{"I love you guys really, buuuuut I have this need to smack you over the head sometimes". }
|Full Name|
Allexis Darah Maramack
|Nickname|
Allie
|Birthday|
October 27
|Age|
Twenty three
|Nationality|
American
"Amarica!"
|Occupation|
Magazine Editors Assistant
"Soo basically I get coffee, do all the dirty work, and get none of the recognition".
|Sexuality|
Bisexual
"Some guys are hot, some girls are hot, they all have their ways of getting on my last nerve".
|Apartment Number|
Apartment 1-b
"Yeah I live in the apartment building that just personifies my sunny disposition".
|Hometown|
Bethesda Maryland
"Just a hop, skip and a jump from DC".
Allexis Darah Maramack
|Nickname|
Allie
|Birthday|
October 27
|Age|
Twenty three
|Nationality|
American
"Amarica!"
|Occupation|
Magazine Editors Assistant
"Soo basically I get coffee, do all the dirty work, and get none of the recognition".
|Sexuality|
Bisexual
"Some guys are hot, some girls are hot, they all have their ways of getting on my last nerve".
|Apartment Number|
Apartment 1-b
"Yeah I live in the apartment building that just personifies my sunny disposition".
|Hometown|
Bethesda Maryland
"Just a hop, skip and a jump from DC".
{"Tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo down... annnnd done". }
|Quirks & Habits|
|Talents(T) | Strengths(ST) | Skills(SK) |
⚘Strength⚘
|Talents(T) | Strengths(ST) | Skills(SK) |
⚘Strength⚘
Allie is very head strong and independent, she expects nothing from anyone but herself through her own hard work and perseverance. She has a real eye for organization and proficiency, very rarely is she not able to meet her goals before her deadline at work. Her college education in publication, design, art and business make her the perfect candidate for being a magazine editor, unfortunately she had to settle for being an assistant which she hates.
|Flaws/Weakness|
⚘Weakness⚘
⚘Weakness⚘
Unfortunately Allie has a very cynical point of view, and can often times come off as cold to other people. Her wall of cynicism and sarcasm is hard for some people to get past, most choosing to just avoid her after a while of being around her. She has few friends at work, and frankly she likes it that way, being that Allie kind of has an inferiority complex, part of the reason why she rarely delegates at work. Her trust issues in other's make it hard for her to think that any one could do the job as good as she can, despite the fact that she hates her job.
|Hobbies|
Allie loves old movies there is a movie theater in the neighborhood that runs classic movies once a month and she does her best to make it there for the event. Whether this is a hobby or a habit, who can say, she likes to take pictures of the food she's eaten at restaurants around the city and posts them on instagram. This happens allot cause Allie's cooking skills are atrocious, she has been well known in the apartment building for setting ramen noodles on fire. She like to paint, but do to work finds little free time to do it. She has a great appreciation for art and likes to go to the art museum and small art shows that pop up all around San Francisco.
|Fears|
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Honestly Allie's biggest fear is pretty obvious, and that is putting her trust in someone and having them back out, disappoint or let her down in any way. Just too many experiences in her life have left her just totally put off by people she has put her trust in her life. From family, to romantic interests, time and time again she has been let down so now she walls her emotions off and pushes herself to do everything on her own to try to avoid being disappointed in someone else.
|Secrets|
✤She was engaged once in college.✤
✤She was engaged once in college.✤
✤Allie has an aversion to feet so much so that she can't stand to even look at her own deciding to wear socks all the time even to bed.✤
✤She calls herself bisexual but she really has only had serious relationships with guys. However she can't deny her attraction to women and has had relationships with them before, most have ended badly.✤
✤Allie has a rocky relationship with her father, but puts on a good show if he happens to visit not wanting to show that her family is a complete farce.✤
|Goals/Dreams|
Allie thought she knew the answer to that question at one time in her life, but now in her seemingly dead end job she feels like she really doesn't know what to do with her life. She thought that since she had done things right, make good grades, graduate high school, got to college, make exceptional grades, graduate college, apply for her dream job... But as we all know that fell a bit short and she had to settle for second best. So for right now her life is pretty stagnate, and with her pessimistic view on life in general she doesn't see it getting better anytime soon.
{"Oooooh so that's what you meant... Wait what?". }
|Personality|
|Artistic| |Pessimistic| |Hard working| |Sarcastic| |Loyal|
|Artistic| |Pessimistic| |Hard working| |Sarcastic| |Loyal|
|Artistic|
Allie has had a love of art since a very young age, whether it was coloring pictures for her mother and lots and lots of play doe animals she always seemed to be creating something. As she grew older she began to notice art in things that many wouldn't even think about, especially the magazines she obsessed over as a teenager. This stemmed her want to work in magazines as a medium for her creativity, however that didn't turn out quite like she planned.
|Pessimistic|
Due to her rocky family life, Allie has allot of trust issues she really does feel like the only person she can truly rely on is herself. However because of this she feels overwhelmed and just see's life in a very jaded light. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong in her eyes, so she really doesn't see allot of optimism for anything.
|Hard working|
You'd think such a pessimistic person, wouldn't really bother to work as hard as Allie does, but her mistrust in others makes her always feel better if she does something herself. She tends to have allot of anxiety problems if she puts someone else in charge of something, out of fear that it wont get done right.
|Sarcastic|
Allie's vocabulary is laced with snide remarks, anecdotal quips, and often times cold comebacks. Lots of times things are said and she doesn't even realize what she said might have hurt someone's feelings. This doesn't mean she's a complete bitch, lots of times once she realizes that what she said might have actually hurt someone she does her best to make up for it. Unless she really feels like the person deserved what she had to say about them, these times she doesn't bother.
|Loyal|
If you become one of the few and proud that rate as a friend to Allie consider yourself a friend for life. For those people that have been able to get through her wall of emotional protection, they have found a dedicated friend that would do anything for them. She's lives to see the people she cares about happy, and hurts when they aren't. Allie is always there for you whether it's a shoulder to cry on, or a sarcastic anecdote that makes you laugh, she'll be there for you no matter what, good or bad. With that said, when you break this loyalty expect someone that despises you, someone that can hold a grudge for a very long time.
▲ Coffee (in any incarnation)
▲ Classic old movies
▲ Dying her hair odd colors
▲ Art
▲ Her grandmother's mac'n'cheese
▲ Crazy socks (she owns hundreds of pairs)
▲ Dachshunds (If she thought she could manage it she'd have one.)
▲ Trying new food
▼ Obnoxious people
▼ Kids (especially her brother's kids)
▼ Goat curry (tried it once about died from spicy)
▼ Her job
▼ Snow
▼ Long check out lines
▼ Traffic
▼ Waiting too long in general
{"One big happy... dysfunctional mess thanks mom and dad". }
|Place of Origin|
The suburbs of Bethesda Maryland, is one of those quaint places that people think is a good place to raise your kids. The white picked fence, one and half kids, one big happy family. But that's not always the truth, and in Allie's case it wasn't, her father was a business man that commuted back and from Bethesda to DC which was pretty common, because it was so close. Yeah the city was nice, but that couldn't make up for her family problems.
|Family Tree|
David Maramack
Allie's Father
Age-53
David Maramack
Allie's Father
Age-53
Businessman in Washington DC for a publishing company. Divorced from Allie's mother, now lives in DC. Allie really doesn't have any contact with him, and kind of resents him for what he did to the family.
Carol Delainy
Allie's Mother
Age-50
Allie's Mother
Age-50
Boutique owner in Bethesda. Divorced from Allie's father, still lives in the family home in Bethesda, remarried after divorcing David, however after Allie left home for college she divorced him as well.
Aaron Maramack
Allie's Brother
Age-31
Allie's Brother
Age-31
Lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. Works in broadcasting, Allie stayed with her brother and his family right after she moved to California, it wasn't a pleasant experience for her or the family.
Melissa Maramack
Allie's Sister in law
Age-30
Allie's Sister in law
Age-30
Her brother's wife a perky, bubbly type of person that is completely the opposite of Allie and they clash because of this. Shes is a stay at home mother.
Hunter Maramack
Allie's Nephew
Age-2
Allie's Nephew
Age-2
Allie hasn't had much experience with her brothers kids but what she had she didn't like. She thinks Hunter is spoiled by his parents and a complete brat. He got on her nerves the whole few weeks she spent with them.
Lucy Maramack
Allie's Niece
Age- 6 months
Allie's Niece
Age- 6 months
Allie had more of a pleasant experience with her baby niece then she did her older brother. From what Allie can tell Lucy is a happy healthy baby, and will do great as long as her parents don't screw her up like they did her brother.
Thomas Delainy
Allie's former Stepfather
Age-50
Allie's former Stepfather
Age-50
Allie's stepfather is a big part of her life, more so than her own father. Honestly she doesn't know why her mother divorced him and she doesn't really want to know. However she keeps in contact with Thomas, over the phone, internet, or email, he still lives in Bethesda and is an attorney.
|Happiest Memory|
Allies parents divorced when she was quite young, so when her mother was dealing with depression after the divorce Allie and her older brother Aaron were sent to stay with the grandmother. This was one of the most stable points in time for the two children considering their parents marriage had been rocky from the start. Allie has fond memories of the country home where she played in the woods behind the house, caught minnows from the creek, and had tea parties in the garden shed. She lived there for almost two years till her mother remarried and she and Aaron went to live with their mother once again.
|Saddest Memory|
That would probably be watching her mother break down and cry in front of her father when he said that he was leaving. It hurt her to see her mother practically begging him to stay. Then her father just turning his back on her, walking out the door leaving his wife sobbing in the middle of the living room floor.
{"You want to know about my past? Pssh... oookay I warned you though". }
| History |
Allie's life has been pretty mediocre compared to some people's of that we're sure but someones own problems always seems like the biggest in the world when it's happening to you. So I guess, when Allie says her childhood was kind of fucked up in her opinion she's right. Her parents married young when they were both in college, when money was scarce and true love kept the pair together or so it appeared to everyone outside of the household. About a year or two after the pair got married, Carol gave birth to their first child, Allie's brother Aaron. Carol quit college at that point to stay at home with him and Allie's father David continued through college. Those were simpler times, Allie's mother always said when Aaron was two David landed a job in DC with a a big company that worked with the government.
A God send for the poor college pair, but as time went along things started to drift apart between them. Carol was beginning to think that her marriage was going to end. Then the news that she thought would change things for the better, she was pregnant. It was special for her because her son now eight years old wasn't a baby anymore and the thought of having a new little life in the house was promising for her. However that wasn't the case for her husband David, it seemed like the further she got along in the pregnancy the more he stayed away on business. Hoping that thing might change after the birth of the baby, Carol tried to accommodate her reluctant husband.
When Allie was born there was a short period where David looked like he might actually like the thought of being a father again. But as the years passed and Allie hit the age of three it was back to being gone for weeks on end, until finally the damn broke. Carol confronted, David with phone calls, women's apparel that were obviously not hers and the nail in the coffin her phoning his office and finding out he wasn't on a business trip, but had taken vacation days... without his family. It as nothing to him to just shrug and not deny any of what was blatantly obvious and had been going on for several years. And in another devastating blow to Allie's mother, that he had been planning on leaving after Aaron's next birthday. Carol broke down in front of him and cried, asking what she had done, and why he was destroying the family. He couldn't really give any other explanation other than he felt trapped, and after his sad reason for an excuse he turned his back on Carol and walked out the door leaving her sobbing in middle of the living room floor. Now to a young three year old's eyes this was just cruel. Allie never could see her father in the light she had once before, after watching him crush her mother's heart she really couldn't trust him.
Carol could hardly handle the divorce, and the loss of who she thought was her true and only love. She had always said, "Yeah we had our bad times, and arguments just like any other couple, but I was completely blindsided by this. I just never could dream of doing anything to him like he did to me, and for what a young intern or some foreign escort." Allie's mother became very depressed after this point, and not wanting her children to see her in this state she sent them to live with her mother Baltimore. Allie didn't at all understand what was going on, all she knew was she had just lost her father, and now her mother was sending her and her brother away. For a long time, Allie resented her mother for this, and felt like everything the divorce, her mother's sadness, everything was some how her fault. Granted this is a feeling that lots of children have when their parents divorce, but like I said before, when the problems are your own they seem like so much of a bigger deal than someone else's.
Life at grandma's was a cake walk compared to life with emotionally distant parents. Allie's grandmother did her best to try to make a stable life for Aaron and Allie. She was firm but loving, and many of Allie's happy early memories were spent there, Carol their mother would try to visit as much as she could. Eventually meeting a new guy, and after a couple of years they decided to get married and ultimately try to be a family once again. It was bittersweet for Allie, she loved her grandmother dearly and almost didn't want to go. But the hope of finally having a family with their mother again, she went her brother Aaron who was now thirteen was a little more apprehensive of the new addition of his stepfather Thomas Delainy. It always seemed to Allie that her brother was trying to start a fight with Tom, but Allie was glad to finally have a dad that acted like he cared about her and her mother. It was rare for Tom to not spend an evening at home, either helping her mother, or playing Allie. To her he was more of a father than her real father had even thought about doing, and that sort of relationship blossomed as Allie grew into a teen herself. Maybe it was the age difference, maybe it was the fact that Aaron spent more time with David than Allie had. But it got to the point where Aaron was just out right rebelling against their mother and especially Tom. Even going as far as blaming Carol of running their father away. As soon as he was eighteen he left home, Allie missed him but with Tom and her mother's support she didn't feel so alone.
School years were pretty unnerving for Allie, she wasn't athletic, she didn't play an instrument, she was the art geek girl that spent her after school time in the high schools art room drawing or panting something. She didn't have many friends outside of the art class, and she didn't really date or anything, most thought of her as kind of nerdy. Until her junior year when she met a girl named Della, Allie had always felt an attraction to girls and with the experience with her real father she really didn't want to have a relationship with a guy. In fact she had determined that guys were allot of what was wrong with America. She and Della became fast friends and fell in love just as fast. When word spread across the school or the two art class girls caught kissing int he art room after school things started to get difficult. Della was not comfortable with the fact that she was attracted to girls, and feared retaliation not only from her parents but from people at school. Allie on the other hand, as a little more open about it, and when Della decided to break things off she was a little upset. High school can be rough, and with the rumors and teasing that continued through out the year, Della transferred to another school in hopes of getting away from the bullying. All of this only fueled Allie, and she decided to become an advocate for women, lesbians, gays and bisexuals in the school. Her senior year was full of protests, rallies and petitions to the principal and the school board. Even going as far as her trying to chain herself to a cafeteria table one day in protest, which was abruptly ended by school security, a pair of bolt cutters, and a week long in school suspension. Despite all this, Allie worked hard and made good grades, which is why most of the time her punishments were lite. Allie graduated in the top ten of her class, it was at this time she decided that maybe she should tone down the protests a bit, got to college, get a good job and use that to fuel her cause.
College was hard at first, home sickness being the first, and the fact that her mother divorced her stepfather only a few months after she left home. She doesn't know how many times she's asked Tom what really happened, because her mother could never give a straight answer why she did what she did. But Tom being the type of guy he is, holds no ill will towards Carol, only saying "Why it happened doesn't matter, we just need to move forward Allie, and no matter what, you can still call me dad if you want." After a while Allie got into the college groove and actually started to enjoy herself, for the first time in her life she felt like she had control over her own destiny instead of the emotional roller coaster her entire life had been to that point. That is until she met Gavin, he worked at the bookstore on campus and was in the same art history class with Allie. The became friends at first and then their live went to the next level, and Allie realized she was in love with him. When she finally opened up to him, he admitted that the feelings were mutual, to the point that they both felt like they could spend the rest of their lives with each other. It wasn't long after that Gavin proposed and Allie accepted, it was a surprise to allot of her feminist roommates and even more of a surprise when Allie moved out and the engaged couple moved in together. All of this was happening so fast, but they both decided the wouldn't tie the not till after they both finished college.
Two, three years went by and it seemed like everything was going as planned, Allie was anticipating getting a job in the magazine business and Gavin wanted to start an internet company that specialized in mass producing art deco by new and upcoming artists. But things came to a screeching halt when Gavin's mother gave them the news that his father had died suddenly of a heart attack. Leaving his mother to care for and support his two younger brother's one of which had cerebral palsy and was confined to a wheelchair. It started out as random trips home, leaving Allie at home in the apartment by herself, then the news came that broke her heart. Gavin decided that he was going to go back home and help his mother, granted Allie understood why he did what he did. But what she didn't understand is why he cut off the engagement, she pleaded with him many times, and his explanation was that he really needed to concentrate on helping his mom with his little brothers and he didn't want the worry of leaving Allie behind in the way of that. He ended it all by telling Allie he knew that she would make it on her own, where as his mother wouldn't. So they parted ways on good terms for the most part, but Allie couldn't shake the feeling of being abandoned by someone she cared about again, as much as she didn't want to hate Gavin for leaving, and even understanding why, she still has a little resentment towards him for it.
The lasts months of college where up and down, Allie had random relationships, till she graduated. She was just below valedictorian when she graduated, but it was once again a bittersweet moment for her. A few months were spent after graduation with Allie trying to decide what she was going to do with herself now that she was finished with school, for now at least. She stayed with her mother for a while, did a bit of advertising work for her mother's boutique. Went to spend some time with Tom, had a fleeting moment of thinking that she might go to law school and become a lawyer like Tom, but after contemplating it a bit more she just didn't see herself as the judicial type after all she was the protest queen in high school. Then she decided that she would take her degree somewhere it might come in handy, she started out in staying in LA with her brother Aaron, his wife and two kids. Through out Allie's college years she and Aaron had managed to reconnect. Unfortunately she and Aaron's wife were like oil and water, Melissa had these high conservative values and often made comments about how gays, and lesbians needed some sort of medicine to 'fix' them that their way of life was unnatural. The nosy, busy body homemaker, the type of woman that grates on every one of Allie's nerves. Needless to say after a few weeks of being there, Allie was grateful to find the job in San Francisco, first year in the city was spent living in very small apartment that Allie swore someone had boarded up a body in the wall somewhere. There was always a disgusting smell she could never manage to find out where it was coming from, and it was like a roach rave party every time she turned the light out in the kitchen. Needless to say when she found the Daffodil she was elated and happy to share the apartment with three other strangers.
{"I know a song that gets on every bodies nerves! Okay I'll stop there before I drive myself crazier". }
Man, we used to be brothers, superheroes and warriors,
cowboys and indians, train drivers, everything,
rolling through the endless summers.
But everything changes, you got married, had children,
and I don't have your number, the one I can remember
is the place you used to live with your parents.
But in the stillness of the moment it takes for a polaroid picture
to capture our faces forever,
the world has turned a touch on its axis, and the only thing certain
is everything changes.
Man, they closed the Astoria at the end of last summer:
the place we earned our pedigree, scene of our victories,
a sanctuary in the centre of London.
Now they're building a railway, to drag the vanquished to Versailles,
and the singalongs go on, but they're singing different songs
in rooms that we don't know on the other side of the city.
In the stillness of the moment it takes for a polaroid picture
to capture our faces forever,
the world has turned a touch on its axis, and the only thing certain
is everything changes.
I just need a little time to take a little time with today,
to savour all the triumph and tragedy, before it slips away (before it slips away).
So let go of the little distractions,
hold close to the ones that you love,
because we won't all be here this time next year,
so while you can take a picture of us (x2)
Take a polaroid picture.
Take a picture of us to show we've been watching to see where the time goes.
So in the stillness of the moment make sure you take a polaroid picture,
and keep it with you forever,
to remind yourself that everything changes,
but there was this one time, there was this one time, when things were OK.
{"Just all the crap I had left over wrapped into one bigger piece of crap". }
|Other|
❣Roleplayed by Princess Silkiesoft. I prefer to be called Silkie❣
❣Face Claim is Allison Scagliotti❣
❣I'm pretty new to roleplaying online.❣
❣Roleplayed by Princess Silkiesoft. I prefer to be called Silkie❣
❣Face Claim is Allison Scagliotti❣
❣I'm pretty new to roleplaying online.❣
