Post by ayla on Oct 31, 2010 20:54:27 GMT
PLAYBY: Candice Accola
FULL NAME: Jacqueline Aubrey
NICKNAMES: Jacqui
AGE: 18
GENDER: Female
ETHNICITY: English
STUDENT OR STAFF: Student
HALL: Dakota
PERSONALITY: When people meet Jacqui for the first time, they assume she is either a modest, kind girl or a stuck-up brat. Truthfully, she doesn't fall neatly into either stereotype, but she is more the latter than the former.
Jacqui is vain, to say the least. She cares overly much about her appearance, whether by nature or nurture. She will always be the first to judge someone else based on their looks, and sticks by this first impression no matter what. She is drawn to big, pretty things and will always pick the handsome bastard over any homely sweetheart. She finds modesty distasteful in most people.
She is also quick tempered, which gives her a bit of a hotheaded reputation at home. She finds fault in many things and is driven to correct them, although she prefers to delegate the work to someone else. She doesn't go out of her way to do more work, to say the least. People have called her lazy, but that's one thing Jacqui truly is not. It may seem that way, but given a task she can't pawn off, she will always do it well and in a timely manner. She hates it when something is left undone, and if it happens, she will often do it herself.
Jacqui isn't prone to extreme emotions, and although not the proverbial rock, she very rarely gets into an all-out rage. She isn't given to flights of fancy, and is very much in control of her outward emotions. It's difficult to tell when she's sad, since Jacqui absolutely hates when random people ask her if she's okay.
BACKGROUND: Jacqui's parents are quite possibly the best ones Jacqui could hope for. Her father, John, is a successful designer, the main breadwinner for the family. Her mother is a renowned horse trainer, specializing in jumpers. Jacqui had the luck to be born into the perfect family, at least for her purposes.
Granted, John and Kelley are free spirits, late hippies if you will, and although they are good at what they do, they've never been good at parenting. Jacqui grew up in a house (thankfully with no siblings) where she was given basically free reign. She attended unconventional childcare, one that focused not on entertaining the children and maybe teaching something in the process, but the polar opposite. She stayed at that school until second year, when she transferred to public school in the middle of the year and at least a year above her classmates.
Jacqui started riding with her mother when she was four, first on a small pony who defied the stereotype and was very sweet. When she was good enough to show at age six, she and the pony swept the local Pony Club meets, much to the chagrin of the regular attendees. For a few years, until she outgrew the pony, she showed locally and at a few larger shows, and it was much more important than school for her.
At ten, Jacqui and her family moved south to a state-of-the-art stable in Wales. Her mother had gotten a position as head trainer, a big step up from her previous job. Her father, as he worked from home, was more than happy to transfer. For the first year, Jacqui didn't have a horse to ride exclusively, and so she considers the year she turned eleven as the year she improved the most, because she was bounced from horse to horse.
Just after her twelfth birthday, Jacqui was given a horse to ride: a gelding, a bay named Epstein Barr. After a year of kicking butt at shows, Jacqui bought the bay. Sadly, when she was seventeen, Eppy succumbed to colic at the age of fourteen. For a while, Jacqui didn't want to ride.
For months, she didn't go to the barn more than absolutely necessary. She didn't ride. She refused to pass the stall Eppy used to live, and she couldn't go near the place he was buried. But, in a crazy turn of events, she witnessed another bay, very like Eppy, but taller and slightly more robust, being ridden. It turned out that the gelding's name was Kehr Carnett, and he was Eppy's full brother. Jacqui couldn't be more happy when she test rode the gelding and fell in love all over again.
It didn't take long before Kerry was Jacqui's. She graduated from school soon after, and the changes in her life compounded when she began attending Park Equine College.
MISC.: She's bringing two horses, Kerry and a dressage prospect named Anabelle.
