
A b o u t m e . . .
Full Name:
~Raelyn Grace McKinley~
Nickname:
~Rae~
Age:
~17~
Gender:
~Female~
Sexual Orientation:
~Heterosexual~
Other:
~None~
O n t h e i n s i d e . . . .Personality:
~In short, Raelyn is a light in the darkness. Energetic and fun-loving, she's very good at cheering up anyone, and easily makes friends. Rae is a little social butterfly and loves nothing more than talking. Raelyn is very open with people and rarely lies, though she does clam up when it comes to her past. True, she sometimes withholds information, but she doesn't lie. If you've known her for any amount of time, you know she's a very trustworthy person. Raelyn is always in motion, jumping up in down, jiggling her leg, or drumming her fingers. She hates to sit still and so never does. It can get on some people's nerves--including her brother's. She fights constantly with Jace, for this and other reasons. Raelyn is one of those horribly stubborn people who can never back down from a challenge and refuses to be beaten. She's a daredevil and will gladly do all of that stupid stuff people dare her to do. Honestly, that's Raelyn's biggest flaw--she's gotten in trouble countless times for it.~
History:
~Raelyn has two histories I'll talk about. One is what nearly everybody knows. The other is the real thing.
Raelyn doesn't like to talk about her past, so she's come up with a nice and easy one to tell people when they pry. And once again, she doesn't lie about her past--she just doesn't tell all of it. When asked, she'll say that she was born in a tiny Oregon town and grew up with her parents and twin brother, Jace. At age four, her parents were both killed in a car accident. Jace and Raelyn both would likely have been killed as well, had they been in the car. Fortunately, they were at daycare at the time. With no other living relatives, they were tossed into the foster care system, eventually moving here with their adoptive family.
All of this is true, but it's certainly not all of Raelyn's history. Before being taken in by the Gallagher family, Raelyn and her brother were passed around from family to family, the unwanted children who no one could bear to separate but no one wanted to keep. One of the many families they stayed with, the Fosters, consisted of a very demanding man and his delicate wife. Unable to have children themselves, they had happily taken in the twins. Though strict, they weren't hard on Raelyn and her brother, who were eight at the time. But when they took in another orphan, a boy of sixteen named Alex, things changed. The Fosters slowly began to ignore the twins, first just not noticing when they stayed up late, but eventually forgetting to call them down to dinner. While this was going on, the twins' new brother had taken a liking to Raelyn. I say 'taken a liking', meaning she became his favorite subject. She'd always had a strange feeling about him, but it intensified the longer he stayed with them. The night he attacked her, he was supposed to be babysitting the twins while their foster parents went out for a night to themselves, just a few days before the twins' ninth birthday. While Jace read upstairs, Raelyn helped Alex with dinner. She was pouring milk in the three glasses at the table when she turned around to find Alex staring at her, a knife clutched in one hand. She remembers what he said perfectly: "You're so cute, Rae. Such a pretty girl. But you're getting too old. I can't let you get older--you won't be as cute anymore. You'll be grown up. So you have to stay eight years old for me." He lunged at her, but Raelyn fought back. Had Jace not been just in the other room, about to come in to ask when the food would be ready, things certainly would have ended badly. The next night, the Fosters decided they couldn't have Raelyn and Jace stay with them any longer, and they were passed onto their next family, the one they're with now.~
Likes:
~Colors
Animals
Airplanes
Travelling
Parties
Music
Beaches
Shopping
Doodling
Daydreaming
Nighttime~
Dislikes:
~Sharp objects
Cooking
Hospitals
People who get angry easily
Boring people
Having too many rules
Homework~
Family:
~Jace--twin brother, 17
Maria Gallagher--foster mother, 31
Jackson Gallagher--foster father, 32~
Alison (Ali)--foster sister, 7
Pets:
~The Gallagher/McKinley family has a whole pack of dogs, all from rescues: Maui, Dodger, Kimpa, Jagger, Reggie, Artemis, and Tinkerbella.~
Other:
~None~
O n t h e o u t s i d e . . . . Hair color:
~Dark brown~
Eye color:
~Gray~
Piercings/ Tattoos:
~Earlobe piercings, a silver loop through the upper cartilage of her right ear~
Other:
~A thin scar that reaches from her left collar bone to just above her left elbow. ~B a b i e s . . . .
How far along:
~About 5 months (21 weeks)~
Father/Mother:
~Will edit~
Baby's Gender:
~Unknown~
Picture:
~Will edit~
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A b o u t m e . . .
Full Name:
~Jacen Michael McKinley~
Nickname:
~Goes by Jace; Rae calls him JayJay, which he hates~
Age:
~17~
Gender:
~Male~
Sexual Orientation:
~Heterosexual~
Other:
~None~
O n t h e i n s i d e . . . .
Personality:
~Jace is basically the polar opposite of his sister. While she's loud, outgoing, and energetic, Jace is calm, cool, and quiet. He prefers not to speak unless he has something very important to say, and even then he considers it for quite a while. Because of this, the conversation often changes by time he's made the decision to comment on something, so he just stays quiet. He's a bookworm and has been called a nerd enough times to start to despise the term. He hates having his picture taken and will always hide from a camera, making trying to get his picture a favorite pastime of several people who know him. Jace isn't as uptight as he might seem--though he hates to see people breaking the rules for no good reason and prefers to talk about the kind of things that actually matter, not who's dating who and whether or not anyone's seen the newest episode of some TV show--he does like to have fun. He's obsessed with music and it's rare to find Jace without his earbuds in. He's a multitasker and is always doing two, three, even four things at once. He's protective of his sister and will carefully question any boy she's dating--and those interrogations are about the longest conversations he's ever had.~
History:
~See Raelyn's~
Likes:
~Music
Drawing
Reading
Libraries
Writing
Puzzles
Listening to Raelyn talk about pointless things
Nighttime
Dogs~
Dislikes:
~Labels
Bright lights in the morning
Mornings
Loud people
Heights~
Family:
~Raelyn McKinley--twin sister, 17
Maria Gallagher--foster mother, 31
Jackson Gallagher--foster father, 32
Alison Gallagher--foster sister, 7~
Pets:
~See Raelyn's~
Other:
~None~
O n t h e o u t s i d e . . . .
Hair color:
~Dark brown~
Eye color:
~Gray~
Piercings/ Tattoos:
~None~
Other:
~None~
B a b i e s . . . .
How far along:
~N/A~
Father/Mother:
~Will edit~
Baby's Gender:
~Unknown~
Picture:
~Will edit~