Charlotte Marie Ross
Nickname:
Charlie
Age:
17
Birthday:
August 10th
Gender:
Female
Sexuality:
Bisexual (Closeted, since she refuses to acknowledge that she might be anything other than straight)
Hometown:
Killeen, TX (0 - 2)
Okinawa, Japan (2 - 3)
Brooklyn, NY (3 - 5)
Pueblo, CO (5 - 6)
Ansbach, Germany (6 - 9)
Columbia, SC (9 - 13)
Killeen, TX (13 - 15)
Columbia, SC (15 - 17)
Beacon Hills, CA (17 - Current)
Positive Character Traits:
Intelligent, Composed, Flexible
Negative Character Traits:
Reserved, Guarded, Traditional
Personality:
Charlotte has never had many friends, so there aren't many people who know who she actually is. Sometimes she wonders if she even knows who she is, since she feels like she lives more in her head than she does in real life. Because she's so used to moving from place to place, she has never made an effort to invest herself in relationships. There was never any point, since she knew it would hurt more if she made friends than had to leave, than if she just kept all of her relationships at the surface level. It's led to her being a quiet and reserved person. She's not exuberant or extraordinarily bubbly around people and would be described as being more shy than outgoing. Since she never "tried" in terms of forming friendships with her peers, she's more innocent than most of her peers in a lot of the social categories. She's never been to a real high school party, never had a sip of alcohol, never smoked, and has never even had a first kiss. They're not things that she would boast about, considering she actually is embarrassed by them, but she also tries not to blame herself for it. It's not her fault that she never got to have a normal friend group, or life, for that matter.
Likes:
Normalcy and routine, shopping, summer weather, dogs, babies, art, movies (especially romance and comedy ones), Yankee Candle, the beach, swimming, vanilla, cookies & cream ice cream, Sicilian pizza, barbecues, New York City, reading
Dislikes:
Instability, horror movies, clowns, being surprised, roller coasters and thrill rides, heights, airports, peanuts, public swimming pools, Kanye West, fast food, needles, sci-fi, reality television
History:
Charlotte grew up as an only child to married pair, David and Stacy Ross. Her upbringing wasn't traditional, but only in the sense that her family moved around frequently due to her father's career in the military. By the time that she was twelve, she had lived in four states, plus Germany and Japan for a year a piece. Her parents insisted that it was better that they all move together as a family unit, rather than allow David to move around alone and separate from his family. For a while, Charlie believed this, but as she got older, she wanted normalcy. She wanted an address that she would have for more than six months, and friends who she would be around for long enough where friendships would be worthwhile. She hated how frequently she had to be "the new girl" again in schools and how no matter where she went, she never felt like she really belonged. Everyone already had friends and a life rooted in that town, and since she knew she wouldn't be there for more than a few months or a year, she never invested herself in any one place or person. There was never a point.
She was fifteen when her father went on his third and final overseas deployment, and sixteen when he returned. Her promise to her when he left was that that was going to be their final move. They would remain in the South Carolina town that she and her mother lived in while he was in Kuwait, until she decided to go off to college. It was a promise that Charlotte needed, and it allowed her to go into her sophomore year at a new high school with motivation to make friendships and relationships, because for once, she was promised that she wouldn't be torn away from them. Judging by her current residency in Beacon Hills, California, you can safely assume that that promise was broken. It wasn't because her father's job aspirations forced him to California, but for a much less anticipated reason. Unbeknownst to Charlotte, her mother had been having an affair throughout her father's entire deployment to Kuwait and when he returned, she decided that she wanted to be with this other man for good. Charlotte had little say in who she would live with, since once the divorce papers were signed, her mother moved to Florida with the man. Although she did, she knew deep down that she couldn't blame her father for wanting to move out of their South Carolina home and start over somewhere new. How could someone make a life in the home that had given life to his wife's affair? So... off they were again, but this time, just as a family of two, and not three. Her father found a job through an old friend who owned an auto body shop a few towns over from Beacon Hills, so this summer, he began to work there after purchasing a house for he and Charlotte in Beacon Hills.
Face Claim:
Taylor Marie Hill
Height:
5'5
Weight:
120 lbs
Hair Color:
Brown
Eye Color:
Green
Miscellaneous:
She has no tattoos. Her ears have standard piercings. She is a lefty.
