Post by Pasture Puff on Nov 19, 2010 22:08:53 GMT
PLAYBY: Ann Kenny
FULL NAME: Tiffany Devine
NICKNAMES: Tiff
AGE: 17 years old
GENDER: Female
ETHNICITY: American
STUDENT OR STAFF: Student
HALL: Dakota
PERSONALITY: Tiffany finds it hard to fit in outside of her group of close friends. She hates being the centre of attention and looking dumb in front of other people. While most kids her age are off partying and hooking up, Tiffany spends a lot of time with her head buried in a book.
She has a good head on her shoulders, having been raised in a single-parent family. A compulsive list maker, Tiffany plans to go to college one day to become a veterinarian like her father. She is a constant worrier, and bites her fingernails when she’s upset or nervous, especially when it comes to her future. A perfectionist, Tiffany pushes herself to be the best.
She is acutely aware of other people’s scrutiny, and struggles with a poor sense of self-esteem. She puts herself under constant pressure and always has so much on her plate, her father and teachers are worried she will burn herself out if she doesn’t take a break.
BACKGROUND: Tiffany was born in a little town in the south of Kentucky. Her mother left her father when she was only a kid, and so Tiffany grew up following him around in his truck as he went from track to track, treating some of the most famous racehorses in the States at the time.
Tiffany was only in her first years of primary school when her father and one of his buddies, put her up on the back of an old exercise horse and led her around the track. She still has the photo by her bedside table.
When she got older, Tiffany had to stay home and go to school while her father worked. Her elderly neighbour became her baby-sitter and was fondly referred to as an ‘adoptive grandmother’. In many ways, the old woman became a mother figure for Tiffany, and until her death, they were extremely close.
The start of high school was difficult for Tiffany. It was an hour trip every day by bus, and it took her a long time to make friends. She often sat alone in the library during lunch, or volunteered for projects none of the other kids in her class would do. Eventually she became close to a couple of girls enough to sit with them at the cafeteria, and tag along on trips to the mall. But Tiffany found it hard to relate to them when they giggled about some boy or rolled their eyes at their latest substitute teacher, and truthfully, she preferred her own company.
Always an honour roll student, Tiffany was constantly working on extra credit projects or volunteering for some student group or another. In parent interviews she always received growing praise for her academic achievements, but her teachers voiced their concerns that she was taking on too much. Her father agreed, but when he tried to broach the subject with Tiffany they had a big fight, and she refused to talk to him for a week.
As she got older, Tiffany started going with her father on the weekends and after school to get up some hours of experience. Tiffany discovered the horse on the backstretch after she’d helped her father euthanize a colicking horse. He’d placed last in a cheap claiming race and pulled up lame. The trainer told her he was being sent on a one way trip. With only two-hundred dollars in her pocket, she offered to take the horse right then and there. Though he raised his eyebrows, the trainer signed a bill of sale on an old receipt, and Tiffany became the owner of a broken down racehorse.
Her father jokingly nicknamed the horse ‘Alpo’ since he had been such a spectacular failure on the track. Surprisingly, the name stuck, even though Alpo turned out to be as good at jumping as he was as bad at racing. Tiffany put in many long, hard hours with the horse, taking on less schoolwork and dropping out of after school clubs and weekend group meetings; so that she could spend more time focusing on showing.
It was her father that found the article in one of the horse magazines he subscribed to. He left it for his daughter to find, but she only exclaimed at the price of a plane ticket and the idea that it would be nothing more than a bunch of blue-blooded snobs prancing about on their equally blue-blooded horses. However, that same night Tiffany calculated the cost of buying a ticket and actually living overseas for a year. She took on a part-time job at the mall, and saved every pay check and tip, hoping to have enough to at least buy the plane ticket over. In a year she was only halfway there, but then on her birthday, her father presented her with a cheque to cover the rest of the costs.
He told her, it had been left by her mother, and although at first Tiffany refused to have anything to do with it, she finally changed her mind. So at in the final days of second term, Tiffany handed in all her work early, and by the weekend, was on a plane heading out over the ocean.
MISC.: None
I can't wait to she what she gets up to.