daringred_
(crush me)
Kelly Melissa Ryland
Age: 22
Gender: female
Sexuality: homosexual
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Appearance: Kelly is a relatively petite girl in terms of both height and
body shape. Small for someone of her age at 5'4" she often gets mistaken
for a teenager courtesy of her chubby cheeks and baby looking face. She
looks surprisingly young, although she doesn't feel the need to complain
about such a thing. She's perhaps slightly chubby, although not at all over-
weight because she likes to take good care of herself she just enjoys eating
a lot of pastries and cakes when she's out and about. She has slightly pointy
ears, and a suspiciously feather shaped birthmark on the outside of her
right thigh.
Kelly has relatively light blonde hair that falls to her collarbone in loose
curls. She loves to accessorise with headbands and flowery hair clips;
sometimes she just wants her hair out of her face for a day and will
twist her bangs before clipping them above her ear - this is the hairstyle
she's seen most frequently with. When she's reading, eating, drinking a
mug of coffee, or jamming out with her headphones on, she tends to put
her hair up into an unbrushed high ponytail so it doesn't bother her. She
has considerably light hazel eyes, almost reminiscent of a slightly lighter
than coffee brown.
Personality: in terms of personality, Kelly is a relatively reserved and
quiet individual. She likes her privacy, her independence and a decent
amount of quiet time everyday - a time where it's best not to disturb her.
Most of her free time is spent in environments that mimic her personality
due to their quite ambience, such as libraries, bookshops and more quaint,
lesser known cafés. It's not to say she doesn't like people, because she does,
but sometimes she prefers her own company to that of others because she's
the sort of person she'd like to be friends with. She has a rather soft soul too
and her voice isn't the loudest thing even at the best of times. Sometimes
she can surprise you by shouting uncharacteristically but otherwise she likes
to politely and timidly voice her conjectures.
In general she's a sweet, innocent-minded young woman. She likes seeing
other people smile and talking to people about their days - she figures if at
least one person asks they might feel as though they did something worth
mentioning. She enjoys simple, colourful things and is generally easy to please.
She's very opinionated, open-minded and well-educated but she tries to be
aware of people's sensitivities as she would never intentionally upset someone
unless she had to in order to defend a friend.
Likes: cotton candy and sugary foods; pastel colours, namely rose pink and
baby blue; books and the smell of them, old and new; libraries and cafés -
she likes most quaint, original and compact places but isn't fussy about where
she visits; attention and being babied, even though she's not a baby anymore;
laying and sleeping on people; marshmallows in hot chocolate; anything cute
and/or fluffy; oversized sweaters.
Dislikes: bland, mismatched colours; horror and gore, in any form; lack of sleep;
books that are ripped, desecrated or missing pages; littering; overly large dogs;
distasteful behaviour.
Fears: global warming - the country sinking underwater and everyone dying
due to melting ice caps; train derailment; falling from great heights, although
she doesn't fear heights themselves.
Quirks: gets really flustered when someone compliments her; retreats into a
mountain of stuffed animals and fleece blankets when sad; loses time when
caught up in a good book.
Virtues: critical; fussy; easily becomes suspicious; vengeful/holds long
grudges; hesitant (especially when talking to new people); can be considered
boring.
Vices: tough skinned; open-minded; kind; talkative; eager; tranquil.
Goals: to become a published author.
Skills: writing; multi-tasking; reading/researching; sewing; climbing;
getting through small spaces; navigating.
Biography: all her life, many people have described Kelly as the epitome
of a girly-girl, simply because she likes stars and unicorns and pastel-y
things. Her parents weren't around all that much when she was smaller,
always working, so she learned to provide for herself and became
independent of them relatively quickly. When they did return home they
constantly nitpicked at her - although whether the emotional and mental
damage such a thing did was intentional or not, she'll never know. While
they did love her they focused too much on making her perfect as opposed
to embracing who she already was. She liked ballet, painting, playing the
piano and writing little stories in glittery notebooks.
They wanted her to be more academic, trying to teach her how to cook
intricate meals once she was older in order to push her into working at one
of their many classy restaurants - unluckily for them, she had no interest in
that sort of thing. She worked her hardest in school for her own sake as
well as theirs, but birthdays and Christmases were filled with
disappointments and presents for a child that didn't exist. She tried her
hardest to be grateful but, in the end, her miniature cooking sets and her
Easy Bake oven sat collecting dust in the corner of her room, hidden under
piles of stuffed animals. The older she got the more she began to follow her
own path, deciding if her parents didn't like who she turned out to be then
that was her problem.
She joined the chess, gardening and arts and crafts clubs at school, as well
as joining the school choir as the piano player behind their songs. Her
parents didn't like it but they learned to deal with it relatively quickly, which
made her happier as she grew out of highschool and entered the real world.
They supported her all they could through college, never failing to pay her
tuition fees on time - something she was always grateful for. It was at college
that she picked up a gig as a barista/cleaner at a local coffee shop. It was a
rather modern place filled with teenagers and young adults, which intimidated
the hell out of her, but work was work and she made a decent living off of it.
When the owner left to pursue a different career, the keys of the building
were handed down to her and she filled the managerial role with ease. The
entire establishment changed, going from a modern day coffee shop filled
with sleep deprived teenagers to a library-esque café filled with bookshelves,
glowing lamps and hanging potted plants. The place attracted a new kind of
crowd and became a sanctuary of sorts for quieter, more bookish people who
simply needed a place to concentrate and relax simultaneously. She turned
the place into something more than it had been before and it's been a success
ever since.