“I am a goddamn rock star, and I dress like one. I make sure my school pride is on display because I'm usually in black, but I show off the goods every time I step outside. I love a good mesh top and will wear them over whatever I want, usually with a jacket and a nice pair of shorts or ripped jeans to really make the plebs drool. I've already started on the piercings with my ears, nose and bellybutton done, but there's always room for more.”

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At first, Leila was content to fly under the radar - something that seemed next to impossible given that her mother is an Academy Award winning filmmaker (it was for Short Feature Film) - but in practice wasn't all that difficult given that being the child of someone with fame wasn't exactly unique at this particular school. Leila never really stood out; she had a small number of friends and that was good enough for her. Drawing attention to herself would only invite people to remark on the fact that she has a cochlear implant and has to always sit in the front row when she's not in special classes. If Leila has a reputation it's for being the girl who always has an earbud in as she's walking down the halls - though on closer inspection the earbud is a hearing aid on the ear opposite her implant. Leila, by senior year, is known as one of the 'disabled girls', a moniker bestowed upon her by the oh so gracious queen of the social ladder. It was meant to be a sign that she was exempt from mockery or the like (but at the same time afforded her little upward movement on the social ladder) but to Leila it was like being looked down upon and taken pity on; it felt like bullying by way of exclusion, intentional or otherwise. She tries to take it in stride, but when many just know her as 'the deaf girl' it's more than a little annoying. She isn't deaf. Not yet, anyway. She'd rather be known as the music girl or just...as anything other than being defined by what others perceive as a disability.

Leila does struggle with school sometimes just because she has to focus on lips in class when there isn't a readily available ASL translator on hand. Her hearing is an issue even if she refuses to see it that way. Yes, she can't hear as well as people and has an implant, but she's not lesser because of it. She is concerned that her dreams of getting into the music industry, be it as a singer or a producer or musician, is an impossibile dream but if she started worrying about that, she'd never get anywhere regardless. Leila would rather try and make her dreams a reality insead of resign herself to a regret filled life because she gave up.

Leila helps run the instagram and general social media account for Webb-Heads, which can be found at @WebbHeads
Her personal instagram is @WebbOfSound where she posts a lot of pictures. Her Twitter account is @WebbTunes and sometimes she gets people thinking she's an online comic website.
On TikTok she has a weekly video series called Melodic Moments where she discusses some of her favorite lyrics or musical bars.

Leila doesn't have any one specific style though if she did it would fall somewhere between business casual and comfort. She loves a good band tee just as much as she loves wearing a flannel or blazer jacker over said tee. Jeans, slacks, pants, rarely - as in damn near never-
wears shorts. She's kinda self conscious about her legs; her dad says she just has her mom's hips but to Leila that just means she thinks she has sausage legs which make it easier to hide in pants than letting them hang out. For the first three years of high school, Leila had medium length dark brown hair, going into senior year she has cut it short and now has a pixie cut. She looks, in her mother's words, like "a biracial Winona Ryder from, like, after she was having sex with Johnny Depp." Her friend DJ opted for saying she looked, quote, "Like every lesbian's first crush." Leila was weirdly flattered even if she didn't quite know what that meant.

Leila doesn't drive, so she either carpools with her friend(s) or takes a bus to school. If she can't get a ride on weekends she'll take an Uber.

Works at Webb-Heads. Stocks shelves, works the front register. Often has to point to a sign on the counter asking customers to please speak clearly and be understanding as she is hard of hearing. Some of them follow it. Most dont. Few mutter bad words under their breath because they think she can't read the lips.

Sometimes gets dragged to the film club, not an official member. A member in name only of the music club, would attend more meetings but work is a bigger priority.

Knows ASL but also can, you know, speak normally.
Is Hindu, isn't really serious about it. Mostly just to keep her granddad happy.
Always gets a hot dog at the movie theater, believes that the greasy turnstile and the heatlamps make it taste better.
Can sing pretty well.
Her favorite movie is Creed.

Annoyingly, many at BHHS - especially the underclassmen - know of Ellie because they're fans of her mother and the groups under her mother's company. Her mother, Tae Su-Hwa, is a former Kpop Idol who was the center of P.R.D.; Su traded the microphone for a briefcase as she now owns one of the only female-run entertainment agencies in Korea. The myriad of Kpop fans in the western world have made it very clear that Ellie basically comes from royalty - something that annoys her to absolutely no end. It was the decision of Ellie's father, Nick Walters, that she attend school in America because at the time it seemed she would be able to avoid the frenzy that comes with her genetics. Now into the senior year, Ellie has carved out her own sort of niche when it comes to BHHS' social hierarchy. She's not at the top, but she's nowhere near the bottom. People know her as the girl that plays bass outside during lunch and as the girl who punched a sophomore who kept asking her if Ellie's mom could get a kpop group to play their sweet sixteen. The detention was worth it. Other than being a fan of punk music and skilled at fingering a bass, Ellie sort of keeps a low profile, she never seems to get excited nor does she ever seem to get overly angry. She's chill. And seemingly a little anti-social but only by reputation, not by deed.

Ellie wants to pursue music in a professional capacity but doesn't want to rely on the connections that her parents have or be thought of as some kind of 'nepo hire'. To that end she's trying to find a band that shares her passion for actually making music and not just fucking around in a garage or a talent show performance. She's also looking for someone to go bowling with. In a romantic sense. As in a date. But who isn't looking for that? Her lack of extracirriculars and willingness to put all her eggs in a single basket means her post-high school education prospects are...grim and that's a conversation she can't keep putting off forever but damn if she won't try.

She has three media accounts: Twitter, TikTok, and Discord. All of them have the same handle of '@PunkyBoostar' It's a referencee to an old tv show she hasn't ever seen.

It is said that no one at BHHS has ever seen Ellie wear long pants and try as they might, no one can actually think of a time when they saw her in them. She certainly and probably has, but as far as anyone knows Ellie's default outfit consists of black combat boots, fishnets, and a skirt with a top to match. Her colors tend to skew towards darker colors, blacks and reds and blues being her favorite, but on ocassion she's rocked beige or grey. Bright colors aren't really her thing. At least not on her. She much prefers bright pastels, pinks and whites and yellows, on pretty girls. While her outfits might not win any awards in terms of high fashion or the like, what helps her standout is the various ways she wears her hair. She likes to keep it medium and scruffy, for that 'just had a dirty makeout session in an alley' look along with bangs that cling to her forehead, and she often keeps it in a tight topknot bun. She has dark brown hair but has dyed it different shades often not realizing that doing so makes her more like her mother than she would care to admit.

She has the four card suites on her fingers. She draws them on because she doesn't know if she wants to get a tattoo. On the one hand, a tatoo would really anger her mom. On the other...she kinda hates needles.

Her vehicle of choice is a red Kia Stinger GT2. It has generous trunk space. For storing her instruments. Or just for sitting in and hanging out after school or at the end of a date. She often has her bass guitar with her, either on her person or in the car. She doesn't carry it to class.

Unemployed.

After school you can find her getting a slushie (blue is her favorite flavor) or going bowling. Failing that, she'll be playing her bass or listening to music with noise cancelling headphones. Just follow the groove.

Has a little brother. Like, 'barely out of diapers' little brother. Her parents are actively trying for another. Ellie's mom realizes she might be approaching menopause and if Ellie won't follow the footsteps into the industry then what choice does she have.
Her tongue is often blue because of her slushie love.

”I don’t know,” *Tourmaline laughs and smiles wide, leaning back in her seat while crossing one leg over the other and throwing an arm carelessly over the back.* ”All I know is that with my girlfriend back, my Tantalizers by my side, and our family dynamic settled at home, I’m feeling pretty fucking successful.”

Oz, for all intents and purposes can be considered a spokesperson for the nerds and outcasts of the school. He is an extremely vocal defender of anyone who does not conform to society's norms and is more than happy to thrash anyone who questions his weird and wonderful brethren. He is a chaotic presence with few truly knowing just exactly what he could do next but he has an undeniably magnetic aura, almost cult-like in its curiosity.

Accepting of all natures, Ozzy does not hold a grudge, so even if people who once wronged him were to fall from grace, he would be the first to welcome them into the dregs of society and give them the shirt off of his back. More than once, Oz has taken the blame for something he didn’t do, just to protect someone whom he knew had a good heart and had just made a bad decision. Behind his intense headbanger vibe, Ozzy is a bit of a soft boi. He helps grandma’s cross the street, is the first to cheer up a sad peer, and enjoys a good chick flick or two with his smoking hottie girlfriend. A huge DnD player, Oz and his cult of geeks play a regular campaign in the basement of the school every Thursday. In his role as a dungeon master and in life in general, one might find Oz a bit intense but in reality he’s just devoted to showing the world that society is at its best when the freaks come out at night.

Raised in a devout Italian-Catholic household, Ozzy does hold some belief in a higher power but whether it be a Christian God or something else, he doesn’t really know but to die would be an awfully great adventure and it would be sure something to find out what was on the other side. He doesn’t have a death wish but he’s never gonna shy away from taking a risk because that’s so not metal, man.

Oz literally has no plan post high school. He knows that most everyone he knows will head off to college and take steps into becoming who they want to be but he isn’t really sure who that is for himself yet. He could easily go work for his father but Ozzy does not really see himself wearing a suit and tie for a living. Ties aren’t metal bro.

Ozzy doesn’t have any social media because he will not lower himself to conform to society's construct of communication and media consumption. You want to get a hold of him? Just text him.

The heavy metal hero could give two flying fucks about fashion and tends to look like he just stepped out of 1987. He wears what works for him which is usually a pair of jeans, a band t-shirt and his denim or leather jackets with multiple sown on music patches. There’s a collectors item jacket that he wears regularly since it was a gift from Kim and he adores it. He wears a lot of hot topic jewellery and Oz’s wild mane of brown hair is always perfectly messy and smells divine.

Oz rides a Harley Davidson Heritage Classic. He always carries on his person a blood red D20 and often he can be found with his 1983 Rich Warlock guitar strapped to his back.

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Ozzy is not officially part of any club but he sometimes pops by the music room and have a bit of a jam session with the folk in there or help with their equipment. He has a knack for instruments. He does bits with the metalworkers and he personally hosts a DnD campaign for anyone interested or who literally just needs to escape from reality for a few hours.

”Fucking metal, man. Enough said.”

”Thrash, shred, play DnD, go and watch musicals. Listen up, you turd, my girlfriend loves them and I love her. Plus those guys can seriously wail man! The pipes you gotta have to sing like that? Totally badass.”

”Kim’s favorite song on my guitar…and then make it fucking rock.”

”If I don’t feel it in my bones, it doesn’t really mean shit does it?”

”Too many to list but let’s just say anyone brave enough to pick up a guitar and throw it fucking down man.”

”I have like five siblings. I probably have a moment with all of them but honestly who really cares? Let’s just keep moving forward you know?”

”Keep it metal, little dude!

”Great fucking music. My hot ass girlfriend and her stupid beautiful smile. Reading her stuff, she’s so talented. DnD with my guys; man. I’m just happy as dicks.”

”For those about to rock, we salute you.”