after working on this for most of an evening i've finally realized how unhinged it looks
but we're all playing extremists aren't we
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[center][h1]Miss Charlene “Cherry” Zinaida[/h1][color=crimson][sub](You’d love to know who I came from. Whose little princess was I, before?)[/sub][/color][/center][indent][indent][indent][indent][hr][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center][h2][i]You are not insane.[/i][/h2][/center]
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[center][color=gray][i]"Can you call this place a home?"[/i][/color]
[sub][color=crimson](Can anyone?)[/color][/sub][/center]
[center][img] https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/6570410c-1a7d-423a-8420-5bdd40db4cdf.png [/img]
[color=crimson][sub](Why can’t you meet my eyes?)[/sub][/color][/center]
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[indent][indent][indent][indent][h3]TAYGETE CITIZENSHIP CARD[/h3][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[indent][indent][indent][indent][table][row][cell]ID SERIAL[/cell][cell]BIRTH[/cell][cell]RESIDENCE[/cell][cell]PROFESSION[/cell][/row][row][cell]R7037300[/cell][cell]F, Age 23 (Feb 28)[/cell][cell]Herse[/cell][cell]Unemployed[/cell][/row][/table][hr][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[indent][indent][indent][indent][h3]PERSONALITY[/h3]
Cherry has often been called, and very much is… intense. She’s not easy to talk to. She always seems on edge. In an average conversation there’s a pervasive sense that something very bad must have happened to make her what she is.
What goes on in her head is a mystery. What she shares with the world is often malformed and never “decent.” She will insult people she likes and those she doesn’t. She will, in her baffling prophetic way, speak and act against every system of the world.
Politically, you would call her an anarchist. Neurologically, perhaps a psychotic. Philosophically, she owns a well-worn hard copy of Industrial Society and Its Future. 
Socially? Well… that’s fourth on this list. It’s lower yet on hers.[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[indent][indent][indent][indent][h3]BACKGROUND[/h3]
[color=crimson]I was born here. In Taygete. Do you really want to know more? Does my past really matter?[/color]
Cherry is extremely cagey about her past. To what extent it’s a defensive measure and to what extent she simply doesn’t care to share is hard to say.

[color=crimson]My family liked to pretend that they mattered. The world thought the same. Still does. They all knew I didn’t matter. But you’ve never heard of the Arbor family, have you?[/color]
Her parents ranked high in the corporate nobility. They didn’t want her. She decided she didn’t want them either. The surname she gives to those who ask is a complete fabrication.

[color=crimson]I live for what I know and what I can say. Some people hang on to my words – from afar. No one likes to look me in the eye. But they’ll hear me. They don’t have to want to.[/color]
She gets along well with the gangs of Herse, occasionally acting with them for self-sustenance, and has a following of her own. “Sprawl Shadow,” a hybrid political activist group, urban terrorist organization, and apocalypse cult, is based somewhere deep in the web, somewhat tolerated in Shoegazer forums, and dogwhistled about on Pasithee. She doesn’t run things – she’s not an organizer, and barely a leader. But when she speaks, the oldest members listen to her.

[color=crimson]You don't want to know me as badly as you think.[/color]
Law enforcement knows her by her screen name only. Dies Lovis finds her equally intriguing, and is equally shut out.

[color=crimson]The me you want is not real.[/color]
People might ask when she got “like this.” In a few ways, she always was. But it was after her X-Factor manifested that she found herself.[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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[indent][indent][indent][indent][h3]X-FACTOR[/h3]
[color=crimson]My dreams are real.[/color]
[color=salmon]Cherry straddles some unseen line between this world and another. She sees [url=https://i.pximg.net/img-original/img/2022/04/23/10/24/14/97814315_p0.jpg]vi[/url][url=https://i.pximg.net/img-original/img/2018/09/19/07/42/53/70768040_p0.jpg]sio[/url][url=https://i.pximg.net/img-original/img/2017/10/05/11/17/04/65282695_p0.jpg]ns[/url]. She hears [url=https://youtu.be/O7YAHQQQkcQ]voices[/url]. One day, they stopped lying to her.
The connection stretches both ways. The best way to put is that her own spirit can act as a sort of poltergeist. When she is agitated – which is often – lights may flicker, objects may topple, and others may see glimpses of what she sees.
Her control over this is questionable, indirect, and uncertain. When she’s angry at the world, it may be altered, and sometimes that can get in her way. When she’s angry at you, you are in danger – sometimes more than she wants.
This influence stretches as far as she can physically see and hear. A telescope extends her range. A television does not.[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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