Hello, all! This is Terri. I've gotten horribly behind on commenting on intro posts, but I'm hoping to go back and remedy that today. Better late than never, right? In the meantime, I wanted to go ahead and intro this lady. (tl;dr folks, her personality break down is by the ***)
Oceana Ridgeway is Annie Cresta from the Hunger Games. She is a newcomer to Dunhaven, as in she's just moving in and hasn't really gotten around to telling anyone she's here yet, though you may have seen her moving into Arbor Crossing Apt 101 if you were in the area. That being said, the only people who would know her before now are those who were in the Tampa, Florida area from 1991 to 2009, New York City or surrounding area from 2009 to May 2016, and finally Virginia Beach from summer 2016 to present.
Oceana (who will allow people to shorten her name to Ocee, but little else) was born in Florida to a teenage mother, and adopted as an infant by a couple who would divorce when she was still young. She was raised primarily by her single father after her adoptive mother left them both. She and her dad are best buds, and he did everything he could to send her to art schools from the time she was five onwards. She ended up in Juilliard for Dance and found work dancing in stage shows as part of the ensemble for several years post-grad. In May '16, she was in a pretty horrific car accident that decidedly ended her professional dance career. Her dad moved her to Virginia Beach and assisted with her rehabilitation while she recovered from her injuries. She still has some pain and problems from the crash, including some jumpiness, nightmares, and PTSD triggers from the crash which actually may or may not get worse when she starts emerging with memories as Annie. Now that she's healed, she's going to be teaching dance here in Dunhaven. Not just ballet, either. She's trained in contemporary and just about anything you could desire, so adults or children alike who are looking to dance? She's your gal.
*** She is extremely forgiving and feels things strongly. She empathizes with people, and tends to be very driven towards her goals. She overcomes fear like it's something to conquer (which is why her lingering impact of her crash frustrates her greatly.) She isn't exactly a charismatic person, but she's nice and puts in effort to try to make friends. She tends to withdraw into herself when she's facing problems rather than asking for help, particularly when these issues aren't something she can cure with forgiveness. She will be seen walking around with headphones in a lot, she loves to swim, and if you want an awkward turtleduck friend who laughs during serious moments, you've found her.
I can never make these things short...but if you made it through the tl;dr portion, congratulations! If you feel like your person would like to be friends with Ocee, or at least be in her general sphere of acknowledgement, please let me know! Fellow dancers? If we can work up a past connection, that's great too!