you are MY child now

[Pippi]

Hello! So it turns out I DO actually have characters for Ess Oh Tea Eff Version Ate! I wasn't just talking bollocks the whole time! I was playing the long con, solely for my own amusement, which is the most important thing to do in life really!

I'm gonna update this whenever I submit a new kid to the queue, just in case I have a spur of the moment desire to write an underwater basket weaving polyglot with a terrible haircut. It could happen! And so... peruse my currently available kids to your leisure!

[+] Robin Valenti

• Italian-American, good-looking and in shape, straight, dresses almost entirely in Formula 1 licenced clothing
• Actually his entire life pretty much revolves around Formula 1, is known as That F1 Guy around school
• Considers personal presentation as much a part of F1 as the actual racing, puts on a playboy, cocky persona around school
• Which kinda comes off even worse given he’s never actually been in an F1 car, and only participates in go-kart racing (albeit at a National Championship grade level)
• Takes acting classes to help boost his ‘character’, would be a semi-frequent sight around the drama department
• Gave himself the nickname of ‘Romeo’
• Nobody else calls him ‘Romeo’
• Incredibly egotistical and considers himself number one; realises this makes him pretty unpopular but shrugs it off because he believes ‘every story needs a villain’
• Hits on pretty much every girl in the vicinity
• Has had pretty much zero luck in that regard, both due to his odious personality, and thanks to a hideously messy and incredibly public breakup with Kitty Graves a few years back
• Still feels bad about that but doesn’t know how to broach the subject
• Part of the popular crowd mostly by virtue of being well-off and being able to drive people to parties and the like
• Bit of a laughing stock within that crowd because he’s a MAJOR stickler for the rules and following safety precautions
• Also does graphic design, and created the design on his go-karting helmet himself

[+] Relationships

• Yong Yi "Penny" Yu - A note next to her contact info on his phone that says 'do NOT mess this up'
• Soo-bin Kim-Reyes - "Goddamnit, was I too quick with her? Fuuuck, I was too quick, wasn't I? Damn it. Goddamn it."
• Salem Fox - "Big win last weekend, big fucking win! Someone ask him if he got the photos of me on the podium, those are gonna look tight as hell in the sports pages, god knows this school needs some sporting success."
• Taylor Thorne - "She's a lot, like, holy shit is she a lot, but I'm cool with it. Can always rely on her to liven up a boring party, for starters."
• Cedar Dalisay - "Yeah she'll come around sooner or later. She's got the hots for me, I can tell. Some girls are just bad at expressing their emotions, I get that."
• Willa Kurt - "She's, like, a 5 at best, but there's something about a girl who plays hard-to-get that always- hey, wait, I hadn't finished talking!"
• Iris Waite - "Let's... consider her a last resort. Not that she seems to want anything to do with me anyway..."
• Ty Hartley - "Man, I dunno, I think if I was any less subtle I'd be talking in pure text, not subtext, but it's like hitting on a goddamn brick wall."
• Evie McKown - "Whatever. Bitch doesn't know what she's missing. 'Otter Mode', are you fucking kidding me?"
• Hades Thompson - "Ugh. 'Hades'. Seriously, could you get any more pretentious? ... What? Why are you looking at me like that?"
• Kitty Graves - "... Don't talk to me about her. Not right now."
• Bethany Lyon - "Is she gone? Not eavesdropping? Thank christ, pretending to be nice to her gives me a fucking migraine, guess I dodged a bullet getting rejected by her, huh?"
• Callie Zhou - "Good God, is that the actual shit she thinks? Jesus Christ. Jesus fucking Christ, yet another reminder never to stick your dick in crazy, I guess."
• Kai Rosario-Prince - "Christ, is that the dude who glared at me like he was gonna slit my throat? Yeah, dunno what his problem is but I'm not touching crazy like that with a fucking 15 foot pole."
• Ashlyn Graves - "Yeah, fuck this bitch. Piece of shit who'll probably go through with her threats to lay me out, cause she's a goddamn animal."

[+] Poppy Fontaine

• It me (Me when it me) aka; Gee Pippi how come your mom lets you have FOUR SIs
• Unfortunately Br’ish, moved to Salem when she was 13, Big and Tall and Soft, bisexual, good luck seeing her wear anything other than a hoody and a dorky t-shirt under normal circumstances
• Is also, unfortunately, a g*mer; plays a lot of League of Legends and will talk for literal hours about Fire Emblem and Zero Escape
• Avid esports fanatic; watches the League of Legends world championship religiously, and even keeps up with esports for games she doesn’t play/like
• Has a blossoming interest in esports casting and voice acting because of this
• Also has a growing interest in game design and occasionally gives her thoughts on League patch updates or why Sekiro is the best game ever on her (scattered) social media presence
• Transitioned a couple of years back, so is a Known Trans at school
• Considered joining the school soccer team but decided not to due to Big Dysphoria; still goes to every game the school team plays, big supporter of Liverpool FC
• Works out quite a lot instead of playing any sports, mostly lifting weights
• Loves to cook, particularly Indian and central Asian food, although she’s nervous about sharing her food with anyone
• Actually quite shy and struggles to approach new people, but if anyone talks to her she will instantly become a bundle of peppy energy and relaxes immediately around her friends; insanely loyal to the people she likes, very happy-go-lucky and laidback, basically takes life as it comes at her
• Which also means she’s more than a little naive and ditzy, trusting of the wrong people sometimes, and kiiiiiiiiiiiiiinda a hopeless romantic?
• May just be a dog-girl tbh
• Suffers from sporadic bouts of depression, anxiety, and panic attacks; has recently started cross stitching to help deal with this.
• Also writes fiction in her spare time and looks after her pets; a cat named Ginny and a pomeranian named Missile

[+] Relationships

• Evie McKown - "OTTER MOOOOOOODE"
• Willa Kurt - "Oh, Willa's great! I can always count on her to help with English homework, then we play Animal Crossing and look at pictures of cool bugs, what more could you want?"
• Bethany Lyon - "Fuck off. She's so gross, walking around smiling and telling people to 'try harder' when she believes all that awful shit, just... ugh. Fuck her."

[+] Trinity Ashmore

• Caucasian, always looks like she needs a nap (she does), lesbian, unsure if she’s ace or if she just doesn’t have time for relationships, hates winter because it means she can’t wear spring or sundresses
• Literally constantly on the verge of a nervous breakdown
• Has an incredibly packed schedule, constantly, and yet keeps on adding things to her extra-curricula life
• Plays violin, both in her own time and for the school band; also studies music theory to get an even better understanding and appreciation of her craft
• Speaking of craft, spends what little additional free time she gets making Lego models; much prefers following instructions for model kits rather than making freeform Lego creations
• Biggest hobby, however, is watching movies and film reviews (and occasionally reviews of other forms of media), as well as writing her own reviews (pretty much entirely for her own self-gratification) - prefers sci-fi, but is into any genre with heavy fantastical/dream realisation themes
• Trans, transitioned at a pretty young age; only a select few of her closest friends actually know she’s trans
• Bounced around with using a few names before settling on ‘Trinity’ - named herself after the Matrix character
• Everything sounds great, everything sounds cool, right? Too bad she also considers academic success THE most important thing in the world
• Is a perfectionist who spends waaaaay too much time studying, on every subject, even the ones she’s not good at/doesn’t enjoy
• Always makes plans before she does anything. Unfortunately, the moment something happens to make her deviate from said plan/makes the plan go awry, she panics and stresses herself out, which makes her make more and more mistakes, which makes her stress out more, etc. etc.
• Because she gets excellent grades she offers her services as a tutor occasionally, which she’s PRETTY awful at, because if her tutee doesn’t understand things the exact way she’s explaining them, she will get frustrated and frazzled
• Knits gloves, scarves and hats, and sews patterns in order to calm herself down. This has… limited success
• Polite, courteous and earnest at her best; snappish, belligerent and highly-strung at her worst

[+] Relationships

None! So far...]

[KamiKaze]

So I'm thinking my girl Ty might be one of those popular kids that go 'lol.' She's normally justice-orientated, but the idea of him being so into F1 yet only doing go-kart and being hugely about safety is funny to her. They... kinda have adjacent interests? Ty has some interest in motorcycles, which isn't the same as F1, but still. Also, she's aspec, so I'd imagine if he hits on her it might play out similarly to this (mildly NSFW? There's no nudity, but it's playing off porn intros). That said, if he causes trouble, well, Ty won't hesitate to make it an issue. O:

[backslash]

Also does graphic design, and created the design on his go-karting helmet himself

Did he design that shirt himself too

Robin might be one of the few guys Iris rightfully would turn down without consideration if he ever asked her out, given how public his breakup with Kitty was, but since she also has a reputation as kind of a weird girl she's probably not high on his radar.

If he's frequently at parties, he's probably bumped into Taylor but alas as they are exclusively into girls, he doesn't have a chance with them either. They would be more likely to give him a platonic chance than some other people though. The two of them don't have a huge overlap aside from socializing in the same areas most likely, but they could be buds, especially if they've known each other longer.

Kai, being a close friend of Kitty's, is... probably not fond of Robin! Assuming Robin is aware of his existence, he should probably avoid whatever bush cryptid man is currently making his home in.

Angelo and Stormy seem likely to be indifferent to him and vice-versa since they're pretty removed socially, but if you have any ideas for those two with Robin when they exist more, let me know.

[Pippi]

@Kami - That all sounds good!! Maybe the two of them could have, like, attempted to bond over their similar motoring interests, only for her to steadily realise that he's allllll smoke and mirrors when it comes to that sorta stuff. He has almost certainly hit on her, like, alot, to no avail. And he's probably aware enough of her reputation that he'll keep his most obnoxious antics on the downlow around her... or around anyone she's close to

@Zee -

Did he design that shirt himself too

yes and it's called fashion

Anyway I'm down for pretty much everything here! Robin is probably.... surface-level aware of Iris and Kai, for "if she was the last girl on earth" and "need to stay away from him so he doesn't kill me and make it look like suicide" purposes. Which I'm sure endears him even further to both of them! I think he'd get on pretty well with Taylor, they do seem to roll in the same groups and from the sound of it, Taylor kinda needs a mom friend to make them please go to bed (Robin will not appreciate being known as a mom friend but when you focus as much on health and safety as he does it's inevitable). They would have probably had to deal with him hitting on them for a little bit when he first started playing the Romeo role until he realised they both had their eyes on the ladies. I feel like there'd be some kinda Fwendship with Stormy??? It's kinda just vibes y'know but like. Sometimes vibes are all you need?

[MK Kilmarnock]

Uh, Robin and Hades might share a graphic design class and know each other that way but that's like the only connection I can think of. And given the friendship Kitty and Hades have, he's probably not very fond of him.

[Pippi]

Oh yeah, anyone who's particularly close to Kitty is not gonna be fond of Robin at all. From Robin's side, he thinks Hades' name is stupid. Yes, this is an opinion Mr "Calls himself Romeo even though nobody else does" holds, please don't point this out, he'll get very upset.

[Cicada]

you are MY child now

You can't tell me what to do!!

[+] Robin Ideas

Flirt wise I will cover every girl I have and you can decide if Robin actually tried to make a pass or not:
Cedar - Turns him down gently and with a smile. Probably takes some pity on him since he reads like anyone with sufficient EQ (she is the one) would figure out he's a paper tiger? IMO. I haven't gotten around to talking with Turtle about it yet but Cedar will probably be on friend terms with Kitty, so if I confirm that she'll probably temper that pity and politeness with quiet revulsion, etc.
Callie - She'll troll him and offer a proper date and then happily drown him in edgy contrarian bullshit the entire time until he flinches and excuses himself.
Ashlyn - I dunno if Robin would have paid enough attention to Katelyn to understand how Ashlyn was/is abusive and neglectful? Up to you if he has reason to be leery of her. Her feelings towards him would be negative, and she might even feel the need to scapegoat him as being solely at fault for the suicide attempt given her general inability to accept culpability. AKA she'd kill him if they were alone in a room together and she's an intimidating beefcake of a girl, so I can't imagine he'll ever want to be alone in a room with her.
Salem - Salem's more disconnected from the mess of the Graves family overall so he might be willing to cut Robin some slack and be a casual party friend who memes on him for being a doof. Do... do go-kart tournaments get coverage by sports reporters? They might know each other over that, if Salem has to cover Robin's national profile as a go-karter at all for the school paper.
Soo-bin - Drama club mutuals. She might appreciate his behavior to a degree since an anxious sort of her caliber probably appreciates people who are more outward and outgoing, even if it's in the specifically douchey way that Robin goes about it. She'll casually shoot him down because he'll blindside her and it freaks her out internally, and then she'll wonder if she should have gone for it after the fact.

[Pippi]

well SOMEBODY has to be my child. i think. i don't know how being a mother works?????

anyway here are my THOTS on these relationships!!!!!

[+] Thots

Cedar - See uhhhh, I think the combination of letting him down gently while also remaining on sooooorta good terms with him afterwards is probably the worst thing she could do? Because Robin would basically get it in his head that this means he has another chance with her, right, so he'd probably drop hints every now and then that they should date and be really annoying (even more than usual) and that in combination with the quiet revulsion if Cedar's friends with Kitty means this is probably a timebomb waiting to happen!
Callie - Gets put immediately onto his 'DO NOT TOUCH' list, and somehow manages to miss the 'only hit on at parties, NOTHING SERIOUS' list. Robin is probably, unfortunately, some flavour of centrist, so any type of contrarian bullshit is gonna make him go Yikes!
Ashlyn - Man if Cedar and Robin is a ticking timebomb, this one's uh. An even bigger timebomb i guess. But yeah Robin basically doesn't know the full deal between Ash and Kitty, but he's heard enough. And because he still actually genuinely cares a lot about Kitty, he's gonna have nothing but bad feelings towards Ash... not that he'll do anything because WOW she could turn him into a pretzel.
Salem - So like! Because go-karting is basically the gateway to actual open-wheel racing like for Formula 1/2/3, it probably WOULD get covered in some regards by sports reporters; I imagine it's got a similar following/interest level to like, something like Moto GP, where it's got a relatively small but pretty hardcore level fan following. So that could probably be a pretty good way for them to have first met!
Soo-bin - I think Robin would, like... get along with Soo-bin much more genuinely than a lot of the people he tends to hang out with, because he feels he can be like... more open with his drama buddies, make it even more obvious he's just working to put on an act. And if she seems to reciprocate that friendliness Robin would be even more appreciative of her; I think he'd definitely try and like, hit on her and ask her out and then when she immediately turns him down he'll start REALLY ruminating on it for ages, worrying whether he was too quick or what else he might have done wrong.

ALSO ALSO IMPORTANT NEWS: My new child, Poppy Fontaine, now exists!!!!!!!! Please make friends with her!!!! Or she literally will cry.

[RiceKrisp]

too bad it's opposite day pippi- Poppy's my child now! :D

Anyways, I think Willa and Poppy would get along. Like they meet up and talk video games a lot and occasionally do actual schoolwork together - They're both pretty good in English. I know Willa would definitely like Ginny and Missile, maybe she could even have a few photos of them. I don't know how interested or even knowledgeable Poppy would be in Willa's hobbies, especially her photography one or TripleThreat, but I'm sure it would be a cute interaction.

Also Robin has probably already flirted with Willa, to the result of her confusion for the rest of that day!

[Pippi]

Oh no that's theft!!!! that is the exact term I am looking for and there isn't a single other term that would be more accurate for this description

anyway so!!!! Yes, I definitely think Willa and Poppy would get on great, they've got plenty of similar interests and would probably work together on English projects at school. Poppy would also be definitely interested in any photos of bugs Willa has to share, particularly of rarer or weirder looking ones, or ones that only exist in America and not England! So long as they're not butterflies, Poppy does not like butterflies.

And Robin would certainly try his darnedest to hit on Willa, regardless of her confusion or negative reaction - he'd probably rationalise it as her playing hard-to-get, or something.

[Dr Adjective]

I gotta get my butt back in the planning game, let's make plans!

Robin!
I doubt either Evie or Bethany are gonna be fond of him. But maybe Beth puts up with him to his face, because car? If they had any competitions in common Evie might humour his persona, but I don't think they do?

Poppy!
Oh dear. Beth is... not going to be a good time for her. I'm so sorry.
Evie, on the other hand, seems like a great match for her! Peppy energy, gaming, active, has cute pets, outsider energy... I feel like they'd quickly become friends, and Poppy'd probably be quite the help with Evie's coming out arc. Similarly if they knew each other pre-transition, maybe Evie helped her out with that in the first place?

[Pippi]

me at start of pregame: okay this time i will ABSOLUTELY keep up to speed with my relationship thread and respond to anything in a timely manner
me, a month later:



Anyway!!! So!!!!

Robin: Oh yeah I very much doubt either of your girls would be fond of Robin! He's almost certainly hit on both of them at some point, but while I think that with Evie it'd probably just be like... she's put off by his generally odious persona and he shrugs it off as another girl who doesn't know what she's missing, his relationship with Beth would be a lot more temperamental. They're both well off and probably part of the popular crowd solely due to that, and so I imagine they've got a kinda mutual act of liking each other, but inside they cannot stand each others guts. So every interaction is just a bout of politeness judo, laced with venom for each other! Fun!

Poppy: Oh gosh absolutely no questions there, Poppy and Beth are gonna be on terrible terms with each other. The perfectionist nature would be bad enough, but the probably-obvious disdain for Poppy as an openly-bi, openly-trans girl is... yeah there'll be no love lost here. But Poppy and Evie sounds like a MUCH better match! They've got such similar interests and complimentary personalities, and it seems they're both also friends with Willa Kurt as well, so there's a nice little friendship group there! Poppy would also definitely appreciate someone who she could trust when it came to her transitioning, and she'd be fully supportive and encouraging of Evie in return when she comes out.


I've also added more info about my third child, Trinity Ashmore, to this thread! If anyone would like to be friends/enemies/whatever with a nervous wreck, then hit me up!

[Ryuki]

Robin could have at one point hit on Karen and Dominiqua, which they rolled their eyes at. Wendy might think he’s cute physically, but not his personality.

Wendy might find Poppy attractive, may follow her on social media, and might talk to her about video games. Dominiqua could hang with her as a workout buddy.

Karen and Trinity could be study buddies. They could lean on each other’s shoulders if they need to vent.