• • • SINCLAIR HAAS--------------------------------
FULL NAME: Sinclair Eugenia Haas
AGE/BIRTHDAY: 17; October 12, 1993
GRADE: 11th Grade (Junior)
CLASS: Upper Class
FAMILY: WARRIN HAAS
Father. 54 years old. Retired Soccer Player, turned Vintner. Colloquially known as a mean sonovabitch and soccer GOD. Former professional athlete before a leg injury ended his career permanently and made him and even meaner sonovabitch. After that he took over the Haas vintner business and used his former fame to promote the wine. On pretty distant terms with Sinclair, when he's home anyway. Father and daughter only barely acknowledge each other's existance.
AILEEN HAAS
Mother. 52 years old. Housewife. Just as sweet as Warrin is an ass. Polar opposite of her husband, but somehow they just work. The kind of anti-feminist woman that Margaret Sanger would want to slap across the mouth. Spoils her daughter rotten.
SASHA HAAS
Younger Brother. 15 years old. Freshman Student. Takes after their mother the way she does after their father. Effectively Sinlclair's Jiminy Cricket, much to her irritation. Affectionately referred to as Judgey McJudgington. Can send her from 0 to Remorseful just by announcing that he's 'not to speaking to [her] anymore'.
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
ACTIVITIES: Tennis. Volleyball.
APPEARANCE: Modesty has never been one of Sinclair's strong points and considering all the effort that the young girl puts into her appearance (which is just...good God if she put half as much time and energy and thought into her school work her grades would look like one long scream). Frankly Sinclair has very good genes on her side. She is from a family with a long tradition of being impossibly good-looking (aside from that one aunt with the lazy eye), and they've also been some of the best when it comes to gossip, scandal, and campy adventures into the lighter side of aristocracy - the scheming, petty spats, and 'Lockwood-sat-next-to-Goodwyn-I-wonder-what-it-means' that serves as a counterbalance to the messy business side of wealth. Sinclair feels its something of a family responsibility to be chic, cosmopolitan, and attractive, and she likes to think of her looks as a family heirloom. They certainly are priceless. In all fairness, not all of Sinclair's boasting about her features is pure narcissism - to every stereotype is a grain of truth, and it is true that Haas' are generally very... pretty (Even the boys. Have you seen Warrin? She might not be all that fond of her father, but if she were forced to be a middle aged man she'd want to look like Warrin). Sinclair does not disappoint. She has high cheekbones and a fair skin tone. She also has, annoyingly enough, the face of a Venus statue, including the angular blue eyes and rich gold waves to complete the image.
Unfortunately, people can be blind to the perfection that stands in front of them, and Sinclair has been criticized for look malnourished if not anorexic when comparing her height to her weight. Waifishly skinny, but with a height of five feet and eight inches, small hips, small brea--you get the point! That's alright, she makes up for it with her huge attitude. Sinclair is a girl who has alway appreciated the value of accessories. You'll find her wearing at least four pieces of jewelry at any given time (earings, necklace, bracelet, a ring or two). And then of course there's her hair. Sinclair's hair transcends the definition of simple styling and enters into being artwork. Pulled to the side with gilded combs filigreed with patterns of flowers, up in a knot held with bejeweled pins dribling delicate silver charms and ornaments, down and interspersed with braids woven with colored thread. The word 'simple' would require her to grab a dictionary.
PLAYED BY: Ashley Beson
LIKES: Sarcasm, sports, country music when she's upset, when people acknowledge she's right, sasha, card games, jewelry, true blood, sunday roast, heights, spicy food, theorizing, picking things apart (items, people, ideas), tuna wraps, dogs, her own handwriting, the smell of dryer sheets, pie.
DISLIKES: Public speaking, water that isn't bottled, mathematics, cryptic people, chauvinist males, faked humility, when her brother gets judgey and "disagreeable", apologizing, cake, foreign languages (yes, she's one of those people), country music when she's not upset, cats, birds, preachy people.
STRENGTHS: Athletic, stamina, creative, decisive, clear minded, direct, expressive, independent, capable, excellent self preservation instincts.
WEAKNESSES: Simple, blunt, immodest, self serving, reckless, unacademic, cocky, lacks sympathy or remore, spoiled, incapable of subtlty, moody.
DETAILED PERSONALITY: It is Sinclair Haas’s unspoken goal in life to die without having to make any apologies. Granted, she ought to have made several—when she, as she is wont to do, forgets the value of tactfulness and makes a simple firing a bit more specific than it ought to be, for instance (she sees them as An Airing Of Grievances, or S.E. Haas’s Helpful Crash Course In What You Did Wrong, or, Why You Shall Shortly Be With Us No Longer ). Sinclair has a talent, you see, for burrowing straight to the heart of the matter, and she has little patience for bush-beating, as it were. Generally the problem is that she just wasn't groomed for diplomacy or smooth talking, and doesn't feel the need to soften or moderate the things that come out of her mouth. There is nothing much subtle to her personality--she's blunt, obvious, to the point, and when she isn't she's putting that extra mental work into being sarcastic. She doesn't feel the need to use negotiation to get what she wants, falling back instead on tanacity, sheer stubborness, and force. Furthermore Sinclair will never be bogged down with fake sentiments. She knows what she's good at, she knows what she has, and she feels no need to hide it, polite or not. If she's not sorry for something, she will never pretend to be, nor will she ever play down her own talents or display any kind of false modesty. Sinclair has been extremely independent and untouchable for most of her life , broadly able to avoid punishment, and she's grown up haughty and proud because of it.
Not academic in the least, mostly because of her utter disinterst, Sinclair is one of those people who isn't as smart as they think they are, but isn't as dumb as other people think they are either. Sinclair is not a good student and she probably never will be, even if she were to put all her effort into it. What she does have, however, is a talent for lateral thoought, a fresh creativity, and an ability to handle things that come her way. This is no doubt a side effect of her simplistic attitude which grants her a strange intuition. When Sinclair makes remarks, observations, and particularly insults she's direct and startlingly accurate. And will she feel sorry should she do actual damage? Absolutely no. It's their own fault for having such a bulbous, yet fragile ego. Sinclair is, in general, the kind of person who never feels like she should have to take responsibility for her actions. In Sinclair's world everything should work out perfect for Sinclair, no matter what. And if it doesn't? Well then there's something wildly unfair and corrupt going on! You will rarely hear her say please and she close to never says thank you. She's just one of those people who feels the world owes her things. When things don't go her way she lashes out at people around her, gets snippy, and generally mopes. She is the type of person who has a lot of trouble playing well with others. She won’t lie for someone else’s sake, she won’t spare someone’s feelings, she’ll always and stubbornly so stick to her guns. Se won’t compromise in getting her way and she feels very few attachments that aren't easily severed. If people leave her, oh well. It just the circle of life, guys. It moves us on. Through despair and hope. And blah blah--you saw the Lion King, you know how it works.
All in all, when she isn't being moody or aggressive, Sinclair is pretty predictable. She likes winning, derrogative jokes, and lots of chocolate and whipe cream in her coffee. Extremely narcissistic and convinced of her own greatness, regardless of any evidence that might be offered to the contrary. About the only person who can throw her off her high horse is her little brother. Sinclair is unexpectedly and unwaveringly attached to Sasha and he's one of the few people (if not the only person) whose feelings she gives a damn about as much as her own--even if she remains as dense to them as she is to everyone else's. It's probably entirely due to her little brother's influence that Sinclair is capable of being invested or concerned or generous at all. Indeed, when Sinclair is in a good mood she can be extremely giving and helpful person. It's really all about catching her in the right moment, approaching her in the right way, and praising her afterwards......it's a bit like training a puppy actually. To be honest, she not all that hard of a girl to manipulate and Sasha in particular has all her formulas down to a science. Despite her recklessness she can be very level headed and despite her friviolity she's not at all unaware of how "the real world" works. She functions most comfortably in conflict, which leads her to be extremely protective of the people that she likes. Sinclair can often alternately seem very adult-like and the next secont painfully immature. It's possible she might grow into a more socially approvable human being...but really its unlikely. With Sinclair, what you see is really, brutally honestly what you get.
HISTORY: Sinclair would be the first of two children born to a nouveau rich washed up Soccer player and his archaic trophy wife. Unlike her brother, who came along entirely unexpected, Sinclair was one of those rare planned pregnancies. In all senses of the world. Actually, she was born as a direct result of the fact that Warrin Haas had yet to have a child was fueling a rumor that had been around since Warrin's days at Paris-Sorbonne University - the rumor that he was queer as a three dollar bill. Her mother, AIleen, had immediately began spreading a counter-rumor that she was pregnant, making her way through half the first trimester before realizing that people might figure out something was up when she failed to have a baby. As such, Sinclair was born purely to give credit to Aileen's lie. Her mother was glad enough to have her, however, since having a daughter to tae on shopping trips, gossip with, and all those other things that Breafast at Tiffany's is made of, had always Aileen's dream.
Unfortunately (or not, really, depending on your perspective and the fact that who knows what kind pre-women's rights ideas Aileen might have implanted in her had things been different) most of her mother's dreams were not very "motherly". She had not talent for disciplin or teaching right from wrong. And once her second child, Sasha, came along, she was barely policing Sinclair's activity at all. Frankly put, Aileen was an irresponsible and ill equipped parent, and was much more like and older sister or a frivilous aunt. That is not to say SInclair resented or disliked her mother in the least. Quite the opposite in fact, SInclair did and still does love Aileen a great deal, she just doesn't have all that much respect for the woman. That being said, the real responsibilities inherent in child rearing were taen up by her nanny, Marisa. A woman in her late 50's, who was hited when Sinclair was six and her brother was four.
Marisa and the little blonde pre-schooler alternately clashed and clicked. For the one thing, by the time she was old enough to walk she had displayed an unhealthy curiosity that seemed to, more often than not, involve toppling over some platform in order to discover what was atop it. Tables, chairs, stands, nothing was safe from her investigation. Where she got the strength to shove over a decorative five foot marble pillar displaying a Venetian glass fish bowl was anybody's guess. And what she did with the two thousand dollar fish that had been occupying it is a mystery that will no doubt remain forever unsolved. On top of that Sinclair was accustomed to doing quite exactly as she liked, a tendency that often mixed catastrophically with her eagerness to experience everything at least once or twice. She found her way into a fair amount of trouble with almost every authority with whom she came into contact over the course of her early years, most consistently for trespassing or for denigrating a teacher’s methods in school by speaking with a touch too much sarcasm when answering a question. Although Sinclair was obviously a ingenious child she was a stupid student and as she gold older, any thing academic she did manage to do well seemed to work from a politically and intellectually self-righteous standpoint that grated on even the most open-minded of her instructors.
The edge of the effects of her complicated upbringing, howevere, was mostly taken off by her little brother. At least, once he managed to become interesting enough for her to concern herself with. Sasha was more gentle, more malleable, more well behaved, more bookish, more everything really than she. It was impossible to resent him however, since it was blatant that their mother had already imprinted on Sinclair as her favorite and their father was never around to choose Sasha even if he would. It's possible had things been different her feelings would have been as well, but as it was little Sinclair cared about her baby brother rather a lot and took it upon herself to make sure he was safe from the pitfalls of their rearing that had befalling her--such as the tumble down the entry hall steps or the mistake of eating nothing but Coco Puffs for two weeks straight. Her self appointed responsibility gave their nanny a doorway into crafting Sinclair into some fascimili of managability and by the time she was in middle school she had matured enough to be socially acceptable, though still not enough to avoid offending 60% of the people she met at any given time. Oh well, small victories.
Really, the biggest issue with Sinclair had always been her excess of energy and a problematic aggression that gotten her in a great deal trouble in the 6th grade for bullying two other students. When she was in the 7th grade, her nanny suggested to the missus that she have Sinclair placed in a sports team, in hopes of redirecting all of that. Aileen chose tennis, because it was a nice lady-like athleticism. In her first year of high school, Sinclair would choose volleyball for herself, because it was more faced paced, catered to her height, and she hit an opponent in the face with the ball one or twice it was easy to write it off as an accident.
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