Post by Shelby on Sept 25, 2016 0:37:53 GMT
BASICS
I Can Hold My Breath
I Can Bite My Tongue
I Can Stay Awake for Days if you Want
Be Your Number One
Name/Nicknames ||
Niko Hazel Connor. Due to her parent's, and even her modeling agencies, dislike for any sort of nickname, she has none for herself or none that other people call her.
Age/Birthday ||
Twenty-one years old, and her birthday is December 20th.
Reputation ||
Due to the fact that she had come to Metric High School in her senior year, there hadn't been much time for her to really make a reputation for herself. She is known, however, around the high school and even around the college that she attends as the girl who has been apart of the magazines that circulate around the place and around the country. The school seems to be relatively proud to have someone like who come from their school, however Niko doesn't let the fact swell her pride, if only because she knows that other models have come from the school and are relatively well known.
In college, she does have a few group of friends, namely the people that studies what she does and the people who go to the modeling center at about the same times as she does. She's become a bit of a familiar face around the area.
Job ||
She works for a modeling agency that she does shoots for very often, and there are times throughout the year where different companies will ask her to model their new and upcoming clothing lines that they're hoping to put out. So while she doesn't necessarily have a defining 'position' or even a real job, she still does have a bit of a job in a sense. Half of the money she makes from her shoots go to her while the other half go to her parents.
SCHOOL/SOCIAL INFORMATION
I Can Fake A Smile
I Can Force A Laugh
I Can Dance and Play the Part if You Ask
Give You All I Am
School and Class ||
Niko attends Metric College and is going into her Junior year.
Major ||
Modeling
Friend(s) ||
She doesn't really have too many friends on campus; only associates that she tends to mingle with in class and during any of the modeling classes that she has to take. She does have a few, very close friends online from different places in the world. Unfortunately, she still has yet to meet any of them in person, but she talks to them often over Skype a few times a week when ever she gets the chance to and when ever she gets the chance to play games with them.
She knows Todd Bennett a little bit, and considers herself to be acquaintances with him. Whether or not they're friends she can't really say, however the times that she has worked with him on a shoot have always been enjoyable, and, really, he's one of the nicest people that she's met in the major. So she enjoys his company and enjoys working with him, however she isn't necessarily sure if she can really call him a friend or not.
She's become friends with Max Carter and Amy O'Neal after having been their Suitmate last year, and she enjoyed their company.
Enemies/Rivals ||
Because she is not the most well known person around, Niko doesn't really have any enemies or rivals. Of course, the other modeling students could be considered to be her rivals because of how competitive the nature of modeling can be, but she has no ill will towards anyone, nor has she ever had any bad blood spill between her or someone else. She's a generally respectful person, so she really has no reason to have any enemies.
Sexuality ||
Heterosexual.
Relationship Status ||
Single.
APPEARANCE
I Can Turn it On
Be A Good Machine
If That's What You Need
Be Your Everything
Height/Body Type ||
Niko stands 5'10", a general good size given the fact that she is a model. She has a relatively lean and lithe frame, one that is deemed model appropriate in the eyes of the people in the business. She eats well for herself, or has to rather, though she has to be careful of what she eats, how much she eats, and the calories that she intakes on a daily basis.
Hair Color/Style ||
Brown in color and generally curly. Depending on what she has to do for a shoot or just for what she has planned for the day she'll either keep her hair natural (which is curly though she has had a relaxer put in it to manage it), or she'll straighten it. Sometimes she may combine the two styles, it being somewhat straight and somewhat curly, but usually she keeps her hair hanging.
Eye color ||
Hazel.
Clothing style ||
Really, Niko will wear anything that is given to her to wear. Because of the strictness that her parents have on her, as well as the company she works for, she is often given sponsored clothing to parade around in in order to promote a new style and clothing that is coming out. Of course, the clothing choices are always kept in style and are always accommodating to the weather.
She doesn't complain much about what she has to wear; if anything, she figures she's a little lucky that she doesn't have to really buy herself any clothes because she's always given some to wear.
Ethnicity ||
Biracial- a mix between African American and Caucasian.
Playby ||
N/A
PERSONALITY
I Can Do it
I Can Do it
I'll Get Through it
Likes ||
Video games, Pokemon, Computers, LOL and WOW, Minecraft, the Final Fantasy franchise, modeling (though her desire to do it is beginning to dwindle), taking walks, and technology in general, especially if they deal with video games (PC Master Race!).
Dislikes ||
Falling, losing in any of her games (though she tries to hide the fact that she's a little bit of a sore loser), being taken advantage of, being embarrassed, rude people, having clothes ripped on her (it's happened before).
Positive traits ||
Loyal, kind, trustworthy, always willing to lend a helping hand, optimistic, able to get along with others well, always willing to give someone a second chance.
Negative Traits ||
Gullible, indecisive, too trusting, will follow along with people's demands too easily, doesn't stick up for herself generally, terrible time keeper, too nice.
Hobbies ||
Playing video games, swimming, taking walks.
BACKGROUND/FAMILY
But I'm Only Human
And I Bleed When I Fall Down
I'm Only Human
Family ||
Father – Jared Connor – Manager/Essentially Niko's agent and accountant || Niko would consider herself relatively close to her father, or both of her parents rather. But despite what most people would probably believe, Jared is the one who pushes his daughter more so in the modeling world, and he was the one who had gotten her the deals that she has now and the ones that she has had in the past. He has made it his personal goal, and job, to make sure that his daughter becomes a successful model so that she can make a name in this world. The man is a little more on the overwhelming and overbearing side with Niko, always telling her to do this and always telling her to do that, however she listens nonetheless and doesn't complain about what he says. Really, she feels as if he is just doing what he's doing because, in a sense she is his client and her getting modeling gigs is a part of his own pay check, but also because he just loves her.
There has only been about one time that Niko tried to argue against the man and that was when he tried to ban her from playing any video games. She begged and pleaded the man to let her keep the systems that she had as well as her computer because they brought joy to her life and because she loved it dearly, and after having tears spilled from her eyes he relented and let her keep them. He did, and still does, keep an eye on her for it all, and he has made it well known that he doesn't like it in the least bit.
Mother – Monica Connor – Nutritionist || Niko pretty much has the same relationship with her mother as she does her father; the relationship seems to be more professional rather than family like. But while her father takes a direct impact on Niko's career, her mother takes a more indirect route in having a part in her daughter's life and future by just being the person who makes sure that she eats well and is healthy. Niko has never felt as if she could ever really go to her mother to talk to her about things, if only because of how professional and pushy the woman was and is in the face of her daughter, but she is the person that Niko will go to for advice on what to eat. It is what the woman went to college for, after all; nutrition and wellness, and she takes her position with stride.
In the beginning, she had been a bit hesitant to let Niko go into the world of modeling, however after the first couple of times that she had been complimented on how pretty her daughter was and after having money thrown at them after the many pageants that their daughter was able to win, she let her father take over the job of getting her into everything that she was into while she stayed on the sidelines, silently cheering them all though really rooting for her husband. She figured he was the one doing the real work anyway while Niko just had and has to stand there, look pretty, and model any clothes that are thrown and put on her. But she digressed; it all worked.
Backstory ||
Born in Seattle, Washington, Niko has never really ever had a choice in what she wanted to do with and in her life because of her parents. As soon as their daughter had been noticed and talked about after they had gotten their first deal for Niko to pose for a pampers commercial and photo shoot for new diapers that the company had created after winning a contest by submitting a picture of their baby girl, Jared and Monica figured that they hit a bit of a jack pot with their daughter. It was then that Jared quit his job in management and went to start making a career for himself through his daughter.
It could be said, and it certainly is the case, that Jared and Monica never treated their daughter like a daughter and instead treated her like she was some mere client to them, and more often than not those types of comments had been thrown at them throughout the course of the years when Niko was a small child and unable to make any decisions for herself. They seemed to exploit their daughter in any way they could, pushing her to do pageants when she could walk and talk, pushing people to want to take picture of her and use her to model their clothes. She had the face of a model! They would exclaim, and with Jared's ways of talking his way in and out of a situation, it all worked out. When they would travel so often Niko would comply because she was a good child, and she hardly ever complained to her parents other than the occasional time when she would complain about herself not wanting to eat this food and of her being tired of getting her pictures taken. But after a few short and stern lectures about what she had to do and why she had to do it, she stopped complaining and just went along with it.
She was probably too compliant, and as the years wore on Niko began to realize that about herself, however she never did anything to change the matter. She found herself wanting to do all of this for her parents because she saw how happy it made them. Like when ever she would win a pageant and her father's eyes would light up and her mother would grin in her direction. She wanted to continue to see those looks, she wanted to continue to make them happy! She told herself that so much over the years that she had convinced herself that she was happy with what she was doing, and really she was; it could be fun at times. With the more seasonal and holiday shoots she would do for companies they were often a joy because of the props that would be used and because of the outfits she would have to wear, however there does come times where sometimes Niko wishes that she could stop it all and just sit down and take a break.
About the time she was ten years old she found the world of video games through one of her cousins, one she still talks to over Skype when ever they play games together, and she's thanked the boy ever since. There were so many games out there in the world, so many fun things for her to explore! Unfortunately, for a while, she was unable to dive into her desires to hold onto a controller and look at a screen all day because of her parents. When she would hear news of a new console coming out she would ask for it but then have the request instantly rejected by her parents. Video games, they said, caused laziness, and they refused to have their daughter become lazy. After all, she needed to keep her body in shape and she needed to keep herself well because of what she did. But Niko found ways to fill her desires for video games; when she was old enough in junior high and a lot of her high school career she would head to the old arcade that her town had and she would stay there for hours before she would go home and listen to what her parents would say. But even beyond that she found games online and communities that she had become apart of, some of which she was still apart of to that day, and when she started getting money her own self instead of it all going to her parents she bought a few games herself.
For a while when she entered high school her education had been pushed aside and always came second to her. She missed many days and had almost had to repeat the tenth grade because of all the days she missed because of her parents, but by the time she was in her senior year of high school her parents caught wind of an arts school that could help her a little more. Was it a little late to have her apply to school? A little, but they did nonetheless and when she got in she was sent to the school to hone in her modeling skills all the more for that one year. She was able to build a better resume at Metric of the Arts High School, and when she applied to Metric College and was accepted into the college she attended there to continue to advance and enhance her modeling skills while also continuing to take jobs here and there. And really she loves the school, and she loves to learn. Niko just wished that she could put more of an effort into all of it.
But even if she is happy, somewhat, with her modeling career and with what she was doing in her life, there's a part of Niko that was now beginning to question what she wanted to do in her life. Never has she spoken her thoughts and reservations to her parents, but... She was beginning to rethink having a modeling career. She just didn't know if she wanted to do it anymore. She wanted to be normal, she wanted to stop having cameras shoved in her face all the time, and she just wanted people to respect her for her and not because they recognize her from the cover of a magazine. It got tiring, but what could she do? Nothing. She had to keep doing what she was doing for now.
OOC NOTES
And I Crash and I Break Down
Words in My Head, Knives in My Heart
You Build Me Up and I Fall Apart
'Cause I'm Only Human
Niko can feel her family ties beginning to strain and maybe even begin to weaken, just as her interest in modeling is beginning to wain. She see herself beginning to pull out of it as she sees herself wanting to pursue other interest in her life, as she sees other students actually having other freewill over themselves, like Max and Amy. Stubbornly, and behind her parents back, Niko enrolled herself in one computer science class and one graphic design class for the semester and she excited for it, though the thought of her parents finding out makes her stomach churn. But she knows she has to do this for herself.
Ever since the college party where she found Todd and Gracie making out with each other, and ever since the incident at the winter family formal, Niko's found herself in a precarious situation with her feelings for Todd. She doesn't know whether to still be his friend or to just let him go all together and to make up a lie to her parents that he and the company he works for are nothing but backstabbing scum and that she never wants to work on another photo shoot with him. But something still pulls her to him, more than likely a still harboring crush that won't go away, and something else won't allow her to just not be a friend and help him out if he needs it. She just hopes that he never knew she felt even the remotest things towards him if he really does feel anything towards Gracie since she doesn't want to mess anything up for him with that.
Song Lyrics By: Christina Perri- Human