Ronnie

RONNIE
Portrayed by CHYLER LEIGH
Statistics
Fullname	Veronica Robin Potts
Place of Birth	Toronto, ON CANADA
Birthday	January 1, 1970
Species	Vampire
Age	35
Death Age	18
Height	5'6"
Weight	118 lbs.
Eyes	Brown
Hair	Brown/Blonde
Bloodtype	V
Occupation	80's Punker
Alignment	ROCKTASTIC!

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Claim to Fame

In life, Ronnie was known as a one-hit wonder mall pop-star in Canada. In death, she's known as the crazy vampire who can't seem to grasp the year, and only eats bunnies.

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Biography

The 70's

It was 1970-something

In the world that I grew up in.

Farrah Fawcett hair-do days

Bell bottoms and 8-track tapes…

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It was the dawn of 1970, quite literally, and Veronica Robin Potts was already a celebrity. First baby born in Toronto in the new decade. Her chubby little baby face was plastered all over the city's newspapers, and newscasts, her parents getting a tidy sum and a free year of baby supplies due to lucky timing.

After the hype wore down, Kenneth and Cynthia Potts brought their daughter home to a small apartment in the newly renovated Cabbagetown (Spruce Court) area. It was a happy, loving existence, if not one of tight means. Despite not being overly flush with money, Veronica never wanted for anything in her very young life.

In 1974, during a trip to NYC, the Potts fell in love with the Ramones. All of them. Including four-year-old Veronica. As cute as a kid can, Ronnie would dress up like band members, throwing on her dad's shirts and would run around the house singing. All day. Every day.

This prompted the Potts to enroll her in vocal lessons. Ronnie quickly surpassed all the others in her class, and got bumped up to the intermediate lessons by the time she was only six years old. She hated the basic, boring things that were sung in these lessons. Worse than that? She hated the choir books that the schools used to teach them how to sing. She didn't give up though, and continued to stick with it.

Recital after recital, she was touted as one of the best singers of her class, and definitely one of the best in the Toronto area. Never mind that her style wasn't all that grand — it was the 1970's. No one had an overly spectacular style. Never mind that her grades in school weren't the greatest, it was obvious that she'd never be a great brainiac. Her only love was her vocal music.

Just before her tenth birthday, her parents got a rather amicable divorce. Ronnie spent time traveling back and forth between their respective apartments. A week at mom's, every weekend at dad's. Going to dad's was much more fun for her though, as they would go and see musicals, and concerts, and things she enjoyed spending her time doing.

The 80's

It was 1980-something

In the world that I grew up in

Skating rinks and black Trans Ams

Big hair and parachute pants…

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It was the dawning of a new decade, and after a year of her parents being separated, Ronnie moved out of her mother's home, and in with her father. He enrolled her in local pageants, in some local commercials, and got her involved with an agent.

In 1985, the beautifully brunette girl was accepted as a junior contestant on a Canadian version of Star Search. Though the competition was tough, she beat out everyone else in the city, and took first prize. This got her agent into a tizzy, and the changes to her style began.

First, her school-girl look was modified to make her have a bit more edge. The studded belt around her waist, the gloves, the fishnet, all part and parcel of "Ronnie" the poppy punk rocker who was soon to be a hit with Canadian teens everywhere.

Next thing to change was her vocal stylings, taking on less of a Madonna feel, and moving into something of a mixture between Blondie and Pat Benatar. It was an easy move for Ronnie, who already liked the punk music of the time, and liked the way the women dressed as well.

Then it was time to hit the malls. Her time on the Canadian Star Search was enough to garner her a small cult following. There was a one or two song concert at every mall in Canada over the next year. In larger cities, they would hit two or three malls a day. The rise in popularity went right to Ronnie's head. The generally good-natured girl totally started to getting egotistical and creating writs for the malls in which they played. Writs that included free clothing and free food.

Along with the writs, and the egotism, Ronnie started to make friends with others in the music industry. These people would eventually lead to her downfall as an up-and-coming Canadian star, and lead her down a path of substance abuse.

The fallen young star left home, hooked up as a groupie with another band, and went on an actual tour of Canada. A drug-hazed tour. Half the time she didn't have a clue where she was, or who she was with. It was a whirlwind adventure that lasted for the next two years. Sleeping in the tour vans, in dirty hotels, youth hostels — wherever she could.

In 1988, while returning to Canada from a concert in New York, the tour bus was broadsided by a transport. The accident was a horrific display of twisted metal and broken bodies. Ronnie was crushed between a seat and the side of the bus, unable to move. When the paramedics arrived and used the jaws of life to extract her, they didn't count on a piece of the metal shifting out of where it was, causing her to bleed out.

Though she was thought to be dead, there was a faint pulse left. The morgue tech was a a vampire, and a fan from several years back, and attempted to save her life by giving her blood. Unfortunately, she was too far gone, and with the drugs in her system rejected the healing properties of the vampire blood she was offered. What her system did do was being the turning process, and it fought that even.

The morgue tech, uncertain if she'd turn properly or not, took great pains to bury her in a place she wouldn't be found. Then claimed that she wasn't brought to their morgue with the rest of the bodies from the crash.

When she clawed her way out of the grave after the three nights, it was easy to see that something just wasn't right about her. Try as he might to get Ronnie to drink from a human, she bolted. When he found her hours later, it was sitting in the middle of the woods with a family of bunnies at her feet. When asked why she ate the bunnies, she told him quite matter-of-factly that bunnies were evil creatures that were trying to take over the world.

This was shrugged off, and she was taught the vampiric ways. Only, as the years progressed it became apparent that while the world around Ronnie changed, she didn't. She couldn't quite grasp the concept that it wasn't 1985. She still thought she was in her prime of Star Search and Mall tours.

Since Then

After five years of being with her Maker, she was shuffled off to the King of New York. There she stayed for a year or two, until she made too many "appearances" at a mall in Niagara Falls. At that point, she was shuffled to Nebraska so that they could deal with her. After five years, she was again sent elsewhere. This continued until vampires came out of the coffin in 2003.

Because Ronnie is no longer right in the head, she's generally sent back and forth between the different Kingdoms. No kingdom can put up with her for very long. Between a year to five at the best. Each time she's sent to a new location, she is delivered by a vampire, left with a basket of baby bunnies, and a note pinned to her chest that tells the reigning vampire or Sheriff who she is.

Which is how she was brought to Dallas just last night…

Cuz she's still preoccupied

With 1985…

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Character Details

Personality

Ronnie is a bad turn — that's to say that she's not quite right in the head, and no matter what people tell her, she still believes it to be 1985. As long as people don't ask her to sing, or ask her about current events, she's fine. She's sometimes prone to violence if people get really adamant with her that it's not the 80's.

As someone who think's it's the 80's, she has a tendency to use 80's terms and talk like a Valley Girl. She absolutely LOVES 80's style and thinks it's rad. If anyone tries to dress her differently, she throws a tantrum.

She hates humans — at least to eat. She'll drink TrueBlood now that it's available, but she still prefers bunnies. Because she honestly believes that she's doing away with all the evil in the world by eating them. She can survive on a bunny or two a night, or just live with a bottle or two of the TrueBlood.

The AVL and other supernaturals don't bother her. Some are nice, and some aren't. Some try to get her to understand that she's not living in 1985, and she generally tries to bite these people or throw leg warmers at them. Otherwise, if anyone can stand to be in her presence for more than a short while, they'll realize that she's a great young person, trapped forever in a youthful mind.

Skills and Abilities

Pop Goes the World
Music is a forte. She's good at it, she had many years of schooling. She can sing near to anything, from pop, to opera, to punk. Her preference is punky music, stylized like the Ramones or Blondie. Just don't /ask/ her to sing. She'll sing when she wants to.
Goody Two Shoes
Despite being shuffled around so frequently, she has abject loyalty and servitude with whomever provides her care. Whatever they ask of her, she'll see done. Generally she likes doing it too. Pleasing people means making more friends!
Don't Shed A Tear
Ronnie barely realizes that she's a vampire most days. Whether by sheer force of will, or some special ability bestowed upon her by her maker, she does not cry tears of blood. She can almost pass for human when crying.
Forever Young
Ronnie also has all the regular strengths and attributes of a vampire.

Weaknesses

Go Insane
Ronnie is the product of a bad turn. She's got all the vampire skills and abilities, but none of the scariness. Her mind is not at all right, and she believes it to constantly be 1985, or sometime in the 80's. Tell her any different and she'll throw a tantrum.
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
Nobody wants Ronnie around. Since becoming a vampire, the longest she's stayed in one place was five years, and generally not much longer than one. Most vampire dignitaries ship her off due to her incessant need to be in shopping malls, and getting seen. Things may not be so bad now due to vampires being in the public eye, but most still don't like keeping her for around longer than necessary.
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
Much as Ronnie loves singing, and her own music… if she hears anyone else play it, she'll throw leg warmers at them. It bothers her to be forced to remember the time when she was alive, even though she doesn't understand that she's no longer in that time.
Rabbit
She's got a weakness for the cutesy little critters, and considers them to be truly EVIL. She refuses to feed from a human, preferring instead to drain bunnies to save the world from their evil ways.
Blister In The Sun
Ronnie has all the regular weaknesses of a vampire. The one exception is that she will turn to ash much more swiftly in the sun than any other.

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Relationships

Name	Race	Relation	Notes
Wil Wheaton	Vampire	Guy she's been schluffed off on.	King Wil Wheaton is kind'a cool, but totally hates being called "dude". Takes away MTV when I slip up and forget.
Devo	Vampire	Big scary dude.	Met him. Heard stories about his total meanness.
Icy Woman	Vampire	Icy woman.	The Icy Woman is like, totally scary but totally awesome. She helped me out of a jam once.
Coco	???	Girl who helped her get rid of evil.	Coco is totally awesome. She gave me real rollerskates!
Babe-o-rama	Non-human	Guy she's got a weird crush on, and has now claimed (sorta).	Corey is like, a totally hot guy. He's not a bunny, which makes him the bestest thing in the world!
Mr. Corey's Brother	Non-human	Crush's brother.	Mr. Corey's Brother is like, totally fun to talk to. He eats bunnies too!
Red	Non-human	Car-girl that can't skate.	I totally don't know much 'bout Red, 'cept that she can't skate and works on cars or something. She seemed scared'a me.
Meanie	Swampy	Bully from gym.	He like, lives at some hopeful house… only he's a big meanie-head, and totally said I was singing. LIAR!

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Character Gallery

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Logs

AUGUST

Title	OOC Date	IC Date	Quick Description
Physical	August 24, 2010	August 24, 2005	Steve is just working out all on his lonesome, when a crazy 80s vampire makes a big spectacle of herself and needs to flee the scene of the crime!
Beat It	August 25, 2010	August 25, 2005	Ronnie is totally dancing outside a certain estate, when Devo comes home and starts to question her. That's when Giacomo shows up.
I Don't Like Mondays	August 30, 2010	August 29, 2005	Mr. Corey's Brother is relaxing in the park with 5-17. Until a crazy 80s vamp crashes in on the scene and nearly hits Kate Puppy. Ronnie leaves skate-less thanks to a stranger.

JULY

Title	OOC Date	IC Date	Quick Description
Give it Up	July 6, 2010	July 6, 2005	The 80's punk-princess has run out of bunnies, so she heads to White Rock Lake to try to find some. With the help of her puppy-doggie, she manages to get two, while totally squigging out Aislin.
IMPORTANT SRS STUFF(tm)	July 9, 2010	July 9, 2005	There's a rockin' cool bowling alley, with a rockin' cool non-human, and a completely insane vampire who's on a mission of ultimate importance! Note: No song title was used in the making of this log!
Rock, Skate, Roll, Bounce.	July 12, 2010	July 12, 2005	In Ronnie's BEST NIGHT EVAR, the Interskate hosts an 80's night, and the crazy vamp gets to drag Coco and Cindy, and Lex out on the floor! Too bad Red got away… but there will be a NEXT TIME!
I Ran (So Far Away)	July 17, 2010	July 16, 2005	Ronnie is having a blast bowling again. Even more so when she runs into Cindy. The night ends when she chases Red off.
Heat of the Moment	July 29, 2010	July 29, 2005	Corey Hart is getting dinner when out of nowhere Ronnie appears. Then Darcy shows up to make things interesting. Making cameo appearances in this wicked awesome music video are the Sheriff and Mia.

JUNE

Tilte	OOC Date	IC Date	Quick Description
Heartbreaker	June 4, 2010	June 4, 2005	Corey Hart is a Heartbreaker! He makes the cute, crazy, 80's punk-vamp cry!!
I WANNA ROCK!	June 14, 2010	June 14, 2005	There is a wicked awesome 80's cover-band concert happening at the Golden Theater, and Ronnie is totally rocking the house with the help of Todd and Red.

MAY

Title	OOC Date	IC Date	Quick Description
Maniac	May 5, 2010	May 5, 2005	There is singing, and dancing, and rowing going on at the gym. Ronnie gets upset, and poor Todd is only going to remember that bunnies are evil.
Crazy For You	May 18, 2010	May 18, 2005	One is crazy, one can't remember who he is, and Wil Wheaton has to deal with them both.
Not pretty in pink!	May 22, 2010	May 22, 2005	Locked in the mall, Ronnie finds a friend to keep her company and show her the way out! After a fashion.

APRIL

Title	OOC Date	IC Date	Quick Description
Bunny Hop	April 9, 2010	April 9, 2005	Ronnie is out catching bunnies, when she runs into a hot, non-80's Corey.
Crazy For You	April 11, 2010	April 11, 2005	Slow night for Cameron's Cult Classics, until a crazy appears to liven things up for Mr. Corey's Brother and Red. When Corey arrives, embarrassment ensues!
Bunnies Stand Alone	April 22, 2010	April 22, 2005	Wit is handing out fliers in the park, when he hands one to a rollerskating vampire

MARCH

Title	OOC Date	IC Date	Quick Description
Hello	March 11, 2010	March 11, 2005	Ronnie is dropped off on Will's doorstep in a totally lame manner.
Burial at Sea (ish)	March 21, 2010	March 21, 2005	Ronnie and Mignonette meet over a pair of roller blades and a bunnicide. Evil is thwarted.
Olive Branch (and bunnies)	March 24, 2010	March 24, 2005	The King of Texas attempts to teach the 80's princess proper etiquette. They run into Josephine to whom an olive branch is extended.
Shine On You Crazy Diamonds	March 30, 2010	March 30, 2005	Old acquaintances Ronnie and January meet up unexpectedly and insanity ensues.

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