Lots of things are still somewhat tentative here, still trying to get some grips on what’s up.
Do pitch me with ideas, I could always do with more! Bonus points for toxic relationships.
Emily Sharp
- [+] Her heart lies in a bamboo grove
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Self-centered, stubborn, competitive and holds grudges easily, all things you would not know about her unless you know her well, and possibly not even then. As the only daughter of a well to do family that is heavily involved in local politics, Emily is well-acquainted with the kind of face that she is expected to put up in public, a well-bred honour student whose personal successes are merely short anecdotes for her parents to show off. She’s resigned to this role as a little bit of a display piece, though despite the transparency of this artifice, she does not entirely dislike the praise she does receive in these situations.
Forced to do several extracurriculars and with family events and outings a big fixture of her childhood, Emily has had a wide breadth of experiences. With this and a love for drama and gossip, Emily has more than a fair share of interesting stories to tell, though she’s also a habitual braggart and liar. She is prone to exaggeration, and well capable of both lying to herself and others. Despite this, she’s also a good listener, affirmative and flattering in a way that easily engenders goodwill. Due to this, despite her inability to say no to her parents, she’s largely had her way in most things outside of home, often finding ways to get favours and worm out of things that she finds annoying. She tries to come off as cool, collected, but relatable.
She’s a ride-or-die friend, if more than a little overprotective, if she regards you as a close friend, she will often take on your problems as her own, and isn’t above using her family’s leverage or money to solve those problems when she can. She holds herself to a high standard of responsibility, often keeping even implicit promises, but has a tendency to fulfill them in her own way, at her own convenience. However, she also likes keeping somewhat of an upper hand in her relationships, usually just keeping a part of herself guarded, but also in positioning herself to be needed by others.
Emily has found her free time considerably reduced by family events and finds it increasingly stifling on her social life, and her attempts at keeping that alive through her continued involvement in extracurriculars (primarily dance and cheer nowadays) has been pushing her grades down in the past couple years, especially as she finds herself spending increasing amounts of time supporting the people around her. Despite this, her involvement and general success in Math Olympiad has led her to believe that this is largely the school’s ineptitude, and not her mismanagement of her time, made all the worse by the steadily increasing number of late nights she spends just lying dead in bed putting money into some mindless gacha game to destress.
Bi, but only out to close friends, the last thing she wants is to be dragged around as a type specimen of the queers by her parents.
Style:
Largely vintage inspired looks, think wool dresses and linen blouses, favouring greens and browns.
Looking for:
People she would know from social events, dance or people she continues to keep up with from other extracurriculars when she was younger?
A small number of close friends she is less guarded with.
Third try’s the charm (the failures were on me) for a toxic dependency spiral that stems from her need to solve other people’s problems?
Dates, potential partners and exes, she likes them a little pathetic
Possibly people who are sick of her meddling in their affairs?
Catherine "Kate" Pines
- [+] Welcome to my Nekoweb -insert 88 by 31 button here-
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Earnest insta girlie who’s very sure she’s about to hit her big break as a youtuber any time now, you know, once her brother has time to help her with the next edit! No really, this time for sure, yeah, she’s pivoted in content and styles yet again, and she’s missed uploading for forever, but the next video is really going to hit.
She’s very close with her brother, who now does professional videography for local businesses and weddings, and is/was(?) a part of his tight knit friend group until his graduation. Kate’s been struggling a little after he graduated and started his business, finding that he has less time for her, and feels increasingly out of place in his friend group while most of them transition into work and college.
Kate is unfortunately far too unfocused and flaky to make things work out for herself, even if she does know more than the average person about video production. She’s very much used to being a hanger on, and has trouble taking the initiative that she needs to push things forwards. That said, what she does manage to complete is polished and professional, even if somewhat cookie cutter, focusing primarily on media commentary or gameplay stuff.
Quite a lot of her interest and energy instead goes to her insta and a personal site that she’s setup on a free static webhosting service, nominally to provide status updates on her releases, but she instead mostly filled with fan pages on whatever is currently holding her fancy, whether it’s a kpop idol, C dramas or a video game.
Her hobbies change often, often dictated by whatever piece of media she’s most into at the moment. Her recent interests include Onewe, landscape photography, and Magic the Gathering, though she is a Timmy for Stax pieces.
She’s likely part of theatre as a grip? Not that she wants to stay out of the spotlight, but she’s done that kinda stuff for her brother’s company in bits and pieces and likes being helpful like that. Kate’s very much the type that will hold the boom and will not complain.
Kate’s largely quite impressionable and easy to push around with the way she often seeks validation, which combined with a lack of self awareness can make her more than a little bit annoying. Kate's straight. Not actively seeking a partner, but not not looking?
Style:
Cotton tees and skater skirts, spaghetti tops and short shorts, whatever keeps her comfortable and cool in the heat comes first and foremost.
Looking for:
She’s trying to make more friends but she’s not a good one right now. I promise she’s trying. She’s clingy and will glom on to people.
She's definitely annoyed lots of people one way or another.
Bad influences who will give her chances to make horrible decisions
Jason "Hikari(n)/Rin" Li
- [+] Visions of ribbons and wires fill these empty spaces
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Enby transbian-adjacent (to appropriate rounding error), doll(combat, fashion, can't decide) , mecha enthusiast, artist, fanfiction writer, himejoshi, and all round weeb, but please don’t say that last one.
Generally interested in cute things and J-Fashion, with interest in art and fashion generally acting as an excuse. Good at outfit coordinating, has a younger sister who often consults for outfit advice. Tall and somewhat large, finds it difficult to get clothing they do like; it’s far easier to get flowing outfits that give off a much cleaner image than the Yami-Kawaii style aimed for.
Loves Shōjo manga, with a soft spot for the classics, it was also this that provided an introduction to TG/TF media and an ongoing interest in the concept has basically been fueling identity questioning since then, even before being fully aware of trans people. An avid Pokemon fan, having been introduced to the series with Black and White, and an interest in the game’s story led to the discovery of manga with the Special series, and online fanfiction communities. As a fanfiction writer, politics and character interactions were preferred focuses, primarily aiming at realism and drama, but it seemed far easier to gain traction by writing smutty slashfic.
Got into art in an attempt to continue the work when a favourite semi-obscure webcomic suddenly ended, with its scripts and panelling for several unfinished pages released. While capable of sketching, never really did get the hang of lineart, and has piles of unpolished work that are not quite ready to be shown off. Is in many of the media clubs, and has another younger brother who is well integrated in the local fighting game scene.
Started writing depersonalisation mecha stories with the release of Armored Core 6 because it seemed hot and found it unusually cathartic, and has gotten deeper into the writing space with several online friends that have currently moved to Mastadon. Been slowly chewing through the mecha canon ever since, and has since started a gunpla collection.
Not really out, at least not outside of online, mostly just not up for that kind of attention, but also kinda unlikely to directly deny it. Is in many queer online communities, but feels personally odd within them, while clicking very well with many aspects of them, and wouldn't personally say they feel dysphoria or being othered distinctly, and thus sometimes feels performative and appropriative.
Largely risk avoidant, evasive, often driven by shame and embarrassment. Hates rocking the boat, even when uncomfortable, but is outspoken when it comes to matters of fact. Works best in one on one situations, and is averse to responsibility and leadership, but takes to it surprisingly well when forced. Has been bullied before, and gets heated easily in similar situations.
Will fistfight you if you call another joke visual novel a dating sim.
Style:
Have you ever seen a boymoder boymode — yeah ignore the wardrobe of interesting clothes, those were mostly impulse buys that have been worn maybe once if at all.
Looking for:
Writer/Artist friends, especially those who do similar menhera/depressive stuff.
Other like-minded friends who share interests.
Crushes on people easily, has sought close intimate relationships with others, but does struggle to open up, looking for both crushes and potential partners here
