ADDISON, RILEY

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OH I'M SORRY, MY NAME IS

RILEY IMOGEN ADDISON![/size]

AND I'M PRETTY MUCH A BIG DEAL
OH, YOU NEVER HEARD OF ME?
HMM, THAT SOUNDS ABSURD TO ME
THE WAY YOU STOLE MY ATTENTION WAS FLAT OUT BURGLARY.[/center][/font]

FULL NAME riley imogen addison
NICKNAME riley, riles, ri
AGE eighteen
HEIGHT 5'2"
HAIR orange
EYES hazel
CELEBRITY hayley williams
FAMILY MEMBERS
Mother; Teresa Addison [deceased].
Father; Thomas Addison.

PERSONALITY
Ever met one of those people who just seem to have so much energy, they blitz past you in a rush of sound and color, leaving you behind, completely stunned?

Yeah? Well, Riley Addison was that whirlwind.

She was always known as 'The Rat Kid' in her primary school. She was the kid who purposefully spilt her purple paint just to swirl her hands in it. The kid who ate only the chocolate ice-cream in those Neapolitan tubs. The kid whose room smelt like something had died in there... which it probably had. The kid who could wear dirty green leggings, stained orange-and-yellow jumpers, untied sneakers, tangled hair and not care, as long as she got her Popsicle. Some people take her as a show-off, an attention seeker, when truthfully she is the complete opposite. She loves center stage, but is perfectly content to be holed up in the stables with her horse for endless hours. Her personality is as loud as her clothes, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

A very likeable person, she makes friends with almost everyone. She showers you with affection, and at times can almost be too much to bear. But be warned - if she doesn't like you, she'll make it very clear. She is a loyal friend, and once she decides you're suitable, you're her friend for life. She is defensive of her buddies and will always stand up for them - a fiery temper is not unheard of. She bounces on shit as quickly as possible, and can be hard to keep track of; one minute she won't even look at you, next minute she's hanging off your every word. Riley has an incredible ability to see the good in everything and everyone, despite all that has happened to her. Where there is sadness she sees hope; where there is dark she sees sunlight. Some people call it a gift. Others call it denial. The latter is probably correct, but whatever it is, it's quite fantastic.

She has an amazing ability to just not care about things like being social or looking perfect. She's extremely messy, so don't go into her room without a gas mask handy. All in all, Missus Riley Addison is a complex little nut and she's one step from insanity.

LIKES

• horses
• boys
• jumping
• friends
• people with a good sense of humor
• photography
• strawberries
• music

DISLIKES

• dirty tack
• soggy bread
• people with boring names
• rats
• creatures with more than four legs
• bitchy people
• flatwork
• mathematics

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Riley is pretty in a natural, not over-the-top way. Her personality is her most attractive feature. She's a natural ranga; her hair is an orange-ish color with blonde underneath. It reaches to about shoulder-length. She has hazel eyes and a bright smile. Relatively skinny, she's a slender, slight girl and has very little muscle, at least on the surface. She can haul haybales and keep a tight hold on a runaway horse, but in the gym she fails miserably. She's also extremely clumsy and can barely stand upright without tripping over. Ri weighs around 115 lb. Her weight balances out on her tiny frame. Standing at a majestic 5'2", her size is unimaginable for the mess and chaos she creates.

One thing about Riley is she has a tendency to zone a lot. This isn't her being deliberately rude or anything, she's just quite the daydreamer. When she is feeling thoughtful or is staring into space, you will often find her expression take on a dreamy role. She tends to fidget quite a lot, though there isn't any apparent reason for this. She just likes to move around a lot. Riley is really very quirky and always full of wacky ideas, and this can come off as weird to other people. It's really not, however, she just likes to be imaginative with her daring ways.

Riley's wardrobe is a menagerie of colors, shapes, designs... definitely somewhere to stop and stare. Her morning ritual is an interesting one: first, she chooses a shirt or a dress. Then pairs it with the nearest pair of shorts, pants or skirt. Then, shoes. Pretty much the same as the bottoms: grab the closest pair. If can't find matching shoe, settle for closest option, eg. one pink Converse, one red Converse. Somehow all her outfits manage to look good, though, a skill she has perfected over the years. But she'll never tell you her secrets.

HISTORY
Picture the perfect movie-screen, young, just-married couple. Money, good looks, nice house, impeccable manners, totally in love comes to mind, right? Well, Thomas and Teresa Addison were all that and more, and the arrival of her perfect baby girl, Riley Imogen, only completed their joy.

Until the age of about 5, Riley's life was perfect. She had lots of little friends, and her parents couldn't be prouder of their beautiful little girl. However, the scales of Fate suddenly decided to tip out of their favour one fateful October day. Teresa's parents, Grandma and Grandpa Wilkins, were killed in a horrible car accident. Teresa was distraught, as was Thomas and Riley. You see, Riley's mother had been extremely close to her parents, and their simultaneous deaths ripped her apart.

The family tried to pull back together, to righten themselves, but this Teresa couldn't seem to do. There was nothing to numb her pain, so she turned to alcohol. There is nothing more horrifying for a little girl to go through than to see her mother grow up, getting drunker and drunker.

The Addison family hid behind closed doors, and although Thomas tried desperately to preserve Teresa's plummetting reputation with the neighbourhood mothers, rumours were started to be whispered around. Teresa was falling steadily down a cliff, and no-one could save her. Though she was not a violent drunk, she was sometimes verbally abusive, and Riley fell to sleep in tears every night, knowing her once beautiful mother wasn't going to be there in the morning. It would be the horrible Teresa, cranky and snappy with yet another monster hangover.

This part of Riley's life drew to a close one rainy day in November, within a month and two years of her parents' death, when Teresa died from an overdose. Riley will never speak of how she found her mother lying on the kitchen tiles, seemingly asleep, so don't even go there. She is very open and out-going, but that story is shuttered down and will not come out. Thomas, who had been madly in love with the once-beautiful Teresa, went crazy. He stopped communicating with everyone entirely, and shut himself in the library day after day, night after night. Soon after Riley turned 10 – two years after her mother's death – she begged her father to stop. Out of pity and love for his daughter, he came out of his recluse state and started something, if possible, much, much worse.

Thomas Addison started dating.

And not lovely, middle-aged women who adored Riley and baked her cookies – I'm talking about half-his-age, platinum-blonde- huge-chested bimbos who were in it only for Thomas' huge fortune. And if the woeful tale of the Addison's couldn't get any worse, Riley started getting abused. Verbally, mentally, emotionally... even physically. Boy, was it physically. Her dad's girlfriends were determined to rid the world of the only heir to Thomas' fortune.

The only good thing that came out of this was riding. One of Thomas' girlfriends suggested Riley take up some kind of activity to get her out of the house. Thomas found a nice little stable and Riley started horse-riding. Instantly she fell in love with the majestic animals, and rode almost every day after school, always willing to help out at the stables. She quickly rose through the ranks of the junior cross-country circuit and when she graduated high school, an invitation to Windsor Academy was extended and she of course accepted. She packed up her horse, her hopes, and her father's lucky statue of Jesus and began her new life.