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Cedar Dalisay
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Hobby List - Anime and manga, cosplay, sewing and costuming, sketching and inking, digital art, painting, tabletop games, poker, karaoke, K-pop and J-pop, rap music, (Close Friends) ant farming, academics and self-study.
Reputation -
- Friendly without being annoying to people she first meets.
- Has the general aura of a modern Twitter artist around her- puts a lot of hours into her craft, Very Online, woke and strongly into social justice causes, has terrible sleeping hours and bad health, disorganized and afflicted with the typical Zoomer ennui.
- Close friends might notice that Cedar's academic prowess isn't pointed towards a particular goal, and she seems to want to go to a good college with no particular goal in mind. Her art skills are such that friends might be convinced could probably build a career from it if she invested the time, and it definitely seems to be her truest passion.
- Cedar usually doesn't demand much commonality to be a good friend. Instead she tends to gravitate towards people in need- she's a fixer and a motherly sort, though inevitably not so good at being either. She's a listener even with people she shares a lot of interests with.
- She checks in on friends often, having a lot of free time at her disposal due to being indoors and sedentary more often than not.
- A massive nerd but doesn't gravitate towards either hiding it in embarrassment or showing it off exuberantly. She'll never turn down other nerds but she isn't defined entirely by the narrow spectrum interests.
- She'll do free art, but she will also certainly fall behind whatever date she promised it by.
- A member of the Pinoy Platoon, and she is most frequently associated with them.
- Appearance brief: small stature, mildly underweight and sickly, unusually curly hair for an Asian girl, energetic and tastefully geeky fashion.
Personality and Tics - Again, a listener. Quiet in most conversations and often on her phone (multitasking art projects or other conversations via text, Twitter, Discord, so on), but tends to pop in with quips, references, and advice as needed. Her sense of humor isn't the sharpest, but she's usually capable of selling her awkwardness in a cute and not awkward way. Sometimes she can be somewhat unresponsive and brooding- she blames various chronic ailments for being distracting in a very visceral way. Her English accent is pristine and not particularly local- she sounds like she studied in an international school.
General Timeline -
- Close friends might know her early childhood spent in poverty in the Philippines. Her parents in the United States are not her birth parents- she was given by them along with one of her younger brothers (of many other siblings) for the possibility of pursuing opportunities in America, with her current guardians being an uncle and his wife.
- Moved to Salem in the third grade. Associated mostly with Platoon members and other Filipinos, was quiet in class as she was dealing with culture shock.
- She blossomed in middle school, developing confidence and an interest in expanding her circles of friends. Kind, friendly, and capable of out anime-arting most of her peers. Close friends might know this as a time where she had a major falling out with her birth parents, and that she generally prefers to think of herself as belonging to her adopted parents in heart and soul.
- High school marked when her difficulties with regular illness started to manifest. She was not inclined to join clubs often, socializing more through classes and mutual friendships.
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- - Boyfriends! Ex or a special current one. Cedar is functionally totally straight though wouldn't be put off by an approach from a girl beyond gentle declining. Her taste is in quieter boys, the sort who seem to be nerdy, intellectual, and/or distant and detatched from society for whatever reason. She's the sort to enjoy someone just for themselves without expecting too much of them, though she is also an active girlfriend and likes helping boys who are willing out of their shell a bit.
- People she looks out for and dotes on in a platonic way as well. Likely mostly through regular check ups by text and social media.
- The artists and other creatives who probably all gravitate together on their social medias!
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- Tenshi Fukushima-Yves (BlizzardeyeWonder) - PLATOON. "MY FULL NAME'S LONGER, WEEB!" >:)
'Ara' Canlas (LeslieFranc) - PLATOON. "I'm just glad she doesn't need me anymore. That's all I can ask for."
'Nick Andretti' Andretti (Yugikun) - PLATOON. She gets that he's just not the social sort, and his persona doesn't inherently draw red flags for her in her typical 'must politely meddle way'. But she also gets that he, in his own way, appreciates his ties to the Platoon, so she is typically one of the ones extending invites his way.
Mateo de Guzmán (Jan de Witt) - PLATOON. He tries his best, but he needs a little help sometimes, getting the things he might have missed in his single-mindedness. She does admire his focus and ambition, that said! She could never. And his board games- that's what she likes to see, when he gets to loosen up and have some fun!
'Raf' Halili (Aster) - PLATOON. He's probably a good person? She tries to be sympathetic, but she low key has to try a bit harder than she usually does. They don't put too much time into each other though, so history can carry them through their lack of commonalities. Ara does most of the (very) needed take downs of his ego anyways, that was never Cedar's strong suit.
Ren (Zetsu) - PLATOON (honorary). Cedar thinks to herself that Ren is about the last person she'd expect to have the emotional energy to start trying to unpack Cedar's own very private mess of problems. But it's more than appreciated. Philia is both a means to happiness, and happiness in and of itself.
Daniel Ozanne (BlizzardeyeWonder) - "Jeez. I guess you know it's a fucking bad sign when you're starting to low key understand those love songs that go like 'nevermind I'll find, someone like yoooouuuuoouu'."
Jessica Lee-Smith (Irredeemable) - Almost like two birds of a feather. Only one is, inevitably, worrying about the other. Kind of like how the halves of the mind work anyways, ain't it?
Evie McKown (Dr Adjective) - Uhhh, Otter Mode? Whatever that means??? Cedar's preacher for the ways of veganism- it'll be hard, what with the Crohn's, but it might well be worth it.
California Fox (Deamon) - Cedar can usually avoid meddling- or at least, seem like she's sticking to that promise. Sometimes she just can't help it.
Fred Hobbes (midnight_twelve) - "Trust me, I'll be MVP next time. For sure."
'Lulu' Lujan (Buko) - Distinct difference between being a fan and being an actual friend. Lulu's shooters come for free.
Jordan Toribio (Aster) - "You know you don't have to pay me. But of course, fact that you would anyways is why we're both artists. If you know you know."
Teddie Boyd (Slam) - They're on different places energy-wise, distance between them as far as the Milky Way to the edge of the observable universe, but she doesn't mind. He's cute.
Eunice St. Claire (LeslieFranc) - Eunice is, ah, difficult. But she's a good artist, despite whatever the bloody red miasma probably swirling around in her head tries to tell her.
'K' Emerson (MethodicalSlacker) - He probably exists in a different opaque-er dimension than she does. She liked that about him, but he didn't share the sentiment. Still, he's a cool dude. Words need not be exchanged.
'Alec Lewis (LeslieFranc) - She admires him from a distance. Impressive, captivating artist, who don't need no girl. No need to be worried, right? Maybe he breezes through girls at a bit of a dramatically rusty speed? Should be fine. Probably. Resist the urge to bother him, Cedar.
Kathleen Vozelinik (Jazzfat) - She really is the sweetest thing.
Amerika (Yonagoda) - "On an aesthetic level alone I adore her. Also, her dad is... I mean, that name had to come from somewhere, didn't it?"
Ren (Yonagoda) - The family buffet of choice for the Platoon members. Cedar's personal relationship with Ren is fine, they make for great LARP partners in the exceedingly rare times Cedar can be available for such. Something's amiss here and Cedar is concerned, but she's always concerned about everyone anyways so.
Nathan Kinnear (Jazzfat) - She gets the sense that he's hiding something behind that gross demeanor of his... but it is still gross.
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Hobby List - Programming, hackathons, speedrunning and video game exploits, (Close Friends) cooking, (Close Friends) piano, conspiracy theories, apocalyptic aesthetics, disaster prepping.
Reputation -
- Another face in the crowd for most. She's a lone wolf sort in most contexts, an unobtrusive doormat in group projects, so on.
- The people most likely to know her run in either edgy libertarian circles or are members of the anti-SOTF collection of misfits that usually meets off Endecott's grounds. These people know her mostly for being polite, agreeable, and reliable.
- Through the right connections (see the former bullet point) one can avail of Callie's unadvertised services. She's made custom apps, done tech support and password/data recovery, and even occasionally hacked emails and social media accounts for the purposes of pranks. Or maybe even more sinister things? She's possibly even attacked the school itself, phishing teacher's accounts to help clients cheat on tests, though I'll definitely need to run this by staff so this isn't as of yet formally canon. She seems to have zero qualms about any of this. Give her the money and she'll either do the job or refund it if it's beyond her. These services are not well known and Callie has probably ultimately done things like this only a handful of times outside of her tiny circle of friends.
- Callie's close friends might notice, if they're savvy enough, that Callie can be something of a simp for attention. She'll passive-aggressively push her views on the more impressionable in the group, jockey for power and victories in arguments for petty reasons, and generally talk out of both sides of her mouth when it suits her.
- Counterpart to the above is that she specifically seems to often pick friends who are not savvy enough.
- She sometimes ends up getting drawn into political or ideological arguments. Usually she comes off as even-tempered and a Devil's Advocate, with her actual positions being hard to pin down. She just seems to like stirring the pot.
- Close friends know she takes care of her older brother by herself, as the parents both work in China. The older brother is a total basic bitch only interested in League of Legends and money.
- Appearance brief: heavy girl with large hips, pale, purple-colored hair, often has very nice shoes.
Personality - A well-spoken and polite young woman who keeps quiet and to herself, putting out good grades in class and otherwise seeking as small a footprint as possible. She does not reject socialization, and has no particular problems with it, but she often comes off as not being particularly interested in conversation. Charitably she comes off as shy and introverted... and she doesn't come off un-charitably because she rarely deviates from her script when interacting with strangers. Close friends who know her understand that she's engaged only by very few topics and otherwise disinterested. She likes contrarianism- she prefers playing Devil's Advocate. She seems to accept being defeated in arguments and in other petty ways... as far as anyone else can tell.
General Timeline -
- She was in Salem for a brief period of time in her elementary school years, a quiet young girl who struggled with English and made no friends or lasting impression before moving back to China.
- She returned from China in time to start high school, taking on the name Callie and being slightly more introverted but also a far better academic performer than before. She made a few friends who attracted her interest early on and stuck to them almost exclusively.
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- - The edgy weirdos of school that she hangs out. Callie's interest in relationships is largely transactional- winning arguments, exchanging ideas, feeling important. She gets along best with others who are just as asinine as herself, and tends to slowly ghost when she feels she's being burdened by someone else's emotional needs, so on.
- People who've chanced into her orbit and ended up using her services? Some cool interesting things could be had here I think.
- I'm planning on doing something for pregame where Callie will be out of commission for a few weeks in pregame due to contracting Covid and being forced to quarantine. This will manifest in part with Callie not appearing directly in threads for a portion of V8 Pregame's IRL runtime, so I'd like to have a couple of avenues where she appears tangentially in other threads by way of things like text messaging- let me know if we can work something out here.
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- Birch (Zetsu) - There's a magnetism about something so powerful and delicate that Callie can't help but be drawn into. In spite of how much Birch doesn't deserve such a foreboding presence in their life. Not like Callie has ever cared about what's best for others before.
'Liya' Polaris (BlizzardeyeWonder) - Their arguments are charming, even if one-sided as far as Callie is concerned. Something about getting yelled at is cathartic in the best way. Liya being so sympathetic to Birch is kind of a mood killer though. Fixing them would only spoil the untarnished aesthetic of a broken genius.
'Penny' Yu (Yugikun) - Knows too much, as in, knew Callie back when Callie couldn't speak English and was a timid little shit. Callie certainly wouldn't mind converting Penny to the cause of having no cause.
Alex Avanesian (Applesintime) - *Canon-esque gesticulating to no particular end*
'K' Emerson (MethodicalSlacker) - Ideas are the freest form of exchange. He's good enough to keep himself out of her orbit otherwise though. She'd grudgingly respect him for that if she gave a shit.
'Nick Andretti' Andretti (Yugikun) - He does cool work in her eyes. Work is the operative word- their relationship begins and ends by the dollar. Not like she even asks for a big cut. She just wants to show off.
Amaryllis Perlman-Byrne (MethodicalSlacker) - "Realize you'd be the one getting EJK-ed during the Cultural Revolution?"
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Hobby List - Music especially with punk aesthetics, (Close Friends) guitar playing and song writing, horror movies, (Close Friends) history and geography, (Close Friends) trivia contests, leading and organizing group activities, fundraising events, volleyball, weightlifting, Muay Thai, dance, auto repair.
Reputation -
- She's the sort to take over in social settings when she thinks its needed, being decisive and energetic when she senses others need someone besides themselves to step up. However she is very sensitive, perhaps arguably overly so, to group dynamics, and can sense if she's not the top of the totem pole in her particular group. Put her up against another dominant personality and she will readily acquiesce to keep the peace.
- Her reputation in some ways is uneven, as her wishy-washy and aggressively pushy attitude can turn off a lot of people who 'cant handle her', as she would put it. She of all my cast is most likely to have people who actively hate her for having subjected them to what amounts to bullying and disrespect in the past.
- She is well known for her physical prowess in sports and martial arts, dedicating herself to a strict discipline of body. Her primary association is with the volleyball team, where she likely was a team captain either in the past or up to present and still exerts influence in general even if she's no longer captain. She's a disciplinarian, fair, and works on drilling good attitude and mindset into all her players, not being hesitant to confronting and somewhat bullying members not pulling their weight, pressuring people to perform at their peak.
- Beyond this she associates in a friendly way with all other school teams. She believes in solidarity among the athletes of Endecott at a time when the athletics department has taken a beating, and is a loud voice at the forefront of organizing events to raise money and garner local attention to their plight.
- Close friends may understand to some extent that she's quite the pessimist and has a deterministic outlook, that she often approaches problems in a very linear way and is easy to concede defeat and move on.
- Appearance brief: intimidating hourglass-shape brickhouse, casual about showing skin, consistently reps the volleyball team with one of several sets of team jackets she owns.
Personality - Ash can be described as harsh in a way, where her language tends to be very brusque and she'll casually use dour language and morbid references without thinking she'll kill the mood. Close friends know that Ash virtually bathes in the macabre and existentially fragile to an extent that almost matches her younger sister Katelyn's own black hole of an ominous personality. However this black, haunted spirit gets used in a relentlessly forward way. Ash is the sort who pushes and pushes when she believes it is for the greater good. She encourages people in her orbit to be better and to fight, and often does not readily accept no as an answer in the long-run (in the short run she is predisposed to keeping the peace). She's a creature of social habit, very self-conscious, and her machismo can readily fold under pressure into something more simpering and lacking muscle.
General Timeline -
- Anyone in her early school days with her knew she was always the sort to leap into the fray and take charge, along with trying to play negotiator in her own headstrong, bullish way. Close friends back then will know she complained about her younger sister Katelyn. A lot.
- Close friends know their parents died when the girls were in middle school. Everyone who was there at the time knows Ashlyn got held back a year in middle school, though Ash herself is very defensive and non-specific about that when its brought up.
- Ashlyn got super into her physical activity hobbies like sports and martial arts thereafter. She was very active in school and extracurricular activities, primarily pouring her energy into school teams.
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- - People who look up to her for her work ethic and dedication to the school's athletics program. She's a strong advocate for all the teams, mediocre as most of them are, and she's likely familiar with and friendly with most other school athletes like her through her efforts to organize fundraisers and show matches to raise local interest, so on. She's probably even friendly with the Quidditch team.
- A few old friends who've eventually fallen out of love with her tendency to strong arm go-gettem self-improvement and be relentlessly positive along with not understanding neurodiversity would probably help me emphasize some of the nuances of her persona. She probably left these relationships on ice at some point after feeling they'd stopped appreciating her, but still publicly puts on airs of being close to them to save face. Could be interesting!
- I'm strongly vibing with the idea that Ash is bi and at a 4-5 on the Kinsey Scale, meaning that most of her romantically active life has been spent being interested in other girls. Crushes and things that actually blossomed into dates or other brief romantic flames, probably between Freshman and early Junior year before she developed her interest in Salem, who would probably be the first guy she was into outside of unattainable actors and fictional characters.
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- Salem Fox (Handlercest) - A public, low-key relationship that is neither dramatic nor lovey-dovey. Close friends are probably surprised at how natural and maturely the duo seem to slot together.
Eugene Marcus (MethodicalSlacker) - She was there for him before the fall, and stays there for him after. Nothing needs to change, sometimes. Just the little things- changing how a friendship works can be enough. If anything he gets to see a side of her she very rarely shows off because its kinda lame.
Juanita Reid (Gundham) - "All these fucking injuries- school was built on a Native American burial site, wasn't it? I trust her, and no injury changes that- she needs me more than ever. Everything else is water under the bridge, to drown in."
Jessica Romero (Deamon) - Keeps her head in the game, and thus keeps her name high on Ash's 'I'd trust 'em with my money or my life' list.
'Ara' Canlas (LeslieFranc) - One of the best on the team, no doubt. Ara's one issue is that she makes a big deal out of Ash's efforts to keep the laggards of the team improving. A vocal big deal. Ash is trying to keep the peace- Ara's earned that much.
Richard Buster (Buko) - "Four words. Big Dick for president."
Fred Hobbes (midnight_twelve) - "Yeah, but have I told you about our lord and savior Big Dick today?"
Lydia Pulkinen (BlizzardeyeWonder) - Theoretically only acquaintances, but Ash's low-key need to indulge her love of the horror genre with anyone who isn't Kitty can make her... eager. Lydia has one dedicated subscriber, at least.
Evie McKown (Dr Adjective) - Probably could have worked out. No regrets, Ash asked, it didn't work out. Life moves on until it stops for good.
Chloé Delacroix (midnight_twelve) - Ashlyn honestly can't tell if she wants her or wants to be her. How the hell can someone make it look that effortless and not be an immortal vampire ripping blood out of the sick?
Spuds Bullock (Slam) - Not a lot of people out there who get it, but Ash always thought she was beautiful.
Benjamin Beecham (Irredeemable) - Sparring partner. Her favorite name for them is Bebe, that's just unfairly adorable.
Kiana Coleman (Aster) - She respects the glow up.
Rebekah Hayes (Gundham) - Ash wonders if there would be potential for something deeper here if she opened up more. They're both outcasts in their own very private way... but no, Ash would never really consider exposing a weak point just like that. No need to take massive damage in her life. Not again.
Amaryllis Perlman-Byrne (MethodicalSlacker) - Sometimes things just fade, like the flicker of a bodiless head's eyelids. Ash cared enough about Amaryllis to drop her schedule to help her out with her musical ambitions, but... Amaryllis had changed, and Ash guesses she just doesn't get her old friend anymore.
Clover Wilkinson-Crowheart (Yugikun) - She remembers they were friends at... some point? Bad things were happening to them both in middle school, but as far as Ash is concerned they both got over it. Different circles in life now, all that. Just like how ringworm is recurrent.
Matthew Bell (Applesintime) - Sure. Why not. If he touches Kitty he's not surviving to his first day of basic.
Giselle (Yonagoda) - Not the worst person in the world but Ash thinks someone as talented as her could be more... put together? Less annoying? She's fine but sometimes pushing it. People who are this aggravating need to have some form of positive value to make up for it.
Isaiah (Yonagoda) - He's alright. She actually likes him a fair bit but she respects he probably doesn't have as much regard for her. No need to push things.
Betty (Yonagoda) - Past is the past. Gets forgotten eventually.
Teddie Boyd (Slam) - She likes him but god is he too much. If she wanted her brains to soupify she'd rip them out and boil them herself.
Katelyn 'Kitty' Graves (Volt Turtle) - A quietly toxic sisterhood predicated on Ash being unable to come to terms with how she used to be an abusive older sister. She will awkwardly baby Kitty, ignore her, or sometimes almost lapse into her familiar old anger and obsessive criticism, all alternately.
Ren (Yonagoda) - Not everything has to work out. Ash, at least, actually bothered to put in the effort. Ren reminds Ash of Salem in a way, but way more... pathetic? Boring?
Ren (Zetsu) - Ash thinks it's good Kitty's getting more friends, sure. But she can keep them to herself.
'Raf' Halili (Aster) - And people call Ash the one with a stick up her ass. She can tolerate him but if she didn't have skin as thick as she does, she'd probably outright dislike the PoS. She already does happily shit talk him behind his back, after all.
Nathan Kinnear (Jazzfat) - Damn transphobe. If Ash could lead the football team he'd be out on his ass in a minute.
(note, his name was planned long before V8 dropped. Deamon colluded!!)
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Hobby List - Parties, being a flirt, dance, shitposting, anime, webcomics, sketching and inking, (Close Friends) journalism and interviewing, watching competitive sports, politics, (Close Friends) public policy, history and geography.
Reputation -
- Generally highly popular, investing a lot of his time into being a friendly face and showing genuine interest in most people.
- That said he's somewhat distracted seeming and drifts between groups of people, so not all people will probably be fond of his more casual approach to friendships and relationships.
- He is mostly straight but has no issues with interested men's attentions. In fact, he's a bit too eager to play into it and accidentally leads on boys on for fun. Probably a negative against his reputation among the right people, but by now most people who might be interested should probably know through osmosis that he's never actually expressed proper interest in men before.
- He is friendly with most, but specifically tries to casually flirt with most girls who don't immediately push him away. Despite having a girlfriend- she doesn't mind. His intentions are strictly platonic, and he hopes to bolster spirits and confidence with his charming attentions. Of course, despite not being pushy in his own view he can probably still readily come off like this. His overall reputation in this aspect is probably positive though? I imagine most in the know buy into his view that its harmless fun, but I could stand to be proven wrong here.
- Most people at school know him as socially conscious and casually promoting of all the in-vogue political statements of his youth, curating a twitter of Leftist shitposting and solidarity. Close friends, or a few of them who've been around most his life and know better, know that he's more of a center-left, socdem policy wonk and is not at all casual in the depth of his knowledge in political theory and policy. He keeps the more serious business part of his life primarily to himself- very few people know he's an anonymous contributor to the local paper, closely follows local politics and developments, nor that he overperforms academically and has strong ambitions for college and beyond.
- He attends all of the parties. Is invited to most where he hasn't specifically pissed off whoever managed the guest list, and he has no qualms about crashing the few he's not explicitly invited to because he can often find friends and allies in the crowd anyways.
- He is specifically not a gossip. Anything salacious he learns he keeps to himself. Close friends will know his general philosophy is that school drama is boring and beneath him- he has bigger fish to fry, as an intrepid reporter.
- Appearance brief: proud femboy aesthetic, slender, lean muscle with a thicc rear, messy curly hair worn in a close bob, usually wears women's casualwear and cute athletic clothes.
Personality - Close friends know that Salem is very well put-together, the most organized and ambitious member of his family unit, with a keen interest in changing society and the world. Possibly to the point where he's into it more for his own ego and legacy. More generally speaking he's very casual, relaxed, and weathers other's criticisms in good faith. He's never been known to raise his voice, not even to call on people's attention, and he would generally be described as soft-spoken in concert with his naturally feminine mannerisms. He's an attentive listener, engaging with people he's speaking with and following up with questions and further interest. He's well capable of ranting about pet interests when given the floor, but often is mildly too self-aware for even that. In general he can come off as either suave and easy-going or guarded and calculating in the way he speaks, depends on who's being asked.
General Timeline - Waiting on collaborating with Deamon to flesh this out.
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- - The reactions of girls he's flirted with, in general, relatively distant or recent past. Be it with friends, or even in passing with girls he doesn't have much history with he will usually be unafraid to open into conversations and compliments as he sees fit. He'll stop when he gets that he's not welcome, or stop himself if the girl is being too receptive... though he might milk it a bit and lead her on a bit, for the sake of his own fun.
- The few people, mostly other liberals, who might be aware of his escapades in punditry and investigating local and Boston-based politicians. He probably actively talks politics with these folk on a private Discord or something, otherwise keeping other pretenses for their association in public.
- I'm sure some people are suspicious of him. Non-specifically seeing through the façade if they get a sense that one exists. Give me a pitch or a few there if your character has the emotional quotient? Or maybe if your kid is connected with politics themselves.
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- Ashlyn Graves (Handlercest) - A public, low-key relationship that is neither dramatic nor lovey-dovey. Close friends are probably surprised at how natural and maturely the duo seem to slot together.
California Fox (Deamon) - His older sister. She worries him and causes him stress, usually because he's first line defense in picking up after her mistakes, but he adores her all the same. Her influence mellowed him out significantly, he used to be much more of a stick-in-the-mud.
Amaryllis Perlman-Byrne (MethodicalSlacker) - She probably should find him more intolerable than she does, but he's quite agreeable with her politics. The two have a good, platonically playful dynamic. She can (and is trying to!) rip his professional life secrets out of his cold dead hands, but he's no conversational slouch.
Coda Taylor (MethodicalSlacker) - The school's meme pages don't write themselves. They also don't get written at all, that's how Coda and Salem roll.
'Danger Dave' Cooper (Gundham) - For maximum aesthetic Salem should have bought his friendship too, but actually getting along as mutually flaky trolls is also an acceptable vibe.
Giselle (Yonagoda) - "Next time you shoot me down do it with a gun though."
Molly Ramirez (ViolentMedic) - Everything about this was and still is hilarious. Molly's good people, and she doesn't deserve to get stuck with Salem honestly. Not like Ash does, anyhow.
Jessica Lee-Smith (Irredeemable) - One of those rare girls where Salem is the one caught off guard, not vice versa. If he didn't know her any better he'd swear she was a method actor or something. Nobody could possibly be that oblivious?
Richard Buster (Buko) - There's nothing wrong with ambition. Work hard, play harder.
Bethany Lyon (Dr Adjective) - Don't ask him how it's possible, he also has no fucking idea. Does he even like her that much? Respect and disdain are both two-syllable words.
Chloé Delacroix (midnight_twelve) - Salem probably could have ended up like her if he'd been willing to try harder? Or maybe it's better this way. He hopes the best for her, even after all this time. Someday they might be the leaders of tomorrow. Or like, she will be. He will be yucking it up on some shitty Destiny-tier podcast somewhere.
John Kieran Jr. (Jazzfat) - Salem really has to stop sinking free time into the nation RP before he passes a time of no return.
'Lulu' Lujan (Buko) - Kinda creepy opinion alert: whoever ends up being her baby's new father is going to be the luckiest dude on earth. She's too cool.
Eunice St. Claire (LeslieFranc) - He's honestly a bit surprised she let him talk to her more after that death glare when he did his usual flirty thing. She always seems so agitated? Not his place to presume he can do anything about it, but he feels for her.
'Alec Lewis (LeslieFranc) - A friendlier face in a party crowd. Of many. School's got a surprising amount of good comic artists, doesn't it?
'Ara' Canlas (LeslieFranc) - Hit job on her ego and it totally worked. Mission accomplished.
Juanita Reid (Gundham) - What can he say? It looked like she needed the pick-me-up.
'Penny' Yu (Yugikun) - They hooked up for a bit. Just long enough to not wear out either of their welcomes.
'Liya' Polaris (BlizzardeyeWonder) - If she thinks he's an idiot, she's not far from the truth. The secret to engaging people to your ideology is? Don't. But he's not going to tell her that and spoil her fun.
Lydia Pulkinen (BlizzardeyeWonder) - 'If you want 250 pages of repetitive, amateurish, fetishistically detailed descriptions of women having their breasts eaten by giant praying mantises, this is the book for you.' (His version of) her words, not his.
Isaiah (Yonagoda) - Better man than Salem is, that's for sure.
Matthew Bell (Applesintime) - Well, technically they are still cool. Salem isn't going to blame Matt for his reputation becoming a liability, but he's certainly not going to handle it either.
Mateo de Guzmán (Jan de Witt) - Could you try any harder? Salem's certainly not that impressed.
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Hobby List - Bible study, academics and studying, learning languages, foreign policy and geopolitics, Model United Nations, drama club, (Close Friends) gossip and peoplewatching.
Reputation -
- Doesn't really exist. Another face in the crowd who randomly appears out of nowhere during your kid's group lab or whatever and then proceeds to keep to herself after the fact.
- Similarly to her very close friend Karin, Soo-bin in her idle moments seems somewhat unapproachable at a glance because she has a severe case of resting bitch face. Even Soo-bin's most casual glances can come off as arbitrarily venomous and judgmental. She's usually very engrossed in homework or some form of other supplementary academic reading in public, but some people have probably learned to not approach her before even speaking a word in her direction.
- Even close friends are very unlikely to be aware of Soo-bin's deep seated issues. She keeps things quite close to her chest and is also good at projecting the idealized 'normal' version of herself, someone who is an introvert and keeps few friends but is a good and loyal friend to those she does have.
- Friends in the clubs she is in (MUN, drama, Christian club) know she's a hard worker and takes club activities and preparation very seriously. She can also be very despondent if she makes mistakes. For her MUN friends specifically they may note her unique note-taking, where she draws and relates simple images to form concepts instead of writing down the dense amounts of information she needs for MUN activities.
- Despite how political her interests are she is typically disinterested in talking politics outside of the context of engaging in her hobbies. She recuses herself from this manner of conversation promptly. Her actual politics she will reveal if asked, and she's a fairly standard liberal with a fairly non-malicious ignorance of a lot of social issues.
- She knows fluent ASL despite not being deaf herself. Indeed she seems to enjoy communicating this way more than any other, though she will not go out of her way to befriend someone deaf or hard of hearing just for this commonality alone, without other connections to mutually endear them.
- Her father is an SOTF-brand 'big and Important' sort, at least in some circles. Valente Esteve Kim-Reyes has served in multiple prior presidential administrations as a specialist in Asian foreign policy and at the peak of his career was the former Ambassador to South Korea (probably need staff permission here, so consider this pending). He now teaches full time in The Fletcher School at Tufts, and probably has spoken to some of Soo-bin's friends before if they have an interest in picking his brain.
- Appearance brief: average height and scrawny, tan skin, dresses down most days and avoids attention-drawing fashion, seems to love all manner of hats.
Personality - Close friends know that Soo-bin must work very hard for her good grades and can still struggle with them sometimes, leading her to have the general veneer of your typical overachieving high school who is trying way too hard and may be approaching burn out. In casual settings she comes off as stand-offish, and only close friends understand that she simply doesn't want too many friends... for whatever reason. She is willing to converse casually if someone can get past her intimidating aura, and she speaks with a mellifluous tone, able to use multiple languages if your child is so inclined. Korean, English, Spanish, ASL. Occasionally she does seem to struggle finding the proper words in speaking, upwards of whole awkward seconds at a time, though she maintains her composure through these incidents.
General Timeline - As an extremely introverted mostly-friendless sweater girl background NPC for most of her life who only kind of blossomed fairly recently this probably doesn't need to be too fleshed out, but I'll formalize this at some point.
Most important to understand: she only joined MUN within the past two years, only joined Drama Club when Karin did. She was probably in Christian Club all the years it existed.
- [+] Relationships Specifically Looking For
- - Her friends from her clubs, for the most part.
- Maybe a guy or two to crush on? I'll keep an eye out for this myself but feel free to propose something if you think it'll be interesting!
- Few more of the socially timid folk who are intimidated by her in general would help sell that particular part of her countenance I think.
- [+] Established Ideas Here
- Isaiah (Yonagoda) - Yeah, she'd have left herself behind too if she'd been him. He still gives her more attention than she deserves and its... nice? Kinda stings.
'Karin' Han (Gundham) - It takes a special friend to make one unironically believe in alien abductions being covered up by the government. Karin is the reason Soo-bin has half the interests she does. Life defining type of relationship.
Bethany Lyon (Dr Adjective) - "Can't let her down. I'd rather die then let her realize I can't handle it."
Mateo de Guzmán (Jan de Witt) - It's certainly difficult for Soo-bin to keep up with the tenor of his academic ambitions, but she tries her best on his behalf. It's rare she gets to feel she can actually impart knowledge as opposed to perpetually struggling to take it in herself.
Darryl Smith Jr. (Deamon) - She doesn't take his trolling so personally, or at least tries not to. They both know it can snap one of her particularly high-strung strings if he's not careful. To his credit, he's gotten better about it since that day.
Max McCormick (Irredeemable) - She tries to keep an open mind, at any rate.
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