Harriman, Seven Briony [COTM]

GENERAL INFORMATION

[ SITE ALIAS ]: R-R-R-Rach!
[ THE FULL NAME ]: Seven Briony Harriman
[ THE NICKNAMES ]: Sev, Sevvie, Bri Bri
[ THE BIRTHDAY ]: April 15th, 1995
[ THE AGE ]: thirteen and three-quarters
[ THE GENDER ]: female
[ THE SEXUALITY ]: very straight, but very un-sexual (ah hur hur)
[ THE NATIONALITY ]: Maine, USA

[ THE TALENT ]: literature, primarily play writing. True to the Harriman name, Seven is a born writer, and has a brilliant and fantastic imagination despite her reserved and demure aspect.
[ THE GRADE ]: eighth grade, third year
[ FORM OF STUDENT ]: fully paid, despite the fact that her family owns the school

PERSONAL STUFF

[ THE INTERESTS ]:

typewriters
vintage clothing
Her daddy
Ghosts and the supernatural
Hygiene
Her shiny hair
Russian literature
j.m. barry
e.e. cummings
lace
the Victorian era
nature and the outdoors
manners
walking
swimming
opaque tights
french
enamel jewelry
Sherlock holmes
Eloise (or Lola/Lolita, as she calls her)
ballet

[ THE HOBBIES ]:

writing plays
Forcing her friends to perform her plays
People watching
Jane austen
Writing the occasional poem or fantastical story
Imagining
Playing pretend
Dressing up
Being alone
Ballet dancing (but only very casually)
Playing piano
Learning new languages

[ THE DISLIKES ]:

capital letters
computers
romantic era poets
love poems
skimpy clothing/bathing suits
new book smell
too-bright lights
the radio
dust and allergens
asthma
plastic bags
people who don’t recycle
cameras and being photographed

[ THE FEARS ]:

human contact
heartbreak
losing a family member
criticism
older students
asthma attacks
small spaces
large crowds
allergens and asthma triggers

[ THE TRAITS ]:

Quiet, demure, hyper-polite, icy, imaginative, fantastical, tight-lipped, prim, prudish, unemotional, deft, tough on the outside, soft on the inside

[ THE ULTIMATE GOAL ]: to be a famous playwright/director
[ THE PREVIOUS SUCCESSES ]: Seven has finished two complete plays, The Fantastic Fanatical Mister Fabian Finnister, and Mae Jean’s May Day. She has started and left unfinished a grand total of twenty plays. She has also pursued some casual acting while on summer vacation with park acting groups.
[ THE STRUGGLES ]: Seven’s largest hardship has been her asthma, which has been a constant companion since her fifth birthday when she had a near-fatal attack. It has been a massive barrier to her living a free and easy life, and has been a contributor to her withdrawn and timid personality.

[ THE OTHER SCHOOL ]: Seven was homeschooled until she was old enough to attend Harriman by her mother and a slew of the best tutors in Maine. She really rather liked being home schooled, because there were far less noisy and obnoxious artsy-types, and she could study whatever she liked.

LOOKS, LOCKS, AND LEGS

[ THE PLAYED-BY ]: ronan, saoirse

[ THE EYES ]: Seven has humongous, round spectacular blue eyes. They are not quite the windows to her soul, but rather the windows to a frozen lake in the Antarctic, and in this way perhaps a window to her never-changing, prim and reserved inner workings.
[ THE HAIR ]: A short, blond bob is Seven’s preferred style of hair. She keeps it very clean, and usually tucks it behind her ears or sometimes will put a headband or ribbon in it to keep it out of her eyes, especially while she works. She has no discernable bangs, but rather a solid sheet of angled bob that curls just at her chin and bounces when she walks.
[ THE SMILE ]: The smile does not happen. It simply does not. On the extremely hyper-rare occasion that she should smile, usually when she is around her father, the edges of Seven’s lips will curve upwards and her rosy cheeks will kind of form little apples, but her eyes do not light up at all.
[ THE OTHER FACIAL STUFF ]: Seven has a small beauty mark on her right cheek next to her nose and underneath her eye. Her nose is thin and straight, with a very slight upturn at the end, though this is not easily discernible. Her jaw is ovular and thins at the end, and her chin is not particularly strong, but not as weak as it could perhaps be.

[ THE BUILD ]: Seven is thin, to put it simply. She is straight up and down, with almost no curves nor hint of womanly form. Her breasts have not developed, her hips have not widened. Her entire appearance is rather newborn colt-ish in its nature, and her long thin limbs poke out of her large vintage dresses in a rather adorable but stickish way.
[ THE HEIGHT ]: 5’ 0”, but growing slowly
[ THE WEIGHT ]: 101
[ THE POSTURE ]: Always one to be the model of manners, Seven sits up straight, walks with her head held high as if she could balance on it a column of books, and is always proper in table manners and demeanor.

[ THE CLOTHING ]: Seven is a vintage store fanatic. She often wears dresses as old as the thirties or fourties, and has been gifted by her grandmother a number of Felicity’s own dresses from when she was a little girl. These Seven treasures more than any other items in her closet, which typically consist of anklet socks, hair ribbons, mary janes, and sundy-school dresses. Typically, Seven wears white, ivory, or cream variations, but will occasionally wear color, her favorites being green and blue.
[ THE HYGIENE ]: Seven is obsessively hygienic. She showers daily, sometimes twice a day, and brushes her teeth three times a day if she can manage. Every morning and evening she brushes her hair fifty times, in order for it to remain shiny and beautiful. She keeps her nails short and clean, and always makes sure her clothes are neat and tidily arranged on her body, as well as properly laundered.

FAMILY: HATE TO LOVE 'EM?

[ THE PARENTS ]: Julia and Edgar Harriman. Julia is a stay-at-home mother who runs her own line of beauty products from her own office within their home. Edgar is, of course, the headmaster of Harriman.
[ THE SIBLINGS ]: Eloise Harriman, sixth year. Lola and Seven get on fairly well for siblings, though Lo’s personality is far more abrasive and loud to Seven’s quiet and prim type.
[ OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS ]: Like her sister, Felicity Harriman has been a huge influence in Seven’s life; she has always catered to the girl’s love of old clothing, and provided a number of relics from the past both wearable and not. Grandma Felicity has always been Seven’s biggest fan, and watches all of her plays, or scenes from plays on which she is working, patiently and obligingly until Seven is satisfied.
[ IMPORTANT ANCESTRY ]: Seven’s grandmother, of course, is Felicity J. Harriman, the founder of the Harriman School for the Arts. Her father has listed off various other influential ancestors over the years, including a possible relation to Alexander Graham Bell, but Seven has never been much for genealogy.