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Jan. 2nd, 2012 11:19 amPlayer Info
Name: Anastasia
Pronoun: She/Her
E-Mail: anastasia.j.kraus [at] gmail.com
Other Contact: You can contact me on gchat, or when I’m in IRC!
Character Basics
Name: Hamideh “Amy” Al-Wahhab
City: Fall City, USA
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Biological Sex: Female
Birthdate: January 19th
Birthplace: New York City, USA
PB: Aubrey Plaza
Appearance
Natural Hair/Eye Color: Brown/Brown
Height: 5’4”
Body Type: Curvy - Large butt/hips/thighs with a comparatively skinny waist/small bust. She typically weighs anywhere from 130-140lbs – she doesn’t really keep track of her weight.
Noticeable Scars/Tattoos/Piercings and Location: Amy has two piercings in each ear. She doesn’t have any tattoos or noticeable scars.
Clothing Style: Amy is the hipster of the 2050s – she has an assortment of “vintage” clothes from Hollister, American Eagle, and F21. Skinny jeans/pants paired with sneakers, t-shirts, and some kind of jacket or pull-over. If not wearing actual vintage clothes, she’ll wear recently-manufactured replicas. The only modern clothing she casually wears are tees for current bands and shoes. She likes jeans, and keeps her long hair down and mostly unstyled.
Polyvore clothing set (example of a daily outfit): Clothing Example
For special occasions, she wears more modern clothes that are generally picked out by her step-mom. These events are the only ones for which she’ll wears dresses, heels, put on make-up, style her hair… she doesn’t really express any kind of loathing for getting dolled up to go somewhere nice other than that it takes time that she could be spending on the computer or watching TV.
Background
Summary: Amy’s mother and father met at some high-society charity soiree in New York, New York over 20 years ago. Her, a marketing intern for a contributing corporation, he was an assistant to an investment banker. They met, enjoyed a few drinks, and went back to his hotel suite for the night. They stayed in touch – she worked out of the city, and he visited often while working out of the U.A.E. and Turkey. About a year into the relationship, Roxanne found out that her birth control had failed and that she was going to have a baby. The two decided quickly to get married, nominally to placate his family, and perhaps in a vain attempt to have a “normal” family that admittedly neither of them was interested in but they both felt compelled to have due to external pressure. Kaliq moved to New York, getting a position with his firm’s U.S. branch. Her mother, despite the pregnancy, continued to get promotions within her own firm until she was a PR executive. Hamideh – Amy – was well-taken care of due to her family’s wealth, but even from an early age could sense the tension between her parents. The truth was that neither Roxanne nor Kaliq really cared for each other enough to have a stable, long-term relationship with a child. They had both been enjoying their youth and newfound wealth, but marriage had never been a consideration.
The divorce came when Amy was seven – Roxanne had been seeing a client on the side and Kaliq, growing older, wanted someone who shared more of his traditional values and would be interested in having more children. Kaliq returned to the U.A.E. soon after the divorce, keeping in touch with his daughter through her halfway-forced summer visits overseas and gifts that were sent on all appropriate occasions. He eventually married a young Arab woman and Amy currently has two step-siblings whom she hardly sees or knows. When she visits in the summer, they always seem conveniently on holiday themselves. Roxanne, on the other hand, entered into a long courtship with her former mistress. Allison McNabb, a partner in a health-food manufacturing firm, was also a divorcee and had two children of her own, a twin son and daughter. When Amy was 14, her mother married Allison and they moved to the Pacific north-west – specifically, Fall City’s suburban neighbor Underwood.
Together they started their own health-food business, with Roxanne doing the marketing/PR/accounting and Allison making the recipes, doing the artwork for the packaging, and helping run the front-end of the business. While neither woman is making nearly as much money as they did in New York, they both say they’re happier and more relaxed (and they still live quite comfortably). Amy went to high-school with her step-siblings in Underwood, bitter and more than a little resentful about having her life in New York uprooted. She ended up meeting a lot of her current friends through her classes at school and the local music scene. She never really spent a lot of time playing video games until her step-bother introduced her to the latest expansion of Magic: The Gathering online when she was 16. At first she thought it was a little stupid, until she ended up really getting into the tactics and the challenge that went into making decks. She played aggressively until her friends found out; they teased her mercilessly about getting so into the game and in a fit she quit and renounced playing “serious” video games.
Recently, Amy graduated from high school and is in her second year of college at the local University. Her grades throughout school were good, but she just baaaaarely scrapped by to get into school for free. Her parents were there to pay for her to go should she have missed the cut-off, but she now uses that money to live on her own in a studio apartment rather than with her mothers in Underwood. To keep up appearances with her IRL friends, she claims that she didn’t make the grade cut-off but her parents are “forcing” her to go to school. She’s currently double-majoring in biology and electrical engineering and hopes to eventually go to gradschool/get her PhD in making Robocop.
Tell me two important memories.
1 – About seven months into her longest relationship, while lying and smoking a joint after sex, Amy told her boyfriend that she loved him. It was one of the hardest things that she’d ever done. After a pause, he laughed and told her that she didn’t know what love was and that she shouldn’t kid herself. Hurt, humiliated, and angry she broke up with him on the spot and walked out of his apartment. She hasn’t spoken to him since - it's been over a year.
2 – The first time that she saw someone use heroin. Amy was in the car with her girlfriend at the time, Hannah, sitting in the back seat while Hannah was picking up one of her friends from work. They picked him up, and then drove around a bit before stopping to pick up a hit from a dealer. Hannah’s friend quickly got started; he pulled up his sleeve and his arm was completely fucked up, bruised and bleeding. He vomited almost immediately after shooting up. The group mutually starting to freak out at that point. The night ended with all of them smoking behind a restaurant in the snow, damp and shaking. Amy never really had an opinion about drugs before that moment, but the chaos and screaming in a car with a junkie that reeked of human puke has stuck with her.
Family members:
Kaliq Al-Wahhab (51; Father)
Fatima Al-Wahhab (34; Step-Mother)
[Al-Wahhab siblings]
Roxanne Flores (42; Mother)
Allison McNabb (48 ; Step-Mother)
[McNabb male sibling]
[McNabb female sibling]
Pets: A (female) Himalayan fancy rat named Baxter.
Character Details
Favorite Food? Her favorite food is any most any kind of bread paired with any kind of cheese. She’ll have a dinner of cheddar slices on Ritz crackers. You could probably put cheese on anything and she would eat it. She doesn’t like sweets; cakes, cookies, and most pies make her want to gag. The only chocolate she’ll eat is like 70% dark – super bitter, and it has to be high quality. You ruin coffee if you put sugar/stevia/sweetener into it, etc.
Favorite Color? On a bad day; black. On a good day; orange. Shades and textures don’t really affect how much she likes them, though she doesn’t really like shiny. She prefers her finishes to be as matte as possible.
Favorite Season? Neutral towards Spring and Fall (mostly associated with school), she generally dislikes the Summer because she hates being forced along on trips with her family and doesn’t like to go swimming or show off too much skin. Winter wins out; she gets to bundle up, it’s less sunny, there’s not as many people out, she doesn’t get as much shit for being a homebody.
Favorite Animal? Rats, mostly. The high-maintenance element of owning anything more exotic eliminates the desire to have one – she’ll leave that to her mothers. Dogs are too loud; cats knock over your shit too much. Fish and birds are impersonal pets that just create work without little reward. She thinks that rats are affectionate and provide the perfect balance of companionship without taking over her life (even though she’s highly attentive to Baxter).
Do they like television? Amy doesn’t tell anyone about her love of absolutely awful reality-trash TV. The current equivalents of “Bridezillas”? “Toddlers and Tiaras”? “Hoarders”? Watched every episode. She secretly gets a kick out of the near-voyeurism of watching someone else’s life, with a bonus of being able judge people she doesn’t know. If she’s doing something in her apartment, she typically has the TV on for ambient noise.
What's their favorite style of music? Amy likes whatever music is the most underground at the moment. Obscure indie band with a name too long and complicated to memorize? Yeah, she knew them before they were famous. She listens to practically everything, but sticks to her indie bands for the most part (and to keep up with appearances). Contemporary music isn’t too bad, but it’s not her first choice. She keeps up with the hits, just to stay current. She likes bands that are either the equivalent of something like Anberlin, or airy female vocals of bands like The Bird and the Bee or Laura Veirs.
Have they considered being the gender/sexuality they're not? Amy doesn’t think too much about sex. She lost her virginity to a (male) friend in high school, but nothing romantic really formed out of it. Since then, she’s drifted through a myriad of relationships with a number of people (male and female, but always sexual). She’s typically always dating someone, but they don’t often last more than a few months before she abruptly breaks it off with them. She likes to initiate the end of a relationship – in fact, she’s never been broken up with.
Would you say they're "picky"? Yes and no. Amy is really particular about things just to be difficult about it; she’ll typically be fine – even agreeable – with any option if it’s her only option. The more room you give her to choose, the more she’ll wrinkle her nose and get almost cartoonishly choosey about the details of her selection. In her opinion, though, she’s not “picky”.
Do they alphabetize/color-coordinate their things? If so, which things? Amy’s method of organization is “placement-based”. Important things go in a pile in an important place. Secondary, tertiary, and other additional piles are then formed with proximity to the primary pile. Subconsciously, she’ll move things from one pile to the next based on their importance to her. E-mails are similarly organized into folders, clothes in her closet are arranged from “most used to least used”, etc.
From an outsider looking in, Amy may look disorganized. Stuff that isn’t destined for a pile is typically just left wherever until she gets the bug to tidy up a bit. She doesn’t really have an opinion about how organized (or not) she is – her work gets done and done on time, and that’s what matters.
Internet Presence: Amy is a massive troll on the internet. She doesn’t really want to reveal any of her personal life on the internet (outside of vague statements like “my mom’s a bitch” or obvious facts like “studying for finals is balls”). Outwardly, she is there first and foremost to game and have (her idea of) fun. Inwardly, she likes to obsessively read forums about RP, mechanics – she practically devours anything about the game and processes it for later use.
She gets a lot of shit for playing Zen from her IRL group of friends, and covers up being such a “nerd” by saying that she only plays it to troll the overly-serious RP groups. This seems to be enough to get them to accept that she’s not really into it, or that she plays as a way to mess with “real neckbeards”.
Amy actually feels way more comfortable roleplaying – she has a community that she can talk to, and express herself with. To be honest a lot of the people who she has met through her gaming are probably better friends than the ones that she has IRL. However, shame is a powerful motivator, and she doesn’t want to fit the stereotype of the hardcore gamer that lives in a fantasy world without any “real friends”.
Programs/Services and Screennames
IM: sturmgeist
E-mail: h.wahhab@fcu.edu / sturmgeist_onslaught@gmail.com
Tumblr/Twitter: sturmgeist
Facebook: Amy Wahhab
Play Style: Amy approaches Zen from two very different directions. Her friends, IRL anyway, are a group of hipsters that find gaming online to be for people who have no lives and spend all their time in a cave-like room sucking down the latest Mountain Dew flavor. With their opinion of gamers being so terribly low, and with her experience playing online games formed through an ultra-competitive online card game, Amy started Zen at a much different place than she’s at now.
The first is her PvP alt, who she made to “test” out the game. She’s able to deflect some of the stigma of playing an RP-heavy game by saying that she’s only doing it to troll other players or simply for the competitive aspect and necessary skill of playing the high-level PvP game. While she’s developed the character extensively, she doesn’t typically spend a lot of IG time actively seeking out RP partners – she knows that her IRL friends have seen her alt and might log on to fuck with her.
On the other hand, Amy has been interested in RP for a long time, and even though her local scene discourages her from seeking out an old-school DnD group or LARPing or anything like that, she likes reading and for a short while in middle school/early high school was writing her own fantasy epic. She’s since “lost” the handwritten manuscript, but the fire was still inside her. After getting used to the layout of the game, Amy started her own RP alt and when she’s on it she genuinely does her best to stay IC and has a lot of fun.
To RP or not to RP?: This is a complicated question for Amy; on the surface – to her friends, anyway – she really only plays for PVP and trolling. This isn’t to say that she hasn’t thought of an elaborate history for her PVP alt – when camping spawns and killing n00bs, she’s composed quite the novel about her Spellsword.
On the other hand, Amy also has recently rolled a dedicated RP alt that she keeps absolutely secret from her RL friends. Similarly, she tells her RP league that this is her only character from the game, keeping her identity as some asshole PVPer secret. Her (OOC) personality when she RPs is typically softer and more empathetic and she typically reflects her character’s personality. She tries not to get into the psychology of why she plays this way.
Personality
General Overview: Despite her outward exterior of a typical lazy, misdirected teenager Amy is actually practical, disciplined individual. She does her work, does it well, and does it on time. Her problems arise mostly from her social circle - though she works hard on her homework and even enjoys some of it, she’ll pretend that she blows it off (or will actually blow it off) in front of her friends to fit in. The reason why her grades in high school were as low as they were was because of this habit. She feels like her current group of friends are the only people that will accept her, and she feels this desire to impress them with her derisive attitude and by joining with them in mocking other people.
When not associating herself with her hipster friends, Amy is a hard worker. Though she blows off work for street cred, she’ll always get too it when she gets back home to get it in on time. She got a severe talk from her mothers about her grades when she barely got accepted for her student grants and doesn’t want to fail out or do poorly – she really wants to do well, honest! It’s just, that, well, a lot of her friends didn’t get into school and…
Amy doesn’t really get close to other people. She doesn’t open herself up emotionally, which is valued by her friends at first because the whole “don’t-give-a-shit” snark is funny, but it has prevented her from really having any significant relationship and over time has caused a lot of the people she knows to call her bitchy. She keeps a lot of distance from her family, and sometimes wonders if she really cares one way or another about them – especially her dad, since she hardly sees him anymore.
So, she’s this snarky, bitter, detached young woman who values impressing her friends that probably don’t really care about her more than actually achieving the things that she wants to do professionally, or doing the things that really make her happy. Hopefully this will change in the future.
Flaws: Amy is still growing out of that awkward teenage phase where life is a mixture of angst and a fucking joke. At first, new things (or people) are regarded with scorn or disinterest. She has to dip her toes into something before she can figure out if she likes it, and if it’s okay for her to like it. She has a deep love for RP and writing, but she keeps it aggressively covered up and even engages in making fun of other people that do with her friends.
Amy doesn’t deal with “heavy” emotions well. She typically tries to avoid showing much outward emotion at all, often preferring to be coolly detached, or at least sarcastic. When angry or sad, she’ll get sarcastic and flippant, say with cold detachment the cruelest thing that she can contrive. Amy will, as quickly as possible, remove herself from the situation. She’s currently a bit of a follower, who in the name of protecting herself is mean, vindictive, and detached. She doesn’t like to get close to people, as she knows she can be easily hurt by someone that she opens herself up to.
She’s also a tad paranoid, and typically assumes the worst about people right off the bat – when on her PvP alt, she’s constantly wondering if one of her RL friends is going to try and track her down to troll her and then they’ll know how much time she spends on Zen. She doesn’t want to get close to someone, because she knows they’re going to use her. The only reprieve she gives herself from this is when RPing on her RP alt.
Quirks
- Amy always has her Droid E-FECTIV on hand at all times. She doesn’t forget her phone in places, because it always in her hand. She can text and navigate to any screen on her phone in an instant.
- Amy tends to stack things subconsciously – soda cans on top of each other while playing Zen, pencils and erasers on top of each other, etcetera.
- She’s quick to try and sleep with someone if they make themselves available. In fact, she’s dated/slept with almost everyone in her current social group.
- She’s trained her pet rat to sleep on her neck, under her hair.
- Keeps her earbuds in at all times, even when she’s not listening to anything or talking on the phone. Can be a little annoying.
- Eats really poorly – she sometimes has cereal for all three meals, doesn’t drink a lot of water, that sort of thing.
Three Complimentary Words: Intellectual, Dedicated, Resourceful
Three True-But-Hard-To-Hear Words: Cruel, Cowardly, Selfish
Name: Anastasia
Pronoun: She/Her
E-Mail: anastasia.j.kraus [at] gmail.com
Other Contact: You can contact me on gchat, or when I’m in IRC!
Character Basics
Name: Hamideh “Amy” Al-Wahhab
City: Fall City, USA
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Biological Sex: Female
Birthdate: January 19th
Birthplace: New York City, USA
PB: Aubrey Plaza
Appearance
Natural Hair/Eye Color: Brown/Brown
Height: 5’4”
Body Type: Curvy - Large butt/hips/thighs with a comparatively skinny waist/small bust. She typically weighs anywhere from 130-140lbs – she doesn’t really keep track of her weight.
Noticeable Scars/Tattoos/Piercings and Location: Amy has two piercings in each ear. She doesn’t have any tattoos or noticeable scars.
Clothing Style: Amy is the hipster of the 2050s – she has an assortment of “vintage” clothes from Hollister, American Eagle, and F21. Skinny jeans/pants paired with sneakers, t-shirts, and some kind of jacket or pull-over. If not wearing actual vintage clothes, she’ll wear recently-manufactured replicas. The only modern clothing she casually wears are tees for current bands and shoes. She likes jeans, and keeps her long hair down and mostly unstyled.
Polyvore clothing set (example of a daily outfit): Clothing Example
For special occasions, she wears more modern clothes that are generally picked out by her step-mom. These events are the only ones for which she’ll wears dresses, heels, put on make-up, style her hair… she doesn’t really express any kind of loathing for getting dolled up to go somewhere nice other than that it takes time that she could be spending on the computer or watching TV.
Background
Summary: Amy’s mother and father met at some high-society charity soiree in New York, New York over 20 years ago. Her, a marketing intern for a contributing corporation, he was an assistant to an investment banker. They met, enjoyed a few drinks, and went back to his hotel suite for the night. They stayed in touch – she worked out of the city, and he visited often while working out of the U.A.E. and Turkey. About a year into the relationship, Roxanne found out that her birth control had failed and that she was going to have a baby. The two decided quickly to get married, nominally to placate his family, and perhaps in a vain attempt to have a “normal” family that admittedly neither of them was interested in but they both felt compelled to have due to external pressure. Kaliq moved to New York, getting a position with his firm’s U.S. branch. Her mother, despite the pregnancy, continued to get promotions within her own firm until she was a PR executive. Hamideh – Amy – was well-taken care of due to her family’s wealth, but even from an early age could sense the tension between her parents. The truth was that neither Roxanne nor Kaliq really cared for each other enough to have a stable, long-term relationship with a child. They had both been enjoying their youth and newfound wealth, but marriage had never been a consideration.
The divorce came when Amy was seven – Roxanne had been seeing a client on the side and Kaliq, growing older, wanted someone who shared more of his traditional values and would be interested in having more children. Kaliq returned to the U.A.E. soon after the divorce, keeping in touch with his daughter through her halfway-forced summer visits overseas and gifts that were sent on all appropriate occasions. He eventually married a young Arab woman and Amy currently has two step-siblings whom she hardly sees or knows. When she visits in the summer, they always seem conveniently on holiday themselves. Roxanne, on the other hand, entered into a long courtship with her former mistress. Allison McNabb, a partner in a health-food manufacturing firm, was also a divorcee and had two children of her own, a twin son and daughter. When Amy was 14, her mother married Allison and they moved to the Pacific north-west – specifically, Fall City’s suburban neighbor Underwood.
Together they started their own health-food business, with Roxanne doing the marketing/PR/accounting and Allison making the recipes, doing the artwork for the packaging, and helping run the front-end of the business. While neither woman is making nearly as much money as they did in New York, they both say they’re happier and more relaxed (and they still live quite comfortably). Amy went to high-school with her step-siblings in Underwood, bitter and more than a little resentful about having her life in New York uprooted. She ended up meeting a lot of her current friends through her classes at school and the local music scene. She never really spent a lot of time playing video games until her step-bother introduced her to the latest expansion of Magic: The Gathering online when she was 16. At first she thought it was a little stupid, until she ended up really getting into the tactics and the challenge that went into making decks. She played aggressively until her friends found out; they teased her mercilessly about getting so into the game and in a fit she quit and renounced playing “serious” video games.
Recently, Amy graduated from high school and is in her second year of college at the local University. Her grades throughout school were good, but she just baaaaarely scrapped by to get into school for free. Her parents were there to pay for her to go should she have missed the cut-off, but she now uses that money to live on her own in a studio apartment rather than with her mothers in Underwood. To keep up appearances with her IRL friends, she claims that she didn’t make the grade cut-off but her parents are “forcing” her to go to school. She’s currently double-majoring in biology and electrical engineering and hopes to eventually go to gradschool/get her PhD in making Robocop.
Tell me two important memories.
1 – About seven months into her longest relationship, while lying and smoking a joint after sex, Amy told her boyfriend that she loved him. It was one of the hardest things that she’d ever done. After a pause, he laughed and told her that she didn’t know what love was and that she shouldn’t kid herself. Hurt, humiliated, and angry she broke up with him on the spot and walked out of his apartment. She hasn’t spoken to him since - it's been over a year.
2 – The first time that she saw someone use heroin. Amy was in the car with her girlfriend at the time, Hannah, sitting in the back seat while Hannah was picking up one of her friends from work. They picked him up, and then drove around a bit before stopping to pick up a hit from a dealer. Hannah’s friend quickly got started; he pulled up his sleeve and his arm was completely fucked up, bruised and bleeding. He vomited almost immediately after shooting up. The group mutually starting to freak out at that point. The night ended with all of them smoking behind a restaurant in the snow, damp and shaking. Amy never really had an opinion about drugs before that moment, but the chaos and screaming in a car with a junkie that reeked of human puke has stuck with her.
Family members:
Kaliq Al-Wahhab (51; Father)
Fatima Al-Wahhab (34; Step-Mother)
[Al-Wahhab siblings]
Roxanne Flores (42; Mother)
Allison McNabb (48 ; Step-Mother)
[McNabb male sibling]
[McNabb female sibling]
Pets: A (female) Himalayan fancy rat named Baxter.
Character Details
Favorite Food? Her favorite food is any most any kind of bread paired with any kind of cheese. She’ll have a dinner of cheddar slices on Ritz crackers. You could probably put cheese on anything and she would eat it. She doesn’t like sweets; cakes, cookies, and most pies make her want to gag. The only chocolate she’ll eat is like 70% dark – super bitter, and it has to be high quality. You ruin coffee if you put sugar/stevia/sweetener into it, etc.
Favorite Color? On a bad day; black. On a good day; orange. Shades and textures don’t really affect how much she likes them, though she doesn’t really like shiny. She prefers her finishes to be as matte as possible.
Favorite Season? Neutral towards Spring and Fall (mostly associated with school), she generally dislikes the Summer because she hates being forced along on trips with her family and doesn’t like to go swimming or show off too much skin. Winter wins out; she gets to bundle up, it’s less sunny, there’s not as many people out, she doesn’t get as much shit for being a homebody.
Favorite Animal? Rats, mostly. The high-maintenance element of owning anything more exotic eliminates the desire to have one – she’ll leave that to her mothers. Dogs are too loud; cats knock over your shit too much. Fish and birds are impersonal pets that just create work without little reward. She thinks that rats are affectionate and provide the perfect balance of companionship without taking over her life (even though she’s highly attentive to Baxter).
Do they like television? Amy doesn’t tell anyone about her love of absolutely awful reality-trash TV. The current equivalents of “Bridezillas”? “Toddlers and Tiaras”? “Hoarders”? Watched every episode. She secretly gets a kick out of the near-voyeurism of watching someone else’s life, with a bonus of being able judge people she doesn’t know. If she’s doing something in her apartment, she typically has the TV on for ambient noise.
What's their favorite style of music? Amy likes whatever music is the most underground at the moment. Obscure indie band with a name too long and complicated to memorize? Yeah, she knew them before they were famous. She listens to practically everything, but sticks to her indie bands for the most part (and to keep up with appearances). Contemporary music isn’t too bad, but it’s not her first choice. She keeps up with the hits, just to stay current. She likes bands that are either the equivalent of something like Anberlin, or airy female vocals of bands like The Bird and the Bee or Laura Veirs.
Have they considered being the gender/sexuality they're not? Amy doesn’t think too much about sex. She lost her virginity to a (male) friend in high school, but nothing romantic really formed out of it. Since then, she’s drifted through a myriad of relationships with a number of people (male and female, but always sexual). She’s typically always dating someone, but they don’t often last more than a few months before she abruptly breaks it off with them. She likes to initiate the end of a relationship – in fact, she’s never been broken up with.
Would you say they're "picky"? Yes and no. Amy is really particular about things just to be difficult about it; she’ll typically be fine – even agreeable – with any option if it’s her only option. The more room you give her to choose, the more she’ll wrinkle her nose and get almost cartoonishly choosey about the details of her selection. In her opinion, though, she’s not “picky”.
Do they alphabetize/color-coordinate their things? If so, which things? Amy’s method of organization is “placement-based”. Important things go in a pile in an important place. Secondary, tertiary, and other additional piles are then formed with proximity to the primary pile. Subconsciously, she’ll move things from one pile to the next based on their importance to her. E-mails are similarly organized into folders, clothes in her closet are arranged from “most used to least used”, etc.
From an outsider looking in, Amy may look disorganized. Stuff that isn’t destined for a pile is typically just left wherever until she gets the bug to tidy up a bit. She doesn’t really have an opinion about how organized (or not) she is – her work gets done and done on time, and that’s what matters.
Internet Presence: Amy is a massive troll on the internet. She doesn’t really want to reveal any of her personal life on the internet (outside of vague statements like “my mom’s a bitch” or obvious facts like “studying for finals is balls”). Outwardly, she is there first and foremost to game and have (her idea of) fun. Inwardly, she likes to obsessively read forums about RP, mechanics – she practically devours anything about the game and processes it for later use.
She gets a lot of shit for playing Zen from her IRL group of friends, and covers up being such a “nerd” by saying that she only plays it to troll the overly-serious RP groups. This seems to be enough to get them to accept that she’s not really into it, or that she plays as a way to mess with “real neckbeards”.
Amy actually feels way more comfortable roleplaying – she has a community that she can talk to, and express herself with. To be honest a lot of the people who she has met through her gaming are probably better friends than the ones that she has IRL. However, shame is a powerful motivator, and she doesn’t want to fit the stereotype of the hardcore gamer that lives in a fantasy world without any “real friends”.
Programs/Services and Screennames
IM: sturmgeist
E-mail: h.wahhab@fcu.edu / sturmgeist_onslaught@gmail.com
Tumblr/Twitter: sturmgeist
Facebook: Amy Wahhab
Play Style: Amy approaches Zen from two very different directions. Her friends, IRL anyway, are a group of hipsters that find gaming online to be for people who have no lives and spend all their time in a cave-like room sucking down the latest Mountain Dew flavor. With their opinion of gamers being so terribly low, and with her experience playing online games formed through an ultra-competitive online card game, Amy started Zen at a much different place than she’s at now.
The first is her PvP alt, who she made to “test” out the game. She’s able to deflect some of the stigma of playing an RP-heavy game by saying that she’s only doing it to troll other players or simply for the competitive aspect and necessary skill of playing the high-level PvP game. While she’s developed the character extensively, she doesn’t typically spend a lot of IG time actively seeking out RP partners – she knows that her IRL friends have seen her alt and might log on to fuck with her.
On the other hand, Amy has been interested in RP for a long time, and even though her local scene discourages her from seeking out an old-school DnD group or LARPing or anything like that, she likes reading and for a short while in middle school/early high school was writing her own fantasy epic. She’s since “lost” the handwritten manuscript, but the fire was still inside her. After getting used to the layout of the game, Amy started her own RP alt and when she’s on it she genuinely does her best to stay IC and has a lot of fun.
To RP or not to RP?: This is a complicated question for Amy; on the surface – to her friends, anyway – she really only plays for PVP and trolling. This isn’t to say that she hasn’t thought of an elaborate history for her PVP alt – when camping spawns and killing n00bs, she’s composed quite the novel about her Spellsword.
On the other hand, Amy also has recently rolled a dedicated RP alt that she keeps absolutely secret from her RL friends. Similarly, she tells her RP league that this is her only character from the game, keeping her identity as some asshole PVPer secret. Her (OOC) personality when she RPs is typically softer and more empathetic and she typically reflects her character’s personality. She tries not to get into the psychology of why she plays this way.
Personality
General Overview: Despite her outward exterior of a typical lazy, misdirected teenager Amy is actually practical, disciplined individual. She does her work, does it well, and does it on time. Her problems arise mostly from her social circle - though she works hard on her homework and even enjoys some of it, she’ll pretend that she blows it off (or will actually blow it off) in front of her friends to fit in. The reason why her grades in high school were as low as they were was because of this habit. She feels like her current group of friends are the only people that will accept her, and she feels this desire to impress them with her derisive attitude and by joining with them in mocking other people.
When not associating herself with her hipster friends, Amy is a hard worker. Though she blows off work for street cred, she’ll always get too it when she gets back home to get it in on time. She got a severe talk from her mothers about her grades when she barely got accepted for her student grants and doesn’t want to fail out or do poorly – she really wants to do well, honest! It’s just, that, well, a lot of her friends didn’t get into school and…
Amy doesn’t really get close to other people. She doesn’t open herself up emotionally, which is valued by her friends at first because the whole “don’t-give-a-shit” snark is funny, but it has prevented her from really having any significant relationship and over time has caused a lot of the people she knows to call her bitchy. She keeps a lot of distance from her family, and sometimes wonders if she really cares one way or another about them – especially her dad, since she hardly sees him anymore.
So, she’s this snarky, bitter, detached young woman who values impressing her friends that probably don’t really care about her more than actually achieving the things that she wants to do professionally, or doing the things that really make her happy. Hopefully this will change in the future.
Flaws: Amy is still growing out of that awkward teenage phase where life is a mixture of angst and a fucking joke. At first, new things (or people) are regarded with scorn or disinterest. She has to dip her toes into something before she can figure out if she likes it, and if it’s okay for her to like it. She has a deep love for RP and writing, but she keeps it aggressively covered up and even engages in making fun of other people that do with her friends.
Amy doesn’t deal with “heavy” emotions well. She typically tries to avoid showing much outward emotion at all, often preferring to be coolly detached, or at least sarcastic. When angry or sad, she’ll get sarcastic and flippant, say with cold detachment the cruelest thing that she can contrive. Amy will, as quickly as possible, remove herself from the situation. She’s currently a bit of a follower, who in the name of protecting herself is mean, vindictive, and detached. She doesn’t like to get close to people, as she knows she can be easily hurt by someone that she opens herself up to.
She’s also a tad paranoid, and typically assumes the worst about people right off the bat – when on her PvP alt, she’s constantly wondering if one of her RL friends is going to try and track her down to troll her and then they’ll know how much time she spends on Zen. She doesn’t want to get close to someone, because she knows they’re going to use her. The only reprieve she gives herself from this is when RPing on her RP alt.
Quirks
- Amy always has her Droid E-FECTIV on hand at all times. She doesn’t forget her phone in places, because it always in her hand. She can text and navigate to any screen on her phone in an instant.
- Amy tends to stack things subconsciously – soda cans on top of each other while playing Zen, pencils and erasers on top of each other, etcetera.
- She’s quick to try and sleep with someone if they make themselves available. In fact, she’s dated/slept with almost everyone in her current social group.
- She’s trained her pet rat to sleep on her neck, under her hair.
- Keeps her earbuds in at all times, even when she’s not listening to anything or talking on the phone. Can be a little annoying.
- Eats really poorly – she sometimes has cereal for all three meals, doesn’t drink a lot of water, that sort of thing.
Three Complimentary Words: Intellectual, Dedicated, Resourceful
Three True-But-Hard-To-Hear Words: Cruel, Cowardly, Selfish
