Aimee Kowalski

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Name: Aimee Kowalski
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: Senior [12th]
School: Bayview Secondary School
Hobbies and Interests: Aimee has always been a passionate member of speech and debate. She helped with the school newspaper with writing and photography, and has had some experience with baseball as a child. When she has leisure time, she can usually be found surfing the internet, taking photographs, or just being with friends.

Appearance: Aimee isn't the type of girl that would turn heads in a hallway. She's relatively short, at five foot four with a weigh of around 115 pounds, and has dark auburn hair, closer to brown than red. She's not particularly well-endowed in the bust area and doesn't like to spend a lot of time making herself up, preferring to tie her semi-long hair into a ponytail for most occasions. She can usually be seen in some sort of tank top or casual shirt with a dark gray hoodie on top and form-fitting jeans. She tends to wear neutral color clothing simply because she's never been very good, and honestly didn't care, about matching colors. Of mixed northern and western European descent, mainly Polish and French, she has fair skin, visible cheekbones, and some freckles scattered around her face, but concentrated mainly on the upper half. She's slim, but not extremely athletically built, slightly slanted black eyes and somewhat small lips. Her features are a bit atypically close together near the center of her face, but she doesn't care much for outward appearances to care about any such imperfections.

Biography: Aimee grew up in a mixed northern and western European background alongside an older brother and sister. Her parents, Maxime and Katarzyna, her father and mother of predominant French and Polish descent respectively, immigrated to the United States and Aimee was born several years after. Her brother, the eldest of the three children, was the only child in the family to have been born outside of the United States. Alexis, though he preferred to be called Alex due to the French-English language name barrier, got along quite well with Aimee and her older sister Joelle and he quickly became somewhat of an idol for the young girl. Alex's interest in politics transferred to Aimee as well, and he became a major influence in her mindset and opinions.

Aimee's parents divorced when she was about eight years of age, and the two went their separate ways, sharing joint custody of the children. Her father decided to leave her mother over a series of domestic disputes over his superfluous spending of money and her "suffocating nagging" after more than a decade of marriage. Joelle went to live with their father while Alex and Aimee stayed with their mother. The two households were only about a forty minute drive from each other, and the parents got along well enough as acquaintances after a while that the family reunions weren't excessively awkward or infrequent. Both adults could get along well enough for an occasional meeting with the family, but a long term relationship would surely end in more conflict. As Aimee's first act of defiance, just weeks after the split, she decided she would go by her mother's surname instead of her father's. Though she later learned the real reasons that caused the divorce and stopped blaming her father once she grew older and matured, the last name stuck and she generally became known by friends as Aimee Kowalski instead of Aimee Delancy.

Her mother, always wanting her children to be exposed to as many skills as possible, enrolled Aimee in various activities like choir, ice skating, baseball, and the piano. Like most young adults being forced into activities, Aimee responded negatively to most. She ended up quitting choir, skating, and the piano just months after her enrollment, but baseball became one of her passions. While not the strongest batter on her team, Aimee excelled at sprinting towards the bases and pitching a fierce fastball. Though she chose not to pursue baseball in her upperclassmen years of high school, in favor of AP classes, the sport became a favorite pastime of hers and one of the few things that kept her off her computer, writing away.

By the time Aimee turned fourteen, her brother, now seventeen, finally came out of the closet. Her mother, at first disapproving and distraught, came to terms with him months later and the subject became less and less taboo to talk about in the household. By then, Alex was already a strong debater and his passion and articulation had rubbed off on the young Aimee. She became the test audience for many of his speech and debate practices and she helped him hone his arguments and fix any flaws of logic he may have missed. The two were nigh inseparable for the majority of Aimee's childhood, and he became the ideal that she wished to one day live up to. As a new way to express her opinions, and also because she enjoyed it, Aimee began to pick up writing as a hobby.

She took the initiative to write editorials for her school newspaper and aspired to one day make her voice heard in the real world. In high school, Aimee dabbled in photography as well, as a form of self expression and artistic creation. She found ways to turn her photos into political statements and make a difference. Her concepts became controversial and satirical essays about politics and religion on her blog and symbolic photos that strove to prove a point and provoke a response.

Much of Aimee's high school years revolved her love of baseball, debating, and challenging herself. While she made friends outside of her passions, she was always waiting for the next big game or the next big speech. Unfortunately for her, she dropped out of baseball at the end of her junior year, due to lack of time what with her class choices, but she refused to give up her outlets to express her opinions- speech and prose.

What Aimee lacks in conventional "blonde, blue eyes, girl next door" beauty, she makes up for in her speech. Aimee is articulate and passionate, and always the first one to raise her hand to state her opinion. As a fervent school debater, she's quick to argue against what she thinks is unjust and stand up for her political views both in speech and on paper for the school newspaper. With Alex Delancy now in college, Aimee has begun making a name for herself, stepping out of her brother's shadow and using all that he taught her to hone her skills and form her own opinions. Aimee is a lot of things; intelligent and quirky, opinionated and friendly, a Delancy and a Kowalski, but one thing she is not is the sum of her parts and she actively tries to push herself forward, refusing to ever look back.

Advantages: Aimee is smart, opinionated, and knows what to say to rile people up and inspire them to take action. With years of speech and debate practice, not just in high school but also from her brother Alex, she is articulate and passionate enough to get people on her side. With the few years of baseball training, she is also fairly in shape and excels at short sprints and throwing small objects. She also forms her own opinions, able to analyze people and concepts and refusing to follow the crowd.
Disadvantages: While she tends to not hold grudges, Aimee is not someone who is pleasant to disagree with. She will not stop until either she or her opponent accepts that they lost in an argument, and this can lead her to look stubborn and overly persistent. Because of her opinionated nature and provocative writing style, it's also likely that there are a few people that would like to tell her to shut up, and the SotF Act may be the best way to do it.

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