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tooneys-russo · 5 months

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BOOTS AND BROKEN HEARTS

Previous Parts: Chapter 1

Summary: Alessia and her UNC coach Willa have a bit too much chemistry. Only downside is that Willa has a girlfriend.

Chapter 2

As Willa walked towards her car, she saw a black BMW with its lights on a little bit away from her car. He knew that car belonged to Jennifer. As she got into the car she noticed that her girlfriend appeared to be extremely pissed off. “You seem to be loving the college girls still.” Willa sighed, he knew exactly what was coming. “I am a coach, she wanted to know about forward movements and I have to make them better.” Jennifer turned towards Willa. “Yeah make them better players, you don’t need to flirt with them and try to fuck them.” Willa felt some anger rise in her chest. “My god I can have a fucking conversation with a girl without wanting to fuck her.” Jennifer gripped onto her steering wheel as she pulled out of the car park. “So you don’t think that blonde is hot?” Willa rested her head against the headrest and sighed. “She can be pretty without me wanting to fuck her.” She was exhausted, Jennifer was always picking these pointless fights. They had a similar fight every few weeks, they would make up and she would be standing next to her at some event the next day. As they arrived at Willa's apartment Jennifer did a once over, checking that there was no sign that there had been another female in the room. Willa’s apartment was on the fourth level, where you could see the North Carolina Soccer Stadium. It was a two bedroom, with the second bedroom being utilised as her collectors room, there was a collection of Batman figurines, costumes and comics, Newcastle United memorabilia as well as her UCLA memorabilia. Willa also had her gaming consoles, gaming collection, tv and desk filling the room. It was perfectly organised how she liked it, alphabetically and separated based on collection. Jennifer hated the room, she used to call her a teenage boy who needed to grow out of the kid shit. It ate away at Willa each time. Jennifer finally sat down on the couch that she had picked out, and turned on the tv. Willa went to sit down, “Gross no, go shower.” Willa sighed and went to shower. She let the water fall onto her body, releasing the tension from her muscles. It was her break from Jennifer for the night, she took every single second at her disposal. After she was done he put on some old UCLA shorts and sat next to Jennifer who had put on the newest season of Real Housewives of Beverley Hills, Willa had a little laugh along with the drama that was unfolding. Jennifer went on about how important the game was this weekend to her, having Orlando Pride pick her up was huge for her, and Willa knew that. But Jennifer wanted Willa to give up everything. After she listened to Willa’s analysis of her team and what she was thinking for the season's opening game they went to bed, they had sex as they always did when they were together. It seemed for both of them now that they were just going through the motions and there was a lack of love and intimacy there.

The following morning Willa made Jennifer her favourite breakfast, avocado on toast, with two poached eggs and a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. She took it into the bedroom so her girlfriend could eat it in bed. Willa had to head off in an hour and Jennifer had to head back to Orlando Pride for training that afternoon. They both knew that it would just be a night together every couple weeks but they agreed to do it because it was the best for both their jobs. Willa had a shower and got into the North Carolina uniform ready for another session before the scrimmage the following day. She kissed Jennifer and told her she loved her. Part of Willa still loved Jennifer, but perhaps she just loved the idea of her, the safety of the relationship.

When Willa got to her office he noticed that Sydney, one of the players on the soccer team was waiting for her. “Hey Sydney, everything okay?” She nodded. “I just need some help. I don’t want to talk to Dorrance because I don’t want him to think I am an idiot.” Sydney explained that she didn’t understand some of their set plays, she was getting confused with the signals. Willa smiled and nodded, this was an easy fix. For the next hour she and Sydney went through each play on her office whiteboard, a couple of other players ended up joining in, apparently the signals and the movements of each player were being confused. After two hours she had most of the team in her small office watching her closely. It made her feel really good to be asked to help players understand more about their plays. She did notice that Alessia wasn’t there, she must have been in class or still in the gym. Once the impromptu coaching session was done Willa made her way to the gym, Alessia was doing some lower body work on the leg press. Willa jumped up onto the pull up station and easily lifted her body. “How are you feeling?” The blonde was startled by the northern accent. “You scared that shit out of me.” She turned to the older girl. “Sorry.” Willa dropped off the pull up bar and walked over. “Just had most of the team in my office asking about the set plays and the signals.”Alessia got off the leg press and moved to the hamstring machine, “Oh the one arm, two arm, movement to back post, offside trap and the false press?” Alessia replied with ease. “Guess I know why you didn’t need to show up then.” Alessia smiled. “I know how to deal with signals, I just struggle with movements sometimes.” Willa nodded. “Don’t go too hard today in the gym, the scrimmage tomorrow will be big. Season starts next month and I want the team in prime condition.”Alessia stood up in front of Willa, their eyes locking, nothing being said for what felt like an eternity. “Don’t worry I will be ready.” The blonde finally said, then walked past the now nervous brunette. But it was fine, Willa didn’t think about that little bit of tension at all. Not for a single second. Not even when she watched Alessia walk out of the gym, focusing on the smaller shorts that the blonde was wearing. Willa loved Jennifer, Alessia is just a pretty girl who isn’t at all judgemental or using her. Just a pretty girl.

For the scrimmage Willa was coaching the light blue team, Anson was coaching the white team. Alessia was put on the light blue team and Willa laid out the game plan, she wanted Alessia to play as a holding forward, moving into the midfield to lay the pass off to a winger then sneak inside. She was unsure of how to feel about the other Brit’s plan considering she had always played as a strong attacking player, dribbling into the box. Willa went around to each player giving them three goals to work on during the game, she didn’t focus on particular plays, only individual game performance. Willa handed the Captain’s armband to Lotte Wuben-Moy, another Brit who had gone through the Arsenal academy and similarly to Alessia had turned down a pro contract to develop their football. The teams took to the field, it was a strong start by the white North Carolina team who were playing their regular style of football. Willa’s light blue team were focusing on their new plan, Alessia had finally gotten the ball to her feet. She passed it out wide and snuck in behind the defenders who were too focused on the other players getting into the box. Lois ran down the edge of the box towards the goal line and crossed in the ball. Willa watched as Alessia rose above the other players to get her head on the ball, it was an almost perfectly aimed ball, only going over the crossbar by inches. Alessia threw her head back and groaned. She ran towards the halfway line for the goal kick. The half continued to be hotly contested with light blue getting so close to scoring and white trying to counter. At half time, Willa and the light blue team went into the changerooms, she stood by the whiteboard.

“Hey, take a seat. How are you feeling with the setup?” Willa looked around at the players. “Lois I can see you are getting free down that wing. We can do a quick one, two with Alessia. That will open her up to loop around the back and free up the box. Lotte, your delivery from the backline and your command is perfect, it is exactly what we need. Right now they will be looking at how we set up in that half and try to adjust, I want us to change it up slightly. We keep our formation, but hit Alessia, she’s got the height and can get away from those defenders.” Alessia watched Willa closely, she was so expressive and was captivating to watch. Alessia could feel some butterflies in her stomach, she put it down to just admiring the older girl. The second half went exactly as Willa had predicted, Anson and his team shifted their tactics, but so did Willa and her team. Alessia did exactly what Willa had said, she lost her player going around the back of the pack as the cross came in. She rose above other players and headed the ball into the back of the net. Her team cheered and Willa clapped the blonde. It was a heavily contested second half with Willa and Anson’s tactics being put to the test. By the final whistle of this inter club game, Willa had won 2-1 against Anson. He shook her hand and she smiled wide, she felt so proud of herself and how her studying of the players paid off. The girls hugged her one by one as they went into the changeroom to shower and get ready to leave. Alessia was the last player to hug Willa, purposely waiting to the side. “Guess you were right coach.” Alessia stepped forward. “There are a few things I know. Football happens to be one of them.” Alessia and Willa stood looking at each other, there was a little bit of tension in the air, Alessia broke the stand off and hugged Willa. The blonde’s arms going around Willa’s neck and the brunettes arms wrapping around Alessia’s waist. Their bodies were pressed against each other, they didn’t want to let go it felt right to hold each other. Willa came to her senses and pulled away. “Um great game again, you did phenomenally.” Willa grabbed her clipboard and walked down the left hallway, a few seconds later she walked past Alessia again. “Wrong way.” She mumbled to herself, her face red. Alessia watched Willa walk into her office, biting her lip as her coach closed the door behind her. They were both in a bit of trouble.

The weekend finally came with Willa avoiding being alone with Alessia the whole time. Willa had Lotte, Sydney and a couple of the other players one on one to discuss tactics and movements. Alessia tried to get the coach alone, maybe getting just one more hug or a sneaky hand touch, just something, but nothing worked. Alessia asked for a quick chat but Willa was on her way out, heading to the airport after their film session. “Sorry Alessia, look text me if you need me or anything happens. I am heading to Orlando Pride, Jennifer has her first game and I promised that I wouldn’t miss it. I will see you when I get back.” Willa handed Alessia a post it note with her number, Alessia immediately put it in her phone and texted her coach. ‘Hi Willa, it’s Alessia from UNC.’ In her Uber Willa smiled at the text. ‘Hello Alessia from UNC. Sorry about not being able to chat for long, we can chat when I am back.’ Willa would have loved to have been sitting with Alessia chatting about football and everything that they could think of, but she had to go to her girlfriend. Willa put her phone away not looking at it when it pinged, knowing that it was a text from Alessia.

Once she got off the plane in Orlando she saw the girlfriend she should have been missing. Jennifer jumped into Willa’s arms and the coach wrapped her arms around her girlfriend’s waist. There were a few paparazzi taking pictures with hype surrounding the number 1 draft pick and the UNC coach. Their bodies didn’t fit as well as Willa and Alessia’s, but Willa pushed that from her mind. On the way to Jennifer’s apartment Willa barely got a word out while Jennifer continued to talk about how awesome the new girls were and the facilities. Willa zoned out a little while Jennifer spoke, she was proud of her girlfriend but she was so tired from everything she struggled to pay attention. Jennifer’s apartment looked like it was from an interior design magazine, Willa followed her girlfriend and sat down on her couch. Not once did Jennifer ask how Willa was going, while they watched a movie Willa finally checked her phone and there was a text from Alessia from a few hours before. ‘I would love that, I will see if I can see you on the tv tomorrow.’ Willa smiled at the girl’s text and put her phone away. The media had started posting the pictures from the airport, Alessia saw the pictures and rolled her eyes. Jennifer and Willa’s fans were reposting the pictures and commenting how cute they were together. Alessia tried her best to not continue scrolling on the comments, but she couldn't help herself. Everyone kept saying how cute the pair were together, that they were the perfect couple. She knew she could make Willa smile wider than the polite smile that graced the coach’s lips in the photos.

In the morning Jennifer and Willa went for a walk to a local cafe, the barista knew Jennifer’s order, a soy double shot with a little bit of hazelnut syrup, Willa got a soy hot chocolate apparently she was lactose intolerant but she didn't bother getting a doctor check she thought the stomach pain after a milkshake was explanation enough. “It means so much that you’re here baby.” Jennifer held Willa’s hand as they walked. “I will always support you.” Willa kissed Jennifer’s hand. “I’m sorry I was a bitch when I came and saw you. I just get jealous when I know you are alone with those girls, to be honest you’re very hot and if you were my coach I would do everything that I could to get you.” Willa smiled at her girlfriend. “Yeah no I get it. I’m sorry that I have been distant and so focused on UNC.” Willa and Jennifer stopped by a bench in a park and sat together. Willa looked at her girlfriend as she drank her hot chocolate, there were moments where she looked just like the freshman she fell in love with, she didn’t know what happened to that girl and where this self centred attention seeking woman came from. Willa leant in and kissed her girlfriend’s cheek, Jennifer pulled out her phone, “Babe do it again.” Willa kissed her again and Jennifer took a picture. It was quickly posted and suddenly their moment of connectedness had disappeared as Jennifer worked out the best caption, Willa moved her arm from behind Jennifer and looked around at the other people in the park trying to avoid thinking about the captivating blonde UNC striker.

Chapter 3

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mozz14 · 12 days

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15 questions

tagged by @vmplvr1977 Thank you!

Were you named after anyone?

No.

When was the last time you cried?

Not sure – I get very sentimental watching films, especially on planes (lack of oxygen?) – it’s kinda embarrasing

Do you have kids?

No.

What sports have you played/do you play?

Golf. I used to play soccer, Australian rules football and cricket.

Do you use sarcasm?

Well, obviously! Though I’m trying to get better.

First thing you notice about people?

The way they dress / present themselves.

What is your eye colour?

Hazel

Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings (every day of the week and twice on Sunday)

Any talents?

No, but I learn things quickly and I’m pretty resilient.

Where were you born?

Sydney

What are your hobbies?

Writing and reading fanfic, golf, seeing art / dance / films, hiking.

Do you have any pets?

No, unfortunately. I’d like a cat again.

How tall are you?

5' 2" (157 cm)

Favourite subject in school?

English.

Dream Job?

I think I’m doing it! I never dreamed I’d get to this point in my career (promotion last Monday).

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modern-day-classic · 2 months

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15 questions, 15 Friends

tagged by @hart-kinsella, @damelucyjo & @sophiedevreaux 💖💖

Are you named after anyone? Not specifically but there's a Sarah and Jane in every generation of my dad's fam so I got to be both

When was the last you cried? Erm last night watching Somebody Feed Phil.... I cry over everything it's rare if I go a day without tears

Do you have kids? I have a tonne of neices and nephews, that's enough for now

What sports do you play/have you played? Oh I've played netball, soccer, touch footy, oztag, hockey, AFL, crossfit and then dancing (jazz, tap & irish dancing mainly) .... I am out indefinitely injured tho which is touch

Do you use sarcasm? haha yes

What is the first thing you notice about people? EYES!!! and then arms

What is your eye color? Green

Scary movies or happy endings? Both?

Any talents? I don’t really know...

Where were you born? Sydney

What are your hobbies? Watching tv shows and movies, reading, listening to music, theatre (going to and performing).... I miss my sports, I usually gym, pilates and play netball and oztag but I'm 18 weeks post knee reconstruction to that's been replaced with crazy intensive rehab

Do you have any pets? Not anymore, I sadly lost my cat just over a week ago

How tall are you? I'm 5'11 or 180cm

Favorite subject in the school? Drama.... but also science

Dream job? My dream job is sitting poolside in an exclusive resort drinking cocktails all day

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mittwoch-addams · 10 months

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‘Irreplaceable’: meet the Matildas’ other bonafide superstar

Ellie Carpenter, one of the world’s best footballers, was playing in the biggest game of her career when her knee gave way. One year on she’s chasing an even bigger prize – a home World Cup.

It’s the biggest game of her life but Ellie Carpenter is being carried off on a stretcher. The replay is a sickening sight, causing groans among the 32,000-strong crowd. Her left knee has buckled beneath her, leaving the 22-year-old thumping the ground in agony. Her Women’s Champions League final is over and maybe so much more.

Waves of pain from her ruptured ACL make it hard for the young Australian to think clearly as she is lifted off the field after only 13 minutes playing for her club Lyon against Barcelona in Turin on May 21 last year. And yet, at this moment, she is focusing harder than she has ever thought before. The girl from Cowra, the former child prodigy of Australian soccer, wipes the tears from her eyes and stares straight up at the sky as if in a trance.

“Count,” she tells herself as her stretcher makes its way out of the stadium to the applause of the sympathetic crowd. “Count the months.”

“I was thinking, ‘Oh shit, what month is it?’ Carpenter recalls. “It’s usually a 12-month recovery [from an ACL injury] and I needed to count the months until I could play again. So in my head I was going like ‘June, July, August’ and then I’m like ‘YES, YES, YES, I’ll make it. I’ll recover in time for our World Cup.”

Almost exactly 12 months later Carpenter, now 23, bounces into a cafe in central Lyon, France, with her blonde hair in a bun, wearing a T-shirt and shorts and a grin on her face. It’s a wet spring day, but the sun is rising again for Carpenter after a horror year. She is back on the field, playing again for Olympique Lyonnais, the best women’s team in the world. Off the field, she is happy and in love. She has bought a house just outside Lyon with her partner and teammate, Danielle van de Donk, one of the best footballers on the planet, who also plays for the Netherlands national team.

If the rapid-fire ticket sales are any guide, Carpenter may be underestimating the reception that awaits her and the Matildas.

The World Cup, to run from July 20 to August 20, jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand, will see an estimated 83,000 watch Australia’s opening match against Ireland at Sydney’s Accor Stadium – more than double the Matildas’ previous highest attendance of 36,000. The opening match was moved from the 42,500-seat Sydney Football Stadium to the 83,000-seat Stadium Australia (known as Accor Stadium for sponsorship purposes) to meet the surging demand for tickets. At least 1.5 million people are expected to attend the games in Australia and New Zealand with an estimated worldwide audience of two billion. FIFA predicts the World Cup will encourage up to 400,000 girls to take up soccer in Australia.

“It’s crazy now, women’s football,” says Carpenter. “I’ve seen it go from here to here,” she says, moving her hands towards the sky.

Marketing surveys show the Matildas have overtaken the men’s Wallabies rugby union team in popularity, something that would once have seemed unthinkable for a team that only formed in 1978 and for years had to play on substandard ovals. The small crowds that came to watch them play in those days were mostly family and friends.

“It’s incredible to see where this team has come from to be one of our biggest sporting brands … so many players have paved the way for this moment,” says Heather Garriock, who played 130 games for the Matildas between 1999 and 2011.

Ellie Carpenter's FIFA World Cup mission

For years Matildas players were paid a pittance, having to hold down second jobs while playing for the national team. In the early days one player recalled how a teammate called the coach before an international match to say she would be late because her shift at Woolies didn’t finish until 5.30pm. In the lead-up to the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the Matildas were so desperate to secure sponsorship and public support that 12 of them posed naked for a calendar to get attention. Fast-forward to today and the Matildas are a household name, and Kerr is arguably the most recognisable Australian sports star in the world. In May, wearing a sharp black suit, she carried the Australian flag into Westminster Abbey for the coronation of King Charles III.

But it will take more than Kerr’s soccer royalty for the Matildas to realise their dream of winning a home World Cup.

On a cold spring evening in London on the eve of the coronation, Kerr is playing to script, slamming the winning goal for her team Chelsea against Liverpool with just minutes to go. As she leaves the ground I ask her what she thinks about having Carpenter back with the Matildas for the World Cup. “Ellie is one of the best players in the world,” says Kerr, who described Carpenter as “irreplaceable” when she injured her ACL last year. “We’ve missed her and she’s a great personality to have on the team … I’m feeling good, I’m feeling excited [about the World Cup].”

A few days later, Carpenter is sprinting up the right wing, weaving the ball around her teammates during morning training near the Parc Olympique Lyonnais stadium on the outskirts of Lyon. It is just over two months since she made her comeback from her injury and the previous weekend she was one of the team’s best players in their 3-0 win over Dijon.

She calls out to her teammates in French and jokes with them in French, but if she makes a mistake on the field, the word “shit” rings out across the ground in an Aussie twang.

Her bilingual world in Lyon, a French foodie capital crammed with UNESCO World Heritage sites, is a reminder of just how many lives Carpenter has squeezed into her 23 years. “It all started here,” she says, pointing to a tattoo on her ankle that shows the outline of Cowra, her hometown of 12,500 people in the Central West of NSW. “It’s like one main street, two sets of traffic lights, a place where we knew everyone and everyone knew the Carpenters.”

Looking back, Carpenter’s unlikely rise from the streets of Cowra to international soccer star was both a blessing and a curse. It was a blessing because she lived the real-life sporting fairy-tale. This was the tale in which a determined young country girl becomes a prodigy of the game, shattering every barrier in her path to find herself playing for Australia at the age of just 15 and then at the age of 16 at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the youngest ever female footballer in the world to compete in an Olympics.

The curse was that she was so good, so early, that she was a kid playing among adults, being thrust into the spotlight ahead of her time, before she was ready and before she had time to grow up. “I hated it sometimes,” she says. “I was always the youngest. People would say, oh, you’re the youngest ever Olympian or you’re the youngest ever to score a goal, the youngest this, the youngest that. I was playing with people who were 10 or 15 years older than me and you had to mature very quickly. It was hard with the pressure, the spotlight, the critics … I wasn’t prepared for that at the time.

“I’ve been in the public eye since I was 15 and now people think I’m 30 but I’m still just 23, one of the youngest in the team.”

Belinda Carpenter still scratches her head about how her daughter fell in love with soccer. “She was highly energetic, she never sat still but she did all sports – a bit of athletics, AFL, soccer, cricket, even triathlon, cheerleading and trapeze,” she says. Belinda and her then husband Scott, who were Physical Education teachers in Cowra, encouraged Carpenter and her older brother Jeremy to dabble in any activity that took their fancy. “Ellie also did ballet, so she would play football in the morning and then go to ballet with muddy knees under those pink stockings,” Belinda recalls.

“I think I always knew I would be a sportsperson, because ever since I could walk I was running,” says Carpenter. “I think I could have done any sport really because I was also good at swimming and athletics. I was a tomboy. I didn’t really have a normal childhood. I never went to parties like other girls, I just wanted to play sports.”

She played soccer from an early age but her path as a serious player began by accident when, at the age of about seven, she watched her brother Jeremy train with the NSW country soccer team. “I was just on the sidelines waiting for him, juggling the ball on my own, when the coach came up and said that I could join their next session. I was the only girl and the boys were much older than me. I don’t remember this but apparently I was, like, really good, smashing all the boys.”

Belinda and Scott decided to give both Ellie and Jeremy the chance to compete in competitions across the state. This required a brutal schedule of long drives for training and games. “Honestly I can’t believe they did that for me,” Carpenter says. “From Cowra we used to drive to Canberra every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, which was more than two hours there and back, and then sometimes we would play in Sydney which was four hours there and back on the same day. I would spend so much time in the car, doing my homework or making up quizzes and things just to pass the time.”

By the time Carpenter was 12, it was clear that she had a natural talent that could no longer be nurtured from Cowra. So Belinda quit her job and moved with both the children to Sydney so they could attend Westfield Sports High School in Sydney’s west, which had a specialist sports program.

It was a big school in a big city, a culture shock for a country girl. “It was a huge change, I became this small fish in a big sea,” she says. Not long afterwards, her parents divorced, a time which she describes as difficult and sad.

The following year, aged 13, Carpenter went to watch the Matildas play in Sydney. “I think there was a maximum of 1000 people there but I watched the national team play and I was like, ‘Oh, sick, I want to be that.’ Then two years later, I was on that team. It was crazy.”

Carpenter’s precocious talent turned heads in the soccer world at that time, and things unfolded quickly. She broke into the “Mini-Matildas” under-17 team at the age of 14, and when she turned 15 signed her first professional contract with the then W-League club Western Sydney Wanderers. The coach was so impressed with her that she didn’t even need to trial for the team.

Carpenter’s ambition was such that although she began her career as a midfielder, she volunteered to be a defender when the Mini-Matildas said they needed defenders only because she didn’t want to be cut from the squad. “I was like, I want to be in the team so I will play wherever.”

In March 2016, when she was still just 15, Carpenter made her debut for the senior Matildas, playing in a 9-0 victory over Vietnam.

Not long afterwards, she was playing for Australia in the Rio Olympics, the first of the string of “youngest ever” firsts that she would soon tire of. “Obviously I was so young – I think I was the youngest in that team by five years,” she recalls. “So I guess I was kind of on my own. Some players were 30 years old and some of them were a bit like, ‘Who is this 15-year-old who has come into the team?’ and some people don’t want you there because you might take their spot. So some didn’t like me being there, but you’ve just gotta keep going.”

After the Rio Olympics, Heather Garriock, who was then coaching, says she noticed that the 16-year-old Carpenter was struggling. “I could see that she wasn’t doing well with the massive comedown after the hype of the Olympic Games. So, you know, I just put my arm around her – and since then I’ve always put my arm around her and taken her under my wing. She just wanted to be the best and to get better every day.

“She is so driven to win and yet she’s got such a nice nature, a very humble kind of girl who will always give you her time.”

Carpenter says she was forced to grow up quickly, but with the help of people like Garriock she eventually found her rhythm and adapted to the ever-growing public glare of being a Matilda. “I think it took me a couple of years, until I was about 17, to come out as Ellie,” she says.

In Year 10 Carpenter dropped out of school to pursue her dream of being a full-time footballer. “She wasn’t at school very much anyway,” says Belinda of her daughter’s busy soccer schedule. “I just told her, ‘Go do it, because if it fails and you don’t get to where you want to go in soccer, we will go back and figure out the education route’.”

When Carpenter was 17 she was pursued by the US National Women’s Soccer League team Portland Thorns, in Oregon on the US west coast. She signed with them but, in those days, women were not allowed to play until they turned 18. The club was so keen for her to play that she signed a contract literally on her 18th birthday, and played the following week, racking up yet another series of “youngest evers”. “That’s why I was the youngest ever player and the youngest ever person to score a goal in the NWSL at that stage,” she says.

Carpenter says life in the US was a shock “because it was so different to Australia”. Belinda recalls that her daughter would often FaceTime her during dinner just to have a companion to speak with. “Until she found her feet I would often hang out with her on the phone while she was having dinner at a restaurant or something when she didn’t really know anybody.

“Even though Ellie is really outgoing, with a wicked sense of humour, I think she is also a bit guarded about who she lets in.”

Even so, Carpenter says she enjoyed her two years in Portland where she regularly played in front of crowds of 20,000. By this stage she had become a fixture of the Matildas team, playing in the 2019 World Cup in France where they made it to the round of 16 and then the 2020 Tokyo Olympics where the Matildas made it to the semi-finals.

By the time she turned 20, Carpenter was being pursued by the strongest women’s team in the world, Olympique Lyonnais. She recalls the moment she learned that Lyon wanted to recruit her. “I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ It was Lyon and I was like, ‘Are you sure they want me?’ I mean, if Lyon calls, you go to them wherever you are because they are the best in the world.” This is no exaggeration – the team has won eight Champions League finals in the past 12 years, including five in a row between 2015 and 2020.

But Carpenter’s arrival in 2020 wasn’t so easy. “It was the time of the Covid pandemic so the city was shut. I didn’t know anyone, and I didn’t know French,” she says. So she began her life anew yet again, throwing herself into French lessons and making friends at her new club. She impressed local fans by trying to speak French at press conferences, albeit with an Aussie twang. She also fell in love with Lyon itself. “I love it, it’s beautiful – not as nice as Sydney, but it’s still beautiful.” As soon as she arrived, she also saw why her new team kept winning championships. The fitness, the training, the skills were next-level, even for Carpenter. “She called me up and said, ‘Um, Mum, these players are really, really good’,” recalls Belinda. Initially she found it hard to break into her new team, and she won her first European Championship with Lyon in 2020 without taking to the field when she was on the team as an unused sub.

“I don’t think many people understand what it really takes to be a football player,” says Carpenter’s teammate and partner Danielle van de Donk. “You win trophies and everyone thinks it is a high but no one really knows about the lows.” Van de Donk, who has been going out with Carpenter for about two years, says she has the rare ability to lift the team’s morale single-handedly. “She is the most energetic person I know, she is very, very positive, and off the pitch she just brings a different kind of energy to the room – even when she was injured the coaches were saying to her, ‘Bring your energy to the team, we need it’,” says van de Donk. “She is already a star but she is just going to get bigger and bigger. She is only 23.”

Van de Donk says she’s attracted to Carpenter because they are “similar people in life”, adding: “It’s kind of wild, she is from Australia, I’m from the Netherlands and we are buying a house in Lyon – it’s very cool.’’

After that tricky start at Lyon, Carpenter became a regular in the team – until the 13-minute mark of last year’s Champions League final. “It was just sickening to watch her go down,” recalls Belinda, who was watching the game live in the middle of the night from her home in Wamberal on the NSW Central Coast. “I actually said when I watched it, ‘She does not go down and she does not stay down’.”

Carpenter’s injury came in two parts. The first came when she was tackling an opponent near the corner post and her left knee twisted in the tackle. Carpenter hobbled off in obvious pain. But she was desperate to come back on, and tested the injured knee in front of the team’s medical staff. “I remember being on the sideline and they were testing me and I was like, ‘Is it strong, can you feel my ACL?’ And they were like, ‘Yeah I think it’s fine, so you want to go back on?’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, it’s the Championship Final.’ So I ran back on and then I was like, ‘Oh, something’s not right’.”

Back in Wamberal, Belinda was horrified to see her daughter run back onto the pitch. “We were like, ‘No, no, no, don’t do it’,” she recalls.

Moments after returning to the field Carpenter moved to intercept a long pass. But as soon as she changed direction her knee gave way completely, severing her ACL and sending her to the ground.

Van de Donk, who was watching from the sidelines as a substitute, had torn her own ACL as a teenager and knew what lay ahead. “I saw her go down and instantly I knew it was wrong,” she recalls. “It was horrible to watch.”

But once Carpenter counted the months and realised she could still potentially play in the World Cup in Australia, her mood lifted. Lyon won the match 3-1, giving Carpenter her second championship medal and yet another first as the only Australian to win two Champions League medals. After the match, despite having her injured leg in a splint, Carpenter joined her teammates in the celebrations on the field, swinging precariously on her crutches and then hopping on her one good leg as she held up the Champions League cup. She then flew back to Lyon with the team and continued the celebrations. “I was in so much pain, so I just took lots of painkillers but we went to a restaurant and partied in Lyon drinking champagne until 5am.”

The next morning Carpenter woke with a hangover to the bad news she had feared. She needed a full knee reconstruction and would be out of the game for up to a year. Recalls Belinda: “The first thing she said to me on the phone was, ‘I’m getting an operation, I’m going to get better and I’m going to play in the World Cup’. It was all about the World Cup.”

That has been Carpenter’s singular goal ever since. In those early months after her injury when she could not run, she followed her rehab plan like it was Holy Writ – long hours in the gym keeping the muscles working followed by swimming, physio, massage and the hardest task of all: patience.

“I had to learn a lot about patience because I am impatient,” she says. “When I finally was able to take my first jump again I actually cried with happiness.” At times Carpenter wondered whether she would be the same player when she returned, but mostly she says she kept her mental demons at bay.

“It was a long journey for her and she was a bit insecure in the beginning, she struggled for about three weeks,” says van de Donk. “But after that she was OK, she just powered through – and now I think she’s much stronger than she was.” Carpenter, for her part, puts a gloss on the whole saga, saying she believes it gave her a much-needed break from the game she’d been playing almost non-stop since she was a child.

Today, Carpenter’s football routine is very full-time. She goes into the club from around 9am to 4pm most days to do a mixture of training, gym, recovery and sponsorship work. Then she plays on weekends, often travelling. She works with a nutritionist and also a psychologist. She estimates she gets one day properly off each month. Such is the profile of the team in Lyon that she now gets recognised in the street, and after three years here she says she is now fluent in French.

“Ellie has always known the path that she wanted and she has just followed it completely. That is pretty incredible for a 23-year-old,” says former Matildas player Garriock. “She is already one of the world’s best players and her energy and leadership are crucial for the World Cup. She has achieved things at 23 that others wouldn’t achieve in their whole career. I have no doubt that she will be the captain of the Matildas in the future. She has all the leadership qualities and the big game experience.”

Carpenter is now on the home stretch of her quest, hoping to stay in form and avoid injury until the World Cup begins in three weeks.

Although she loves playing for Lyon, she says there’s nothing like going home to play with the Matildas. “It’s like going back to your family,” she says with a grin. “We’ve all known each other for years. Everyone is so close. We can all laugh at ourselves and we look after each other. It’s such a good, strong group. I don’t know how to explain it but I have a special passion when I play for the Matildas, it’s unique. For me, this World Cup is the top of the top, it’s probably the best thing I will ever experience.”

So how far can Carpenter and the Matildas go in this World Cup?

“We’ve never seen an Australian team like this,” says Garriock. “This core group of players like Ellie Carpenter, Sam Kerr and Caitlin Foord have played together in World Cups and big tournaments since they were 16 years old. They are in their prime and this is their moment. It is written for them.”

#ellie carpenter

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ksbbb · 7 months

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15 questions, 15 mutuals

Tagged by @mmoosen @maplefire18

1. Are you named after anyone? No.

2. When was the last time you cried? Today. 💀

3. Do you have kids? No, but might as well. I always seem to be mothering the kids that I know and see. 😂

4. what sports do you play/have played? Volleyball, soccer, and horseback riding

5. Do you use sarcasm? Yes.

6. what's the first thing you notice about people ?their smile and eyes

7. What’s your eye color? One green and one brown eye. 👽

8. scary movies or happy endings? Scary movies.

9. Any talents? No. I would say no. Fjfjfjf

10. where were you born? USA

11. What are your hobbies? Reading, writing, and painting

12. do you have any pets? Yes. A cat 🐈‍⬛

13. How tall are you? 5’6

14. Favorite subject in shool? English

15. Dream job? A writer

Tagging @sydney-winchester @waterloou @chasing-chimeras @thiamsxbitch @korewhite @thiamblogger @moths-in-hats @musicandi @wolfboy88 @transdunbar @de-constructmybones @idkthisusernameistken @neoghoulukaku @guakamole @dylsdunbar

#tag games

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spice-honey · 1 year

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15 questions / 15 mutuals.

Tagged by @wednesday-deetz , thanks for the tag bb🖤

1. Are you named after anyone?

-I am not lmao my mom picked my name using numerology. She isn't a hippie, but it was desperate times. Shitty 90s ultrasound showed I was a boy (BDE since womb) so she picked a boy name (Rafael) and that was that. Then surprise! Not a boy! That sent her down a spiral of indecision. It took her too so long to come up with a name for me, she used numerology on the last possible legal day to name me otherwise, the government would have chosen one for her.

2. When was the last time you cried?

-Like, a good cry? Probably December.

3. Do you have kids?

-No. Don't want them, don't like them.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

-obviously

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

-loosely: soccer, rugby. Seriously: cheerleading (high school), roller derby, and pole dancing

6. What’s the first thing you notice about other people?

-their face, followed by voice.

7. What’s your eye colour?

-Hazel

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

-Happy endings. Gone are the day I can handle scary movies

9. Any special talents?

-Not.... really? I can roller skate, and do some cool pole tricks I guess.

10. Where were you born?

-Sao Paulo, Brazil

11. What are your hobbies?

-writing fanfiction, reading, Pathfinder (ttrpg), cooking (is eating a hobby?), hiking

12. Do you have any pets?

-One cat

13. How tall are you?

-5’7

14. Favorite subject in school?

-Math and art

15. Dream job?

-I dont dream of labour but... Something in fashion

tagging (NO PRESSURE): @sp00kybimb0 @sydney-winchester @kinda-stav @kp-and-the-moonlight-band @selinascatnip @str4wberry-goblin @goddessofthebees @alsacien37 @galacticstar @anoptimisticadventurer @annoying-leftist-donkey

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strawberryniceblock · 4 months

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tagged by @sp-ace-twinkk 🥰

15 questions for 15 people

1. Are you named after anyone?

my middle name is from my nan's best friend who unfortunately took her own life before I got the chance to meet her. from the stories I hear about her she was an immensely kind and compassionate woman so it's an honour to have a part of her with me

2. when was the last time you cried?

it's been a while now, I think the last time was early this year when I got evicted and subsequently broke up with my partner at the time

3. do you have kids?

nope and I don't plan on it either

4. what sports do you play/have you played?

played soccer growing up but haven't really been in any sports since

5. do you use sarcasm?

often, I just think it's fun

6. what's the first thing you notice about people?

for a stranger, ill notice their fashion sense first. but for people im meeting/introduced to its usually the way they speak. the vocab, tone, and mannerisms of someone's voice usually clue me in on their personality quickly

7. what's your eye colour?

blue, although I've been told it sometimes has bits of green. had a lot of people comment on how they like my eyes tho

8. scary movies or happy endings?

scary movies 100%, I need endings that make me stare at a wall for an hour afterwards. there is immense beauty in tragedy imo

9. any talents?

writing, sewing, sketching, painting. I am a jack of all trades, master of none when it comes to art and creativity

10. where were you born?

Sydney Australia

11. what are your hobbies?

diy fashion, been altering a lot of my clothes recently to make some more unique pieces to wear

12. do you have any pets?

2 cats whom I love dearly. osiris is a black cat and a public menace and artemis is a tabby kitten who is an angel and has never done anything wrong in her life

13. how tall are you?

uhhh 5'4 ? I think? I'm bad at measurements so I might be a bit off on that

14. favourite subject in school?

English, I was a literature nerd as a teen

15. what is your dream job?

to make cool punk clothes for a living. to be completely independent and survive off my artistic creations

tags (I don't think I know 15 people sorry:(

@roman-cup @auteurdefeu @urgaydemise @haunting-of-mitch @laneysmusings

#red rambles #thanks for the tag!! this was a fun one

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emj-lane · 5 months

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A little About me🤷‍♀️

My name is Emma-Jean Victoria Lane

Most people call me EmJ but some call me Em or Emma...all those things I respond to. I have a hyphenated first name so it's a mouthful lol!

I'm 18 years old and have an identical twin sister, Mazee. Our birthday is Halloween 🎃

Mazee and I were adopted from China when we were 2 months old

We live and were raised in California.

Besides Mazee, I have a sister, Natasha, who is 19. A sister, Morgan, who is 14. my sister, Sydney, is 11. And the youngest is my brother, Hunter, and he's 7. These siblings are my parents biological children.

We have 2 dogs that are golden doodles, Luna and Courage, and we have a cat. Her name is Boo.

I find it weird how friends or dates/boyfriend are sketched out, leary and scared off by the fact that my mom is a psychiatrist. That's her career/ her job but she is a regular person, wife, mother individual outside of her psychiatrist title/career. I promise she's not analyzing or diagnosing you if you aren't her patient in her office or in the hospital

My dad is a teacher at a boarding school for high schoolers gifted in the arts like music, theater, dance, writing, painting etc

Surfing is one of my favorite things/passions/talents. My whole family surfs.

Equal to surfing is my passion for writing.

I started playing soccer in second grade and the rest is history. From then on year after year I played on the soccer team for my elementary school, middle school and high school.

Should have been a mermaid. Love the water and swimming and diving. I was a competitive swimmer and diver from 7th grade and on through the rest of my middle school and high school career

I train and practice karate and kick boxing. In a fist fight I will kick your ass & I love it

My life motto and really driving phrase for my life and personality is "Underestimate me. That'll be fun..."

I'd say I'm very outgoing, friendly and social.

It can get very heated and tension does get very high at home with my older sister, Natasha. She has a diagnosis of ARFID which is avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. She has a lot of Orthorexia traits and tendencies as well. This has been a battle and an issue for almost 12 years now. Natasha doesn't really want full recovery...she doesn't want to weight restore or be healthy. She wants to maintain where she is...still sick, still disordered, still underweight but not getting worse- just completely maintaining & existing forever as she is. It is really really frustrating and sad. Sometimes I would like to kick her in the mouth, grab her and shake her and scream at her but it would not get through to her. It would not help.

I get self conscious sometimes being out with my family. Because I am Chinese and my parents and siblings, except Mazee, are caucasian American many people don't see us as family. They assume my parents are hosting foreign exchange students or if I am out with my 7 year old brother people assume I am his babysitter or his nanny- these things get said to me and my family and those things make a home in my head . They hide out a lot but still are there, lingering.

I enjoy music and playing music. I play piano, guitar, violin and saxophone. They are more hobbies and escapes although I am told I am talented and gifted in playing instruments I like having it as just something enjoyable, not necessarily something to pursue and train for career/performance/competitive purposes. The same goes for drawing.

My favorite artists and musicians right now are John mayer, Dave matthews band, Green Day, Nirvana, The Smiths, Bruno Mars, Billie Eilish, Yellow card, Lindsay Stirling and switchfoot.

Traveling & hiking is also something I love and something my whole family likes to do. Just being outside. We've been to the grand canyon, Niagara falls, Rocky mountains, smokey mountains, parts of the Appalachian trail/mountains, we've been to Hawaii, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Mexico, Australia, Alaska and Canada. And of course California has some hiking/national parks and nature too so we do a lot here too.

Favorite tv shows: Law and order svu, Criminal minds, Psych, and The Good Doctor

Favorite Movies: The Lord of the rings movies, Harry Potter movies, any of the Jaws movies, The Shallows, Hunger games movies, any X-men movies, Star wars movies, Man on Fire, National Treasure 1 and 2, A Beautiful Mind, I Am Sam, Dead Poet's Society, and Freedom Writers.

That's all. This is already longer than I intended.

#personal #about me #surfer #writer #twin life

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sagexwilliams · 9 months

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[ciswoman she/her] Welcome to Aurora Bay, [SAGE GRAYSON]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [SAMANTHA LOGAN]. You must be the [TWENTY-FOUR] year old [STUDENT AND WAITSTAFF AT TEJAS]. Word is you’re [HARDWORKING] but can also be a bit [WORKAHOLIC] and your favorite song is [QUEEN BY LAUREN GRAY]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [FISHER'S COVE]. I’m sure you’ll love it!

tw: cancer

The Grayson’s didn’t have a lot of money while Sage was growing up, and she often complained that she couldn’t have everything the other girls did in her class. Sage never had anything of her own for the longest time. She wore Sydney’s old clothes, every piece of jewelry she owned was something that had once belonged to her mother or grandmother, and she often voiced her complaints of these things. Sage wanted her own things that she could express herself with, and she typically let those materialistic things get in her way of seeing the big picture. Money was tight because life was hard for her family. So, she found her one way of expressing herself in her love for soccer.

When Lance was first admitted to the hospital for his cancer, it only made things harder and honestly lonelier. Nina was no longer a stay at home mom since she started working two jobs and Sydney was even going to work after school to help pay bills, which left Sage home alone often and feeling terrible for how selfish she’d been the years prior. Money became a topic of discussion far too often, and it did nothing but make her worried sick, especially since she wasn’t old enough to do anything to help.

Sage remembered even after Lance was in remission, money was still something on everyone’s minds since the hospital bills didn’t go away with the cancer. As soon as Sage could get a job, she got one!

Sage almost skipped soccer tryouts in high school because she didn’t want her parents to have to worry about the money it would cost, but Lance told her how badly he wanted to see her play, and considering he’d been through so much shit, she thought she could at least give him that. Sage tried out and she made the team, even becoming a team captain eventually!

Sage remembered one game in particular for all the wrong reasons. Lance had promised to come and cheer her on like he’d always done. But as the game went on and she kept looking for him in the crowd, she couldn’t find him. Her team won that night, Sage making the last winning shot, and she had that high she always did after a game like that… but when she checked her phone, she had countless missed calls and texts. Lance was back in the hospital.

Sage was ready to quit the sport after that but Lance begged her to keep going, to keep working on it. He told her seeing her fight for what she wanted helped him to fight too. It was a silly thing to say because he only told her that so she wouldn’t grieve his illness too much. But it made her work harder because she was working to make her father happy– to help him keep going.

As time went on, Sage got even better and she was given a full ride scholarship to Aurora Bay College. It was all she’d ever wanted, and she was so happy. But again, Sage worried that she may be too selfish because around the time Sage graduated high school, Sydney found out she was pregnant and Jameson was in jail. Now Sage felt she had to choose between herself or helping her sister, but Sydney was adamant that she went. So she did.

Now Sage is going to school full time, training for soccer, and working at Tejas Cantina as a server, helping her sister and parents as much as she can.

@aurorabayaesthetic

#aurorabay.intro

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maplesyrizzup · 7 months

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15 questions, 15 mutuals!!

Tagged by the lovely @swiftiebvcks

1. Are you named after anyone? Nope

2. When was the last time you cried? Uhhhh its been a while

3. Do you have kids? No

4. what sports do you play/have played? Soccer. Archery.

5. Do you use sarcasm? Most definitely

6. what's the first thing you notice about people? Hair and clothes

7. What's your eye color? Green/blue

8. scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings.

9. any talents? Uhhhh

10. where were you born? At a hospital 30 minutes from where I live.

11. what are your hobbies? Writing. D&D.

12. do you have any pets? Many cats

13. How tall are you? 5’1

14. favourite subject in school? Chemistry

15. Dream Job? Don't have one

Tagging @mmoosen @ksbbb @sydney-winchester @thiamsxbitch

#tag game

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nofr1lls · 1 year

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TGABK YOU @mellovolence FORGHE TAG

are U named after anyone? - YES my ma's nana and then my yiayia and then some other paternal relative I've never met who I think was a man....

when was the last time you cried? ummm I don't remember,, usually I cry when frustrated so maybe the last time I had to write an essay lmao

do you have any KIDS???? no

do you use sarcasm. no. Yes. noooo. SHUT UP.

whats the first thing you notice about people? uh whatever part of them I experience first I guess. it depends on the person?

what colour r ur eyes? oh christ. they are yellow round the pupil and grey on the outside. so from a distance it blends and looks green. WANKER,,,,

scary movies or good endings? are they exclusive?? would anyone like to have my unwritten thesis on what five nights at freddy's could have been beamed into their consciousness.

any special talents? really good balance and i just learned how to read palms

where were you born? sydney babey

what are your hobbies? supermarket research, railway history, taking photos with my phone, working in a supermarket and getting paid for it, blogging

11. do you have any pets? NO :(

12. what sports do you play/have you played? ballet I still do for fun I miss tennis and track I was dog shit at netball and soccer and swimming

13. how tall are you? About the same height as a person

14. favourite subject in school? art or p.e. lol.

15. dream job? artist or comedian or store manager or something

#tag game #in this tag I will acknowledge the formatting and then we will all move on 🌏🌻

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aceofbrains · 2 years

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hayden christensen. thirty-one. cis male. he/him. demisexual & capricorn. ☾ﾟ is that sacha mercer behind the mask? whenever i see the neurosurgeon at paris regional hospital in pigalle, i think of no surprises by radiohead. rumor has it they are individualistic & disciplined, but neurotic & sanctimonious can be their fatal flaws. what their neighbors in paris call them is the prodigy.

full bio is here.

♥ ˚⊹ BASIC INFORMATION

FULL NAME: Sacha Brooks Mercer. NICKNAME(S): Sash. PREFERRED NAME(S): Sacha. BIRTH DATE: January 17th. AGE: 31. ZODIAC: Capricorn. GENDER: Cis male. PRONOUNS: He/Him. ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Demiromantic. SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Demisexual. LIVING CONDITIONS: Townhouse in Paris.

♥ ˚⊹ BACKGROUND

PLACE OF BIRTH: Summerlin, Nevada. HOMETOWN: Paris, France. EDUCATION LEVEL: PhD in Neuroscience. FATHER: Adrien Mercer (deceased as of 2004). MOTHER: Sydney Coolidge (whereabouts unknown). SIBLING(S): Lionel Mercer, 25. CHILDREN: None.

♥ ˚⊹ OCCUPATION & INCOME

PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: Attending neurosurgeon. SECONDARY SOURCE OF INCOME: None. CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB (OR LACK THERE OF)?: He loves it more than anything else. SPENDING HABITS: Essentials. MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION: Old notes his mother would write in his lunchbox for school.

♥ ˚⊹ PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

FACE CLAIM: Hayden Christensen. EYE COLOR: Blue. HAIR COLOR: Blond. HEIGHT: 6′0. WEIGHT: 155lbs. BUILD: Average. TATTOOS: N/A. PIERCINGS: N/A. MARKS/SCARS: N/A. NOTABLE FEATURES: N/A. USUAL EXPRESSION: Annoyed. CLOTHING STYLE: Casual daywear; sweaters, slacks, boots, and a wristwatch. JEWELRY: None. ALLERGIES: None. PHYSICAL AILMENTS: N/A.

♥ ˚⊹ PSYCHOLOGY

JUNG TYPE: INTJ. ENNEAGRAM TYPE: 1 [Reformer] MORAL ALIGNMENT: Lawful Good. TEMPERAMENT: Melancholic. MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: N/A. OBSESSION(S): Work, keeping his little brother in line. ADDICTION(S): N/A. DRUG USE: N/A. ALCOHOL USE: Drinks occasionally. PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: No.

♥ ˚⊹ MANNERISMS

SPEECH STYLE: Casual. ACCENT: American. HOBBIES: Biking & Cooking. HABITS: Flipping coins to make a decision, stepping over cracks in the sidewalk, clocking in five minutes early. NERVOUS TICKS: Chewing on inner cheeks until they bleed, tapping any surface, pacing, running hands through his hair. POSITIVE TRAITS: Sympathetic, Hardworking, Brilliant, & Self-reliant. NEGATIVE TRAITS: Awkward, Dissonant, Presumptuous, & Repressed. SENSE OF HUMOR: N/A.

♥ ˚⊹ FAVORITES

ACTIVITY: Biking around town. ANIMAL: Dog. BEVERAGE: Black coffee. COLOR: Green. FOOD: Soupe à l'oignon. BOOK: Dragonlance series. FLOWER: N/A. GEM: N/A. HOLIDAY: Christmas. MOVIE: The Imitation Game. MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: Bike. SCENERY: Sunrises over hills. SCENT: Fresh linen. SPORT: Soccer. WEATHER: Springtime. VACATION DESTINATION: Freetown, Sierra Leone.

#terminaintro

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irawhiti · 2 years

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maybe i’ll try to move interstate. idk. i don’t have very much here and job networks jump on the opportunity to move you to sydney or melbourne since we have the worst employment rate in the country lol, they already told me straight up they can move me interstate without me actually wanting to. being in a place with other maori would be nice. i’m literally alone here with that, i don’t know anyone who actually looks like me and the only maori group i’ve found is a soccer club and i’m a cripple so. also pretty much every state has better public transport than the one i’m in. i dunno

#anyone on the east coast looking for a roommate i come with a free pigeon /s

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laresearchette · 1 month

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Sunday, March 17, 2024 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

This Video Not Available in Your Country: Sunday Canadian Lineup (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: IN RESTLESS DREAMS: THE MUSIC OF PAUL SIMON (Crave TV) 90 DAY FIANCÉ: HAPPILY EVER AFTER? (TLC Canada) 8:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT?: ALICE & JACK (PBS Feed) CALL THE MIDWIFE (PBS Feed) NOLLY (PBS Feed) QUIET ON SET: THE DARK SIDE OF KIDS TV (TBD - Investigation Discovery) YELLOWSTONE WARDENS (TBD - Discovery Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CRAVE TV THE DESSERT PRESENTS: ST. BULGES DAY IN RESTLESS DREAMS: THE MUSIC OF PAUL SIMON (Part 1)

CURLING (TSN) 10:00am: BKT Tires World Women's Curling Championship: Denmark vs. Canada (TSN5) 1:00pm: BKT Tires World Women's Curling Championship: Canada vs. United States

MLB SPRING TRAINING (SN) 1:00pm: Twins vs. Jays (SN Now) 1:00pm: Rays vs. Red Sox

NHL HOCKEY (SN360) 1:00pm: Islanders vs. Rangers (SN360) 3:30pm: Devils vs. Knights (SN) 6:00pm: Red Wings vs. Penguins (TSN3) 6:00pm: Jets vs. Blue Jackets (TSN5) 6:00pm: Hurricanes vs. Sens (SN) 8:00pm: Islanders vs. Ducks (TSN3) 7:00pm: Jets vs. Sabres

TENNIS (TSN2) 2:00pm; Indian Wells - Final (TSN2/TSN4) 5:00pm: Indian Wells - Final

NBA BASKETBALL (SN1) 6:00pm: Raptors vs. Magic (SN1) 9:30pm: Hawks vs. Clippers

MLS SOCCER (TSN4) 7:00pm: Atlanta vs. Orlando

BOLLYWED (CBC) 7:00pm (SEASON FINALE): When Chandan Fashion opens its doors in two locations for the first time in 39 years, Sarab comes up with a wonderful plan to keep the family united.

NORTHERN AIR RESCUE (APTN) 7:00pm: After a record number of medivac flights this year, Missinippi Airways is expanding, but with this growth comes a few growing pains; inspired by the airline's evolution, senior management decides to rebrand their fleet of planes.

OCEAN WARRIORS: MISSION READY (APTN) 7:30pm: The Coastal Nations Coast Guard Auxiliary program has created job opportunities for First Nations people in eight coastal communities in British Columbia; in today's mission, the Heiltsuk team investigates a possible oil spill in their traditional.

BIG BROTHER CANADA (Global) 9:00pm

POOKA (T&E) 9:00pm: A struggling actor gets a holiday season job as a character in a plush suit to promote the hottest toy of the year. The costume begins to severely alter his personality, and he worries the character may be taking over his body.

HIDDEN ASSETS (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm: After a tragedy, CAB's investigation stalls, but Bibi shares with Claire the contents of Richard's will, listing a connection to the bomb warehouse; a CTU raid yields evidence against a key player, but the real mastermind might not be unmasked.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND (History Canada) 10:00pm: The Brotherhood uncovers a new structure under the swamp and a new theory suggests the Vikings worked with the Templars to help them get to Oak Island.

INSIDE SYDNEY AIRPORT (Nat Geo Canada) 10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): A behind-the-scenes look at the team that operate the Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, one of the busiest airports in the Southern Hemisphere.

IN THE KNOW (adult swim) 12:00am (SERIES PREMIERE): Lauren Caspian, NPR's third-most popular host, helps an unhoused person by inviting them into the studio and interviews Kaia Gerber and Jonathan Van Ness.

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merrock · 8 months

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CHARACTER INFORMATION

face claim: Madelyn Cline

full name: Kaia Adrian-Saylor Waverly

nickname(s) / goes by: Kai or Kaia

pronouns & gender: she/her; cis woman

sexuality: Bisexual

birth date: August, 25, 1996.

birth place: Avalon, CA.

arrival to merrock: 2 weeks ago

housing: apartment in Historical Downtown

occupation: Treasure Hunter / Malibu & Co Surf Employee

work place: Malibu & Co. {treasure hunting is freelance}

family: mother & father { divorced }

relationship status: Single-Pringle

PERSONALITY

Kaia is extremely fortunate in the fact that she has dumb luck. It's usually this dumb luck that helps her get out of last-second obstacles. Kaia is also good with thinking outside the box; this makes her able to catch onto things that many others may not have thought about, or quickly brushed over. Another aspect that helps her with her line of work is that she knows a little about a lot; Kaia grew up with the ability to quickly get the hang of a new skill or activity, and thus she was easily bored - but, due to this she knows a wide range of info at a scale that can pertain to numerous topics. She's athletic, having had her fair share in sports growing up; soccer, volleyball, softball along with surfing and dance. She's always looking for new experiences and adventures, and is definitely someone who holds some pretty interesting stories. Kaia can easily build connections with others, but is used to keeping people at an arm's length due to the dangers of her job as well as the constant traveling. Her main goal in life is to experience and learn as much as she can about the world around her; as well as just to have fun and live every moment to the fullest. Kaia is super impulsive with her decisions, and this is due to the fact she is easily bored. She has good intentions, but is honestly chaotic in her actions. Is secretive by nature, and good at calling another's bluff; though she doesn't give the impression she's being secretive. Just overall, very fun-loving and here for a good time; always a 'why not?' type of vibe. She's just got her guard up cause of her past with her dad as well as her job.

WRITTEN BY: Noelle (she/her; any), est.

BACKGROUND / BIO

triggering / sensitive content: passive neglect.

For as long as Kaia could remember, she was living a double-life. Originally from Avalon, CA - the girl was always split from her mother's condo in Sydney AUS, and her father's shack in Tamarindo CR. Whilst with her mother, Kaia's days were filled with spa treatments and art galleries. With her father, Kaia was always fighting against his job for his attention. The only times she's genuinely "won" was when the activity took them to the shore.

It was through her father that Kaia learned how to dive and boat; also gaining vast knowledge of the ocean and its inhabitants. The love for the water grew to be a constant in both places; both her parents loving to surf. It was amusing to her, that the one thing that ever brought her parents together was the only thing that made her feel centered; like she could breathe.

It was high school when her father ultimately stopped with the beach trips. His job just fully took over, but there was a rift that grew between them. As Kaia grew up, she started to see the extremely hard-to-reach side of her father that drove her mother away; the expectations too high for Kaia to reach in order to gain any sort of attention from him. By the time she graduated high school with high honors, she was used to her father not showing up. He didn't care for her full ride scholarships, or that prestigious colleges wanted her.

Instead of cutting ties and giving up like her mother did, Kaia tried to reach him by delving deep into his work. It was so much so, that she specialized in marine archaeology as well as oceanography in her studies. It was through her research for her thesis, when she stumbled upon a forum regarding an old map for Pirate Benito Bonito's treasure in Cocos Island. Her thesis then surrounding the lost treasure. Maybe it was how her father scoffed, or maybe it was the discouragement from her preceptor that really had her drilling her life into solving the mystery after all. What was taking years for experts, only took Kaia about two weeks to solve and track down.

The amazing part wasn't having earned her father's attention or proving anyone wrong. It wasn't even how other doors began opening up for her in Costa Rica due to donating the treasure to the CR National Historic Society and Museum. It was the thrill and how similar solving the mystery was to how Kaia could breathe on a surfboard.

Since then, Kaia has been accepting quests from the wealthy, only to turn around and give it all to the museums and researchers. Recently, Kaia was caught straying from the original plan and running off with an artifact she feels is the key to a map she's been separated from. Due to this, she has been on the run and has decided to lay low in Merrock; taking on a cover job and assimilating to the small beach town way of life, to keep up the charade.

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