale waved or spoke to the little dolphin, at least a phrase or two.
She's not entirely closeminded to the idea of magic and elves and the like, not to the point where she'd vehemently deny such things could never exist. But at the same time, given the time she's living in and being raised in a scientific community, she can't help but also question how such things COULD exist.
More than likely if she ever saw any proof of such things, she'd be readily accepting, since it's not like a person can deny what's so blatantly right there in front of their faces. After all, people believe giant squid exist, and all anyone's ever seen of them are bits of decayed corpses that wash up on beaches. If squids are allowed to exist, then if an elf walked up to her, pointy ears and the whole shebang, surely they too exist.
Personal and Family History:
Born in Britain early February of 1984, Elizabeth Dale Eaton came into to the world to proud parents world renowned marine biologists Ashley and Kennard Eaton, a rosey cheeked baby girl, and their only child, and her full name resulting from Elizabeth being their choice to name a girl, and Dale if it was a boy.
Good thing she wasn't born a boy because the middle name of Elizabeth might have caused a few problems in grade school. Her father, well known and published in scientific circles as an expert on cetacean and pinniped behaviour, took time off from some of his projects that were further from home than others until Dale was about the age of four, and from that day Dale's life was one of world travel and an exposure to so many different kinds of people it was almost dizzying to imagine.
First was the time spent in New Zealand, from the time she was four until she was 10, studying Dusky dolphins, listening to killer whales call at night, or occasionally spotting Minke whales headed to Australia. Aside from the obvious enrichment of science in her life, her parents also encouraged other outlets; particularly reading. It was a good hobby to have when one only had so long of a stay in different parts of the world, and the Eaton family library had a range of books from science fiction to history to high fantasy.
The one that was gladly lacking was romance, which her mother remarked more than once wasn't much more than porn soap operas on paper. Dale took quite a liking to reading books involving animals in some way; Watership Down and Anne MacCaffrey's Dragonrider series are both regarded rather fondly by her as a result, among other works like Black Beauty. It also inspired her to be more eager to talk to people and learn about them, almost analyzing what bits of their lives they shared with her as closely as her parents did their dolphin data or journal research.
Once her dad wrapped up there, Patagonia Argentina became her next home, learning Spanish while she was there and adopting her first pet in a cranky armadillo that wandered around their research station turned home. He became a pet when he started coming by for scraps every night, and was named Bernardo after one of her father's assistants who shared a similar cranky temperament.
The dry desert climate was a stark contrast to the misty green lands of New Zealand, but the people were friendly and welcoming to anyone new, practically eager to make strangers feel at home. They stayed there all too short a time [2 years], and headed back to Britain.
Coming home to the damp and coldly moist land where she was birthed was a bit of a shock for Dale at first. Where all her classmates before had been wild and out of doors at all times to go exploring or fishing, or to swim, the students attending school with her now were almost reserved, miniature adults in some ways.
They were hard to win over at first, but childish curiousity eventually won over some of them. Though even that close circle of friends at times had to stare at her oddly when she reveled in the days it rained. Spending all that time in Patagonia in the dry 100 degree weather made her appreciate the sensation of a good rain. Just as Dale had settled herself down nicely in Britain again, her parents had to pick her up and transplant her, this time to Alaska to study seals and humpback whales. If there's one place Dale has vowed to never live again, it's Alaska. Way way way way too cold.
She finished out high school in Juno, and took some community college courses while there before trying to pick universities to apply for. After selecting a handful of colleges in a smattering of places around the globe, and getting accepted by a number of them, she politely declined all but the one nearest to her birthland, Esras University. As enjoyable as it'd always been to travel and see different parts of the world, Dale by now is quite ready to settle down for a few years and get to know a land that calls her its citizen yet she barely knows.
She also knew, from personally witnessing the workings of the world of marine biology firsthand, that it would bode well for her to have some sort of Plan B to fall back on in case following in her mom and dad's footsteps proved less than fruitful, or just plain didn't pan out for her. Calling back on a life spent meeting people and learning their stories, as well as reading all sorts of written works, she chose English, if mainly for its flexibility and applicability to a multitude of jobs.
[[Hellooooooo lovies. <3 <3 <3]]
