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Maria Angela Torreano-Rodriguez- Scattergood student
Scattergood MOO [connect]
Description:
Angela is a girl of medium height and weight, with a round face, olive skin, and dark eyes. One eye sometimes seems to be a little more closed that the other, but thats only when you look closely. Her skin doesnt freckle, but she does have a birth mark of sorts under her left nostril, just a mole. Her nose is short and rounded at the end. She wears her shoulder-length black hair in two thick braids, and sometimes they are wrapped on top of her head. In her hair, she wears plastic clips which have the day of the week and a little pink cherub. She has small gold hoop-earrings and a gold necklace with a cross at the end.
History:
Maria Angela, known usually as Angela, was born in
Angela had always seemed very popular to her parents. By fifth grade,
she seemed to be friends with her entire class, or at least was able to get invitations to
everyones birthday party except for that of the girl who was born on February 29 and
didnt have a party that year. (The reasons for her popularity probably
had more to do with the fuss shed raise or social blackmail shed pull if she
werent invited.) Her friends were slightly disappointed that she was moving to
the suburbs but mostly because theyd lose their source of information.
During her first two years at Scattergood, the girl became best
friends, of a sort, with her roommate Adenine Dunsmuir. (They were, of course, friends by
default. The garrulous Angela needed someone who would put up with her, and she sort of
pitied Adenine. Most of the time Angela avoided her slightly nerdy roommate and spent time
with more hyperactive children, at least while they tolerated her presence.) She tried
very hard in her classes and earned good grades in nearly everything except music, being
exceedingly bad at playing the flute to the point at which her still-living older roommate
complained of bleeding eardrums and threatened to turn her flute irreversably into a
centipede, something which caught Angelas attention because, well, she doesnt
like creepy-crawly things.
Fortunately she hasnt met her former roommates ghost yet, but shes still randomly accusing students of being murderers.
Persona:
There are few things more frightening than Angela Rodriguez when she
gets something into her head. Obsessive doesnt begin to describe the girl. Neither
does imaginative or melodramatic. Take the death of her roommate, for instance: for a
month after her reported death in the newspaper, the girl would point her finger at a
different person every day, making up wild reasons as to their motives and methods. She
will turn any slight idea into something dramatic. She feeds on social situations,
especially gossip, and is quick to polarize her position on even the most minor
occurrence.
She has had a fascination with angels since she was very young
because of her name. Her father used to call her his little angel, and nearly
everything has to do with them. (Incidentally, this includes her flute-playing, which is
anything but heavenly.)
She really, really wants everyone around her to be happy. Maybe this
will get her into Heaven. Unfortunately, her efforts usually have the opposite of the
intended effect.
Scientists would be delighted to study Angela, because for whatever
reason, she appears to violate the law of Conservation of Energy. Despite eating only a
reasonable amount, she seems to have an endless supply of energy, be it positive or just
hyperactive.