☼ ☼ ☼ ⎿ MUSE A : KATHRYN NEWTON, CIS FEMALE, SHE/HER ⏋ oh look, CAMERON REID is back, the TWENTY year old HEAD OF DANCE AND GYMNASTICS at camp otenaw. looks like it’s their SECOND year as a staff member. rumour has it, they tend to be IMPETUOUS and SELF-CENTERED, but hopefully we’ll get to see their HUMOROUS and SPIRITED side too. I heard they WERE FIRED FROM THEIR PREVIOUS JOB AS A BACKUP DANCER ; let’s hope this will be an epic summer ! ⎿ BROOKE, 22, EST, SHE/HER ⏋ ☼ ☼ ☼
hey everyone! i’m brooke, and i’m so excited to be rping with you all this summer! i’m 22 and live in the est, but i’m basically nocturnal at this point, so expect me to post at weird times probably. anyway, i’m currently playing my queen, cameron reid! without further ado, here’s her intro!
history
cameron reid was born in winnipeg, manitoba to andrew reid and lucas reid-kleinman via surrogate. she’s the second child of four, but her dads always had more than enough money to provide for them. andrew is a big-shot defense attorney and lucas owns his own clothing brand, reid-kleinman.
when she was four, she watched barbie in the nutcracker for the first time and fell in love. seriously, cameron saw that movie probably a thousand times over the next year. her fathers quickly decided to let her try dance classes, and cam’s been hooked ever since. she started with ballet, and eventually signed up for jazz, contemporary, tap, hip hop, modern and ballroom too. it’s her whole life, honestly.
she started dancing competitively when she was eight, and began placing in third or higher by the time she was ten. eventually, she started being homeschooled to make time for rehearsals.
but, all of that was during the school year. during summer, cameron spent her time at camp otenaw. all four of the reid kids attended camp at least once, but cameron’s the only one who stuck around. the sunshine and fresh air felt pretty magical after nine months indoors, training and preparing for competitions. she loves dancing, don’t get her wrong, but being outside and goofing off with her camp friends will never get old. she’s been here since she was an itty bitty ageratum, and now she’s a counselor!
she started working at otenaw two summers ago, but back then she was just a dance counselor. that fall, she went to the ryerson school of performance for dance for her freshman year. during the fall semester of her sophomore year, she was scouted and offered a job as a backup dancer on a tour for a well-known pop star, and she took it without hesitation. in cameron’s mind, she could always just go back to school if things didn’t work out.
and they didn’t. she hated tour life; it was exhausting and demanding and full of constant criticism. it seemed like everyone was constantly snapping at her, and the whole environment just really made her upset. things came to a head when she ended up blowing up at the pop star, effectively getting her fired before the tour was even over.
so now, she’s sort of dealing with the thought that she might have ruined her career before it even took off, and she’s freaking out about what she’s going to do in the fall. and she is telling NO ONE that she got fired because she’s very embarrassed by it and wants people to think she’s fun and successful and great!!! she’s a bit of a perfectionist, can you tell?
personality + head canons
it would be so easy to write cameron off as the pretty little rich girl - and she is, in a lot of ways. but, coming to camp has also really pushed her to fend for herself. she’s been able to build her own campfires since her third summer at camp, and she’s right at home on the sports fields or in a canoe. the only time she really freaks out over being in the great outdoors is when she sees a spider, but that is a very normal fear, okay?
cameron doesn’t take shit from anyone. like the first person to make some comment about her being a dumb blonde or a girlie girl is going to get a ten minute lecture on why it’s not a bad thing to be blonde or feminine. she’s a tiny, feisty feminist who does not back down from an argument.
she loves a good party. during the rest of the year, she trains pretty hard and doesn’t really go out and drink much, so she goes a bit wild at camp. cameron’s a social butterfly and a happy drunk, so she’s usually the girl who makes sure everyone is having fun and that no one feels left out.
she’s smart, strong and capable, but she can be a bit self-centered at times. everyone has flaws, alright? cameron focuses on herself and her own problems more than anyone else, which isn’t great but is very human. she’s also the first person to throw caution to the wind and do something crazy because it sounds like a good idea at the time. like the time she went skinny dipping in the lake at midnight and almost got caught. it seemed like a good idea at the time, honestly.
she’s sort of inspired by elle woods (legally blonde), cher horowtiz (clueless), and torrance shipman (bring it on) because i love blonde protagonists from 1995-2001 apparently.
wanted connections
i’d love for her to have a sibling-like friendship? like she and someone else who’s been coming here for forever have just formed this really tight bond over the years and they tease each other constantly but would kill for each other at this point?
her cousins! i’m super open with this, but i just think it would be fun for her to have cousins (distant or close) that go here too? idk
a rival of some sort? like maybe they started some sort of friendly rivalry back when they were tiny babies here at camp and they keep it up for the fun of it? like any time there’s a sports competition, they’re on opposite teams because everyone knows they’ll cancel each other out with their competitiveness
a will-they-won’t-they type of relationship where they’ve known each other for years and flirt a lot, but they’ve never actually gone for it because both of them think the other probably doesn’t like them like that?
more can be found here! and i’m always down to brainstorm something else! like this for me to message you to plot <3
