Amelia Welberg

[Mia]

AMELIA WELBERG
IMAGE OF CHARACTER HERE. DON'T STRETCH MY BOARD

[/img]" I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you."


you say you're curious
CAN'T LEAVE A THING TO YOUR IMAGINATION[/center]

NAME: Amelia Rose Welberg. "Call me Mia."
AGE: 12
GENDER: Female
BIRTHDAY: September 9

but oh, you seem so serious
I SHOULD ENJOY THE SWEET INTERROGATION

Appearance Mia's most noticable trait is that she's small. She stands at about four feet nine inches, looking extremely young compared to her real age. If you can get past that, though, you notice her dark brown, curly hair and tan complexion. Her eyes are bright green in contrast. Usually, she wears cutoff jeans and a tee-shirt, more for comfort than style. She spends a lot of time outside.

i should not be telling you
I'M FLATTERED BY YOUR INTEREST

LIKES: Gardening, animals (especially big, herbavores!), chocolate, books (especially old ones!), summertime, softball.
DISLIKES: Bugs that eat plants, meat, math, horror movies, spicy food, people messing with her hair.
STRENGTHS: She's smart, school-wise, from reading so much. In fact, she's lightyears ahead of her classmates when it comes to reading novels. As a person, she forms her own opinions and is not easily influenced. She's physically fit, though she's never been in an actual fight.
WEAKNESSES: Mia has never been in an actual fight, and sometimes she can be pretty gullible. She's not very empathetic, and can't really tell if someone's feeling down or is angry.
QUIRKS/HABITS: She has terrible grammar, which no matter how hard her teachers work, will never be fixed. She's constantly picking up new lingo from books. <ooc> I'm going to make a lexicon of her phrases, eventually... </ooc>
FEARS: Fire scares her. Not a candle, but campfires and anything bigger are scary. If she saw a ghost in real life, she'd probably pee her pants.
GOALS: To graduate high school.
PERSONALITY

Mia is energetic, always itching to be moving around, having fun outdoors. Sitting in classes is hard for her, so she doesn't love school or anything weird like that. She loves to read, though, when she can sit still long enough. She's not into the tween novels her peers read, but prefers fantasy novels and classics. Especially combinations of the two. She's read 'The Hobbit' at least six times now.
She loves to help people. Whether it's the old woman crossing the street or a kitten stuck in a tree, Mia's there and ready to hellp. She volunteers at the library, tutoring little kids and shelving books in the children's section. She can't reach the top shelves in the other sections. In the summer, she plays softball, and helps her mom at their stand in the farmer's market.
Mia is a big believer in equality. "It don't matter how smart or big or pretty or rich and the color you are don't matter either," she explains, "In the end, we all carbon-based lifeforms. We fertilizer, ne?" And she sticks to it, not letting the sharp jokes and country girl remarks get to her.

you start to hypnotize me
WHY SHOULD I TRUST YOU

MOTHER: Felicia Welberg
FATHER:
SIBLINGS:
OTHER: Grandmother, Petra Welberg. Grandfather, Phillip Welberg.
FAMILIAR/PET:
PLACE OF BIRTH: Laramie, Wyoming
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Salida, Colorado
ABILITIES: Nothing much, really. She's just a good gardener.
FUTURE ABILITIES: Make plants grow before your eyes. Trees are harder. Strengthen the healing abilities of herbs and other plants. Tap into energy stored in old trees. Feel what's underground, through the networks of plant roots. In the case of an earthquake or landslide, she could feel it coming.
HISTORY:

Amelia was born when her mother was seventeen, without support from her father. Her grandparents let them stay at home. The Welbergs are big believers in natural medicine, so Mia's never actually been to a doctor. She was born at home. Even when she was yought, she loved spending time outside in the huge backyard. About half of it had been converted into a garden by her grandmother.
Her mom had clinical depression for a while, and convinced that it was because she wasn't fulfilling her dream of being a veternarian. So, she uprooted three-year-old Mia and moved to Colorado. They found a small trailer they could afforted, planted an herb garden in a window box and vegtables in the tiny patch of land that was their front yard. To fund her education, Mia's mom started a produce stand at the farmer's market.
Amelia has been a misfit at school from the start. Her mother raised her as a vegitarian, and when she came through the lunch line on her first day of kindergarten, she was shocked.
"Eeeewww, what's a hot dog? You guys eat DOGS?"
From that day onward, she brought a BLT, minus the bacon, to school for lunch.
It was the second grade when everyone else outgrew her. That's when the teasing began. For her tenth birthday, she invited a few nicer girls to her house. They spread it around that she lived in a trailer, and just like that, she became as untouchable as a leper. So, she didn't have cable at home. She didn't understand what the big deal was.
Now, she's starting middle school, and is hoping that things will change. They probably won't, but it's nice to hope, ne?

who am i talking to
COULD BE A DEMON IN A MASK

OOC NAME: Eileen. It can be shortened to Elie, if you like.
AGE: 16.
EXPERIENCE: Five years, baby!!
CONTACT: IM me: extraordinaryeileen on YIM.
MEMBER TITLE:
POST EXAMPLE:

The banner at the front of the gymnasium declared that it was time for the fith grade science fair. Among the tables of baking soda-and-vinegar volcanoes and mushed-up cerial-with-magnets and Diet Coke-and-Mentos bottle rockets were to particularly interesting exhibits.
In one, Melvin Milligan had built an electromagnet powerful enough to levitate his pet toad, an ugly thing that had been named Mini Mel by the students. Well, really, his dad, an engineer with a master's degree, had built it.
The other featured five plants, four books, and a measuring tape. Amelia Welberg stood in front of it, beaming widely as she explained the experiment.
"See, number one, she's the control. I didn't talk to her or nothin'!! She got the same amount of food and stuff as the others." This one was healthy, but average looking, especially compared to the others. Plant two had a tween nove, popular for its portrayal of a clique situation only slightly exageratted from real life. It seemed to be showy, in a brighter green, growing an inch or so taller. The next was close to wilting. A collection of stories by Edgar Allen Poe was propped up next to it.
"Two's a gossip. She convinced Three that I was picking favorites, which I wasn't,

[/b] and now Three's all depressed. I think the books I read to them influenced their personalities."[/color]
The only person left listening was a kindergarten teacher.
"And the other two? I'm sorry, what was your name? Maya?"
"Mia. My name's Mia, Miss McGuire. I was in your class of littlies, remember? It wasn't that long ago!" She shook her head, stepping to the side so you could see the other two plants more easily. "Four got that one play, 'The Taming of the Shrew?' She seems perkier, dontchya think?" And indeed, it did. "Five got a biology textbook." Mia turned and looked at the tiny sprout. "Bio's so boring, she doesn't want to grow!"
"Did you really read all of these yourself?"
"Well, yeah, of course! Why?"
She got a 'D'. None of the teachers thought that she could have possibally read Poe, Shakespeare, and a tenth grade biology textbook.
"But I did!"
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