CIVILIAN . MORETTI, CARMINA

Carmina Ariella Moretti

Meek. Kind. Polite.

Car, Mina, Carmie, anything else people can think of – she won’t complain

Twenty - Five

03 December 1986

Female

Heterosexual

Civilian

Private Airplane Pilot

Personality

Idealistic ✈ Carmina has always been, first and foremost, a dreamer. She is the type of person that usually has their head in the clouds because they are thinking about all of the great things in the world. Unlike much of the world population, she believes that there is good in everyone, that everyone deserves a second chance, and that things will always get better. Even in bad situations, she will find the good things otherwise she will make something good come out of it. There can be no wrong when it comes to her.


Careful ✈ The phrase “Measure twice, cut once,” is what Carmina swears by. You will rarely find her out of her comfort zone because she makes sure to always know what she is getting into before actually doing anything. Everything is planned beforehand with wiggle room and back up plans included just in case she needs them. Of course, she can be careful to a fault because her overestimations usually result in her being too prepared and her worrying can really affect other people. She makes for a great planner but when things don’t go well, there can and will be panic attacks.


Honest ✈ It’s not so much that Carmina does not want to lie, it’s more that she can’t. Unless they’re little white lies used to make people feel better, there is no way for her to fib. When she does try to lie it become incredibly obvious because she becomes flustered and starts to stutter. At this point in her life, she has decided that it is easier to tell the truth than to be caught in embarrassing situations where she does try to lie. Key word here being “decided.” She still tries to lie sometimes when cornered or on impulse but the end result is always the same: she gets figured out before she gets the entire lie out of her mouth.


Diligent ✈ The brunnette is a hard worker as evident by how much effort she has put in in order to achieve her dreams. She takes care when doing things in order to ensure that her work ends up the best that she can possibly make it. As always, she outlines everything from start to finish and nothing is ever wasted thanks to her careful planning.


Romantic ✈ Carmina finds many things to be terribly romantic and, though she has not yet found anyone, hopes to one day have a fairytale wedding of her own. She falls in love easily and has extremely deep feelings for the other half. Carmina is also the type of person that would wholeheartedly give her heart to someone that she truly loves. Unfortunately, her feelings often went unreturned and so she has yet to have the chance to actually show her feelings for anyone.


Meek ✈ Shy, timid, quiet, whatever you want to call her, as long as they have a similar connotation it will most likely fit her. Carmina is incredibly passive. When confronted by angry people she will not argue nor will she talk back. Carmina is more likely to stay quiet. Talking to new people can also be difficult for her. Although she is polite when she speaks to them, it takes her a lot of courage just to be able to speak to people.


Cowardly ✈ Simply stated, Carmina is a coward. She is a dreamer, someone who wishes and hopes for the best. But when it comes time to act, Carmina will be terrified and more than likely flee rather than fight. Especially when it comes to the things that scare her, such as people. Carmina will do everything in her power in order to avoid them and stay within her comfort zone. With such a fearful personality, .


Indecisive ✈ Carmina can make decisions as long as they have been thoroughly researched and planned out. If you try to make her make a decision on the spot, she will become flustered and confused. She dislikes having to make decisions without planning and always worries that she will make the wrong decision if forced to choose quickly. The fast life is definitely not for Carmina.


Gullible ✈ Being a person who chooses to give people benefit of the doubt and always see the good in people, it can be extremely easy to trick Carmina. She trusts people because she believes in the kindness of others. Sadly, this is a harsh world we live in and Carmina has been tricked more than once in her lifetime. At least she learns not to necessarily trusts those people again. New people she meets, however, start with a blank slate and can deceive her easily.

Lineage

Carmina is one of those children that can trace her lineage back generations thanks to meticulously detailed records – well on her mother’s side, anyway. She is descended from Italian farmers from her mother’s side. Unbeknownst to Carmina, her biological father was actually English thereby making her half English and half Italian. Carmina speaks primarily English with the few tidbits of Italian she picked up from her childhood.

On her mother’s side, Carmina Ariella Moretti finds herself descended from full-blooded Italian farmers that left a tiny village in Italy in order to come to America with millions of other immigrants. Records from Ellis Island indicate that her grandmother, Mari, was born the same year she was brought from Italy to America. She grew up in a tiny apartment with her two other siblings that were able to gain entry into the states. Maria worked her way up as a maid until she married her husband, Bartolomeo at the age of eighteen. Six years and three children later, at the age of twenty four, Carmina’s mother Gina was born.

Carmina’s father, Silvestre, is another story. He was a first generation immigrant, also from the country of Italy. When tracing her history, Carmina is at most able to get to her grandparents generation before the trail turns cold. Her grandmother hates her and refuses to speak to her while her grandfather has already passed. As a result, her great grandparents and beyond are mysteries, not that it matters much to the girl at this point.

It was not until later on in life, Carmina finally learned that her father had become sterile. Silvestre may have been her father in name, but he was not biologically. Carmina was born from her mother and a sperm donor from the California Cryobank. This explained why her grandmother hated her so much and brought Carmina’s genealogy project to a close.

Even so, her parents had to start somewhere in order to make this family, and our story actually begins in New York City at New York University.

Her mother and father met each other in a tiny coffee shop near campus when they were in their early twenties. Gina was the first generation of the family to be able to go to college. Silvestre was the Italian – Sicilian, to be specific - exchange student that came to America to learn English. Their romance was a slow one. They were both drawn to each other but resisted in order to concentrate on their studies. They had to make their families proud, after all. But as Silvestre – who was two years older – neared his graduation date, they decided that, yes, they could give this a chance. Three years later, Gina graduated school and they were married. A year later, Silvestre received a job transfer to Los Angeles prompting the couple to move to Los Angeles where, after another year, Gina became pregnant with their first child, Carmina’s older brother Marino.

Carmina, however, was born when her mother was thirty six and her father thirty eight. She was born and raised in Los Angeles near the Los Angeles International Airport. The close proximity of their home to the noisy airport bothered her parents, but for Carmina it sealed her fate.

As a little girl, Carmina would look up at the sky and watch the planes fly by. The planes fascinated her and she would dream of one day being able to fly high in the sky just like those fantastic, flying machines. At the time, she was young enough to believe that she would one day grow wings and fly thanks to her brother and his jokes, but eventually Carmina came to realize that she would never be able to fly by herself without help. Even so, she soon changed her goal from flying with wings to being able to fly planes.

Her parents always knew that she was a dreamer and believed that she would grow out of this phase of wanting to fly planes. Unfortunately, much to her parents’ chagrin, her love of the machines and flying only continued to intensify as she grew older. With a bit of luck and a lot of convincing, she was able to enroll as a student pilot at flight school when she finally turned sixteen. It took only a few lessons to fully convince her that this was the career path for her.

Carmina then began to work hard towards her dream of being an airline pilot. She started off as a student pilot before graduating to become a private pilot at the age of eighteen. However, in order to become an airline pilot, a college degree was necessary. Carmina’s grades were okay but not great. They were enough to get her into college but not enough to get her a great scholarship. If Carmina was to succeed, she would need a plan.

Somehow, Carmina was able to work her way through college by giving up her flying hours. Time she used to spend flying was now devoted to her studies. In order to push herself, Carmina reminded herself that this sacrifice was necessary for her dream to come true.

Through hard work, Carmina was able to graduate college at twenty three years old within the top quarter of her class. She applied to for the pilot’s license the day after. Carmina’s flying skills were perfect and she was able to pass without any problems. However, then came the bills. College and her hobby (now career) of flying planes were expensive endeavors and though she had achieved her dream of becoming an airline pilot, she needed a job if she was to live in this world.

Carmina’s job hunt took her too many of the major airlines at LAX but none of them would hire her because of her age. They cited her inexperience as a liability and went with the older, more experienced pilots. Carmina did not blame them for their choice, but it did disappoint her. How was she going to pay off her bills now?

By some stroke of luck, somewhere along the line during her job search, an employer took pity on her and sent her to meet a rich but sickly young woman. The woman’s previous pilots had retired and she was in the market for a new pilots for her private jet. Carmina applied for the job and was thrilled to have been accepted for it. At the age of twenty five, Carmina had achieved her dreams and became a co-pilot of a commercial plane. Now, she just hoped to be able to continue living her life in peace and happiness. Of course, with the things happening in Los Angeles, who knows how well that will go.

Miscellaneous

- Although she was never explicitly told who her biological father was, while doing her genealogy project she was able to uncover documents regarding her history. She was expecting legal documents about sperm purchases but instead found letters from her mother's lover. Carmina realized that she was not born of a sperm donor but was the illegitimate product of her mother's affair. She never looked at her mother the same way again but kept the secret with her. She still keeps the letters she found in case she ever wants to track down Windham, her biological father.

- Carmina cannot bring herself to drink anything warm unless it’s soup. Even on the coldest Los Angeles nights (which aren’t even really that cold), Carmina always finds the need to put ice in her drinks in order to be able to drink it.

- She reads her astrological fortune every day in order to determine how her romance forecasts look. If you can’t tell, she really wants to find love and get married.

- She has a pet parrotlet named Michelangelo, named after the famous Italian Renaissance painter. She named him this because of the creature’s sassy (well for a bird, anyway) personality.

Roleplayer Information

Terresa;; Also plays You should know who I play by now

PREFERENCE;; Does it look like I care? but if so and it’s not Air, Carmina will cry

FACE CLAIM;; Hetalia – Fem!South Italy