SOMMERLOT, CAITLYN AUBREE

FULL NAME caitlyn aubree sommerlot

NICKNAMES cait

DATE OF BIRTH may 4th

AGE eighteen

GRADE/YEAR sophomore

ELEMENT earth

SEXUALITY straight

MARITAL STATUS single

CELEBRITY CLAIM satomi ishihara

EYE COLOUR brown

HAIR COLOUR brown

HEIGHT & WEIGHT 5'2", 108 lb.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES she has the usual pierced ears and a pretty tiny tattoo on her left shoulder blade in the shape of a treble clef.

CLOTHING STYLE on a day-to-day basis, she just wears what makes her feel comfortable. the way caitlyn sees it, honestly, she just has way too much to deal with every day to bother with being particularly dressy or anything like that. for school and work, she'll look pretty neat and well put together, but on the off day it'd be more likely to be things like sundresses and just generally cute things. she does like to shop, though, and unfortunately has the tendency to buy cute things she'll almost never wear at all.

POSITIVE TRAITS

• hardworking. she doesn't slack off or put things off to the last minute, and generally is the type to have things done as soon as she possibly can. she doesn't cut corners or base her decisions around the easiest way out of something, either, and she puts one hundred and ten percent into every aspect of her life.
  
• friendly. though she's a generally realistic person, she's also very friendly and likes to make a friend in everyone she possibly can. interestingly enough, she doesn't have many very very close friends, but the ones she has she cherishes, and she makes everyone else part of the bigger picture, so to speak.
  
• compassionate. truth be told, she's kind of extremely soft-hearted and just generally empathizes with everyone she knows. she tries her very best not to judge anyone -- it doesn't always work, admittedly, but even then she tries to be as understanding as possible given each situation.
  

NEGATIVE TRAITS

• stubborn. cait is extremely set in her own ways. she likes to believe that, because she's realistic and works hard, she can really do whatever she wants, and she doesn't like being told otherwise. because of this she sets herself up for trouble more than anything else.
  
• sensitive. she isn't the type to be easily bothered by things that random strangers say, particularly ones she doesn't like, but occasionally, some of the things her friends say will bother her. she never shows it, though, and she really isn't the type to dwell, so luckily she's able to get over most of these things quickly.
  
• flighty. she never means to do this, but it always seems to happen anyway, an inevitable fact of life. being pretty focused on her goals and the things she wants, she sometimes puts work and school and all the other things in her life above just simply hanging out with her friends.
  

LIKES

• disney movies
  
• kids
  
• music
  
• breakfast
  
• stripes
  
• volleyball
  

DISLIKES

• tea
  
• demanding people
  
• reality tv
  
• alarms
  
• rodents
  
• fights
  

STRENGTHS

• good work ethic. as previously stated, she doesn't put things off and she's always willing to put in the work when something needs to be done.
  
• realistic. she doesn't like to live with dreams and nothing else, and so even when it comes to her ambitions and hopes for the future, she keeps a very logical outlook on things. she likes a balance between the two, if nothing else.
  
• independent. she doesn't rely on others for things that need to be done. though she's always willing to help others in need, she doesn't normally like to admit that she may need help herself.
  

WEAKNESSES

• spreads herself thin. in short, there are many things cait likes to do, and wants to do, and she tries to do all of them. she's pretty good at balancing her time, actually, and has gotten used to it over the time. still, trying to do so much at once probably isn't that healthy.
  
• no word filter. she doesn't really have the ability to think before she speaks, and so she ends up saying completely random things as soon as they pop into her mind. they're usually not rude things or anything of the kind (mostly because she generally doesn't think too negatively) but it does lead to some very weird moments in conversation.
  
• can't say no. though she doesn't always have time to just hang out, she really is the type not to be able to turn down a friend (or even a stranger) who asks for a favour. whether they need her to do something simple like return a library book for them on the way back or go over to their house at four in the morning or something to that effect, she'll definitely try her very best to do it... and sometimes, this isn't the wisest thing.
  

FEARS

• failure in life
  
• becoming deaf
  
• rodents
  

BEST MEMORY when she was thirteen, just the year before coming to the academy, she played the alto saxophone as part of a region-wide youth jazz band. it was a pretty exclusive group and as such a good one, and in fact she wound up with a solo for a piece in their final show of the year. she's still friends with some of the other players she met in those few months and hasn't yet lost the desire to perform.

WORST MEMORY cait broke her arm when she was twelve, due to an unfortunate incident involving a rather large mouse that surprised her as she was walking downstairs. this and the healing process put together were her single worst memory.

LONG-TERM GOAL she has goals in two parts, really. on one hand, she's currently studying forensic science and she'd like to establish herself as a professional in the field. on the other, she's still very much in love with music and wants to get into and perform with a respected band (a wind ensemble, preferably).

MOTHER andrea sommerlot (42), museum curator.

FATHER harry sommerlot (42), orthodontist.

SIBLINGS tyler sommerlot (8) and melissa sommerlot (8), twin children of doom.

OTHER none of importance

HISTORY caitlyn never knew her birth parents. she was put up for adoption and then quickly adopted as a baby, and as such the only family she's ever known are her mother and father, harry and andrea sommerlot. besides having an adopted daughter of a completely different ethnic background, the family is pretty normal. caitlyn never knew her birth parents and so she can't possibly miss them. with her family, she has all that she could want out of life, and having lived with them for what was really her entire life, there's no talk of adoption or anything similar; she's just part of the family. she thinks it might be nice, if one day she could just say hi to her birth parents, but she knows nothing about them and she's more or less okay with that. she was ten when her younger siblings, twins named tyler and melissa, were born.

as for caitlyn's actual life, there's been little of importance. she was raised in the suburbs near edmonton, a normal child by most anyone's standards. she tried most everything when she was young, whatever she expressed an interest in or her parents wanted her to do. very few of these things she would continue later, but today she's glad she dabbled in all these things just the same. piano was one of the only things she did continue in, dropping most everything else. she started playing piano at the age of four, and continued even when she came to the academy, right up to the age of sixteen when she completed all the levels. at the age of eleven, she also picked up the alto saxophone in school, actually finding that she enjoyed it much more than piano but feeling it a waste to abandon something she'd been doing for so long.  in the end, she settled on continuing her piano studies so that she could learn proper music theory, always keeping in mind the goal of a career with her trusty saxophone.

coming to the academy, though, derailed her plans just a little bit, and not only in the actual musical aspect but because she had really never known that she was an elemental. at the age of thirteen, she started to notice strange things happening around plants. it was nothing spectacular, just a certain touch that she seemed to have with them as she helped her mother with the gardening, though it was still extremely weird when plants would flourish in such a way. they were eventually approached by someone from the academy who explained the entire business. even then, it was bizarre. before caitlyn really knew what was going on, she was told that she was an elemental with some kind of superhuman powers to control plants, and that she would be sent off to a castle far away from home to learn how to control these abilities. it was strange. it was a little bit frightening. it was also sort of awesome, but caitlyn was mostly scared.

by the time she got there, though, she was more excited for the prospect of this adventure than anything else. she made friends and threw herself into life at the academy, which was bewildering but incredibly fun all the same. the years went by without trouble for the most part, and she kept a busy schedule, finding that she liked it more than she did just sitting around. her days were, then, filled with schoolwork, extracurriculars, and her part-time job. when she graduated from the academy after her four high school years, she opted to attend college there as well. she rented an apartment in maple hollow, got a job teaching kids piano at the local community centre, and kept up her life at the academy much as before. she still plays alto sax in the school's concert band and plays volleyball at the local rec centre, in addition to the usual work and school. generally, caitlyn keeps a seriously busy life and doesn't have much time on her own, but this is sort of the way she likes to keep it.

YOUR NAME an

YOUR AGE over thirteen!

RP EXPERIENCE at least a few years

HOW'D YOU FIND US? caution

SECRET WORD Correct.

RP SAMPLE

quidditch practice? it wasn't exactly the way daniel would have chosen to spend his day. he wasn't even on the team! having a best friend (and various other friends) on the team, it was nothing new to dan to spend hours upon hours watching the hufflepuff team practice. they didn't mind, partially because he was a hufflepuff and wouldn't leak secrets to any other teams, and partially because... well, ronnie wouldn't let them object, would he? he wouldn't even let daniel object when he tried, so that was that. it wasn't like quidditch practices were boring or anything, at least. they were fun enough! gwenog worked the team down to the bone, but dan wasn't really sure whether or not this was a bad thing. well. sure, most of the team members came back disgruntled, but they won a decent enough amount of times! besides that,t hey were hufflepuffs. it wouldn't matter either way, because they would just keep going and going for it. especially ronnie, despite the billions of laps he had to run all the time. (dan mostly just sat there and laughed, though.) today was possibly one of the team's slower days, for whatever reason that may be, but he kept his attention focused on them regardless. of course, it was freezing out and he was sitting alone in the quidditch stadium, so he wasn't sure what else he could actually focus any attention on. at least it made ronnie happy, so daniel just kept his eyes on the players as they flew around. there was much be said about some of them, that not all of them were the brightest and all of that, but dan was pretty sure they had a solid team this year, and that was enough. it was quidditch, after all; just quidditch, even though that may sound like treason to some of them. (crazy quidditch players - they would be the death of him one of these days.)

it was a mark of his actual focus on the practice, though, that when someone walked up, he barely noticed at all, even when she coughed. it was only when she actually said something that he jumped and turned his head wildly around to see who was there. "oh, julia." he grinned, a little bit relieved that it was a real friend. julia sinistra... he wondered why they didn't talk more often, actually. it probably had something to do with the fact that they were in different houses, and that she was a girl who probably had better things to do than talk to daniel. that was probably it. it was good, though, to be able to talk randomly like this once in a while. "no, not my books this time," dan said in response to her question. he grinned sheepishly. "he actually, er. threatened to rip out my leg hair." he wasn't really all that shy or anything when it came to things like that -- actually, if he was going to make a fair judgment of himself, dan wouldn't really say that he was actually shy at all. it wasn't so much shyness, really, as it was... well, just general awkwardness. as such, he didn't talk around people he knew wouldn't like his dorky jokes or overall oddness. ronnie, on the other hand, was all over the place, most definitely far from the brightest, but he had some charisma or... well, or something about him, and so people liked him. daniel wasn't sure to this day how they were best friends, but he wasn't about to complain. dan did like julia, though. she was a good friend, and made for some good company, especially when it was so cold and he was being forced to attend someone else's quidditch practice.

he did laugh, though, when julia called up to ronnie. he and julia, just like he and ronnie, had their differences, that was for sure. he lacked... eloquence, really; if dan had to say anything he would just say that he was much, much more awkward than she was, which certainly wasn't going to help anything. "too true," he said with a bit of a grin. "i don't mind so much, you know. bit annoying at times, though." he paused a little bit before continuing, turning his attention away from the players now to look at her. "how are you though?"