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Name: Colleen Matoya

Nickname: Cauliflower, Chloe, Witch Lady

Age: 19

Birthday: May 1st

Sign: Taurus. Moo.

Gemstone: Lavender Scapolite

Blood Type: B-

Fav. Food: Tea, coffee, macaroons, cupcakes - basically sweet pastries from around the world with afore-mentioned Coffee or Tea.

Hated Food: Black pudding, Guiness, escargot, pretty much anything made from weird animal parts.

School: Works Part-Time at a small gaming store called Gamepad. What kind of games do they sell? The wetter question is what kinds don't they sell? They also offer New and Used games, books, consoles, ETC, so you can literally finish building your gaming collection reasonably.

Hobbies:
Gaming - Colleen loves gaming. It doesn't matter the kind - she likes to play or try it. Cards against Humanity, Munchkin, Monopoly, Sorry, Super Mario Brothers, Metroid, Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder - you name it, she's willing to give it a try at least once. Gaming is one of the ways she knows of to be social, and it brings her joy to play games with new people - to help break down her social barriers. As foir working at a gaming store? Well, good luck convincing her to finda different job.

Youtube - Colleen loves Youtube. To be in-depth, she falls into a habit of watching trivia, facts, science, history, music - nicely put she trawls Youtube for facts, theories, and general music or information. She generally doesn't enjoy 'Youetube Poop' or stupid stunts if only because there's little thought to be caused by them. Just give her something her mind can chew on, and leave her be.

Crafting - Colleen loves crafting. DIY, Craft Stores, random inspiration - it all works well with her. She enjoys the satisfaction of a new useful object, piece of clothing, or even inspired meal. She likes dirtying her hands and she likes doing - making - creating - and then repeating it all again.Crafting is a soothing practice for Colleen, that helps her ease neves and feel good about herself, and is something that she's enjoyed as long as she remembered.

Collecting Crystals - Colleen loves crystals for many reasons. Her entire space has crystals of all types and sizes, at least, within reason. From crystal balls to mineral dragons to pendants and more, she has a small trove. However, she also believes each has a porpuse and reason to be in her life - both in feng shui to crystal healing. Besides looking lovely, she likes feeling that they help her day to day life, and she loves getting ew crystals to continue bringing more lovely aesthetics and energy into her life.

Virtues:

Accepting of Others
My thing is not your thing but your thing is OK.

Colleen is one who doesn't immediately judge based on a lifestyle choice. OK, you're a goth. Cool! That's great! OK, you like Death Metal. Awesome! Horror? You keep doin' that. As long as it isn't illegal, Colleen doesn't have make or break standards for friends. As long as she isn't used or people she cares for aren't used and abused, well as long as you're happy and safe you're fine by her. She have various ranges of friends, from D&D geeks to a candlemaker to a few peope in local entertainment. People are often surprised by whom she accepts - moreso when they realize she's made friends with the same people.

Good sense of Humor
I'm attacking the Darkness!

Colleen likes laughing and laughs easily. Good jokes, bad jokes, fan jokes, general jokes - even puns and comedy sketches can make her laugh. She oves all kinds of humor and will watch Monty Python, 13 going on 30, and then listen to Jeff Dunham without batting an eyelash. Many think she's easily offended, and are often surprised, pleasantly, when she bursts out laughing, smiling and giggling. 'Tis better to smile and laugh than resort to anger immediately, and Colleen's sense of humor is one reason she makes friends easily.

Inquisitive
Whaaaat?!

Colleen is what most would call inquisitive,. She enjoys learning and understanding new things. Colleen likes to learn, because it puts her more in awe of the world around her, and will happily listen to new information from everyone. She's good at sorting fact from myth, and yet still enjoys both, simply because there might always be more to learn. Because Colleen is so inquisitive as to explore and learn, many enjoy telling or showing her things within agreed upon limits. She's respectful enough not to probe into sensitive topics but curious enough to ask sensible questions or try new things, and there's never anything wrong with curiousity, usually.


Flaws:

Petty
Oh, it was petty... But so satisfying.

Colleen, like most people, does not like being used or abused by others, nor does she enjoy being lied to, or similar. But what she does in response isn't much better. Colleen can be a petty b***h and do small, irritating things, or withold information, or similar just to be a s**t. She knows she's being petty, but when she's ticked enough to be petty, she just doesn't care and will generally relish the satisfaction of annoying the people who got on her nerves.

Shy
Two birds on a wire; one says come on, the other says I'm sorry

Surprisingly.... Colleen is very shy. She has a hard time talking to new people often and will not speak first when spoken to at times. In fact, she's often slightly intimidated by others, and needs a good common ground to even say hello or try. She's not mean, simply quiet without a common ground and while some wonder if she's snobby, that's not the case; she just needs extra help meeting people - since involving herself in things like gaming helps her get past many of her hurdles.

Closeted
But when he tried to walk again he wasn't a child.

Colleen keeps many things to herself in common conversation outside of wotrrk. She doesn't discuss her beliefs, political stance, or her interests. She's not open about her hobbies usually except to those ho find out through direct communication with those. It's not because she's terribly private - but she feels self concious about liking certain things but not seeming the sort, and she's rather not sure how to talk about them without feeling like a big nerd or feeling strange - so she keeps far too much people want to know to herself when able, and only talks about it when she's doing something.

• Colleen is in fact a witch of sorts. She practices a mix of things in what can only be described as spiritualism or pagan, with a preference for kitchen and crystal arts. Not that she'll talk about it. She's more interested in listening to everyone's day.
  
• Colleen's favorite crystal to collect is Amethya! About 80% of them are to look pretty, since they're cut into sculptures.
  
• Colleen's family isn't fabulously rich but she technically never needs full time work. Even though her pay isn't high, she can liv on what she has comfortably.
  
• Colleen only likes constrictors and non-venomous snakes of the snake family.