Tara Miller - Human

NICKNAME:: Tara
AGE:: seventeen
GENDER:: female
OCCUPATION:: high school student / works at local pet store
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION::Tara Miller is played by: Selena Gomez She is about five foot five, so an average height. She has long dark hair, and dark eyes as well. Her style changes all the time. Sometimes she wears dresses, sometimes she wears blue jeans and a t-shirt, and she can often be found in anything in between. Jewelry is a must for Tara, and she loves playing around with her hair to change the style and look. She loves jewelry and wears it all the time, anything from necklaces and bracelets to earrings and everything in between. She also loves styling her hair. Sometimes she curls it and sometimes she straightens it, really just depending on how she is feeling that day. She also loves nail polish and is constantly changing the color.

LIKES::
;; Reading/Writing
;; Fashion
;; Animals
;; Lyrics/Poems
;; Her iPod

DISLIKES::
;; Large Crowds'
;; Loud Music/Concerts
;; Rude People/Bullies
;; "Chipmunks"
;; Boredom

POSITIVE::
;; Persistent
;; Intelligent/Creative
;; Compassionate
;; Controlled
;; Helpful

NEGATIVE::
;; Impatient
;; Stubborn
;; Insecure
;; Shy
;; Indecisive

FEARS::
;; Losing her family or sight
;; Dying
;; Darkness or more accurately, whats in the dark.

HOBBIES::
;; The various hobbies taken up by most creative types. Reading, some writing. Occasionally dabbles in photography.

GENERAL::
She has a very active imagination. Sometimes it’s too active. She often gets caught day dreaming and is often seen scribbling down sketches (she isn’t that good, but she still enjoys it) or writing in a notebook. She can be very paranoid sometimes. If she is alone for too long then she gets paranoid and her imagination runs away with her into horrible scenarios and she freaks herself out sometimes.

She is really good at debates or arguments because she is amazing at controlling her temper. She gets mad easily, but she controls herself and very rarely flips out. She has had a lot of practice at self control throughout her middle school years. She used to be picked on a lot, and it took a lot of control to keep all of her emotions from slipping through.

The same way she controls her temper, she also controls her emotions in certain instances. If she doesn't know someone well she doesn't always let her emotions show.

She is always trying to help other people. Having been through a few hardships herself, she knows what it’s like to need someone you can count on. If she sees a way she can help someone, she usually does no questions asked. But she is usually aware if someone is trying to take advantage of her, and she can break it off before it gets too out of hand.

She watches the news a lot and is almost always up to date on current events. While she doesn't know specifically about the supernatural creatures in Collision Falls, she does know that something odd is going on. She is also on the inside of things going on at school. She likes to know who is dating who and all that stuff. She doesn't worry about it much, but she does like to know.

It can be hard for her to make simple decisions because she over thinks things a lot. She will spend five minutes in the line at McDonald’s deciding whether she wants a Big Mac or a Chicken Sandwich. Then she will make up her mind, get to the register, and order the other thing. She’s kind of bad like that.

She has mixed feelings about crowds. On one hand, she loves seeing all the people. But if she is with a friend, the crowds can often become distracting because there are so many people, all of them having their own conversations and its so easy for her to get caught up in what other people are talking about.

She is very curious about what goes on in everyone else's lives. That's one reason she watches the news as much as she does and is so up to date on what's going on around her. Because of this curiosity, it is just too tempting for her to watch other people's conversations. She knows it is rude, but she just can't help it.

FAMILY::
:: Tyler Patterson - Father - Unknown
:: Danielle Miller - Mother - Alive
:: Nick Miller - Brother (twin) - Alive
PLACE OF ORIGIN:: Collision Falls
HISTORY::
Danielle was fifteen when she meet Tyler. To start he was a charming, down to earth country guy. He was very gentlemanly, and for the first several months their relationship was perfect. Then one night they went out on one of their dates, and everything was particularly magical. Well, Danielle's parents both worked late so the house was empty. One thing led to another, and of course, the rest is history.

Tyler (surprise surprise) disappeared a few weeks later. Danielle still doesn't know exactly what happened or where he went, but he left her and she hadn't seen or heard from him since.

A few weeks after Tyler left, Danielle realized she was pregnant. She was terrified. Here she was, almost 16, and pregnant. Well, she wasted no time in preparing. She knew she had to get a job...she obviously couldn't just magically be able to pay for all the things a baby would need...so she got a job at the local pet store. She had always known a lot about animals, she studied them non-stop, so she gained more responsibility fairly quickly.

It wasn't long at all before she learned that she wasn't only having a child, she was having twins. Now, it was pretty horrifying for her to to be having a kid at all at the young age she was, but to be having twins? That was a whole new nightmare in itself. So she began to work as much as she could, for she knew that once the children got here she'd need to have as much money together as she could, and she wouldn't be able to work as much as she could now.

Not that it was easy. There were days she could hardly stand up for her back and feet hurting...but she didn't allow this to stop her. She pushed through the tough days and just did everything that she could to keep going.

About 8 months into her pregnancy, she was working late, closing actually, and she was the only employee in the store. She was moving to lock the front door when a masked man burst through, knocking Danielle flat onto her stomach. The pain was instantaneous, and she couldn't do much to stop the thief. Eventually he got what he wanted and just left, and Danielle was able to make it to the phone to call an ambulance. She passed out before they got there.

When she woke up, she was lying in a hospital room, complete with white walls and white sheets and white curtains. She also immediately was conscious of one thing...her babies were no longer inside her. Her parents were both in the room, and were more than happy to see her awake. They assured her that the babes were both perfectly fine, but the doctors had had to go on with an emergency c-section to save them as Danielle had gone through terrible stress and would have lost them both had they stayed.

The days and weeks went by, and months. The boy, whom Danielle had named Nicholas, was obviously a healthy and happy boy. The girl on the other hand, whom Danielle dubbed Tara, was...different. The children were both several months old now, and Nick responded to her voice. Responded to different tones and noises. Tara on the other hand, seemed not to notice such things. She seemed happy enough, but where Nick would look over when Danielle spoke to him, Tara was oblivious to her sounds.

Danielle wasted no time in getting her to a doctor, where it was quickly determined that she was deaf. Danielle, now almost seventeen, went to the store and got an American Sign Language dictionary, and took classes to learn sign language, which she started using around Tara, and also Nick, as much as she possibly could.

Tara responded well to this, and when Nick began learning to speak, and sign as well, Danielle began to search out speech therapists for Tara. It would, of course, be much more difficult for the girl to learn, but Danielle knew it was possible, and sure enough, but the time Tara was eight, she could speak as well as any other eight year old.

Nick of course was still in the picture. As the two children grew up they were the best of friends. Nick of course had learned sign language and understood that as easily as English, so the two had no problems communicating in any situation.

And so life went on. Now they are both healthy teens, and live happily in Collision Falls with their mom.

YOUR NAME:: NeverLand
EXPERIENCE::long time
OTHER CHARACTERS:: Logan, 
ORIGINAL?:: Yes