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Posted on the 22nd of February 22nd, 2029
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Our hearts where they rocked our cradle,
Our love where we spent our toil,
And our faith, and our hope, and our honor,
We pledge to our native soil.
God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.
~Rudyard Kipling
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PART I: OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Ing
AGE: 22
TIME ZONE: PST
AIM/E-MAIL: ingredulous / ing.hutcherson@gmail.com
CDJ: ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ingrained
LINK TO HOLD: Link!
EXPERIENCE: whatbrew, profbinns, veneer
PART II: CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Aubrey Rose Kline
AGE, BIRTHDAY: 25, May 10th, 2004
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
OCCUPATION: Administrative Assistant for the Department of Housing and Relocation, moonlighting law student.
ORIGIN OF BIRTH/NATIONALITY: Phoenix, AZ, USA
NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD TYPE: Southwest
RESIDENCE: District 3
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Loyalist, conservative.
IMPORTANT NPCs/FAMILY MEMBERS:
FATHER: Alfred Kline b. 1975. Before the bomb, Alfred and his brother had established the Kline & Kline law practice. Alfred was a respected lawyer in Phoenix, and now is an associate at a large law firm in New York City.
MOTHER: Elisabeth Kline b. 1977. Elisabeth was a stay at home mother when her children were young, but as they grew older she started working as an associate at an event planning company. Now that
SISTER: Melinda Kline-Horowitz b. 2002. Melinda is a very capable young woman who was working as a local meteorologist before the bomb hit and they had to relocate. Now she works for the government as an assistant to atmospheric scientist. She is also married to a man named Noah Horowitz, and planning to start a family soon.
BROTHER: Benjamin Kline b. 2006. He was just in his first semester of college, wanting to become a teacher when the bomb hit. After the family moved, Benjamin struggled to get himself back into a school in NYC. Like Aubrey, he really needed the wide open spaces and athletic opportunities. He wound up dropping out and works in District 0 as an electronics salesman.
SISTER: Veronica Kline 2007 - 2024. Although Veronica and Aubrey are three years apart, they were extremely close before the bomb. Veronica had followed Aubrey's steps into cheerleading and dance. Unfortunately, she was killed by debris on November 17th, 2024.
SISTER: Emily Kline b. 2010. The youngest of the Klines, Emily is an art student who has joined the ranks of the post-apocalyptic artists. Her works have been displayed in a few private galleries. She is extremely quiet and withdrawn.
HISTORY:
The Klines were a happy family in Phoenix, spreading beyond immediate family to a large extended family. They were well-established members of the community. Aubrey was their second child, and second daughter. She and her sister Melinda welcomed a brother just a few years later, and then the other children came quickly.
Their mother, Elisabeth, was a stay at home mother until Emily went into 1st grade. All of the children were encouraged to find hobbies and interests and to follow them. Most of them, like Aubrey, were involved with swimming. Aubrey and Melinda were involved in baton, and then cheerleading for Benjamin's youth football league.
Aubrey found it easy to make friends and get along with her classmates as a child. She was a popular girl. School as fun for her, and she enjoyed going to school. She was also a good student, although she sometimes pushed herself too far. She occasionally had panic attacks, and as she grew older she sometimes needed to stay home from school due to sickness more and more often. Her parents began to worry about her during the fall of her 4th grade year. She kept insisting that she could participate in her cheerleading, but as she moved from just doing sports during the summer, to doing sports and school, she started to go downhill, often unable to wake up or go to school.
They finally took her to the doctor, and learned some startling news. Aubrey was diagnosed with Hemolytic Anemia, and they realized that her mother, Elisabeth, was an asymptomatic carried of Hereditary Elliptocytosis and had passed it onto her. While it wasn't something that was going to end her life, it did change the way things were going to work for Aubrey. She had to stop her physical activities almost completely, even getting out of P.E. It was hard for Aubrey to let go of the activities that had become such an integral part of her life. Her parents suggested that she focus more on her education, but Aubrey never really felt like she got to experience her full potential.
She did begin to focus more on school, and her average grades started to rise. She started to consider a career in law, and began assisting her father and uncle during the summer vacation, when she wasn't saving the rest of her energy to scramble around the mall with her buddies.
By the time Aubrey hit high school, she was starting to feel more in control of her anemia and ellipotocytosis. She tried out for the cheerleading squad without telling her parents, and even convinced her sister Melinda to help her get the money for everything before she told her parents. They found out when they attended the first game. Although they were nervous about her over-working herself, they allowed her to try cheer again.
It was harder than Aubrey was willing to let on. Her grades started to slip, and she could hardly handle the practices. She continued to keep going at it, trying to hide her struggles from her family. Her sister Veronica could tell that things were getting harder, and she was the one who finally saw Aubrey's leg ulcers, and forced her to show her parents. Again, there were another run of tests and another set of limitations. And at 14, Aubrey had to finally give up sports. And she promised her parents that this would be for good.
She decided she wanted to pursue law, like her father, and began to focus more on that, as well as student government. It sucked to be sitting on the sidelines while she felt she should be out there cheering on the field, but Aubrey didn't let her physical limitations get in the way of making friends and staying popular. At least she tried. Sometimes it was hard for her to get the energy to run that bake sale or to come up with speeches. Sometimes she couldn't make it out the door and just had to stay home. Those were hard times for Aubrey. She hated letting people down, and she hated her body for letting her down, too.
When her sister Veronica started high school during Aubrey's senior year, it was a great time for Aubrey. Veronica had all the same interests, and Aubrey was able to live vicariously through her sister. She cheered her on through the cheerleading tryouts and through tennis, while Veronica cheered Aubrey on in her applications for school. Although Aubrey had lots of schools to choose from, in the end she went with the state university in Tempe, just outside of Phoenix for pre-law. She still lived at home, helping Melinda plan her wedding and working at her father's law firm on weekends every now and then. The truth was that the strain of university was getting at her far worse than the strain of high school.
During her second year in university, the bomb hit. She was at class. The damage was intense at first, but in the seconds and minutes following, there was an eerie sort of calm. The ceiling of the top floor univeristy building had been completely torn off. Only years of 'duck and cover' had prepared Aubrey, and several other students, with the frame of mind to get under the large tables, hold on, and pray. There were people in her classroom that died in those few minutes after the bomb hit, and Aubrey still struggles to get their faces out of her mind.
It was hell to get home. People were trying to keep everyone together, trying to keep them from going out in the chance that there would be more attacks. But Aubrey had to get home. It took her until nightfall to finally reach her home. And her house was further west of Tempe. Even the dozen miles had made a difference. Her entire home had been demolished. And her mother grabbed her and tearfully told her that Veronica had been in it when the ceiling collapsed.
The Kline family reeled from the tragedy. Aunts and Uncles and baby cousins had died. The family businesses were smashed. They struggled to come together at a family member's house that was still standing, but all that Aubrey remembers of this period is a sense of numbness and confusion. As soon as the dust had begun to settle, the family started making plans to move east. There was family in New York and New Jersey, they'd settle there. They'd start their life over.
Aubrey didn't want to leave Phoenix. It was really all she'd ever known. But she hadn't even been able to go away to college because she couldn't leave her family, and she wasn't about to be separated from them now.
Although it was problematic to make it all the way to New York, her family did. It took some bribes and a lot of struggling and astronomical gas prices, but eventually the extended family made it to New York and crowded the apartments of several aunts, uncles, and cousins.
It took almost half a year before the Klines were able to get any real buildings to live in. It was an extremely difficult year for Aubrey. She and her entire family were trying to make sense of everything that had gone on, tried to acclimate to the eastern weather, and struggled to find jobs.
Her father joined a law practice in New York, although the whole family was sad that he was unable to find the resources to start his own. And Elisabeth Kline went from business to business, struggling to find an event planning company that suited her. While Melinda was able to adjust easier than the others, finding a place for herself and her husband on the outskirts of the city and claiming to be happy, the younger Kline children struggled to find their places.
Aubrey let go of the idea of school at first, finding a job as a secretarial assistant. But as the government became more and more involved in the relocation and re-distribution of refugees, she joined up in their ranks as an administrative assistant in early September, 2025. She was involved in the implementing of the districts in New York, and worked extremely long days to be able to help the government start the project. The job was fulfilling to her, as she loved being able to serve her country and the people who were displaced. Because of her job, she was unable to get back into school right away. But because of her job, the idea of getting into law became much more appealing to her.
In the fall of 2027, Aubrey finally had the courage to resume going to school. Since she was still working full time, she took distance e-learning to finish her degree in Political Science. She is currently planning on graduating in the spring, and will hopefully begin law school in January 2030. She will use the half year between graduation and starting school to focus on the LSAT and applying to the major schools in the area.
Her five year plan is to graduate law school while still working at least part time in the Department of Housing and Relocation. She is extremely proud of her job, and wants to climb the ranks of it after law school. She now hopes to eventually help the government by becoming a member of legislature and continuing the work to make America a safe and happy home, no matter where people are living now.
PERSONALITY:
Overall, Aubrey is a happy and outgoing person. She loves to be around people, and those around her know it. Be it at work, play, or at home, she is a willing conversationalist and likes to engage people in conversation with her. She has no trouble speaking to strangers (at least those that don't look too strange to her.. If you look too liberal or too foreigner, she might hesitate to talk to you). She doesn't like silence, and will often talk to fill the silence if things get too quiet. Additionally, she does often prolong conversations, simply to keep from having silence. This has become especially true since the bombings.
Aubrey is absolutely an idealist and a great patriot. Although she also identifies strongly with her Jewish community, she is only Jewish in culture and not in religion. She more strongly associates herself with being American, especially after the bombings. She believes absolutely in the current superiority of America right now, and is also extremely nervous at the idea of more foreigners coming into America (although she is admittedly more open toward Jewish populations). She believes that it is an unquestionable duty for all Americans to work diligently in order to promote the country's well being and safety. She has very little time or patience toward those who do not want to be productive members of society, unless she is debating with their about their own failings as citizens.
As an idealist, Aubrey believes that with strong character and lots of elbow grease, a utopia can be achieved. She is actually a bit naive when it comes to the crimes that America has done to others, especially the foreigners that live in the country, but even confronted with the cold hard facts, Aubrey would focus more on her own ideals and ingrained beliefs about America more than the facts.
She is a cheerful and optimistic person. Perhaps this is the only way that Aubrey has been able to recover from the devastation and the loss of her beloved sister, as well as how she has been able to deal with her disease. Although it is hard to have to live in a limited way, and to have to carry on when her sister was left behind in a makeshift grave in Phoenix, Aubrey tries to look on the positive side of things. And encountering thousands of refugees through her work, she had to try and put a positive spin on things otherwise she would have just gotten hard inside. She is still very much in touch with her emotions, and can cry with people when she hears their stories. But overall she is able to bring up the most positive elements of a person's struggle and focus on that.
Aubrey can be extremely stubborn and unrelenting. She also does not like to shift from her views about the world. Instead, she likes to take any facts and figures that other people might throw at her that disrupt her idealistic, conservative views on things and adjust them to fit in her worldview. Puzzle pieces that refuse to fit are often simply discarded. She also does not like to be given limitations, and will often break past the limitations that others give her. Some might even call her 'pig-headed' at times, as she will refuse to make concessions.
She can also be very fussy. She has strong ideas about how she ought to look and act -- as well as other people. This means that she might very well impose her own morals and manners onto other people. She has narrow views about how people ought to behave themselves, and has no trouble telling other people that they ought to keep their desks tidier or how to behave better in public (as long as they are not her bosses .. She doesn't push her luck that far!). If you do not have the same ideals, morals, or manners as Aubrey, she is guaranteed to look down on you.
PB: Lea Michele. Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4, Image 5
PART III: MISCELLANEOUS QUERIES
The following section is separated into a series of required and non-required (but fun!) questions:
REQUIRED:
DO YOU HAVE INTENT OF INVOLVING YOUR CHARACTER IN ANY REBELLION ACTIVITIES? No! Aubrey is very for establishment!
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT CHARACTER MORTALITY? I would be open to Aubrey dying, if it tied in with plot.
WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR PLOT? Aubrey is a very strong idealist, and conservative, which means that she is going to rub raw against rebellious or liberal types. Her involvement in the Department of Housing and Relocation will probably cause some issues. :)
NON-REQUIRED (AND PICK AND CHOOSE, IF YOU SO WISH!):
WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER’S THEME SONG? :( Nothing yet.
HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT NEW YORK? Aubrey tries very hard to think of New York as home, but she really doesn't feel that strongly toward it yet. She thinks that it is tolerable, but needs a great deal of work. She tries not to think that she may very well never get to leave it again.
WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER’S BIGGEST PRIORITY? To achieve her goals academically, and make a difference in the world.
THERE’S A RIOT ON THE NUMBER 2 LINE IN QUEENS – HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER REACT? Absolutely disgusted.
ANYTHING ELSE? No!
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