Username: Roseshine12
Name: Crystal Ravendale
Nickname?: Usually she doesn't go by a nickname but any who want to give her one usually call her Crissy or Kitty.
Age: Born on April 14th, 1991. She is 23 years old (if it's after April 14th)
Gender: Female
Discipline: N/A but has shown interest in Western Riding (the show-type) and Jumping
Personality: Crystal is a very quiet individual, preferring to keep her nose stuck in a book or eyes locked to a computer screen than interact with others. She's had bad experiences with people because she was different from everyone and as such has drifted away from being social. However, she hasn't lost her compassionate nature and is always willing to lend a helping hand when asked, even if she does realize she's just being used. She just loves helping people. Because of this, she sometimes ends up in trouble though she tries to stay out of it. She's a good person who tends to prefer following rules. Many a time her mother has called her the 'perfect daughter' in the way she acts and behaves.
She hates having the spotlight on her and as such, usually tries to arrive on time to any classes. She hates that moment when you open the door and class has started and all eyes are turned towards you. It makes her nervous and she also has stage fright so giving speeches is not a forte of her's though she could easily give very good ones as she's a great writer and very poetic if not for the stage fright. She tends to be a hopeless romantic though her three relationships she had offline and the ones she had online were somewhat hurtful ones, emotionally. She hates being alone though and does want a special someone. Her fear is never finding that special person and she has big trust issues with people as is. She also badly wants friends but again, the trust issues don't help. She prefers to let people talk to her rather than the other way around because she feels unwanted and wants to feel like she is known and wanted though she doesn't realize this is the reason. As such, she's always in the background of social situations, usually very much ignored as well because of how extremely quiet she becomes in social gatherings. This happens even when she actually is friends with some of the people present.
Now, when you compare this girl to the one you see and don't know to the one you get to know, she is actually quite different. She's fun-loving and laid back, always wearing a smile and loving to have a good laugh. She tries to make everyone else laugh and is always up to trying to comfort someone who's feeling down. She's very active and tends to like to 'annoy' her friends because she finds their reactions funny. Sometimes she does it a bit too much and one has to tell her harshly to knock it off before she does. This is where her social awkwardness comes in is the fact she doesn't know when to stop something and when something isn't funny anymore. Whenever someone is mad or upset with her though, she feels really bad and tries what she can to fix it and figure out what she did wrong. She's always a willing learner and loves to learn and is a great listener. She's also a hard worker and tends to push herself to her limits and at times, beyond them. Due to this, she tends to work herself to the point her muscles will ache a lot the next day or to the point where she passes out.
She is a very devoted animal and even nature lover (but not to the point of being a vegetarian) and can't stand the sight of wounds on people and even more so she can't stand them on animals. She can't stand to see an animal in pain and can sometimes break down crying when she does. She's a very emotional person and is also one to stuff down any annoyance or anger she feels until she accidentally blows up on someone so it's a good idea to not annoy her when she actually begins to show it because she's normally a very tolerant person and she also feels extremely bad afterwards... she fears losing friends if she shows annoyance or anger which is why she feels so bad. Her moods can change easily between anger, happiness, and depression and usually there's either too much or too little. She's not a balanced person with her emotions but as such is also usually easily cheered up or calmed if the person knows how to deal with her which is usually working it out with her and letting her vent or getting her mind off of what's making her sad or angry. She gets easily frustrated as well when things don't end up working as intended even though she's not a planner.
History: Crystal's history is both good and bad. She was a very happy child at one point who could never seem to get sad or upset. She had a loving mother and father and though her family wasn't a very good one (especially her two much older sisters), it was still a family when it came right down to it when one of the family members was hurt (emotionally or physically). When her father died from his third major heart attack when she had only turned 9, she didn't go through the normal grieving process. She seemed to easily accept the fact and still to this day has not gone through the grieving process. The phase she has been stuck on is blaming 'God' and the ambulance who had gone to the wrong house on her street.
In any case, Crystal stayed much the same girl though her mother changed more than she did. Her mother began to get a slight bit more violent and much more sheltering of her than she once was. It wasn't a violence to the point of abuse though and was actually out of fear of losing Crystal as well. She became a bit better when she met another man whom had a son Crystal became good friends with for a time. She even looked up to the man as a father figure and as such was taken advantage of her innocence and sexually 'abused' (not to the point of forced; he basically gave her money or things she wanted in exchange for less intimate things; basically she was never penetrated). However, he was a violent man at times who tended to beat his son in fits of rage over a small thing like literally spilled milk. As such, Crystal would always take the blame for her friend because she received less harsher punishments from her mother, usually a grounding from her Gameboy or TV. She also tended to literally put herself as a shield in front of her mother or her friend and though she was rarely ever hit by the boy's father, it still put stress on her.
At school, while growing up, she was a cast-out. She was different, she was intelligent, and she was a class-clown and teacher's pet. For this, she was often bullied and once was even punched in the face for what she sees as no apparent reason because none was given. She never even hit the girl back and instead walked to class while trying to not cry. It's not that the punch hurt... in fact, even with wearing glasses and being punched where the bridge of her glasses laid, it didn't hurt. She was shocked because she had never been hit like that before and the shock was making her cry. She was not only physically bullied in the fact she was literally pushed around but emotionally, being called all sorts of names, even to the point of being called a 'wh***', even though she had never done such things and was rarely ever in any relationships with anyone in her schools. For a time, she remained oblivious and uncaring to the bullying but around 10th grade, it began to really get to her and she began to become less and less and less social over the years.
Eventually her mother finally moved out and away from the male, much to Crystal's disdain. They moved back to their original home state (which is wherever the ranch is) and moved in with one of Crystal's older sisters. This is when Crystal's anti-socialness became worse. Her sisters still tended to ignore and speak over her and one of her eleventh grade math teachers managed to make her dislike math. It was her first F ever and the teacher made her get it on purpose because the two did not get along once the teacher found out she could get A's on her math tests without even studying (Crystal enjoyed boasting about that and it finally came around to her; she just enjoyed math so much until then... it was one of the few things she was actually proud of, probably the only thing). She did switch classes though and managed to get much higher marks, once again getting A's as she always did. Still though she was bullied, even with coming to a new school with new classmates.
When she got to college finally, it totally broke her. She wasn't used to being on her own and alone and had to live on campus for this college. It broke her and she got so depressed when she found out she was unable to remember what she read and that was what her Psychology major was based on that she got physically sick, unable to even really get out of her bed. She had been looking forward so much to getting a major in Psychology to help people and become a therapist and when she learned she couldn't do what was required, which was remembering the words she reads (in which case not even notes helped) that she just bottomed out. Two months in, she went on fall break and just had to call it quits. Another two months later, in December, and she was hospitalized for suicidal thoughts after being cyber bullied and told she had no true friends online.
She did manage to get better though and now she is seeking to try and become social again. Her mother has also changed drastically from the person she used to be after her father's death and is a lot more lenient than before. As such, her mother has encouraged her to come to Rosewood Acres and practice her social skills. It doesn't go to say that Crystal also has always admired horses, even though she was a city girl. As such, she has been both eager and anxious with coming to Rosewood Acres. She has brought some horse and cat books (fictional but realistic ones), her laptop, and a few dear belongings along with her very own pet, Angel. She's both excited and nervous and is unsure whether to be optimistic or realistic about coming here. Still, she couldn't miss her chance to make one of her seeming impossible dreams a reality which was learning about, and then eventually owning, horses.
Strengths/weaknesses: Crystal's strengths are that she is compassionate and empathetic. She can always tell how another person or even an animal feels and can respond in kind to those feelings or help them feel better. In a way, she's considered to be an empath because of how easily she's able to pinpoint another's feelings when given the situation of what's going on. It's a bit harder for her to decipher people unless told because she's a bit anti-social and socially awkward. She also tends to be a bit of a doormat with her compassion so it's both a strength and a weakness. She's been taken advantage of a lot because of it which is why she's a bit anti-social.
Crush: None yet
BF/GF?: N/A
Horse[s]: N/A She will be using the ranch horse Allie Mae.
Pet[s]: Angel
Other: One of her nicknames is Kitty because of how much of a cat lover she is. She is also an atheist and though believes there's a higher power, does not believe it is this all benevolent, loving God person.
Take note please that this actually is MY photo and I would please ask kindly that you do not steal! Angel is a real cat of mine that I own and Firekitty91 is an old username of mine that I changed to Roseshine12. SO NO STEALING THIS PHOTO PLEASE as it is very dear to me.
However, all other photos I will use here for my forms are NOT mine. :3 I claim no rights to the others. Only this one and any on my DeviantArt account (which are very few anyway).
Username: Roseshine12
Name: Angel
Nickname?: Baby Girl
Breed: Orange Tabby Maine Coon Shorthair
Age: 6 years
Gender: She-cat (Female)
Owner: Crystal Ravendale
Personality: Angel is somewhat lazy and anti-social like her owner at times but when new and unknown people are around, she can be very curious and social. She tends to love laying on their bags and rubbing against their legs so one would be advised to forewarn Crystal of any allergies to cat fur. When with Crystal, Angel tends to easily be able to sense when Crystal is sad or angry and will always come up to her and be loving and wanting of attention to try and cheer her up. She can still be like a playful kitten and loves catnip. The two are inseparable and Crystal often calls her "Baby Girl" because she sees Angel as like a daughter.
History: Angel doesn't have much of a history. She was found with two of her siblings in a cardboard box in the hallway of an apartment building and brought back home with them. Her brother died from kids throwing rocks at him and giving him a concussion he would never recover from (as he was an outdoor cat) and her sister is being taken care of by one of Crystal's older sisters. She was raised by Crystal and sees the girl as her mother, making the two an extremely close pair. Crystal always made purring noises to her when she was a kitten and even taught Angel how to purr because of it. The two act both like best friends and like mother and daughter because Crystal raised Angel since the cat was three months old.
Likes: Strings, Catnip, Bags (both the plastic store bags and people's bags), Drawers, Sleeping, Unknown people, Being pet on top of her head and down her back
Dislikes: Crystal being upset, Her belly, paws, or tail touched, Water (with an extreme passion), Being bothered too much (she will claw you :3)
Other: N/A
Also, I edited in another interest of her's which is Jumping. :3 I forgot to add that in there.}
