[OOC] STARLIGHT [1980s Coming of Age Sci-Fi]

[XanderHarris]

Emily would be like "I can't stand your singing either, I just hate those people!".

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Round two, ding ding.

Phoebe Sarin

Phoebe Sarin, 14

"God damn it." - The first words muttered by her father when she was born.

❱❱❱❱ FULL NAME

Phoebe Jasmine Sarin.

❱❱❱❱ NICKNAME(S)

Nothing in particular, people just call her Phoebe.

❱❱❱❱ DATE OF BIRTH

February 18th, 1971

❱❱❱❱ GENDER

Female.

❱❱❱❱ APPEARANCE

Phoebe is certainly a stand out girl in her appearance. Due to her genes, puberty kicked in like a bitch and "awarded" her with some pretty impressive height for a girl her age. Instead of being around the female average, Phoebe herself is already five-nine, and it's all but confirmed that she'll get much taller with age (Hell, she may be over six feet tall once she fully develops). She isn't exactly proud of her height, because she gets picked on a lot for being so damn tall. This is mostly genes originating from both her father and mother's side - they're both really tall. While it only makes sense from Phoebe inheriting her height from her mother, her father plays a good part, too.

The way Phoebe walks is that she has a bounce to her step. She takes slow and deliberate steps, that are, while careful, are quite large. She rarely takes massive steps that cross much distance. Though, once she gets moving, expect her to make good use of her size. It might be the glasses, but Phoebe looks pretty nerdy. She wears wide round glasses that pretty much make her scream NEEEEERD, mixed with her braces. What doesn't help is her rather meek, and shy demeanor. People just get the idea that she would rather stick to the books than go outside. She's thin as a rail. Her limbs are devoid of thickness, but they are easily the most muscular part of Phoebe. She's still developing after all. Her body has a square body shape that's pretty free of this thing called curves. Her bra is a budding 30B, and she likes it that way because bigger boobs would just get in the way.

Speaking of which, it's not unexpected for Phoebe to have some kind of bruises or cuts on her. Especially on her knees because she fell over, or some other hilarious injury because she's clumsy. Phoebe is African American, with bits of Ugandan, Ethiopian, and Kenyan, in her blood, which contributes to her appearance. Her facial features, skull-shape, and hair-texture, match Africans. Her skin is a very dark brown-ish black color. Has plenty of moles, and marks - more specifically, a mole on her cheek that seems to pop up whenever Phoebe smiles. Phoebe's facial features are quite round, and child-like in a way. Her cheeks are so round/large that they tend to poke out whenever she smiles. The other pronounced facial feature Phoebe has is her nose. Her nose is a quite large button nose with a pronounced tip, and large nostrils. Her lips are quite thick, much like people with her ethnic background. Her ears are small, and diamond-shaped, and her eyes are medium-sized, almond-shaped, and have amber irises. Phoebe's hair is straight, somewhat fizzy, and very clean. She keeps it brushed behind her head into a bun.

❱❱❱❱ PERSONALITY

Phoebe herself, despite her size, and sporty attitude, is actually a little shy. Phoebe herself grew up as the youngest of three prettier, and more popular siblings. Phoebe usually got the stick compared to them. They go to parties while she reads a book, or watches TV. Phoebe is just the kind of girl that wasn't exactly drawn to social interaction. However, the girl is not a complete introvert. She just merely keeps her circle of friends small. In fact, she is quite capable of holding up a conversation. Which prominently displays her more playful and cheerful side - which is enough that she has some common grounds with her peers.

The girl is quite nerdy. She loves music, books, movies, TV shows, and it's not uncommon to see the girl at the arcades just chilling. Because she's naturally more imaginative, she leans more towards the budding media industry than just being the coolest. Though, one thing that Phoebe absolutely adores is music. She loves Hip-Hop and R&B, but she also loves rock like Genesis, The Smiths, Madonna, David Bowie, etc.

The girl is naturally curious, and fun loving. She's incredibly open minded for a girl in this day and era, and is willing to give everything a shot... long as it doesn't involve drugs, murder, cannibalism, that shit. Honestly, she's just very adventurous. She prefers the wild to the concrete jungle that she finds herself in. Which is why she would absolutely love to go camping. Everyone in her family thinks it's a stupid idea, so they don't even do it for her. Phoebe is also a avid lover of plants, and she'll often point out plant species, and make good use of them.

Though, her relationship with her parents is very strained at the moment. Her father and her mother don't particularly see eye to eye anymore. With her family becoming borderline abusive after serving in the Vietnam war, and everyone started drifting apart. With each family member becoming self-important, and verbally abusive. This has made Phoebe into a very spiteful little girl. She's quick to let her anger get the best of her. That also makes little Phoebe here emotionally fragile.

❱❱❱❱ FAMILY

Thompson Sarin, 36 – Big daddy of the Sarin family, Thompson was a pretty kind mind who only had the interests of his family at heart. Though, once the Vietnam war came around, he was drafted, and when the war ended, he came back a different man. Riddled with PTSD and anger, he lashed out at his family at the shit he's seen, and caused tension like no other. He turned hateful towards his family, and this is the cause of them being all awful. Worst of all, Phoebe herself was too young to even know the man had changed. She was too young to even know about the kind man.

Vanessa Sarin, 34 – Phoebe's mother. She's a chef at a bakery, and loved to be a mother of such a family. She was the kind supportive mother of the Sarin family that drove them to do well. However, once Thompson was sent off to the Vietnam war, she was riddled with stress like no other. Fear for her husband's life drove her to drink. Vanessa just waited for the day when she'd learn that her husband was dead. However, he survived... and he wasn't the man she married. He was a depressed, horrid man, that made her life hell. Over time, it made Vanessa herself bitter as he was, and she lashed out at her kids.

David Sarin, 18 – The older brother of Phoebe, and an aspiring rapper. He was distant towards his family from the start, but after his father came back, he honestly wanted nothing to do with them. All because he was the closest with his father, and the change into a hostile man hurt David to his core. He would rather hang out with his friends, and fulfill his dreams of becoming a rapper than come anywhere near his family.

Brittney Sarin, 18 – Brittney is David's twin sister, and the two are similar in terms of personality. Both are distant towards their relatives, and both dream of better things than what they have. Brittney was naturally a nasty little girl.

❱❱❱❱ RELATIONS

N/A

❱❱❱❱ TALENTS

The girl has a natural talent in music. Her singing voice is nails on a chalkboard, but give her a guitar, and man, she's going to be with the professionals some day. She's incredibly talented with a bass guitar, to the point where some people say she's a prodigy. Honestly, she's not the best, but she's pretty damn good for her age. Phoebe also dabbles with brass instruments a bit, and has some knowledge of saxophones, and trumpets. Phoebe is also pretty damn smart from reading so many books. I wouldn't say that she's smart in the Academic sense, but she's sure as hell good at putting two and two together, and displays a surprising awareness for a girl her age. Phoebe is also an amateur botanist, she has a surprising knowledge of plants, and knows how to put some to use at least.

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@XanderHarris "I didn't ask for your help she-troll but whatever." w/c actually means "Omg bffs for life yo! kickass! "

[Xeron]

@McHaggis I posted and fixed the talent section! If anything else needs changed, please do let me know.

[McHaggis]

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[Little Bill]

Sorry I was away for all the conversating, was upstate. Here are some Cecil relationship ideas.

Cecil/Debra: Justice buddies. Whereas Debra is the straight-and-narrow Luke Skywalker in terms of morality, Cecil is Han Solo; Ultimately both good, but with different, sometimes clashing personalities. Debra seems pretty fair and honorable, whereas Cecil is willing to employ dirty tricks or venture into moral gray areas. If Debra becomes the leader, Cecil would be the lancer.

Cecil/Noah: Noah and Cecil are so different that I'd expect they'd start off not caring for the other, and perhaps gradually warm up with some sort of "We're not so different" moment. Your call.

Cecil/Carole: Also probably not friends. The only thing they seem to share is being from the south and knowing knotwork, and historically the valley girl and poor kid have either loved or hated each other. Maybe they started getting along after some shared kid-hardship like escaping detention or something.

Cecil/Felicity: Alright, I'll bite -- I have no idea why you gave your character the name Felicity. Is he supposed to be trans? Is there some A-Boy-Named-Sue shit going on? Does he get bullied for having a strictly feminine name? Cecil would probably constantly make fun of Felicity for having a girl's name, and that's about it. He's not that complicated in his teasing.

Cecil/Daniel: Probably friends. Cecil, who doesn't know when to shut up himself, would be one of the few people to not tell Danny to shut up when he gets rolling. They share lots of crass jokes about buttholes.

Cecil/Phoebe: I assume Phoebe would dislike Cecil because he's a dick and she's a nerd. If racism is a thing in St. Stephens, Cecil being an undercover quadroon might come into play for their budding friendship, what with some Cajuns already occupying a weird racial grey area.

Cecil/Eliza: One of the few people Cecil doesn't tease too hard because of her fragile nature. Bullies tend to avoid kids who cry a lot because they attract adult attention, which seems like it'd apply here. Maybe Cecil, being superstitious and into occult-y supernatural stuff, believes Eliza more than the others about her supposed magical encounters?

Cecil/Emily: I can totally see Emily having a crush on Cecil, go for it. I don't think it'd be reciprocated, or at least not for a while, because Cecil's kind of ignorant to the nuances of communication like flirting. He probably just thinks she just laughs a lot.

[Turboshitter]

I hate to say it but I'm going to have to retract interest. Something's come up at work and I'm afraid it has to take precedence. Sorry everyone :(

[HalfOfLancelot]

Daniel/Cecil: Tfw you make fart noises for 3 hours straight instead of homework.

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[McHaggis]

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[HalfOfLancelot]

I hate to say it but I'm going to have to retract interest. Something's come up at work and I'm afraid it has to take precedence. Sorry everyone :(

@Turboshitter

Boo you whore!

Jk, life comes first! We were eager to see your character, but we definitely understand. :) Even with working swamping you, make sure to take care of yourself. Stress is a slow and insidious killer.

[Turboshitter]

@McHaggis@HalfOfLancelot I've basically been recommended for a new position in a different department in the company I currently work for, and while it's an exciting opportunity I don't know exactly what the new job will entail, what the hours and the pay will be like, and how it'll affect my schedule. I'm also writing a web serial novel right now, so my schedule is pretty busy! ^^

We're getting it all sorted out this week, so if after a few days it looks like I can handle it, I might still apply. I don't know for certain just yet.

[Xeron]

Cecil/Felicity: Alright, I'll bite -- I have no idea why you gave your character the name Felicity. Is he supposed to be trans? Is there some A-Boy-Named-Sue shit going on? Does he get bullied for having a strictly feminine name? Cecil would probably constantly make fun of Felicity for having a girl's name, and that's about it. He's not that complicated in his teasing.

@DeadBeatWalking

Well I didn't have that much reasoning behind it beyond...uh.. I just liked the name. He's pretty feminine over all but he's not trans or anything, nothing that complicated. Just in my search for names I came across that one and liked it a lot. And that's why Felix or Blu are the nicknames, because Felicity isn't too fond of his name for the same reason Cecil isn't fond of his. -shrugs- but I personally like the name Felicity. All there is to it.

[flightless-angel-castiel]

Dude this. Room to fit one more? :]

[McHaggis]

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[Mixtape Ghost N]

I still need to get final judgement before I even start thinking about relations. lol

[McHaggis]

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[Mixtape Ghost N]

@McHaggis yay

[XanderHarris]

@OppositionJWhile Emily is at least initially more of a skeptic/atheist than anything, she finds anything that borders on the occult absolutely cool, so she finds Eliza's predilections very interesting. Emily is into the darker stuff, of course.

@HalfOfLancelotMeine Herren, I'm afraid Danny's presence would bring out the absolute worst in Emily. She will want to lay the smackdown on him at all times, especially since his smartarseness reminds her of her brother Jessie (of whom she thinks as of a younger brother, although he is three years older than her).

One thing that I think is worth considering in my opinion are the interactions between the members of the player characters' families. They may impact the relationships between the player characters in interesting way, or at least make the setting more believable, since this is an "everyone knows everyone" kind of town.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

❱❱❱❱ Phoebe Jasmine Saron@Mr Allen J

@McHaggis

It's Sarin. lol

[McHaggis]

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