Oh no she's back
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:27 am
Like Palpatine, somehow, I returned. I brought a couple of ideas with me! They're outlines very much subject to change, but the core concepts are...
Evie McKown Evie I invisaged as an irrepressible ball of positivity. She isn't necessarily going to try to be friends with everybody, but she can very much get on with almost anyone and is easy to make friends with.
Interests that are definitely settled are swimming, history, and animals of just about every kind. She takes competitive swimming very seriously and hopes to continue it at a college level, but her backup strategy is to study to be a veterinarian in the likely event she's not good enough to compete at a level to make a living (as her current personal bests are suggesting). Her interest in history is more casual, though it helps her get better grades than her otherwise quite average ones there, as she enjoys finding interesting stories in the past.
Evie loves just about any vertebrate animal and finds them all cute, funny, or both; she started shunning meat at a young age, and since starting to explore the internet, later embraced veganism as a teen with the support of her rather liberal-minded family. Whilst she's not the evangelical stereotype, her moralistic arguments for why she does it can come off as judgemental and might rub others the wrong way. Speaking of family, they're not what you'd call wealthy, but also well off enough not to really struggle for anything (switching to more expensive substitute foods, for instance, and being blind to the idea that that might be a kind of privilege others don't share), and she has one younger brother.
What am I looking for?
Friends and acquaintances, obviously. I imagine Evie as the sort of tomboyish type that has more male close friends than female, as her interests lean more towards traditionally masculine than feminine.
Re; male friends, maybe one or more that she's just been playing local multiplayer video games with since they were tiny? I like that vibe.
Swim team? Any other North Shore Sharks in the house?
Maybe someone volunteers at an animal shelter or something similar? Evie probably does, they'd probably be friends!
The sporty lesbian thing might be an obvious stereotype, but, this is my easy mode similar-to-myself character, so, maybe a girlfriend. Or a boyfriend that she's beginning to realise she isn't really attracted to? Throw ideas at me for that. Sutton and Teddie confirmed!
I have a weirdly specific idea that she's got (and possibly personally forced) the nickname "Otter Mode" for her swimming prowess, and has some kind of cutesy anthro-river otter decal for her gear. If there are any artists in the student body who might be behind that, that could be a fun basis for a relationship! Jessica Lee-Smith is a real human bean and a real hero.
Bethany Lyon Beth is much less lovable, but sometimes people are that way. She's the only child of well-off and politically-active WASPy conservative parents who expect a lot from her, and that rubs off on her attitude towards others. She tends to expect everyone to have the same perfectionist attitude that's been instilled in her and doesn't yet comprehend that her privileged upbringing makes it that much easier for her to succeed. Similarly she's inherited her parents' politics and hasn't started to question them yet, so she's quite vocally in favour of smaller government, more gun rights, fewer public programs, the usual conservative/libertarian spiel. Whilst she isn't aggressively anti-LGBT, she is also quietly disdainful of people under said rainbow, according to her also-conservative religious convictions.
Beth truly does work hard, as reflected in her consistently strong grades, and has essentially had her life path pre-planned for her; she's going to study law like her father, and probably go into politics like him to... maybe she'll actually succeed, however. Definitely doesn't have any sort of complex regarding his consistent failure to climb higher than the local council. Definitely. Her family heritage is proudly traced back to the Revolution and Vermont's Green Mountain Boys, and Beth will gladly talk to anyone who'll listen about how her ancestor Matthew Lyon was a real life martyr for free speech.
What am I looking for?
Beth probably has few real friends, if any. Plenty of orbiters who might want to position themselves close to her money and/or style though, I guess?
Young Republicans? Is that a thing? She's gonna be in Model UN and Debate club either way, so people can't escape hearing her spicy hot opinions.
There's no way Beth isn't dating a popular boy, but they probably don't really like each other.
I'm not really sure what sort of other hobbies someone like her would have, open to suggested links with like-minded characters on that front.
Evie McKown Evie I invisaged as an irrepressible ball of positivity. She isn't necessarily going to try to be friends with everybody, but she can very much get on with almost anyone and is easy to make friends with.
Interests that are definitely settled are swimming, history, and animals of just about every kind. She takes competitive swimming very seriously and hopes to continue it at a college level, but her backup strategy is to study to be a veterinarian in the likely event she's not good enough to compete at a level to make a living (as her current personal bests are suggesting). Her interest in history is more casual, though it helps her get better grades than her otherwise quite average ones there, as she enjoys finding interesting stories in the past.
Evie loves just about any vertebrate animal and finds them all cute, funny, or both; she started shunning meat at a young age, and since starting to explore the internet, later embraced veganism as a teen with the support of her rather liberal-minded family. Whilst she's not the evangelical stereotype, her moralistic arguments for why she does it can come off as judgemental and might rub others the wrong way. Speaking of family, they're not what you'd call wealthy, but also well off enough not to really struggle for anything (switching to more expensive substitute foods, for instance, and being blind to the idea that that might be a kind of privilege others don't share), and she has one younger brother.
What am I looking for?
Friends and acquaintances, obviously. I imagine Evie as the sort of tomboyish type that has more male close friends than female, as her interests lean more towards traditionally masculine than feminine.
Re; male friends, maybe one or more that she's just been playing local multiplayer video games with since they were tiny? I like that vibe.
Swim team? Any other North Shore Sharks in the house?
Maybe someone volunteers at an animal shelter or something similar? Evie probably does, they'd probably be friends!
The sporty lesbian thing might be an obvious stereotype, but, this is my easy mode similar-to-myself character, so, maybe a girlfriend. Or a boyfriend that she's beginning to realise she isn't really attracted to? Throw ideas at me for that. Sutton and Teddie confirmed!
I have a weirdly specific idea that she's got (and possibly personally forced) the nickname "Otter Mode" for her swimming prowess, and has some kind of cutesy anthro-river otter decal for her gear. If there are any artists in the student body who might be behind that, that could be a fun basis for a relationship! Jessica Lee-Smith is a real human bean and a real hero.
Bethany Lyon Beth is much less lovable, but sometimes people are that way. She's the only child of well-off and politically-active WASPy conservative parents who expect a lot from her, and that rubs off on her attitude towards others. She tends to expect everyone to have the same perfectionist attitude that's been instilled in her and doesn't yet comprehend that her privileged upbringing makes it that much easier for her to succeed. Similarly she's inherited her parents' politics and hasn't started to question them yet, so she's quite vocally in favour of smaller government, more gun rights, fewer public programs, the usual conservative/libertarian spiel. Whilst she isn't aggressively anti-LGBT, she is also quietly disdainful of people under said rainbow, according to her also-conservative religious convictions.
Beth truly does work hard, as reflected in her consistently strong grades, and has essentially had her life path pre-planned for her; she's going to study law like her father, and probably go into politics like him to... maybe she'll actually succeed, however. Definitely doesn't have any sort of complex regarding his consistent failure to climb higher than the local council. Definitely. Her family heritage is proudly traced back to the Revolution and Vermont's Green Mountain Boys, and Beth will gladly talk to anyone who'll listen about how her ancestor Matthew Lyon was a real life martyr for free speech.
What am I looking for?
Beth probably has few real friends, if any. Plenty of orbiters who might want to position themselves close to her money and/or style though, I guess?
Young Republicans? Is that a thing? She's gonna be in Model UN and Debate club either way, so people can't escape hearing her spicy hot opinions.
There's no way Beth isn't dating a popular boy, but they probably don't really like each other.
I'm not really sure what sort of other hobbies someone like her would have, open to suggested links with like-minded characters on that front.