AURORA “RORY” ELAINE WHITE is currently TWENTY-EIGHT years old and working as a JOURNALIST at THE FREY HERALD. She lives in the FARHOLLOW side of Frey, where some folks say she looks like BLAKE LIVELY.
“There’s no starting over, no new beginnings, time races on and you’ve just gotta keep on keeping on.”
Reigning from small town Frey, Rory’s childhood was centered around the very idea that money was everything. All the things any parent with morals wouldn’t teach their children were taught to her. It was all about money, appearance, and being on top. She was often scolded as a kid whenever she got her dress dirty or whenever she daydreamed too much. Rory was rarely allowed to be a child, because the moment that she was born they wanted her to grow up in the plan they created for her. Her father was your average cold business man, meeting just about every detail of the rich workaholic stereotype. Her mother was a timeless beauty, but in the end that was all she had going for her. She was a trophy wife, constantly hanging on her husband’s arm like an ornament. Work seemed obsolete since they were rolling in cash, and some days Rory wondered if that was the only reason her mother was with her father. Growing up with dreams she tried to keep from her parents, she promised herself that she would never become her mother- vain and a man’s trophy.
As Rory aged, she found more of a reason to rebel and cause havoc. She is one of the very few where teenage angst is justifiable. Starting in a prestige private school out of town, she eventually had to be moved around to different school districts due to her parents being embarrassed by her behavior. Of course looking back Rory does believe she was a mindless teenager who did things to act out about the suppressed years of childhood she’ll never be able to get back, but being constantly grounded was better than attending mandatory business parties and dinners.
On her senior year, life took a big turn for Rory after she met a boy who would later change her life for the worst. Kyle Singer, and like his last name, he was indeed a singer in a band that Rory found herself going to every show. After he expressed his fondness of her, it didn’t take long for them to fall helplessly in love, but she was the one who had to suffer from the blow. Throwing her life away as well as any future plans she had for after high school, she stayed with Kyle as his career in music progressed across the country. Together, they moved to Las Vegas, but it was a change she wasn’t ready for. His party mentality increased as his five seconds of fame began, and Rory felt like the only way to be supportive was to follow his lead. This ultimately led to things she never envisioned for herself – in other words, they take the whole sex, drugs, and rock and roll very seriously in that business. After two years of destroying herself for him, she realized that she broke the promise she made many years ago – she had become her mother. Nothing but a washed up rock star’s girlfriend who got mixed up in all the flashy mess of show biz. He didn’t love her, and everyone was well aware he would sleep with anything that had a pulse. In the end, Rory felt stupid for ever believing that this was the life she wanted, because in all honesty it was the opposite. It took everything in her to leave her emotionally and physically abusive boyfriend, but she found strength in herself she didn’t even know was there.
After spending some time in a rehabilitation center to get herself cleaned, Rory moved back to Frey and greeted it in hopes of a clean slate; a do over. Gratefully, The Whites moved out of Frey some time ago, living in New York where they always seemed to be, anyways. To this day, Rory is no longer in contact with her parents. Even though it’s lonely in Frey, she at least has her passions that landed her a job. She’s been writing since as long as she could remember, always learning and diving into the world of journalism. When she was just a little girl, she’d pretend she was among some of the greatest female journalists. She wanted to be the next Christiane Amanpour, being a respectable journalist who reports in the middle of war with fearlessness on her sleeve. She wanted to be Nellie Bly and take a trip around the world in 72 days. She wanted to be Dorothy Thompson and make a difference in this world by being labeled as one of the most influential women in America – but she is Rory White, and sadly that just entitles being a journalist for the local newspaper.
It wasn’t the ideal job in her eyes, but she took it anyways in hopes it would open doors for her. She didn’t want to sit behind a desk and write about local endeavors that felt mindless more than anything. She wanted to get out there, explore the world, be in the middle of action, but something was always holding her back. Everyone treated her like she was just some pretty bimbo who couldn’t perform a “man’s job”, and though she wanted to prove just how much a woman could do, her fears still got the best of her since her past mistakes altered her life completely. She’s haunted by her past, tormented by her negative outlook on everything she encounters. Most of the time, she’s good at hiding that. People often take one look at her and just assume she’s a pretty little thing who doesn’t have a care or clue in the world. In actuality, she’s very intelligent, a hard worker, and she never acts the way people expect her to, but above all – she’s powerful. She’s just still trying to figure out how to show the world she’s all of those things. She’s just trying to show herself she’s all of those things.
