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✫ Name ✫
Rachel Xue
✫ Gender ✫
Female
✫ Race/Nationality ✫
Chinese-American.
✫ Sexual Orientation ✫
Heterosexual
✫ Age ✫
24
✫ Relationship Status ✫
Single
✫ Occupation ✫
Fashion Designer & Print Model
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✫ Likes/Hobbies ✫
Fashion
Music
Meditation/Yoga
The Beach
Reading
Food
Film
Award Shows
✫ Dislikes ✫
The Paparazzi
Boredom
Nagging
Ignorant people
Racists
Bimbos
Complainers
Nosy people
Meatheads
Bullies
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✫ Weight ✫
125lbs
✫ Height ✫
5'11
✫ Eyes ✫
Deep Brown
✫ Hair ✫
A deep Auburn-Brown, and reaches to the middle of her back when out straight.
✫ Body Art ✫
Three lobe piercings in both ears, Vertical and Horizontal belly button piercings, and identical ankle tattoos on both ankles of an ankle bracelet.
✫ Personality ✫
- Workaholic.
Rachel always threw herself into her studies, and with her career it has been no different. She not only runs her own fashion line/boutique and appear at and/or sponsor fashion shows, but she's a frequent magazine model with several covers under her belt and a flurry of fashion-related appearances in various print articles and TV/web interviews.
- "Sassy yet Classy."
Running a business to the degree Rachel has, as a woman, requires a bit of attitude and strength, but she's never let the power go to her head, and even when she finds herself getting sassy with someone on the job it's usually in a classy manner.
- Defensive and Closed Off from Others
Growing up ostracized by her peers left an emotional scar on Rachel, and even though she has grown more confident as shes matured away from Virginia City she's become incredibly defensive and easily feels as if she's being attacked. She also views people in a different light since her childhood, and finds it hard to trust people - often finding their acts of kindness to be fake or covering an ulterior motive. So it's safe to say she doesn't have many close confidants, and is definitely missing that from her life.
- Loner/Homebody.
Outside of work, the fashion/award shows, interviews, or meet-and-greet cocktail events with clients, Rachel doesn't have much of a social life - which is a natural side affect of not having a circle of close friends. So instead she finds herself lonely and bored at home a lot, ordering in, and watching the same things on TV over and over again. Even when she does go out she finds herself being more of a starer than a young 20-something trying to make new friends.
In her heart she wants to have a close circle of real friends, and she wants to be able to trust, but in reality it's a hard thing for her to accomplish.
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✫ Bio ✫
Rachel was born in Chongqing, China and lived there for several years before moving to America with her parents at the age of eight.
Her father was offered the chance to transfer and lead the US branch of his company from Montana, and naturally jumped at the opportunity.
Virginia City was an hour or so from the city her father worked in but the family decided to move there instead of living in the city because they liked the house they saw there, the community, and the school system better. Rachel herself was excited at first to move to Virginia City, but after she began school the excitement quickly faded.
The academic part of school was never the issue for Rachel, seeing as how she was invited to join Mensa at the tender age of nine - which her parents accepted but still insisted she go through school like other children in an effort to better assimilate, it was the interaction with her peers that quickly became the issue.
Being a four-eyed Chinese girl amongst a sea of white faces made Rachel stand out like a sore thumb, and while the teasing was somewhat tolerable in grade school it became almost unbearable in Jr. high.
Rachel tried sharing her misery with her parents, but while her parents felt some sympathy for their daughter her father, who always wanted a boy over a girl, was constantly telling her to suck it up and deal with it, so by the time she reached HS she had learned to stop complaining to her parents and suffer in silence.
Finally at the age of 16 Rachel convinced her parents to let her finish the last few months of her Senior Year at home via home schooling, and even though Rachel never got to graduate with her class on stage, compete for class placement, or worry over prom titles, she was happier graduating via home-study than with people she had grown to largely hate.
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Fast forward several years and you have a woman who no longer wears thick glasses and outdated fashions. In the city Rachel has grown to love her body and physical appearance, and appreciate her differences. College in NYC was the best thing that happened to her, and while the emotional scares from her childhood remain largely unaddressed, visually - and on some level emotionally - Rachel is a completely different person the town of Virginia City remembers from 2008.
If it wasn't for her parents - who chose to retire in Virginia City - bragging on their daughter and handing out copies whenever their daughter is featured in, or on the cover of, a magazine, her teachers and old neighbors probably wouldn't recognize her.
Despite the resentment she had towards her parents growing up over their reaction to her being bullied, she has moved past that with them and managed to have a close relationship with both her Mother and Father. So when her mother sent word that her father's Illness had come back with a vengeance she agreed to come back home.
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✫ Strengths ✫
- Fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Spanish.
- Dabbles in other Languages.
- Academically Gifted
- Plays Multiple Instruments
- Hard Worker
- At Ease in Front of a Camera
✫ Weaknesses ✫
- Trypophobic
- Loner
- Defensive
- Perfectionist
- Her own Worst Critic
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