Stereo Madness

Don't try wake him up ;-;

Stereo Madness is a 14-year old male that attends Crossville High. He has a penchant for music, especially edm and techno. He is known to procrastinate a lot and also can easily fall asleep. Stereo occasionally makes suggestive jokes, hence the “mad” in his name. However, he is normally calm and easygoing, while also being a massive coward.

## Appearance

Stereo Madness wears a dark blue jacket with a zipper, and gray-purple pants. He almost always has his headphones. His hair is dark blue with gold streaks on both sides. His eyes are dark blue, like his hair.

## Personality

Stereo madness is a shy boy who always relies on Back on Track to protect him. He has a tendency to avoid dangerous situations and is a massive coward. This makes him appear to be selfish and lazy, as he never does anything to save his friends and expects them to rescue him instead.

He is also sensitive and cries a lot when people shout at him. Although rarely he can stand up for himself when someone is doing something he believes to be wrong, such as the time where he confronted Back on Track about his inconsiderate attitude towards him.

Stereo is incompetent at controlling his impulses, resulting in him constantly overdosing on drugs and getting high. When he is in a drugged state, he makes sexual innuendos and can act like a pervert.

He procrastinates a lot and is rather lazy, flunking his assignments as well as ignoring homework, in contrast to his diligent and hard-working friend. He has a habit of always ignoring his work pretending that it doesn’t exist, but Back on Track never hesitates to remind him.

Stereo Madness, true to his name, loves listening to music in his headphones. He is rarely seen without them and this makes him quite ignorant to the things going around him, in the episode Final Finale, Dry Out had to ask him four times to move his seat so he could get through.
Without listening to music, he can be very whiny and complains about being bored. He uses music as a coping mechanism when he’s scared, sad or anxious.

He is not very intelligent due to his lack of studying, and has a low skill in many subjects except for music, where he surprised Back on Track with the A+ he got. He is also unfit and tries his best not to get involved in sports, angering Base after Base. He doesn’t value knowledge, believing that it is boring and stressful.

However, Stereo Madness can still be kind and caring as he feels bad for others. Sometimes he can put others' needs above his own, but he does that rarely. He is unfortunately avoidant of other people except for Rhythms.

In romantic relationships he is nervous and fidgety as he doesn’t know how to cope with love. After a heartbreak, he spends most of his time sleeping and listening to sad music. He stops communicating and grows bad-tempered until he recovers, which takes a long time.

After the events of “A change in rhythm”, he appears to be much more productive and motivated. He is also more open-minded, however his cowardice will always remain in his personality.

## Relationships

### Back on Track

Stereo Madness is close friends with Back on Track despite constantly arguing and annoying each other. The two of them enjoy spending time together nonetheless and Stereo sees Track as a person to lean on for support in difficult situations, even if he is not much help to him. Stereo Madness considers Track to be a helpful, but bossy friend. The two also regularly exchange jokes, though they don’t always result without an argument. Stereo finds Back on Track a “source of entertainment” and enjoys poking fun of him for payback for his rude actions. Occasionally, Stereo can get overwhelmed by Track’s bossiness and react emotionally, but overall they get along well most of the time.

### Polargeist

Stereo madness thinks Polargeist as of a “strange and distant” person who doesn’t know anything about the modern world. He also finds him easy to get along with.

### Dry Out

Stereo doesn’t seem to have a bond with Dry Out as he judges him on the surface, and when he first met him he felt scared of his strange appearance.

### Base after Base

Stereo dislikes Base after Base as he forces people to participate in the basketball game and gets mad at him for not concentrating. He believes that he is biased against certain people.

### Geometrical Dominator

Stereo Madness finds Geometrical Dominator a person full of fresh and new ideas. After she helps him find new songs to put on his playlist he thinks that she has quite a good taste of music unlike her friends.

He thinks that she will be a great help expanding his music playlist.

### Rhythms

Rhythms is Stereo Madness’ girlfriend. The two formed a bond after they realized how similar their interests were. Stereo acted like a different person to her, always praising her and letting her listen to all his newest tracks. He cares deeply about her, and gets upset whenever she experiences a negative emotion. He becomes paranoid around her, thinking that if Track enters the room everything would be ruined.

### Disco

Stereo madness felt Disco was a happy and welcoming person as she was the first person to ask him to join the dance party. He has always wanted to tell her how awesome her dance moves were but was too shy to ask, and the two fell apart from a lack of communication. Disco eventually went off with Tango, but still regards him as a friend.

## Biography

"I got a rare disease one day after I was playing with my friends. I had a breathing disorder which hindered my ability to sleep.

Every night I got less than 2 hours of sleep every night, and I ended up taking pills to supply me with energy. One day at school, I ran into a bully whose parents knew my parents. He was so toxic to me, I couldn’t concentrate on class anymore. I didn’t want to tell my parents about it, and all these horrible feelings were contracting my chest.

Day after day I find it harder to breath. I hated feeling like I was going to die, but I felt there was no respite to this torture. At school I hid from my friends just to ditch the bully, but he somehow knew where I was because he installed a breathing device tracker. I didn’t know why some people were so nasty to me. One day I went to the doctor and he let me listen to songs. It was a feeling that was indescribable, yet it felt like a trip to paradise.

Once I got my first pair of headphones I couldn’t take them off. I listened to songs instead of sleeping, I ignored the bully’s cruel remarks with the symphonies of the melodious soundwaves. It felt so good, and my short nightmares ceased as I listened to music while I slept. I finally found a respite to my stressful life, until both my parents lost their job.

They struggled to get employed and on my birthday, I got no gifts. I was mad and couldn’t understand why they didn’t bother to get me ONE spotify subscription. Dejected, I spent the rest of the day tuning in to the radio. I realized I could breathe normally again and fell asleep. Sleeping never felt so great. My friends began to forget about me because I spent all day avoiding the bully. It wasn’t very comforting but I quickly ignored it with my headphones. And sleeping. What I couldn’t do for my whole life until now I spent all my free time doing it. But what I didn’t know was that tensions were rising in my family. My parents began arguing when I was asleep, and one day I woke up in a tiny bedroom. I realized with a pang we couldn’t afford rent so we moved into an apartment. And my parents (who looked tired) told me I had to move to a new highschool. I should have felt happy I could leave but I felt like I couldn’t fit in. I was extremely nervous, and the only way to combat that was to sleep. I didn’t help my parents put all our stuff in, I just slept on. My friend wanted to contact me, but I just slept on. Finally, it was time for me to begin high school. I woke up late but I couldn’t find my parents anywhere. I walked to school myself, extremely nervous. I tried my best not to sleep, fortunately it wasn’t that hard because I was so tense. After the first day passed, I began to become more relaxed so I started sleeping again. But I still didn’t tell my parents I didn’t have the breathing condition so they continued to make me take medication. This medication didn’t make me sick but bothered my mind. I was getting less concentrated, dizzy and became very strange. But I couldn’t stop, I was getting addicted."

## Quotes

* "What time is it?"
* "Can I please go back to sleep?"
* "Just one more minute..."
* "Shut up!"

## Trivia

* Stereo Madness used to have Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
* Stereo Madness had a lot of questionable photos on his phone
* Stereo Madness DESPISES choclate chip cookies