Percy/profile

> "*I'll defend you, don't worry!*"
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## Percy

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## Personality

• Chivalrous • Ambitious • Caring • Dreamy • Optimistic • Inexperienced •

Perseus is, first and foremost, a performer. As much of her social interaction came in the form of her persona, whether through her activities or streaming, she's maintained a certain character for much of her extroverted life. The cheerful, often bubbly and steadfast optimistic, she does her best to smile in the face of hardship, to find light in even the darkest situations. She believes hope is contagious, and that if no one else can feel it, then she'll feel it for them. She's a doting young woman, a protector, and somewhat of a flirt without really meaning to be. To help those in need and defend those who can't defend themselves, these are the ideals that she stands by!

But are these feelings, these morals and beliefs, all superficial? Under the surface, Percy is quiet and under-confident, constantly second guessing herself. To say she isn't a happy person isn't quite right, but she can't quite remember a time where she was just happy being..her. Of course this is all easy to cover up with smiles and confident posturing, but often she finds herself weary or frustrated with the facade she uses to get through the day. Even though in times of stress it's something secure and safe, there's a small part of her that desires someone that she can talk to and just be herself.

Percy finds herself drawn into fantasy as an escape. When she isn't covering up her true feelings under bravado she is quiet, and prone to spacing out. A dreamer, she often feels certain in what is real and what is not, understanding and accepting that while her fantasies are safe and sheltered, that she can't possibly live in denial forever. Someday she has to wake up and face reality as herself, whoever that happens to be.

## Background

Perseus! A valiant hero, slayer of mythical beasts and child of the gods! This is the grand, idealized fantasy of a young girl with the dream of one day reaching the stars.
Percy has had a rather mundane life. Her father a Japanese businessman and her mother an Australian artist, she was raised in the comfortable middle class suburbs of Brisbane.
In her school life she worked hard, and her hobbies were exciting and curious, keeping her occupied to the point that she felt no need for a social life. She reveled in keeping busy, but this didn't change her penchant for daydreams.

Percy has always loved tales of knights in shining armour, of fighting dragons and saving princesses. Her hobbies reflected this - afternoons filled with Dungeons & Dragons, LARPing with the city's groups, weekends of raiding in mmos with dedicated guilds. In each she played the same character - the valiant knight with a heart of gold, the just and honorable protector of the people. Her mother supported this in its entirety, taking pride in her daughter's work and helping her in any way she could, from making costumes to offering advice when it was needed. Her father, though not as artistically inclined, was content that as long as she was happy, then so was he.

It was at the end of highschool that twitch began taking off, and she jumped on the bandwagon eagerly. Streaming games, to costume design with her mother, to even taking the stream on the road for LARPing, she began to draw in enough viewers to average at least a hundred a stream. It was a nice comfortable community, in which she enjoyed keeping up this persona she'd crafted for herself, taking on the name Perseus as an easy way to mask her real identity. Not that she was particularly worried - her followers were mostly respectful, the drama was minimal, and it began to bring in comfortable money while she planned on what to do with her life.

Perhaps it was sort of convenient, then, that she'd come across some information that led her to question quite a lot more than just which university to attend. At the back of a filing cabinet lost to time in her mother's studio she'd found documents detailing her adoption. Her parents had taken her in when her biological parents were unable to care for her, and perhaps that she found easiest to understand. However it was the presence of not just a sibling, but a twin, detailed within these papers that had her feeling more than a little confused.

She didn't fault her parents for it, and was only a little disappointed they'd kept it from her. But quickly she found herself consumed by finding out about this brother of hers, and the more she thought on the life she led, the more she found herself...lacking.

Who was she, exactly? She wasn't actually sure. A fabricated confident personality, a performer in her prime, with fantastic grades and the entire world at her feet. But she had no true friends, no real grasp on being social, and no real worldly experience. Her best friends were her mother and father, her colleagues streamers and LARPers, and overly familiar strangers beyond a computer screen who all loved her for someone she wasn't.

So it was time to change that! Tracking down the faintest idea of where this mysterious brother of hers might be, she set off for New York on an international student scholarship, eager to take on an unseen world with an air of oblivious hope and positivity.

## Trivia

* Her surname, Hayama (早馬) is written with the kanji for fast horse, a nod to Pegasus.
* History was one of her favourite classes, but she now favours engineering. Hopes to be an astronaut one day.
* Understands the difference between fantasy and reality, but absolutely believes in ghosts and the supernatural.
* Not a very touchy-feely person, often gets flustered at contact.
* Sarcastic sense of humour, loves memes and weird obscure images.
* Was a horse girl as a kid and never grew out of it. Loves unicorns.
* Sometimes wants a knight of her own to whisk her away. But only sometimes.

## Quotes

* > "*Say Something Here*"
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