RAVENHILL, CATERINA MELODY

FULL NAME Caterina Melody Ravenhill.

NICKNAMES She goes by Rin, even to the point where she'll introduce herself as such. Close friends and family may call her Cat.

DATE OF BIRTH July 6th.

AGE Twenty-four.

GRADE/YEAR Graduated.

ELEMENT Wind.

SEXUALITY Bisexual.

MARITAL STATUS Single, not really looking.

CELEBRITY CLAIM Alexz Johnson.

EYE COLOUR Ice blue.

HAIR COLOUR Dark red.

HEIGHT & WEIGHT 5'7"; 126 pounds.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES Rin has a scar that curves around her hip from a car accident she was in, as well as a smaller and less noticeable one on her shoulder from the same incident. She has a cut on her wrist from mishandling a knife in the kitchen, this scar being faint due to it occurring in her childhood. There is a birthmark above her chest on the left side. She has a tattoo of thorny vines that curl up her left arm and end at her shoulder. She once had her ears pierced but often lets them close up due to rarely wearing earrings.

CLOTHING STYLE Rin likes to think of her style as "edgy" but in reality she just throws on whatever she likes and thinks she looks hot in it. When at work she is forced to dress down and look a bit more professional but off duty she lets her ideas run wild. Her favourite colour is red and her favourite shade is black. She likes skirts because she can show off her legs and she likes jeans because they're comfortable, having no real preference between the two. She's not very fond of dresses. Rin likes knee length platform boots with buckles and things with chains, especially multiple chains. Oh, and she always wears her hair down. Always. It's about waist length and her pride and joy.

POSITIVE TRAITS

• OUTGOING. It surprises some people that someone with such an attitude can be so sociable at the same time. She likes to party and she likes to socialize. It doesn't mean she has to be nice to everyone she hangs around with, of course.
  
• CONFIDENT. It could be an inspiring quality if she wasn't such a downright bitch about it. Caterina radiates confidence. She thinks that she is the hottest bitch on campus, the coolest bitch on campus, and overall amazing. This girl thinks that she can accomplish anything. She can't, but it's not for lack of self-assurance.
  
• SELF-AWARE. You might think someone this difficult must be oblivious to themselves, but not Rin. She knows she's an arrogant and self-satisfying bitch. She knows who she is in general, and she's very comfortable in her own skin.
  
• OBSERVANT. No, not the type of observance where she notices things that really aren't noticeable. Rin is merely good at listening and learning. She listens to rumours, to gossip, to secrets, takes it all in and applies it to whomever she likes. She also watches things like the news daily. Being "in the know" is somewhat of an obsession.
  
• BRAVE. To the point of being cocky, Rin will jump into almost any situation without hesitation. Her confidence fuels her to believe that she can accomplish anything and that she can't fail. It doesn't matter how many times she does fail, she always gets back up and tries again.
  
• RESILIENT. As stated above, Rin always pushes back to her feet after failure. She doesn't know how to say no, doesn't know how to back down, and will not give up until she is defeated so soundly that it is impossible for her to continue.
  

NEGATIVE TRAITS

• NARCISSISTIC. She's fond of herself, of her appearance, of pretty much everything concerning 'Rin'. She's very particular about the way she looks and she'll be very insulted if someone suggests she's not as sexy as she thinks she is. Shit will then proceed to go down.
  
• BLUNT. Filter? What filter? Caterina says what she wants to say and she doesn't really give a damn whether or not you're offended by it. She watches her mouth a little more when in the classroom but she doesn't really care about feelings, just her job.
  
• SELFISH. It's all about Rin. Several people who have met her have claimed that she lives in her own world where everything revolves around her and no one else matters. She wouldn't beg to differ because it's true and she knows it.
  
• VINDICTIVE. She holds grudges, and she holds them for years. She won't let you live it down if you get on her bad side in some way and she's not the type to forget. It could have happened months ago, years ago - whatever you've done, she's still resenting you for it. Revenge is a motivator for Rin.
  
• BITCHY. She has anger issues and she has bitch issues. She tends to get fired up easily if things don't go her way and she will knock down anyone that gets in her way during these times. Even if you're one of the people she doesn't outright hate, you're probably best staying out of her way when she's in one of her moods. It's like permanent PMS with Rin.
  
• JUDGEMENTAL. Has she met you? It probably doesn't matter. If Rin has heard something about you or even just spotted you walking around, she's probably got an opinion on you. She's very quick to assign labels and she generally very narrow-minded about letting people disprove them. First impressions practically define how she sees you.
  

LIKES

• herself
  
• drinking
  
• red & black
  
• showing off her legs
  
• burning things
  
• graffiti
  
• her element
  
• competition
  
• acting
  
• showing off
  
• lipstick
  
• heavy metal
  
• chains
  
• fighting
  
• snow
  
• sports
  
• parties
  
• concerts
  
• strip clubs
  

DISLIKES

• complaining
  
• defeat
  
• authority that isn't hers
  
• jail
  
• pussies
  
• earth elementals
  
• libraries
  
• education
  
• most actors/actresses (it's a jealousy thing)
  
• being second best
  
• romance
  
• rain
  
• short hair (on herself)
  
• dressing down
  
• commitments of most kinds
  
• her middle name
  
• mental illness
  
• her (deceased) mother
  

STRENGTHS

• ACTING. Literally and in the less deliberate sense (ie, she's good at lying in a believable way as well). Acting classes were the one thing she excelled in and it was an acting career she was planning to pursue until she flunked out of college and gave up. Now she, rather bitterly, is reduced to teaching kids how to do as she does. She also teaches a few other art and theatre-related classes.
  
• HER ELEMENT Aside from her acting, Rin is rather good at controlling her Wind. It's the main reason she was able to get away with passing high school - she made up for her poor academic marks and skipped classes when she aced the elemental exams. She's not the best, but she's pretty damn good.
  
• TOUGH. She likes fighting and so she's got a bit of a thick skin. If she can't pummel you with her fists then she'll try with a weapon or her element, and if all else fails she can bite, hard. Oh, and those nails aren't just good for painting. Mind you, it's fairly easy to subdue Rin if you're strong enough. Pin her down and she can't do much.
  

WEAKNESSES

• COMPETITIVE. Not in the friendly way. Caterina hates losing and she is not at all gracious in defeat. Everything turns into competition with her and she can become deadly if it seems like her opponent is thwarting her efforts. She is not afraid to sabotage for a win. It gets her into trouble often.
  
• ACADEMICS. She's never cared much for school. She liked to skip school and hang out with the kids that were spraying graffiti on the walls or getting drunk on the cliffs, even if she didn't partake in said activities herself. She barely scraped by in high school and flunked out of college.
  
• SHEER STUPIDITY. No, not just in the academic sense. She tends not to think before she acts or even before she speaks and it often gets her into trouble. She's been to jail once or twice because of her mistakes and it was a bit hard scoring the job at the Academy because of this. She was lucky they needed the extra hands.
  

FEARS

• BEING FIRED. One of the only things that keeps her in check at the Academy is her fear of losing her job. She isn't so stupid that she thinks she has a good chance at getting another one. She's not that smart and she's difficult to handle.
  
• MENTAL ILLNESS. It freaks her out for obvious reasons and she'll likely keep her distance. A redeeming thing about her, however, is the fact that she'd never stoop as low as to insult someone with said illness.
  
• JAIL. It is not the place she wants to be. Ever. She hates losing control and independence so the idea of being shoved into prison mortifies her. Not that she'd admit it. She's been to jail a few brief times and knows enough of what it's like to have a genuine, justified fear.
  

BEST MEMORY Most of her early childhood was a happy time for Rin, back when things were relatively normal. She doesn't like to pick favourites.

WORST MEMORY When her father kissed her at that party, she knew that things had gone downhill for good. She had him committed the next day and it remains the worst of her many bad memories.

LONG-TERM GOAL Keep her job. It's the only thing she can think of. She once aspired to become a therapist to try and help those with mental illnesses but her grades were too far in the hole for that.

MOTHER Caterina Melody Ravenhill (47), Deceased

FATHER Robert Theodore Ravenhill (46), Institutionalized

SIBLINGS N/A

OTHER Jennifer Leah Hardy (49), Deceased

HISTORY

There is a reason Rin only lets those closest to her use the nickname 'Cat', and that reason is her mother.

Cat and Robert were high-school sweethearts, married young and always holding onto the hope that they'd get to live the dream with kids, a nice house, maybe a pet or two. This dream was on its way to being realised when Cat finally got pregnant at the age of twenty-four. Unfortunately, the couple's happiness ended when the pregnancy did. There were complications with the birth and Cat had to decide between the life of her daughter or herself. She and Robert agreed upon letting the infant live and she passed away just as they predicted that she would. Robert was crushed, though he promised his wife and himself that he would raise his daughter well. He named her after her mother, right down to the last letter.

Rin's early childhood was easy and filled with good memories. She got along well with her peers in school, though there were a few scuffles thanks to her temper, and she flourished under the careful eye of her father. Robert always called her Rin at her own request, the young girl wanting to be known as herself rather than the spitting image of her mother. For that's what she was - the icy eyes, the dark red hair, right down to the way she smiled or ducked her head when she laughed. It was hard for her to live up to the name of a woman she'd never met and so she chose not to. She did as she liked and if someone ever said, 'That's so unlike your mother!' it gave her a small hint of pride.

Of course, good things always come to an end. Her temper started to become more problematic as she grew. No longer was she a cute toddler tugging a toy from another's hands but a stubborn and sometimes violent youth that picked fights in school and was in detention more often than classes. Her relationship with her father was changing, too. He was distant some days and on others, when they were closer, Rin noticed some unsettling habits of his. The way he would look at her sometimes, like she was more of an interest than a daughter. Young at the time, she convinced herself that she was simply imagining things and moved on in her life. She was kicked out of two public schools and probably would have been kicked out of high school, too, if not for the fact that her powers revealed themselves. She was quite surprised, being that her father had never told her about the elementals. He had been a Thunder and her mother a Fire but he'd given up on his power completely after his wife's death. It was not he who ended up explaining everything to her but a scout. Robert merely sat there and nodded wearily, something that hurt her more than she could put into words. It felt like he didn't care as much as he used to.

The Academy was a freeing experience for Rin. She thrived on being good at things and in her mediocre public school there had been nothing besides fighting that she really excelled in. In high school she discovered acting and knew that this was where she wanted to take her life. She also discovered how good she was with her power. It didn't require intelligence, something that (because of how little attention she paid in classes) Rin hadn't acquired a whole lot of. She passed all of her elemental exams with flying colours and barely passed in many of her academics, failing several courses as well.

Her father's strange behaviour escalated over the years. Where he would once only change a few times a month, he was now almost constantly forgetting things about his daughter or what day it was. He often called her 'Cat', something that made her very uncomfortable. On her sixteenth birthday, during the summer, Rin's friends threw a party at her house. She had a good night mingling with the guests and sneaking alcohol when her father wasn't in the room, ending up a little tipsy by the end of the night. So tipsy that she didn't notice how close her father was getting until his lips were on hers and she was sputtering in shock, shoving him away and trying to recover under the probing eyes of the many guests. Not only was she humiliated by her father's actions but she was crushed, realising that the steady decline of his mental health had not been imagined. Her aunt came to the rescue by dismissing the party guests and sitting down with a very shocked and confused Rin to discuss what would happen to her brother-in-law. Caterina and Jennifer agreed that commitment to an institution was the best thing for him and he was sent off the next day.

Rin lived with her aunt after that incident. The two women did not know one another well and so it was a bit awkward, Caterina relieved that she had school as an excuse to stay away most of the time. They lived in Nova Scotia and not Maple Hollow, so she only had to stay during the summer and winter breaks. When Rin reached college she pursued a major in Theatre Arts & Acting, the only thing she had good enough marks in and a passion to pursue. Unfortunately, her school-skipping habits got the best of her and she flunked out in her junior year at the age of of twenty. She worked a few odd jobs to try and support herself, hating the reliance on her aunt, but ended up fired from every one for various reasons. The coffee shop didn't like that she'd thrown a customer's drink at him when he'd tried to flirt with her and the pet store didn't like it when she made rude remarks about the ugliness of certain beloved family dogs. Two years later, she and Jenn were driving home on icy roads when the car slipped and careened off the side of the road. Jennifer died in the hospital and Rin escaped with only the scars that she has now.

Realising that she'd need money to keep a roof over her head and her father in a safe place far away from her, Rin was desperate for a job. She applied to the Academy after several other places turned her down and it was her luck that they were in dire need of someone that could teach the arts that saved her. She's now a professor at the Academy, teaching the high-school aged kids things like art and theatre. She lives alone in a Maple Hollow apartment, not that she'd admit this to anyone that asks. She likes people to believe she does well for herself but in reality she's struggling.

YOUR NAME Taylor

YOUR AGE 19.

RP EXPERIENCE 5 years.

HOW'D YOU FIND US? I own this bitch. <3

SECRET WORD Correct.

RP SAMPLE

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