Francesca Maribel Rossi

[Chess Rossi]

Name;; Francesca Maribel Rossi
Nicknames;; Chess, Maria, Ross, Fran
Age;; Fifteen
Date of Birth;; September 19th, 1993
Group;; Carers

Chess has long blonde and brown hair. The length of her hair is about five inches below shoulder length. She has a pretty big fringe. Most time it goes down over her forehead and partially over her left eye, but sometimes she has her fringe up in a quiff. Sometimes, she has a patch of hair on the right side of her head shaved off, but not very often. She has long black lashes that frame green eyes. She wears a lot of heavy eye make up, so her eyes are always framed with smudges of black eyeliner and shadow. The skin on her face is almost unnaturally unclear. She can't really recall ever having some sort of blemish on it. Chess is a very petite girl. She is rather short, standing at only 5'2" and skinny, weighing 112 pounds.

Chess has a total of eight piercings, which she loves dearly. She has two piercings side-by-side on her right nostril. Due to the amount of courage she had to build and pain she endured for then, these are her two favorites. She had a single piercing on the left side of her lip. More often than not, this has a plain silver hoop through it, but sometimes she had a small bar in the piercing. She has a piercing in her tongue as well, which was done on a wim on a trip to Oslo with some friends. Her fifth piercing is in her belly button. This was done by her best friend on a camping trip when she was twelve. Her other three piercings are in her ears. She has her lobes pierced once each and one in her left tragus.

Chess’s fashion sense very much evolves around the scene style. It has been called emo many a time, but it’s a bit too bright to be classified under that. Her favorite brand of clothing is Skelanimal. Usually, she can be found wearing at least item of this brand, even if it’s just underwear or jewellery. Her taste in shirts is pretty varied. She prefers to wear band t-shirts or retro gaming shirts with a hoodie or cardigan, but she is also partial to wearing tank tops given the right weather. If she’s not wearing any sleeves, her arms are usually heavily adorned with bracelets, fingerless gloves or fishnet arm warmers. In the colder weather, she has a thick Element coat that she wears when hoodies just aren’t thick enough.

When it comes to jeans, the only ones Chess will wear is skinny fit. She’ll wear various lengths, with a particular favorite in three-quarter length and occasionally shorts. She really like wearing denim skirts, and has a couple of ra-ra skirts she’s fond of. She never wears a skirt unless she is wearing leggings, and sometimes she just wears leggings without the skirt in a bit of a nineties style. Sometimes Chess will wear dresses if she is in the mood for it or the occasion calls for it. Usually, this will again be Skelanimal dresses, but she had a small collection of Etnies dresses too.

Chess’s favorite types of shoes are ballet flats. She has had more of these throughout the years than she can actually care to recall. When it comes to practical shoes, she has a few pairs of converse or Vans slip-ons. Her favorite pair of non-flats shoes are a knee-high pair of sky blue Converse she bought in a trip to Helsinki. For colder weather, she has a pair of grey cardigan knit Ugg boots that she loves dearly. With shoes, she only wears odd socks. A lot of the time, these are knee high. Other times they’re with tights or just little trainer socks. When it comes to other accessories, Chess has a large collection of kitsch necklaces and large sunglasses that get a regular rotation. She doesn’t really do hair accessories, unless it’s a nice alice band or a pair of headphones. Chess has a fondness for scarves, be they woollen knit or a thin material.

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Chess has never really been the most confident of people throughout her life, and this has lead to her being quiet friendless and somewhat of a loner. It's not that she doesn't want to have friends, but sometimes she just likes her own company better and doesn't enjoy the hassle that comes along with constantly tagging along with people. She's not really sure of how to go about social situations with new people too, although she doesn't freak out in new places.

Chess is an extremely curious girl, and is enthralled by discovering new things and learning about them. She's like a small child in that respect, because if she see's something new it's like a young child the first time they visit a park and are able to take it all in. Chess and children are even alike in that the things that attract her attention are usually colorful or oddly shaped. A lot of the time when Chess discovers something new she will become obsessed with it for a short period of time before moving onto something new.

Chess tends to lose her temper with people and things fairly quickly, whether she means to or not. At times it doesn't take much to wind her up, and she's so easy to bite when someone knowingly pushes her buttons. The littles tangents she goes off on when annoyed don't really last for a long time, but she will always maintain that she was in the right afterwards.

Chess has a pretty addictive personality. That is not meant in the way that Chess has a personality in which people become addicted to it's just that spiffing, it's meant in the way that she gets addicted to things very easily. She found himself addicted to smoking a week after starting, during exam times she's addicted to any form of pill that will keep her awake. She was even addicted to algebra once. Naturally, this has pretty much no positive affect.

Chess, as mentioned before, gets over obsessed with things and rather passionate about certain subjects. It provides her with a delightful pasttime to research certain things and rant about them. On top of a passion for matters and all that, she also gets rather passionate with people, be it friends, family, or boyfriends.

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In the early days of December, 1992, Giovanna Rossi was rushing around in her hometown of Mantova making some last minute stops before she picked up her brother from his most recent trip as a sailor. As she stood at the docks by her car, she shared a quick glance with one of the sailors exiting his ship. The pair stopped dead and double-taked at each other. This one second was all that was needed to start a whirlwind romance between Giovanna and Sigurd Skaar. For the next month the pair acted like the had been in love for years, and they even considered a quick marriage in the pipelines. As soon as it started though, it was over. Sigurds shore leave was over and he was back on his boat.

The couple kept in contact after he left with letters and phone calls, everything they could. That was until early February when Giovanna revealed some news. During a routing doctors appointment, she recieved the news that she was four weeks pregnant. Excited, Giovanna called Sigurd with the news before she even called her parents. An apprehensive Sigurd faked a happy response, and that was the last contact Giovanna had with him. So now, alone and pregnant, she worked as hard as she could before admitting defeat. This ended with her giving up her small bedsit and moving back into her parents house, with her savings going on baby things and housekeeping.

In no time at all, Giovanna's due date came and passed. Then finally, two weeks after scheduled, Giovanna was rushed into hospital with contractions. Her labor was by no means a short one, and so sixteen hours later with her mother by her side, Giovanna brought into the world her first and only child. A baby girl, later named Francesca Maribel Rossi. As it turned out, Francesca was the perfect thing to help Giovanna get over Sigurd.

As she was the only grandchild and baby in the Rossi family, baby Francesca was pretty spoilt from day one. She always had the best of little outfits and someone constantly around her to fuss. Her first steps and words were a momentous event in the small neighborhoods community. Within no time, Francesca was forming sentences in both Italian and the little bit of english she had been exposed to. The little girl always liked to babble on to anyone who was about.

When Francesca was three years old, it was decided that she would be placed in ballet lessons. She always had a graceful movement to her and so it seemed like an obvious choice to her grandmother, Maribel. Francesca took to it like a duck to water. Throughout her childhood, she kept on with the dance lessons, and was a star in her schools dance group. When she was seven-years-old, Francesca was put into classical dance lessons to take advantage of her natural flair for dancing. It was thanks to these classes that Francesca's young life took an odd turn from normality.

When Francesca was eight-years-old, her dance teacher put her forward with a talented young boy from her classical classes to enter a dance competition. At the end of the main performance, Francesca walked from the dancefloor over to her mother. On her way over to the table where her mother sat though, her path was blocked by an unfamiliar man. "Francesca?" He asked, with an odd accent. "...Sì, signore?" She asked, not wanting to appear rude. "Well, my name's Sig..." The man went on to explain that he knew her mother, and would Francesca show him where her mother was. Although kind of suspicious, the little girl led him over to her mother. When Giovanna asked who her daughters new friend was, she was interrupted by Sigurd. "Van," he smiled. Giovanna's face dropped, and she trembled as she whispered, "Sig..."

Before she could ask what on earth was going on, Francesca was called back up on stage for another dance off. When she was finished and went back to the table, her mother pulled her over into a hug and told the little girl, "Chess, this man, he's your daddy." Francesca pulled back from her mother and stared in shock, before slowly turning to look at Sigurd. He gave her a warm smile, but she just turned tail and went over to her dance partner, unable to find words.

From this day on, things changed between Francesca and Giovanna. The girl didn't trust anything her mother said and aside from dancing, isolated herself from people. The only people she would confide in and trust were her grandparents. She spent her spare time in the kitchen learning to cook with Maribel and her evenings playing songs with her grandfather, Raymond. Although she tried to disassociate herself from Giovanna, it was brought to Francesca's attention of several occasions her mothers frowing alcoholism. This, of course, was never mentioned.

When Francesca was ten-years-old, another tragedy struck her young life. On a journey home from a weekend break, her grandparents had gotten into a fatal car accident. The girl was heartbroken, she felt alone and had no idea what to do. She had no one to turn to and spent most of her time alone, with her mother out drinking until all hours. After the worst few weeks of her life, Francesca did something that she thought would never happen. Alone one night, she went onto the internet and typed in her fathers name. Within a few minutes, she had his contact details up on a directory website. She picked up the phone and heard a males voice on the other end. Sigurd was surprised his daughter was phoning, but pleased nonetheless. As soon as Francesca explained her situation to him and asked could she live with him, He was booked on a last minute plane and on his way over.

When the phonecall was over, Francesca went to her room and started to pack a bag of clothing and important things for her fathers arrival. While she packed, she thought about what she was doing. She barely knew the man, or even anything about where he was from. And then of course she realised she would leave the couple of friends she had and her dancing behind. For some reason though, the prospect of the adventure completely demlolished the apprehensions she had. After packed things for herself and Mr Nibbles, she lifted the Chinchilla out of his cage and sat on her bed petting him, and voicing her feelings to the little animal.

About a month after that night, Francesca was fully settled in Sigurds hometown of Mo i Rana. She had a new set of grandparents and two uncles that took to the girl immediately. In the home, it was just her, Sig and Mr Nibbles, which she was quite fond of. As it turned out, her dad was a lovely man, and the pair got on very well. Francesca even managed to make a few good friends at school, and she picked up the Norwegian language quickly. As usual though, something was round the corner to shake things up for the girl.

Francesca was in her fathers house preparing for a camping trip for her birthday to northern Norway, and she was trying to reach the latch for a cupboard in which the sleeping bags were kept. She was still kind of short, and no one else was in the house as Sigurd was away getting supplies. Unsure of what to do and gradually losing her temper, she glared in the direction of the cupboard. A couple of seconds later, the handle blew off the cupboard. Intrigued, she walked down the hallway and took a running jump, figuring she could hold onto the ledge to see what had happened. There was no need though, for as soon as she was airborne she didn't find herself falling again. Freaked out, Francesca abandoned her mission and ran to her bedroom. She sat cross legged on the bed and wiped away the tears springing to her eyes. This was how Sigurd found her a couple of hours later, except without even realising she was sitting a foot off the bed. He smiled and calmly explained to her that this ran in his family, and he always wondered if she followed his trait.

Francesca wasn't happy about this, but she had no choice. She sat talking to Sigurd each night about what new developments she had made and he would share his knowledge with her. He had warned her that there was most likely one last gift she would have, and not to be as frightened when she figured it out. She kept this in mind, but couldn't help but feel a little creeped out when she discovered her next gift.

When she was twelve-years-old, Francesca was walking home from school when she decided to pop into her grandfather, Sten's antique shop. Business was slow that day, so he told her she could look around the shops and its items as long as she was careful and didn't go into bull-in-a-china-shop-mode. She came across a locket she thought was pretty and picked it up for a closer look. When she did, Francesca started to have a barrage of thoughts about someone unfamiliar. She said nothing to her grandfather, but that night told Sigurd everything. He confirmed her thoughts, and told her the proper term for this gift was 'psychometry'.

Now that Francesca had her final gift, she felt a great relief that she would no longer have any surprises when she went about her everyday life. She was intrigued though, and started to spend a lot of time researching her gifts. During her internet searches, she came across a boarding school for people who were gifted. She showed it to her father and uncles. They simple just laughed and commented how when they were kids, they didn't have some fancy school to go to. Francesca persisted though, and so just before her thirteenth birthday, Sigurd begrudgingly sent Francesca and Mr Nibbles to Orchid Hill Academy.

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♠ Levitation
♥ Can blow things up with her mind
♣ Psychometry

Chess has a grey Chinchilla called Mr Nibbles. Mr Nibbles, or 'Nibs' as Chess likes to call him, was the result of lots of nagging in the lead up to her tenth birthday. Nibs is six-years-old, and is a very vicious little animal if he is unfamiliar with a person. Over the years Chess has had him, Nibs has made it very clear he has little care for his own welfare. The little creature enjoys climbing the sides on his cage and then jumping down from the top.

♦ Plays guitar and sings a little
♠ She's fluent in English, Italian and Norwegian
♥ Her favorite genre's of music are pop punk, classical, folk, pop and screamo
♣ Is obsessed with Aurora Borealis, and goes camping with her dad every autumn to see it

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