Strong Independent Woman

John Smith wrote:

Carmen Mendoza

Nickname(s): deanxcas1145 (YouTube account), @carmensmarmen (Twitter).

Age: 23.

Race: Human.

Gender: Female.

Organization: Independent.

Scrappy's a puppy wrote:Organization Rank: Popular (?) Twitter account.

#Mean Girls Memes wrote:

Character's Appearance

Carmen is a rather ordinary looking young lady. A shiny collection of black hair is normally tied with a red hairband at the end and hung over her shoulder to drape down her body, usually to chest level. A heart shaped face contains a small nose and pale pink lips. The eyes, however, are about average size and of a piercing ice blue color. The ears, however, return to being small with attached lobes. In addition, her skin is an ashen gray color due to chronic anemia.

Her hands and arms are somewhat slender, connecting on one end to surprisingly stubby fingers (nails painted alternating purple and black) and an average sized bust on the other. Her waist is about the same width as her torso. Her hips, however, are a bit larger than average, something which she pays no mind to and happily flaunts and/or jokes about. Her legs taper down to average sized feet.

In general, her outfits have a bit of dedication to comfort and informality. Shorts are usually a staple, due to “pride in the thighs” and for being comfy and easy to wear (quoted directly from Pokemon). Her normal footwear tends towards Converse sneakers in black with socks of some strange color. More often than not, she prefers to wear male sized t-shirts, due to the improbable design and uncomfortable nature of most female clothing. From time to time and depending on the weather, she may add a jacket or sweater of some kind. Aside from a silver anklet on her left leg, she avoids most jewelry.

Leader by Example Guy wrote:Personality Information

“Stubborn to a fault” would be an accurate description for this young woman, which she would argue over until you're forced to give up and admit she isn't. Since most of her life was spent as a doormat for other people, she decided to never let anyone take advantage of her again and staunchly refuses to let anyone force her to do anything she doesn't want to. While she easily becomes legitimately bossy because of this, she sees it as fine so long as no one gets hurt (babies' feelings don't count). She's also not afraid to defend herself if need be, becoming known in some circles for her large bottle of mace.

Stupid Stubborn Flanders wrote:Cheez-Its are her favorite food, keeping the plastic bag component to a box with her at all times. Salt and cheese, in general fall high on her list of preferred consumption, stemming from her South American heritage. She is a fan of the TV series Supernatural, often posting videos of the implied relationship between Dean Winchester and Castiel. She is similarly angry at the show's massive hatred of its female fanbase, queer baiting, and Castiel's current absence from the anniversary episode. She also likes dogs.

She suffers from aplastic anemia, a hereditary condition caused by damage to bone marrow. This causes a shortage of all forms of blood cells and gives her skin her usual pale color. In addition to increased susceptibility to injuries and infection, she also becomes fatigued and thirsty much easier than most people, in addition to the various other symptoms of anemia. From a young age, she has taken various drugs to help deal with it and is currently on a waiting list for a marrow transplant. While she finds it incredibly annoying to have to constantly watch for even the slightest injuries and damages (flu season being a horrible mess every year), she's learned to live with it and is still hopeful of eventually overcoming it fully if a donor is ever available.

She has a strong belief in the paranormal (or, rather, supernatural) and hopes to document it in some form. This usually means uneventful YouTube videos of her walking around various “haunted” locations and talking to her viewers. She is a fairly good cinematographer, though, and her equipment is high quality, so her view count is consistently in the hundreds. She very rarely responds to trolls or critics, being mature enough to just ignore it all. After the events of the Aberdeer Mansion, she was more than ecstatic to find out everything she'd believed in up until now was completely true.

As a brother... wrote:Despite her confidence in most other areas of life, relationships are not one of them. In fact, she completely shuts down around woman she finds attractive, devolving into some stuttering, mumbling, rambling lunatic who should probably not be out in public at that time. The fact she'd grown up in a small town where, despite being north enough to border Canada, most women are shy to admit they're into other women wasn't a big help in feeling okay about her sexuality. She's trying to make progress in becoming more secure, though. In fact, she managed to actually say, “Hello,” to the person she sat next to on the bus ride to the mansion. It was followed by, “Did you know flies vomit on their food before they eat it?” but she still gets points for trying.

Her addiction to Twitter and other forms of social media is quite obvious to most. When not doing something requiring full attention or alertness, she is usually updating her followers on her latest ghost hunting expedition or what she just ate. While rather inane, she has managed to find several spooky (though not haunted) locations to record in. Her first real lead was, strangely enough, the Aberdeer House, despite having lived within an hour of it for most of her life.

Not an ass wrote:

Equipment Information

A simple red purse carries most of her things she can't fit or keep in her pockets. These would include a blue Sony Handicam (broken and lost in the mansion), a reusable plastic bottle of water, her Cheez-Its bag, various feminine products, a few random hard candies taken from indiscriminate glass bowls, some sunglasses in a silky, purple case, a pack of tissues, and keys.

Her large, black bottle of mace is always in her pocket. A red button at the top can be clicked into a locked and unlocked position, a single press firing an aerosol of pain at anyone who would desire to hurt her. It has a 10 foot effective range and a four year shelf life, one of which has already been used up. It is good for about 250 sprays.

She possesses an iPhone 5 with a teddybear case. It has a number of apps and music for the young lady on the go. The most frequently used is Twitter. She also has a Mac, which is much superior to any PC, equipped with Adobe Aftereffects and Audacity for editing.

The Girl Wants to Die wrote:Character Abilities

Carmen, despite having no formal training outside of a college AV club, is a surprisingly good cinematographer. Her equipment is high quality and her videos are consistently well shot. She avoids the urge to swing her body wildly while filming, something even Hollywood directors can't seem to figure out doesn't help the audience get invested in the story. She shares the frustration of most modern moviegoers and aims to try and keep her filming arm as steady as possible, even when moving quickly.

She is also an accomplished chef of college food. By that, it means she can cook most anything in a microwave and knows the perfect settings for defrosting fish sticks and such. Her four years at the local university taught her how to make the most of small amounts of food. This has spread into other aspects of life, especially money, waiting months and even years for various sales to get things she wants.

Having to edit her own videos, she has gotten a fair bit of skill in using Aftereffects and Audacity, both for her recorded footage and various tribute videos to Supernatural. She was actually contacted on several occasions by other people asking for her services. Obviously, they refused to pay her anything for the hours it would take, so she turned them down with a helpful tip of offering compensation before begging someone to do work for you.

She is a handy shot with her mace and knows basic steps for self-defense against an average attacker, such as sensitive points to hit and how to break a choke hold from the front or behind. She really can't dance, though.

Camen Kwon Do wrote:

Character Biography

Carmen was born to a fairly well-off middle class family living in New York. They quickly moved to Maine not long after she was born, though, since her parents felt a small town would be better for her to grow up in than a large city. It was also much cheaper, meaning they had more money to spend and could afford comparatively nicer living conditions than in Manhattan. Due to her father's anemia, she was tested early on for it as well, her bone marrow showing positive for the large amounts of fat necessary to diagnose the disease.

Because of this, she was coddled for most of her life. While most would think she'd grow up to be a brat, it was quite the opposite. Constantly being told she was too weak or too fragile to play games or activities left her feeling pathetic and lonely. In addition, not many of the other children wanted to be around her to begin with, the knowledge she had a disease and her unwillingness to disobey her parents and play at recess making her rather unpopular. She eventually stopped trying to be make friends at all, and was bullied and taken advantage of by several people, too afraid to try and stand up to them or report them.

It only became worse as she got older, genetics seemingly wanting to assault her again by causing her to develop her prominent hips. She was mocked for being fat to no end, seen as an easy target due to already being an outcast. It was, certainly, one of the most miserable times in her life. After graduation, she decided to go to college to pursue a psychology degree.

Tell Me About Your Mother wrote:While at college, she began to give in to her repressed teenage rebellion, experimenting with physical activities and low-intensity sports. She slowly began to make meaningful relationships with other people, figuring out who she was and things she enjoyed (meaning, she learned what Supernatural was, and that girls are kind of really soft and nice to look at). She joined the local AV club at one point, having a nice time editing and filming for various school-related events and promotional advertisements.

For a long time, she'd been interested in ghost stories and other scary things. It was really Supernatural that inspired her to go out looking for them. Though she never really thought she'd be able to find anything, having the intelligence to know that TV ghost hunters were full of shit, she figured it would be a fun activity to do with a few friends every now and then. They'd find nothing, of course, but it did a lot to enhance her confidence by plunging head first into terrifying situations with no real danger. It was no coincidence she'd be appointed leader after a few nights out.

She graduated not too long ago, returning to her home town with a new sense of confidence and purpose. She had no real idea as to what career she'd want, but had recently began working as a stocker in a bookstore. It paid well enough and was close to home. Her life took a much more dramatic tone after that, however, when she met Henry Travers at the old Aberdeer Mansion. She was swiftly faced with the reality of the supernatural and nearly killed as fodder for a mad magician's attempts to resurrect his dead family. She is currently at a local hospital being treated for blood loss.