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HAIL JIMMY. NO OTHERS REMAIN. JIMMY FOREVER. JIMMY ETERNAL. IT'S BEEN 25+ FUCKING YEARS AND I'M STILL NOT OVER THIS GUY
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As I love to imagine my life as a sprawling story with a wide cast of characters, I have written their little bios to reflect the storybook nature of things. Please keep in mind that I am writing them as I knew them and only writing what I was allowed by them to see. All of them are and were so much more than can be summarized within a short blurb.
A young, bright-eyed romantic with an everlasting love for stories, people, and all things dark and melancholy. Madi finds themself returning back to their home town after a long, thankless, brutal year away with a new lease on life and a fierce determination to live it to the fullest. Though many things back in the sleepy little mountain town of Granite Falls have changed, just as many remain the same comforts they always were, and Madi is intent to never take them for granted again.
Madi identifies themself as a perky goth and enjoys long walks through the moonlit town graveyard. They spend most of their free time talking online with their friends both near and far, as well as running a small channel on a fairly new video platform called "YouTube." They like writing, drawing, cosplaying, and consuming absolutely lethal amounts of Dr. Pepper and Hot Pockets. They're proudly out as queer, and waffle between identifying as bisexual and "lesbian with exceptions." Madi is a staunch pacifist and devout wiccan, and believes in the threefold law of karma like it is pure gospel.
Despite their edgy appearance, they are oddly pop2ular at school, and seem to encounter no problems making friends with just about anyone.
Hyperactive, boundlessly creative, and delightfully unorthodox, Shade is Madi's best friend forever. Though they only met a few years prior, it has taken the two of them no time at all to become inseparable. None of the typical suspects can seem to hold a candle to their bond as friends--not Shade's latent romantic feelings for Madi, not the fact that they operate on completely different sleep schedules, and certainly not the year they've just been forced to spend mostly apart. It seems that, barring the endtimes, there is little on planet earth that can break this dynamic duo apart.
Beneath their goofy exterior, Shade is a romantic guy with a good heart who has an unfortunate tendency to wind up in the wrong place at the wrong time. They seem to create with unending stamina, filling sketchbooks in mere days and always having a new idea for a character design or silly comic strip. Sometime in the 7th grade they were wrongfully expelled from GFMS for the unforgivable crime of having a cosplay prop, but the friend group has taken careful note to continue to include them whenever they're able.
Just like Madi, Shade loves anime, video games, and cartoons. When not at Madi's house, their grandparents' suburban paradise is where most of the wild preteen parties take place. They have an affinity for cats and monkeys.
AKA: Cody, Matt, Hojo, Roxas (shared), Monkey emoji
Trent is a soft-spoken, gentle-hearted guitarist and lyricist who prefers to keep to himself and a few really good friends. He and Madi met in the year they were attending 7th grade at a new school, and after a multitude of twists and turns and tiptoeing around one another, the two finally began dating sometime in winter of 2008.
Behind a long mop of dark curls, Trent is the definition of calm waters running deep. The only thing he enjoys more than writing music is listening to it, and this is one of Madi's absolute favourite things about him. Currently, the two of them are working through the teenage version of "long distance," as they complete middle school in different cities, but they visit every other weekend and seem to be going strong despite it.
AKA: Matsuda / Packy, Guitar emoji
Independant, stylish, charismatic, and intelligent, Mello refuses to allow themself to be put into a box. A confident speaker with a passion for creative writing, they're a social butterfly beloved by all for their free spirit and paradoxically agreeable demeanour. Mello will don Hollister jeans on Monday and Tripp pants on Wednesday, and one can't help but feel drawn to the way both somehow manage to fit them like a glove.
Mello and Madi have known each other since elementary school, where their paths were more or less forced to cross due to their strange, real-life narrative-foil-esque relationship. Not only were the two of them vastly more mature than their peers, but similarly academically gifted and eloquent in speech. To make matters even more cosmic, they had strikingly similar first names.
Though their relationship has had a whirlwind of ups and downs throughout the years, the pair currently find it... inexplicably stronger than ever? With Mello's ventures into fandom and anime, they have more to bond over than they ever have before, and that ruthless competitive streak that often wedged itself in between them prior has now turned into something that's... almost fun.
AKA: Duncan (shared), Chocolate emoji
A sheltered young individual with incredibly strict parents who more or less raised themself on Cartoon Network. Through the boundless power of Shared Fandom, Ryuzaki and Madi became scarily fast friends and have been annoying everyone around them ever since.
Ryuzaki's constant manic energy is in large part fueled by their love of all things sugary and sweet. They enjoy making costumes and props and staying up until ungodly hours of the morning text-messsage RPing L x Beyond Birthday smut with Madi. Though they're not allowed to dress the edgier, mallgothier way they truly desire, Madi is sure to sneak them over to their own house whenever possible and let them borrow the breadth of the full Hot Topic catalogue.
AKA: L, Bridgette, Cake emoji
Blonde, brilliant, and conventionally beautiful, Kirara's at the freak table by choice. She's earned her place as a mainstay in Madi's friend group by virtue of being a member of the original Inu-Tachi, a tightly-knit quartet that partnered up in the 6th grade and have refused to separate ever since, despite everything the world throws at them. They'd apparently known each other much longer than that through a distant cousin, though neither of them really remember that far back.
Kirara is cat-eyed and flirtacious and delights in charming people to get precisely what she wants, whenever she wants it. She's not afraid to use her looks to her advantage, and even less afraid to boast about her ability to do so. Despite the fact that she looks more like a model than a nerd, she too found her way into Madi's circle via their shared love of fandom and anime.
AKA: Lindsay, Misa, Cat emoji
An artsy free-spirit with wild red hair, a face full of freckles, and a smile that could end wars. Clair has an aura about her that almost seems to nudge one to live in the moment and be young and wild and free.
Only there for a few summers and off to new things in a flash... and yet, despite her short time in Madi's story, she most certainly deserves a spot on this page.
AKA: Linda, Izzy, orange heart emoji
The new kid. Just got here from Ohio.
He's chill.
AKA: Ohio
