Catarina Rose Valentine
|Nickname(s)|
Cat {Most Common}
Little Red
|Age|
17
|Date of Birth|
May 20th
|Astrological Sign|
Taurus
|Nationality|
American
|Ethnicity|
Italian
|Sexual Orientation|
Demisexual
|Sexual History|
Virgin
|Relationship History|
[Has your character been in a relationship? With how many?]
|Relationship Status|
Single
5'1
|Weight|
92 lbs
|Eye Color|
Brown
|Hair Color? Type? Styles?|
Her hair is naturally brown and curly. However, for the past three years, she's been regularly dying it a bright red color, and she almost always keeps it straight via Brazilian hair straightening treatments. She chose the bright red color when she decided that red velvet cupcakes are her favorite desserts.
|Distinguishing Marks|
She's near sighted and needs glasses, which she sometimes wears, but almost always, she will just wear contacts. Her ears are pierced.
|Fashion Sense|
[Pretty self-explanatory]
|Overall Attractiveness|
Cat Valentine is a pretty girl. I don't think that many people would argue that. What many people wouldn't argue with either, though, is that she's more cute than she is hot or sexy. Her demeanor might play a role in the perception, but the fact that she's the mere definition of being petite, being very skinny with few curves, definitely means that you won't catch her being compared to a Playboy model anytime soon. Nonetheless, she's quite happy with how she looks.
|Good Traits|
Optimistic, Energetic, Kind, Friendly
|Bad Traits|
Spacey, Irresponsible, Carefree, Airhead
|Personality|
Cat is one of a kind, someone who you can't compare to anyone you've ever met... unless maybe you've met the Energizer Bunny on Prozac. What everyone seems to first notice about her, is that sheâs probably the most optimistic person youâll ever meet. Sheâs almost always in a good mood, and she has a tendency of finding a way to put a positive spin on everything, even if the logic behind it only makes sense in her mind. Things donât bother her in the way that they would other people, so if she was walking down the road and got splashed by a car driving through a puddle on the side of the road, she would probably start laughing and talking about how she didnât know it was supposed to rain today. The positivity is admirable, but understandably, sometimes it leads people to thinking that sheâs a bit âoffâ or out of touch with reality in more ways than are normal. Though itâs natural to her personality, the optimism has always served as a bit of a coping mechanism for her too. Always looking on the bright side has served as the sole force that has allowed her to not end up as a depressed mess given her home life.
The way that her mind works is unique to her, something that isnât worth even trying to figure out how it works, because itâs impossible. The ADHD that she was diagnosed with (and that her parents had always refused to medicate her for, secretly citing that they needed one ânormalâ child) plays a role in it, but her entire personality canât be blamed on that. Sheâs ditzy, energetic, peppy, eccentric, positive and a social butterfly; a ray of sunshine who might come on strong sometimes, or cause people to be confused about how or why sheâs so spacey and seemingly living in her own world, but someone of good intentions nonetheless.
She gets distracted very easily, which is why including her in your study group is probably a bad idea, but if youâre going through a bad breakup and need someone to remind you of how absolutely gorgeous you are, and how the person that cheated on you had a million and one flaws of their own, sheâs your girl. Her laugh is contagious and she always likes to try new things, and even if her innocent demeanor sometimes seems childish, sheâs not the kind of person who likes being dependent on other people. It happens sometimes, and always because she just doesnât realize that sheâs being irresponsible or dumb in the moment, but she likes the idea of being able to help other people more than she likes the idea of other people helping her.
|Strengths|
She's an amazing singer and actor. She's great at making friends and cheering people up. She has a cute charm to her that makes it easy for her to get her way.
|Weaknesses|
She gets distracted very easily. She's a horrible driver. She keeps her negative feelings bottled up.
|Greatest Joys in Life|
She loves everything Disney, candy, her friends, and music.
|Greatest Fears|
She fears spiders, clowns, and her brother when he's off his medication.
|Priorities|
[We are starting at the end of the first semester of the 2016-2017 school year, so what is your character prioritizing as of right now? Grades? Enjoying the rest of the year? Elevating themselves socially? Getting with that special someone by prom?]
|Life Philosophy|
"The sun will come out tomorrow." -- Annie
Sherman Oaks, CA
|Upbringing|
Catarina Valentine was born to Joseph and Teresa Valentine; an accident that they embraced to the best of their ability. They were both employed at the University of Southern California at the time, making combined salaries of nearly four hundred thousand dollars a year. They could afford to care for another child, that was for sure, and six years ago, they would have welcomed the idea of adding a little girl to their family, but that was only because five years before Cat was born, her brother was born. At first, Antonio seemed like a happy and healthy little boy, but right around the time of Catarinaâs creation, he was diagnosed with autism. The diagnoses kept coming, as doctors struggled to put a word on the boyâs dangerous, disruptive, and nearly impossible to predict and control behavior. Eventually, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia; the one diagnosis that seemed to be the most accurate. He was placed on medication, and when medicated, was actually a fairly normal person. However, especially as he got older, keeping him on the medication was what proved to be difficult. Needless to say, her parents had a lot on their plate when it came for maintaining proper care for their son, so for most of her life, Catarina was always the second priority compared to her brother.
Her parents are not and were not bad people. They just struggled to raise two kids when one of them had such demanding medical needs, and, as they soon found out, the other had bad ADHD. They didnât leave Cat locked in a bedroom with a box of cereal for days at a time, and though she was definitely deprived of attention sometimes, they did their best to keep her happy. For the most part, this involved enrolling her in as many extracurricular activities as possible to keep her busy and social. Early on, she took a major interest in singing and acting. Those are the two hobbies that she continues to excel in tremendously, but through all her years of random activities, sheâs also great at sewing and costume design, tap dancing, juggling, swimming and gymnastics. She learned to embrace social interaction outside of her house, since her home was usually a very stressful place to be in, and she quickly became the definition of a social butterfly.
She was enrolled at The Buckley School starting in kindergarten, and has never considered transferring elsewhere. Although she certainly is no honor roll student, she participates in tons of activities and is one of those people that everyone seems to know, simply because sheâs so friendly and social.
|Idol or Hero|
Growing up, she loved Kim Possible.
|Education|
She has been at Buckley since kindergarten.
Cat lives with her parents and older brother.
|Pets|
None
|Secrets|
In most senses, Cat is an open book. She'll tell you about her crush, or how horribly she did on her math exam without a second thought. The only things that she keeps a secret are the things that really scare her, so if she has a real and major crush, she won't scare it because the feelings will be deep enough for her to want to suppress him. While she will randomly share bits and pieces of the weird stuff her brother does at home, the magnitude of how much her brother's behavior has affected her isn't something that she would ever explicitly share, even if it's apparent indirectly, like observing her behavior. For example, she'll randomly bring up how her brother tried to eat her favorite charm bracelet the day before, but she won't tell you about how her parents had to install a double lock on her bedroom door because she's woken up horrified in the middle of the night to her brother sitting on the floor of her room masturbating. Stuff like that is what she doesn't like to think about.
|Summer Spent|
Cat spent her summer working as a day camp counselor at the theater camp that she attended as a child. What she would tell you was more important, though, was that she finally learned how to snap her fingers and that she had dinner at a table next to Will Ferrell in a restaurant.
|Socioeconomic Status|
Upper Class - her parents combined salaries are close to half a million dollars per year. She isn't as wealthy as some of her peers, but by no means does she struggle, either.
|Residence|
14431 Glorietta Dr, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
|Transportation|
Cat has her own car, a 2017 Audi Q3,
but she is a textbook bad driver. It's shocking that she managed to even obtain her license, and because she's already hit two parked cars in her short career as a driver, she doesn't drive herself around whenever there's another option.[/font]
Cat's parents are both college professors, which means they're busy in their own right. Having to care for a twenty-two year old schizophrenic and mildly autistic son means that they virtually have no free time on their hands, and it's basically been that way for her entire life. Cat loves her parents, and she would never speak poorly of them, but there will always been that feeling of "I was always second priority" given how much attention they gave her brother over her. It's much easier to say that Cat has a bad relationship with her brother, but that's mostly because she never had a real relationship with him. For her entire youth, her parents did their best to keep them as physically separate as possible. Cat was kind of raised believing that he was scary and dangerous, so she doesn't hold much sibling love for him.[/font]
Get asked to prom
|Long Term Goals|
She wants to star in a Broadway show!
|Aspirations|
Star in a Broadway show, get married, have lots of cute babies[/font]
12
|Lifer? Newcomer?|
Lifer
|Scholarship or No?|
No
|Clique|
Performer
|Are you happy here? Why or why not?|
Of course! Cat loves performing musically, and adores all of the people who are involved in the theater classes and play productions she takes. What makes being happy about her spot on the ladder easier, though, is that her social tendencies allow her to mix and mingle with so many people, that she could probably be considered to be a free-spirit, too.
|If you could change your clique, would you? To What?|
She's almost just as much of a free-spirit as she is a performer, but she's not looking to change where she stands.
|Clubs, Sports or Teams?|
Musical Theater Club, Teen Battle Chef, FIDM Fashion Club, The International Thespian Society
|What are you looking forward to the most?|
The spring musical and prom
|OOC|
Face Claim: Ariana Grande
Hex Color: #a84468
Time Zone: East Coast of the USA
Posting Frequency: Just getting back into RP'ing, but I'll probably be online every day during the summer
**This character is not an original character. She is based off of Cat Valentine from the Nickelodeon show, Victorious.