S089 - Peszek-Byrne, Amaryllis

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Name: Amaryllis Peszek-Byrne
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: Senior
School: John Endecott Memorial Academy
Hobbies and Interests: Music, live performance art, outdoorsmanship, crocheting, communism

Appearance: Amaryllis Peszek-Byrne is 5'9" tall and weighs 154 lbs. Her skin is naturally a pale white in hue, though during most of the year she has a farmer's tan. The color of her eyes is green. She has a heart-shaped face, with a slightly recessed chin. Her nose is of an average size and turns upwards at the tip. Amaryllis' eyebrows are naturally bushy, though recently she has had them bleached. She is of mixed Irish and Polish descent. Her hair, naturally wavy in texture, reaches three inches beneath her shoulders when worn down, and is cut in a shag style. She keeps her hair dyed a bright cherry red, though it is naturally a chestnut brown hue. She tends to wear her hair up in a ponytail, usually when she is at school or out and about during the day.

Amaryllis' caffeine and nicotine addictions have given her teeth a yellowish color. She has an overbite that, though previously corrected by braces, has begun to slide back into a jagged appearance due to her disregard for wearing retainers. A faint Boston accent characterizes Amaryllis' vocalizations and patterns of speech, though she lacks the non-rhoticity most characteristic of the region's dialect. She speaks most often in a flat modal tone that is prone to slipping upwards in high stress situations. She possesses a singing voice in the Contralto range.

Her hands are rough with callouses from rock climbing and playing guitar. She keeps her nails short and does not paint them. Amaryllis has strong muscle definition in her upper body and core on account of her repeated practice in rock climbing, while her legs are more lean and toned. She has a scar across the knuckle of her left index finger due to an injury she sustained from a knife wound in middle school. When seated for long periods of time, Amaryllis often becomes restless and begins to fidget, most often by tapping her foot or bouncing her leg, though she also is prone to drumming out rhythms on tables or other surfaces with her fingers.

On most days Amaryllis dresses in a mix of punk and goth styles. She owns a black leather motorcycle jacket that was handed down to her from her aunt, which she wears most days when the weather permits. Her clothes exist in varying stages of torment and reconstruction, often with large rips at the knees and patches sewn into the sleeves. On days when she plans to spend time outdoors on a camping trip or a hike, she opts to wear hiking gear, usually in a variety of middling beiges and tans and faded gray toned colors, opting in these instances for function over form. For footwear she opts for boots, of either the hiking or combat variety depending on the circumstance.

She frequently accessorizes with chokers ornamented with spikes and/or studs. She also wears longer necklaces, often with sacrilegious iconography or gemstones such as bloodstone and amethyst. Amaryllis has pierced ears and has a small collection that she rotates through. These include a pair of skull shaped ear studs that she considers to be her favorite among her collection. On her left shoulder, she has an inked tattoo outline of the I.W.W. (International Workers of the World) Sabocat that has recently been inked and colored.

On the day of the abduction, Amaryllis was wearing a gray camouflage pattern hardshell ski jacket, a maroon fleece sweater, a graphic t-shirt of the design from the self-titled debut album by the Washington D.C. punk band Bad Brains, black overall style snow pants, red plaid flannel pajama pants, long gray thermal pants, and black Sorel caribou boots. Additionally, she was carrying with her a pair of waterproof, insulated gray Carhartt quilt-pattern gloves, crocheted green wristwarmers, and a crocheted purple and pink beanie.

Biography: Amaryllis Peszek-Byrne was born on September 8th, 2003 to Jan Peszek and Madeleine Byrne. The two met in Boston, in the year 1995, at a house party concert by Madeleine's band, in which she played the bass guitar. Jan was attending Boston University for undergraduate pre-medical studies, while Madeleine was enrolled at Emerson College in mass communications. They were introduced to each other after the show by a mutual friend, and started seeing each other romantically shortly after. The two bonded over their mutual appreciation for the city's underground music scene, their membership in their college's respective hiking clubs, and trading cassettes of music recorded from late night radio transmissions from the area's array of independent and collegiate radio stations.

They dated for several years, eventually moving downtown into a basement apartment in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. In 2003, the couple found out that Madeleine was pregnant. Although not specifically trying for a child, Jan and Madeleine decided after some deliberation that they were emotionally and financially ready, having secured jobs in their respective fields and sustained a modest income in the medium term. Jan had completed his medical degree and begun work in pediatric medicine a few years earlier, while Madeleine had a job at a local television studio, supplementing their income by also teaching as a private music instructor.

An initial ultrasound led to the discovery of twins. However, a follow up appointment several weeks later returned signs of only one fetus. Although this development made the couple anxious about the health prospects of the remaining child, Jan and Madeleine continued with the pregnancy, and the child was born without further complications several months later. They named her Amaryllis after her maternal grandmother, Saoirse Amaryllis Byrne, who passed away while Madeleine was in grade school.

Though she was an only child, Amaryllis' early childhood was not entirely lonely, as her mother often took her video-editing work home for a couple of days out of the week. As Amaryllis progressed through the early years of her childhood and became more mobile, she became aggressive in exploring their small, cramped Beacon Hill apartment. Her family moved to a larger apartment in Salem shortly thereafter, both because of rising rent prices and a desire for Amaryllis to grow up in a smaller town without the perceived dangers of the city from which the couple could still reach Boston by a reasonable commute. They moved into a two bedroom apartment in the West Salem neighborhood, located above a thrift store.

Amaryllis was somewhat aggressive and easily excitable on the playground. Once, she found her way out of the chain-linked play area by herself while her parents talked at a picnic table. Though she returned of her own volition, Amaryllis' parents decided from then on to keep a closer eye on her. As Amaryllis grew closer to school age and only grew more rambunctious, her parents discussed in private the possibility of Amaryllis having some form of childhood attention deficiency. But at Madeleine's insistence that Amaryllis grow up unburdened by a diagnosis they decided to wait until she entered school to see if these behaviors continued or if she would age out of them on her own.

Upon entering Kindergarten, Amaryllis experienced immediate difficulty with the highly structured environment of the classroom. Reports from her teachers mentioned that she had difficulty staying focused in class, not distracting her classmates when the teacher was speaking, and keeping up with the pace of class activities. Jan felt somewhat disturbed by these reports, and took Amaryllis to see a child psychiatrist, who gave the opinion that she was mostly fine and simply possessed a surplus of energy. It became such that her parents' only recourse was to buy Amaryllis several stress balls and items with which to fidget and keep herself occupied in class. When these proved to only cause further distractions due to their toy-like nature, they were taken away.

It was around this time that Amaryllis' parents deemed her old enough to start taking out on day hikes through the nearby woods on weekends. Amaryllis enjoyed these walks through nature and seemed calmed by them. Though she was largely content with walking in the Salem Woods reservation and other small woods around the border of the town, Amaryllis's imagination was captured by the steep cliffs, bluffs and crags she saw her parents climbing in their old photographs. She expressed interest in walking off of the path to tackle more difficult terrain and to go on the same adventures as her parents once did. After some consideration, Jan and Madeleine decided that Amaryllis was finally old enough to take on a weekend camping trip up north in Maine, where they would spend the night in a tent.

The tedium and difficulty of setting up their camp initially bored young Amaryllis, but once the family tent had been pitched and the rest of the day was spent hiking and exploring, Amaryllis grew to enjoy being immersed completely in nature. Though she missed the material comforts of her home, she soon forgot them when she saw the night sky without the light pollution of the city for the first time. The one-off camping trip was soon replicated, and when the weather grew too cold to permit camping Amaryllis' imagination was consumed by her parents' collection of camping magazines and books.

In the first grade, Amaryllis' teacher noticed that Amaryllis was experiencing difficulty with holding a pencil, and produced handwriting that was substantially less legible than what was expected for her age. Amaryllis was subsequently entered into occupational therapy, which she was enrolled in for three months. During this period, Amaryllis was occasionally removed from her classes during the middle of the school-day by the resident occupational therapist for hand strengthening exercises. She also was required to put a large rubber grip on her pencils during class. Amaryllis found herself easily frustrated by the pencil grip and often complained of the occupational therapy class to her mother.

Madeleine then decided to sign Amaryllis up for music lessons outside of school. She reasoned that music might provide another outlet for Amaryllis' still bountiful energy, and that the precise fingerings required for some instruments might help Amaryllis improve or feel more accomplished with her hands. First, Madeleine signed Amaryllis up for drumming lessons. She reasoned that holding a drumstick required similarly intensive hand-posture to holding a pencil, and thus she might develop more strength if she was using that grip more often. She was proven correct almost immediately, as Amaryllis showed similar difficulty with properly holding a drumstick as she did with a writing utensil. After several lessons of learning at a reduced pace, Amaryllis learned the fundamentals of rhythm and meter, adjusting her hold on the drumstick to allow herself to play naturally. After she gained some competence and began to like music for its own sake, Amaryllis asked for her own instrument, but their apartment lacked the space for a drumkit. One night, Amaryllis asked her mother if she could learn how to play the guitar, an instrument that Madeleine had been offering lessons in. Madeleine agreed, and on her next birthday Amaryllis received a small wood-bodied children's acoustic guitar.

While Amaryllis' introductory forays into the world of guitars did little to help her hold a pencil or concentrate on her schoolwork, music proved to be a suitable outlet for her frustrations and energy in her everyday life. She practiced guitar daily, adhering to a rigorous self-imposed schedule to impress her mother. Once Amaryllis could read sheet music, Madeleine brought songbooks of folk music and basic rock songs home for her to learn. At first the callouses and bandages on her hands worried her teachers, who called Madeleine and Jan in to speak about the coincidence of these injuries with Amaryllis' more muted behavior as of late. Their fears were assuaged when Amaryllis and Madeleine brought in their guitars and demonstrated by playing a song for them that the injuries were from pressing on the strings, but the matter remained that Amaryllis was having trouble focusing on her schoolwork in much the same way, even if she had become more calm during class in recent months.

With the introduction of letter grades in the fourth grade she had managed to attain an average grade in the high 'C' range, leading her parents to sign her up for sessions at a tutoring center after school. She did not enjoy the tutoring sessions, as they left her with less time to pursue her hobbies and spend time hanging out with her friends after school. Despite this, the extra practice was enough to bump Amaryllis' grades into the 'B' range, proving to her parents the worth of their investment and justifying the continuation of Amaryllis' tutoring sessions into middle school.

This inability to socialize after school made a difficult adjustment to the social expectations of middle school even more difficult than it would have been otherwise. Success in school was generally unsatisfying for Amaryllis, and with no time for her friends, she began to withdraw from most social activities. The casual acquaintanceships she had maintained at an earlier age began to slip, and she became usually silent in class. When she did speak, however, she often found herself interrupting others, leading to further embarrassment and pushing her towards entering a deeper state of isolation. Around this time she received her first electric guitar, a red bodied Fender Telecaster, as a birthday present, along with a small practice amp. She soon began choosing to practice her guitar over completing her homework, leading her parents to sign her up for even more tutoring to make up for the difference.

Soon her status as a loner was solidified. In music class, one of the few subjects she could actively engage with, she found some company with other students who had started to learn instruments for school, who were impressed with her guitar playing. Seeing that she was largely without friends, they encouraged her to sign up for the concert band, but they did not have room for a guitar player. Instead, she had to try to learn a new instrument. First she tried to learn to play the flute but found it frustrating, as she had never played a wind instrument before and the breathing technique to get a note to sound was much more difficult to maintain than anything she was used to. She found more success with the violin, as the act of pressing on the strings was more familiar to her, but the awkward neck posture required of the instrument and precise bowing technique also flustered her. Finally, and with some reluctance, she decided to try percussion, as she had some previous experience with the drums. She took to it well, finding it more satisfying now than when she was younger, and in the eighth grade she was formerly enrolled in percussion section of the school's concert band, alternating between the bass drum and timpani.

The winter concert that year was Amaryllis first public performance, and the feeling of playing for an audience was electric. In the spring she auditioned for the school talent show, where she performed alone on her electric guitar without vocals. She practiced excessively for the talent show, and even brought her acoustic with her on a weekend camping trip with her parents so that she could practice outdoors. For the performance she enlisted a friend from the percussion section on drums and a bassist from her math class, to perform an instrumental version of "The Man Who Sold The World," backing herself up on rhythm guitar with a looping pedal while she performed a solo. The performance was met with applause, and Amaryllis' hastily assembled band placed decently in the show's overall ranking, but Amaryllis was left unsatisfied by the reaction to her performance. In the hallways Amaryllis was now greeted with faint recognition by those of her classmates that had seen the performance, but it was clear to her that she hadn't left much of an impression on her peers.

Around this time, President Canon was elected to the office of President of the United States. Amaryllis, who had taken it for granted up to this point that he would lose the election, was suddenly thrust into political consciousness as she watched the election unfold live on television. The subsequent reactions of her parents were like nothing she had seen up to that point, and, the following day, the reactions of her classmates and teachers were much the same. They were all incredulous at the results of the election, as they had counted on Canon's loss in the election and were fierce supporters of his opponent. After this event, Amaryllis began to take an increased interest in politics, seeking a better understanding of what was going on in her country and the world. Amaryllis took charge of her own political education, starting with her parent's bookshelf, reading dusty hardcovers and unreturned political science textbooks from her parents' years in university.

By the time Amaryllis finished middle school, she was tired of trying to fit in with her classmates. It was clear to her that they barely found it worthwhile to engage with her as a curiosity, let alone as a peer. She began listening to hardcore punk music, finding catharsis in the volume and anger of the songs and how relatively easy it was for her to write her own punk songs. From punk she started listening to goth music and other underground sub-genres, eventually taking cues from the way that those involved in these scenes talked, acted and carried themselves with cool detachment and aloofness. She empathized with the alienation often expressed in the lyrics and darker sounds of bands from these scenes, and by the time she started high school she was looking to emulate their style of dress as well.

Previously, in middle school, she had dressed in plain clothing often bought from mall department stores and fast fashion that Amaryllis felt made her look strange, weak, and bland, the opposite of how she wanted to represent herself. It was around this time that she started to dye her hair. Initially, she planned to dye her hair two colors, with cherry red on the left side of her hair and dark black at the right, but at her mother's insistence she decided to start with just the red color to see how it looked. It was different enough from her natural auburn that she forgot about the other dye and moved on to the rest of her wardrobe, to her mother's relief. Inspired by the stage outfits of eighties goth bands and gently guided by her mother's experience in that scene, Amaryllis re-did her wardrobe to include a black leather jacket given to her by her aunt, some t-shirts of her favorite bands, and some jeans with pre-ripped knees.

Her social difficulties only increased during the first semester of her freshman year at John Endecott Memorial Academy, as the increased burden of homework and higher volume of classmates exacerbated the problems she had faced in middle school. She had persuaded her parents to let her drop her tutor after finishing her eighth grade year with 'B's and an occasional 'A,' but the workload presented by high school threatened to send her grades tumbling back down. She found comfort in dedicating herself to the pursuit of songwriting and practicing her guitar. She also joined the track and field team in order to stay active, as semi-regular weekend hiking was now too time-consuming of a practice for her increasingly busy schedule. Without a car, it was more sensible to get her exercise at school than to hike to the state forest. The transition into high school did a number on her report card, as her grades dropped into the low 'B' and high 'C' range again, with one 'D' in mathematics during the fall semester.

One of the factors in this academic downturn was her reluctance to engage in class. She found herself having outspoken disagreements with classmates in her history class and in other classes that dealt with social and political issues, which only increased in frequency as her attitudes towards politics intensified. She tried to align herself with her more liberal and left-leaning classmates, if only to have someone to bail her out whenever someone tried to start an argument with her. Amaryllis did not like the stress and anger that came with arguments, and found herself unable to put forward any points that would change the other side's mind, as they were seemingly set in their ways. Privately, Amaryllis began to wonder if she was the one with an incomplete picture of the way the world worked, and she soon started to pay closer attention to politics and the news.

Amaryllis' grades stabilized in her second semester as she became more acclimated to high school and more comfortable putting distance between herself and the established social hierarchy. She performed with the high school's concert band, again feeling elated by playing on stage to an audience. Over time, she began to consider starting her own band. She spent time that spring scoping out the talent of students involved in the school's music department. Amaryllis began recruiting for her band via a combination of word of mouth advertisement to other students in concert band in the spring, social media posts in the summer, and flyers hung around the school when she returned as a sophomore in the fall, which were unsanctioned by the front office and promptly removed within days of their posting.

She managed to recruit teammates from within the track and field department, as well as other musicians from within the concert band. After inducting band members throughout the autumn on a combination of auditions and informal interviews, she settled on a final lineup of six members, with herself playing rhythm guitar and singing the lead vocals. She called the band the Phantom Violets, after a song from one of her mother's English folk-punk CD compilations. In the winter they began practicing two to three times a week. Each member with a garage or basement large enough to host the band took turns hosting. They first tackled a selection of popular rock cover songs before Amaryllis felt comfortable sharing her own written material with the band. She got her driver's license around this time, and volunteered the use of her parents' minivan to ferry equipment to the practice space for the week.

As the Phantom Violets became more active and demanded more of her time and energy, Amaryllis withdrew from some of her other extracurriculars. She declined to sign up for track and field at the start of the spring, reckoning that the time was better spent on songwriting and playing with her band. Recognizing that equipment cost money and not wanting to draw on her parent's resources any further, Amaryllis got a part-time job at a clothing store in the mall, where she worked on off-days from practice. With the money from this job, Amaryllis has scraped together a modest collection of amps, pedals, used guitars, and other equipment for live performance.

The band's momentum was stopped by the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020, as the band had to enter lockdown just as they were working through their first material. Though the initial weeks of quarantine were productive for Amaryllis when it came to channeling her anger and frustration into writing songs, she soon found herself running out of inspiration and spent time instead recording covers on her guitar and releasing them under an alias on Soundcloud. She began reading more during this time, looking to poetry for inspiration for her lyrics, as well as books about the climate and other political issues. She reads the occasional novel here and there, but dislikes the time commitment required to make sense of the plot, favoring instead that which she can easily put down and pick up weeks or even months later.

The pandemic intensified Amaryllis' attitudes towards politics. She paid more attention to the messaging of the politicians in her state and nationwide. When the democratic primary ended and her favored candidate, a self-professed democratic socialist, dropped out of the race, she became interested in political action outside of school. Finally deciding to see what all the fuss was about, she decided to read The Communist Manifesto. The prose of the Manifesto and its contents seemed incredibly relevant to her for a text written in the 1800s, and she soon began to read more Marxist texts online, reconsidering what she had previously believed to be the truth about the United States and the capitalist world system. She read about the history of genocide and war crimes committed by the United States in the postwar era, its use of its central position within the global financial system to coerce states into adopting free market economics, and the internally repressive elements used to silence dissenting movements in both the United States and its postwar allies, none of which she recalled being taught in her public school education. Subsequently, she began to self-identify politically as an anti-imperialist.

During the pandemic Amaryllis began to take up crocheting, out of a desire to use the time to develop a new practical skill and to make her own handcrafts and small items of clothing in order to save money on mass-produced goods. She continues to crochet, and has at times sold her work at various events, such as farmer's markets and town craft fairs. During the pandemic, she also decided to begin studying to become licensed to drive a motorcycle. She made this decision based on her opinion that a car was more of a financial liability than a signifier of independence, and that a motorcycle, being a smaller vehicle, was more suited for a personal mode of transportation.

As the pandemic wore on, several members of the band decided to leave the group. This came as a surprise to Amaryllis, as she had not considered that their prior enthusiasm for the group might wane when confronted with the possibility of a lack of live performances for the foreseeable future, and the shock of this further hampered her creative process, as she was never sure how many instruments she would be writing for. As a result, she focused on instruments she could play, refining the core of her music to the interplay between guitar and drums. The remaining members of the band sent her audio files over email with their own parts for her to edit into the song as overdubs. The result of this was that Amaryllis only finished a handful of songs over the pandemic. As lockdown ended and she returned to high school in the spring of her junior year, she reconvened what was left of the band and played her new material for them. After playing with the group, the band realized that not only had she written enough material for a short album, but also that if they combined the new songs with reworked versions of their material from before the pandemic, as well as some covers, then they had enough songs to put together a setlist to start playing live shows.

Since the end of quarantine, Amaryllis has been busy setting up gigs for the Phantom Violets in the Greater Boston live scene, which she supplements with smaller acoustic gigs by herself at cafes and open mic nights in Salem over the weekend. Amaryllis sees herself and her band as a major potential contender in the area's recovering independent music scene, citing their youth, energy, and creative drive. She has made serious efforts to connect with other musicians in the area in the college and professional scenes, and made it a point to attend as many live shows as possible during the summer before senior year. Additionally, Madeleine has taken a great interest in the band and once offered to act as acting manager until Amaryllis turned eighteen, though Amaryllis turned her offer down, preferring to run things herself. Madeleine has made contacts with old friends in the local music scene to help secure the band gigs at local pubs and venues. Since the beginning of the summer the band has played several live concerts, and they have recorded a number of releases for online distribution on platforms such as Soundcloud and Bandcamp. They are currently working to raise money to rent recording space for a weekend session at the end of December, during which they hope to record a few songs for their first major release, an as-of-yet untitled album to be released independently, without the aid of a record label.

Since the end of the pandemic, Amaryllis has become more outspoken, participating more frequently in class and making her opinions known more often. When her attention is not engaged by a topic that she feels particularly qualified or passionate about speaking on, she spends her time in class in a somewhat reserved mode, passing the time by doodling, writing song lyrics in her notebook, or researching musical or political topics on her laptop. The stress of her life has led Amaryllis to self-medicate, and can frequently be found purchasing marijuana from the better connected among her classmates, as well as her college-aged cousins on her mother's side who still live in the Boston area. She also drinks coffee in the mornings and vapes nicotine, sometimes bringing her vape with her to school to use in the bathroom. During the month of July in 2021, Amaryllis bought her first used motorcycle, which she had been saving up for over the pandemic, a red Kawasaki Vulcan. She takes good care of her motorcycle, having taught herself basic maintenance through the aid of YouTube tutorials.

Due in part to a refusal to dedicate time after school to studying, Amaryllis remains in the middle of the pack academically. When grades come into question, Amaryllis defends her record by pointing to the fact that she has yet to fail a class. She avoids most school functions, including sports events and dances, only appearing in events where she is a participant such as concerts and talent shows. After she graduates high school, Amaryllis plans on taking a gap year to focus on her music and to play more gigs in the local scene. Her other goals are to write more songs during this period, and to begin to learn the piano. She is working on applications to several music schools in the area, including the Berklee College of Music, for her undergraduate education, though she is also aware of her increasingly conflicted feelings towards pursuing post-secondary education in general.

Amaryllis has been on many camping trips, including several during the pandemic in which her parents taught her how to fish and how to hunt with game rifles. She is still in the process of learning both of these skills, and specifically does not consider herself proficient at fishing or trapping, as some time has passed since she was able to practice either of these skills. However, she has, in recent weeks, spent more time at a local firing range, and considers herself on the cusp of intermediate skill with handling a firearm. A friend gifted her a subscription to the movie streaming service Shudder, and since then she has had an obsession with horror movies. After watching a documentary about the artist Marina Abromavic, she has taken an interest in conceptual and performance art, making several visits to local museums and performances in the area upon their reopening.

Politically, Amaryllis presently considers herself a principled communist. She was not an active supporter of President Kirby during his presidential campaign and remains a vocal critic of his history as a politician, as well as the current policies of his administration. On several occasions Amaryllis has attended protests for social justice in the Greater Boston area, either alone or with like-minded friends from school. She previously phone banked and canvassed for a slew of more progressive primary challengers to Kirby's ascendancy during the Democratic Primary of 2020. Amaryllis has also taken an interest in local politics, and has canvassed for state-wide ballot initiatives several times during her high school career. Amaryllis is not interested in a future career in politics, and is insistent upon her dream of a life spent making music.

Over the course of her life, Amaryllis has had a strong bond with her mother, though the two have occasionally clashed over her more rebellious tendencies. Amaryllis and Jan have had a more turbulent relationship, disagreeing greatly over Amaryllis' plans to take a gap year after high school in order to focus on music and feuding whenever she is caught with drugs. Amaryllis is bilingual, speaking both English and Polish at home since she was a child, though she has trouble reading the latter language. Her parents are still together, though they never married, thus leading Amaryllis to hyphenate their last names for her own. Recently, at a family get-together, an uncle on her father's side accidentally let Amaryllis know of the reabsorption of her fetal twin. This has led to a tumultuous period at the Peszek-Byrne household, as Amaryllis feels betrayed by her parents for never being told about what she feels was important information about the circumstances of her birth. She has avoided speaking to her parents whenever possible, and has begun to spend even more time outside of the house. She has since stopped going on hikes with her parents, though she still goes alone, and sometimes with her classmates. She enjoys being in nature and away from the constant overstimulation of urban life, and has taken up a variety of hobbies to further enrich her experience outdoors, such as rock-climbing. When she has free time, she can often be found practicing at a local rock climbing gym.

Amaryllis does not generally get along with her classmates. She avoids speaking to those who do not know very well. She has a tendency to speak her mind plainly when in the company of those she considers her friends, coming off sometimes as rude and other times as overly critical. She is something of a perfectionist when it comes to her art, but is otherwise lazy when it comes to classwork, including group projects. On occasion, Amaryllis skips class. Amaryllis does not find relatable or wholesome content humorous, instead favoring the absurd and dark. She is very opinionated on what constitutes 'good' art, and has gained something of a reputation as a contrarian among her classmates, though she insists that she holds all of her positions sincerely. Despite her tendency to be bitter, she tries to be loyal to her friends and bandmates and to make herself available in times of need, though she often offers solutions instead of a sympathetic ear when the time comes to listen.

Advantages: Amaryllis has spent significant amounts of time camping and knows basic survival skills, such as how to acquire her own food through basic hunting and fishing, as well as how to operate and clean a firearm. Amaryllis is an experienced climber for her age. She is physically active, often going on long hikes, and as such possesses a strong constitution and hardy endurance. Her hand-eye coordination is above average. She is creative and used to thinking outside the box in order to find a solution that works best for her.
Disadvantages: Amaryllis is often impatient, and will sometimes make decisions based on her wanting a situation to be over with quickly rather than weighing the possible outcomes and choosing the best option. Amaryllis is addicted to several substances, and without these will function less effectively and will grow further more irritable. She has a hard time staying still without fidgeting, and being quiet is not her strong suit, potentially causing problems when remaining silent is necessary. She has a pessimistic outlook on life, and is prone to experiencing a fall in motivation when it appears that things are not going her way. Additionally, she is very politically-minded, and is prone to amplifying small differences and emphasizing gaps between her own thinking and the thoughts of others, causing conflicts and schisms with would-be allies and fellow travelers.

Designated Number: Student No. #089

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Designated Weapon: Lacrosse stick

Conclusion: That stick's from the one sport your school is good at. Show some school spirit and crack one of your classmates over the head with it. -Jim Greynolds