Echo Lacero

Echo Lacero, who is mainly known as Echo, is a 15 year old violinist. They're the leader of Team Orchid! (in the PJSK AU and also normally)

## Appearance

Echo has fluffy, silver-ish white hair, which used to be long, but they recently cut it short in a panic attack, while being mad at themselves. They have heterochromia, making their right eye a purple-ish blue and their left eye cyan. Echo also has diamond shaped pupils. They have a dark skintone. They often times wear goth-y dresses and don't really care if people see that as feminine. They often times wear a black mouth mask, because the scales that come with their ability never disappear from their cheeks, so they cover it up with a mouth mask.

## Personality

Echo is quite cold towards others. For reasons that will be discussed in the backstory section, they don't want friends and try to push everyone who tries to get close to them away. They're trying to protect themselves from betrayal and don't want anyone to be their friend, out of fear that this friend will later betray them. For that one person (who will later be mentioned in relationships) who managed to break through Echo's protection, they're a bit more open. Echo allows this person to come into their room without hiding anything. Echo often times hides things like their plushies when Team Orchid! practices at their house, but when this one person comes over, Echo doesn't hide anything. Their comfort is playing the violin.

## Backstory

Echo has always been someone who was very popular in school when they were small. They started learning to play the violin at age 8, and liked playing simple songs in front of their parents and after some time, started doing it in breaks in front of their classmates. When Echo was 11, the news that their half-sister Alice, who was thought to be dead, was still alive and now went by Malice, had become an arsonist broke out. Echo got abandoned by all their past friends, them being scared Echo would be just like Malice one day. Echo did manage to find a girlfriend a few years later, but as soon as she heard Echo and Malice were related, she broke it off. One day, Echo went for a walk near a forest, and had an encounter with Malice, who stabbed them in the shoulder. After Echo was completely abandoned by all their past friends, they decided having friends wasn't worth it anymore and they started to cut themselves off from the other people at their school. Not long ago, they met a homeless person named Yuuki

## Relationships

**Fukuro Noctua** - A fellow member of Team Orchid! and someone who calls Echo her friend

**Yuuki Takeda** - Echo's secret crush and the only one they've been willing to call a friend recently. Yuuki is homeless and Echo sometimes gives them money so they can buy food

**Kohaku Fulgur** - A fellow member of Team Orchid! and the only person there that Echo doesn't get annoyed with really easily

**Ebony Cultri** - A fellow member of Team Orchid!

**Malice** - Malice, also knows as Alice Lepus, is Echo's older half sister. Echo doesn't like her at all, and the hatred comes from both sides. Echo has a scar on their shoulder from getting stabbed by Malice

## Project SEKAI AU

Echo is the leader of the unit Team Orchid! in the Project SEKAI AU. They share a unit with Fukuro Noctua, Kohaku Fulgur and Ebony Cultri. Their SEKAI is the Garden SEKAI. More info is on Project SEKAI AU

## Trivia

* Echo's personality used to be really really different! Before Rei wrote them properly, they were actually a pretty nice and polite person
* Echo's name was Brooklyn for the first few days after Rei designed them, but their name was changed to Echo shortly after
* Echo's gender is described as: "A night sky with clouds, a little lantern and the sound of a violin being played" or the music video of Take Flight by Lindsey Stirling
* Echo used to be in a relationship with Kazuko, but Rei realised they didn't really match and decided to separate them
* Echo's voiceclaim is Mizuki Akiyama from Project SEKAI