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ASHLEY HOLLIFIELD
Taylor Swift

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DETAILS

Species: Human
Species Appearance: N/A
Occupation: Librarian
Residence: West Haven
Age: 25
Birthday: February 10th
Height: 5'02
Weight: 120 pounds
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Blue
Sexual Orientation: Asexual (not aromatic) 

Notable features: none

PERSONALITY

Likes: organizing, stories, books, movies, word definitions, songs and song lyrics, animals, nature, gardening, hiking, cycling, baton twirling, public transportation
Dislikes:  injustice and unfairness, mean and rude people, makeup, jewelry, loud persisting noises, cars, pollution, shampoo
Strengths: caring, honest
Weaknesses: easily frustrated, can't always pick up social cues

General personality: Ashley is often shy and quiet. This is especially true when people she doesn't know very well talk to her about personal things. She has a tendency to over-explain, or under-explain. She usually makes brief eye contact, unless she forgets. She’s better at professional social interactions than personal social interactions.

Ashley gets nervous easily. She often calms herself down by pacing, swinging, twirling her batons, organizing things, or reciting literary passages or song lyrics.

Ashley has a pretty good relationship with her father and her brother. She has no interest in being family rep. She is not as ambitious as the rest of her family, but she is ambitious about some things. Currently. she's only ambitious about being good at her job, and growing her own fruits and vegetables in her garden.

She can easily remember quotes, literary passages, song lyrics, and sometimes full conversations. Yet, there are some things that she forgets right away. She had a lot of trouble remembering phone numbers, and instructions on how to do stuff.

HISTORY

Education: Master's Degree in Librarian Science
Years in Sweetwater: 25 (all her life)
Family Members: The Hollifield's (founding family) - Godric (father), Shirley (late mother) Jack (eldest sibling), older sibling, younger sibling, step-siblings, Milne (pet cat)

General History: It is a tradition in the Hollifield family that one pursue their education and sow their wild oats before prioritizing starting a family of your own. Godric Hollifield did not marry Shirley until he was 39 years old and he never expected his children to marry early. In fact, it was even discouraged.

Godric believes in the value of a good education and in encouraging the younger generations in scholarly pursuits almost more than anything else. Though he also pushed his children to gain real-life experience. After all, how were they to really know what they wanted in life if they didn't try a variety of things? It was simple science.

When Ashley was a young child, she was usually a good child, but she could be fussy, and sometimes she would get so stressed out that she would just start screaming uncontrollably. She was very bothered by loud noises, was a very picky eater, and she wouldn't make eye contact. With the exception of her siblings, she preferred to hang out with adults than with other children. She also liked being by herself.

She tried a variety of activities growing up, and she sometimes enjoyed trying new things, but sometimes she wanted to do familiar things, and sometimes she liked to just chill. Sometimes she worried that some of her favorite things to do were a form of wasting time, but she did them anyway. These things included swinging on the swing set, reading books, watching movies and television, and organizing things. She used to take books and movies off of shelves and then put them back in a different order, sometimes sorted by alphabetical order, but more commonly in some weird way that put ones with the same or similar genres or tropes next to each other.

The winter Ashley was eleven, her mother died. She had been very close to her mother, and could not believe that she would be gone. For the next few weeks, it seemed like she was always either pacing or organizing things. She kept expecting to see her mother, as she had not processed her death yet.

One evening, about two weeks after her mother's death, she went to the bathroom and realized that she was getting her first period. She yelled for her mother, and then she fully realized that her mother was gone and that she was never coming back again, and she started sobbing hysterically. She soon started repeatedly slamming her body into the wall, until her father came in and grabbed her so she couldn't hurt herself. Eventually, she quit squirming, and leaned into him, trembling and sobbing. Her father held her until she passed out from exhaustion. On a brighter note, she stopped expecting to see her mother everywhere.

Her father took her to a psychologist, who helped her cope with her mother's death. It also helped when her father started taking her to cool places to cheer her up, and when he got her a pet cat.

Her psychologist suspected that she was neurodivergent fairly early on. She eventually ended up being diagnosed with autism.

Over the summers, when she was a teenager, she tried various volunteer jobs. Most of them she mostly liked, and the ones she didn't she just quit. She really liked being able to feel useful. 

When she was seventeen, she was hanging out with some of her fellow majorettes and was hanging back while they flirted with some football players. One of the guys, took an interest in her, and later became her friend, and later her boyfriend. He had been nice to her at first, but he started to get mean and verbally abusive toward her. She eventually dumped him. He warned her that she'd never had another boyfriend, and she suspected that he was right, but she didn't have much desire for one anyway.

She went to college for six years. It was a lot better than high school. Over the summers, she worked a few different jobs and sometimes went on trips. When she got out of college, she got a job at the public library.

OOC

Your OOC Name: Neigh
Discord ID: Neigh#6535

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