<div class="floatleft"><div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/DLOH5dT.jpg)<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/J4aiKOg.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c9/24/60/c9246092cad2cd5b8d4330f86831b257.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/5f/f1/ea/5ff1ea929998efe2eec4e6ec5bf1ea23.jpg)</div></div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 22pt;">Valerie Eliose Hayward</span></span></div><strong>Age:</strong>19<br/><strong>Birthday:</strong>February 21st<br/><strong>Fairy Tale Persona:</strong>Anna<br/><strong>Year &amp; Major:</strong>Freshman, Undecided<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Cis-female<br/><strong>Pronouns:</strong>She, her<br/><strong>Sexual/Romantic Identity:</strong>Heterosexual | Greyromantic<br/><strong>Distinguishing Characteristics:</strong>The most distinctive characteristic about Valerie is her freckles and unruly hair. She doesn’t even have her ears pierced!<br/><strong>General Style/Overall Appearance:</strong>Valerie’s style is very generalized and she doesn’t seem to do much to make herself stand out. Not that she dresses like an old lady either. Although she is definitely a bit more subdued than your average teenager about showing off cleavage and thigh!<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong><br/><div align="center">Introverted extrovert, playful, goofy, fanciful, awkward, naive, rebellious, gullible, empathetic, stubborn, feisty, adventurous, courageous.</div><br/>Valerie’s favorite season is fall. She loves the changing colors of all the wilting leaves, showing that even outside of one’s prime they can be extraordinary. At her very core this sheltered girl is an idealist and is always trying to find the silver lining to every cloud no matter how dark the sky. Even if one cannot be found, Valerie is the type to try and create one of her own. Nothing can ever be as black and cold as it seems. For that Valerie is often described with words like ‘fanciful’ and ‘unrealistic’. After all, many would see her story as a tragedy. Yet despite it all Valerie refuses to wallow, as she would be just as happy to dance beneath the stars as she would to bathe beneath sunbeams.<br/><br/>Unfortunately Valerie often second guesses herself. She knows college life -- or just freedom in general -- is going to be a totally new experience for her, and for as utterly excited she is about that she is equally as terrified. Deep down inside she is a very old soul, and growing up in a retirement community has only really reinforced this nature in her. What if she doesn’t fit in? What if people think she’s weird? What if she does something stupid and grandma makes her come back home?!<i>UGH!</i><br/><br/><strong>Biography:</strong>Valerie’s early life was nothing to really gawk at. She was the second child of a farmer and a veterinarian that loved both their children dearly. Mom and Dad owned a decent sized farm with a good handful of livestock, so there was always something to do. Life was good, and although she knew there was something<i>different</i>about her older sister, it never got in the way of their fun. In her eyes their little world was perfect, and so long as they all had each other that would never change.<br/><br/>Then her sister started having seizures, and the local doctors couldn’t figure out why. It wasn’t until they did a CT scan that they realized there was a mass inside her brain. Quite a few more tests later and they knew it was cancerous. However, due to its placement it was practically impossible to remove. The Haywards were devastated, and absolutely determined to keep it a secret from their youngest daughter.<br/><br/>They refused to give up, however. Just because local surgeons wouldn’t take the risk, didn’t mean others elsewhere wouldn’t. And what did they have to lose? With the clock ticking near its end on Kayleigh’s young life they were desperate. So they left the two with their grandparents and left for Japan in hopes of finding someone that could save their child’s life. They never came back.<br/><br/>At just seven years old Valerie was dubbed an orphan, and she and her sister were handed to their barely capable grandparents. It was rough moving away from the freedom of a big open farm to the enclosed walls of a retirement community. If they went outside to play they had to be extra quiet about it. There was no one else within their age range for what felt like miles, and because their grandparents didn’t have much energy like they would if they were just twenty years younger, they didn’t get to go out much. A visit to the playground was practically unheard of, and Valerie didn’t get to try fast food until she was 18 years old. And thanks to grandma being a retired teacher, they didn’t even get to escape at school either. Valerie never got to go to a single dance.<br/><br/>Perhaps it all would have been so much easier if Kayleigh was still alive. Many would say she was lucky to survive her tumor for another year after their parents died, but she never stopped blaming herself for their death. As far as she was concerned, if she hadn’t had cancer then their parents would still be alive. For that she spent the last year of her life locking herself away in her room. Not even Valerie could convince her to come outside, or to even just smile. To watch her degradation over that last year was perhaps the most painful thing Valerie ever had to experience.<br/><br/>When Valerie finished her schooling and received her diploma she was honestly at a loss for what she wanted to do with her life. There was so much out there she had yet to experience. Actually, there was<i>everything</i>out there she had yet to experience. Her two youngest friends were 58 and 65! Before this year she had never even<i>held</i>a cell phone before, let alone owned one. So for now she’s just excitedly trying to get a feel for the big bright world before she makes any big decisions about her future. Maybe she’ll even nab herself her first ever boyfriend!<br/><br/><strong>Fairy Tale:</strong>Frozen<br/><strong>Special Talent/Gift/Trait:</strong>Valerie has incredible endurance. She doesn’t tire easily, and is perfectly suited for the many sleepless nights she can expect to have as a full time college student.