Stephanie Shaoqing Wang

Steph, by most everyone she knows

Seventeen (she'll turn eighteen next June)

Bisexual

Female

So single

Definitely more in the preppy crowd

Estelle Chen; #F4BAD0 and #FF9EBF for Fontmeme

Steph's definitely not the most formidable of people, standing at five feet and four inches (though her impractically high heels give her at least another four or five) and weighing less than one-hundred and twenty pounds. Her hair is thick and straight, and it is naturally a jet black color, though she's dyed it everything from red to blonde to pink (back when dyeing your hair with Kool-Aid was a thing, in middle school). When she was younger, Steph was pretty indecisive about her hair, and was constantly getting it altered, but she's kept her hairstyle consistent since her freshman year of high school. Right now, it falls a couple inches past her shoulders. Steph thinks that it's too straight, but unfortunately, her hair doesn't hold curls very well. Steph has taken to getting up an hour earlier just to curl her hair...even knowing that by the end of the day, all evidence of her hard work will be pretty much gone.

Steph's features are always arranged in an open, friendly expression, and her warm brown eyes are always usually cheerfully optimistic and/or mischievous. Her eyebrows are perfectly plucked, and her skin is always flawlessly maintained via an extensive skin-care routine that Steph likes to think that she perfected a year ago. Her face is somewhere in between "circular" and "heart-shaped", and her hands are rather small, though her fingers are long and slender (Steph attributes this to the hours of piano and violin she was forced to endure up until sophomore year). She is on the slimmer side and leanly muscular, thanks to years of ballet, Chinese dance, gymnastics, and cheer.

On most days, Steph refuses to be seen in public without a full face of makeup on-foundation, concealer, mascara, lipstick and/or lip gloss, eyeliner, nail polish, highlighter, eye shadow; the whole shebang. Steph loves anything sparkly and anything pink, and she takes great pride in her killer winged eyeliner. Steph's generally a pretty cheerful person, and it shows; there's always a playful spring in her step, no matter what choice of footwear she's got for the day, be it a pair of cute lavender ballet flats or seven-inch platform heels bedazzled with rhinestones.

Steph's personal style is very pink and very girly. She loves everything sparkly, too, and she's always had a soft spot for florals. On a day-to-day basis, Stephs likes skirts (especially those cute pleated high-waisted ones), crop tops, and loose, billowy cardigans, paired with heels and hoop earrings. When it's colder outside, Steph prefers longer skirts and dresses and/or skinny jeans with heeled boots, silk scarves, pea coats, and cute mittens/earmuffs...all in pink, of course. For special occasions, her go-tos are glitzy mini-dresses and sparkly stilettos.

At a first glance, Steph is unnecessarily focused on small, overly specific details and unbearably girly. She is bubbly and outgoing, and her friendly, cheerful disposition is well-liked by her peers, even if they do make fun of her for her propensity of wearing high heels everywhere she goes. Though Steph can be very prissy and a bit shallow or superficial, she doesn't have a single mean bone in her body. She can talk about anything and everything for hours on end. Some tend to find this incessant chatter exceedingly irritating, which Steph is not always the most aware of. She is a kind and sweet person at heart, and she refuses to say anything bad about other people as a general principle.

If Steph is not always aware of how much she talks, she is aware of the feelings and thoughts of others. Steph is naturally people-smart and is good at picking up subtle hints that indicate shifts in emotions in others. She's a very good listener and always willing to offer comfort to other people. Empathetic, understanding, and cheerful, Steph is perpetually impeccably organized and ready for anything. She's a bit of a perfectionist with a stickler for keeping everything neat and organized. Steph has an infernal inability to keep her mouth shut on things that don't really matter, making her an incorrigible gossip.

Despite her rather silly tendencies, Steph is a natural-born diplomat and compromiser, capable of expertly mediating tense situations. Armed with a firm belief in common courtesy, she is able to get even the most stubborn of people to agree to things through the application of hot drinks and sugary treats and pure politeness. She has a breezy, brisk way of going about her business, and she is remarkably good at keeping track of and managing people, for all her sparkly ways.

Finally, although one wouldn't guess it from Steph's outward appearance and mannerisms, Steph possesses a sharp intelligence and an ability to analyze all sorts of problems and situations in the blink of an eye. She is most certainly not as ditzy as she comes off as, in terms of academics (though in any other field, besides maybe makeup/fashion and cheer? Questionable). Steph has always maintained high expectations for herself, and she refuses to be anything less than perfect in everything from her grades to her hair to her hot pink planner.

Steph comes from a pretty normal family, all in all - a mom, a dad, and a younger brother who is kind of a pain in the ass, sometimes. From a young age, her parents stressed the importance of education for both Steph and her brother, and Steph remembers many afternoons being forced to do random print-outs of math problems her parents found somewhere on the Internet. When Steph was ten, they moved to Miami, and have lived there ever since.

When Steph was five, her parents put her into a beginner ballet class, which Steph got bored of so quickly, because first position second position blah blah blah, boring. She then switched into traditional Chinese dance for a while, and then rhythmic gymnastics, where she got a real taste of what suffering meant after trying and failing a bajillion times to somehow master a toss-chaines turn-catch sequence with a ribbon without getting the fucking thing tangled or having the stick just bounce off of her palm, before she finally was able to convince her parents to put her into artistic gymnastics (despite their protests that it was "too dangerous").

From there on out, she got into cheer, and when she tried out in her freshman year at Union High, she managed to secure herself a spot on the team. Steph's a flyer through-and-through, and she loves pulling a needle while balanced in midair or throwing some punch fronts.

Steph's always been able to get good grades, despite her flighty nature. Her parents' #AznParenting has left its mark on her study habits, and Steph has a fairly good memory, which helps her in classes like history. Lately, however, she's been having a hard time trying to figure out what the hell she's going to do with her life - she'd like to do something with shopping and fashion at some point, but her parents want her to do boring shit like computer science. Which is, like, absolutely gross.

Steph's mom (44) and dad (42) immigrated from China, after both of them finished undergrad degrees in Harbin and Shanghai, respectively. Steph's mom is from Harbin, while her dad is from Huangshan. She has a younger brother named Kevin (15) who is a sophomore at Union High.

A lot of times, Steph just can't shut up. Which, according to most of her friends, is her worst trait (they also make fun of her penchant for waltzing around in extremely impractical high heels, but you know. Fight her). Her friends also think that Steph's a good listener, and she's also very slow to anger.

Steph drives her mom's crusty old minivan, which sucks, but it's better than no car at all (at least, that's what she tells herself. The minivan really is very ratchet). Steph prides herself for her ability to perfectly apply sparkly pink eyeshadow while operating said motor vehicle...which seems like a safety hazard, but you know. It be like that sometimes.

In terms of sports, Steph has always liked more fast-paced things, which is why she fell in love with cheer and artistic gymnastics. The one thing she got from rhythmic gymnastics was her flexibility - Steph can pull an oversplit or a chest stand like nobody's business.

Flowers and floral print (Steph is obsessed with flowers, for some obscure reason that even she is not entirely sure of. Maybe just 'cause they're pretty?), sushi, red bean baozi, any restaurants that serve vegan dishes, watermelon and watermelon juice, short/ruffled/pleated skirts, crop tops, tank tops/spaghetti strap tank tops, sundresses, sweets and sugary drinks, organization, sparkly gel plans and colorful planners, history, period dresses (she adores Victorian-era gowns), couture gowns, museums, high heels, choker necklaces, make-up, shopping, hoop earrings, cute clothes in general, strawberry milkshakes, tumbling, cheer, glitter/sparkles, pop music (especially of the "trashy" variety), Chinese period dramas (because the outfits are so gorgeous), social media, anything pink, cheerleading/rhythmic or artistic gymnastics/dance, being active, strawberries, Starbucks

Boats (she gets horribly seasick), disappointing other people, feeling like she hasn't met her own expectations, people who think she's stupid because she likes gossiping and make-up, messy notes, drab clothing in subdued colors, ruining her hair/clothes/make-up, bitter melon, the smell of cigarette smoke, big dogs (but only when they slobber all over her. Big dogs are fine as long as they stay far, far away, ya feel?), disorganization, rainy days, long plane rides, racist/sexist people, dumb football players who don't know when to stop trying to get into her pants, the fact that her parents want her to go into a field like CS (or something equally boring)