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katherine ebony lana macmillan | seventeen | female | bookworm
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{ name and nicknames
}❝ Hey there! So you want to know my name, huh? I'm Katherine Ebony Lana Macmillan. Very nice to meet you! ❞ Her full birth name is Katherine Ebony Lana Macmillan. Pretty long. 'Katherine' came from her great grandmother Kitty, and has always been a favourite with her mother. That is why she was named Katherine. Her second name is Ebony. She was given this name because, when she was first born, the very first thing they noticed about her was her hair. Kat already had quite a bit of hair for a newborn baby, and it was jet black. Her next name, Lana, was given to her by her godfather. He has always loved the name, and suggested it to her parents. They also liked the name very much and decided to give it to her as a third name.
Katherine's last name has been in the family for years. Her great grandparents were Irish. Kat's grandparents first moved to America, though, so she is American but also comes from a long line of Irish people aswell.
Katherine has quite a lot of nicknames. Her most common are Kat, Ivory or Ivy. Kat is just a shortened version of Katherine, but Ivory came from her hair colour. As she grew older, her hair grew blonder. Therefore, she gained the nickname 'Ivory' when it turned a much lighter blonde. Other nicknames include Kitty, after her great grandmother, and 'Hawkeye', a random nickname she was given because of her fantastic aim with a bow and arrow or gun.
{ age and birthday
} ❝ Yeah, just turned seventeen! ❞Katherine Macmillan is seventeen years old. She was born on the seventh of July, 1995. She was born in Southern England where her parents were living, though has long lines of Irish in her as well as British. Kat lived in England for about two years, then went to live with her mother in California when her father left. He was british, and her mother, Rosie, moved to England to live with him, though went back to America where they lived with her grandmother for a while until they got back on their feet. Ever since then, Ivy has been living in California. She has a slight English accent, but mostly American because she has been living there for years and sort of picked it up from her mother.
{ clothing style
}❝ Hmmm... Anything comfortable, really. ❞ Katherine loves comfortable, casual clothes. She is usually seen wearing something comfortable but fashionable. Looking through her wardrobe, you find she has a lot of jeans, shorts and light, 'flowy' shirts, which is usually what she wears out to the beach or in town or something like that. Also, Katherine has a lot of jodhpurs. She has plenty of riding stuff, that sometimes she even wears her jodhpurs out even if she isn't riding just because they are warm and good for cold weather. Kat does have plenty of party clothes as well, and swimsuits. She doesn't seem to have many smart clothes, apart from a few showing shirts for her competitions and some things for school.
Around the house, Ivy wears tracksuit bottoms and long, thin shirts usually, with her hair up in a messy bun, with her slippers on. Kat loves her slippers and socks, and has a big collection. Infact, she loves anything warm and cozy, really.
{ appearance
}❝ Heh. I'm not that big on looks, and I don't care what people think of me. ❞ Katherine has long, relitively dark brown hair. It has some blonde-ish highlights streaked through it, and she usually wears it down, in a messy bun, in a plait either down her back or over her shoulder, or in a high or low ponytail. Kat has very bright, firey amber eyes that are a very distinctive feature as they stand out so easily from the rest of her. Especially because of her pale skin.
Ivy is described as slim, but not extremely thin either. She has quite long legs, and her arms are relitively thin though she is stronger than she looks. Kat stands at about five foot ten, and weighs about onehundred and thirty five pounds. Also, she has a shoe size of seven, so has quite long feet for someone of her height. Ivory has both of her ears pierced, as well as two more piercings going up her right ear. She has a few scars, the most major is a horseshoe print on her lower back and left shoulder from where a horse trampeled her when she was twelve years old; her mother's horse escaped and knocked her over and she had to stay in hospital for two whole weeks. She also has a small scar on her lower leg where she got hit by an arrow accidentaly; she could have died but was lucky to have it hit her leg. Kat loves bracelets, necklaces and earings as well, and owns a lot. She is almost always seen with bracelets along her arm, and she has a bunch of necklaces. Her favourite bracelet is her horsehair bracelet that she has had ever since she can remember, and almost always wears it. She is mostly described as pretty or beautiful, though she isn't drop-dead gorgeous.


{ history
}❝ Well... Long story. ❞ Katherine Macmillan was born on the seventh of July, 1995, in Southern England. She lived there happily for two years with her mother, father and twin brother, Sean. When Kat's mother became pregnant for the second time, her parent's marriage fell into difficulties. Within five months, her baby not even born yet, Ivy's father left. He just walked away and didn't look back. He had admitted to seeing another woman. Katherine was devestated, as she had been especially close with her dad, but she was determined to push on with her life, despite her young age. From a very young age Kat had always had a sense of independance and maturity, mainly because of everything that happened in a childhood and growing up in a household where fighting and arguments were common, however, she doesn't let that get to her and often looks on the bright side, though her past has affected her personality a bit.
Ivy's mum gained custody over both of her children, who were only two years old at the time, and immediately moved to a new house as her mother told them there were 'too many memories' there, and because Kat and her twin brother were too young to understand, the trusted their mother and didn't take the move too seriously, mainly because they were missing their father as well.
Soon after Katherine's new baby brother, Alex, was born, the family moved to California in America. They stayed there for a while with Kat's grandmother, as her mother is American so they went to live there, and during this time her mother began dating a new man, and after a few years they got engaged.
She grew up in California with her family and new step-father, a wealthy man named John who is very caring and a good father. Kat's mother even gave birth to a new baby boy, Riley, with John.
{ friends and family
}❝ Woah. Quite a lot, now that I think about it. Right- ❞ Firstly, her brothers. She has three brothers, two younger than her and one six minutes older than her. Sean is her twin brother, and is coming to live with her in Florida. They are very close because of their parent's break up, and are like best friends when they are together. Alex and Riley are her other two brothers. Alex is now sixteen years old, and not as close as Sean and Kat, but they are pretty close. Riley is thirteen, and the only one of them that was born in America. He is a half-brother, as his father is their mother's new boyfriend.
Her mother has been with her all her life, obviously, but has a new boyfriend that isn't her actual father, but he is pretty nice. She is called Rosie. Her new boyfriend is called Adam, and is very kind to her and the rest of her family. John is Riley's father.
As for friends, Ivory has a ton of them back in California, though now that she has moved to Florida, she doesn't have many friends. Mainly because she has just moved there with her brother, but hopes to make some new friends soon. She also has two dogs, her newest puppy,
Alaska who is a husky x golden retriver, and her purebred golden retriver called
Amber.
Ash and
Rockie are her other two dogs, and they are both the craziest. She also has a throroughbred gelding named
Charleston Blues, or Charlie Blue for short. She has several other horses, but Charlie is her main eventer that she competes on.
{ personality
}❝ That's just me. ❞ Katherine is very shy and quiet. She will not make the first move, and prefers people to come up to her. Around close friends, she can be much more confident and loves to have fun. Ivy is gentle and sweet, but brave too. She is sensible and knows the difference between bravery and stupidity, but sometimes she just doesn't care and wants to have fun with her friends. Ivy will not give in to anything she doesn't want to do, unless you persuade her alot, and she hates giving up and will always give something a good try first before she gives up.
Ivory is very loyal and reliable. If you tell her a secret, she will not rush to tell someone, but will never tell a soul. She'll probably forget it anyway. Ebony likes to be there for her friends, and will support and help them whenever they need her. She tends to get very close to people, but takes time in getting to trust someone new, especially is it is a guy. She tends not to trust them as much, because she has been let down by almost all of her past boyfriends.
Ebony tends to have random outbursts when she can't take it anymore. If someone annoys her, she may lash out or storm off. After these outbursts, she preferst to be by herself for a bit to cool off, so it is best not to try to interfere when she wants to be alone, and will come back when she feels ready. She has a short temper, and can be very mean sometimes, like she has a split-personality, so it's best not to get on her bad side, and this other side is mainly due to her relitively harsh past where she grew up in a household with fighting parents. Getting into play fights with her brother were fun when she was little, and this caused her to be a bit rough when she was younger, but as she matured Kat gradually learned to control herself so she didn't get carried away and end up hurting someone, though she can return to this state if she is encouraged enough.
Ivy has been doing sports all her life, so she is very athletic, sporty and she is almost alway full of energy. She prefers horse riding, running long distance, hurdles and high jump mostly, but she is willing to try anything. When Ivy isn't up and about, she is usually practising her piano or guitar, as music is a big part of her life. Kat is also very independant as she has been from a young age, and is very mature about things, though when the time is right she doesn't take things too seriously and just likes to have a bit of fun. She is always looking on the bright side and is good at cheering herself up, but usually quite unsuccessful when it comes to humans. Kat can be a bit socially awkward, but she always tries her very best to be confident and appear approchable to others.
{ likes and dislikes
}❝ Right. A lot of things. ❞ ▶ horses.
▶ hot chocolate and marshmallows.
▶ soft carpets or slippers.
▶ warm evenings.
▶ summer.
▶ sports, especially athletics.
▶ surfing.
▶ music and playing the guitar and piano.
▶ sweets and chocoalte.
▶ fruit.
▶ sketching and painting.
▶ photography.
▶ the beach.
▶ meat. cooked, obviously. barbecues.
▶ television documentaries.
▷ spiders.
▷ soup.
▷ bananas.
▷ being bored.
▷ people who can't take a joke.
▷ people who think they are better than everyone else.
▷ racism.
▷ the smell of cigarette smoke.
▷ heavy rain.
▷ when it's too cold.
▷ pink, frilly, girly stuff.
▷ posing for photos.
▷ being embaressed.
▷ getting scared.
▷ anyone or anything that thinks they can annoy her without getting a black eye.
{ relationships and sexual orientation
}❝ I am who I am. ❞ Katherine is very straight. She has always been interested in guys and has never really felt attracted to girls. Ivy has been in quite a few relationships with guys, her longest being a one and a half year relationship going out with a fifteen year old boy called Jake when she was thirteen and fourteen, but they broke up when Jake moved to Australia. They still keep in touch and are good friends but didn't want to ruin their relationship because of Jake moving to half way across the world.
Right now, she is single. Kat has been for quite a while since she broke up with her last boyfriend last year as she found out he was cheating on her with another girl who also dumped him when he found out. She isn't intersted in anyone at the moment and isn't really looking for a boyfriend.
What she mostly looks for in a guy is that he is actually nice to her and generally cares for her. Ivy isn't that picky on looks, but would prefer it if he was taller than her and at least a bit good looking.
She is quite shy, and would mostly like to take things slow. Especially when it comes to her parents.