Angie Crosby

just a new reference picture for her. That's why you shouldn't make the first pic you ever draw of a character their ref sheet :'D This is still not the very best, but at least it's more like her?

Name: Angela Patricia Crosby, called Angie or Gellybean (only by James)
Age: 29 years
Birthday: April 30th, 1991
Gender: female
Height: 1,76m 
Eye colour: blue
Hair colour: brown
Family: Peter and Catherine Crosby (parents), James Crosby (twin brother), Jack and Henry Crosby (younger brothers), Janet Hurst (older sister)
Marital status: probably taken
Background: New York born and bred. Just about every family member of hers is an equestrian of some sort, most of them really successful showjumpers --- so naturally she grew up in the saddle. Angie was kind of a late bloomer and played around with different disciplines for some years before settling on showjumping in her late teens, which was also when she started competing internationally with her family stable's horses.
While she celebrated some success, the relationship with her father deteriorated; the two had always had their disagreements, but they started to get more and more serious, until they had such a severe falling-out that Angie packed her bags and left the family business for good. She was 23 at that time, and engaged to a carriage driver, with whom she started to build their own sport horse facilities, and even purchased a few of the Crosby horses. Among them was a young mare called Orchard Sprint - nicknamed DD - that Peter deemed unfit for advanced competition, but Angela had spite enough to bring her up the ranks and made her her main show horse.  

The subject of children eventually drove the couple apart, so with 26, Angela found herself without a fiancé, without a home, but with three mares in tow. Even though it was her who had broken up the engagement, it was his place after all, and she only wanted to keep the horses that she personally owned. Too stubborn to return to a family that she thought didn't want her anyway, she determined to get by on her own - a difficult undertaking, but Angie has enough self-discpline to succeed. After moving from stable to stable working as Sports Therapist and commissioned rider, she finally decided to leave the US for Europe, much to her brother James' dismay. 

In 2019, her youngest brother Henry attempted suicide, and Angie immediately blamed her father for it. She set out on a revenge crusade to ruin him once and for all - for the first time going to the public with a story of her and her siblings' relationship to their father, and what she described as his abusive training methods. 

Character: (on a glance) stubbornly determined, disciplined, serious, aloof, snappy, always looks like she's having the worst time of her life - but that's actually not true, doesn't take loyality serious enough, egocentric, cynical, tomboyish. Very professional. 
Quirks/ Trivia: She loves her brother like no one else. He's the one thing that kind of keeps her connected to her family. She can really "unfreeze" when she's with him or his friends. Has "magic hands" - knows how to make horses relax with the right massages and sometimes massages humans as well. 
Likes: tba
Dislikes: HER DAD

Theme music:
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Occupation: Equine Sports Therapist, showjumper and eventer at Oak Brooke Stables, Scotland; member of the US showjumping team 
Prefered discipline: Showjumping, Eventing 
His style of riding: A little all over the place. Rather masculine. Resembles her dad's and brothers' style very much, but is not as controlling. Her hand is very soft, has a very precise seat. [link] 

 Own horses: 
Athena Orchard Sprint ♀ (Hemsbury Connelly x Currents Converge x Starter), 2011 ISH "DD"
Athena La Môme Piaf ♀ (FrS Gavroche x VH Fossegrimmen x Starter), 2015 Selle Francais "Edith"
Starlit Currents ♀ (Currents Converge x Starter),  2002 ISH "Jackie"
Lady Godiva ♀ (BTs Scapegoat x RHS Pure Motivation), 2018 TB "Lady Gee"

 Her rides: 
OBS Ask No More (Dee)
OBS Sleepless in Seattle (semi) (CiCi)

 Competitions: 
*5th place | Orchard Sprint - HCL LONDON 2* Small Tour
*11th place | Orchard Sprint - CHIO 5* Aachen - Sparkassen Youngsters Cup 
1st place | Orchard Sprint - Oak Brooke's Autumn Leaves Show | Intermediate Showjumping 
2nd place | Orchard Sprint - Oak Brooke's Autumn Leaves Show | Beach Race
*1st place | Orchard Sprint - HCL VIENNA 2* Speed Challenge (140cm)
1st place, Res. Ch. | Orchard Sprint - 2nd Annual Traditional Art Show | Showjumping (150cm)
1st place | Orchard Sprint - Midsummer Celebration 2020 | Summer Solstice Grand Prix (150 cm)
2nd place | OBS Sleepless in Seattle - Loch Lomond Horse Trials 2020 | CCI1*
7th place | OBS Ask No More - Loch Lomond Horse Trials 2020 | CCI1*

 Training: 
OBS Kissing In The Rain - Pick Up Them Feet
Orchard Sprint - DD Training by Elantair

 Other pictures: 
Chilling With The Sis
Arrival at Oak Brooke
Cobwebs
Just Tell Me That You
An American Hunt - BTs New Year Drag Hunt
Reaching Out
A New Chapter
Walls
Lowly Deserter
But Water Runs Deeper
This Way, That Way

 Drawn by others: 
That's My Boy by do-draw
The Set-Up by Elantair
Spot The Scot by zephuko
Evening Stroll by jbdezoveelste
Dusk Dip by Elantair

Art, character (c) by me, no ref used
Pattern by MysticEmma