SOPHIE BARSTOW

SOPHIE ANNE BARSTOW
I'm alone, on my own, and that's all I know
I'll be strong, I'll be wrong, oh but life goes on
I'm just a girl, trying to find a place in
This world





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full name: Barstow, Sophie Anne
known nicknames & or alias: Soph
age: Twenty
birth date: July 13, 1988
gender: Female
sexual orientation: Heterosexual
grade: Fourth year
home town: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
current residential town: London, England
wealth status: average
income: Works at a coffee shop and soccer shop




eye color: Blue
hair color: Blond
height: Five foot nine
weight: One hundred and twenty three
distinct features: Her hair and smile
piercing's: Ears and cartilage
tattoo's: N/A
modeled after: Lively, Blake





personality: When one first meets Sophie the first thing you’ll notice about her is that she’s rather quiet and reserved, never the first one to join in on social or group activities. Preferring to spend her time in her dorm studying, reading, listening to music or out running; all singular activities. She’s been that way ever since she came to Cedar Creek because she felt then and still does now like an outsider and simply out of her element and comfort zone. She’s the person who you’ve been in the same class with for years and always shows up everyday but never says anything and you don’t really know them that well, she rarely ever speaks up in class preferring to simply listen although she is quite smart. She’s no Einstein by a long shot but she’s no blubbering idiot either; which gives some people the impression that she’s a snob. Since she rarely talks to anyone but her close friends and there’s always that slight awkwardness whenever she’s around some get the impression that she thinks that just because she came her from the US on a full scholarship for football that she’s better than the rest. When really it’s the complete opposite.

Sophie is the one person that will always keep herself down, she’s so hard on herself in everything she does never thinking that any of it is good enough until she gets a hundred percent on a test, or wins a game or scores a goal. Whatever it is, if she doesn’t feel as if she’s done the best she could do she won’t agree completely with whatever anyone tells her, even if she nods and smiles and says thank you for the compliments in the back of her mind there will always be that nagging feeling that she could’ve done more. Which in turn translates to her caring what others think, it’s an annoying trait that she tries to pretend that she doesn’t have and wants it to go away but it won’t. Never being completely sure of herself doesn’t help her social skills either.

The only place Sophie feels completely confident in herself is on the field, kicking the ball around, running, feeling the burning in her lungs when she’s working as hard as she possibly can she doesn’t care whether or not she’s playing in front of a sold out crowd in her bathing suit. All that she notices and cares about is the ball and herself, everyone else just melts away which is something that helps her get through the stress of everyday, being able to shut out everyone and everything and only focus on herself. However for how she is Sophie is a completely different person when she feels comfortable around you, she’s a lot more chatty and sarcastic always joking around which is the side of her that a rare few get to see. She is also very competitive; never wanting to lose in anything she doesn’t like to back down from challenges as she doesn’t see herself as a quitter but her quiet nature most of the time inhibits her competitive one.

Not one for confrontation Sophie isn’t good when it comes to touchy subjects; which makes her a pretty easy target for people to pick on or throw insults at. Which she’s had her fair share of since coming to Cedar Creek and although she hates it she can rarely ever come up with a comeback and even if she does come up with one she’d never get up the guts to actually say it to someone’s face. Although she is slightly naïve, thinking that people will be sympathetic or nice and therefore she’s nice to them first and always eager to please she’ll do anything to make someone happy although that leads to her being taken advantage of which she wouldn’t even notice anyways because she’d just see it as being a nice person. That comes from her fear of disappointing others, its probably one of her biggest stress causes as she can’t handle the feeling of knowing she disappointed someone it makes her feel completely incompetent and stupid and so she doesn’t like to take on responsibilities when someone is expecting someone of her as she has the fear that she’ll disappoint them. It’s one of her biggest downfalls when it comes to soccer as she takes every loss personally and feels as if she let everyone down when really it probably wasn’t even her fault.


likes:
- Football (soccer)
- Running
- The outdoors
- Organized mess
- Sweats pants
- Competition
- Winning
- Working out
- Ponytails
- Water
- School
- Reading
- Music
- Vintage
- Old movies
- History
- Different languages
- Art
- Sports
- Dancing (not in public)
- British slang
- The smell of clean laundry
- Laser tag
- Bowling
- Rain
dislikes:
- Losing
- To much makeup
- Tight clothes
- Social activities
- Liars
- Bad calls
- Disappointing others
- Being underestimated
- Being told no
- Waiting
- Giving up
- Ridiculously expensive clothing or other apparel
- Alcohol
- Drugs
- Boredom
- Storms
- Loud sounds
- People touching her
- Being inside for to long
- Sitting for to long
quirks:
- Jiggles her legs when sitting
- Runs her hands through her hair when nervous or stressed
- Bites her nails
- Bites her lip
- Taps her pen or pencil or fingers on a table or desk
- Brings cleats with her everywhere
bad habits:
- Bites her nails
- Open a bottle of water, drink half, forget about it and open another one
- Very forgetful
strengths:
- Football
- Intelligent
- Quick learner
- Doesn't give up
- Won't be pushed around when on the field
- Good advice giver
weaknesses:
- Doesn't stand up for herself
- Can be slightly naive
- Impatient
- Stubborn
- Can't handle disappointing others
hobbies:
- Football
- Reading
- Studying
- Running





relatives:
Don Barstow - father - forty seven - restaurant owner
Amelia Barstow - mother - forty four - restaurant owner
Ethan Howell - uncle - fifty - bank manager
Madison Howell - aunt - forty five - housewife
Joshua Howell - cousin - twenty three - student
attending cedar creek academy since: first year
background:
Sophie Anne Barstow was born July 13, 1988 on a beautiful summer morning in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her parents Don and Amelia Barstow couldn’t be happier as she was their first and only child. Growing up Sophie had a pretty modest upbringing, her family owned a little restaurant that wasn’t the most popular thing but they got by and that was really where she grew up. Her mother after she was born couldn’t stay away from the restaurant for very long as she missed it to much eventually just brought Sophie with her to work practically everyday so she spent most of her childhood there, playing games and getting to know the servers and cooks. Growing up around people all the time made her a pretty outgoing kid and generally wasn’t shy in any situation and since she’d spent so much time at that restaurant she felt as if she had free reign. So like any crazy five year old she took advantage of it by running rampant throughout, causing mischief wherever she went like knocking things off the shelves in the storeroom, or dumping all the sugar, salt and pepper shakers all over the floor or table. She was a fast learner and after watching the servers fill up the shakers she figured out how to do it to and would switch the sugar and salt. Boy did she get a kick out of watching the customer’s faces when their coffee suddenly tasted even bitterer and their food sweeter.

It wasn’t long before her parents realized that they couldn’t let her continue to do this as they would eventually have no more customers coming or they’d simply be to busy worrying about Sophie to run the business, so to help her expel all that energy they enrolled her in soccer. From the instant she started it was like she and the ball were one, it was very obvious that she was a natural with the ball and had no problems taking control or the lead on her team. As she got older she left the pansy house league stuff behind her and began playing for club teams getting better and better and moving up in the ranks until she was the starting attacking midfielder on her team. She continued like this all throughout her teens and when she reached high school and began playing for her school team she would always get questions of whether or not she was going to play for a university team and although she’d always dreamed of it Sophie simply didn’t know if her family could afford it, in fact she knew they couldn’t.

While the restaurant was a good business it wasn’t drawing in the revenue that they needed to even contemplate her going to a top school, so she knew that if she had any chance that she’d have to get a full ride scholarship which wasn’t going to be easy. It was this combined with her generally humble personality that made her probably one of the lesser in your face girls on her team always studying and not going to parties that she was invited to and turning down dates, all she cared about was getting a scholarship. Of course she changed completely when on the field, going from a mouse to pitbull, she became animated and fierce never giving up. It was one of the things that one of the scouts for Cedar Creek complimented her on when he came to talk to her after one of her games; it was then that her life changed. The school offered her a full ride scholarship to play soccer for them over in England which floored Sophie to no belief as they had come a long ways to scout players and when she asked the scout why they weren’t looking at players in England he said they were but they wanted to see what else was out there.

Moving to England was probably one of the scariest things Sophie has ever done, at first her family hadn’t known where she would stay when on school breaks as it would cost a chunk of change for just one ticket to and from the states and they wouldn’t be able to afford a few a year. Her mom then suggested that maybe she could stay with her aunt and uncle who lived in London, it was her moms sister and Sophie had only ever remembered meeting them once or twice in her life and she wasn’t jazzed about the idea but knew it was really her only option. At first living with her aunt, uncle and cousin was pretty awkward and soon she discovered that she and her cousin would probably never really get along. He’d grown up the complete opposite life of her, going to rich private schools all his life and being a star swimmer made him pretty cocky in his attitude, she was relieved to be going to school although it was dampened when she found out he’d also be attending Cedar Creek. She’d simply tell herself that it was a big school and they’d most likely rarely come across one another. She’s been attending Cedar Creek for four years now and while she didn’t play much for the team in her first two years there she has the past two and is looking at maybe be the starting attacking midfielder. Living with her aunt, uncle and cousin has become less awkward but she’s even quieter than before as she still feels like a great outsider. However her cousin seems to be the only person she’s not afraid to let her feelings be known to.





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This post has been edited by Sophie Barstow on Nov 10 2009, 09:48 PM