Holly Burton

[Holly Burton]

Name: Gemma
Age: 15
RP Experience: About 5 yrs, on & off.
Other Characters: none.

The Basics

Name: Holly Burton
Nickname/s: Holly, Hol
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Occupation: Student?
Financial Status: Middle Class; enough money to survive on, but has to work if she wants something.

Appearance

Height: 5'4"
Weight: 108lbs
Hair: Black, with the occasional coloured extension added.
Eyes: Brown; but tends to wear coloured contacts.
Build: Slim & feminine. She's very skinny.
Clothing Holly pretty much just wears what she wants. She doesn't take normal fashions into consideration. She dresses in what she feels comfortable in, and in what she considers fashionable. Other people's opinions don't matter much to her. Her favourite shoes are her converse, and she loves sunglasses.
Other: Piercings: ears & belly button.
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Personality

Likes:
<3 Sunglasses
<3 Ipod
<3 Music
<3 IM
<3 Cheese
<3 Hairdye
<3 Eyeliner
<3 Dancing like an idiot
<3 being herself (& loved for it)
<3 Friends
<3 Animals
<3 Babies
<3 Hair accessories
<3 Cell Phone
<3 Camera
<3 Baby Photos
<3 Guys
<3 Alcohol..
Dislikes:
</3 Spiders
</3 Cheese-haters (grrrr)
</3 School
</3 Homework
</3 When skinny people think they're fat. Your not.
</3 When fat people think they're skinny. You should diet.
</3 Diets
</3 Apple Juice. It makes her sick.
</3 Cider (again with the sickness)
</3 Apples
Fears:
- Spiders
- Heights
- Deep Water
Goals:
+ Finish education
+ find a guy
+ Settle down
Positive Traits:
+ Generally friendly
+ Smart
+ Perfectionist (it's usually a good thing..)
+ Very Patient
+ Helpful
Negative Traits:
- Obsessed with cheese. OMG.
- Tends to put herself before others
- Can be very shallow.
- Slobby & Lazy.
- Not good at handling money..
Quirks/Habits: Again, obsessed with cheese. Tends to notice little things about a person's appearance that no one else would notice..Her nostrils flare when she's nervous..

Other

Family:
Mother ` Dr. Arianna Burton ` 37
Father ` Dr. James Kenneth Burton ` 39
*Both parents are Drs, though for different things. Arianna is a psychoanalyst, and James, a GP.
Brother ` Kenneth James Burton ` 19
Sister ` Alana Burton ` 12
*Kenneth is an electrician, currently doing an apprenticeship & Alana is at a boarding school.
** All of the family have moved to the Island..
Pets:
Black Labrador ` Sasha
Black Cat ` Dagger
Hometown: Tropico
Nationality: Irish
History: Holly's mother & father were going through a rough spot when her mother fell pregnant. Basically, they were on the verge of divorce, and Holly was conceived so that hopefully, a pregnancy could save their marriage. Of course, four months into the pregnancy, her father walked out, leaving Arianna with a baby boy & her bump, with no income (she'd stopped working for the sake of her pregnancy). It was only when Arianna hit the thirty week mark that her husband showed up again, so as to be there for the birth of his daughter a few months later.

Now, this is where things get complicated. In the months he was away, James Kenneth had been able to find a new lover (or was she a lover before he walked out? His bit on the side? It was never found out) and get her pregnant too. He would be a dad two times in the next six months. However, his daughter was not his only interest, the other being his marriage, which he wished to save (or maybe, because he was unemployed, he just couldnt afford a divorce..?). Although she knew that James was very much in the wrong, and had made many immoral decisions, for the sake of her son & unborn child, she allowed him back into their lives & into their home.

"It's a girl". "Oh." Was the conversation between James & the midwife, as Holly was born & he sat reading his newspaper, being quite unsupportive of his wife, who'd just went through a seventeen hour labour. It was obvious from the beginning that he'd not the slightest bit interested in the family. This was an attitude that continued throughout the years.

When it came to school meetings, or medical appointments, it was always her mother who took her and her brother. Their father paid little attention & busied himself with his work & spent a lot of time away from home (total affairs: 9. Total affairs wife knows about: 3). However unhappy the family was, the outside world were led to believe they were a happy little family. However unhappy the parents were, the kids still grew up well, to be intelligent, and both sort of lazy.

It wasn't until about five years ago when things started to get a bit sticky again. James was caught having an affair & Arianna found out she was pregnant. The couple decided, that, again, for the child's sake, they would work through their differences and stay together. It was then that "they" found out. "They" decided to tell all of the neighbours about the affair, and Arianna, who was very self concious, decided she couldn't - and wouldn't - face the rumours. And of, the family were forced to pack their bags & leave County Donegal, & head for the destination of their mother's choice - Tropico.
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