Full Name:
Carolina Jasmine Daily

Nickname:
Carrie {family}

Birthday:
March 5th

Age:
17

Sexual Orientation:
Bisexual

Grade Level:
12

Hometown:
Harlem, NY {Birth - 3 weeks}
Little Italy, NY {3 weeks - 4 years}
Lower Manhattan {4 years - 17 years}
Upper East Side {17 years - Present}

Character Role:
The Bookworm

Family:
Nancy Reeve | Foster Mother | | 53 years old | FC: Caroline Goodall
Nancy is Carolina's foster mother. She is the biological mother to Nicole Reeve, but after divorcing her father and finding out that she could no longer bare children of her own, she decided to foster. The government stipends that she received each month for Carolina, in addition to her RN salary, helped keep their family afloat and was the only reason why she did not choose to formally adopt Carolina. Nancy was and is a good mother to her, but after finding out that her own mother was gravely ill, decided that she had to look out for her biological family first and decided that she needed to relocate to Florida. Since Carolina is still in the foster care system, she could not leave with Nancy, nor did she want to. So, rather than being placed into a stranger's home, they arranged for Nancy's daughter, Nicole, to take custody of her.

Nicole Reeve | Foster Sister | 27 years old | FC: Brittany Snow
Although Carolina and Nicole are clearly not biological sisters, they act like they are. Carolina spent most of her childhood with Nicole, and even when she ran off to LA to pursue her acting career, they still spoke regularly on the phone. Carolina is close with her and although she isn't the biggest fan of her relationship with Adrian, she'll deal with it if it makes her sister happy.

Home Life:
Carolina was born into an unfit home, or so CPS thought, when they removed her at just three weeks old. Her mother, Amber, was one of the many people stuck in the family cycle of poverty, and after Carolina's father found out she was pregnant, he abandoned her. Amber had the support of her parents, but both of them worked dead end, minimum wage jobs due to the lack of a college education, and high school education on her father's party. She was one of six children and keeping Carolina in the household just wasn't a possibility. There wasn't enough money, time or energy to care for a newborn baby and if Amber wanted any chance of breaking free from poverty herself, she couldn't have the burden of a child holding her back. So, the family did not contest when CPS removed Carolina from the home and placed her in foster care.

Carolina sees herself as being lucky, because instead of being shuffled around from home to home, she only went through three, and two of them occurred between the ages of three weeks and four years old. By the time that she could really comprehend what family meant, she was living in a small apartment in lower Manhattan with Nancy Reeve, a registered nurse, and her daughter, Nicole Reeve, who was ten years older than her. Carolina bonded to the two woman very quickly and if adoption didn't mean the government stipends would stop, Carolina would have been legally a part of the family as well. Technicalities didn't matter emotionally, though. She became just as much of a daughter to Nancy as Nicole was, and Nicole became the older sister that Carolina would look up to. When she thinks of their little apartment, she likes to recall the plants that lined the windowsills in the spring, and waking up to the smell of banana bread on a Sunday morning. Being yelled at for spilling a bottle of nail polish on their new carpet, but cuddling next to her mother on the couch hours later to watch that week's American Idol episode. The bottom of their Christmas tree never overflowed with presents, but the love and and warmth in the house made up for it. They were family, and even though she didn't have the easiest start in life, things were happy in their household. That's the way that Carolina likes to remember it.

Nicole moved out when she was eighteen and Carolina was eight. She didn't go to college, as Nancy insisted, and instead, moved out to LA where her biological father resided. She shuffled too and from NY over the next seven years, only returning to New York for good when she claimed that she met "the one". Carolina and Nancy knew very little about this Prince Charming, aside from the fact that he was very wealthy and insisted that he could help make Nicole a star. Both of them thought it was rubbish , until they learned the mystery man was Adrian Lynch, one of the wealthiest men in the world and the father of Carolina's classmate. The admiration for his wealth wasn't enough to bypass the fact that he was probably old enough to be Nicole's father, but she seemed genuinely happy, so Nancy and Carolina eventually learned to be happy for her.

Carolina's story shifted only a couple of weeks ago, when Nancy got a call from a nursing home in Florida, claiming that her mother's health was declining. Carolina's grandmother had been diagnosed with dementia quite a while ago, but it was apparent that it was now taking over. Nancy was the only child to the woman and had to do something or else she'd feel guilty for the rest of her life. "You'll understand some day. I hope you would do the same thing for me, if this ever happens," she told Carolina when she explained that she needed to leave New York for Florida. Because it wasn't going to be a temporary trip either, Carolina was supposed to be placed back into the foster care system to find a new family to care for her until she turned eighteen. Thankfully, her sister "stepped up" and has offered to take on Carolina's guardianship until Nancy returns from Florida, or she turns eighteen. While she knows this is certainly better than having to readjust to a life with new people and places, she can't understand what she did in life to deserve having to live with Jane Lynch.

Academic Career:
Carolina has been attending Constance Billard since she was a freshman, although it's not uncommon for her to be asked if she just transferred here. She's the quite girl who prefers to sit in the back of the class, going unnoticed unless it's necessary to speak up. She's as smart as Piper or Kelley, but has no desire to stand out socially like they do. Mostly, because she knows that she isn't the type of person who would socially do well in her school. Carolina is a scholarship student and while she isn't ashamed of her humble upbringing, it's not something that she flaunts around either. If you ask, she'll tell, but if you don't, she's not going to share her sob story with you. Her extracurricular activities consist of being involved in the art club and being secretary for the student government association.

Future Plans:
Carolina is considering New York University if she gets a scholarship there, or a state school if she doesn't. She plans on majoring in medicine and wants to become a family doctor, hoping donating her skills in mission trips at some point as well.

Personality:
{Intelligent, Ambitious, Independent, Quiet, Reserved, Sarcastic, Judgmental (though, she mostly keeps those judgments in her head)}

Carolina has a reputation for being a wallflower. She's the quiet girl sitting in the back of your math class, silently acing every exam but grimacing when the teacher recognizes her for it. She's the girl who is the secretary for student government, but only won because Sydney Vale had been running a campaign against her only opponent in the election, after she spoke poorly of her. Honestly, even after three years in the school, most people don't recognize her name, or will only associate her with a mutual class they shared together. She doesn't have very many friends at Constance and is completely fine with that, because she knows just as well as her classmates that she does not fit in with their crowd. Carolina doesn't come from money or a prominent family. Her mother was a single teen mom living in the projects, not an actress, and her father was the definition of a deadbeat, not a CEO. Carolina is okay with all of this, though. While many people associate her quiet and reserved nature with her being insecure or too scared to broaden her social group, they're wrong. She knows who she is and what she's worth, and just doesn't want to deal with a bunch of spoiled rich kids trying to ruin her self-worth. Besides, she isn't naturally an extrovert anyway.

When she's around people she's comfortable with, there's definitely a flip of a switch in her personality, but no more than anyone else. She's a quiet girl, just trying to get through the day at school, the organized and studious secretary at SGA meetings, and a bubbly and fun loving girl around her mother, sister and close friends. If she's close with you, you'll realize that being quiet and timid are not interchangeable terms. Although she doesn't think that everything deserves her commentary, she doesn't let people walk all over her either. At school, most people ignore her, and she returns the favor, but when people do mistake that silence for weakness, she knows how to put them in their place. Carolina was raised being constantly told that she might be looked down upon for her skin color or her background, but that she was worth everything in the world and more. High school tested this belief for her at first, but now, by senior year, she knows that none of these kids are worth more than her (at least not financially speaking). She doesn't cross any of them simply because she doesn't care and has better things to do, not because she's bowing down to Sydney Vale and her posse. She can be spunky and adventurous, humorous and protective, when around her friends.

Hobbies:


Bad Habits:
Her worst habit is how sensitive she is to criticism or threats. If she feels like someone is belittling her or not giving her enough credit, she can't stop herself from speaking up, even if it's completely out of her character. She hates it when people mistake her quietness for weakness and can't stand being degraded for her background or appearance. She also has a tendency to push herself too hard, hates being late or when anyone else is late, and is constantly losing her pens and pencils.

Likes:
Food carts, Canal Street, Central Park, Ice skating at Rockefeller Center, Lemon scented things, Orange is the New Black, Home cooked meals, Painting, Carnival food, Snow, Target, Venturing outside of the city

Dislikes:
Racial stereotypes, Limes, Swimming in the ocean, Peanuts, Itchy sweaters, Oral presentations, Being the center of attention, Rain, Cheerios, Pigeons, Rats

Face Claim:
Bianca Lawson

Height:
5'4

Weight/Build:
110 lbs / Petite build

Hair Color:
Brown

Eye Color:
Brown

Dialogue Color:
#11AD81