Heather Klein
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 12:58 pm
Name: Heather Klein
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: Senior
School: Southwest Red Rock High School
Hobbies and Interests: Music, boxing, politics & activism
Appearance: Heather stands well above the norm at 6 feet and 2 inches, with a muscular figure built over several years of careful diet and dedicated exercise, weighing around 180 pounds. Her overall body shape is imposing and broad, with wide shoulders, narrow hips, and a mostly-flat bust. As implied by her surname, Heather's ethnic heritage traces back to Germany, and this can be seen in her naturally pale skin tone and blonde hair. Her hair is worn long, down to around her shoulder blades, and is almost always tied in a braided ponytail that keeps it tidy and practical. As of the beginning of 2025, Heather sports two tattoos symbolising her political allegiance: a Nestor Makhno quotation in Ukrainian below her left collarbone, and a large star of chaos on her left shoulder. Heather's eyes are a very pale blue, her facial features are sharp with pronounced cheekbones and an angular jaw, and her aquiline nose bears the crooked shape typical of having been broken at least once before.
Despite the desert climate, most of Heather's wardrobe is black. Whilst at school she generally wears a long-sleeved light jacket to cover her tattoos. Outside of school she's rarely seen in anything other than a sleeveless black zip-through hoodie. In both settings, the rest of her typical attire is comprised of dark jeans, tall boots, and tank tops or t-shirts from bands she enjoys.
Biography: Born in Santa Monica on the 22nd of September, Heather Klein is the daughter of unmarried then-couple Eric Klein and Cassandra Lane. With her mother working full time in the events industry and regularly taking overtime, Heather was at first raised primarily by Eric; whose various attempts to build a career as a performer met with consistent failure. The two grew close, and her formative years with her father and his guitar formed the foundation for Heather's love of music. Growing up in the greater Los Angeles area, Heather's childhood was comfortable if not salubrious. Tensions between her parents over the disparity in their earnings came to a head when Heather was 9 years old. Cassandra's employer had been recently bought out by a larger corporation, and in the course of their restructuring she was ultimately made a project manager, and soon thereafter offered a generous promotion that would require a move to Las Vegas to serve events at Strip hotels. Eric was firmly unwilling to leave LA, and ultimately the dispute escalated to the point that the pair separated independently of Cassandra's planned move. With significantly more financial stability to rely on, custody of the young Heather went to her mother, and the two moved to the Meadowbrook neighbourhood. Heather herself was strongly resistant to this, but with even Eric agreeing it to be for the best, she had little choice in the matter. Heather maintained a relationship with her father as best as the two of them could, mostly remotely through calls and messages, with occasional visits when time and money allowed.
Heather attended middle school in the Southwest Vegas area, and rapidly found herself a loner among her peers. Unhappy with the move, Heather was openly scornful of Nevada and Vegas, and her classmates responded in kind, disdaining her Californian background and treating her as an outsider. This as only compounded by the early onset of a powerfully transformative puberty that saw the girl grow head-and-shoulders taller than most around her and gave other kids a new angle of attack. She soon fell in with other oddball kids, growing increasingly antisocial and embracing a goth aesthetic to reclaim her outsider status instead as a point of pride. Commonly teased for her clear differences, Heather's fraught middle school experience came to a head when she finally lost her temper and took a swing at one of her tormentors. The ensuing fight was broken up quickly, but not before noses were broken and blood spilled. Heather was punished in the immediate term, and assigned to a guidance counselor for the rest of her time at the school. As a result of the episode Heather developed a mistrust of authority, believing that the school establishment was indifferent to her problems until she rightfully lashed out. Additionally, at the urging of her counselor, Heather began to keep a diary as a healthier means of externalising her feelings - at first she refused to take the exercise seriously, but ultimately came to find her diary to be a source of comfort and kept it up throughout high school. At home, her relationship with her mother was distant: with Cassandra working long hours and Heather still resenting her for separating the family, what little time they did spend together was strained, with neither managing to understand or connect with the other, much as her mother tried.
When coronavirus lockdown cut her last year of middle school short, Heather spent most of the extra time alone; although her mother was working from home on remote events, the two continued drifting further apart. Retreating into the Internet, Heather fell easily into increasingly radical queer leftist spaces; first Twitter and Reddit, then from there, deeper into the culture through Discord groups, podcasts, and zines. She already harboured a formless distaste for capital and the state for separating her from her father, a distaste which was honed over time into a conviction that the world needed a total restructuring to produce more just outcomes. She identified first with a nonspecific anti-capitalism, and ultimately arrived at anarcho-communism as her utopian dream of choice. In addition to her growing political consciousness, Heather filled her free time with self-improvement. She picked up the guitar again in earnest to emulate the punk rockers she’d been gaining greater admiration for. Starting with her father's millennial tastes, Heather's tastes rapidly evolved from artists like Green Day and Rise Against towards contemporary punk such as Dog Park Dissidents and Cheap Perfume, and further beyond the traditional rock sound into genre-blending acts like Enter Shikari and Youth Code. She also began exercising and learning proper self-defence techniques, with a view to one day standing her ground not only against schoolyard harassment but at protests too. Building a body to be intimidated by rather than teased didn’t come in just a single year, but from then until the present day, Heather remained dedicated to the effort.
After virus restrictions were lifted, Heather became a regular fixture at her local gym and joined the boxing club. Through anarchism, Heather adopted veganism as a logical extension of opposing hierarchies and exploitation. As her mother was pushed to take on more overtime hours to support an industry struggling to meet restored demands for events whilst laid-off staff and abandoned freelancers were slow to return, Heather increasingly took responsibility for preparing her own meals and ultimately taught herself to plan and execute a diet in line with her both her new restrictions and her fitness goals. Early in her freshman year at Southwest Red Rock, Heather met and befriended Emma Drakenberg-West; the two founded a punk rock band together named Finest in Niflhel, with Heather on bass guitar. Besides a few close friendships, primarily with other outsiders, Heather remained largely antisocial and alienated most people she interacted with, with her uncompromising, aggressive dedication to her political and ethical principles. Despite this relative isolation, when her father reached out with an offer to rejoin him in California, Heather ultimately chose to decline, realising that she'd thought of Las Vegas as her home for longer than she could even remember living in Santa Monica. She had friends in Vegas that she valued, alongside her doubts that Eric could realistically support both of them financially, still struggling as he was to hold steady work.
Academically, Heather was largely unremarkable throughout high school, performing better than average at subjects that especially interest her and below average elsewhere, averaging out to essentially middle-of-the-road. Anything relating to politics and current affairs saw her best work, informed by a keen interest in the shape of the world, how it came to be that way, and how it might be changed for the better. She was likewise well engaged with the arts, bringing passionate (if often controversial) interpretations to texts and relishing the chance to defend her ideas in discussion. Conversely, Heather was disinterested by mathematics and the sciences, accepting that they’re useful and putting in enough effort for a passing grade, but she decided very early on that they would not be important subjects to her future.
Due to her height and fitness, Heather was headhunted for the girls’ basketball team and briefly participated, but she soon proved to be a poor team player and abandoned the effort. As with academia, she quickly determined that team sports were not for her. With the time freed up from regular practice, Heather instead began working on a solo music project that would satisfy the creative urges her band weren’t interested in pursuing; the result she named Calluna Vulgaris after the common heather plant and the obvious double-meaning of vulgar. Through her solo work Heather began to learn drums and refined her singing, though to date she has only been satisfied enough with one track to release it publicly: “Written-In-Red”, inspired by the Voltairine de Cleyre poem of the same name and the music of artists she admired but whose influences were a poor fit for Finest in Niflhel. The only other formal group Heather belonged to during her high school years was the cooking club, with her membership lasting only a few weeks before her confrontational manner made her unwelcome. Informally, she involved herself heavily in politics, spreading awareness of causes important to her to anyone who would listen and joining local leftist organisations outside of school, through which she's begun learning rudimentary first-aid geared primarily towards the sorts of injuries commonly sustained by protestors facing a police response. Her most visible impact in this arena has been her contributions both offline to local zines and online to leftist polticial blogs, both an outgrowth of her personal journal evolving to include her musings on politics and culture.
Moving into Senior year and looking ruefully back on the Canon re-election, Heather has had something of an epiphany: she has few friends and most of her peers have little interest in entertaining her ideas - she needs to work on her messaging, an approach rooted in confrontation and scorn isn’t winning hearts and minds, and her own professed principles prioritise kindness and mutual support. As such, she’s determined to make an effort to reconcile with fellow students she’s pushed away. Heather's ideology has not changed, but her understanding of and approach to it have evolved as she herself matured. Indeed, on the occasion of her eighteenth birthday, Heather got her first tattoo: a truncated quotation from Ukrainian anarchist leader Nestor Makhno, "kill every hangman" rendered in the Cyrillic text "вбити кожного ката" below her left collarbone. She has plans to add more tattoos throughout her senior year. Looking to the future, Heather’s plans are uncertain but narrowed down to two desired paths: she hopes to make a success of her music, but isn’t confident in its commercial viability. Failing that, she intends to either formally study music production at college with a view to working behind the scenes in the industry whilst improving her own work as a passion project, or instead going into journalism to later work alongside the activists and radical content-creators she admires, turning her amateur writing efforts into a full-time career. Heather's relationships with her parents remain strained, her decision to remain in Nevada has remained a carefully-avoided sore spot in conversation with her father, meanwhile she and her mother continue to struggle to connect with one another, though Heather's attempts to improve at reaching out include her mother too.
Advantages: Heather's main advantage is her physicality, bringing well-above-average strength and fitness in addition to her boxing experience, that will give her a significant edge in any fight not involving firearms. She is also accustomed to self-direction and taking care of herself, requiring little external interaction or motivation to operate. She also has a rudimentary understanding of first-aid.
Disadvantages: Heather has few friends and has alienated many of her peers, which in combination with her obvious physical advantages will make her easy to perceive as a threat to others. She is also headstrong and stubborn, firm in what she believes to be correct and difficult to integrate into any team effort.
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: Senior
School: Southwest Red Rock High School
Hobbies and Interests: Music, boxing, politics & activism
Appearance: Heather stands well above the norm at 6 feet and 2 inches, with a muscular figure built over several years of careful diet and dedicated exercise, weighing around 180 pounds. Her overall body shape is imposing and broad, with wide shoulders, narrow hips, and a mostly-flat bust. As implied by her surname, Heather's ethnic heritage traces back to Germany, and this can be seen in her naturally pale skin tone and blonde hair. Her hair is worn long, down to around her shoulder blades, and is almost always tied in a braided ponytail that keeps it tidy and practical. As of the beginning of 2025, Heather sports two tattoos symbolising her political allegiance: a Nestor Makhno quotation in Ukrainian below her left collarbone, and a large star of chaos on her left shoulder. Heather's eyes are a very pale blue, her facial features are sharp with pronounced cheekbones and an angular jaw, and her aquiline nose bears the crooked shape typical of having been broken at least once before.
Despite the desert climate, most of Heather's wardrobe is black. Whilst at school she generally wears a long-sleeved light jacket to cover her tattoos. Outside of school she's rarely seen in anything other than a sleeveless black zip-through hoodie. In both settings, the rest of her typical attire is comprised of dark jeans, tall boots, and tank tops or t-shirts from bands she enjoys.
Biography: Born in Santa Monica on the 22nd of September, Heather Klein is the daughter of unmarried then-couple Eric Klein and Cassandra Lane. With her mother working full time in the events industry and regularly taking overtime, Heather was at first raised primarily by Eric; whose various attempts to build a career as a performer met with consistent failure. The two grew close, and her formative years with her father and his guitar formed the foundation for Heather's love of music. Growing up in the greater Los Angeles area, Heather's childhood was comfortable if not salubrious. Tensions between her parents over the disparity in their earnings came to a head when Heather was 9 years old. Cassandra's employer had been recently bought out by a larger corporation, and in the course of their restructuring she was ultimately made a project manager, and soon thereafter offered a generous promotion that would require a move to Las Vegas to serve events at Strip hotels. Eric was firmly unwilling to leave LA, and ultimately the dispute escalated to the point that the pair separated independently of Cassandra's planned move. With significantly more financial stability to rely on, custody of the young Heather went to her mother, and the two moved to the Meadowbrook neighbourhood. Heather herself was strongly resistant to this, but with even Eric agreeing it to be for the best, she had little choice in the matter. Heather maintained a relationship with her father as best as the two of them could, mostly remotely through calls and messages, with occasional visits when time and money allowed.
Heather attended middle school in the Southwest Vegas area, and rapidly found herself a loner among her peers. Unhappy with the move, Heather was openly scornful of Nevada and Vegas, and her classmates responded in kind, disdaining her Californian background and treating her as an outsider. This as only compounded by the early onset of a powerfully transformative puberty that saw the girl grow head-and-shoulders taller than most around her and gave other kids a new angle of attack. She soon fell in with other oddball kids, growing increasingly antisocial and embracing a goth aesthetic to reclaim her outsider status instead as a point of pride. Commonly teased for her clear differences, Heather's fraught middle school experience came to a head when she finally lost her temper and took a swing at one of her tormentors. The ensuing fight was broken up quickly, but not before noses were broken and blood spilled. Heather was punished in the immediate term, and assigned to a guidance counselor for the rest of her time at the school. As a result of the episode Heather developed a mistrust of authority, believing that the school establishment was indifferent to her problems until she rightfully lashed out. Additionally, at the urging of her counselor, Heather began to keep a diary as a healthier means of externalising her feelings - at first she refused to take the exercise seriously, but ultimately came to find her diary to be a source of comfort and kept it up throughout high school. At home, her relationship with her mother was distant: with Cassandra working long hours and Heather still resenting her for separating the family, what little time they did spend together was strained, with neither managing to understand or connect with the other, much as her mother tried.
When coronavirus lockdown cut her last year of middle school short, Heather spent most of the extra time alone; although her mother was working from home on remote events, the two continued drifting further apart. Retreating into the Internet, Heather fell easily into increasingly radical queer leftist spaces; first Twitter and Reddit, then from there, deeper into the culture through Discord groups, podcasts, and zines. She already harboured a formless distaste for capital and the state for separating her from her father, a distaste which was honed over time into a conviction that the world needed a total restructuring to produce more just outcomes. She identified first with a nonspecific anti-capitalism, and ultimately arrived at anarcho-communism as her utopian dream of choice. In addition to her growing political consciousness, Heather filled her free time with self-improvement. She picked up the guitar again in earnest to emulate the punk rockers she’d been gaining greater admiration for. Starting with her father's millennial tastes, Heather's tastes rapidly evolved from artists like Green Day and Rise Against towards contemporary punk such as Dog Park Dissidents and Cheap Perfume, and further beyond the traditional rock sound into genre-blending acts like Enter Shikari and Youth Code. She also began exercising and learning proper self-defence techniques, with a view to one day standing her ground not only against schoolyard harassment but at protests too. Building a body to be intimidated by rather than teased didn’t come in just a single year, but from then until the present day, Heather remained dedicated to the effort.
After virus restrictions were lifted, Heather became a regular fixture at her local gym and joined the boxing club. Through anarchism, Heather adopted veganism as a logical extension of opposing hierarchies and exploitation. As her mother was pushed to take on more overtime hours to support an industry struggling to meet restored demands for events whilst laid-off staff and abandoned freelancers were slow to return, Heather increasingly took responsibility for preparing her own meals and ultimately taught herself to plan and execute a diet in line with her both her new restrictions and her fitness goals. Early in her freshman year at Southwest Red Rock, Heather met and befriended Emma Drakenberg-West; the two founded a punk rock band together named Finest in Niflhel, with Heather on bass guitar. Besides a few close friendships, primarily with other outsiders, Heather remained largely antisocial and alienated most people she interacted with, with her uncompromising, aggressive dedication to her political and ethical principles. Despite this relative isolation, when her father reached out with an offer to rejoin him in California, Heather ultimately chose to decline, realising that she'd thought of Las Vegas as her home for longer than she could even remember living in Santa Monica. She had friends in Vegas that she valued, alongside her doubts that Eric could realistically support both of them financially, still struggling as he was to hold steady work.
Academically, Heather was largely unremarkable throughout high school, performing better than average at subjects that especially interest her and below average elsewhere, averaging out to essentially middle-of-the-road. Anything relating to politics and current affairs saw her best work, informed by a keen interest in the shape of the world, how it came to be that way, and how it might be changed for the better. She was likewise well engaged with the arts, bringing passionate (if often controversial) interpretations to texts and relishing the chance to defend her ideas in discussion. Conversely, Heather was disinterested by mathematics and the sciences, accepting that they’re useful and putting in enough effort for a passing grade, but she decided very early on that they would not be important subjects to her future.
Due to her height and fitness, Heather was headhunted for the girls’ basketball team and briefly participated, but she soon proved to be a poor team player and abandoned the effort. As with academia, she quickly determined that team sports were not for her. With the time freed up from regular practice, Heather instead began working on a solo music project that would satisfy the creative urges her band weren’t interested in pursuing; the result she named Calluna Vulgaris after the common heather plant and the obvious double-meaning of vulgar. Through her solo work Heather began to learn drums and refined her singing, though to date she has only been satisfied enough with one track to release it publicly: “Written-In-Red”, inspired by the Voltairine de Cleyre poem of the same name and the music of artists she admired but whose influences were a poor fit for Finest in Niflhel. The only other formal group Heather belonged to during her high school years was the cooking club, with her membership lasting only a few weeks before her confrontational manner made her unwelcome. Informally, she involved herself heavily in politics, spreading awareness of causes important to her to anyone who would listen and joining local leftist organisations outside of school, through which she's begun learning rudimentary first-aid geared primarily towards the sorts of injuries commonly sustained by protestors facing a police response. Her most visible impact in this arena has been her contributions both offline to local zines and online to leftist polticial blogs, both an outgrowth of her personal journal evolving to include her musings on politics and culture.
Moving into Senior year and looking ruefully back on the Canon re-election, Heather has had something of an epiphany: she has few friends and most of her peers have little interest in entertaining her ideas - she needs to work on her messaging, an approach rooted in confrontation and scorn isn’t winning hearts and minds, and her own professed principles prioritise kindness and mutual support. As such, she’s determined to make an effort to reconcile with fellow students she’s pushed away. Heather's ideology has not changed, but her understanding of and approach to it have evolved as she herself matured. Indeed, on the occasion of her eighteenth birthday, Heather got her first tattoo: a truncated quotation from Ukrainian anarchist leader Nestor Makhno, "kill every hangman" rendered in the Cyrillic text "вбити кожного ката" below her left collarbone. She has plans to add more tattoos throughout her senior year. Looking to the future, Heather’s plans are uncertain but narrowed down to two desired paths: she hopes to make a success of her music, but isn’t confident in its commercial viability. Failing that, she intends to either formally study music production at college with a view to working behind the scenes in the industry whilst improving her own work as a passion project, or instead going into journalism to later work alongside the activists and radical content-creators she admires, turning her amateur writing efforts into a full-time career. Heather's relationships with her parents remain strained, her decision to remain in Nevada has remained a carefully-avoided sore spot in conversation with her father, meanwhile she and her mother continue to struggle to connect with one another, though Heather's attempts to improve at reaching out include her mother too.
Advantages: Heather's main advantage is her physicality, bringing well-above-average strength and fitness in addition to her boxing experience, that will give her a significant edge in any fight not involving firearms. She is also accustomed to self-direction and taking care of herself, requiring little external interaction or motivation to operate. She also has a rudimentary understanding of first-aid.
Disadvantages: Heather has few friends and has alienated many of her peers, which in combination with her obvious physical advantages will make her easy to perceive as a threat to others. She is also headstrong and stubborn, firm in what she believes to be correct and difficult to integrate into any team effort.
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