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[+] Florida Riley

Florida Riley - The Saint

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Elevator Pitch: Friendly Mormon bookworm and science fiction enthusiast.

Background: Hello! Florida hails from a fairly typical nuclear family of Latter Day Saints, and - shockingly - isn't particularly rebellious in the slightest. In fact she's actively giddy about going on her mission once she's finished up with high school, before then pursuing her dream of becoming a bestselling author.

What kind of author you might ask? A sci-fi author of course, after her trekkie mother introduced her to the genre. She's already planning out an epic three-part space opera trilogy, just... Don't ask her why the two female leads seem awfully close and affectionate with one another, or why she has posters of Kara Thrace and Seven of Nine all over her bedroom wall.

Personality Florida is friendly and polite, if somewhat meek, and generally tries to get along with others. She isn't particularly preachy about her beliefs, as she's aware she's one of the few LDS students at Red Rock, but if given an opening is more than happy to overshare about it. She does tend to be a bit on the conservative side, though has lately begun to... Question things.

She's studious by nature, being the kind of person who actually enjoys doing homework and answering questions in class. Unsurprisingly she tends to score highly, especially in humanities subjects such as History and English, but this has also resulted in her earning a reputation as something of a teacher's pet.

Interests

• Science Fiction: Florida loves science fiction, particularly space operas that lean on the harder side of things, with some of her favourites including Battlestar Galactica, The Expanse, Honor Harrington and - the one that started it all - Star Trek.
• Creative Writing: Florida's an aspiring author, having dabbled in fanfics and other forms of microfiction, with aspirations of getting something published after she's completed her mission.
• Linguistics: She's a bookworm at heart who often finds herself spending the majority of her lunchtimes in the library, with English being her best subject by far given her interest in writing, linguistics and etymology.
• Multilingual: In preparation for her mission, Florida has been trying to learn as many languages as she can, primarily focusing on those of European origin. So far she can speak reasonably good Spanish and French, and is trying to learn Portuguese.
• Baking: Florida loves baking. Cookies, cakes, bread, she adores creating treats in the kitchen for friends and family.
• Charity/Volunteering: Florida is more than happy to take part in charity events and volunteer to help her local community.

Looking For

• Fellow Mormons(?): Very unlikely, but if for whatever reason anyone else also decides to run an LDS student, she will want to be their friend.
• Fellow bookworms: She spends most of her free time in the school library, so anyone likely to frequent that space will regularly cross paths with her.
• Fellow sci-fi enthusiasts: Florida will gleefully discuss sci-fi with anyone who shows a similar interest in the genre, as long as they're not talking about something gauche like Star Wars or Rick and Morty.
• Rivals: She isn't the type to actively antagonise anyone, but her religious background and meekness will likely get on some people's nerves.
• Crushes: There are likely girls amongst her classmates whom Florida harbours affectionate feelings towards, in a wholly platonic and strictly heterosexual fashion of course.

Established Relationships

• Nothing: Yet...

JacobAllTradez wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 6:13 am Florida Riley

First off, honored to have my state be a name for a character! Let's see who she winds up meeting from this Montley Crue.

Keiko isn't as dedicated to creative writing as Florida is, but I feel like they would share ideas for prompts together and be pretty chill with one another. She'd also try and pick out a soundtrack for Florida's space opera story.

Skyla is probably okay with Florida, she doesn't seem like the person who would put pressure on her to be perfect. The two might also trade tips on how to learn languages (fun fact: Skyla speaks Turkmen among other langauges).

Maggie isn't a Mormon, but she's definitely a Christian, so hopefully that will be enough for Florida to consider her a friend. Maggie would definitely be excited to learn more about her space opera series and partake in some charity stuff with her.

FlockOfHens wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 11:17 pm Beau:
Beau might be friends with both Marcy and Johnny. For Marcy, Beau might've been attracted to the way she dressed herself and maybe came up to her once or twice to get fashion tips. Maybe he also got into ear piercings because of her? (<Still working on his appearance)
As for Johnny, they could be standard friends who got along somehow. I think Beau may have fallen in love with him for a while until he noticed he was already dating someone else so that died down quickly.

Storm:
Storm wouldn't exactly trust Marcey for being a part of Beelzebub's gang, seeing how Beel likes to bully Inessa.
However, Storm might be interested in Koa for his interest in fighting. Maybe he asked Koa for help to determine if Aikido could be applied against others with different fighting styles, this being wrestling.

Inessa:
Inessa can get along well with Koa and Florida. Koa and Inessa are both big fans of anime while she and Florida are fellow bookworms, although Inessa has different book preferences. As for Marcy and Johnny, she's taken pictures of them for the student yearbook but doesn't know them that well.

Magnum 0pus wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:05 pm Howdy, I've been meaning to talk and give you suggestions for relations that your characters could have with my character, Claude. This is what I think would work well;

JOHNNY BENOWITZ

Since they are both on the baseball team, Johnny being relatively chill with Claude would make a lot of sense. But, because of how Johnny styles his hair, I could see my gentle giant occasionally asking Johnny for hair styling tips which is something I feel they could both share an interest in... amongst other things like sharing similar tastes in music, both having a vibe/aesthetic akin to that of the early-to-mid 20th century!

KOA TAGALOA

I can see Koa and Claude being very great friends and wrassle buddies. They are both really nice people who aren't afraid to make more friends, and the fact that Claude shows interest in wrestling to the point of occasionally wrestling with the other wrestlers of Red Rock so that he could see how good he is. Another few things that further solidifies them being friends is how they are both gentle giants... and how since Claude is an out-of-touch guy, Koa could likely explain some of the things he enjoys; for example, professional wrestling, anime, and tabletop role-playing games!

MARCY VALERIO

Despite how wildly different they both are, I can see them having a friendship dynamic where Claude is sort of along for the ride when it comes to her antics. He wouldn't really mind and would actually enjoy everything she could bring to the table when it comes to their friendship; if anything, he's also the type who is genuinely an understanding dude, so her fiery temper wouldn't be something that actually sets him off. Instead, Claude would more than likely be sort of like a therapist for her who talks to her about her anger and gives her tips on how to control it.

Polybius wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 8:28 pm My characters

So Mo and Johnny have got to be bros. Absolute bros. They can drive around listening to Elvis, pick up girls at the Malt Shop together, and trade hair styling tips. One soul in two bodies.

Mo can slo be friends with Marcy. He probably flirted with her in the past but now they're cool delinquent buddies together. But he's more greaser than punk so, eh, tell me if they'd fit.

LYourLocalAutist wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 11:16 am Alrightyy, let's get to it!

Marcia "Marcy" Valerio

Sylvie Rattray
Despite being inwardly quite nervous at her relations with the infamous Beel, Sylvie tries to make friends with everyone on the Cheerleading team, and Marcy's no exception, with their shared interests in cheerleading and gymnastics as well as their similar social standings. If not friends I could see them at least being positive aquaintances.

Johnny Benowitz

Raya Loux
Raya's the go-to mechanic for nearly every driving student in the school and I don't see why Johnny would be any different. He could probably draw some confidence from her as she compliments his ride while working on it.

Manuel "Mañana" Hernández
Despite playing completely different sports, birds (popular jocks) of a feather (popular and douchey) should stick together. Cool hangouts leaning against a brick wall? Driving around town with *more* bros in the back? These guys are buds, surely.

Sylvie Rattray
I see their relationship as one of unreciprocated flirting on Johnny's part, and uh, that's pretty much it