Post by jillaroo on May 18, 2010 7:14:02 GMT -6
Full Name: Samantha Kate Hale
Nick Names: Sam or Sammy
Student or Staff: Student
Age: 17 years old
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Female
Physical Description: Samantha is average looking with long blond-brown hair and blue eyes. She is self-conscious of her height, but doesn’t mind her long, thin legs. She’s strong enough to haul a bale of hay or hold down a struggling calf for branding, having worked alongside her father and being expected to hold her own.
She’s usually seen in jeans and a plain cotton singlet or tee-shirt. The only time she wears her Stetson is when she’s working with the horses.
Personality: Samantha is quite a shy and private person. She finds it hard to start up conversations with kids around her age, particularly having come all the way from a town of less than a hundred people. Instead she spends most of her time hanging out in the barn where she doesn’t need to know the right thing to say or worry about being laughed at.
Samantha is stubborn to a fault. As she’s gotten older she’s often locked horns with her father, and when he told her she’d go to college or he’d ground her for the rest of her life, she didn’t speak to him for several days. Though she loves her father he exasperates her, since he can’t seem to understand that she doesn’t want to go to college and get a degree.
In the saddle, she is confident and steady, everything her usual scatter-brained and impulsive self is not. Around horses, it seems everything is so much easier, and she knows just what to do and how to do it. She never loses her temper, and horses respond well to her patience and perseverance. Having spent more hours in the saddle than out, Samantha sees horses more as a working partner than a pet.
Background: Samantha was born on a cattle ranch in Nevada. She was an only child and stuck to her father’s side like a burr. Most of her childhood was spent in the saddle of some half-broke plug Clay had picked up from the meat man, and her stubborn nature and uncanny ability to stick even the roughest bucks, made her a favourite among the men.
At 17 years old, Samantha could rope and hogtie a calf, ride the bucks out of an ornery bronc and swear with the best of them. However, outside of the ranch, she often hung around by herself, finding it hard to fit in with the other girls at her school. While they talked about boys and prom, Samantha scribbled pictures of horses in the margins of her books and came to school with straw stuck in her hair.
Having never had much interest in college, Samantha intended to drop out of school once the summer was over and work full-time breaking and flipping horses. Her father found out, and since he had never had the opportunity to get a proper education himself, was understandably disappointed in Samantha for throwing her life away to play with horses.
However, Clay also knew his daughter well enough to know Samantha wouldn’t change her mind about going to college. Having heard about some horse school from a trader friend of his, he thought he might reach a compromise. Without a word to his wife on the matter, Clay used some of the savings from Samantha’s college fund to sponsor two semesters, just enough to see if it wouldn’t be a waste of money and time. Though her mother was against the idea at first (particularly when she found out exactly how Clay had funded the trip), she eventually relented when she saw how much this meant to her daughter.
Misc.: None
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Face Claim/Playby: Alyona Osmanova
Nick Names: Sam or Sammy
Student or Staff: Student
Age: 17 years old
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Female
Physical Description: Samantha is average looking with long blond-brown hair and blue eyes. She is self-conscious of her height, but doesn’t mind her long, thin legs. She’s strong enough to haul a bale of hay or hold down a struggling calf for branding, having worked alongside her father and being expected to hold her own.
She’s usually seen in jeans and a plain cotton singlet or tee-shirt. The only time she wears her Stetson is when she’s working with the horses.
Personality: Samantha is quite a shy and private person. She finds it hard to start up conversations with kids around her age, particularly having come all the way from a town of less than a hundred people. Instead she spends most of her time hanging out in the barn where she doesn’t need to know the right thing to say or worry about being laughed at.
Samantha is stubborn to a fault. As she’s gotten older she’s often locked horns with her father, and when he told her she’d go to college or he’d ground her for the rest of her life, she didn’t speak to him for several days. Though she loves her father he exasperates her, since he can’t seem to understand that she doesn’t want to go to college and get a degree.
In the saddle, she is confident and steady, everything her usual scatter-brained and impulsive self is not. Around horses, it seems everything is so much easier, and she knows just what to do and how to do it. She never loses her temper, and horses respond well to her patience and perseverance. Having spent more hours in the saddle than out, Samantha sees horses more as a working partner than a pet.
Background: Samantha was born on a cattle ranch in Nevada. She was an only child and stuck to her father’s side like a burr. Most of her childhood was spent in the saddle of some half-broke plug Clay had picked up from the meat man, and her stubborn nature and uncanny ability to stick even the roughest bucks, made her a favourite among the men.
At 17 years old, Samantha could rope and hogtie a calf, ride the bucks out of an ornery bronc and swear with the best of them. However, outside of the ranch, she often hung around by herself, finding it hard to fit in with the other girls at her school. While they talked about boys and prom, Samantha scribbled pictures of horses in the margins of her books and came to school with straw stuck in her hair.
Having never had much interest in college, Samantha intended to drop out of school once the summer was over and work full-time breaking and flipping horses. Her father found out, and since he had never had the opportunity to get a proper education himself, was understandably disappointed in Samantha for throwing her life away to play with horses.
However, Clay also knew his daughter well enough to know Samantha wouldn’t change her mind about going to college. Having heard about some horse school from a trader friend of his, he thought he might reach a compromise. Without a word to his wife on the matter, Clay used some of the savings from Samantha’s college fund to sponsor two semesters, just enough to see if it wouldn’t be a waste of money and time. Though her mother was against the idea at first (particularly when she found out exactly how Clay had funded the trip), she eventually relented when she saw how much this meant to her daughter.
Misc.: None
Picture (required):
Face Claim/Playby: Alyona Osmanova
