Welcome to Hickstead, home to both Seven Oak Stables, and Blue Acre - two rival stables. Both offer opportunities for their clients to reach the highest level of excellence. Each stable differs from the other, so choose wisely and never forget, loyalty is everything... Meanwhile as the stables battle it out, there's trouble brewing at the university. Be careful, if you don't pick a side you may get caught in the cross-fire...
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Sofia laughed at Dublin's words. "You could be my knight in shining armour, for every time something is just out of reach." She said as she batted her eyelashes, trying her best damsel in distress look.
She'd always thought that age old saying about it taking a village to raise a child was a myth, as she'd never really had a village before, but since she had arrived here, there were always people that were happy to help out. Her job had even come with a babysitter. She smiled at the mention of Cara. "That woman doesn't know how to say no." She laughed.
At the mention of a snack, her stomach chose that moment to growl, and Sofia wanted the floor to open up and swallow her. "Technically, you aren't supposed to shop on an empty stomach." Another of those old adages, except in her case, she hadn't thought about feeding herself when she got Cat's last meal together. She frowned as she looked from her cart to her list and realised that she would need to put a few of the extras she'd picked up back so that she could get what she actually needed. She laughed as her stomach made itself known again. "I think a snack would be a good idea."
Sofia gave a silent huff, annoyed that she was caught unawares, but there was nothing she could do about it right now, as it had happened, and, from the look on Dublin's face, no chance of pretending it didn't happen.
She quirked an eyebrow as she glanced around, disappointed not to see one of those 'do not climb on the shelves' that seemed to be littered all over the place, but not here. "I would, but then I might find myself not allowed to return." She said with a shrug. "Plus, I don't always have the best balance, and I don't plan to be 'clean up on aisle three'." Finger quotes and all. Now, if that happened, she wouldn't be able to return to the market, for fear of people always watching her afterward to see if it would happen again.
She smiled as she accepted the proffered box of crackers and shrugged, nose slightly curled as she looked at the box. "Personally, I think they taste like cardboard, but Cat likes them. And right now, if she'll eat them, without starting world war three to get her to do so, I'll get them." She grinned at his mention of her lack of a limpet. "Cat has taken a liking to a woman who lives down the hall from us, and said woman has the morning off work and offered to watch her while I ran some errands." There was a box of chocolates in her cart for Serenity. "It's not so much that she can be a handful, it's the things that appear in the cart on the way to the check-out." She glanced down at the cart and the shopping list that she was holding, her cheeks heating a little as she had a number of things in there that weren't on the list she was holding. "And then there are the things that fall in there by themselves."
Sofia hadn't been prepared for parenthood when it happened, but that was nothing compared to being ready to being a mother of a school girl. They'd been out shopping and had got Cat everything she had needed for school, and now she'd managed to get some time to herself to do some grocery shopping, thankful to the kind police officer who lived down the hall who had offered to watch her daughter.
Walking around the grocery store, she kept checking the list she had as she put things into the cart, making sure that what she picked up was either the best value, or the brand that her daughter would eat - she had been under the false pretenses that the girl would grow out of being fussy.
She had never seen herself as a short person, though petite was a word often used to describe her back at school, in the grocery store, however, it always seemed that there was always that something that was always just out of reach. She stood on her tip-toes as she reached for the box of crackers she wanted, her fingers grazing the corner of the box, as she managed to slightly move it. She was so focused on what she was doing that she hadn't heard anyone approach and she released a started squeak at the sound of a voice behind her, leading her to laugh at herself. "Hi Dublin." She said. "Yeah, someone rudley put that box of crackers just out of my reach."
full name • sofia teodora papaioannou nicknames • sof age • twenty birthday • march 15th occupation • receptionist, rider gender • female sexuality • straight
the appearance
face claim• mackenzie mauzy
identifying features• dark blonde hair in loose curls and blue eyes with a bright smile, she has been known to thaw hardened hearts and defuse tension
the personality
likes • autumn, watching the sunrise, being a mother, mystery books, horses dislikes • misogynistic males, being trapped inside all the time, meetings that seem to go in circles, strengths • can type 100 words a minute, great work ethic weaknesses • her daughter, she’s a bit of a daydreamer dreams • To be her own boss fears • That her baby’s father will find them and claim his child overall personality • sofia is a very practical person, she thinks things through before making a decision, as every decision she makes involves her daughter. She knows that she’s attractive, but does her best to hide that fact, and shys away from attention from the opposite sex.
the history
father • alexander papaioannou, 70, retired businessman mother • nicolette papaioannou, 50, receptionist siblings • none important people • aikaterini (kitty-kat) - her daughter hometown • London overall history • sofia was the miracle baby that alexander and nicolette never expected, though the birth was difficult, and complications led to the mother unable to have any more babies.
Sofia was raised by a nanny, as both of her parents worked full time, though the girl never felt unloved by either parent and due to their absence, she was given everything she asked for, which included an entire string of ponies when she asked for them, and a trainer who would get her to all the shows and then to pony of the year.
At fifteen, she was offered an office job in the law firm her mother worked at as a receptionist, and she quickly picked up the skills of a typist, attracting the attention of her mother’s boss, who her mother was already having an affair with. While she tried to deflect the man’s attention, she was young and unable to stop him from taking what he wanted.
Sofia found herself jobless and homeless when her pregnancy began to show, her father old fashioned and not wanting an unwed daughter to have her baby, and her boss not wanting to chance her saying what he had done. And she used her skills as a typist to gain the odd job here and there to get her some money, living in a hostel. Money was hard to come by though, as she then had a baby that needed care as well, and she didn’t dare leave the infant alone at the hostel, even though they had a daycare facility.
Now, with a four year old daughter, Sofia finds herself in Hickstead, once again looking for a job, either with horses or working as a receptionist., or both.
the role player
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