#stardom:development

[rainvazquez-blog]

KCA ORANGE CARPET INTERVIEW

“well, THIS is exciting! i’ve been wanting to meet — you, since you first appeared on the scene. it seems almost everybody at the castle channel has been nominated for an award, do you see yourself winning any of them?”

rain inwardly cringed at how fake this interviewer was, but managed to maintain a neutral expression on her face. "wow, thanks, it's great to meet you too," rain smiled nonchalantly at the blonde who held out a microphone as if it were a net, nicely set up to catch any rotten fish that fell in. "i don't think the awards are the most important part. the band and i are just really glad that we were nominated, and sure, winning would be nice," she laughed, "but we're here to support everybody from castle."

“and, your band members? the world says you’re all just the BEST of friends, but surely there’s something we don’t know!”

"the band and i are a family. they've been there for me ever since i joined castle, and we've all grown to become really close friends in and out of work."

“you’ve been deemed an inspiration throughout the community and are receiving quite a bit of praise from children and adults alike, what do you have to say about this? is there anything you’d like your fans to know?” 

"me? an inspiration?," rain tried to contain her laughter. "i'm sure that's not right," she joked, pausing before continuing. "i'm kidding. it's honestly so cool that people consider me that, and i just wanted to tell the fans that i am so grateful for them. your constant support means everything to me and the band,  and i just want you all to know you can do whatever you set your mind to, so go chase those dreams."

“such .. a sweet sentiment. do you mind sharing with us how you got into music? what makes it SO special to you?”

rain grimaced for a second before automatically returning to the smile on her face. it was almost as if the interviewer knew she'd touched a sore spot for rain; how she got into music wasn't really the sweetest story. "hah, that's a long story." rain scratched the back of her neck awkwardly, something she always did when nervous. "i started music at a very young age, mostly to pis-" she stopped herself, "to irritate my father. don't try it with your parents, kids. but then i truly fell in love with what i was doing, and it became an emotional outlet for me. it still is. when i'm sad, happy, angry, whatever the mood of the day is, i turn to music."

“fans are just dying to know if there’s a special someone in your life, what do you have to say about that?"

"oh, the dreaded 'aunt at the thanksgiving party' question. nope, nobody special, honestly. check back, i don't know, 3 years from now?" rain smiled, quickly saying goodbye to the interviewer and hurriedly making her way further towards the entrance, trying to run away from all of the topics that made her uncomfortable. 

[ojaneyg-blog]

- ̗̀ development!  ̖́-  #001

ONE: what is your parental situation like?? are both of your parents in the picture? are they married? divorced? what’s their names? what’s their occupations? feel free to answer with as much or as little detail as you’d like!

sometimes jane’s young adulthood has felt like one massive statistic, because she’s a single mother who’s the daughter of a single mother. when ally gillespie suddenly found herself pregnant just as young, she decided not to tell the father ( who’d never been much more than a one-night-stand anyway, she’d later confide to her daughter ) and raise the child on her own ; having that resource and support helped jane to come to the decision that she could raise sammy on her own too. jane doesn’t know who her father is, and has never paid him much mind ( it’s hard to miss a father figure when you’ve got eighteen guys in the tech crew who’re more than happy to show you how to change your first tire ). she’s still clung to the few details she does have about him, but mostly out of the idea that she should.

TWO: do you get along with your parent/s?? if both are in the picture do you have a favored parent?

ally gillespie: the woman, the inspiration. jane’s grandparents, of a more traditional mind, weren’t in the picture after they discovered their daughter had gotten herself knocked up, so ally didn’t have any on-hand family to turn to when she needed a baby-sitter. thank god her work in the costume dept allowed her to bring jane along so long as she was well-behaved. so there wasn’t a second jane didn’t spend at her mother’s side as she was growing up — and even tho they did have a falling out around the time jane was entering puberty and faced the insecurities most middle-school girls have to deal with, they reconciled later. and jane would 110% be that lame-oid who means it when they say that their mom is their best friend, because they’ve only grown closer out of the shared experience of raising sammy. when jane needs someone to look after her son, ally’s the first to volunteer, eager to provide for her daughter what her parents never did for her.

THREE: do you have any siblings? if yes, what’s their names? age? how do you get along with them?

n/a - jane was a   “ happy accident ”   baby, or so her mom tells her, and ally hasn’t jumped to have any other kids since.

FOUR: in childhood, what was your favorite toy?? if you didn’t have one; what was your favorite game or past time?

jane was big on “creative creativity” as a real little kid — meaning that she’d take the walls with markers and paints or drag all of the pots and pans out of the cupboard to make an amateur’s drum set if she had to. this got old real fast, and ally decided to hunt around some local flea markets for Proper Art and Music Supplies for jane, b/c if she was going to follow in her mom’s footsteps for creativity she’d rather her daughter not follow the example of treating her stuff like shit. so jane went from wall art to canvases, and from pots and pans to toy instruments scrounged from garage sales. it worked out p okay

FIVE: as a child what was your favorite color, animal, food, television show, and hobby?? feel free to replace any of these with something of your choosing, or add more all together.

color: rotated every day of the week jesus h christ ; as she got older, she got fonder of white since it;s helpful when she’s painting ( that’s not something she shares tho, because it’s just so damn boring ) ; animal: sugar glider ( one of the boom ops always carried one around in their pocket ) ; tv show: barney, 100% here for the crafts and singing purple dinosaur ; hobby: see above !!

SIX: who was your childhood best friend? what were they like? how did you meet? are you still friends to this day?

jane was much more open as a kid, making fast friends of........literally everyone lol, but her closest friends were her fellow children on set. whether it was the child actors or the kids of the crew. she still keeps in contact with a few of them, but mostly divorced herself from a lot of her early positive memories in media to preserve them since her experience since has been so shitty. like, she completely cut a lot of her closest friends out and it wouldn’t be surprising if a few held a grudge against her for that

SEVEN: what was school like for you?? did you go to a public or a private school? were you home schooled? did you love it? hate it? tolerate it? what was your favorite subject? feel free to answer with as much or as little detail as you’d like!

jane fluxed between being home schooled and in public school all her life ; it just depended on ally’s availability, and if they needed to jet off to the caribbean for months at a time for the latest c-com they both had to go. she learned pretty quickly that she preferred the freedom of home schooling, able to study what she needed to know however she liked, and suffered but made do with the rigidity of public school. college was the best time of jane’s schooling, and she’s still so sour over having dropped out to commit to b u. she fully plans on going back to school as soon as she can.

EIGHT: what was a fear you had as a child that doesn’t make much sense to you now?? did you have one? if not; what did you want to be when you grew up? did you change your mind a lot?

l i s t e n ; after spending almost her entire childhood around sets, jane grew up thinking that quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem in her adult life than it turned out to be. there wasn’t hardly an adventure series that didn’t feature the stuff, so she just assumed that was something she would need to be prepared for