the personality

likes • learning, hanging out with friends, dorm life, pasta, soccer, dressing up, going out, the races, horses, photographs, the odd gamble, painting, children, helping people, a cozy living room, reading, fluffy socks.
dislikes • insects, vomit, when people cry, splinters, when he eyes water, falling asleep early, seaweed touching her legs, empty rooms, bug bites, capsicum.
strengths • her empathy & her ability to eat her weight in pasta.
weaknesses • puppy dog eyes & crying.
dreams • to open her own practice & to do what she can to cure illnesses.
fears • insects.
overall personality • one could look at ace and think she was sunshine encompassed. on the outside she's as radiant as the sun, her smile is almost constant and she treats everyone like they're her best friend. she has a genuine love of seeing people happy and she never wants to see anyone crying or upset so she'll do her very best to make them smile or laugh or at least offer them some comfort in a difficult time. on the surface she seems to have everything together, her grades are good, her life seems to flow easily and she never seems to struggle with much.

on the inside though she's an anxious wreck. the pressure her parents put on her to make something of herself makes her panic about her grades not being good enough, she hides the sleepless nights through her cheery disposition and by taking the focus off her and onto other people's troubles. she doubts her ability to just about anything and has spent many nights curled around her pillow trying to talk herself down from the edge. she struggles to figure out if people actually like her or if they're just pretending too. all in all she's a nervous bundle of energy wrapped in a layer of protective sunshine.

the history

father • mackenzie longshore, 48, farmer.
mother • arlette longshore, 45, former model.
siblings • killian longshore, 23, brother.
important people • none.
hometown • hickstead, england.
overall history • her parents love story is something of an unusual one. her mother, a model visiting from brazil and her father, plucked off the streets of london, took part in a photoshoot designed to tell the men of england that they too could bag themselves an exotic beauty if they sprayed themselves with bang body spray. needless to say that the product didn't last long but the love affair it had spurred between mac and arlette would be one to rival the ages. it was a long distance affair for a few years as mac worked his families farm and arlette travelled the world trying to make her mark but never quite getting there. the long distance relationship ended when arlette found out she was pregnant after one of her trips to london, her and mac talked about it and they agreed that it would be best if she moved in with him, had the baby and then she could continue modelling around the uk. of course life rarely goes as you plan, so after the birth of her older brother arlette didn't feel the call to go back to modelling, happy enough to live the life of a housewife so she could raise her son and then eventually ace when she joined the trio.

it was clear from the start though that her parents wanted more for their children than what they had. while mac and arlette had a decent life, they knew there were better things out there than relying on looks and family to support yourself. so they pushed their kids into education as soon as they could, something arlette felt she had missed out on and something mac had been too childish to understand was important while he'd been growing up. so as soon as they could they were enrolled in programs to help them learn, to teach them skills to help them get ahead and to give them advantages their parents thought they needed.

truth be told from the moment she was old enough to understand it, ace would have been happy with the life her parents had. they loved each other, there was a house full of laughter and light. there weren't riches but there was enough and she aspired to have just what they had. until it was drilled into her that it was never enough. her father despised the fact he couldn't buy his wife the life he thought she deserved and her mother hated the fact he felt that way. it was one of their driving forced behind pushing their children, neither of them ever wanted their kids to be sorry about how they lived.

which is what followed ace all through school. no matter the grad it was never enough, no matter the score in a sports game she'd never scored enough goals or blocked enough passes. the win wasn't ever good enough because it was never enough. there was always something to improve on and it ate her up inside when she couldn't do more. it was how she lived through her younger years and through her teenage years. she strived for more, there was no level to reach because she's always been taught to reach for higher than she was. her parents were thrilled when she got into university and decided to study medicine. it was where her interests lay and she'd always loved learning about the body and anatomy and biology in school.

so she moved from the farm, from her home and into the dorms on campus and she thrived because there was so much competition around. there was always a level to reach for because there was always someone with a better grade or more ability than her so she had something to strive for. the mental toll it started taking on her was something she did her best to hide, it wasn't something that could help her climb higher so she pushed it down, ignored it until she could let herself get lost in it. then the next day would come and she'd pick herself up and start the cycle again.

the role player

alias • shaddazzle.
age • 394.
other characters • mario & luigi