Pineapple "Pippi" Bloodworth

[Lilith]

Name: Pineapple “Pippi” Bloodworth
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Grade: 12th
Hobbies and Interests: Academics, Mathematical Olympiads, taking care of her cat, school council, GSA, disability-rights activism, Mu Alpha Theta

Appearance: Pineapple is average looking without her makeup and clothes. She is from Hispanic descent. Her skin is light, but it becomes darker in the summer months. She is 5’6”, and weighs about 140 pounds. Her weight is evenly distributed across her body with the only exception being her face that is noticeable chubbier. She has many freckles on her face on her face, arms, and upper body. Her natural brown hair is dyed platinum blonde with pink and blue streaks.

Pippi’s style can be best described as eccentric and attention grabbing. She wears bright-colored clothes with many accessories. She doesn’t follow a color pattern, preferring creating a messy combination alike to a rainbow. Her hair is pinned back with pastel accessories such as hair pins and bows. Her clothes are mainly loose-fitting simply because she enjoys comfort.

On the day of the casting, Pippi was wearing her typical outfits and accessories. She had a loose pastel pink shirt with the design of an alien saying “Take me home!” along a dog chasing its tail. She had black leggings and a pair of flower patterned Dr. Martens. She wore three chokers of varying designs and colors alongside a pair of disco ball earrings. Her makeup is only halfway done due to the time of the casting, leaving her with a cakey foundation without any colors. In her personal bag, she had three more chokers, four pairs of socks of varying sizes, one pair of fingerless gloves, ten barrettes and a pair of white sunglasses with pink lenses.

Biography: Pippi Bloodworth was born to Tracie Bloodworth and Maurice Hinsley. Maurice is a lawyer who works with disability-rights activists and Tracie, a business owner. Pippi has two siblings Neveah (15) and Kafele (6). Due to their income, they are part of the upper class and they have a lavish lifestyle. The family added a new member in the recent year, Chisulo Kumanda, a South African nurse who immigrated to Miami, Florida. He is the biological father of Kafele, and after an acrimonious legal case, the legal father of Pippi, Neveah and Kafele.

Pippi’s early years were marked by extreme poverty. Tracie was an unsuccessful performance artist who served table to attempt to meet ends and Maurice’s career as a lawyer was put behind due to an accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Due to their low-income and their need for specialized housing for Maurice, Tracie took out several loans. Their accumulated debts reached to several thousands of dollars, creating a stressful environment where the family often needed to cut down their spending to avoid. Pippi grew up with the oppressive feeling of poverty weighing down on her which severely affected her personality and behaviour. Despite not understanding her situation, Pippi felt responsible of her family’s money issues. She often avoided asking for gifts as a way to make herself smaller and less expensive.

Maurice and his family’s living condition became known after an interview with a news station. A GoFundMe was created with the goal of a hundred thousand of dollar to help with the accommodation of Maurice’s new housing and his family’s expenses. The goal was reached, and went beyond what they asked, reaching approximately three hundred thousand dollars. Due to their sudden financial comfort, Tracie was able to launch herself into business. She bought one bar and converted it to a stripper club, then continued to ascend the business ladder. Pippi was, however, still in a mindset that their income was precarious. Even after the birth of her little sister, Neveah, which was celebrated with a lavish ceremony, Pippi continued to feel the pressure. She felt guilty when receiving gifts and when money was spent on her.

Tracie and Maurice knew of their daughter’s feelings. While they managed to reach out to her, the damage was already done. Pippi’s self-confidence was next to nothing, and she became more and more reclusive over time. As an attempt to make her happy, Tracie got her a cat on her 6th birthday. Pippi was in ecstasy as she wanted a cat for years, but never fully disclosed it due to the fear of being shutdown. She named her cat Zelda. While Neveah was initially uninterested in the new family pet, Pippi took her responsibilities seriously.

As she started elementary school, Pippi continued to be a meek and lonely kid, but proved to be smart and efficient student. Pippi knew how to read, write, and do moderately complicated mathematical equations before starting first grade. Her teacher recommended to her parents to test her IQ. She scored 131 in a standardized intelligence quotient test. Pippi then skipped a year, and she was transferred to a gifted classroom, and it was then she realized her potential. Pippi figured out that while she lacked in certain aspects of life, she could always make it up with her intelligence.Therefore, she decided to concentrate on her strength than her glaring weaknesses.

However, she continued to lack in the social department. While she wasn’t bullied, Pippi managed to earn a reputation of being a strange kid. She was passionate about chess, her cat, and mathematics, but never talked about any other topics or directly engaged with other kids. Her reputation as the harmless weird girl became even more clear after Tracie’s bought two new stripper clubs. When she revealed to her classmates about her mom’s business ventures during a class about their parents’ professions, several calls were made by concerned parents to her homeroom teacher. Tracie met up with a group of questioning parents and the teacher of her daughter, and even after their first inquiries and questions were cleared up, the kids continued to treat Pippi differently. Pippi realized that revealing more details about her parents’ lives could be harmful to her school life, and she decided to not talk about her family life around her peers.

Neveah wasn’t the same type of achiever as Pippi. Since she never faced poverty during her development, she was used to living a lavish and comfortable lifestyle. She started training as a gymnast quite young, and the difference between the two sister grew bigger. Neveah might have been the youngest of the two, but she was the more popular one. Her parents were also greatly supportive of her attempt as a gymnast, which led to Pippi to question what could she do to gather this type of attention. Pippi decided to listen to her teacher’s advice of starting Mathematical Olympiads. After winning school wide competition, Pippi started to receive the attention she desired from her parents. She then participated in the Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools while she was in 5th grade. Once again, she won. While there weren’t any cash prizes, Pippi was showered in gifts and praises from her parents. Realizing that this occupation meant a potential secure future, Pippi push herself to her limits in this discipline.

During middle school, Maurice’s career as a lawyer took off once again. This now meant her two parents were successful, and they had the money to prove it. While Tracie was the breadwinner because of her businesses, Maurice’s job fascinated Pippi. The disability-rights activism movement was a big motivator for Maurice’s professional endeavours, and Pippi would enjoy reading and learning about it. While she wasn’t disabled herself, she became more aware of the condition of disabled people in America. She knew about her father’s accident while lead to his disability and its financial and emotional repercussions on the family. Knowing about all these things, Pippi started working toward making her school a more accepting environment. She petitioned for a wheelchair access and she volunteered to help out with disabled students.

Pippi continued to gain excellent grades in middle school. As a way to cope with her intense studying regime, Pippi started drinking coffee. What started to be a little boost became an addiction, and her consummation of coffee soon became a problem. While her parents were aware of it, they didn’t do anything to stop her. On the contrary, they enabled it because she continued to get good grades and do at a high level in Mathematical Olympiads. Only her little sister, Neveah, took action to nurse her sister’s addiction. After an intervention staged in her bedroom, Pippi admitted she had a problem. She didn’t quite know how to fix it, simply because it was something she needed to have to perform at a high level. Neveah started helping her sister out by simply being around her. The bond between the two became stronger, and while fights did happen, the sisters became a team. While Pippi was still addicted to caffeine, the support from her sister helped her cut down on her consumption. When Pippi had withdrawal symptoms, Neveah was the first one to help alleviate it. In a way, Neveah became Pippi’s best friend.

At school, however, Pippi was a still a weird creature. She joined the chess club and the student council as the treasurer, but other than that, her social interactions were limited to her discussing about the topics she loved. When she was questioned about other topics than disability-rights activism, Mathematical Olympiads, and her cat, Pippi had trouble clearly forming her opinion. She simply let herself be swayed by her classmates’ opinions. After quitting the chess club because of her schedule, she stayed in contacts with her friends. She continued to see them after classes and eat lunch with them.

Pippi’s academical career only got weirder as she progressed to high school. She was first approached by the Mangrove Garden High School after a competition. At first, she was quite interested to continue her studies in a private school simply out of her personal prejudice toward the system since she found it broken and obsolete. However, she still took up the opportunity to take the entrance tests. Pippi managed to receive the scholarship, but she felt extremely conflicted. One part of her wanted to take up the offer simply because it meant she wouldn’t need to spend money on tuition therefore saving her a lot in the long run while another part of her knew she didn’t really need the scholarship. After a lengthy deliberation with her family and friends, she refused the offer but then decided to do her studies at the school with her parents paying her tuition. In the end, she realized this was the best option because she gave an opportunity to a less fortunate person to attend the school while feeling good about it.

Tracie’s libertarian lifestyle and Maurice’s work meant they met several interesting people. One of them was Chisulo Kumanda, a nurse on South Africa who immigrated to Florida. Originally close friends, Maurice and Chisulo grew closer which led to an affair that Tracie supported. He had a son from a previous affair, Kafele. Chisulo was introduced as a family friend to Neveah and Pippi. Neveah started having doubts her father and Chisulo’s relationship, and after questioning, Tracie admitted that they were in a polyamorous relationship. Pippi was the last one to learn about it, and she was quite shocked. Since this was before starting high school and she already had the experience of the public embarrassment after revealing her mom’s business, Pippi was quite scared of the event to repeat itself. Pippi’s feelings of confusion were acknowledged by Maurice, Tracie, and Chisulo. The latter decided to avoid joining the family home until their kids were okay with the situation. Neveah quickly changed her mind, opening Chisulo with open arms, and Kafele was still very young and he adapted to the situation. Pippi, however, continued to worry. After about six months into her first year of high school, Pippi reluctantly agreed to make her parents happy.

As a way to cope with her new family life, Pippi became engrossed in her studies and the Mathematical Olympiads. She participated in the Math Prize for Girls. Despite having only local success, she tied with the other winners and received a money prize of nine thousand dollars. After winning, she was invited to join the Mu Alpha Theta, an honor society with the goal to promote the development of mathematics in students. Pippi continued to take part in events. During her last year of high school, Pippi has been training for the Harvard–MIT Mathematics Tournament with a team made up of students in her area. While she aces individual rounds, she lacks in teamwork skills. She is quite incapable to take leadership, and sometimes, she is even harmful to her quietness. Pippi’s social skill did get better as a result of working with the team, but she still struggles to make her voice clear.

As a way to spend less time at home, Pippi took up the treasurer spot in the student council at her high school. She was picked because she was part of her middle school's school council and her expertise in mathematics. Other than planning budget for school events, Pippi is very lax about her job. She doesn’t really know what she’s doing but she’s happy to help her school in their PR endeavours. She also spends a lot of time at the GSA. Her sexuality isn’t something she has a spent a long time thinking about simply because she’s too busy. In a way, she considers asexual but she knows for a fact she might not be simply because she doesn’t have enough experiences to be sure. At the club, she simply uses the label ‘questioning’.

Pippi’s personality is hard to describe simply because she tends to contradict herself. While she is very smart in academic settings and in her competitions, she tends to become airheaded in social interactions. She struggles with social rules and decorum, but she maintains some type of functional basis that doesn’t get her in trouble. Many of her friends don’t really understanding how her brain works, but she manages to keep them around with her genuine friendliness with them. She still struggles with conversation topics she isn’t comfortable with, often changing the topics to things she likes in the middle of the conversation. She copes through her apathy. When things go wrong in her life, she just stops caring. It makes her feel on the top of the situation if she acts like it doesn’t affect her. can, however, be serious when people are upset or angry but she still keeps a distance between herself and the problem.

Meanwhile, Maurice, Chisulo and Tracie were making a solid case for their parental rights. Due to the nature of their relationship, the judge initially refused giving Chisulo the parental rights to Neveah and Pippi, and didn’t grant Maurice nor Tracie the rights to Kafele. This lengthy acrimonious process finally finished in the year of 2020. Because of several historical precedents, the parents were official granted their rights to their kids after demonstrating their stable lives and the testimonies of the children.

Pippi’s relationship with her family can be seen as strange simply because of the parent's dynamic. She is very close to her little sister Neveah, but she feels awkward around her new step father. She does genuinely love Kafele, and often spends time with him. Zelda is now elderly and she meticulously takes care. Her love for her pet continues to be one of her motivator in her daily life. Tracie’s business did put a slight wedge in their relationship. She was originally picked as the successor of the business, but Pippi felt too uncomfortable to follow up with it. The new designated heir would be Neveah, but due to her young age, she wasn’t introduced to the business world. With the lack of clear heir, Tracie started to become stressed and worried about her future in the business world. However, Pippi has declared that she might interested in the continuing the family business after her studies. Tracie feels very proud of her two daughters and she continues to support them in their endeavours. Chisulo is now the full-time caretaker of his partner, Maurice, something that helped the relationship between Pippi and her dads.

Pippi’s style truly evolved into a complete mess in her final year of high school. It was slowly building up toward its climax since she was always the weird kid in her year. Since her little sister became complete gothic due to Jewel from Season 66 of Sotf-Tv, Pippi decided to become the complete opposite to taunt her in a friendly way. Principally inspired by Pinterest and other social media, she has begun to transform herself into a chaotic eccentric character. Since she always been meek, Pippi decided to create a character to avoid the pressure of life. By carrying this over-the-top persona around at school and at her competitions, she manages to enjoy her daily life despite her high stress levels. Her style became an armor to put up between the world and herself, attracting the attention of her peers toward her clothes and not her personality. Her mom was into the idea and she is known to buy Pippi’s new pieces of clothing when her daughter wins at her competitions.

The real fan of Sotf-TV in the home was always Neveah, but Pippi was a close second. She never watched the livestream because she simply didn’t enjoy viewing unedited footage. However, she always gets around to watch the replays after the season ends. What particularly attracted Pippi to the show were the escapees and the winners since they always lived through the actual story. She never really enjoyed watching people who died in the show because she just doesn’t feel attracted to them. The winners and the escapees always stuck because she could follow them on social media and she could feel some type of connection with these people.

The disability-rights activism, her participation in Mathematical Olympiads, and her perfect GPA landed her a scholarship at the University of Miami. The ExxonMobil/LNESC Scholarship was granted to her after applying for it earlier in the year. After getting her license, Tracie bought her a car and she decided she would commute to her new school instead of moving out to a new place since she fears being away from the financial support of her family. She is planning to get her undergraduate degree in civil engineering. After that, she knows she will continue her studies in a related field. Pippi’s first priority is still her studies. Her Mathematical Olympiads career is a close second, she plans to continue participating in competition in college as a way to earn a reputation and work her way up the academic ladder and possibly becoming a known figure in the community.

Advantages: Pippi is booksmart. She is quick-witted and she enjoys challenging herself. While she isn’t a major fan of the show, Pippi is aware of many strategies that winners and escapes have used in the past.
Disadvantages: Pippi’s personality is the biggest deterrent to her survival odds. She is rather airheaded outside of academic settings and she struggles with taking situations seriously. She is out of shape.

[MurderWeasel]

Heya, Lilith! Pippi's looking pretty solid but she is DENIED pending a few adjustments/expansions.

How long is Pippi's hair? What color are her eyes? Does she have any piercings aside from earrings (and are those just the standard one-apiece in the lobes)? Also, can I maybe get another couple notable facial features for her? What do her eyes look like? Her nose and ears?

"In her personal bag, she had three more chokers, four pairs of socks of varying sizes, one pair of fingerless gloves, ten barrettes and a pair of white sunglasses with pink lenses." <- Unlike Main and SC, kids in TV don't get to keep bags with them. If Pippi wants to shove some or all of this stuff into her pockets when she gets picked, that's fine--there's no issue with the items, just she doesn't get to keep a bag.

Why did Pippi's parents give her such an unusual given name (Pineapple)? How does she feel about it? Has it caused her any trouble over her life?

Can we get it cleared up here: "Pippi Bloodworth was born to Tracie Bloodworth and Maurice Hinsley." who the mother is and who the father is? With both having fairly gender-neutral names, it's a bit difficult to say until a paragraph later, which adds a bit of confusion. Also, were Tracie's parents married? Why was Tracie given her mother's surname?

What was the accident that paralyzed Maurice?

Why did the crowdfunding for Maurice's aid blow up to such a big degree? Who set it up to begin with? What prompted Tracie to decide on a bar/strip club as her entrepreneurial focus? Was there any concern over using charity for such ends? Was there any backlash over this?

(A potential way to avoid the somewhat prickly questions surrounding crowdfunding and the fallout thereof, that could still allow for Pippi's family's change in fortunes and make the bar pivot a little less likely to draw ire, would be a legal settlement of some form due to the accident. Lawsuits can take many years, potentially still leaving the family struggling while the case drags through court and appeals, but the payoff would be less likely to bring major public scrutiny/disapproval to a more salacious establishment.)

Why was Pippi's self-confidence specifically hit so hard by her difficult early years?

At what age did Pippi's mom acquire further clubs? Where did she get the funding to do so?

Can I get a bit of clarification on how well exactly Pippi was doing with her math competitions? Was she winning in the context of her school, or was she taking first in worldwide competitions?

The American Disabilities Act requires schools to be accessible for wheelchairs, so there should be a ramp already. Could Pippi's activism maybe be changed to, perhaps, repairing/better maintaining neglected fixtures, rather than installing entirely new ones? It hits a similar niche but raises fewer questions about the school.

What sorts of problems did Pippi's caffeine addiction cause her? Why was Naveah concerned?

What was the schedule conflict with chess club? Did Pippi keep up with the game even outside of the club, or did her interest fall away?

"At first, she was quite interested to continue her studies in a private school simply out of her personal prejudice toward the system since she found it broken and obsolete." <- Which system is being referred to here?

"Originally close friends, Maurice and Chisulo grew closer which led to an affair that Tracie supported. He had a son from a previous affair, Kafele." <- Can this be rephrased a bit? Maybe swap "affair" for "romantic connection" or something (so it sounds a bit less like infidelity, since it's not--Tracie's cool with it!) and maybe swap the "He" at the start of the second sentence to "Chisulo" and dig a bit into why he has primary custody of Kafele.

"She is quite incapable to take leadership, and sometimes, she is even harmful to her quietness." <- Can you dig into this a little more? How is Pippi's quietness harmful? Does she fail to make corrections even when she knows the answer? Is it bad for morale?

Does Pippi lack sexual experiences, or does she lack feelings of attraction towards others? What drew her to the GSA? What makes it important enough to her to devote time to, while her own sexuality isn't (is it perhaps her parents' non-traditional relationship)?

Can I hear a bit more in the way of specifics about Pippi's relationships with her father and stepfather?

It seems a little early to be discussing passing stewardship of an establishment Pippi can't actually legally enter yet to her--especially in a situation where judges and the legal system are poking closely into the family's dynamics.

TV3 takes place roughly four months after the conclusion of TV2, so Pippi's style would be quite new still. How did her changes come off to her friends? How does her sister feel about the friendly teasing? How has this renewed confidence affected other aspects of Pippi's life?

Why does Pippi want to study civil engineering instead of following a pure math major to further her academic study of mathematics?

Can I hear more about Pippi's poor physical condition? Is she in worse shape than the average student at her school? How does it affect her normal life?

Also, her difficulties asserting herself and working in group situations probably are notable enough to be mentioned as disadvantages.

And a bit of grammar:

"She has many freckles on her face on her face, arms, and upper body." -> "She has many freckles on her face, arms, and upper body." (repetition deleted)

"Tracie’s libertarian lifestyle" -> "Tracie’s libertine lifestyle" (libertarian has more political connotations, while libertine is more crazy free-thinker sexually progressive)

"can, however, be serious when people are upset or angry but she still keeps a distance between herself and the problem." -> "She can, however, be serious when people are upset or angry but she still keeps a distance between herself and the problem." (missing word)

Post when you've got that tuned up and we'll give Pippi another look. Thanks!

[Namira]

Moved to Forfeited/Abandoned on request.

This character is eligible for resubmission upon the edits requested by staff.