Character Name: Allison Keely
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Home town/country: Omaha, Nebraska
Starting area: MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Physical description and Personality:  Allison Catherine Keely (always “Allison,” never “Allie”) is a notably small young woman, five feet tall exactly, slender and petite, with a small high voice and small timid mannerisms, frequently to be found with at least one textbook and her laptop open in front of her, the latter most often running MatLab.  An unmistakable spark of analytical intelligence lights her clear green eyes, her medium-brown hair is kept just long enough to mostly hide her face behind if she should feel the need to, and a subtle spangling of freckles on her cheekbones and the bridge of her nose is typically only visible when she blushes, which is often.  She reinforces the shrinking-violet image with a conservative slacks-and-sweaters wardrobe; the most daring color she’s typically found in is faded denim blue jeans, and generally she's attired in combinations of cloud grey and mouse brown and quiet pastels.  For the most part she speaks when she's spoken to, or if the conversation at hand pertains directly to one of her areas of expertise, but even when she does she tends to make eye contact only in brief flickers, and her voice is a breathy, hesitant little thing, with the plain unaccented speech pattern common to the central Midwest.  Conventionally, pleasantly pretty, yet well accustomed to being overshadowed by the far more gregarious, extroverted personalities that form her immediate social circles – until something makes her smile, that is, and her face lights up like a sunrise.