"I thought the name was clever (it's a song name). If you guys want to come up with something else, I'll edit it."<br/><br/>"So, how will we go about this?"<br/><br/>* * *<br/><em><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 2em;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;">Character Profiles</span></span></em><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Basics</strong></span><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Alice Sanders<br/><strong>Age:</strong>38<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Curious<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Look</strong></span><br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'6<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>102lbs<br/><strong>Hair:</strong>Dark auburn with highlights of copper and burgundy falling in a perfectly strait waterfall down her back. Cut into layers with slight tapering around her face to highlight her eyes and high cheek bones.<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong>Large and dominating her small elfin face. A light emerald green in color with an outer rim of deep grey that lend a serious air to her youthful face.<br/><strong>Skin:</strong>Ivory complected with a light scattering of freckles across her cheek bones and nose.<br/><strong>Anything else:</strong>She has a small tattoo of a date and initials on her left hip and even now she wears her white gold wedding band.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The story</strong></span><br/><strong>Likes:</strong>Alice likes music and is an avid singer, she loves fruit and gardening, she runs several miles each day. She loves dark chocolate, dancing and reading the occasional romance. Sexually, Alice is fairly unadventurous (save her unusual attraction to her son), caught up more in the idea of falling in love like the heroine in her favorite books than any kind of kink.<br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong>Alice hates roses, has a touch of road rage and so really dislikes driving.<br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Alice is deeply emotional. She is caring and invested in everyone who comes into her life but no one more so then her two children who her life revolves around. She is fun and calm easily shouldering stress most of the time with the help of her son. She is graceful and rarely raises her voice even when mad. In her work she is detailed and creative making her highly successful even working away from a proper office.<br/><strong>Profession:</strong>Software designer; works from home<br/><strong>Habits:</strong>Alice runs every morning usually before the kids are awake. She sings in the shower and when stressed runs her fingertips through her hair.<br/><strong>Skills:</strong>Highly skilled with computers, is a compliant cook and can garden.<br/><strong>History:</strong>Alice's life was fairly normal. In high school, she developed an interest in computers and entered a special program for computer training, there she excelled finding a talent she didn't even know she had, but that wasn't the most exciting development. At 19 she met the man who would be her husband, within two months the two married after a whirlwind romance that was exciting and consuming. Alice was as happy as she'd ever been. By the end of the year she was a mother to her first child.<br/>She graduated, juggling motherhood with school and started working from home for a year before going back to working in an office. By the time her son was 2, Alice was expecting her second child, a little girl, when tragedy struck. In a car accident during the first heavy rain, his car collided with a semi and her husband, the love of her life, was killed in an instant leaving her all alone with a toddler and another little one on the way.<br/>Alice dealt with it all with quiet dignity, bearing the child. But at 6 and a half months there were complications and the child came early. A small misstep with the premature baby and then Alice was dealing with the news that her daughter would never have a favorite color or admire the difference between purple and lavender. This last piece of bad news almost broke her, but Alice pushed through as best she could. She quit work all together, living off her savings and the small sum from her husbands life issuance she dedicated her life to raising her children.<br/>A the kids grew past childhood and into being teenagers her life opened up once more. She started working again and favoring the idea of dating though she always felt oddly guilty as she tried. Instead, she stayed focused on her kids slowly leaning more and more of her son to help her with her growing daughter. Though she'd deny it venomously if asked a part of her was attracted to her son that in looks and personality reminded her so much of her late husband. She tried to ignore the wicked thoughts, but she couldn't help the way she compared every date she had with him and how, as she brought herself to pleasure, it was his face that flashed before her eyes.<br/>He was planning to move away to go to school, and rather selfishly, she didn't want him to go. She was afraid of being alone with her daughter and then completely by herself. She was afraid of failing and not being needed by the two people she needed most. She was just afraid and more then that she wanted him to want to stay with her. She needed to figure out a way to get him to stay.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>James 'Jaimie' Sanders, Jr. (His nickname, Jaimie, was a pet name used to differentiate him from his father, but it stuck)<br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<strong>        Gender: </strong>Male<br/><strong>Height: </strong>5'11"<strong>Weight:</strong>150-something (James doesn't actually know, it's not something that matters to him)<br/><br/><strong>Decription:</strong>Jaimie has dark hair like his father, almost black, and his eyes are blue, also like his father. He has been said to look a little feminine, being very clean cut and shaven. His hair is a bit long, particularly his bangs, though none of it goes down to even his shoulders. While he combs his hair to keep it from being overly messy (he is a proper sort after all), he rarely does much else with it, so it's a bit wispy and unkempt. He is tall and lean, and is said to have a 'runner's body', but he has focused more on his studies than sports. (I'll continue his general description in the actual in character thread).<br/><br/><strong>Bio: </strong>Jaimie comes off as the quiet, nondescript kid at school, being interested mostly in books and his studies. He is rather handsome, kind, well learned, and personable, so one might say he is one of the popular kids, but he doesn't really connect on that level. Jaimie spends more of his time with his little sister than any friends he might have (whom he really sees as people he won't actually keep in touch with after High School, so what difference does it make). He is very affectionate towards his sister, however, careful never to patronize her, but always protecting and watching over her. He has had a few girlfriends, but he never really connected with them either, always bringing his sister along on dates and such. He was never passionate, always just courteous and thoughtful. His sexual experiences were not mediocre, but he always spent more time trying to please his partner and get done, again, always thoughtful and courteous, but never loving. His aloof personality lead many girls to fall for him, wishing they could make him love them, but in the end it was always the same, they weren't as important as his family and his studies.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Basics</strong><br/>Name: Becky Sanders<br/>Age: 16<br/>Gender: Female.<br/>Orientation: She's still a virgin, but if anyone asks she'd say she's straight.  Having never been with anyone in any sort of serious relationship, she can't say for sure, but most people accept being straight as the normal persuasion.<br/><br/><strong>Appearance</strong><br/>Height: 5'6<br/>Weight: 115 pounds<br/>Hair: The same shade of auburn as her mother's, straight but with a slight wave, and going to the middle of her back.<br/>Eyes: Bright blue, like her father's.<br/><br/><strong>Personality</strong>: Becky hasn't let her handicap get in her way, doing her best to be friendly and outgoing, with those who will let her.  Many people won't, not knowing how they're supposed to act around her, so she spends a lot of time at home, rather than doing what a lot of girls her age would, namely partying or finding other ways of getting into trouble.  She hasn't let the lack of real friends bother her, instead focusing on the positive, thinking that those who would truly be friends wouldn't be bothered by her blindness, and would want to get to know her anyway.<br/><br/>At school she spends most of the time by herself, or with her brother, although she's tried not to monopolize his time, knowing his need to have his own friends, and not have her tagging along.  Consequently she has a lot of time to enjoy her hobbies, reading being her favorite.<br/><br/>Becky is extremely attached to her family, especially to her older brother, although she'd do anything she could to make her mother happy too.  She's a warm and caring person, generally positive and willing to search for the good in situations and people, and is often too trustful of people she doesn't know.<br/><br/><strong>History</strong>: Becky's often heard the story of her parents' relationship from her mother, and even being unable to see, Becky can tell her mom still loves him, even after all the years of having to be without him.  She hopes to find someone she can have that kind of love with someday, but she's afraid no one will give her the chance, because of her blindness.  Becky was born too early, and so can only see enough to tell when lights are on or off, but nothing else.  In spite of not knowing her father, she's had a happy childhood, knowing her mother and brother loved her, even with her condition.  In spite of her lack of any real friends, she enjoys school and learning, doing her best to get the best grades she can, and making her mom proud of her.<br/><br/>She's worried about when Jaimie leaves for college, who she'll talk to and hang out with, and knowing she'll be even more lonely than she already is after he leaves.  She doesn't want to hold him back, but part of her wishes he could stay with them, that he might decide to go to work locally, instead of off to school, where she and Mom will hardly see him, except on breaks.<br/>