Post by AVERY ELIZA MADDOX on Dec 20, 2011 3:09:11 GMT -5
avery eliza maddox.
freshman ,, zeta tau alpha pledge,, heterosexual (with some bi-curious tendencies) ,, perfectionist ,, minka kelly
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Avery Maddox is just eighteen years old, born on September 20th. She works as a receptionist in the athletics center and babysits two days a week for a local family.
Avery’s style is very put together. Usually she can be found in jeans and some sort of shirt appropriate for the weather, and cowboy boots. Her other accessories vary, but she always has some sort of jewelry on, or a scarf, with her nails painted and her hair done. She enjoys getting dressed up if she has an occasion to. She spends a lot of time on her appearance and takes pride in how she looks. Most of the time her clothing is more toward the modest end of the scale; she’s not really into showing off her body. She has her ears pierced only once, and does not have any tattoos.
PERSONALITY
PERFECTIONIST Avery likes everything to be perfect. Her appearance, her grades, everything, she tries to manage it to the best of her ability so that everything is perfect. In this regard, she’s also quite a neat freak. To-do lists are her bread and butter. Everything has a place, and when things aren’t in their places, she doesn’t like it. She also has a tendency to be extremely critical of herself because of this.
SUPPORTIVE Avery is supportive of those around her. She’ll do anything for a close friend. Need a paper proofread? Want someone to come to your sporting event? Collecting money for charity? Avery’s there for you. She loves serving and helping others, her friends, or those less fortunate.
PRACTICAL Avery is not a very idealistic person. She has both feet firmly rooted in reality. When new ideas are proposed, she’s among the first to find the flaws with them. She acts with her mind, not her instincts, and does what makes the most sense. Because of this, she really doesn’t like being challenged or told that she is wrong, especially when she is certain she is being reasonable.
JUDGEMENTAL Avery is not particularly accepting of those who are different from her, and most of the time she is more than willing to point it out. She tries to avoid conflict, but if something wears on her for long enough she will speak her mind about it. She has a pretty wide variety of pet peeves including: messy people, people with tons of piercings and tattoos, people with no respect for authority, and poor parenting. Sometimes this causes her to come off as insensitive, but that’s not about to stop her.
GOSSIP Avery likes knowing things about other people. She also likes talking to other people about what she knows about other people. She really shouldn’t be trusted with a secret. Secrets are a slippery slope for her. First she has to tell her best friend, just to get it off of her chest, then her mom, and then it happens to come up in conversation with a cute boy, then a stranger on the bus…
STRESSED OUT Avery typically has a very friendly demeanor, but there are certain times of the semester when she gets incredibly stressed. Her appearance, though still styled and put together, takes on a frazzled look. She has trouble focusing and concentrating and will snap at anyone for the smallest of things, usually saying something she doesn’t really mean. Stress gets to her in a bad way, come finals week, it would be best to avoid her all together.
RELIABLE If Avery says she will be somewhere or do something, she will. Because of that, she can’t stand when people are flaky or late. She’s usually early for any meeting, class, event, etc. because she absolutely cannot stand not being on time.
SOCIABLE Avery can carry on a conversation with pretty much anyone. She’s very friendly, almost to the point that it comes off as fake sometimes. She will act friendly toward people she doesn’t like, but it’s the kind that comes off as dripping in poisonous sugar, a specialty in the South.
FLIRTATIOUS Avery is a natural flirt. She jokes around with guys, bats her eyes, and knows just how to tease them. Usually she is just that, a tease. It doesn’t matter if the guy is single, has a girlfriend, or is married. Avery doesn’t consciously flirt and strategize, it’s just a part of her personality that she can’t really turn off.
EASILY INFLUENCED Avery tends to act like the people she surrounds herself with. She’s gone through as many phases and groups of friends from middle school to high school and has the pictures to prove it. The changes are a lot less drastic now that she’s grown up a bit, but if she’s around a nerdier crowd she’ll find a video game to talk about, around hipsters she’ll talk about some great band most people have never heard of, etc.
HISTORY
Avery Maddox was born and raised in Sweetwater, Texas. Her father was the mayor of the little town, and her older brother was a football star. Avery’s mother was a stay at home mom, and the family was always very close as Avery was growing up. She was babied a lot more than her brother, and thus her parents kept a closer eye on her than they did on Tucker. She also grew up around extended family with her grandparents, aunts and uncles, and many cousins living in Sweetwater and the adjacent towns.
Avery’s family was always very religious. Church on Sunday was a family tradition, with family brunch to follow. The entire region is immersed in very conservative beliefs, which Avery rarely questioned.
Avery was involved in a lot of activities throughout her schooling. Always a bright child, Avery was placed in accelerated classes at her private Christian school. She went through several “phases” from 6th through 8th grade. When she played basketball, she adopted the “ghetto” dialect. Playing softball, she was very much a preppy jock with a taste for brand names. Involved in school plays, she was a Broadway diva with dreams of going to New York City to see a show on Broadway. Once when she was interested in a boy, she even tried to learn to skateboard and dressed in skinny jeans, skate hoodies, and Converse sneakers.
Her freshman year of high school she began attending public school in Sweetwater. While the attitudes of the teachers were vastly similar, those of her fellow students were not. There was a lot more diversity at the public school. Her freshman year, she fell in with “the wrong crowd” according to her parents. Her friends were into alternative music, heavy metal, witchcraft, wearing all black, reading banned books, and alternative sexualities. One girl, in particular, took an interest in Avery. While Avery tried to maintain that they were merely friends, eventually the people pleasing side of her gave in and she and the girl were in a relationship for about two months before Avery’s parents discovered what was going on by reading Avery’s journal. They confronted her about it and she ran away from home to her best friend’s house. It wasn’t a huge deal. He brought her home before anyone even knew she was gone.
Avery tried to keep the relationship going, but the discord in her family was to great for her to deal with. As she was restricted to no phone, no internet, no television, no after school activities, and no seeing friends, Avery spent a lot of her time reading. She picked up The Ishbane Conspiracy at the library on a whim, thinking it looked dark and Satanic. As it turned out, the book was actually about how demons tempt humans away from God, and the journey back that several fictional teens made. On Christmas Eve, after finishing reading the book, Avery broke. She rededicated her life to God and vowed never to disappoint him, or her parents, ever again. She started getting more involved with her church and gradually regained the trust of her family.
The rest of high school was pretty normal for Avery. She dated boys, dressed along the conservative but casual guidelines the majority of students at Sweetwater High followed, and excelled in her schoolwork. She stayed active in theater, volleyball, student council, and was a cheerleader and rally girl for the football team.
Now in her first semester freshman year at LCU, Avery is away from the watchful eyes of her parents and her older brother. She’s had maybe one wine cooler in the bathtub while her mother was at work, has never done any drugs, and has only slept with one guy. Ever. Will her innocence remain, or will she be influenced by those around her into reinventing herself yet again? Only time will tell.
hey, so i'm TALLIE. i've been roleplaying for SEVEN YEARS now. as well as this character, i also play CARTER ST. CLAIR. you can reach me by pm is fine as well as AIM: xitsjustatangox if you need me for anything. i found HAZED AND CONFUSED by / on / from Jack and Spencer and i'm pretty glad i did. here's an example of mah skillz. (:see carter st. clair.
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[/justify]template credit to JACK of H&C.
