-- as i am .

[nora mcelroy]

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bonjour, my name is LARKEH. i've got TWENTY
tracks spinning on my record. i've got serious skill 'cause i've been roleplaying for ALMOST TWO YEARS, OMG and i live in the CENTRAL timezone.

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name , virginia eleanor mcelroy
nicknames , she goes by nora, a few people call her nor.
age & date of birth , twenty-one; july seventeenth
grade , instructor
gender , female
sexual orientation , heterosexual
played by , chloë sevigny
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height , 5 ft 8 inches
weight , 130 lbs
tattoos and piercings , a single piercing in each lobe and 'noah' in small text on her shoulder blade
distinguishing features , Nora is covered with freckles from her face (where they are too light to be noticed unless you are close) to her shoulders and chest (where they are darker). They disappear on her stomach, but reappear on her thighs and calves. As far as something that tends to catch the eye, her naturally blond hair is certainly one of her better aspects as she almost always has it down, hanging around her shoulders. Though it is not part of her appearance exactly, she does carry a strong British accent, even though she's been in the states for a few years now.
physical flaws , On her stomach are a few light stretch marks from when she was pregnant with her daughter. She's also bothered by the fact that she isn't as slender as she used to be before getting pregnant.
personal style , The sort of clothes you'll catch Miss McElroy in tends to vary on where it is you catch her. She likes feminine clothing best, sundresses and flower-print skirts, but you wouldn't catch her in the barn in anything that pretty, unless of course she was just there for a moment or two. When most of the people at Brinley see her she's running around in jeans or breeches and a tee-shirt or a sweater with mud encrusted field boots. The look suits her in its own way, but if it weren't for neccessity she'd probably be wearing something a lot more girly, though you wouldn't catch her dead in pink.
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likes ,

• her daughter, Beatrice.
  
• horses. she has a fondness for the neurotic ones.
  
• jumping over five feet.
  
• romance.
  
• intimacy that is truly meaningful.
  
• her home in england.
  
• eating out in nice restaurants.
  
• surprises, of the good variety.
  
• the show, the girls next door. she's still upset that the girls broke it off with heff.
  
• cookie dough.
  
• strawberry ice cream.
  
• gardens.
  
• quilts.
  
• nice things.
  

dislikes ,

• arguments.
  
• seeing people in pain.
  
• not getting her daughter all the time.
  
• feeling out of the loop.
  
• putting up with ignorant people.
  
• telemarketers.
  
• alcohol.
  
• american politics.
  
• hot weather.
  
• students that think they know more than she does.
  

strengths ,

• loyal.
  
• can take a joke.
  
• humble.
  
• big hearted.
  
• patient.
  

weaknesses ,

• possessive.
  
• scatter-brained.
  
• high-strung.
  
• blames herself for everything.
  
• jumps to conclusions way too fast.
  
• puts herself down.
  

fears ,

• the dark, or rather what might be in the dark.
  
• when she was little her older brother told her there were monsters in the closet. she still shuts closet doors habitually.
  

overall personality , Nora is overall the sort that just kind of endears herself to you over time. At first, no, you don't get the impression that 'oh, wow, we're going to be best friends', she's just not one of those sorts, but she grows on you. More loyal than a golden retriever it's hard to lose her love or her friendship once you have it, but especially with boyfriends she can be insanely jealous, and she's not good at hiding it. Though she is quite high strung for the most part, she is capable of taking a joke, in fact she loves to laugh and a man with a good sense of humor is perhaps one of the things that she's most attracted to.

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hometown , kingsdown, kent, united kingdom.
father , Colin McElroy; 49; blacksmith.
mother , Georgie McElroy; 45; mother.
siblings , Rory McElroy; 25; on the UK soccer team.
Ella McElroy; 18; student.
Everett McElroy; 17; student.
Molly; 13; student.
Iona McElroy; 9; student.
pets , none.
history , Born in Kingsdown, Nora was named sort of for her mother; after an American state that the McElroys had never visited. Their home was a small place, nestled in the English countryside, slightly dilapidated in all honesty, even when Nora was little, with a blacksmith shop next door where Colin McElroy did his work. As a young child Nora was a giggling child with a clear mothering instinct. Dolls were never a neccessary purchase for the young girl as she prefered to just carry around her younger sister and brother. When she was five santa brought her a couple plastic toy horses, which was when her obsession with the creatures began and she'd often take walks with her mother to the edge of their property to stare whistfully at the horses in their neighbor's field. But horses are a hobby for the wealthy, and wealthy the McElroys were not.

When she was ten she took one of her many walks, but instead of just staring at the animals she slid through the rails and into the paddock and approached one of the horses. All she did was pet it, but her fascination only grew. She kept doing this, daily, until her father caught her when she was eleven and scolded her for crossing onto their neighbor's property and for bothering their horses. She stopped after that, not allowed to walk out on her own. On her next birthday however she received the best gift she has to date, unless one counts her daughter. Fencing up a nice little area not far from his wife's garden, Colin purchased a gentle, large welsh pony gelding for his eldest daughter. It was a stretch on their pocketbook and at first they didn't have the money for more than the basics to simply keep the horse comfortable. But it didn't matter to Nora who squealed when she saw him, scaring the horse, and didn't seem to get off her I-own-my-own-horse high for over a month.

That one horse changed Nora's world. She taught herself for lack of anyone to teach her more proper things until she was eighteen when she left Spooky, so named for his dark coat and tendency to fright, behind for better things. Through multiple student worker positions she got the opportunity to learn proper riding skills and ride better horses, her talent starting to shine as she made an appearance on the show circuit. But showing fast grew to be too demanding and too intense and in time she found she'd lost her passion for riding her butt off all morning, working all afternoon to support herself and her horses, and cleaning stalls well into the night. She had no life aside from that and before she knew it she was saying goodbye to her trainer and heading on a job search, not entirely sure what she wanted to do with herself. Somehow she found herself on a plane to New York, and eventually out west where she found Brinley in the middle of nowhere. When she asked about positions the only opening was as an instructor and she took it on the spot.

It was at Brinley that she met the dazzling son of a Hollywood movie star. A fellow instructor, he was a notorious womanizer and he picked the naïve young woman that had dated perhaps four other men and though they knew each other, they scarcely knew each other well enough before they gave into their desires. They kept it well hidden and it probably would have fizzled out in time, but around a month and a half after they'd first started their fling Nora found herself to be knocked up and somehow they made things work for a time, falling in love and moving in together. At least until the end of her pregnancy when sex fell out of the picture and emotions started running high. That's when the fighting started and it never really seemed to get a whole lot better even in light of the birth of their daughter, Beatrice Marie. The stress of a newborn only seemed to add to their struggles and only six months after their baby was born their year and a half long relationship was over. He moved home to glitzy California and Nora stayed in Montana. They worked out a system so their child could have both of them in her life; Noah keeping her for a few months at a time before Nora had her again. Now eighteen months old the girl's appearance and disappearance from Nora's side seems to perplex those that haven't been around Brinley since the instructors shocked everyone with their announcement over two years ago.
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roleplay sample ,

"Oh my gosh," she said with a shake of her head, "I don't think I'm going to bother as I can accept myself!" The kind admin smiled, "Yes, it's true, you are so very amazing. I see no reason why you should have to do all that copying and pasting!" And then they hugged because they were BFFs.

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