[Other FULL] Connections: New Dawn (M) (OOC)

Just a heads up that I am going out of town for a week starting tomorrow. I dunno how much of a reliable internet source I'll have, so I may not be able to respond right away at the start of the RP.
 
If by worse you mean more dramatic, yeeeeeessssss.

But no spoilers for people in the RP who haven't seen the show yet! D:
 
I just finished it. it, is AMAZING. spent like all day watching it, wish it wasn't so short :(
 

Sofiya Sokolova, female ♀ age 16​


Nicknames: Sofi

Appearance:

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Sofiya is a rather unimposing girl, standing at only 5'1", although her weight sits at a decent 114 lbs. Her skin is pale, remaining so despite all the time she's spent in the sun thanks to the wonders of sunscreen as she quickly burns rather than tans. There is a bit of lean muscle on her slender form from the lifting she's done while helping her father. Her hair is dark brown and quite long, reaching the small of her back even when held up in a ponytail. Worn over her dull, green eyes is a pair of red frame glasses that she can't quite see without thanks to too many late night study and research sessions. While these same sessions have left her with dark rings under her eyes, they are nothing that some makeup and skill can't hide.

People usually only really see her in her school uniform, as she doesn't really go anywhere besides home and school except for when she goes out during family outings. Her style during these outings is usually nice dresses fit for the season on the insistence of her mother. She has many of these dresses as her mother seems to particularly enjoy buying her clothing. When at home she tends to dress more for comfort, usually sporting shorts or sweatpants and a simple T-shirt or tank top.

Personality: Sofiya appears to people as a kind, caring young girl who always listen to your problems or laugh at your jokes. A seemingly ideal friend, but for some reason she never spends time with anyone outside of school. Any offers are met with a soft smile and an apology before rejection. She always tells people she needs to study to keep up her straight A's. and most understand. However, it is a lot more than studying that keeps her from spending time with people.

Ever since she was a little girl, Sofiya has had an obsession with improving herself and making herself useful. At first this was to earn praise, but now it is to secure the future of humanity. All her spare time has been spent either being useful at home or learning more ways to be useful. At first it was things such as housework, then it evolved into things young girls usually didn't do such as home improvement work and car repairs, and she has now delved into that which teenagers in general didn't usually do such as studying the nuances of the stock market and learning how to diagnose various diseases. With so much more to do and learn, she couldn't possibly waste time fooling around with other kids.

A superiority complex would be the best word to describe Sofiya's attitude towards other people. She believes that today's youth doesn't care about what they need to do and only do what they want. If the future is left to such irresponsible idiots, humanity is doomed. She also believes it to be her responsibility to become skilled enough to contribute enough to the world to make up for all the lesser teenagers who probably won't be contributing anything useful. Maybe she could even serve as an example for her peers and inspire them to rise to her level.

History: Although of Russian descent, Sofiya's family moved to the city of Beati, England long before she was born. Her grandfather, a man by the name of Pasha Sokolov, made the decision to leave Moscow after the Chernobyl incident which claimed his brother and his sister in law, the last of his living relatives in the country what with his nephew Luka having left to America after the incident. They had been only thing really keeping him there with the condition the then-Soviet Union was in at the time. Beati was selected as Pasha's new home for its renowned peace, a nice change of pace from the conflict filled USSR, and in a matter of weeks, he, his wife, and his son had become residents of England. It wasn't long until Pasha's son, or rather, Sofiya's father Artem, eventually found love in his new home of Beati, and after several more years Sofiya Sokolova was born.

Sofiya was the youngest of three girls by several years with the next youngest being seven years older than her, so by the time she gained awareness her siblings had already made places for themselves in the world. While they would occasionally spare the time to play with her as a baby, they soon preferred to ignore the "annoying toddler" (in all fairness, the endless questions of her inquisitive mind and the frequent crying when she did not receive her desired attention were, in fact, annoying). As she grew, her father was always busy with his long shift at work and her sisters were busy with school or friends so she spent most of her time with her mother.

While Sofiya's mother didn't have any time to play with her like the rest of her family as she was often busy with housework, she always appreciated help with said housework. Neither of Sofiya's sisters were very fond of chores, so it always fell to their mother to do them. However, as these chores were the only source of companionship Sofiya had in the house, the little girl was happy to do them. Even when she began school, Sofiya continued to work hard around the house. She loved the praise she received from her mother and from her father when mother told him of her deeds, and she was determined to do what she could to continue being praised.

While most of Sofiya's father's time was spent at work, he had the weekends off and usually spent them taking his family out places, fixing things around the house, or on other home improvement projects. As a little girl, Sofiya could often be seen watching her father as he did the latter of these two and doing what she could to help such as fetching tools or nails. While she couldn't help as much as she could with her mother, she still got praised. Her father lamented not having had a son (the entire reason he and his wife had another child so late only to end up with Sofiya), so over time as Sofiya helped out with these sorts of things he began to think of her as a good enough replacement. As she grew older, he allowed her to help with more and more things, and it was in this way that she learned various handyman skills as well as how to repair various car problems, skills which she sharpened in her quest for more praise.

In school, Sofiya quickly caught on to the fact that good grades and behavior were rewarded with praise from both the teacher and her parents, and she was also occasionally rewarded candy or toys. She wasn't naturally smart by any means but she was still determined to get good grades, so she began developing good study habits even from such an early age. While playing games and running around with other kids was fun enough at first, she didn't find as much satisfaction in it as she did in smiles and words of proud adults and admiring peers when she did well in school. As time went on, she spent less and less time playing and hanging out with the other kids until she rarely even spoke to them unless spoken to first. However, trial and error showed her that the image of a kind, friendly, and humble girl was much better received than the other images she tried and thus granted more praise, so she kept that image.

Time passed, and Sofiya learned many things through the years. These caused many changes, most prominently in the reason she sought improvement. Praise stopped coming as often from those around her as certain skills are much more impressive in the hands of a little girl than those of a teenager, and she began to question her way of life. Was all the effort she was putting in even worth it anymore? However, at one point Sofiya noticed that her mother had begun suffering from frequent migraines. She had always had migraines, but they were only an occasional occurrence until then. As Sofiya was the only one who spent much time with her mother, she was the only one to realize this for a while. She insisted that her mother rest and that she take on most of the housework herself, a proposal that her mother reluctantly accepted.

Sofiya saw how her sisters were too busy with their own affairs to even bother with the health of their mother. This plagued her mind as she continued with her days, and allowed her to see that her sisters were not the exceptions. The young people around her seemed focused only on doing what they wanted to do rather than what they needed to, with only a few exceptions that still valued things such as duty. Suddenly her quest for praise seemed so small and petty. She knew that she had to be better than these people. Thus she continued to improve herself with renewed resolve, feeling that maybe she could provide an example for her peers, and if not, then she could become skilled enough to make up for what they all lacked.

Sofiya's eldest sister eventually left, lessening the housework load, so Sofiya's mother began insisting that she could do most of it now and that Sofiya should go have some fun with her friends as a sort of self reward for her hard work, but she refused saying that her mother should take this opportunity to relax for all the work she put in raising them. Her mother disagreed, but let it slide out of respect for her daughter.

As time passed, Sofiya demanded to take on more and more of the work around the house including things that no 16 year old girl anywhere would be expected to do, like her parents' taxes. Naturally, her parents and even her sisters became concerned at this point. One normal, peaceful Saturday, Sofiya's parents called her into the living room to discuss this with her. They told her to stop doing so much around the house and to go have fun like a normal teenager. For much of her life, Sofiya was compared to others, especially her sisters. They hated when their mother would scold them and tell them things like "Why won't you mow the lawn? Your little sister has been doing it since she was 6!". But this time it was she who was being told to be more like her sisters, which was quite ironic. Suddenly, Sofiya snapped in a display of an aggressiveness neither she nor her parents expected. She began to argue how she didn't have time to "go have fun like a normal teenager" because she had to pick up the slack of all those "normal teenagers" since nobody else would and things of the sort. The first fight between Sofiya and either her parents in her whole life began, and it ended with her parents asking themselves where they went wrong in raising her.

Tension formed between Sofiya and her parents after that, with her not even asking before taking on tasks anymore. Sofiya's parents were now determined to give their daughter the happy, carefree life they felt she should have been living. That was when they found out about the New Dawn program, which promised powerful friendships between youths of all walks of life. Besides the promise of friendship, the "troubled youths" aspect was also particularly interesting for Sofiya's parents. Not only would it give Sofiya friends, but befriending the sort of people who she seemed to look down on might allow her to see that humanity wasn't as doomed as she believed it was. Mops, brooms, cooking utensils, tools, and various other such things were hidden from Sofiya until she finally agreed to participate in the program. While she feels this whole charade will be a waste of time she could be using to further better herself, she acknowledges the fact that it will not do to have her parents stay in such a frantic state.

RP Sample (from Reapers: Keepers of The Balance, one of the earlier RPs I was in):

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Geras32 said:
She believes that today's youth doesn't care about what they need to do and only do what they want. If the future is left to such irresponsible idiots, humanity is doomed.
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This is basically true; I agree with this. xD
 
Oh my gosh that took way too long because I got distracted and had several ADD moments and that's not even figurative like seriously ADD sucks and then I didn't write it and then I forgot about it and OH MY GOSH I'M SO SORRY!

... *ahem*

Here's my Sign-up. :D

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I need to, but, procrastination is a powerful thing, i will post as soon as i finally get motivation
 
Figured things were a bit awkward, so Murphy decided to make them even more awkward. :D

But yeah, hope to see some posts cause things be gettin' slow~
 
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