Olivia Jo Ingram
|| Nicknames ||
Liv/Livvy - pretty much everyone
|| Age ||
17
|| Gender ||
Female
|| Sexual Orientation ||
Heterosexual
|| Ethnicity ||
English & German
|| Face Claim ||
Emily Rudd
|| Roleplay ||
Manhattan's Social Elite
|| Played By ||
AzizaRose
Sandy blonde/light brown depending on lighting and whether or not she's washed it recently.
|| Eye Color ||
Blue
|| Skin Tone ||
Light
|| Height ||
5'5''
|| Weight ||
125 lbs
|| Tattoos ||
None, although she is open to the idea of getting a tattoo.
|| Piercings ||
Earlobes, she often wears simple studs.
|| Scars ||
None
|| Style ||
Generally comfortable but trendy, with simple layers. She has to pay for her own clothing, and therefore doesn't usually flock to boutiques for clothes after school (like many people she knows). She does, however, borrow from [the queen] and [the traitor]'s wardrobes for special occasions, and their clothes are much higher quality and more expensive than her own.
Driven, Caring, Determined, Eloquent, Loyal, Competetive
|| Personality ||
One of Olivia's mantras is "Nothing worth having comes easy," This is something she recites to herself daily, and especially when she has to do something difficult. Her dreams of going to an ivy league or private college for computer science has driven her entire personality. She is so determined to achieve the best that she often blinds herself to the more 'bland' parts of her life. Her relationship with her parents is strained because of this, but that does not mean she does not love them or the life they've worked to give her. She tends to shut them down or ignore what they have to say. As far as they know, Olivia has a few friends, but as most of them live in Manhattan, their parents would rather them not go so far to that part of town. Her parents have never questioned this, because having a daughter themselves, they understand the worry of having your child so far away in such a large, crime-filled city. Often, if her school is having an event that parents are invited to, she hides signs of it from her parents. One of her main priorities is keeping her two lives separate. Her mother and father do feel guilty that they don't lead as much of a part in their daughter's life as they wish they could, but as far as they know Olivia is getting a comprehensive education, doing her schoolwork, seems mentally stable, and spends quality time with her friends. What else could a parent wish for their child?
Because of her relationship with her parents- or lack thereof, Olivia tries to make up for it by helping out wherever she can financially. This is how her coding 'business' really turned into what it has today. She feels guilty for not living up to whatever expectations she thinks her parents have for her, and decided that something her parents would really be thankful for was money. It wasn't until she began doing it for money that she realized how much she enjoyed (and how good she was at) coding, computer design, hacking, and general computer sciences. It's almost as if her brain was wired for thest types of things.
Sometimes she snaps out of her success-induced frenzy of a life and snaps. These breakdowns are few and far between, occurring only once or twice a year, but they are extreme and sudden, and difficult for her to control. They often leave her hurt, confused, and dazed, and she has only been lucky that nobody has seen her in a manic state before. These breakdowns usually occur when there has been stress building for a long time, and then something small goes wrong, and snap. They resemble anxiety/panic attacks in how they begin, but how they affect her throughout the episode is much different. She blacks out, anywhere from ten minutes to six hours, unable to remember exactly what happened until a few days later. They leave her shaken for a few days, but she is usually able to blame her unusual behavior on sickness or a big project. She has learned to be an ally to herself, even when her own mind is against her.
Olivia is generally a good friend. Her determination to stay on top has built up a strong loyalty to her friends and family, and a healthy appetite for competition. Okay, maybe slightly unhealthy, but she is working on it! She has been surrounded by competition since she entered the social world, and has gotten quite used to it. In fact, she loves the competition. The thrill of being at the top seems to give this high. Because of her breakdowns, she will grasp at anything to make her feel good. While Olivia isn't necessarily a sore loser, she does get down on herself when she fails at something. Even if it is a game of scrabble. Some people find this annoying or rude, but she doesn't mean it in a bad way. She has trained herself to be on top, and when she doesn't achieve what she sets out to, she falls hard. Her self-esteem is almost nonexistent, once again contributing to her fragile mental status. Growing up in such a rough environment, where some weeks the only meal you get daily is school lunch because the bills were too high, is hard on a developing child. Now throw that same child in a school where social hierarchy is the largest priority to most, and put them toward the top of the pyramid. This is exactly what happened to Olivia, and now that she has tasted the sweet life of being looked up to, she is not willing to give it up. Some call it being desperate, others call it power-hungry. Whatever it is, she is not willing to change any time s oon.
Tapping her pencils/pens excessively - it is a coping mechanism, often you can see her doing this during an important test or while working on a project/essay.
Fiddling with her necklace - again, it is a coping mechanism for when she feels stressed. She usually is not aware she is doing so.
|| Likes/Loves ||
Thrill - Feeling adrenaline pump through her body is one of Olivia's favorite things. People have tried to get her to try some drugs before, to recreate that feeling, but she has never given in before. She is not completely against it, though.
Animals
The smell of a new book - With as much time as she spends studying and reading, Olivia has grown to love everything about the experience. Down to getting little papercuts on her fingers from turning the pages.
Respect
Sweets - She probably has the biggest sweet-tooth you'll ever see.
Challenges
|| Dislikes/Hates ||
Failure
Ignorance - Something she has never tolerated, but seems to be surrounded by often in today's world.
People who constantly mess with their hair
When people don't believe in her - It will make her try even harder to achieve her best.
Breakdowns
|| Strengths/Skills ||
Coding
Advanced computer programs
Test-taking
Chess
|| Weaknesses/Setbacks ||
Dancing
Overwhelming pressure
Self-image
Deep realtionships
Sharing her feelings
Revealing weakness
Antonia Nadine Ingram - Mother
Patrick Charles Ingram - Father
|| History ||
Olivia comes from a much different background than her classmates, not only financially. She was raised in an apartment above her parent's coffee shop, for starters. Not exactly the Manhattan penthouse her friends are used to. The bills were high and the income low. For her thirteenth birthday, Olivia's parents gave her a crappy little ASUS laptop. She was thrilled. It was on this laptop that Olivia discovered she could manipulate data in her favor. She was introduced to coding and photoshop and all sorts of computer programs that seemed to just call her name. She would spend hours and hours teaching herself every little piece of information about these programs, and she eventually learned that you could make money off of website design and hacking. Thus, her online under-the-table business was born. She gets the usual clients, older folks who need a website for whatever business they have, and new business owners looking for an updated homepage from their business' website created in the late 90s. But, she also gets clients who need... riskier tasks completed. Tasks like hacking the financial records of their largest competitor, downloading all of the information, and perhaps swapping a few numbers around. Now, at first, Olivia was too scared to accept these jobs. Which is understandable, she was young at the time. But then she realized how much these people are willing to pay- or do- for some of these jobs. For example, in exchange for hacking into a certain New York congressman's email and anonymously releasing some not-so-classy emails, she received a hefty check and an iPhone 7 with a plan she didn't have to worry about. She told her parents she was paying for it herself, and despite their bewildered looks, they asked no questions.
When Olivia was accepted to Constance Billard, she realized that she could actually go somewhere in life. With the skills she had acquired and the connections she now had, (powerful businesspeople and public figures tend to keep their hackers closer than their enemies), she would be able to get a scholarship to a good college and live the life she had always planned for herself. At first, this new school was terrifying. All of her classmates had been in the spotlight for years, learned social etiquette when they were seven, and had friendships rooted so deep not even God himself could possibly separate them. But maybe it was the appeal of a strange new girl, or possibly her academics, or maybe (just maybe) her personality? Who knows, but Olivia rose to the top. She got close with the higher-ups, and got so close that they would have sleepovers and do all of the typical girly things. Problems arose when her friends began to question why none of these hangouts or sleepovers never seemed to happen at Olivia's penthouse suite in the Upper East Side. That's when the story began, and it went a little something like so;
Olivia's mom is a very avant-garde famous artist. She is so secretive about her work that even her own family isn't allowed to see her paintings until they were finished, and she goes by an alias (so as not to attract too much attention, of course) that she won't tell anybody besides her manager. She is so crazy about her work that her studio is completely off-limits to everyone except herself, and Olivia isn't even allowed to have friends over in case they see her mother's paintings and leaked her methods, or worse, her ideas. Her father is a major shareholder in some South American hotel chain, and is gone often on business trips. Perhaps if her father was home she could convince him to let her have friends over, but alas, the longest amount of time he has been home since she can remember is a week.
Now, of course there are logistics to her story that require more than just verbal verification. Olivia does her best to keep others away from her "home," but there are cases when it would be weird to not at least bring her friends to her building. Olivia has an ongoing deal with an older doorman, Charlie, for a certain apartment building in Manhattan. She allows him to use her services for free and is currently teaching him how to use a computer, and in exchange he lets her pretend she lives in the building. She can come in whenever she needs, he will say he knows her, and she is allowed to hang out upstairs for a little while until the coast is clear for her to go home.
Living her life as she does is stressful and difficult, and she often thinks about what it would be like if she were to just come clean... But even she knows that that is very unlikely. The only people who know about her true background are [the traitor] and [the sweetheart], something that she would like to keep quiet. With a vision of gold and sparkles, a university degree, and power in her future, she cannot be dragged down to the bottom by her humble beginnings.
|| Character Sheet ||
Starlight Princess
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|| Dialogue ||
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