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BASICS
Name Kimberly Lorraine Rivers.
Nicknames Kim.
Age Fifteen.
Birthday March 15th.
Nationality American/Native American. Her father is the Quileute; her mother is from Forks.
Born La Push, Washington.
Lives La Push, Washington.
Occupation Part-time babysitter.

APPEARANCE
Overall Kim is the sort of pretty that you have to look twice (or even three or four or five times) to notice. If, you know, you bother to. She sort of fades into the background, more average than anything else - there are things about her that are pretty. Her long lashes, her skin, the shape of her lips. They just look...a little awkward all together.
PB Sneha Ullal.

FAMILY
Father Jack Rivers.
Mother Amber Rivers.

FRIENDS
tba.

SCHOOL
Grades She's on the honor roll.
Favourites Classes with Jared Algebra II, Honors English.
Least Favs Gym, whenever she somehow ends up on the team with mad-serious players. While Kim will do her best, she's not amazing; just competant and rather average. And she sort of hates getting yelled at for making a human mistake. Kim isn't really competitive in anything other than academics. Also, she has only the average stamina of a girl whose only exercise is taking care of other people's children part-time. Which, depending on the age of said children, can sometimes be trying. And? Dodgeball is just not fun, as far as Kim is concerned. In general, she is not fond of any activity that involves having things thrown at her for the hell of it. Call her crazy.
Clubs Matheletes.

PSYCHOLOGY
Introvert/Extrovert Introvert.
Feeling/Thinking Sort of a mix of the two; she's cautious, but she isn't always logical about her emotions.
Fears Heights, accidentally eating something with peanut bits. Giving her mother a heart attack, as said mother keeps threatening (despite Kim being, quite possibly, the least interesting person in La Push. As far as Kim is concerned, anyway). Dogs (she was bitten as a small child by her uncle's rather mean pooch. His saying "aw, roddy didn't mean it" did not make six-year-old Kim feel any better - it certaintly felt as though he'd meant it).
Likes School mostly (yes, she's aware she shouldn't tell people that), Jared people-watcing, books, biographies in particular, math (also aware this isn't a horribly popular interest, yes), snail mail!!, most anything chocolate (hot chocolate in particular), daydreaming sometimes (mostly about a certain boy), kids in general (she has sibling-envy), studying, trashy romance novels (which she never, ever reads in public, and would never admit to reading), her parents (shock!!), family dinners usually, that fresh & clean feel you get from just having a shower minutes ago, sudoku mostly, being organized, color-coding things, puzzles in general, happy endings, valentine's day!! (despite her lack of anything but valentines-from-friends she likes the candied hearts, and usually sends out intricately decorated valentines to her friends/family), writing letters, receiving letters, giving gifts, picking out gifts to give.
Dislikes Peanuts (explained quite easily by her being horribly allergic to them), terribly high and unsturdy places, low marks, missing questions on a test for one silly mistake (for which she can and will beat herself up over for about a week afterwards), dogs!!, crosswords & sudokus that are clearly not at the right level for the day they happen to be on, being unable to complete something (she sort of carries around her puzzles until she does - Kim actually has a compartment for them in her little expanding-folder thing), disorganization, forgetting to put her name on something, the movies where the guy and the girl don't end up together (she'll be bawling her eyes out).
Overall The nice, sort of quiet girl near the front of the classroom? That's Kim. She's usually pretty shy, and doesn't exactly go out of her way to talk to people she doesn't know, though she does go out of her way to help others - small things, you know. Helping pick up scattered papers instead of rushing on by with the crowd, lending out pencils and pens to those in need, or letting a classmate who missed class borrow her notes - Kim is the girl who does all of that. She'll almost never say no if someone asks her for help - she hates to upset people, honestly, and furthermore she wants to help, if and when she can.

Mostly, though? She'll be at her desk, paying attention to the lecture and taking notes. And sometimes, when she drifts off - because even nerdy advanced classes students daydream - she'll write her name in conjunction with a certain boy's name. Jared's, that is.

Kim isn't by any means a loner or a social butterfly - she falls neatly between the two, with a small group of friends she supports and trusts absolutely, having taken the time to get to know them, and a polite, friendly way of speaking to those who aren't quite friends. True, you usually have to speak to her first, unless she's trying to tell you something (usually something such as "you dropped this" or "that's not the correct equation; here, use this one" or something to that extent), but her tendancy to shyness doesn't equal a fear or dislike of others.

She's just a little slower to fall into easiness with them, is all.

And that sort of shyness isn't always nervousness. It's just hesitance, a need to understand a person or situation completely or at least quite well before she lets herself go (although Kim is, admittedly, not a very exciting person even when she's open).

So it shouldn't be that surprising that she's mostly content and sort of confident in herself - or, at least, confident in what she can and can't do, and perfectly happy with it. Yeah, maybe she wouldn't mind if Jared looked her way and spoke to her rather than overlooking the nerdy girl who loves numbers, but hey - she's doing alright without that happening. She doesn't angst majorly over him - it's the typical unrequited crush that Kim figures everyone has to have at one point.

And if hers has lasted for a few years now, well. She's always been a consistant sort of person, and Kim doesn't really mind daydreaming about things that will never happen with a boy that she thinks is wonderful. Even if he probably wouldn't talk about string theory or something with her (which, honestly, she doubts any boy would really like to do).

It's not exactly a huge secret that Kim Rivers is smart - she's on the Mathletes, for one, and that should tell you quite alot about her right there. Granted, she's not the smartest student in the school, and doesn't really want to be - she falls somewhere in the middle of the kids in advanced placement, and doesn't really make a big deal out of the brains she has at all. Kim doesn't condescend when asked to explain something, or when asked for help - she'll just patiently go over whatever it is with you, or maybe apologize when she doesn't know the answer. No one knows all the answers, after all.

She isn't the sort of student who raises her hand all the time, either - just sometimes, if she knows the answer, and if no one else at all is volunteering and the teacher seems to be getting desperate. Kim really, really prefers to just sit quietly and take notes and maybe to mouth the answer to a desperate looking student who just got called on - she isn't the girl who wants to be in the spotlight.

HISTORY
Kimberly Rivers was the first child born to Jack Rivers, native La Pusher, and Amber, a pretty little blonde from Forks - she would remain their only child for the rest of her life, which rather coloured how her relationship with her parents would go. From the moment she was born it was clear that in looks, at least, Kim took after her Quileute father, with the traditional coppery skin and soft black hair. This didn't effect how happy her parents were or weren't with her - Kim has to admit that her parents would probably think she were the most wonderful thing ever if she were bright blue and horrendous.

She was, after all, their first child - after two miscarriages.

This, of course, meant that Kim was and is the product of two rather protective parents - she was it, after all. Amber had always been a little frail, and the doctors didn't want her to try again - it was a mircale Kim was as healthy as she was (although she did inherit her mother's terrible peanut allergy).

Kim didn't really mind as a child, on the whole, although of course she would cry and maybe try to argue with them (she'd never been that good at arguments) when she was forbidden to do something other children got to do just because they were worried. After all - her parents were only sort of ridiculous because they loved her, and that counted for quite a lot.

A good deal of her childhood, and indeed, her time today, was spent on 'family outings' or just family days at home. She never had to share her parents' attention with younger siblings (although Kim wouldn't have minded that, and even asked for a little sister one Christmas, after which her father explained why that couldn't happen and she never asked again). And her parents had a great deal of attention to give her - Amber didn't start working until Kim started attending school, and even then it was only part-time. And her father? Well, no one could ever accuse Jack Rivers of ignoring his daughter.

And maybe that same overpowering, protective love that kept Amber and Jack from sending Kim off to too many playdates (other children were so rough, according to Amber) that made her a little shy, a little quiet. Kim doesn't think that's a bad thing; sure, she was kept within ten feet of a parent at all times, but her mother and father were always there for her. She liked staying in and playing Candyland or going out and going to some child-friendly restaraunt with just the three of them.

She grew up being able to tell her parents anything. And while she doesn't exactly tell them everything now, she does tell them quite a lot. Her father, after all, does not need to hear about his baby becoming a woman, and her mother was a bit upset when Kim had told Amber that she didn't exactly think Jared would ever notice her - her mother's following speech amounted to "I don't know why any boy wouldn't love you!". The typical motherly thing.

She'd been sort of hopelessly crushing on Jared since the seventh grade. She'd always thought he was a decent person (for a boy who was quite loud compared to Kim), but his helping her carry a rather large stack of books she was taking back to the school library for a teacher sparked, in the typical teenaged way, a giant crush. Kim isn't so silly as to think she's hopelessly in love; she's just hopelessly infatuated.

You can't, after all, be hopelessly in love with someone who mostly isn't aware you exist. Or she rather hopes not - it would be quite a lonely thing to end up daydreaming about Jared for the rest of her life, an old maid with sudoku books littered around the house. It's fine for now, of course. It isn't as though Kim is high on the list of 'dateable girls'. Being mousy-shy and sort of nerdy and not really beautiful on first inspection (although her father always says it's just not the sort of beauty Americans want, and then goes on a full-out rant) rather kills her chances.

And anyway, it's not like she could date to make Jared jealous or something. For that to work he'd have to know she existed, and such.

She doesn't really mind being so ordinary - so hard to miss in the grand scheme of high school. So what if she's just another girl in the classroom, writing her name and Jared's over and over again in her notebookes, outlining their initials in hearts on the margins of actual notes? And so what if he doesn't really notice she's alive? That's high school. And Kim is mostly happy to be innocuous.

Not that she would, you know, object to Jared suddenly confessing his undying love for her or something.

She's a bit too much of a realist to actually believe that would happen, however - although that doesn't stop the daydreaming.

So Kim's life isn't really exciting. She spends more time than other teens might with her parents, and studies and does her homework, and goes to competitions with the Mathletes, and spends another good chuck of her time babysitting for pocket money, and then spends what is left of all that with her friends (or daydreaming of Jared).

It might not be exciting, but she likes it. And Kim figures that's what matters most.