 Character AdoptionName: Nicole Elizabeth LahayeAge: 17 Gender: Female House: Braverie Description: Nicole, or Niki as she likes to be called, is about 5'5 and is of athletic build. Constant activity and working with horses has built muscles on her otherwise lean frame, so she is stronger than she looks. She has wavy blonde hair that falls to the middle of her back. Her eyes are a dark green color, but they have been known to look blue, depending on what she wears. Her skin is fair and she burns easily. Personality: Niki is an unpredictable girl. She doesn't trust people easily and sometimes is percieved as standoffish. It's not that at all. She doesn't relate to others well. Once the ice is broken, she proves to be very outgoing and extremely loyal. She hates drama. Niki is not the kind of person to sugarcoat or skirt around the truth. She will tell you like it is and isn't afraid of what people think and say about her. When something is bothering her, she usually prefers to be alone or with her horse to work it out. She is very independent and has a lot of pride. Her temper is short, but over time has learned to control it. Like everyone, she has a breaking point, though it takes a lot for her to get there. History: Niki was born to Ricky and Belinda Lahaye. Ricky was a former bull rider who competed on the pro tour. He was a chronic alcoholic and a verbally abusive father as a result of his drinking. when Niki was eight, he went off the deep end and killed her mother. Niki witnessed the whole thing. Niki was placed into foster care, but kept getting shuffled around from home to home because of her recurring nightmares and anger issues. When she turned fourteen, she was caught with drugs and arrested. The judge sent her to a ranch for troubled teens, which turned her life around. Through therapy, she learned to deal with her anger and pain and to channel it into her horse riding. Name: Callie Anders Age: 16 Gender: Female House: Purus Description: Callie was born and raised a southern belle. Growing up in the great state of Tennessee, she knows the true meaning of a cowgirl. Though a southern girl, her rich farmer father always made sure this Tennessee princess got what she wants, and that usually included the most elite horses and trainers in the business. Callie is no shy person, and she will do anything in her power to get what she wants. Personality: Callie can either be your best friend or your best enemy depending on your financial status and how savvy you are around horses. Because of her pampering father, she has always known to be selfish. She is not the type to be generous or give up anything to help anyone else. She is willing to take down anyone and anything in the way of her plans. If you happen to catch her friendly side, Callie will stand up for you. And if you happen to become a close friend, she will make sure that the next time she flies to London for the hottest fashion, she brings you with her. History: It is no surprise that this girl is from the south. Not only does she have a heavy southern accent, but she can truly be a southern belle. Her father spoiled Callie and her older sister since the day they were born. After all, he was the only parent after the passing of their beloved mother when Callie was only five. Because of these actions, Callie has been given everything she has desired. With this attitude came her very first horse. His name was Pedro, and he was an eight year old AQHA gelding. Upon receiving this horse, Callie actively competed in barrel racing, pole bending, and any other Western event that she possibly could until she reached the age of 12. At this age she discovered some of her friends competing in English, and decided to give it a try, and of course, her father made sure she had the best horse and the best paraphernalia. Now at the age of 16, she has proved herself in both disciplines. Name: Hattie Noir Age: 15 Gender: Female House: Braverie Description: An immediate impression of Hattie would be the messy brunette that's a bit weird. She has long, thick, layered dark brown hair which is always a bit messy but nonetheless looks nice. She has an almost-natural side fringe which hangs over her large blue eyes which almost always are lined with black. Her skin is pale but well-cared for and looks good for it. She has a straight nose and well-shaped slightly thin lips which are usually being bitten nervously by her slightly overlarge front teeth. She generally dresses in scruffs that "go" - old jeans, sometimes skinnies, well fitting tops that have seen their day but look good for it too; and, dog-eaten Converse of all shapes and colors. One can never have too many converse. Of course, when she has too, she'll wear jods and other riding wear, but those too have seen better days, yet still fit her petite, slim frame and skinny legs... Personality: Hattie's not what you'd really call positive. Due to her mixed background, or maybe just the way she was born, she's sarcastic and pessimistic. This is often pointed out to her, but she's not too bothered. She's also a bit lazy - but not when it comes to horses. Those are her real passion - riding, eventing. However, Hattie tends to be stubborn, impatient and hot-headed, never giving up a challenge. She's quite anti-social too... but it depends really on who it is. She's quite opinionated. Some call her high-maintenance, high-strung, some even have called her big-headed but she's not really sure where that came from. She's a bit weird though really.. call her "quirky". History: Hattie has a strange background. Once upon a time, she had a mum and a dad. That didn't last long, and soon she had a new step-dad and step-brother. At the age of 7, she started horse riding lessons at a local riding school, but she didn't get much more than that. Home wasn't home; at eight she was more independent, different, and mature, than any of her peers, and she started spending more and more time on her own, away from the world. Her favorite place was under the gathering of trees by the lake down the road from her house; up a tree, hiding under it, or among the dirt and mud of the floor. Hattie's mum died when she was 10. Suddenly. Hattie never recovered from the shock but hid it and pushed it away. She went to live with her dad, whose life was utterly different. Hattie was cared for by a nanny, and rarely saw her rich 'important' father. But he bought her the most expensive horse he could find, and boarded it at the most expensive stables he could find, and then paid for the most expensive instruction he could find. This was probably his way of trying to be a dad, trying to make his daughter happy, and also because of what had happened... The horse, Destino, was a feisty but talented warm blood jumper; the stables was one of handsome Thoroughbreds, strong Warmbloods, and athletic Sporthorses, rich snobs and spoilt children. Hattie was scruffy, sarcastic and anti-social. For her eleventh birthday she was presented with a new horse: Mesmerise, a green, high-strung thoroughbred eventer, who chucked Hattie off weekly. And they kept coming: Storm, the bolshy stallion; Turnip, the glossy Arab; Boy, the gorgeous Holsteiner; the push-button almost perfect horses. It was only when Hattie was had totally stopped communicating with anyone at all that her father decided enough was enough and sent her off to boarding school, promptly selling everything he had ever bought Hattie. Name: Mandy Helms Age: 17 Gender: Female House: Gecynde Description: Mandy is a very pretty girl. She has long brunette Hair she would never go outside her dorm if she couldn't get her hair the way she liked it. It has to be perfect or nothing else. She has the prettiest face. She has a cute heart shaped face with sweet girly cheekbones that really come out when she smiles. She has, according to some people, the prettiest smile- a really girly smile. With her pretty face she has the brightest electric brown almond shaped eyes that anybody could stare at all day, they can usually stop any boy dead when she flutters her long dark brown eyelashes. Mandy only stands at 5ft 2" and weighs around 105 pounds which gives her a slim physique although some people would probably call her skinny or underweight but she thinks she's perfect the way she is. People think she is a lot younger than she is due to her small height but she doesn't mind and she doesn't mind much that she's quite small, although she hates it when people think they can ruffle her hair because they are a lot taller than her, mostly the boys who think she's cute because she's small. She has beautiful skin. She has pale porcelain like skin that a lot of girls would die for, although she does have the odd freckle here and there and like most girls is prone to couple of spots here and wherever but she always uses her makeup to cover them up which gives her the appearance of her porcelain like skin, she is really good at using makeup. Most of her clothes are made up of shorts, jeans, t-shirts, but she does have dresses and skirts too. Not very many though. She has her own unique dress sense, makeup sense and style. She can sometimes dress really girly with her pink skirts and pink and yellow shirts etc but others times she just dresses in jeans and a t-shirt. She likes to stand out sometimes with her clothing; she likes to be different from other people. Some people think that her dress sense is strange because she can't seem to stick to one particular fashion; she dresses from a variety of loads of different styles, that's why she comes across as so different in her dress sense. She also has a wacky makeup style. Most of the time she wears her black eye shadow with lots of black eyeliner with her long black eyelashes but at times she likes to experiment with her makeup. She sometimes wears coloured eye shadows- pinks, yellows, oranges, greens, blues etc and other bright fantasy colors. She loves her makeup and makes sure she gets it perfect before going out anywhere; she always likes to look her best. Personality: Mandy is a shy girl. Who is quiet most of the time, when she first meets you. She is like this because her first boyfriend abused her and she doesn’t meet a lot of people, But the when she gets to know you; she will be your friend. Mandy is a good listener when friends need someone to talk to. Mandy is also afraid of guys because of her first boy friend. Mandy is always calm around horses because they relax her, and she tells them all her problems. Mandy also has a temper that she doesn’t show very often. When she does show her temper, you better watch out because she can get real mean. If she ever gets that mad she may say some things that she doesn’t mean to say. She will feel really bad about saying the stuff that she said. Mandy can’t stand to see her friends or animals being bullied around. Mandy is also outgoing most of the time. She is smart when it comes to thinking up plans for events of fun shows. She gets last sometimes because of her knee. She is in pain most of the time if she doesn’t take her pain killers. But, Mandy doesn’t like to take them so she tries to deal with it. Mandy believes in giving everyone a second chance. History: Mandy was born on January 14th 1990. Mandy’s parents lived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on a small farm where her mother trained for the Calgary Stampede every year and her father was a big time lawyer that owned his own firm and had never lost a case. When Mandy’s mother gave birth to her she died. The doctors did everything they could to save her but she had just lost so much blood. Mandy’s father didn’t know what to do with Mandy. He didn’t want to give her up for adoption. So he took a year off work to take care of her on his own. After the first year her father was ready to go back to work so he took Mandy with him to the office so he could work. The year before Mandy turned two her father sold their small farm and bought a very nice house in a small neighborhood in Calgary so that he was closer to work and could take Mandy to Daycare. 2 years later, when Mandy was 4 she started to ask about getting riding lesson. Her father wasn’t sure at first, but eventually he said yes and Mandy was so happy. Mandy wanted to be just like her mother even if she didn’t get to know her mother. So Mandy’s father took her to an old friend of her mother’s that had a boarding/riding school for both English and western riding. The first time she rode she was hooked on it she didn’t want to just ride western she wanted to try English too. Her father wasn’t very sure about this because it would cost him more money but Mandy begged her father so that she could have an extra lesson a week and he said yes. It went on like this for 7 years and Mandy competed at small shows on the schooling ponies. She did good the first couple years of coming in 3rd, 4th and 5th but three years after she started coming in 1st, and 2nd. On Mandy’s 12th birthday she asked if she could get a horse. It was always her dream to own a horse of her own. Mandy’s father now knew horses were a big thing in Mandy’s life and he said they would start looking for a horse in a bit. Her father went to talk with her riding instructor to see if she was ready for a horse. Mandy’s instructor thought she was and offered to go with them to look for a horse. They had looked everywhere for a horse but they couldn’t seem to find one. Mandy said she wanted to connect with them but she just couldn’t find the right one, until they went to a barn that was full of race breed quarter horses, hunter jumpers and barrel horses. Mandy started looking around; she rode a lot of horses that day. But it wasn’t until she went to a stall near the back end of the barn that wasn’t very well lit, but she looked in the stall to see what kind of horse it was. He was a chestnut quarter horse from what she could see. She studied him for a minute, he had his head turned to the back and wasn’t paying attention to anything. Mandy looked down at the nameplate on the door. It read Firewater on Ice. Mandy called out to the horse lightly calling his name. He turned his head towards her and she could see that the light in his eyes wear gone. Mandy went to the adults and asked if she could try the horse named Firewater on Ice. The man looked at her and said that he was a 2 year old and only trained in the basic like walk jog lope. Mandy said it didn’t matter she wanted to try him. The man went to grab Firewater on Ice. The moment the man took Firewater on ice out of the stall, Mandy’s riding instructor and father could both tell that this man had beaten the horse because the horse looked afraid of the man. Mandy asked where the tack was because she wanted to tack him up herself. It took Mandy a few minutes to tack up as soon as the saddle was on Firewater on Ice or flame as Mandy was starting to call him, he started to tense up. Mandy didn’t know why but she just started to pet him and talk to him it seem to calm him down a bit. When they where in the arena Mandy tightened the saddle a little bit and went to get on her riding instructor helped her get on with him being 16.0hh and Mandy being 5’0” after she adjusted herself in the saddle she could feel that he was tensing up again but she thought it was just that he wasn’t warmed up so Mandy took him though his paces she walked, jogged, and loped him and he was still tense. Mandy looked at her father and asked if he and the man would leave for a minute and talk. After the two left Mandy started to take Flame though the paces again and this time he started to relax now that the man was gone. When she asked him to lope, he went on to his wrong lead Mandy had stopped him and when she did, he tensed up again knowing he did something wrong but Mandy just started to pet him until he relaxed. When he relaxed Mandy asked him to lope and he had gotten the right lead this time. Thou all this Mandy’s instructor had watch and seen that there was something special between his horse and rider. When Mandy was done, the man and her father come back and Mandy said she liked him very much. After a lot of bargaining the man final sold the horse for $3000. Mandy got all of the stuff that came with Flame and they loaded him up into the trailer and took him home to Mandy’s riding instructor’s Boarding Stable. the first year that Mandy owned Flame was that she worked on gaining his trust and she even worked him to do both English and Western riding. When Mandy did finally get Flame to trust her they forged an unbreakable friendship. Flame was still afraid of men but Mandy was getting her father to help out more with getting Flame used to men not beating him, but it would take Flame along time to trust her father. Over the next 4 years Mandy trained Flame in Dressage, Show jumping, Eventing, and Reining. Mandy worked hard riding Flame everyday and never missing a riding lesson that was once a week. Over the years Mandy made friends with a couple of girls from school. When Mandy turned 16 they started going to parties and that’s where Mandy met her first boyfriend, Ken Anderson. He was nice to her at first but then he started to beat her and eventually he wanted something and he raped her. Mandy didn’t know what to do, she didn’t want to tell her father what happened, but when she did, her father was very upset so he took her ex. boyfriend to court and had him sent to jail for abuse and rape. Mandy didn’t date again for a long time she was concentrating on her riding. Until one day at a Fall Show when Mandy was still 16, she met another boy by the name of Matt Harland. He was 17 and a Show Jumper. Matt showed Mandy that not all guys are bad. They started dating 3 weeks after the Fall Show. She knew her father would be upset but anyways. Mandy life took a turning point on one dark stormy night Mandy and Matt were coming home from watching a show jumping clinic being done by a famous show jumper. They were hit by a transport truck that was driving on the wrong side of the road. Matt was killed and Mandy survived with a broking nose, both calf bones in her right leg broking in 4 spots and a fractured knee and a few torn ligaments. The doctor told Mandy she wouldn’t be able to ride for a long time, but Mandy proved the doctors wrong and started riding 3 ½ months later. Name: Matthew Steele Age: 16 Gender: Male House: Purus Description: Matthew Steele is definitly a good looking young man. What's more, he knows it to. He is tall, standing about six foot two, and has whipped his body into top shape by working out regularly. There is not an ounce of fat on him, but well-built muscles. Matthew has dirty blonde hair that hangs just barely in his eyes. His eyes are a dark brown color. He has two tattoos, one on his back and one on his forearm. Personality: There's no doubt about it: Matthew is a rebel. He hates being told that he can't do something. He's an independent person in that sense that he likes to make his own way, make his own mistakes, and learn his own lessons. He loves people and is extremely outgoing and sarcastic. He is a big flirt, and somewhat of a manwhore i must say. He is extremely loyal to people who gain his trust and would do anything for a friend. He is not a big one for sentiment and going out o fhis way to be really nice, but occaisionally he will. History: Matthew was born on a large horse farm in Ireland, owned by his father. They raised some of the finest events, specializing in Irish Draughts, Thoroughbreds, and even Arabians. He is one of two children, and the only boy. He has been accustomed to a comfortable way of life because of the income generated by his family's horse farm. However, because of his father's strictness, Matthew went a bit wild when he hit fifteen. |
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