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Nicknames: None
Age: 18 years old
Birthday: 16 December 1996
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual
Hometown: Wichita, Kansas
Job: Student
Species: Human
Face Claim: Dylan Gelula

Appearance: She has shoulder-length brown hair, and brown eyes. Standing at 5’5”, she’s not exactly what you would call tall. Clumsy on land, she is graceful in the saddle, showing no signs that she can’t exactly stay on her own two feet on land. Her clumsiness does make her self-conscious and it’s something she’s trying to work on. She has a birthmark on the back of her neck. She doesn’t have any tattoos, but she does wear earrings. She normally wears jeans and a button-down shirt when she’s out and about in town. When it’s hot and obviously not a good decision to wear jeans, then she’ll wear shorts. A lot of her clothes are blue because that’s her favorite color.

Personality: If you were to describe her in one word, it would be ambitious. To her, there is nothing she can’t do. Once she sets her mind to something, she will make sure it’s done. She will fight her way to the top if she has to, but she won’t pull any dirty tricks to win. She knows there will be good days and bad days. Some days she might win, some days she might lose. She’s been on the show circuit long enough to recognize that. Going from English to Western riding, it’s admittedly hard for her to have to learn things all over again. She’s going from knowing how to jump and do dressage, to having to learn the basics of reining.

She can be a very quiet person, preferring the company of her animals over people. At least animals won’t talk back or lie to you. She can be very literal at times, not realizing that someone is joking or being sarcastic. That’s not to say that she doesn’t have a sense of humor, because she does. She just doesn’t always understand that someone might be joking. She rarely ever gets mad, mostly because she doesn’t hang out with people enough for them to push her buttons. But if she ever sees someone abusing an animal, she will get royally pissed off. It can take someone a long time to earn her trust, because she doesn’t let others in very much. But once you do, she expects you to never misplace that trust, and if you do, she won’t forget. She can, and will, hold grudges against someone who did her harm.

Her favorite thing (after being around her animals of course), is reading. She is a big reader, reading at least 50 books a year. If she’s not riding or reading, she loves to go hiking. Being from Kansas, where there’s not really anything to hike, being in a place where she can, is exciting. She doesn’t have a favorite author, mostly because there are a lot of authors she likes. Her best subject is English, and her worst is math. If she never has to do another math problem again, she will be happy. Her favorite color is blue, the shade of a cloudless day, in fact. The one thing that she will never admit is that she is afraid of heights. Being on a horse? No problem. Looking over a balcony? That’s an issue.

History: Laura was born in Wichita, Kansas to Dave and Emily Dalmoor. She had a pretty decent childhood, growing up to be a pretty normal person. Her one disappointment about her family was that she was an only child. And she lived out in the country, so it wasn’t like there were other children to play with. But there were plenty of animals to play with, so that solved some of her loneliness.

From an early age, she loved horses. Her first horse was a Shetland pony named Henry. When she got too big for Henry, they sold the pony and bought a Quarter Horse/Appaloosa cross named Daisy. While the horse was trained for Barrel Racing, Laura’s passion was for jumping. Through hard work, sweat, and tears, they managed to learn the ropes of Show Jumping. They made a pretty good team, and won several classes.

But Laura was ambitious. She set her hopes to possibly be on the U.S. Olympic Show Jumping team. And as much as she loved her horse, Daisy wasn’t good enough to take her to the top. So Daisy was retired to her parent’s farm, and she searched for another horse. It took a couple of years, but when she was 16, she found her perfect horse. She found Fantastic Delight, or Dana as Laura calls her, on an Irish Sport Horse breeder’s website. Immediately, she fell in love with the horse, though she had never ridden the horse since Dana was all the way in Ireland. She persuaded her parents to buy the mare, and the horse was flown in all the way to Kansas.

There were high expectations for the pair to do well on the show circuit, and well they did. But Show Jumping was not to be in their future. At one of their shows, there was a reining class going on at the same show. While waiting for their number to be called to go into the ring, Laura wandered over to the reining class. She watched as each rider rode their horse through the pattern (and missing her class as she did so), enchanted by the moves each pair did. Right then, she decided that Reining was what she wanted to do. But there was one problem: her horse was an Irish Sport Horse, not a Quarter Horse as most reining horses are.

Rather than sell her mare and buy one more suited to the sport, she had a potentially insane idea: she would try to transition her mare from a Show Jumper to a Reining horse. What made her plan even better was that there was nothing in the rules that the horse had to be a Quarter Horse. She mentioned this idea to her parents, who scoffed at the idea. So once she turned eighteen, a couple of months after that fateful day at the show, she loaded up her mare and drove west to Los Angeles. She picked that place by throwing a dart at the map, hoping it would land somewhere where she hadn’t been.

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