Darcy Hollis || "Hollis" || Seventeen || Female
Although she is a cheerful type of person, the sort who only seems to frown or show distress when she is certain that no one is looking, Hollis is also somewhat lazy. That isn't to say that she spends all day sleeping and eating food, but that she doesn't tend to pay much attention to things if she doesn't like them. The young woman can only concentrate and put sincere effort into things that she is genuinely fond of, and otherwise has the bad habit of ignoring the things which she is bad at until they become a major problem. One example of this would be English. The young woman is quite gifted in maths, mostly because she grew up thinking of mathematics as several different types of brain teasers, but she writes essays that look as though they were written by a fifth grader. Had Hollis ever put any effort into improvement, this might not have been a problem. However, because she does not care, her English grades have been allowed to fall quite a bit, so that her marks are very disproportionate in various subjects. That is to say, she has high grades in math and science, but her English and History grades are just scraping by as average with Cs. It is funny that she should fall behind in the latter subject, given that she is now attending a school devoted to the clones of historical figures. Her brain appears to be better wired for things such as math and science, not for lack of creativity so much as for a preference for subjects in which memorization is a key element, and repetition is important. For the record, she also appears to be lacking in music as well, though she is doing very well in physical education.
Other than having a cheerful but somewhat lazy personality, Hollis also tends to come across as a bit of a tomboy and a tiny bit overexcited about things. She is far from afraid to get her hands dirty, and prefers the outdoors to the indoors at any moment. She is clueless in the ways of fashion or makeup, and doesn't really care about who is sleeping with who. She is the sort of person who lives in the present and isn't afraid to be jumping-up-and-down, grinning-ear-to-ear excited about the things she loves. Although she may ignore things she doesn't like, a major block in her growth as a person, the young woman is incredibly passionate about the things that she does care about, and can be slightly obsessive over some of the things. Although she is rather extroverted, Hollis is also something of a geek, and would happily spend all day focusing only on the things she is interested in. Her room is lined with movie posters of all sorts, being a movie-lover, and she can recite the lines to many of her favorite episodes and movies. She lives in the present and believes that worrying about the future is about as useful as trying to solve a math problem by chewing bubblegum. Of course, this means that she doesn't think very far ahead, and usually just makes things up when she goes along. Her personality is very go-with-the-flow, if only because she is perfectly content as she is. The young woman is only marginally ambitious, and being asked too much about her plans for the future only serves to freak her out a little bit before she tries to change the subject.
The Future -- Hollis has never really been the sort of person who focuses her energy on the future, and as she grew older developed the bad habit of pushing off any worries about what she would do after leaving school. Of course, eventually that choice has come back to haunt her, and the very question of what she is going to do with her life after she graduates somewhat terrifies the young woman. She is genuinely unsure of it but, rather than trying to face the problem, continues to change the subject when the question is posed. She tries not to think about it, and that is the biggest problem of it all.
Bees -- To be honest, Hollis is quite fine with most bugs. She's the person who slides spiders into cups to help them get inside, or lets them crawl up her arm because she finds them cute. The girl, in fact, likes bugs and animals a lot, partially because she spent so much time outside as a child, and therefore became accustomed to their presence. One exception, however, presents itself, and that is bees. Hollis is highly allergic to the sting of a bee, and it can cause the stinging spot to swell and for her to faint. She avoids bee hives as much as possible, and will break into a sprint at the first hint of one of the little bugs. It is probably one of the few things that she seems at all sensible about: avoiding the thing she is allergic to. Of course, she tends to overdo it with avoiding them.
L i k e s :
+The Outdoors
+Climbing Things
+Heights
+Bugs
+Animals
+Mathematics
+Science
+Running
+Playing Games
+Movies
+Comfortable Shirts
+Drawing On Her Tennis Shoes
+The Color Gold
+Buffets
D i s l i k e s :
-English Class
-Music Class
-History Class
-Being Asked About The Future
-Bees
-Busy-Bodies
-The Color Black
-The Violin
-Braggarts
-Losing In Sports
-Rainy Days
-Texting
-Nosiness
-Cats
-Having To Stay Indoors
-Cramped Places
This is a rather touchy subject for Hollis who, as previously mentioned, has been putting off thinking about the future for a long time now. When she was younger, the girl had hoped to become a musician, but that was less her own dream and more something that was expected of her, given that she came from an art-centric family. If she were asked about it at this point, she would certainly change the subject or, if in a bad mood, would seem to take a 180 from her normal personality and sharply inform the person who asked the question that it was none of their business. Perhaps she would like to be a teacher, but the young woman isn't sure that she would be very good at it. Another option, maybe, is that she would like to get into a good college to study and get a degree in engineering or mathematics. For now, however, she is living in the present only, and isn't entirely sure of what she wants.
D o - y o u - m i n d - c l o n e s ?
Hollis doesn't really have any emotions towards clones. She doesn't dislike them, but isn't overly enthusiastic about their existence, either. Rather, she sees them as people who just so happen to have the same genes as people who are now dead. Other than that, she doesn't quite understand the fact that many of the clones seem to have goals and talents resembling their predecessors- it strikes her as strange only because she doesn't consider talent to be a genetic thing. They probably chose the dreams and practiced those talents because they knew who their original person was, and that seems slightly unfair to them and the original person, because they aren't completely choosing their own dream. Of course, Hollis is hardly one to scold anyone on the matter, and therefore doesn't. She treats the clones like normal people because, as far as she's concerned, they are. You wouldn't treat someone based on their ancestors in this day and age, not distant ancestors anyway, so why treat a clone based on their original?
B a c k g r o u n d :
Hollis comes from a rather artsy family, in which every member seems to have fallen in love with some form of art when they were young. Her mother is a concert cellist and her father a critically-acclaimed movie director. While her family was never completely in the spotlight -until recently, anyway- they were well-known among many famous artists. Her father's movies drew auditions from A-List actors, and her mother helped to compose moving pieces for various films. The two met, in fact, when she was asked to compose the opening score for a movie that Hollis's father was working on. They could never love each other quite as much as they loved their respective careers, but it was very close to meeting that, and the two married a few years later. Their first child is a son, Hollis's elder brother, named Gregory. Gregory showed a prodigious talent for art early on, winning many awards and entering a special school for prodigies when he was seven years old. By the time that Gregory was seven, Hollis had been born, and had reached the age of two. She was young enough for her potential to be limitless, and it was somewhat expected that she would follow in the footsteps of her brother and parents by focusing in on some type of art. Perhaps it would be writing, music, acting, directing, or painting. It could have been poetry or dance. However, as she grew older, the girl showed no obvious talent for any of those things. As such, they enrolled her in music lessons when the girl turned six years old- first it was the piano, and then the cello. That order not meaning that she played both, but that she switched over to a different instrument. She spent no more than a year with each. The next instrument was the harp, and then the violin. She hated the violin with a burning passion. The next, and final, instrument came when she was ten years old: the guitar. They thought that perhaps she was better suited for a more modern instrument. Once again, they were wrong. It wasn't that the girl was tone deaf, but that she seemed to hold an apathy towards practicing.
She still hadn't exhibited any taste for another art at this point, but luckily the pressure was taken away from her as the youngest child of the family, Georgiana, reached the age of five. She began to appear in commercials and such, and people began to stop putting focus on Hollis to discover her inevitable gift for some sort of art. This was very fortunate as, to be honest, no such talent would ever be discovered. She was more of a mathematical person, the sort who liked to solve math puzzles for fun. She preferred running outside and climbing trees to sculpting things or running lines. Although she would never admit it, Hollis began to feel that she didn't belong with her family, being the black sheep. She loved them, and they her, but she couldn't join their impassioned talks on their respective arts. She loved the movies, but that could only get her so far in family conversations. So, she spent most of her time outside, playing in their rather impressive property in Oregon. She was the only one of the three children attending a normal school, and was barely making the grade in history and english, though she was a natural in math and science. People observed her family and asked her what she dreamed of being. That was around the time that Hollis began to fear such questions about the futures. She was eleven years old when she began to dart questions about her future, unable to give the starry-eyed response often expected of her age. Still, she was young, and people dismissed this, because she still had time to make these choices.
Of course, as she grew older, it became increasingly clear that her lack of vision for the future was not going to simply fade away with age. She continued to demonstrate a dislike for thinking about what she was going to do after high school, fond of many things but not incredibly passionate in following any of them through as a career. She has the aptitude to go into a math or science field, but seems uninterested in pursuing the subjects as anything more than a hobby. In a family of those who have decided on their futures from very early ages, she alone remains indecisive. It became increasingly stressful to be in this family, especially as Georgiana grew older and began to blossom in movies and TV shows, drawing more attention to the family of art prodigies. Most people began to know of Hollis's family, even if they did not actively follow art or orchestral music. Most focus was put on Georgiana and the family's father, and they were featured in various magazines. It listed the talents of all of the members, but for Hollis information was as basic as her age or the school she attended to. She was considered normal, because she didn't pursue her talents and preferred watching movies or running through the trees to singing soprano or something of that like. In an effort to try and escape the house that only emphasized her lack of ambition, she applied for a boarding school in the middle of nowhere, that had no obvious strangeness to it. She was accepted, and took it as a way to escape. That is her personality, after all: to run away from the problem. Thus, the young woman came to attend St. Kleio Academy.
C r u s h : TBD
T h e m e s o n g :
Simplify-Marina and the Diamonds
"Lately I have realised
That I need to simplify
Thoughts pass like ships in the sky
Do, or do not, there is no try"
"I am trying to rectify
Habits that clog up my mind
No time to be meek and mild
Live simply like a child"