Don't Touch My Hair: Solange .Girl on Fire: Alicia Keys ft. Nicki Minaj Sweatpants: Childish Gambino . Black: Innanet James . Precious Possession: Anna Wise . Digital Kids: Vicktor Taiwo
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◢ ◢N I C K N A M E S ; XXX Her parents hate nicknames, or more of shortenings of her name. They like to say her name is too beautiful to be shortened so they only call her by her full name of several pet names from; Mon cœur (My heart), Ma chérie (My darling), and parents' personal favorite, Notre trésor (Our treasure). Her friends, on the other hand, have called her Rap or Rhaps for years since she moved to California.
◢ ◢A G E / B I R T H D A Y ; XXX June 29th, 2000, meaning she just turned seventeen before starting her senior year and which makes her 'Irish twins' with her older brother Malcolm. And this shouldn't surprise you at all is the fact that she's a Cancer. Loving, compassionate, artistic, and family-oriented. Fits her to a T.
◢ ◢O C C U P A T I O N ; XXX Unlike the lifers here at Buckley, Rhapsody has more jobs than most of them will have in their life. In short, she's a sculptress and has had several pieces sold from her father's gallery, Studio 97 and intern at his music company, also named Studio 97, she helps with designing at her mother's local couture gown shop, Vincent Studio 97 that has dressed the biggest stars for years, and Rhapsody is pianist/music composer for the school's music department and helps with the musicals and plays in order to help with her scholarship to the school.
◢ ◢E T H N I C I T Y / N A T I O N A L I T Y ; XXX
50% Somalian {Mother} : 50% Ivoirian (Ivory Coast, Africa) {Father} || Ivorian and American {She became a US citizen junior year in November}
◢ ◢H O M E T O W N; XXX Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Africa {newborn-14} but traveled all around : Culver City, Los Angeles, California {14-present}
◢ ◢S E X U A L I T Y ; XXX Rhapsody, no matter the rumors that have gone around the school a few years back. She is completely straight, no questioning, not curious, she is as straight as a line.
◢ ◢S E X U A L // R E L A T I O N S H I PXH I S T O R Y ; XXX In a relationship. Against belief she isn't a virgin nor has she never been in a relationship. She has only been with one person and they've been together for about year but started being 'more than just platonic', for lack of a better word, even before then.
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◢ ◢E Y E S ; XXX If there's one thing she loves more than her bright smile is her beautiful hazel eyes that she got from her mom's side with a mixture of browns and greens but she does have to hide her eyes most times seeing that she does have wear glasses and rarely wears contacts before she's too afraid that she'll hurt herself putting them in so, she saves that for special occasions like dances or when she's needed to impress someone.
◢ ◢S K I N XT O N E ; XXX Rhapsody has always loved her skin color. It is the perfect mixture of her father's dark brown skin and her mother's lightly tanned skin.
◢ ◢H E I G H T // W E I G H T ; XXX In photos, people assume that Rhapsody is at least 5'6 if not taller but, once meeting her you'll be stunned to realize she is barely 5'0 off the ground at an adorable 5'2 with a petite figure to match with her being only 110 pounds.
◢ ◢F A S H I O NXS E N S E ; XXX Fashion, despite her mother being a famous fashion model and designer for Chanel and her own couture gown shop you would expect Rhapsody to have some sort of cutting edge, trendy, and polished sense of fashion but that is far from the truth. Fashion has, to Rhapsody has always given her an to express herself through 'artsy' pieces that she and her mother has created themselves. She tends to stay away from the traditional ‘trends’ of the fashion world but loves to make a statement with their clothing often showing off her designing skills by being the creator of her own fashion, designing and creating their own blouses, hats, and jackets. More than that, she has a fashion all her own that's a mixture of bohemian which is what most people know her for. Her style can be easily be described as a fashion sense that focuses mainly on wild and intricate patterns and exotic texture creating a standout finish with plenty of tie dye, geometrics, chains, fringes, and other eye-catching designs. But, she mixes her bohemian and 'artsy' style with a mixture of exotic pieces from her and her parents' travels usually consisting of vibrant colors and intricate embroidery, and vintage pieces that always have a bit of African flair in order to always remember where she comes from which is always made complete with one of her dozens of headscarves, hair wraps, or hats that she has collected from all over the world.
◢ ◢O V E R A L L XA T T R A C T I V E N E S S ; XXX Rhapsody is way too modest for her own good. If you were to ask her what she would rate herself, she would say she was a 6, maybe a 7 on a good day only for the sheer fact that with being told since moving to the United States that her hair is 'too nappy' or that she would be gorgeous if she just straightened it or got some weave in order to give her hair some length, or her personal favorite when she moved to America, that she was pretty cute for a brown girl. But, to others looking at her from her parents, friends, her boyfriend, they say she gorgeous and is a 10/10. Not that anything they say will make her believe them.
◢ ◢M A R K S // S C A R S //XT A T T O O S ; XXXShe has a few scars on her arms and legs from a marble statue falling on her during her junior year of high school lucky she didn't end up hurt or anything but it did leave its fair amount of scratches and scars on her esp. on her legs. But, nothing too serious. She does have a huge scar on her right leg where she had to get the surgery done during her sophomore year. Other than that, she isn't like the other artists in her friend group. She isn't big on pain so piercings have always been the farthest thing from her mind but she does have her spectrum after taking a dare sometime last year but more than often has it filled up so no one can see it especially her parents. And with her not being big on pain, she doesn't have a single tattoo nor does she plan on getting any seeing that their against her and parents' religion and even if they are beautiful to look at and fun to draw for her friends to use as their inspiration she would never get one seeing that she enjoys living in her house and doesn't feel like being cut off and disowned..
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◢ ◢L I K E S ; XXX Singing ✧ Playing piano and her other instruments ✦ Jazz, soul, and R&B✧ Art esp. sculpting ✦ Speaking French to confuse people (or to drive her boyfriend wild) ✧ Finding a muse ✦ Her family ✧ Her idols; Nina Simone, Jill Scott, and Solange ✦ Watching fashion shows with her mama ✧ Her natural hair ✦ Her accent ✧ Red wine ✦ Adventures and Freedom ✧ Traveling ✦ Coffee ✧ Writing and Poetry {esp. spoken word} ✦ Being left alone when she in 'the zone' ✧ Her heritage and where she comes from ✦ Satirical comedy ✧ Passion and passionate people ✦ Cheese fries, her guilty American pleasure ✧ Sarcasm ✦ Netflix nights ✧ Dancing ✦ Her art studio at home and at school ✧ Cooking with her parents ✦ Classic Rock n' Roll esp. Queen ✧ Wearing little to no makeup except eyeliner ✦ Vintage clothing ✧ Composing music ✦ Smiling and making other laugh ✧ Her brother, Malcolm (Most of the time) ✦ Activism and standing up for what's right ✧ Cuddling, kissing, etc. ✦ Listening to her papa play ✧ Howard University, her dream school ✦ Long drives at night to clear her mind ✧ Scandal the television show, Empire, and Pretty Little Liars, secretly ✦ Her boyfriend and stealing his clothes esp. his button-ups and hoodies ✧ Her collection of headbands and scarves (She never goes anywhere without one of them)
◢ ◢D I S L I K E S ; XXX People antagonizing her ✧ Drugs ✦ People making fun of her accent ✧ Singing in front of people ✦ Large crowds ✧ When she has writer's block ✦ Social media ✧ Cigarettes ✦ Cheaters, liars, and players ✧ Ignorance and bigots ✦ When people can't take a hint ✧ Unnecessary Drama ✦ Short jokes ✧ Low expectations ✦ Going in water ✧ When she messes up on the piano ✦ Spoiled rotten people ✧ Driving in the city ✦ Reality television ✧ Feeling like she isn't good enough ✦ Having to choose between Howard and Julliard for college ✧ Her nose and lips ✦ When she had weave and had her hair straight ✧ Hard liquor ✦ People touching her hair. Period. Don't even bother asking her. ✧ When she gets flustered in front of people ✦ Those upper-class kids who look down on her ✧ Tyler Perry movies ✦ Heels, unless they're for a special occasion ✧ Pork, she never eats it because of how she was raised ✧ Getting into arguments and going to sleep mad at people
◢ ◢S H O R TXT E R MXG O A L S ;XXX Her short term goals are simple; graduate within the top 30 of her class which for her is a piece of cake unless she somehow fails every single one of her classes, win a national competition and scholarship for a sculpture she's working that's worth $10,000, head off to college even if she hasn't decided on where just yet, and design an amazing prom dress that will put even the Royals' dresses to shame and leaves Derek speechless the entire night. And if she just so happens to get nominated for cutest couple or most creative along the way that wouldn't hurt either.
◢ ◢L O N GXT E R MXG O A L S ;XXX Long term goals include the usual for a high school girl. She wants it all; she wants the long lasting and happy marriage like her parents, the big family but she's always seen herself stoping at three children instead of five. But other than family, she wants to become a famous scultpress whos pieces are shown and sold all over the world in muselms and galleries for generations of people to see and admire them or to end up in music as a one of the greats like Jill Scott, Whitney Huston, Nina Simone! Or even finely tune her voice to end up on Broadway, something her voice teacher has told her for years but in order to do that she might want to get over her irrational stage fright first.
◢ ◢F E A R S; XXX She doesn't have a lot of fears in life. But those she does have do happen to shake her to her core. The easiest thing to guess about Rhapsody is her terrible case of stage fright. She loves music and loves singing but she knows she can never make it as a famous soul singer because she can barely be in front of a group of peers without starting to hyperventilate or almost get light headed before having to rush off the stage or quickly finish with a class presentation. She terrified of not being enough, for someone or something. What if she doesn't have what it takes to break into the art or even the music industry? What if she's been kidding herself this whole time and really has no talent or that it just not enough? She has worked so hard to get to the caliber that she's at and what if it's all for nothing? That's something she can't come to face. . With that being said, she is afraid to fail but then again who isn't? No one wants to fail at reaching their dreams but with Rhapsody, it's more than that. She's not rich enough to just live off the backs of her parents for the rest of her life like most of her peers in her class and she not pretty enough to just rely on her looks, hell and she's not smart enough to major in math or science or anything like that because those two make the money but, they're also her worst subjects. The only thing she knows she's good at is her art and if she fails at that. She has no idea who she is anymore or where to go from there. Hell, she has her scholarships because of her art and music but that means nothing if she can't make a name for herself. . But, more than anything she terrified of regreting her choices in life. Right now she has to make the biggest choices of her life; whether she wants to go to Howard or Juilliard, and of course, what Derek and her are going to do about being so far apart from one another.
◢ ◢S E C R E T S ; XXX Rhapsody isn't one to keep secrets from the people she cares about. Plus, she isn't good at keeping secrets or lying. And those closest to her know exactly how to get whatever she's hiding out of her. The only major secret she's hiding from her friends and even her boyfriend is the fact that she was chosen to do a live audition for Juilliard for not one of their programs but two; their jazz studies program and their voice & opera program as well on the 26th of February.
◢ ◢L I F EXP H I L O S O P H Y ;XXX“It's in the click of my heels, the bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, the need of my care, 'cause I'm a woman. Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that's me.” ― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women ✦ “Oh but my joy of today is that we can all be proud to say to be young, gifted and black is where it's at.” ― Nina Simone, Young, Gifted, and Black
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✔ Resilient : Strong ✔ Loving ✔ Spitfire : Straightforward ✔ Highly Intelligent ✔ Idealistic ✔ Spontaneous ✔ Honest ✔ Determined and Dedicated ✔ Creative : Artistic ✔ Passionate ✔ Charismatic ✔ Romantic ✔ Witty : Humorous ✔ Hardworking ✔ Adventurous ✔ Cultured : Well Rounded
✘ Competitive ✘ Blunt ✘ Smug ✘ Vocal ✘ Sarcastic ✘ Curious ✘ Perfectionist ✘ Critical ✘ Abrasive ✘ Stubborn ✘ Cocky ✘ A Know it All ✘ Low self image ✘ Not easy to trust
The most obvious part of little Miss. Rhapsody Iman Vincent here is her love of art and everything dealing with it from music to fashion to tattoos to her favorite and her most notable sculpting. She was born into a family of artists so to say it's her life might be a little bit of an understatement because while languages may be different art is universal. It may mean something different to someone else but everyone is able to understand it in their own way. She goes through life with what she calls an 'artist's perspective'. Meaning Rhapsody likes to see the beauty and everyday things no matter what it is, she as an artist can see it as beautiful in one way or another and can use that for her inspiration. With this way of thinking, she also likes to believe that people are better than they are sometimes.
That even if they seem like an asshole that under all of that is a good person most times. It's one of her jobs to see the beauty in everyday things and in her eyes, there's beauty in everyone sometimes you just gotta dig a little deeper down to find it and push them a little harder to make them a diamond. Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses to an extent. Where all the red flags just look like flags. Now, she isn't blinded by these glasses she does know that there are bad people in the world but, she isn't one just to assume that someone is just going to be out to hurt her. But, it does take a lot for her to think differently about someone or to think that they really are a bad person and that maybe there isn't any good within them. Something she hates doing but sometimes you just have to face the fact that we don't live in a perfect world with perfect people.
This girl was never or could never be just one thing, she not just this confident, highly intelligent, stubborn spitfire type girl or this determined, charismatic, and oh so amazing 'artsy fartsy girl'. She's those and much more. To some, she comes off as condescending, disputatious, pretentious artist who thinks she better than other people. A girl used to being right and the center of attention because of her skills, showing off the things she has gotten on her travels and all of her pieces of art. And while she doesn't see herself as a showoff or anything and she doesn't really see herself as 'better' than anyone, she does have confidence in herself and knows that she has talent in what she loves doing and to say she doesn't get passionate and excited about her newest pieces or designs or things she has been able to do in her short life would be a lie. She is proud of herself and the things she has been able to do because of her talent, so don't ever think she will hide it for anything or anyone. But, for those who look past her persona of being that cocky, pretentious artist/designer they get to see the personality that lies beneath. An adventurous, driven and ambitious girl, someone who doesn't take shit from anyone or even gives a shit what people think about her, her life, and esp. her work.
The one who will listen to what you have to say about her or her work but will never let it undermine what she believes about herself. The young African-French girl who will never show an ounce of doubt in what she is doing in her life even if it is wrong, you'll never be able to tell with her. She seems like she knows exactly what she wants to do in her life and how she's going to reach it and for the most part, she does know how this part isn't an act. To some instead of seeing the artsy side of her, they get to see the side that her friends have started once she moved to America or at least enhanced. They believe that she's this sarcastic, overly opinionated, and overall stubborn know it all who gets off by inciting fights and debates with other people who have different views than her when it comes to issues in their society. She's proud of who she is and isn't afraid to show it. Her whole family has been named after famous black musicians and activists, her parents are active in several movements including being very active in the Black Lives Matter movement. Do you really expect their children to be any different?
But while she is opinionated, she will never make someone else shut up if their views don't fit with her own. Sure, she'll shut them down with a little thing called logic but, that's just because she's so intelligent if she could say so herself. And here's why anyone could say their smart but Rap can tell you exactly why. She grew up traveling the world and getting an education that most have never even thought of as a good idea and while most parents think her parents put her at a disadvantage, they actually helped her become very well rounded in life instead of those who may just be smart in the books. Rhapsody is intelligent in many things sure she bright in classes but she is also street smart and knows how to carry herself as such.
But while she is street smart, she is far from pessimistic like people might think. You see this girl is an idealist in the most innocent way ever. What can she say?Rhapsody loves to dream. The young woman loves to believe that if she wants to do something and puts in the work towards then she can and will do it. Some people believe that she is a little.... out there and naive because of this but, mama didn't raise a fool. She doesn't just expect life just to drop things in front of her on a silver platter like a Disney movie, she knows she has to work for it but since she knows that then she'll dream as much as she wants. She's built her career on her dreams, on the imagination that if she wants something and goes out to get it then she will. But the way she sees it it's better to feel everything and think everything is possible than to feel nothing at all and that every situation is what it is and you can't flip it around into a good thing. It makes her believe that there's a light at the end of every tunnel. And everyone and everything has a good side along with a bad side, sometimes you just have to look a bit harder to find it. Because that is a terrible way of going through life. Along with this, she's an idealist who loves and always pursue high hopes, and dreams, and goals. Never shooting down another person's dreams. Unless they're really stupid but, trust me she'll let it be known what her opinion is. Obviously. Again, she is optimistic while also being a bit blunt and honest. Sue her.
But, with every good thing, there are bad things. While she's an attractive and rather charismatic woman, she is rather inept and clueless in any aspect of romance and men in general. You see even when people make it so obvious that they want her or that they're flirting. She never realizes that maybe they could be flirting with her only because her mind is always on something more important like ideas for her next piece or new design ideas or... anything really, and when someone does attempt to, she just shrugs it off without a second thought only to think about to it hours or even days down the roads and ask herself, "Where they flirting with me?" Yes, yes they were. Hell, it took her months to even realize her future boyfriend was flirting with her during their study session and she only realized their first date was an actual date when he kissed her. While she possesses may be the purest heart you will ever find, she will stand up for what's hers especially when it comes to people she cares about. She's not about to give them up or give up on them without a fight.
That even if they seem like an asshole that under all of that is a good person most times. It's one of her jobs to see the beauty in everyday things and in her eyes, there's beauty in everyone sometimes you just gotta dig a little deeper down to find it and push them a little harder to make them a diamond. Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses to an extent. Where all the red flags just look like flags. Now, she isn't blinded by these glasses she does know that there are bad people in the world but, she isn't one just to assume that someone is just going to be out to hurt her. But, it does take a lot for her to think differently about someone or to think that they really are a bad person and that maybe there isn't any good within them. Something she hates doing but sometimes you just have to face the fact that we don't live in a perfect world with perfect people.
This girl was never or could never be just one thing, she not just this confident, highly intelligent, stubborn spitfire type girl or this determined, charismatic, and oh so amazing 'artsy fartsy girl'. She's those and much more. To some, she comes off as condescending, disputatious, pretentious artist who thinks she better than other people. A girl used to being right and the center of attention because of her skills, showing off the things she has gotten on her travels and all of her pieces of art. And while she doesn't see herself as a showoff or anything and she doesn't really see herself as 'better' than anyone, she does have confidence in herself and knows that she has talent in what she loves doing and to say she doesn't get passionate and excited about her newest pieces or designs or things she has been able to do in her short life would be a lie. She is proud of herself and the things she has been able to do because of her talent, so don't ever think she will hide it for anything or anyone. But, for those who look past her persona of being that cocky, pretentious artist/designer they get to see the personality that lies beneath. An adventurous, driven and ambitious girl, someone who doesn't take shit from anyone or even gives a shit what people think about her, her life, and esp. her work.
The one who will listen to what you have to say about her or her work but will never let it undermine what she believes about herself. The young African-French girl who will never show an ounce of doubt in what she is doing in her life even if it is wrong, you'll never be able to tell with her. She seems like she knows exactly what she wants to do in her life and how she's going to reach it and for the most part, she does know how this part isn't an act. To some instead of seeing the artsy side of her, they get to see the side that her friends have started once she moved to America or at least enhanced. They believe that she's this sarcastic, overly opinionated, and overall stubborn know it all who gets off by inciting fights and debates with other people who have different views than her when it comes to issues in their society. She's proud of who she is and isn't afraid to show it. Her whole family has been named after famous black musicians and activists, her parents are active in several movements including being very active in the Black Lives Matter movement. Do you really expect their children to be any different?
But while she is opinionated, she will never make someone else shut up if their views don't fit with her own. Sure, she'll shut them down with a little thing called logic but, that's just because she's so intelligent if she could say so herself. And here's why anyone could say their smart but Rap can tell you exactly why. She grew up traveling the world and getting an education that most have never even thought of as a good idea and while most parents think her parents put her at a disadvantage, they actually helped her become very well rounded in life instead of those who may just be smart in the books. Rhapsody is intelligent in many things sure she bright in classes but she is also street smart and knows how to carry herself as such.
But while she is street smart, she is far from pessimistic like people might think. You see this girl is an idealist in the most innocent way ever. What can she say?Rhapsody loves to dream. The young woman loves to believe that if she wants to do something and puts in the work towards then she can and will do it. Some people believe that she is a little.... out there and naive because of this but, mama didn't raise a fool. She doesn't just expect life just to drop things in front of her on a silver platter like a Disney movie, she knows she has to work for it but since she knows that then she'll dream as much as she wants. She's built her career on her dreams, on the imagination that if she wants something and goes out to get it then she will. But the way she sees it it's better to feel everything and think everything is possible than to feel nothing at all and that every situation is what it is and you can't flip it around into a good thing. It makes her believe that there's a light at the end of every tunnel. And everyone and everything has a good side along with a bad side, sometimes you just have to look a bit harder to find it. Because that is a terrible way of going through life. Along with this, she's an idealist who loves and always pursue high hopes, and dreams, and goals. Never shooting down another person's dreams. Unless they're really stupid but, trust me she'll let it be known what her opinion is. Obviously. Again, she is optimistic while also being a bit blunt and honest. Sue her.
But, with every good thing, there are bad things. While she's an attractive and rather charismatic woman, she is rather inept and clueless in any aspect of romance and men in general. You see even when people make it so obvious that they want her or that they're flirting. She never realizes that maybe they could be flirting with her only because her mind is always on something more important like ideas for her next piece or new design ideas or... anything really, and when someone does attempt to, she just shrugs it off without a second thought only to think about to it hours or even days down the roads and ask herself, "Where they flirting with me?" Yes, yes they were. Hell, it took her months to even realize her future boyfriend was flirting with her during their study session and she only realized their first date was an actual date when he kissed her. While she possesses may be the purest heart you will ever find, she will stand up for what's hers especially when it comes to people she cares about. She's not about to give them up or give up on them without a fight.
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The family was always so close because of how they were raised. Their parents taught them that in this world that numerous people can hurt you, will spit in your face, and leave but family is something that is there forever. The eldest of the kids was Assata Simone {21}, she was born four years before Rhapsody when their parents were seventeen and nineteen years old followed by Malcolm Ray {18}, the only boy who is known to be 'Irish twins' with Rhapsody seeing that they were born within a year of one another followed by the baby girl of the family Angela Elle {13} and then the little man Langston James {1}. Their parents, Frédéric and Aamiina would have done anything for them, hell they moved to America for their kids for them to get a better education for college and Buckley will open doors that any other school couldn't. She resented them at first, unlike Malcolm who seemed to love the idea of being able to settle down and have a normal life for once.
◢ ◢C H I L D H O O DXH E R O // I D O L ; XXX Coco Channel, Frieda Khalo, Prince, Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, Peju Alatise, Maya Angelou, but more than any of the names stated before the two biggest influences in her life were and still very much are her mother and the great jazz musician and activist, Nina Simone who started her love of not just jazz and soul but music in general.
◢ ◢C H I L D H O O DXP E T S ; XXX Because the family was always traveling they never had animals growing up, but that all changed when a ten year old Rhapsody fell in love with a beautiful Hyacinth macaw who she later named Raphael, after the famous artist. She wasn't going to leave Mexico without that bird and her family finally caved and she still has that bird to this day.
◢ ◢C H I L D H O O DXD R E A M S ; XXX After seeing the Louvre in Paris when she was six years old and all of the beautiful paintings and statues she knew that was what she wanted to do when she grew up. She wanted to be a painter and have her artwork hung in galleries all over the world for centuries for all types of people to see them. Another idea she has was to follow her mama's lead and go into the world of fashion like her big sis did but, while she liked drawing dresses and such it wasn't where her heart lied.
◢ ◢C H I L D H O O DXE D U C A T I O N ; XXX She had an education that many may never get the chance to get experience, she was able to travel all over the world and learn different culture, languages, and religions all taught by her family and with so many teachers in her family she is quite bright for being homeschooled until high school. Something that her peers never let her forget when she first moved to Buckley.
◢ ◢C H I L D H O O DXF I N A N A C E S ; XXX Her family has never been a part of the upper class even with her father being a famous musician and her mother being a designer. They both left before getting truly famous all because they wanted to grow their family and travel all over the world. So, growing up it was unusual. They had the money to travel, to eat, and to have what they needed but, they were not able to splurge like most believed they could.
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◢ ◢P R E S E N TXP E T S ; XXX Along with previously mention Hyacinth Macaw, Raphael Rhapsody and her family also have a black poodle (yes, she knows. It's stereotypical for a French family) named Coco, and a Sphynx cat named Philip. Which freaks most of her friends out, so she keeps him out of her room when she has people over.
◢ ◢S U M M E RXS P E N T ; XXX When she wasn't be completely lovey-dovey with her boyfriend laying on the beach or just hanging out with one another. Rhapsody spent about a month and a half from July-early August in France with her father's part of the family exploring their art and culture in order to finely tuned her art before going to college that way she has a fighting chance for those scholarships. While there she spent her time sculpting, painting, getting lost in Paris for hours at a time, and Skyping/FaceTimeing Derek saying how much she wished he could be there with her.
◢ ◢S O C I O E C O N O M I CXS T A T U S ; XXX Most expect the family to be a lot richer than they actually are. Don't get her wrong they're not poor or anything like that but they most definitely are middle class. Not high middle class, not low middle class but truly just the middle of middle class.
◢ ◢T R A N S P O R T A T I O N ; XXX Living in Los Angeles makes transportation a non-issue especially for Rhapsody not only can she use her bus pass or metro card but, she does also have her brother, Malcolm who has a car. You see, her parents gave her a choice either she could spend the summer with their family in France or have a car her senior year that she wouldn't even be able to take her freshmen year of college to Howard or Julliard. Obviously, she chose the trip. But, most mornings she does end up driving with her boyfriend, Derek who always seems less than thrilled when Rhapsody says "Don't worry, baby. I'll just take the bus." Alone. So yea, with her overprotective brother and boyfriend one of them are most than likely okay with taking her to school.
◢ ◢F A M I L YXM E M B E R S ; XXX The first thing you can notice about the Vincents is that they're big, very big. With two parents and five kids, but with only fourliving in the house and two more about to leave for college in less than a year. From the top to the bottom you have;
Frédéric Vincent, forty {40} years old. He's her father and pretty damn good one at that. Rhapsody, while not as close as her and her mother are, have a relationship that most daughters wish they could have with their dads. They most spend their time playing the piano and trumpet together only for the whole family to join in later, it's sort become a family tradition once a month. He owns two businesses, Studio 95, the art gallery and Studio 95, the music studio that has jumpstarted several up and coming rap, jazz, and indie artists' careers since being created in the early-mid 1980s by his father and Rhapsody's grandfather in Abidjan.
Aamiina Vincent (nee Rahim), thirty-eight {38} years old. Aamiina Vincent is by far the best mother anyone could ever ask for. She's compassionate, understand, and the calm to their father's fire. She is the one Rhapsody goes to for anything or whenever she needs to tell someone something. She was the first to find out about Derek and Rhapsody because Rhaps can't lie to her mother. But she can be meddling, being the one who sent in Rhapsody's audition tape and application for Julliard after Rhaps said no time after time after time. While she works at home most of the time, she is definitely not a stay-at-home. She'd die before that. No, she is an owner and fashion designer of her own haute couture brand, Vincent 95 and was a former designer at Chanel and former model before leaving to travel the world with Frédéric.
Assata Simone Vincent, twenty-one {21} years old. Out of all of Rhapsody's siblings, she and Assata have the most complicated relationship. They love each other they do but, they are always both trying to out do the other with grades, talent, praise from family members and Assata finally got the upper hand when she broadcasted to their entire family that loud and proud activist of the family, Rhapsody Vincent was sleeping with some rich white boy from her rich kid school which is completely untrue. She's dating a middle-class fully Filipino boy from her rich kid school. Either way, Assata loves to rub it in Rhaps face how amazing her life is at her HBCU as a senior in college and how amazing her fiance is and how amazing that 100% African babies will look when they want to start a family. And it doesn't bother Rhapsody most of the time but every once and a while it gets to her and she hates being around her older sister because she goes on to feel like anything she does will never be good enough for her.
Malcolm Ray Vincent, eighteen {18} years old. Not only are they close in age but out of all her siblings, she and Malcolm are by far the closest. He is the one who is always there for her even if she hates how over protective he is of her when it comes to their school. She gets where it comes from seeing that during her freshmen year she was bullied by a group of mean girls relentlessly for her first semester before they moved on to their next target. She loves him but sometimes she wishes he would loosen the leash on her just a bit, and stop treating her like she still that mute, African girl who couldn't stand up for herself. And, if he says one more smartass comment about Derek...
Angela Elle Vincent, age thirteen {13} years old. Angela looks up to Rhapsody in so many ways and that might be another reason why Assata has something against the middle girl. Angela has always looked to Rhaps for guidance and confidence when she's feeling down on herself because if there's one thing Rhapsody's good at it's making her baby sister realized just how great she is. The only thing that could make them closer is if Angela decided to go to Buckley instead of her performing arts school for dance.
And then there's Langston James Vincent, age one {1} year old. Who doesn't love little Lang? He's the one person in the family who hasn't yet found his niche seeing that he's an infant but she knows once he turns four just like the others will be given an instrument and be classically trained in it until he's eighteen like Assata with the Violin, Malcolm with the trumpet and saxophone, Rhapsody with the piano, and Angela with the cello
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◢ ◢L I F E R / / N E W C O M E R ? ; XXXHm, let's see her and her middle class family lived in Africa until she was fourteen. What do you think? She's not really a newcomer anymore but she is definitely not a lifer like most of her peers at Buckley.
◢ ◢S C H O L A R S H I P / / NOT ? ; XXX Yes, the Vincent siblings are on scholarship. She's an AP student for a reason. She's brilliant. Rhapsody's on an academic scholarship seeing that her grades for the exams she took in order to have some sort of a GPA were outstanding, a 4.8 which is shocking and phenomenal for someone who was homeschooled as long as she was which the administration has told her several times when she first entered the school along with having her IQ revealed to be a 165-170, depending which test you look at. The fact that she classically trained at the piano and an amazing artist, well the school just got lucky.
◢ ◢XG R O U P / / C L I Q U E ; XXX Without being said, Rhapsody loves her art more than she does her studies. They're everything to her if she lost her art or even her music she doesn't know who she'd be. So, yes she's an artist//artisian.
◢ ◢C L U B S ; XXX She likes to keep busy, she's been in art club since her first day at Buckley and plans on graduating with the cord around her robe. She's also a member of Musical Theater Club (MTC), even if she doesn't sing. The only reason they know she can is from their teacher, Ms. Bamford caught her singing on of the tunes from the musical they were putting on that her sophomore year after school and she has a big mouth. Only the older students know since the cat was let out of the bag her sophomore year sadly sometimes she has to leave early in order to make it to National Honor Society, which looks good on college applications.
◢ ◢S P O R TXT E A M S ; XXX Ha! You're kidding, right? Look everyone loves Rhapsody. She's smart, passionate, beautiful, and extremely talented in art and music but everyone sucks at something and that "something" for Rhapsody Vincent is sports which is odd when you know who she's dating but she knows how to cheer him on even if she has no idea what's going on.
◢ ◢A R EXY O UXH A P P Y ? ; XXX She adored where she is. They were the first people to accept her for who she was, not who they wanted her to be. She likes that her brother's happy at the top but, she loves being in the middle because she never has to worry about her friends 'taking her down' in order to be on top. Rhapsody and her friends are so carefree and because of it, they're much closer than most of the groups in the school because they each other's back. Need a model for a photo or a statue? No problem. Hoping to see a friend at your opening? You'll see twenty. All there to cheer one another. Which is something Rhapsody never thought she would have when she moved thousands of miles away from home and was known as that homeschooled girl who barely spoke English when she first got to Buckley.
◢ ◢W O U L DXY O UXC H A N G E ? ; No, she wouldn't change where she was for anything. Some would want to be a Royal or whatever but she likes not having to worry about her friends wanting to stab her in the back and take her down everyday.XXX
◢ ◢L O O K I N GXF O R W A R DXT O ? ; XXX She's ready to graduate, she is but she has some many choices to make like does she want to go to her dream school, Howard University or take a chance that she knows will change her life forever at Julliard. She knows if she goes to Julliard, she'll be a star before she graduates college. Everyone knows that and that's why her family and friends are so divided about it. If she chooses Howard, she's following through with her dream but she'll lose her once in a lifetime chance but if she goes to Julliard for music she can kiss her art goodbye. If she chooses music, that will have to be her focus. Complete focus. So either way, she feels like she'll have to give up one of her passions in life in order to perfect the other. Not to mention, her relationship. What will happen if they end up on different sides of the country? What then?!
O T H E R
- Fᴀᴄᴇ Cʟᴀɪᴍ ✦ Lianne La Havas
Pᴏʀᴛʀᴀʏᴇᴅ Bʏ ✧ BleedingLover
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