Name: Ashleigh Jade Foster
Nickname: Ash
Age: 18
Major: English
Sexuality: Heterosexual
House: Theta Chi
Thoughts on being a Theta: "It's pretty fun...everyone in the house cares as much about their studies as I do, which is a bonus."

Likes:

• Reading - this is her biggest hobby, and she spends as much time as she can doing so. Mainly romance novels, as deep down she's a hopeless romantic, but not many people know that.
  
• Studying - this is mainly because she cares a LOT for her grades, so unlike her brother, study comes first.
  
• Spending time with her friends - Ashleigh may not be one of the popular girls, but she still has a small circle of friends and enjoys going to places with them, talking to them, and being there for them.
  
• Music - from a young age, Ashleigh has adored music, and this love has passed through into her teenage years.
  
• Makeup - mainly, she enjoys doing makeup for other girls when they ask her to, as she is skilled with such tasks and she tries her best to make people look even more amazing than they normally do. She does not wear makeup herself, as she's frightened of becoming dependant on it, but she is quite happy with the way she looks so doesn't feel the desire to alter her own appearance.
  
• Babies and children - while still shy, Ashleigh comes out of her shell when she is around children. Through spending time with them she can be silly, let her hair down and act the way she wants without worrying what people will think of her and who will see, which is something she longs for.
  
• Confidence - this is possibly because of the lack of confidence and self-esteem she has, but she is really drawn to those who are sure of themselves and see themselves as worth something. Not people that are arrogant or self-obsessed, but just people who are happy in their own skin.
  
• Bad boys - more of a weakness than a like, men who can be described as 'bad boys' are the men Ashleigh commonly falls for. And when Ashleigh falls, she falls HARD. She's not DEPENDENT on the people she dates, and usually she can't spend a lot of time with them due to her shy nature, but when she is dating someone or has a crush on someone like that, she does not see sense. Whether the boy is a thief, someone with a violent nature, someone who uses girls for their own personal gain, someone who is argumentative and angry with the world, or someone who is obviously going to cheat on her and break her heart, she is too naive to notice it and pretends it's not true. It is thought that by immediately falling for boys who are considered dangerous, Ashleigh is just desperately trying to find someone who'll just break through and pull her out of her shell.
  
• Fairytale princesses and dresses - one thing Ashleigh has always been obsessed with is fairytales. And the main thing about them that fascinates her is the scene in each where the heroine of the story transforms into a beautiful princess, with a tiara, jewellery, and most of all, the amazing dress each wears. It's because of this that she cannot help herself when it comes to dresses...if it's beautiful, she HAS to own it, and she still lives in hope that one day she'll be like one of those princesses herself.

Dislikes:

• Mean people - she spent her earlier years being constantly bullied, so now she just has no time for people with a cruel streak.
  
• Being bored - she spends a lot of time being on her own to begin with, due to the fact she struggles to make friends, and it's even worse for her when she's bored.
  
• Rap music - this is the one type of music that Ashleigh just doesn't get. To her, it's just noise.
  
• Feeling ill - feeling under the weather is a bad thing to feel to begin with, but for Ashleigh, it's almost unbearable.
  
• Rain - this dislike is mainly because when Ashleigh goes out and it is raining, she comes home soaked, cold and regrets leaving in the first place.
  
• Wind - for the same reason as the rain: cold, miserable and unpleasant.
  
• Bacon - even the smell of bacon is enough to make her feel ill...it seems like an odd food hatred, but she cannot STAND the stuff.

Fears:

• Being humiliated - whether it be by falling when there are people around, being asked out on a date and then finding out it was a joke or a dare, or just having people ridicule something she is wearing or something she is doing...this TERRIFIES Ashleigh and is one of the main reasons she is so quiet...she feels that if she doesn't associate with many people they will not be able to hurt her.
  
• Being kidnapped - not only kidnap itself, but also being mugged, held at gunpoint, sexually assaulted...anything that would result in permanent emotional damage.
  
• Becoming dependant on makeup - her mother being a prime example, Ashleigh has been around girls all her life who have worn makeup SO much that they NEED it to look pretty. And she doesn't want it to ever come to that for her.
  
• Having her heart broken - more than anything, THIS is the one thing Ashleigh fears the most. Being the romance-lover she is, she always feels like relationships should have a happy ending, and the scariest thing for her is for that not to be the case.

Personality: Ashleigh is a smart young girl with a naturally quiet nature, often found in the library or alone on the campus grounds with her head buried in a book. She is a good listener and likes to help others, and would rather be on her own studying or spending time with her small circle of friends from her houe than out on the town with some of the other girls in Fulton.
Often, people read her as just antisocial, but in fact she is just incredibly shy and timid, a factor about herself she wishes didn't exist. More than anything, Ashleigh just wants to be successful and live a good life, and one of the most important things for her is to get married and start a family with the right man.
She is friendly enough when people get to know her, but it takes a lot to bring that side of her out into the open. It's well worth it when you do, though.
As of yet, Ashleigh is still what can be referred to as 'untouched', meaning she is still a virgin. That WOULD be fine with her, but it's due to the fact that most people on campus are aware of it and make fun of her about it that she wishes she wasn't. Even though she is still only young, knowing that some girls on the campus aren't celibate and are treated more like adults than she is, along with the fact that she can be easily manipulated into doing what others want her to do, has been the major cause of her wanting to just 'get it over with' and grow up.
Ashleigh also plays acoustic guitar as well as the piano, and has always been very musical. Her favourite part of music is the lyrics, as she says that they're incredibly beautiful, and when they're meaningful, they're special.
Another thing she is is quite socially awkward. Whereas she can speak normally to people she knows well, if someone she doesn't know that well talks to her she will stutter, blush, possibly shake and accidentally make a fool of herself, due to her lack of confidence. She knows SOME people may find it endearing, but to her it's not. To her, it's something she should hate about herself.





History:Ashleigh was brought into the world as a planned baby, unlike her older brother Jace. Growing up, her life was relatively normal...her father a full-time worker at a local law firm, and her mother playing the role of proud housewife, caring for both of her children. She would spend the day with them, doing activities such as baking, reading and playing games until their father would get home and do the same.
One thing Ashleigh took to very early on was reading. When her mother would give her storytime with a book she had heard before, she would quickly catch on to the storyline and characters, often being very inquisitive and opinionated about events and such going on throughout. This would usually just be responded to by her mother with a soft smile and a nod, followed by more comments from Ashleigh and the cycle would repeat.
Although as a very young child she was quite confident and loud, when she started school, she began to become less this way. Not being used to spending time with a lot of other children, she seemed to be constantly left out of things by them in the classroom, so would usually just go off into a quiet corner by herself and open up a book. Often she would come home and, when asked about what had happened that day by her parents, would reply with an in-depth analysis of the book that she had read and all the different things that happened, more so enthusiastic about her reading than about playing with the other school children.
As Ashleigh transformed from a toddler into a slightly older child as she started what she had previously called 'big kid school', she began to become more aware of things around her, in particular, academic opportunities. Never one to shy away from doing something she was passionate about, she would enroll herself in all sorts of extra-curricular activities, in the hope that when the time came for her to leave school and start work, she would be well-prepared and be considered as better than the rest. This behavior was encouraged by her father, who would constantly pressure her into thinking about studies rather than about making friends and forming relationships. Deep down, she knew she would have been happier giving herself even a small social life with others around her, but was simply just too shy at that point to start forming friendships, so just continued to get her head down and study.
When she turned thirteen, Ashleigh started to notice something she had never before noticed: Boys. Whereas before she would have moved away if one attempted to speak to her, making a comment about how she would catch cooties, she now somehow WANTED their affection...WANTED them to notice her. Which, again, was something discouraged by her dad. So, still being a slightly rebellious teenager at that point, she developed a new-found affection for boys who would get her into trouble. Although none of them ever took any notice of her, she would use the imagination she had gained from all the reading and story-writing she had done to create multiple scenarios that would result in her pulling further away from her father, as it is PRECISELY what he wouldn't have wanted for her.
When she was considering moving to one of the houses on campus, the first one to catch her eye was the Theta Chi house. The girls already in that house when it came to pledging resembled older versions of her; girls who valued studies, intelligence and had the desire to do great things in their lives. To her, it was perfect. To her...it was HOME.