Stephanie Smith

Stephanie Smith is a character of the MYverse and is part of the story called Wildside and she's one of the supporting characters. She is a senior of Miami-Dade High School who's formerly dating Joel's brother, Dan Bradshaw, and now, another senior in the same grade named Sam Hargrove. After witnessing her younger sister gone by presumably the hands of the Kraken, she has been keen to investigate the attacks of the Olympian monsters taking over the state from a dark dimension called the Parallel.

## Biography

### Personality

Stephanie is very studious and focused, having a high GPA and studying vigorously for tests. However, after entering a relationship with Dan and being in the popular crowd she became more rebellious. While her actions were being influenced by her new “friends”, she still remained kind, sympathetic, and studious. Her genius-level of intellect led to finding the truth behind her younger sister's disappearance even though she still felt guilty. She was also shown to have a tremendous amount of bravery, resolve, and conviction, going to great lengths for those she cared for.

#### Appeareance

Stephanie has long brown hair, brown eyes and likes to wear feminine clothing.

## Story

### Early Life

Stephanie is born in Tallahassee, Florida to a Texan father named Ted and a mother from Tallahassee named Judy Smith. She was raised in both Texas and Florida, and moved to Miami during junior year of high school. During her childhood, Stephanie is a very active, straight-A and the "ideal" student and has shown support from her family and friends. Stephanie dreams of being a Broadway star one day, because she loved to sing and dance. She is trained in classical ballet. And then, she quit dancing in order to focus more in her studies.

In middle school, she is shown to be a threat to some of the other students. She is very focused, determined and studious, and she often visits the library to read books. She also takes up an interest in writing, and has gotten high scores in English, especially for writing, and also every other subject.

After moving to Miami, Stephanie still has the same life in high school. Good grades, good attitude, good tardiness and is always present every day. But then life changed when she dated Dan Bradshaw, the most popular boy in school during that time, and the (former) basketball captain. Because of that, she became popular. She has a lot of "friends", and she has gotten slightly rebellious because of that, leading to her parents' dismay.

### Hollie's Death

One day during summertime, Stephanie and her family decided to go on a trip to the beach. They decided to swim, but a few minutes later, she didn't realize that her sister's gone away. They presumed that she was kidnapped by a random person or whatever, and they did everything from calling the lifeguards, the police then to the security to find her sister. She felt guilty over it, despite her always watching over her when she swam.

In order to investigate Hollie's death, she begins to look up things that could possibly be the cause. At first, she didn't believe that the Kraken is real, nor Olympus, nor the Parallel either. And one day, Sam Hargrove decided to help things out with her. She declined the offer, but however, proceeds to change her mind. When Dan found out, the couple immediately broke up and Stephanie ditches the popular crowd to hang out with Sam.

### Attack of the Thypon

The year when the Thypon took over Florida, she joined the infamous team of MDHS sophomores (The Round Table) to help. When Kailani Kapoor is hospitalized, her and Sam decides to go in and check on her.

### Attack of Gorgon

When she heard the news about a mass killing of teenagers around Florida, she decides to investigate on what's going on. She brought her friend Veronica Buckley to help her. But, Veronica decides to go to great lengths after doing their research by booking a flight to the United Kingdom to find out what's going on. When they went there, they decide to do the investigation. Turns out, they have met the first victim of Gorgon---an old man named Victor Crawley. While hearing his story, they are taking notes, and they finally found a way to save themselves, and other people from being killed by Gorgon.

## Abilities & Powers

### Skilled Detective

Stephanie is a skilled detective. Upon seeing the photos of her sister's last moments after an altercation with lifeguards and the beach security, she quickly deduced he was the last person to see her alive and sought his help in finding her.

### Skilled Marksman

Since her father is a Texan former shooting athlete, Stephanie demonstrated proficiency with firearms such as a shotgun and handgun. She landed a few good shots on the Thypon with Detective Carlton's shotgun while protecting the Round Table Kids from the creature.

## Trivia

* Although she wasn't born in Texas, Joel's nickname for her is called "Texas".
* She graduated high school after the events of the Gorgon attack.
* She is named after her mother's favorite Full House character, Stephanie Tanner.
* Stephanie's favorite actor is Johnny Depp, and only has a Twitter account to like and retweet things supporting the actor Johnny Depp during the times of the libel case.Her favorite movie of his are Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd.
* When the Round Table Kids, as four, dressed up as Ghostbusters characters, she showed up to the seniors-only party as Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka.