Song: Tantrum(E)— Ashnikko

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Name: Esther Janice Jung

"Yeah, I'm a rebel for the hell of it. What can I say? It's fun."

Age: 23

Attributes: Esther comes from a third-generation Korean-American family. Sadly, she has little connection to this heritage besides her last name. She is 5'0 and dark-eyed, with well-defined muscles and a slight farmer's tan. Her arms are covered in small scrapes and bruises from many falls and fights. She keeps her hair clipped in a short pixie cut and dyed a deep, royal purple. Her nose is "button-like," and a stripe of scar tissue runs across it, indicating that it was at one point broken. Because of her size, people immediately think she's much younger than she is. This pisses her off.

Pansexual, but generally uninterested in romance. 

Education + Career: Esther graduated high school and insists she will eventually go to college. She currently works a collection of odd jobs, her main one at a local fast-food chain. She's just having too much fun and saving far too little money to care for right now about all this stuff. 

Skills + Interests: Esther is a jack of all artistic trades. She sketches, writes, and plays the electric guitar. She wants to become an artist of...some kind. She has about a million projects in the works at any time. Most include so many forms of mixed media that they're almost impossible to explain. And then she'll say to hell with it and go racing or partying. She loves her motorcycle, loves to play games like tag where she has to be physically active, and would die if she couldn't get slammed at the bar with the Boys every Saturday.

Likes and Dislikes: Esther loves anything abstract. She will stand in art museums for hours. She also loves the feeling of being alive. The rush of her heart in a game of chase. The artistic act of creation. The roar of her motorcycle in between her legs. The laughter of her brain after a few brewskis with the boy. Without adrenaline, Esther would die. On the flip side, Esther hates structure. She hates her workplace and scathes at society. Money and the acquisition of it seem silly to her. She can't stand "boring" things, although what constitutes "boring" is nebulous. A documentary might be "boring," but seventeenth-century philosophy might not be. The last time she was at the DMV, everyone fascinated her. At the movies, she fell asleep.

She likes large dogs and has a rather discerning taste in food and booze. Loves crowds and socializing. She hates silence and long movies. While a big fan of striking makeup, she doesn't study up on it, and it often leaves her looking a little asymmetrical and wonky. 

Strengths vs. Weaknesses: Esther has boundless energy. This is good because, well, she can get a lot done. Bad because she can't sit still or shut up, and it often causes her to be frustrated and confused by her homebody friends. It makes her feel like a child and makes other people see her as the "manic pixie dream girl type," even though she's as mature and responsible as anyone else her age. She would just also like to play a 3 am game of freeze tag, please.

Esther picks up skills quickly, and though she starts many projects, she can't focus enough to finish them. People think she's stupid because of this. While she enjoys being a drifter, she is existentially terrified of where she is in her life. Having no societally-recognized accomplishments to her name while her friends have degrees, desk jobs, spouses and sometimes babies, well, it gets to her.

She's tough, resilient, and patient. And some of this is because she is constantly babied and belittled as a small woman who enjoys being bouncy and playful. So, she always feels like she has something to prove. And this often becomes self-destructive. Too many times has she almost drank herself to death in drinking competitions, trying, on some internal level, to prove that she is worthy of respect. Despite this, she is good-humored and rather sunny for her nihilistic, punky worldview.

 She wants to be everyone's friend. Not everyone wants to be her friend.

 Sometimes this is a problem.

Fears and Aversions: Esther enjoys her life, for the most part, but is scared it will stay like this forever. She is terrified both of being alone and of having a partner. Loneliness is no fun, but she enjoys her freedom and the couples around her seem so boring. She's also scared she'll never make it as an artist, scared that maybe she is an immature child in need of growing up, and scared of needing rescue. She often worries that she's annoying. Not a fan of jump scares, blood, or the dark. 

Superpowers: Does being unlucky count as a superpower?