Chaucer, Odessa

[Odessa Chaucer]

I N T R O D U C I N G

Odessa Abigail Chaucer
O stay your soul and leave my heart its song,
O stay your hand, the journey may be long.
And when we part and sorrow can't be sway'd,
Remember when and let your heart be staid.

The Basics to You:

Name: Odessa Abigail Chaucer
Nicknames: Essa
Age: Fifteen
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Occupation: Student -- Essa doesn't have much extra time to devote to a job.
Major: Singing, Violin, Piano

The Basic Appearance:

Celebrity Claim: Emmy Rossum

Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Green
Height: Roughly five foot.
Weight: One hundred pounds, give or take.

Fashion sense:
Essa has a tendency towards the conservative with her whole appearance. She likes solid color t-shirts and jeans with flip-flops, and that's usually what she wears. She's been known to wear skirts, but always infrequently, and they're always at most an inch above the knee. No minis for her! She's not big into brands, and is in no way rich, so most of her clothes either come from the sale rack or places like second-hand stores, as Essa has a penchant for things with history, even if she doesn't know what that history is.
As for make-up, she really doesn't wear any. Maybe some mascara on special occasions, but it's really not her thing to spend a lot of time on her appearance. That's why her hair's usually either carelessly lumped into a ponytail, or just left down if she's feeling especially impatient. As for jewelry, it's rather nonexistent as well. Essa doesn't have her ears pierced, and the only other jewelry she wears on a regular basis is the knotted hemp bracelet that was a gift from her sister.

The History Within your Eyes

Family:

• Father:
  Edward James Chaucer, Forty-five, Meteorologist
  
• Mother:
  Chava Levovna Morozov-Chaucer, Forty, Baker
  
• Sister:
  Sophia Katherine Chaucer, Nineteen, College Student

Likes:
+Musicals
+And just music in general
+As for music genres: Classical, Choral
+Eric Whitacre
+Algebra
+History
+Archery
+Running
+Russian/Soviet History
+Small towns
+Cold weather, Snow
Dislikes:
-Stupidity
-Excessive heat
-Geometry
-Mushrooms
-Self-absorption
-Small talk
-Conformity
-Nonconformists
Strengths:
+Perseverance
+Perfectionism
+Passion (for her music, that is)
+Reasonable Intelligence
Weaknesses:
-Perfectionism
-Conservatism
-Elitism
-Love for rules
-Her high expectations for herself
Habits:
-Nail biting
-Early rising, and late nights
-Listening to a song she really likes over and over
Flaws:
-Yet again, perfectionism
-Elitism
-Holding others to impossibly high standards
-Always has to be right
-Argumentative when she thinks she's in the right


Background:
It would be nice to say it all started on November thirteenth, 1992, but it didn't. Odessa's story starts before she was even born. After all, one doesn't end up in Cold Bay, Alaska by chance.
Edward James Chaucer grew up and went to college, studying meteorology. It was a nerdy major, and a unique one, but he enjoyed it and found everything new he learned fascinating. When a job opportunity gave him a chance to travel to Alaska, where the weather can get very interesting, he jumped at the chance.
Chava Levovna Morozov grew up in Alaska, the daughter of parents who had left Russia when they realized the political atmosphere was beginning to get stormy. She grew up in a household that was deeply rooted in Russian tradition, and ended up going to college in a larger city than the town she grew up in.
And that's where it began. With two people who happened to meet in Fairbanks, and ended up in Cold Bay, bringing the population up to 86, eighty-eight by the end of 1992.
That's how it started for Essa. In a small Alaskan town where only nine other students attended the local school, and there was only one store in the town. No mall, only one internet hotspot, and temperatures that very rarely reached above fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit. But she enjoyed the solitude and the tight-knit aspect of her community, and even the cold.
Essa studied at the local school, and first took piano lessons from a friend's mother down the street, the only person in Cold Bay who had a piano. She could also instruct Essa fairly well in singing. Essa was a fast learner, and enjoyed the striving to get better. When she had a chance to be taught violin when she was about ten, she jumped at it. But when she realized that there was only so far she could go with her music in Cold Bay, Essa started looking outside her small town for options to improve.
And then she turned her life upside down.

The Puppeteer

Name: Brigid
Age: Old Enough
Experience: Roughly four or five years.
Contact Info: PM
Secret Word:Chocolate Cookie

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