Name: Mariposa Crosse
Nickname: Mari
Age: 17
Birthday: July 14th
Sign: Cancer
Gemstone: Ruby
Blood Type: A+
Fav. Food: Cake, cupcakes, cookies, soda, boba milk tea, ice cream sundaes, sour straws, gummy worms, tacos (beef, steak, pork, or chicken), steak, curly fries, waffle fries, or fast food fries (with or without melted cheese and bacon)
Hated Food: Pasta (Unless it's fettuccine carbonara or alfredo), steak fries (The ones that are often really big and dry, ew) , marshmallow peeps (The texture is ew), broccoli, asparagus, creamed spinach, fish tacos
School: St-Magsdalena's Seminary
Hobbies:
Baking: Mari has always had a wicked little sweet-tooth, but it wasn't until the day she tried a cake recipe herself that she realized her passion for making treats. Whenever she isn't busy with school or friends, she's in the kitchen whipping up batter, decorating macarons, or nosing through cook books for ideas on what to bake next. She figures she's logged over a hundred baking related videos on Youtube, too, most of which were for the sake of teaching herself.
Scrapbooking: When she isn't trying to make top-tier icing for her cakes and cookies, Mari has her hands busy with good old fashioned glue, glitter, and paint. Making scrapbooks has always been a way for Mari to keep and share memories, while letting herself get a little messy and creative in the process. She's even considered making a class at the library, or an after school club.
Blogging: While scouring the internet for tips and tricks on galaxy icing and paper mache, Mari discovered the wonderful world of internet blogging. Her blog, Notes From A Butterfly, is devoted to her baking, scrapbooking, and her day to day life as a schoolgirl in Destiny City. She does daily updates, sometimes multiple if something really exciting happens, and already has quite a substantial amount of followers. She also uses her blog to share her own tips and tricks, like all of the other blogs before her. She feels good knowing that she might help someone else get started with their own projects one day.
Virtues:
Clever: Mari is a witty, intelligent girl who finds learning to be completely natural, almost innate. Of course like any other person, she has her intellectual weaknesses and struggles with certain subjects, but she's never been someone to give up when she doesn't understand something. She utilizes every tool in the toolbox until she either gets it right, or she needs to look elsewhere for guidance. There's a tutorial for everything these days, after all.
Punctual: Rain or shine, Mari has always been a girl who keeps her appointments and her eye on the time. Even when she's busy kneading dough or literally watching paint dry on one of her crafts, she makes sure that she has her phone alarm set for that lunch date with the girls or that important after school program she'd agreed to help with. On the off chance that she's late, though, she doesn't waste time putting herself down for it and apologizes. Sometimes getting powdered sugar out of her hair takes a little longer than expected or she misses her bus. It's nothing to get upset about.
Complimenting: As a lover of all things beautiful and creative, Mari can't help but stop and compliment someone when she feels it's due. Your new hair color? Incredible. Those posters you made in art class for the school play? Ingenious and spot on. Even things as small and seemingly innocuous as wearing new diamond studs can net you Mari's attention and fervent adoration, at least until she notices something else worth going gaga over.
Flaws:
Gossip: Whether from the mouths of her friends or from the pages of tabloid magazines, Mari eats gossip and rumors up as though they were fruit off of a vine. It would be so much better for her and everyone else around her if she kept it to herself, but where's the fun in knowing a juicy story and not sharing it with others? To her, gossip is just a part of everyday socialization, and if she happens to get dragged along in someone else's tall tale, she can just use that to her advantage.
Dishonest: Despite her genuine compliments, Mari has a terrible habit of stretching the truth in more ways than one. Though she doesn't go for outright tall-tales at first, she does like to build up to them as she feels she can. Little white lies slip out first, such as how much sugar she put in her frosting or what she had for lunch, before she starts lying about where she's been and who she told what and when. And, being true to her clever nature, she always has a few good excuses up her sleeve if one of her lies comes back to bite her.
Obsessive: Mari has a tendency to get so involved with something that it not only incorporates itself into every aspect of her life, but it essentially becomes her life. It started out with small, "normal" things like everything she owned needing to be pink or collecting bunny plushies, before it gradually stepped up to celebrity worship and spending every dollar she has on merchandise for a fad that would fade away in a week. If she loves something enough, she'll bend over backwards for it and do everything she can to make it hers.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Eyes: Large, olive-green, usually framed with glasses (if she remembers where she put them). Wears mascara.
Hair: Mid-back, straight with some curl, honey mustard blonde. She prefers to wear it up in pigtails or a messy side ponytail.
Face: Oval face, gentle features. She darkens her cheeks with blush and likes to wear dark lipstick. (Like black, dark gray, deep red-brown... etc)
Clothes: When not prancing around in her uniform, Mariposa wears pretty much whatever she can dig out of her closet. A rule of thumb is, if her outfit ever matches perfectly or is completely black, she's probably sick or having a bad day.
Bow + hat = Yes? Ohmg purple leggings Rainbows and black, a classic! Girl, what? Someone stop her, please
