Cochran, Melanie Tara

[Melanie Cochran]

Melanie

Full Name: Melanie Tara Cochran
Age: 17
Gender: Femme
Riding Level: Advanced

Appearance: Melanie, who often goes by ‘Mel’ or ‘Lani’, is an attractive young woman of seventeen. She has a slim, muscular, and slightly pale body that never really gets very tan and stands at a somewhat shorter-than-average 5”4.
Her hair is long-ish and is a reddish brown colour. Lani’s deep auburn locks are naturally pretty straight, though she sometimes curls or scrunches her hair. Her bangs are usually held out of her face with a barrette, but occasionally she forgets and has to live with the tresses falling down in her face.
Mel’s eyes are pale blue/grey... nothing really spectacular, though she often enhances the pale color by wearing dark eyeliner, mascara, and eyeshadow. Her eyebrows are arched slightly. Melanie has a soft, slightly round face and her ears are double-pierced.
She has one tattoo on the small of her back of a red rose intertwined with vines and black ribbon that she got for her sixteenth birthday.

General Personality: Melanie is a very friendly girl and her whole personality reflects it. She’s bubbly and vivacious and is quite outgoing. She hates being negative, so she tries her hardest to be optimistic, even when it’s nearly impossible.
She’s not easily angered, but when that red-headed temper flares up... watch out! Like most redheads, when Lani’s angry, the world knows it. She can and will be a complete bitch to anyone who suits her fancy. She can hold a grudge for years, too.
Lani is relatively easy to befriend... just start talking to her. She loves to talk and enjoys surrounding herself with people she likes. Since she pretty much wears her emotions on her sleeve, she can be led astray fairly easily. She loves to just have fun and relax, but she doesn’t really enjoy partying as much as you’d think. She’s rather spend all day riding and/or messing with her horse than spending all night at a party or going to an amusement park. She also adores shopping and spending money, whether or not it’s on her, her horse, or other people.

History: Melanie Cochran was born to Kathy and Charlie Cochran of Onion Spring, Texas. She grew up around horses, Quarterhorses, to be specific, as her parents owned and operated a large breeding business. Mel learned to ride by herself at four years old and was given her first horse, a chestnut Quarterhorse mare named “Sunrise ‘n’ Sunset”, a year later. When she was seven, however, her father bred Sunrise, who, in addition to being his daughters mount, was also one of his best broodmares, to an outside stallion named 'Gold Digger'. The resulting foal was a large golden palomino that they named ‘CR Gold Rush’, or Daytona. Lani’s mare died of complications during another pregnancy when the girl was 13 and Mel was given sole responsibility over Daytona. With her parents help and money, Tona was sent off to be trained in other disciplines, both English and Western, besides just Halter and Cutting. Melanie showed horses her whole life, first showing Sunrise and then moving on to Daytona when Sunny died.
She lost both of her parents just a few months ago in a car wreck. Mel was in the hospital for about a month. Both of her parents’ and their horses were killed and Daytona was injured when an 18-wheel truck slid into their SUV and horse-trailer. Her dads’ horse was killed on impact and her mums horse had to be put down later. Her parents were killed on impact. Daytona survived, though, like Melanie, he was injured and spent a while at the Equine Vet Facility. The Cochran Ranch was sold, along with its horses, to help pay for hospital and vet bills and the burial costs for Mel’s parents. Melanie and Daytona (whom she point-blank refused to sell) were sent to live with Mel’s Aunt Annette and Uncle Jim in Guineaville after the insurance claims had been settled. Since her aunt and uncle live in a small house with a small yard only, they agreed to board Daytona for her.

Face Claim: Bonnie Wright

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Preferred Name: Nixie
Role Play Experience: 3 years
Other Characters: N/A

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