D6 :: Raleigh "Radio" Monroe [CB]
Sept 10, 2014 1:59:54 GMT -5
Post by L△LIA on Sept 10, 2014 1:59:54 GMT -5
Name: Raleigh "Radio" Monroe
Gender: Female
Age: Fifteen
District: Six
She wonders now and then if she's happy because of the sunshine or if it's just the uplifting music whirling through her head, an invisible orchestra manipulating her smile. There are times when she cries despite the uptempo beat or laughs as a funeral dirge echoes in the space between her ears, but most days she falls for every cue, as if compelled to obey the ongoing soundtrack in her mind. The other kids call her Radio as often as they call her crazy or liar, when she swears she hears so much sound that they can't, breaking out dancing in the middle of the marketplace when her favorite tune suddenly begs her to shake her bones.
The girl's Gran doesn't call her names, but she also doesn't explain about how her morphling addled mother sold her to science as a baby, allowing a team of doctors to implant a metal plate within Raleigh's brain in exchange for a drug fix. All that matters now is that her mother isn't around. Besides, it's hard to concentrate on the mystery of why she is the way she is when a drum line is pounding away inside her skull — not to mention sitting still for all-important haircuts, math tests, and failed flirting attempts with cute boys at school. The lines always end up a little bit off. Too crooked. Too scribbled. Too awkward.
She could apply perfect cat-eye liner even during a full scale earthquake, however. Life skills: check.
So okay, maybe she's as weird as people say, but life's too short to pretend to hate pop music and she'd rather dance badly to the melody in her head than pretend she lives in a world made of silence. Regardless of what science thinks of her, she's figured that much out on her own.
ODAIR
