Sunday 22 March 2015

Subcultures - Character Backstories

Zara the Punk (Zara Euringer)
Age: 19 Years Old 
Nationality: American British

Hot tempered and straightforward, Zara is an incredibly emotional person that gets easily angry or depressed much to the dismay of her friends, and only the most patient of people can actually see past these rather intimidating points and know. Due to a really bad breakup she had in the past, Zara does have some trust issues (Even getting anxiety attacks if she finds herself any situation similar to what happened between her and her ex), but opens up once you are successful in gaining her trust.

Having such a bad temper however also contributes to her ability to viciously fight and argue against those that dare to mess around with her or her friends. While Rita and Millie tend to cower away from such confrontations, Zara is all too ready to step up and take any of these fools straight to school. 

Aside from all of that supposed aggressiveness, Zara proves to actually be really pleasant company when she is in a good mood, cracking numerous jokes and having entertaining fangirl freak outs with her friends. She also has a soft side, and actually enjoys composing heartwarming songs (... with her electric guitar) and dreams of illustrating children books. Just do not ever mention that 'Punk is Dead', otherwise she will agree and will go on a very tiring and depressing tirade about it for perhaps the next few days... Unless you yourself are as passionate about the Punk subculture as she is.

Rainy Daylee the Hippie (Rita Pae)
Age: 22 Years Old
Nationality: Chinese Korean

Rita has had a considerably rough childhood, with her parents divorcing when she was still studying in Primary school and her mother soon enough passing away in her early teens, she was considered a delinquent during her Primary and Secondary school years, skipping classes, as well as having difficulties getting along with her classmates and teachers, with only her mother truly understanding her predicament.

Despite all that however, sticking by some of the hippie's major ideologies has allowed Rita to grow and change into a considerably optimistic individual. It does help that she is now enrolled in an art college and is studying something she is actually passionate about. Humorously, Rita does get scorned for enjoying her meat (Especially when everyone expects hippies to be vegans). And despite her poor health, Rita rejoices in what she has, believing that she has grown to be a better person since then. Just to humour others, she does enjoy punctuating her sentences with various hippie slang, and soon enough, it becomes a habit for her.

While Rita does like to look good and cares about her appearance, she is not very experienced when it comes to putting on make up and doing up her hair, and normally needs someone else to help her out in that area. Deep down, Rita has an incredibly low self-esteem, especially after those incidents of being called a pig throughout primary and secondary school.

Millie the Goth (Millie Maslin)
Age: 20 Years Old
Nationality: African British

Raised by a very well off family, Millie is actually the most level headed and passive of the three. Elegant and well mannered, it is no surprise that many admire and/or even adore her. While dressed in the fanciest threads, the young woman is actually very modest, if not shy most of the time when around others. Her hobbies include basket weaving, flower arranging, painting, reading and baking, she is also a bit of a technophobe and neat freak.

It is no surprise that Millie however still gets scorned now and then by some due to her association with the Goth subculture, but with friends like Zara, any serious bullying are kept at bay. Seeing that these people are apparently only familiar with the stereotypical portrayals of Goths presented by the mass media, Millie tends to get insulted for not dressing up as the same way the 'Goths do on TV'. At times, the girl finds herself conflicted over whether she should dress more subtly to avoid such confrontations or to continue being who she is and carrying on with her life.

Despite all that, Millie still gets the most admirers (With Zara coming in a close second), and as she continues to politely decline them, a part of her also feels encouraged about staying the way she is. She hopes however that others will learn to be less prejudice and will someday learn to accept her like everyone else does.

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