Holly Kerr
Holly
Catriona
Kerr
15 years old
Nationality: UK (Scotland)
Abilities: TBC
Personality: Holly is something of an introvert. This in part comes from her shyness and anxiety, but also from the fact that she struggles to spend a lot of time with people. She prefers to spend her time alone with her own thoughts. She spends a good amount of her time on a computer and has a passion for computing related things, especially programming. When she isn't doing this she is writing or reading.
Even when Holly spends time with people she isn't socially confident. She tends to mess things up, say the wrong things at the wrong time or say something that could be taken as hurtful. She tends not to mean to do this, even if a lot of what she says is sarcastic or could come across as mean. Even though she often dislikes social interaction part of her wants to have close friends and people that she could have an attachment to. However she believes that she is unlikely to make friends due to avoiding people quite often. So instead she just creates characters in her stories that she would want to be friends with, and engrosses herself in her programming.
Bio: Holly is the youngest child of three, with an older brother and sister. She grew up in the city of Edinburgh with her family. At a young age she spent most of her time playing make believe games alone in a made up world. She never grew close to any of the children that she went to nursery with and was quite shy when she was young. She preferred to talk to her imaginary friends over real people.
She started writing stories as soon as she could form the letters on paper, spilling all of her imagination into the words. Her parents were exasperated with her unwillingness to be social and when she started primary school at the age of five they started to try and organise for her to spend more time with other children in her class. Holly wasn't happy with this, and after her making no progress towards making friends her parents gave up. As a result she spent most of her years in primary school as a loner, spending her time reading or writing.
It was in her second last year of primary school, when she was 10, that she first got into programming. It was the basic things at first but she got enough into it to convince her parents to get her a cheap laptop that she could program on. Her parents hoped that if this when she moved onto high school she'd make friends through mutual interests.
This wasn't the case. The high school that Holly started at twelve had very people as into computing as she was. All those that were were boys, and they disliked the fact that Holly had more knowledge in the subject than they were. Nothing came of her interests but bullying and as a result she withdrew more from people and avoided the others in her year at school even more than she had in primary school.
She did begin to talk to people more as she moved through high school however has not gotten very close to them. Another thing that separates her from girls her age is the fact that she never seems to get crushes and boys, and this made many struggle to talk to her.
Holly is now in S4 (fourth year of highschool) and spending most of her time alone programming and writing. While she loves both of these things she hopes that some day in the future she will properly make friends.