And I don’t even like character sheets. I mean, not the stupid ones that ask you what your character’s favorite type of animal is, but I like this one. And I think it’d be cool to do another one. This is the same idea as the one Charles comes from, and is actually his foil. Well, here she is.
Full name of Character: Roseanne Baker
Reason, meaning or purpose behind the name: Family name from her mother’s side
Nickname: Rosie when she was younger, Rose on occasion
Reason for nickname: Time.
Occupation: Until recently, she was a student advisor at the Academy, helping new kids get settled in. Now she’s been recruited to help find the group of runaways. Social class: Lower-middle class, originally.
Appearance
Age: 18.
How old they appear: Younger, maybe about sixteen. Eye Color: Green
Glasses or contacts? Neither
Hair color length and style: Blonde, curly, down to her chin.
Weight and height: 100, 5′5″.
Type of body (build): slender
Skin tone and type (i.e., harry, slimy, scaly, oily, fair, burns easily): Fair, freckled.
Shape of face: Round baby face.
Distinguishing marks (dimples, moles, scars, birthmarks, etc.): Freckles, some small moles.
Predominant feature: Her smile.
Is s/he healthy? Yes.
If not, why not? Or why are they healthy? Exercise, balanced diet.
Do they look healthy? Why/why not? Yes.
Favorites
favorite color: Pink.
Least favorite, why? Orange.
Music? Light jazz and romantic.
Least favorite music? Boring or sad music.
Food: cake
Literature: Fluffy romance novels.
Expressions: Not sure.
Expletives (curse): Son of a bitch. But she only says it when she has to.
Mode of transport: Zeppelin or car.
Hobbies: dance, music, theatre, novels, art How do they spend a rainy day? Reading, talking to friends on the telephone, sketching, listening to music.
Personality
Are they a daredevil or cautious? She likes trying new things, but she isn’t exactly a thrill-seeker.
Do they act the same alone as when with someone? She’s calmer and more serious when she’s alone.
Habits: Biting her lip, giggling when nervous, talking too much. Drinks: Milk, water, juice, occasionally white wine. How much: However much she needs.
Greatest Strength: Her ability to fool people into thinking she’s stupid. Also, she’s very good at making friends with people. Greatest Weakness: She can get too attached to people, although she generally gets over it. Being too forward. Annoying people. Soft spot: She has a lot of minor soft spots (children, animals, her friends), but she rarely lets them get control of her. Is their soft spot obvious, why/why not: It can be pretty obvious, when she wants it to be. Otherwise, she can usually ignore it.
If not, how do they hide it: If she wants to hide it, she just represses it.
Biggest Vulnerability: Compassion, neediness
Background
Hometown: Not sure. Haven’t quite figured out where, exactly, they are.
Type of childhood: Happy. Her family were frustrating, but loving.
First Memory: Her dog, Missy, running away.
Most important child hood event that still effects him/her: When she discovered her powers at age twelve. Why? Because she was taken to Boot Camp, where she was initially excluded from the group, but then she met Charles.
Education: The Academy, aka Boot Camp
Religion: Christian-ish.
Finances: She has enough money to get by for now, but she’s far from rich.
Family
Mother: Iris Baker, nee James
Relationship with her: Used to be close, but drifted apart after she left home.
Father: Richard Baker.
Relationship with him: Same.
Siblings, How many, relationship with each: Mark, 30, distant because he left home when she was 3
Children of siblings: Elizabeth, 12.
Other extended family: Two aunts, Roseanne and Lilly, on her mother’s side.
Close? Why or why not: Used to be close, because they all lived in the same village. However, they lost contact when Roseanne went to the Academy.
Attitude
Most at ease when: She’s among friends, and can speak freely.
Most ill at ease when: She needs to watch herself, or when she doesn’t know what to do.
Priorities: Get a good job, be happy, get married, have children.
Philosophies: Everyone has a good side. Of course, everyone has a bad side, as well.
How they feel about themselves: She’s a little insecure, and cares too much about what other people think, but she’s generally happy.
Past failure they would be embarrassed to admit: Whenever she was mean to someone.
Why? She doesn’t want anyone to know how cynical she can be.
If granted one wish what would it be, why? That she could be friends with everybody.
Traits
Optimist or pessimist? Why? She likes to pretend that she’s an optomist, but really she’s quite cynical.
Introvert or extrovert? Why? Extrovert. She loves to be seen, and always manages to place the focus on her.
Drives and motives: She wants to be liked. But, failing that, she’d like a good job, a nice husband, and a big house.
Talents: Roseanne is actually quite intellegent, and is very good at pretending she isn’t. She can usually charm most people. She’s a Mirror, meaning that she can reflect magic away from her and onto the caster.
Extremely skilled at: ettiquette, conversation, tactics, taking charge
Extremely unskilled at: not talking, taking things seriously
Good characteristics: smart, sociable, cheerful
Character flaws: vain, cynical, shallow, ditzy, needy
Mannerisms: giggling when nervous, playing with her hair, biting her lip
Peculiarities: has little to no qualms about shooting someone, but gets upset if someone doesn’t like her
Biggest regret: I don’t know.
Minor regrets: Several — mostly being mean to people she wanted to impress.
Biggest accomplishment: Graduating from Boot Camp intact.
Minor accomplishments: Graduating from cotillion, getting a job in the Academy.
Darkest secret: She’s not as nice as she pretends to be.
Does anyone know? A few people can guess, but mostly it’s a secret.
How did they find out: Just a general feeling, or a few comments she lets slip.
Self-perception
One word they would use to describe themselves: Likeable.
One paragraph of how they would describe themselves: I’m Roseanne. I’m happy, friendly, and nice. Well, mostly nice. Sometimes I can be kind of mean, but it’s only because people are being annoying. I do try and make everyone happy.
What do they consider their best physical characteristic and why: Smile, because it can both brighten up someone’s day, and it can hide her true thoughts.
The worst one? Why? Her freckles, because it ruins her complexion.
Are they realistic assessments? Her freckles aren’t that bad.
How they think others preserve them: Friendly or annoying, depending on the person.
What four things would they most like to change about themselves: Her freckles, her nervous habits
Why? She thinks her freckles are ugly, and she thinks her nervous habits make her look undignified.
If they were changed would they be the same person, why/why not: Yes, because what she’d change about herself is completely superficial.
Would changing of number 1 make them more happy? Why/why not: No. She’d probably just find something else to fixate on.
Interaction With Other People
How do they relate to others: She’s normally friendly and open with new people, and talks with them. However, she can also be more reserved, on occasion.
How are they perceived by strangers: Overly friendly, sometimes annoying, ditzy.
Friends: Her friends sense that she’s smarter than she lets them know, but they’re mostly actually dumb. They think she’s nice and cheerful. Charles understands her the best, seeing her intellegence and cynicism, but he isn’t her “friend”.
Wife/husband/lover: Mostly the same as her friends.
The Hero/Heroine: They see her as a vacuous upperclassman, and then she joins the search for them. When she socializes with Laura, Laura finds her intellegent and charming, but then sees her darker side. How do they view the Hero/Heroine: She likes Laura because she’s good conversation. She pities Ken, but she doesn’t let that affect her job. She doesn’t care one way or the other for Andrew or Jay.
What do people like most about this char: She is nice and helpful.
What do they dislike most about them: She appears superficial, and her cheerfulness and neediness can be irritating.
Goals
Immediate: To capture Ken and his friends and return them to his superiors.
Long term: To get married to someone important and have a family.
How do they plan to accomplish them: She will help Charles capture Ken, which should make her known. Then she will meet people and become important in society.
How will others be effected by this: Ken and the others will have to be killed.
Problems/Crisis
How do they react in a crisis: She buckles down, assesses the situation, and makes a decision.
How do they face problems: She approaches them systematically and tries to figure out a solution.
Kind of problems they usually run into: Navigating through her social circle’s personal problems, dealing with the new recruits to Boot Camp, tactical problems in battle.
How they react to new problems: She calms down and figures out a solution as quickly as she can.
How they react to change: She takes it in stride and uses it to her advantage.
General:
Favorite clothing, why: Her pink dress, because it goes with her hair and looks good with her skin.
Least favorite, why: Her uniform, because it does nothing for her figure and clashes with her complexion.
Jewelry: She has a gold ring which her mother gave her. She wears it most of the time.
Other accessories: A purse, a gun.
Drives: She is eager to please, and also to better her social status.
Where do they live: At the Academy.
Where do they want to live: In a big house.
Spending habits, why: She loves clothes, but she can only go shopping every once in a while, because she doesn’t have much money left over from her job.
What do they do too much of, why: Talk and spend money on clothes.
Most prized possession, why: Her ring, because her mother gave it to her.
People they secretly admire, why: She admires Charles and his ability to keep his emotions all the time.
Person they are most influenced by, why: I don’t know.
Most important person in their life before story starts, why: I don’t know.
How do they spend the week just before the story starts: Helping new recruits to Boot Camp and talking with her friends.
Just imagine her as Glinda, only slightly more psychotic.
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