Post by lanie on Jul 22, 2010 18:49:00 GMT -5
Basic Information
Character's Full Name: Elisabeth Anne Abbott
Nickname: Lise to family, goes by Ellie or Ella to most other people
Date of Birth: April 26, 1990
Place of Birth: London, England
Hometown: Blackheath, London, England
Height: 5'4"
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Family: Mother Claire Marie Elisabeth (November 14, 1947), Father John James (September 17, 1945). Siblings Henry Christopher (January 1, 1974), Charles Paul (December 31, 1976), William Alexander (July 28, 1978), Nicholas John (April 8, 1980), and James Anthony (April 25, 1984).
Education: Nothing of any importance yet. She plans on going to college someday.
Personality: Slightly immature and unable to make decisions, Elisabeth is otherwise a sweet girl who likes to have fun as long as it's proper (she's boring and traditional). A lot of things go over her head and everything has to go her way, because she grew up the baby and expects everyone to bow to her every wish. She isn't bossy, but likes to whine to get her way. She's very much a tomboy and hates anything "girly": makeup, fashion, gossip, boy-talk, stuff like that.
Skating
Started Skating: 1995
Discipline: Ladies
Competitive Status: Amateur
Country Represented: Great Britain
Competitive Highlights: 2010 Olympics - 4th, 2010 Worlds - bronze. Nothing too major yet. She has potential but hasn't met it yet.
Character's Full Name: Elisabeth Anne Abbott
Nickname: Lise to family, goes by Ellie or Ella to most other people
Date of Birth: April 26, 1990
Place of Birth: London, England
Hometown: Blackheath, London, England
Height: 5'4"
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Family: Mother Claire Marie Elisabeth (November 14, 1947), Father John James (September 17, 1945). Siblings Henry Christopher (January 1, 1974), Charles Paul (December 31, 1976), William Alexander (July 28, 1978), Nicholas John (April 8, 1980), and James Anthony (April 25, 1984).
Education: Nothing of any importance yet. She plans on going to college someday.
Personality: Slightly immature and unable to make decisions, Elisabeth is otherwise a sweet girl who likes to have fun as long as it's proper (she's boring and traditional). A lot of things go over her head and everything has to go her way, because she grew up the baby and expects everyone to bow to her every wish. She isn't bossy, but likes to whine to get her way. She's very much a tomboy and hates anything "girly": makeup, fashion, gossip, boy-talk, stuff like that.
Skating
Started Skating: 1995
Discipline: Ladies
Competitive Status: Amateur
Country Represented: Great Britain
Competitive Highlights: 2010 Olympics - 4th, 2010 Worlds - bronze. Nothing too major yet. She has potential but hasn't met it yet.
Seven and a half years after the birth of supposedly their last child, Claire Marie Abbott realized she was once again pregnant. This child was an accident, but they were happy enough about it. Another baby to love and all. It happened to be the wished-for girl, who they named Elisabeth Anne after her grandmothers. Spoiled and babied, Elisabeth--soon dubbed Lise by sixteen year old Henry--was a holy terror as a little girl. Active, bossy, and whiny, she needed something to do, so Claire Marie dragged her daughter to Jamie's skating lessons. That was the ticket. Lise started immediately, loving the physical challenge, although once she got to skating programs she complained constantly of how she had to look and act. She liked her brothers, she didn't like stupid little girls her age.
While her brothers all graduated university, entered the military (except Jamie, who started competing on the senior level in skating in 1999 before starting university), Lise knew she would be the only one at home. She kept skating, with no interest in competing. She didn't like being the baby anymore when there was no one but her parents to baby her. She was still a tomboy, growing out her hair because her mother made her, but she never dressed up and liked to go out and play. Her mother may have gotten her longed for daughter, but Elisabeth wasn't exactly the daughter she was looking for.
She decided to start competing in 2006 at the age of sixteen, handily winning the British ladies junior title which just tells you how dismal the competition was if Lise with three triples could win it. She skated well enough for her level at the World Junior Championships (only sent because her brother competed that year in the Winter Olympics, really), finishing 28th. It was those triples. She still didn't care much about competing, and really hated those stupid ballet classes her mother made her take to make her "look pretty, like a lady". Lise mouthed off, but didn't really fight it. She knew she loved skating. If she wanted to keep it up, she had to at least pretend to be a beautiful and graceful young woman out on the ice. Off the ice she'd do whatever she wanted, eating potato chips in an over-sized shirt and pajama pants with her dad watching soccer to her mother's horror on weekends.
Eventually, Lise moved up to the senior ranks, performing dismally in her first trip to the Olympics in 2008. She finished dead last, but she didn't care. She was too happy for her favorite brother. At least they could spend time together when they were at competitions, with their other siblings far-flung around Britain with their families. Her big break came in 2010, when she finished a very impressive fourth at the Olympics, and won a bronze medal at the World Championships. She wasn't the girl with three triples anymore, she had the full arsenal and a floaty, airy quality about her skating the judges liked. Too bad they didn't see how Lise was off-the-ice, or they would have been less enchanted with the girl.
At twenty, she decided to move to the United States to receive better training conditions in America. Lise always wanted to explore the world, anyway. It sounded good to her.