Scarlett Storm

**Scarlett Storm** is a 20-year-old 4th-year student at Lavender Moon Arts in the house Moonlit. Her colour image is midnight blue. Her icon is a spooky bat. She is in the Urania's Mirror subunit Silver Moon X alongside Bunni and Sylvalia.

## Backstory

Scarlett Calliope Storm was born in Perth, Australia, in the mid-2000s to an English father, a prominent politician in Perth. She grew up in a big family, the youngest of four in a large, comfortable house with money. When her mother died giving birth to her, most of her superstitious family resented her for ruining everyone's life. Scarlett was outcasted from the family for this and being the only black-haired member of the family, while all her Australian family had straight, blonde hair.

Despite having backwards views behind the scenes, her father and grandparents were well-liked and loved in their community. Scarlett often saw how fake and two-faced her father was with the public, treating the general populous like cattle and preaching for peace when he never made peace with his daughter. Her father would only talk to her when he would push her to follow in his footsteps, pursuing politics instead of music. Scarlett resented this idea and him, knowing he looked down on her either way.

The one thing Scarlett loved about her family traditions was when they would go to England to stay with her uncle, her father's twin brother, every Christmas. Scarlett loved to see the snowfall and hang out with her cousin, Tristan Storm. Her uncle was previously in the famous 90s grunge band 'Iguana' and provided a lot of inspiration for Scarlett musically. Tristan and Scarlett aren't very close despite being a year apart. Every year, they would forget how to interact until it was her last day in England, and then the cycle would start again. When Scarlett joined LMA, she joined partly to become close with her cousin again and escape the crushing feeling of being around her Australian family. She enjoyed the small quaintness of England, especially the tiny little town of Glastonbury, famed for its music festivals and its sleepy, magical spookiness.

She had little to no friends during her time at LMA due to her often sleeping through some of her lessons and drawing creepy things on her hands. She skulks the halls at night when she's not meant to, and sings in the highest point in the towers, leading many students to think there's a ghost.

In her 3rd year, Scarlett attempted to join Lunarforce as their drummer or bassist, seeing as the previous two died but was met with disappointment when she was told that she couldn't participate because she was a girl. She attempted to grow a moustache and join, but this ultimately failed to convince the other LunarForce members.

After seeing Urania's Mirror perform at the Halloween Bash, Scarlett joined Urania's Mirror a month or two after Joy left. Initially, she joined to spite Lunarforce, but she slowly grew to enjoy the company of Urania's Mirror, finding true friends in all of them.

## Personality

To the untrained eye, Scarlett gives off subtle serial killer energy. She is consistently sleep deprived, carrying prominent dark circles under her eyes in a perpetual state of zombie tiredness. Paired with her typical lazy Australian smile, she could give you a look to say, "G'day, mate", but instead of imagining her giving you an ice-cold beer at the barbie, you'd be having war flashbacks to a war you've never experienced.

Scarlett often jokes about how she looks like the main villain in the horror movie "The Wring", but if she were to be dragged through a hedge backwards and dropped headfirst into a bucket of purple paint.

Scarlett was a tomboy growing up and the black sheep of the herd. She's so used to not fitting in; she doesn't even try to anymore. She's often found doing odd activities during and after seminars, such as collecting fallen hairs and weaving them into a plush bat. She usually never finishes said projects and leaves them in strange states.

Despite being introverted, Scarlett is loud and proud when she wants to be and isn't afraid to stand up for others who are outcasted or less fortunate.

Scarlett is generally emotionally reserved, never eager to show her true feelings openly due to how she was treated when she lived with her immediate family in Australia. She can appear quite stoic and pragmatic when standing among Urania's Mirror, often fair when deciding things, going by facts and logic rather than personal feelings.

## **Physical description**

20-year-old Scarlett Storm has jet-black curly hair, and light purple ends at the front framing her face. She has a twirly antenna sticking up above her head, which she's very proud of, claiming it's her ghost radar charm. She has total heterochromia in both eyes, a dark periwinkle and eggplant. She has neatly shaped, thick dark eyebrows, and her skin is light from lack of sunlight and has a dull grey undertone beneath her eyes due to her messed up sleep schedule.

When she walks into a room, she fills it with her confidence, unafraid to draw attention to herself, especially on stage. She often makes people uncomfortable when she makes her bewildering jokes, but she doesn't change face for anyone. She stomps around in platform mary janes whenever she can, loving the height it gives her - seeing as she's barely 5'4, or 163cm without them.

Outside of uni, Scarlett wears a lot of black, massive chokers and Halloween themed outfits and dramatic eyeliner and dark makeup. She describes her style as "band-kid who's a bit depressed".

## **Etymology**

* **Scarlett** is a feminine name meaning the colour scarlet, a type of red, which symbolizes courage, passion, force, joy and heat.
* **Calliope** is the name of one of the Greek Muses, literally meaning "*beautiful-voiced*".
* The surname **Storm** is derived from **Stromr**, a fairly common surname in Scandinavian countries. It is also Old Norse for "*Tempest*", or "*gale.*"

## **School classes**

* Modern Music
* Singing & composition
* Musical theatre

## **Clubs and Hobbies**

Scarlett is currently in the nap club with Yumiko, as well as being in Urania's Mirror full time.

Her hobbies include napping, singing, swearing and dressing up as Mr Blobby.

Scarlett is often talking in bars to strangers, advertising Urania's Mirror, and busking on a street corner. Sometimes on Halloween or dark, spooky nights, she likes to dress up as a ghost and haunt local historical sights, often pretending to be the ghost of King Arthur's Queen, Guinevere. At Uni, she usually haunts the hallways at night, singing in the belltower when she can't sleep.

## **Trivia**

* Scarlett once beat up a post box while drunk, thinking it was a Nazi.
* She is autosexual, meaning she's very much only attracted to herself and the occasional cabbage.
* Growing up, Scarlett always wanted to be a mermaid and sleep under the sea like the girls on Australia's most beloved show about mermaids, but ultimately that goal failed.
* Rikku has known Scarlett to collect a lot of "dried up broccoli", which she shoves in her friend's face asking if it smells like certain fruits from time to time.
* She sometimes uses Rikku's hair as a lighter.
* She is Tristan Storm's younger cousin.
* Scarlett often loves making up fake facts about people. Her favourite one is "Bunni has flat feet" because of how uncomfortable everyone gets thinking about how she would even know that, and how angry Bunni gets.
* She once got into a boxing ring with a kangaroo and won.
* Scarlett is deathly afraid of rabbits, so much so that she asks Bunni to change her name, and he never sets foot outside the school during the daytime, too scared to see the Lavender Moon rabbits.
* She has Mr Blobby and Boobah cosplay outfits which take up 50% of her wardrobe space.
* She's part of the magazine club, and she is in charge of putting up all the notices around campus. She often puts posters inside the toilet seat as a prank.
* She likes to hang out around the cemetery on Tuesday nights. She collects soil there.
* Scarlett is so bad with technology that she often things blows up.
* Jeepers Creepers is her ringtone.