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Character’s full name: Eliza Christine White
Reason or meaning of name: Her name has no real significance. Her initials spell ECW (a branch of WWE) and White is the “opposite” of black.
Character’s nickname: Eli
Reason for nickname: Eli just sounds cuter! She thinks that Eliza makes her sound old fashioned.
Birth date: July 14th

Physical appearance
Age: 17
How old does he/she appear? She looks like every other seventeen year old.
Weight: 135 lbs
Height: 5’ 5
Body type: Hourglass
Shape of face: Somewhere between round, and oval
Eye color: Hazel
Glasses or contacts: None
Skin tone: Light
Distinguishing marks: None
Predominant features: Her eyes are a little too large for her face. They are dark green with little gold/brown specks. Her eyes are her unique feature.
Hair color: Light Brown
Type of hair: Medium Wavy
Hairstyle: Usually straightened. Style usually varies from ponytail to pushed back with a headband. Sometimes left unstraightened depending on how lazy she is on a particular morning.
Voice: Middle pitch
Overall attractiveness: Probably middle of the run. She has natural beauty.
Physical disabilities: None
Usual fashion of dress: Regular clothing: Jeans, band tee-shirts, sweatshirts
Favorite outfit: A pair of grey jeans, a purple sweatshirt with a cartoon kitten head sewn into it, and old battered sneakers.
Jewelry or accessories: Earrings, and a cross necklace.

Personality
Good personality traits: Thoughtful (Caring, cautious, quiet) and Loyal.
Bad personality traits: Shy, submissive, and paranoid
Mood character is most often in: A place between neutral and happy
Sense of humor: Pretty good, although she tends to miss sarcastic comments
Character’s greatest joy in life: Taking care of her kitten Tipsy
Character’s greatest fear: Getting left behind and left out
Why? She has a lot of trouble making friends and recently went through a breakup with her boyfriend. She’s a little on the depressed side and is afraid that it will happen again.
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil? Probably going through another breakup, or her parents getting divorced. Basically anything having to do with her or her family would send her off the deep end.
Character is most at ease when: She’s at school with her friends
Most ill at ease when: She’s at home
Enraged when: People make sarcastic comments about her. She tends to miss them and her feelings get hurt so she fights back.
Depressed or sad when: Thinking about her ex-boyfriend
Priorities: Being popular, winning back her ex, and taking care of Tipsy.
Life philosophy: “If you’re not popular, you’re no one.”
If granted one wish, it would be: Her wish would be to be popular
Why? It’s every high school girls wish to be popular. She just wants to be surrounded by people and be appreciated.
Character’s soft spot: Kittens and other cute fluffy animals
Is this soft spot obvious to others? It’s rather obvious due to her favorite sweatshirt. People usually don’t’ ask her too much about it.
Greatest strength: Her ability to calm herself down and put on a happy act.
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: She gets attached to people quickly and that’s why she’s moping after her breakup. He’s her weakness too.
Biggest regret: Not trying hard enough at her relationship
Minor regret: Not convincing her mom to let her get a puppy
Biggest accomplishment: Getting Tipsy
Minor accomplishment: Surviving Middle School
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: She mostly failed in her classes the term before.
Why? Her parents are the type to badger her about getting good grades and it stresses her out. She also does not want people to think she is stupid.
Character’s darkest secret: Eli has taken money from her mother’s purse
Does anyone else know? Nope

Goals
Drives and motivations: Society and Animals motivate and drive her
Immediate goals: Get back with her ex, get into the popular crowd, and get her grades back up
Long-term goals: Pass High School and go to Veterinary school
How the character plans to accomplish these goals: She doesn’t really have a plan: A go with the flow sort of thing.
How other characters will be affected: No one would really be effected. Her parents would be proud of her for passing her classes again.

Past
Hometown: Dawson Creek, British Columbia in Canada
Type of childhood: Average. Her parents always pushed her to do her best and everything. Her parents argued once and a while but they always made up by going to dinner or something. Both her parents worked so she was usually with a babysitter.
Pets: She wasn’t allowed to have pets when she was a kid. Too much responsibility says her parents.
First memory: Her mother’s smiling face (who knows when the memory is from)
Most important childhood memory: The first day of school
Why: The first day of school was more than she had ever expected. She met some of her friends and got to know a lot of her classmates. Today everyone is different but she won’t forget how happy she was to have so many friends.
Childhood hero: Scooby Doo
Dream job: To be a Veterinarian
Education: Kindergarten, Elementary School, Middle school, and some High School
Religion: Roman Catholic
Finances: Finances have never been a real issue before

Present
Current location: Dawson Creek
Currently living with: Father and Mother
Pets: Tipsy, a nine month old kitten
Religion: Roman Catholic
Occupation: Works in a coffee shop on weekends
Finances: Still not much of an issue, although now she has to buy everything (except food) herself.

Family
Mother: Shannon White
Relationship with her: They’re on friendly terms although they have their arguments.
Father: Robert “Bob” White
Relationship with him: They’re on okay terms. They mostly talk about her falling grades
Siblings: Allan White
Relationship with them: Allan could be considered Eli’s best friend. He is 20 years old and is in college, so they do not have many chances to talk.
Other important family members: Granny White – She lives the next town over and visits often.

Favorites
Color: Olive
Least favorite color: Black
Music: Alternative Rock (Nirvana rules!)
Food: Spicy
Literature: Science Fiction and Gothic
Form of entertainment: Television
Expressions: biggrin LAWLS
Mode of transportation: Bicycle
Most prized possession: Her purple kitten sweatshirt. It was a Christmas present from her grandparents.

Habits
Hobbies: Cooking, Listening to music, and spending hours on myspace.com, and reading
Plays a musical instrument? Air Guitar
Plays a sport? Nope
How he/she would spend a rainy day: Sitting inside playing with Tipsy and reading
Spending habits: Tends to spend most of her money on books and the rest on clothing
Smokes: No
Drinks: No
Other drugs: None
What does he/she do too much of? She spends to much time trying to get into the inn crowd
What does he/she do too little of? She does not spend enough time with her real friends
Extremely skilled at: Paying attention to minor details
Extremely unskilled at: Realizing reality
Nervous tics: She tends to drum her fingers when she’s nervous or bob her knee
Usual body posture: Leaning back, shoulders slightly slouched with her hands in the pockets of her sweatshirts/jeans. Tends to favor weight on her left leg.
Mannerisms:
Peculiarities: She tends to pop her cheek out when she listens to people talking

Traits
Optimist or pessimist? Pessimist
Introvert or extrovert? Introvert
Daredevil or cautious? Cautious
Logical or emotional? Emotional
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat? Methodical Messy
Prefers working or relaxing? Working. Sometimes Relaxing is boring
Confident or unsure of himself/herself? A comfortable place in-between
Animal lover? Yup

Self-perception
How he/she feels about himself/herself: She’s usually disappointed with herself. A lot of stuff goes wrong in life and she blames it on herself.
One word the character would use to describe self: Concerned
One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: “I’m a nobody. I have my friends but no one knows why I am. I stand by, listen, and don’t talk. People wouldn’t listen to what I have to say anyway. No one cares that I like animals and no one cares that I want to go to the United States to study. High School is about how you look and who your friends are. You really don’t matter in the end.”
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait? “I think before I act. I’m not going to do something so stupid that I mess up my life.”
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait? “I don’t stand up for myself. Sometimes I wish I could just tell someone to shut their mouth. Then again, I’d have a lot of people who would hate my guts.”
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic? “He always said I had beautiful eyes. It’s always the first thing I see in the mirror and they’re the only part of me I don’t want to change.”
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic? “My hands. I have scratched from Tipsy and I bite my nails too short. Plus, my fingers are all short. They just look ugly.”
How does the character think others perceive him/her: “I have no idea how other people see me. I hope they see someone who would be nice to hang out with and converse with.”
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: “A lot. I want to be that one in a million person who everyone wants to be friends with. Who wants to be no one their whole life?”

Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: People are mostly alright. Then again you run across those kids who are going to ruin their lives by partying.
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others? Mostly. She’s afraid her real opinion will offend people so she doesn’t usually voice it. She wants to be liked, and offending people will not get her there.
Person character most hates:
Best friend(s): Allen White
Love interest(s): Peter Kingston (Ex), Jacob Black
Person character goes to for advice: Her Brother and Tipsy
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: Tipsy
Person character feels shy or awkward around: Jacob Black (sometimes)
Person character openly admires: Tracey Fitchburg, the most popular girl at school
Person character secretly admires: Jacob, for his openness
Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Peter Kingston
After story starts: Jacob and herself.