Neha Rao

**Neha Kalindi Rao** is a student at Arlington Academy.

## Description

"*An aspiring fashion designer, Neha loves making her own clothes and other's clothes. She spends countless hours designing seasonal collections and actually sells them to the students of Arlington (at a very high price!) She uses Karolina as her main model and is Axel's official stylist for his concerts and photoshoots. Rather reserved and cold, Neha can, however, be surprisingly friendly... whenever Karolina isn’t around.*"

## Appearance

Neha has short dark brown hair ending at her neck, golden eyes and blue eye-shadow. She wears the Arlington dress shirt, tie and red vest. She has opaque black leggings that end mid-calf, and off-white gold studded sneakers. She wears earrings matching her eyes and have a piercing on her nose.

## Personality

Neha is versatile and influential, being a talented fashion designer, and innovative. Despite all of her good qualities Neha tends to shut others out, being a cold individual and really not outgoing.

## Relationships

### Karolina

Karolina is Neha's best friend and roommate. They seem to work together really well, considering she's Neha's main model too. Neha had big, one sided crush on her but got over it later. After Neha's scholarship came out, their relationship was at pause for a short time because Karolina's intolerance towards scholarship students. In the end, they made up.

### Axel

Axel and Neha seem to be good friends despite their occasional differences of viewing things. Neha designs Axel's stage clothing.

### Alistair

Neha and Alistair have been on friendly terms since they both were intervievew for Arlington Academy's scholarship on the same day. Due to this fact, Alistair was one of the only people to know about her scholarship. They also pair up for fitness test if Scholar partner's up with Tadashi.

## Trivia

* Neha's first name went through several changes before settling on Neha. Two suggestions were Riya and Anita. Additionally, her last name is based on one of June's friend's.
* She won the "Best Junior Female Designer of the Year" by Teen Vogue and the "Best Online Fashion Store" at the CFDA Fashion Awards.
* She has her own enterprise, "RAO Design INC", which she created.
* When asked to describe Neha with one song, June picked both "Elastic Heart" by Sia and "Human" by Christina Perri.
* Neha always keeps her sketchbook with her, but she also never throws out any of her past sketchbooks. She has over 30 of them.
* Neha is a vegetarian and loves spicy food.
* Neha designed and made her older sister's wedding dresses.
* Due to her amazing business skills and very good marketing sense, the Academy considered placing her in the Business, Commerce and Politics Department if ever she did not get into the Fashion one. She ended up getting her first choice (Fashion) but decided to take a few business electives as well.
* Her favorite fabric is silk.
* She is a scholarship student but kept it as a secret due to stigma around scholarship students.

## References

1. ↑ Dulcet Games: Sweet Elite. Dulcet Games Inc. Retrieved on August 27, 2020.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Neha's School File. Dulcet Games Inc. Retrieved on May 16, 2020.
3. ↑ Chapter 3
4. ↑ June (April 24, 2017). Sweet Elite Trivia #2. Tumblr. Retrieved on September 14, 2020.
5. ↑ Dulcet Games Inc. (July 24, 2016). Oh, so we already have seven cuties~you guys are.... Tumblr. Retrieved on December 31, 2018.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Dulcet Games Inc. (July 8, 2017). Happy (late) Birthday Neha!. Tumblr. Retrieved on December 31, 2018.
7. ↑ Chapter 5 (March 16, 2019). *Sweet Elite*. Dulcet Games Inc.