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NAME Shalane Mercedes Barcelona
NICKNAMES Lane. Lanie. Sha-la. Whatever.
AGE Nineteen candles on the cake
BIRTHDAY December 24
GENDER Female
SEXUALITY Straight.
ON TOUR WITH Strip Poker
AS THEIR Photographer
LOOKS LIKE Hanna Beth Merjos

LIKES
01. The number fifteen (for no particular reason)
02. Photography (obviously, or she wouldn't have made a career out of it)
03. photographing animals (just because it tends to be difficult)
04. Being spontaneous
05. Starbucks (seriously, who doesn't like that place?!)
06. Cats
07. Rats
08. Lots of other animals that most others are kind of creeped out by, like iguanas and snakes
09. The sound of the electric guitar (even though she can't play)
10. Cigarettes
11. Yorkshire Terriers
12. Sunshine
13. Hot weather
14. The ocean
15. Doing her makeup
DISLIKES
01. Cold weather
02. Rain
03. Boys who want in her pants
04. The song Hey There Delilah (drives her crazy)
05. People telling her she's too skinny (she's TRIED to gain weight!)
06. Public buses
07. Ridiculous amounts of pink
08. Screaming children
09. Bicycles
10. When people don't use their turn signal
11. Girly girls
12. When guys yell at their girlfriend
13. When girls yell at their boyfriend
14. Meth
15. Hypocrites
FEARS
Losing her Mother - Shalane never got on particularly well with her mother, but she's terrified she'll lose her somehow.
Spiders - So, for all her love of creepy crawly things, Shalane does NOT like spiders. They totally creep her out.
Falling in Love With a Guy - This isn't a fear...Exactly. She wants to fall in love and she doesn't. Truth be told, she's straight, but her experience with guys in relationships has been that they're all sugar and spice and then when you start dating them, they turn into jerks. This is just from her mother's experience, though, and truthfully, she wants to fall in love. She's just a little bit wary. She doesn't have a problem being a friend, or being on tour with them, obviously. She just doesn't really want to fall for them.
STRENGTHS
meeting a challenge - So this is a girl who meets every challenge life throws at her head on. Whether it's someone telling her she can't do something, or someone challenging her to a fight, she's not one to back down. From anything. Tell her she can't do something, and she'll do it just to prove you wrong.
honesty - Shalane is not given to lying. She's known for being honest, and sometimes brutally so.
secret keeper - shalane can keep a secret like no other. IF you ask her not to tell anyone, no one will even know you talked to her about it.
art - so this is kind of a useless talent, but shalane is amazing at art. she can sketch and draw, and obviously take pictures. she's not very good with paints, but she can do it.
WEAKNESSES
a walking talking contradiction - The girl can be a little hard to follow, because she's full of contradictions. For instance, her fear of love. She wants to fall in love, but she's scared to at the same time. It's enough to drive some people crazy.
holding grudges - this girl is NOT the forgive and forget type. It's best not to make her mad, or make an enemy out of her, because she'll hold onto it. She holds a grudge like none other.
short term memory - shalane can come off as a bit ditzy because she's always forgetting about things. if you tell her to do something and she doesn't, she didn't just try to avoid doing it, she probably genuinely forgot.
clutz - so shalane also has the tendency to be a bit of a clutz. she's always tripping over things, or even her own two feet. it'sa little ridiculous, really.
GOALS
get her mom off meth - perhaps what Shalane wants more than anything else in the world is to get her mother to stop doing drugs.
travel - shalane is already fulfilling this goal, but she'd love to go out of the country and take photographs in some foreign place.
SECRETS
not a virgin - so this isn't exactly a secret, but she doesn't jsut go yelling it off the roof tops. she's a little ashamed of the fact, actually, because she lost her virginity when she was like, 14.
tried drugs - she feels that it would be hypocritical to always preach her hatred of drugs but tell people that she's actually tried them. just pot, but still. nobody knows about it.
PERSONALITY Bubbly - Shalane has always had a rather bubbly personality. She’s always out there doing something, in the middle of everything. She’s the sort of girl who seems eternally happy. She’s never been the sort to let life get her down, and she’s always trying to see the bright side of things. If it weren’t for her optimistic personality, she might not have made it this far, but she has.

Outgoing - Shalane has always made friends easily. She can carry on a conversation with a complete stranger, and she’s very talkative. She can carry the conversation by herself, if she wants. In fact, she does have the tendency to have conversations with herself all the time. Just a random thing of hers that she does quiet frequently.

Transparent - Shalane has a very transparent personality. She’s always wearing her heart on her sleeve. You don’t have to know her well to figure out what she’s thinking or feeling.

Honest - More than honest, Shalane is blunt. While, she’s not rude, if you ask, she’ll tell you exactly what she thinks, whether it’s painful or not. She knows that sometimes the truth hurts, and she figures someone has to give it to you eventually. Lying doesn’t help anyone, to her way of thinking.

Optimist - Shalane is a hopeless optimist. She’s convinced that everything will come out right, and she can usually find something good in even the worst of situations. She’s always laughing about something and is hardly every seen without a smile on her face.

Secretive - Shalane is incredible at keeping secrets. If she doesn’t want you to know something, there’s no way you’ll find out. This isn’t always a good thing, as sometimes she’ll keep something a secret that she shouldn’t. She hates asking for help, so if she’s struggling with something, she won’t ask.

Cuddly - So Shalane is a bit of a teddy bear this way. She loves to cuddle with people. Anyone, really. She loves hugs and all that good stuff, and she’s forever walking over to her friends and just flopping down on their lap. Luckily she’s tiny, but some people find it a bit annoying.

Obnoxious - So some people would say that Shalane is obnoxious, which she probably can be. She does have the tendency to be loud, and she yells a lot.

Steady - On the other hand, she can be pretty steady and stable, too. Especially when she’s doing photoshoots and stuff, and everyone else is running around like crazy, she tends to be a calmness in the middle of all the chaos, and it’s not like she’s yelling telling everyone what to do. She actually talks pretty quietly during photoshoots and such.

PARENTS Hawthorne Barcelona - 50 -- Author
Father Unknown
SIBLINGS None that she knows of, although there may be half siblings in Spain somewhere.
HOMETOWN Seattle, WA
OTHER FIGURES
HISTORY Before Shalane - Hawthorne was not the woman’s real name. Her real name was Leanne, but she had hated it ever since she was young. While she held on to what she felt was a rather poetic last name, Barcelona, she changed her name to Hawthorne. At first it was just her pen name. Hawthorne Barcelona. It was an interesting name, something completely different from anyone she knew. Eventually she began asking close family and friends to call her Hawthorne, and then it was legally changed. By the time she actually WENT to Barcelona, Spain, she had a number of books under her belt and was a well known and acclaimed author. However, she had a very deep, dark secret, and she hid it well, even from the paparazzi. She had an addiction to crystal meth. She made a trip to Spain. It was something she had always wanted to do, and so she did it. However, she got caught up in the “underworld” of the city, in the dark corners and back alleys where most respectable people didn’t go. When a reporter caught her talking to a known meth dealer and asked what she was doing, she lightly informed him that she was “widening her scope so she could write her latest project more accurately.” The meth deal was well hidden, but Hawthorne had it in her pocket even as the man walked away. Eventually, though, she ran out of money. Well, no tout, but what she had left, she had to use for a return fair to the States. So she took to selling her body.

Infancy - It was a wonder that Shalane didn’t have any birth defects. It was three months before Hawthorne even noticed that she was pregnant, and by then, she had put more meth into her system than most do in a year. And she couldn’t stop. The woman was on crystal meth the entire time she was pregnant with Shalane. The girl was her miracle child. Of course, once the baby was born, Hawthorne wanted what was best for her. Or at least, she told herself she did. Not enough, though. She wouldn’t go to counseling and expose her addiction to the public. So she continued on, almost living two lives. The one the public saw with a beautiful daughter and a career that had skyrocketed and was still at the top, and then the other, darker life. The one that involved bringing guys home, a different one every night, and a life addicted to methamphetamines.

School Years - Shalane was an amazingly easy baby. She hardly ever fussed, and she was grateful to go to school, and get out of the reeking, messy house for a few hours out of every day. She drifted farther and farther from her mom, into her school world. She was an outgoing, bubbly girl who made friends easily, and had a close circle of them. She was well liked by most of her peers. Her third grade year, however, was the year that Hawthorne picked up her first boyfriend. Shalane never liked him, even though he sucked up to the girl, buying her nice things and such. However, as soon as he and Hawthorne started officially dating, even to the media, he turned abusive, and his problems with alcohol came out of the closet. He was always screaming at Hawthorne, as well as Shalane. He was just a horrible person the whole way around. Hawthorne, though, had only ever known abusive relationships, and she kept the man around for a year before finally dumping him.

High School - That was how life was for Shalane, all the time. When her mother didn’t have a guy living with them, she had a different one in her room each and every night. It wasn’t a hard thing to figure out. It as her sophomore year of high school that she found cigarettes, and it wasn’t long before she was addicted, and craving nicotine fixes all the time. To her eyes, it was no big deal. Nothing close to meth. She wouldn’t dream of doing drugs. She hated them with a passion. She had watched her mother slowly deteriorate from her use of the horrible things. She didn’t want that for herself. It was also sophomore year that she discovered photography. She had been doing art for some time. She was a gifted artists, particularly with pencils, although painting was not her strong point, and her art teacher suggested Shalane try a photography class the teacher was going to be offering at the local university for all ages. Of course, Shalane jumped on the opportunity to be out of the house for a little longer a couple days a week. Rather to her surprise, she found that she absolutely loved photography, and, more than that, she was good at it.

College - Shalane only spent a year in college, with a major in Photography and a minor in General Art, in the hopes of becoming a teacher or something like that. Not long after that, though, a position opened up as photographer for a band called Strip Poker. Of course, Shalane jumped on the opportunity, and she’s been with the band ever since.

NAME Pixel
AGE Fourrteen
EXPERIENCE Too much.
OTHER CHARACTERS Spencer James and Kaydence Elliad
THE MAGIC WORD you're a tragedy, a queen for his majesty, your kingdom is crumbling
ROLEPLAY EXAMPLE Check Spencer?