Erica Stohl

[PlatFleece]

Name: Erica Stohl
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Hobbies and Interests: Writing, Music, Songwriting

Appearance: Erica stands at 5'2" and isn't particularly well-built, but neither is she skinny either. In real life, she has Japanese-American ancestry and her skin tone ranges on the near-lighter shade. She has dark hair that has some brown shades as well, and wears it in a ponytail. She has brown eyes, a rounded face, and she wears glasses. Her usual fashion style consists of T-shirts and some ripped jeans. Her interests are often plastered on any other types of outerwear she has on, such as pins on beanies, jackets, stickers, and backpacks, and she often enjoys wearing whatever is popular at the time, all while remaining to her own self.

Her Avatar, however, takes that up to eleven. Sporting sunglasses that hide eyes with star-marked pupils and short, yet stylishly messy light blonde hair with sharp pink and blue highlights, along with a sleeveless black tanktop plastered with a large stylized clef, with its legs looking like lightning bolts. She also wears a white winter jacket to complete her upper wear, with the jacket always being stylishly worn incorrectly, such that it usually leans on one side. Her Avatar wears tight long-legged pants, which very neatly tuck into her white and red sneakers. As she usually wears the exact same thing every day, other than a few color changes or whatever brands are plastered on her jacket and tanktop, her Avatar during the attack is exactly as described above.

Background: Born to Theodore and Kimiko Stohl, Erica is the first of two children, alongside her younger brother, Franklin, currently age 11. Her parents both worked in the tech industry, and both met through college before settling down in San Jose. Erica developed a passion for songwriting at the young age of seven, and both parents did their best to try to encourage her. They brought her a piano and guitar to practice her music skills on, and paid for lessons with a coach.

At the age of 10, however, Theodore passed away from an unexpected heart attack. The grief struck Erica harder than it did Franklin. Her mother devoted herself to making ends meet for both children, though this meant less money for lessons, something that didn't stop Erica from pursuing her interests. She took to online lessons, and eventually dabbled in mixing and a bit of DJing, composing pop songs and using voice synthesizers and animation programs to make music videos. She built most of her social media personality uploading songs and covers, as well as composing her own music, curating her Avatar for it and starring in any music videos she creates.

Her music videos and songs that she uploads online attract a small following, and she hopes to grow bigger and be part of the popular circle of online content creators, specifically composers. While her relationship with her mother is still amicable, it has noticeably taken a more strained one, as her mother was far too busy in grief to properly console her during the initial shock to her pre-teen life.

Personality: Erica loves performing. In real life, she mostly keeps her interests to herself, but would be the first to speak to someone if they were broached. While she shows off her interests like an open book, she doesn't openly talk about them, and any social relationships she makes in real life are often passive, with someone engaging first rather than her doing the engaging.

As her Avatar and in CR, however, that all flips. She's far more outgoing and social, feeling like she can really be like herself and be among the people that understand her. She cultivates an image of a girl who paves her own path to success, and doesn't often let anyone stand in her way of that success. She feels much more comfortable in the image she's cultivated for herself here than outside.

Reputation: Known in CR to be boisterous and loud. Erica often tries to steal the spotlight and be an active leader among the peers she makes online. She enjoys the spotlight, but she also enjoys entertaining people. Most people don't get to see her more personal side unless they have really gotten to know her, and that's a small subsection of people in normal CR life. People come to her to be entertained and to enjoy life, not for an ear to listen to.

[Cicadan]

Hello there! There shall be critique.

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but neither is she skinny either

Redundant phrasing, don't need both neither and either here.

I assume by her interests being all over her clothes you'd be referring to merch and graphic tees, but which interests? Band merch? Does she use patches, stickers, that sort of thing? Need a little more detail here. And you say she dresses fashionably but that doesn't quite match with her usual wardrobe being fairly plain as stated in the prior sentence: T-shirts and ripped jeans, unless you mean she wears designer brand goods or uses a very punky aesthetic or something. Again, be a bit more specific here.

Also broadly speaking she's missing any detail about her face. Eye color, stand out features, anything like that.

Avatar is capitalized when used to refer to her Cyberspace self.

The way you phrase her outfit it sounds like she wears the exact same things every day with her Avatar? You'd want to give us a broad overview of her style choices and then specify her exact outfit on the day of the attacks.

Some more detail I'd like in her background:

• Insight into her childhood prior to her father's death besides songwriting, what was she like socially, academically, anything that helps flesh out her formative years.
• DJing and music production would be fairly expensive hobbies to undertake if her socioeconomic class took a hit after her mom became a single mother, I'd like some specificity on what exactly is happening financially to justify the fact that she could own all the expensive equipment plus be able to produce music videos and such.
• How is she doing in school as she progresses through Sycamore High? How did she transition into school socially, were there any lingering effects of the grief from losing her father, does she care about academics at all or is she all in on music, etc.
• Precisely what music genres is she working in?

Her music videos and songs that she uploads online attract a small following, and she hopes to grow bigger and be part of the popular circle of online content creators, specifically composers

This is content that would make more sense in Backstory, not Personality.

That's it.

[PlatFleece]

Sorry for the super late response, but, posted!

[Dogs231]

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