` AKIVA ROSE KATZ
"Is a princess really different from a peasant girl?
When our hearts break, we shed the same tears.
Does anyone deserve less than a chance at happiness
When will all share the same hopes and fears?"From Twice Charmed hello, my name is...
Full Name: Akiva Rose Katz
Nicknames: Kiki, Kiva, or Ki
Age: Twenty-Three
Birthdate: January 16
Occupation: Second Grade Teacher
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Economic Background: Middle Class
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Hair Color: Akiva has a very typical shade of dirty blonde hair. She once experimented with red, though she found she infinitely prefers her naturally blonde hair. If she is feeling daring, she might reintroduce the red, but not any time soon.
Eye Color: A simple blue.
Height: Five feet and Three Inches
Weight: One Hundred Fifteen Pounds
Tattoos: None.
Piercings: Her ears.
Clothing Style: For work, Kiki has a very appropriate wardrobe. She loves lots of colors and really being someone that’s hard to miss. She is a big fan of skirts and pretty tops, also a fan of colorful accessories; she’s a teacher that is young and hip, but still professional. She dresses to reflect her sunny self and enjoys, on the weekends, to take advantage of tank tops and flip flops, rather than the things she wears for work.
Defining Characteristics: She has a funny tooth that she’s had since she was a small child. She could have gotten it fixed, but she thought it was rather charming.
Celebrity Image: Kirsten Dunst
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Likes: x. Children: The more inquisitive, the better!
x. Being in a relationship
x. Flowers: Lilacs and Tulips
x. Going to the park
x. Baking: Cupcakes and Cookies
x. Coffee & Tea
x. Reading: Both adult books and children’s books
x. Dogs: Australian Shepherds especially
x. Doctors: Their job is romantic!
x. History Channel and PBS specials
x. Butterflies: Every year she keeps a butterfly house in class
x. Sun Showers
x. Hot Chocolate with marshmallows
x. Kickball and Hop scotch
x. Community Service
x. Playing piano and singing along
Dislikes: x. Being alone at night
x. Big, Empty Houses
x. Getting sick
x. Roaches or Spiders
x. White Clothes
x. Arrogance and Bossiness
x. Physical Force/Violence
x. Yelling
x. Being abandoned
x. Losing anything
x. Cats: They’re too independent to be fun
x. Crying
x. Tattoos
x. Hospitals: They give her the creeps
x. Unfriendly/Uninvolved parents
x. Bullying: Anyone can bully anyone.
x. Staff meetings
x. Carrots and peas
Fears: x. Having a child go through her class without learning something.
x. Being alone forever.
x. Not being able to have children of her own
Secrets: x. She had three miscarriages with her last boyfriend - when she told him, he left her for another woman.
x. She once swung the door of her car hard enough that it scratched the car she was parked next to – the principals’ – and moved her car without telling him.
x. She attends weekly therapy.
Flaws: x. She is overly romantic about things
x. Kiki can be clingy and takes the lives of her students very personally
x. Criticism is taken very hard and she can be overly emotional
Habits: x. She bites her fingernails
x. Akiva rearranges her classroom the same way every day before she leaves
x. Every morning she goes to get coffee before work and drinks it during math time.
x. She tends to take on more than she can handle on all things
Goals: x. Find a comfortable life with a respectable man and have a family.
x. Make her students happy to come to school every day.
x. Visit every continent once in her lifetime.
Overall Personality: Akiva has always been a young lady with ambitions. Now, they’re not the ambitions to be president or a lawyer or something like that, but rather to help people. Her family was small and they were very dedicated people, with one parent as a teacher and the other a very successful accountant, they were never wanting for anything. She was taught from a very young age to make sure that because she had everything she could want, to brighten the lives of others, even if it was in a small way. Her whole family would do public service trips, usually through their temple, and it bred in her the passion for doing what is best for other people. She has offered a hand to anyone who has needed it and she’s a very bright and bubbly person – the glass is almost always half full.
Quick to make friends, Akiva is a people person. Her attitude lends her towards being drawn to those that may seem like they don’t have anyone else and showing them that things can get better. With this sort of responsibility delegated upon herself, Akiva has a host of not so expected friends. Not only that, but it hard to imagine how happy she really is, considering everything she surrounds herself with. But, she has a lot of faith in the things she believes in and is more than happy to accept that which she cannot see in hopes that things are really as good as she thinks they are at the end. Her personal philosophy is also to never live a day without laughter and her job is more than equipped for that.
She is incredibly out going and dedicated, willing to put herself out there and make a fool of herself to see anyone smile. It extends to her classroom demeanor where Miss Ki is a sweet, but funny, and clumsy teacher. She doesn’t get short tempered (though she isn’t weak, by any means), at least not with little kids. She can get upset with adults, especially those that don’t really invest a lot of time in their children’s education at such a young age. As a second grade teacher, she sees a lot of students being set up for failure without the involvement of a parent in their educational careers. It breaks her heart and thusly, she takes the education process very seriously – and she’s extremely moral about it. Cutting corners is not something she condones or appreciates from anyone.
A large part of her trust in the human race has been dwindled down though. Her last boyfriend, Francesco, drained her of the real drive to find someone special. She had been almost convinced he was
the one, but when he dumped her and moved on to another woman in almost no time after a lengthy relationship, a lot of her hopes were dashed. She suffered from a deep wound, and it’s still working on healing itself. As a safe guard, she devotes a lot of time and energy to her class now and has withdrawn a little, at least from those of a male sex. She still fawns over them, but she doesn’t put herself out there. She has a lot of fears regarding the future and her own status, shaken by what happened with Franc, but she has a hope, not so much faith, that things will pick up.
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Parent's Name and Age: Isaac Katz, 51
Parent's Occupation: High school math teacher
Parent's Name and Age: Nora Katz, 49
Parent's Occupation: Accountant: Part Time
Siblings: None.
Spouse: None yet.
Children: None yet.
Other: Aunt Tanya, 54. Researcher in the Amazon – married to Uncle Robert. 57. They remained child free by choice.
Pets: A red merle Australian shepherd named Rusty.
Relationship with Family: Akiva has always had a very strong relationship with her family. Her mother and father were her closest confidants when she was young and unlike most teenagers, she never really rebelled from them. Their relationship was close and she did what she could to please them, since she was the only one. They were also moderately well off, which allowed them to give her the attention she craved. They did what they could for their daughter and spent time with her as much as they could. They were also very devoted to her education. They were always pushing her to do her best and really gave her a lot of opportunities to explore what she wanted to do.
Her extended family hasn’t had much contact with them. Being from the Northeast, they don’t get down to Kentucky much, and they don’t really like the way of living. It’s nothing against Akiva, but they don’t really like where she has chosen to live and work. However, they understand that it’s where she went to school and what she wants to do. The family is really open to her and when she was broken up with and had her miscarriages, her mother did come down to stay with her for a while to make sure everything was fine. There’s a lot of love in the house, even if it’s not always obvious and despite any problems they have, the family comes together. It’s a very holiday oriented relationship at the moment though,
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Best Memory: Getting hired at the elementary school was her best memory. She had student taught in the same school and loved the community so much. It seemed like somewhere she could really see herself living and getting the job at the elementary school after the impromptu retirement of Mrs. Bailey really gave her something to look forwards to. There are so many things that it’s done for her, so it really is her best memory.
Worst Memory: One memory is three separate recollections of the same scenario. A month or so pregnant, just getting ready to let Francesco, better known as Franc, know about it she would get horrible cramps in her lower abdomen. The first time, it was terrifying. She started to bleed and everything seemed to get fuzzy. After getting herself to the hospital, she found out what happened and went home making up a made up story for why she was in so much pain. Of course, it happened twice more. Finally, (a second memory) when she did tell him, he exploded. He dumped her on the spot and was with another woman the next week. It left a really bad taste in her mouth.
Brief Biography: Born in the state of New York, Akiva Katz was a blessing to her small, traditional family. There were two people to start the family, Isaac and Nora Katz, both of whom were settled in their careers and had a home in a suburb of New York City. They lived comfortably and made sure they saved before having their only child. Akiva was planned for a long time, they weren’t sure what gender child they would have and planned accordingly, having all the names picked out and the room set in a neutral tone of yellow before she was even born. It seemed like they had everything taken care of, and indeed, this planning paid off when their daughter was born.
The reason they never planned for more than one child was that they were a rather affluent family, educated, and felt that keeping too many children would not only cost more later in life, but detract from the experience of just having one and loving her as much as they could. Akiva benefited from this kind of treatment and their lives were governed by a distinct contentment. She went through school as a pious, intelligent young woman and she was always doing her best to succeed in everything. She was also an active child and played soccer when she was little, but gave it up when she reached middle school.
Now, her parents raised her in a Jewish household and she went through her Bat Mitzvah when she was thirteen, but otherwise, they weren’t overly religious. She continues to keep the traditions with her, but she isn’t overly concerned with maintaining the connection to a Temple or practicing. She’s more concerned with living by the rules laid out for her as a person. When she got to high school, she and her parents starting to become concerned about where she would be going with her life. She had always said she wanted to be a teacher, but it wasn’t something she seriously considered until she became a junior.
Akiva was used to doing community service by this time, that anything seemed to be up her alley. Helping at food shelters in the city, running supplies back and forth, helping with Temple service trips, it all seemed so routine. But, it wasn’t until she started to volunteer at a local Boys and Girls club that she realized how much she loved to work with little kids. She had a deep passion for it, but it also led her to wonder where she wanted to go to school and what she wanted to do with herself. Well, she wasn’t really as fast paced as the Northern portions of the United States were, and she felt like she wanted to try something different. After applying to school in Kentucky, she was accepted and decided that she would go there – setting up her life far from where she had grown up.
It made her nervous, but the rest of the family was supportive, and although they knew she would probably never return to New York for a career, she would come visit and be helpful to someone somewhere else. She had a good time at school and met Francesco DeCavi when she was still quite young. She had a few boyfriends before, but he was a bit older than her, had a budding career as a journalist and seemed to be set. Akiva had always wanted to have that sort of deep connection with someone, and it had seemed like she found it in Franc. They were a great couple, everyone said so, and she really felt like she loved him more than anything else.
When she ended up pregnant, well, at first, she was terrified. It was her sophomore year of college! They hadn’t been dating
that long! She didn’t tell anyone, she didn’t even really know at first. Then, she found out – so excited, but scared, but happy, as she thought Franc would stick it out with her and their life would be set in stone, she was getting ready to set up something special to tell him – but, then it happened. Akiva had a miscarriage. That summer was very hard for her; thankfully she returned home from school and stayed with her mother, who helped her through it. Things were hard, but it didn’t leave a lot of room for Franc to question her about what had happened, she just said that she had a really bad bug.
They continued to date, Akiva put it behind her. With a few trips to the college’s psychiatrist things were better and it seemed to be put behind her. They resumed their relationship as normal and she returned to her schoolwork with a renewed vigor. She knew she had to do well and because it was her passion to be a teacher, she did her best to study and hone her skills. She also continued her dedication to community service during this time, volunteering around the city in any sort of place that she could be of some use to someone.
However, late in her junior year, Akiva felt like something was going wrong again. She went to the doctor’s and confirmed it – she was pregnant, again. It seemed that they were quite a fertile couple. But, Akiva was even more guarded this time. She was so happy that she was actually able to conceive (after having read a miscarriage can destroy that), but then, she worried that it would happen again. Her worries were, unfortunately, founded. Unexpected, it happened again, this time while she was at home for spring break. Her mother knew, once again, and was there for her when she needed her, but had to send her back to school – she had to finish and couldn’t afford to take a semester off. The rest of the school experience went by face and Akiva headed home for the summer, telling Franc she needed to be with her family.
She enjoyed the summer quite a bit, reconnecting with old friends and spending a lot of time in the city to distract herself. She knew things weren’t the same, and that changes were inevitable, but Akiva persisted. She wanted to remain as happy as she could, it just seemed so hard. When she went to the doctor’s, they were hard pressed to find something really wrong with her – but, after several blood tests and other tests, it was confirmed that she had a syndrome that made having children quite improbable. It crushed a lot of the dreams she had about having a family, at the time anyway. She held in hope that she would be able to, you know, defy odds and have what she wanted. With a little bit of continued therapy and the strength of her mother behind her, Akiva went back to school.
When she came back from that summer, into her senior year, she started to student teach in a second grade classroom. Akiva was ecstatic. She loved her students, absolutely adored them, and managed to make it through the hard time. Things with Franc were getting a little strained though, and though Akiva attempted to blame it on the stress of student teaching, she was really afraid to get close to him. She didn’t want to admit what happened, especially because she really wanted a family of her own, and she graduated in the spring, thinking things were getting better. Of course, the situation didn’t get much better.
Things continued to be strained and she wouldn’t open up to him. It seemed like she would be letting him down. His Greek family had an idea for him; he had an idea for himself. They wanted a big family, lots of kids, and a house and all those things – Akiva seemed to fulfill their ideal image, but what they didn’t know was that she was hiding something that would destroy all of that. They moved in together the year after she graduated, giving Akiva time to settle down and work some schools while Franc continued his work on a few newspapers. He seemed lined up for a big promotion, which would further some of the things they planned.
But, as soon as things seemed to be picking up – again. Akiva was devastated. This time, without the money to run home to her mother, she had to find the courage to break down the wall with Francesco and talk to him about what happened. She thought he would be supportive, but apparently, it was too big of a secret for him to accept. He didn’t want to be supportive; he didn’t want to handle the situation the right way. Instead, he was incredibly angry at her and moved out of the apartment a week after she told him. The already emotionally fragile Akiva Katz was heart broken, having to explain to her mother over the phone what happened and then have her fly down as soon as she could.
Of course, as a good mother, Nora was down there the next day, ready to attend to her daughter and pick up the ball where Franc had dropped it. What really put the nail in the coffin was when Franc was spotted in town with another woman almost immediately after. He didn’t seem to have much concern for Akiva and everything they shared together was lost in a short time. The young woman was crushed; absolutely devastated over everything that happened. If her mother hadn’t been around, it wasn’t really definite about what would have happened. However, a few weeks later, Akiva received notice that she was hired at the local elementary school, the principal had liked her so much during her student teaching that she wanted to hire her after another teacher retired.
Since, Akiva has used her job as a shield. She gets to be around the children she loves so much and interact with people all of the time; however, she can be as closed up as she wants about her personal life. She has a lot of friends that keep her busy and her work is something she would never give up. Currently, she’s still attending therapy, though it’s a secret, and recovering slowly from the problems that plagued her before. Not too many people would guess the problems that she’s had, but it’s a personal demon behind that pretty smile.
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