Zoie Kaji

Zoie Kaji (real name Sarah Dibraye) is a character in **Hell RP** played by The Ash Raichu.

## Appearance

Zoie is a scrawny, mousey young teenager. She has tanned and dirty skin, and she has waist-length hair that's roughly three-quarters black and one-quarter white that messily flares outward. In the past, she wore her hair in puffy twintails. Her eyes are a dull green color. For clothing, she typically wears a faded red hoodie with a large black teardrop zipper, black sweat pants, and red athletic shoes that are white at the toes. She can usually be seen carrying a wooden bat, a guitar she stole from Otarion, or both.

## The Story So Far

### Before Hell

#### Early childhood and upbringing

Sarah Dibraye was born in New York to a family that was not very wealthy. An only child due to monetary reasons, her father was neglectful of her due to the fact that she was his daughter and not his son. In an attempt to compensate for this, Sarah's mother doted on her extra hard in an attempt to do herself the parenting work of two people. Sarah was miserable throughout this experience, not helped by her mother purportedly having some sort of mental instability, and ran away from her home at the age of twelve to live on the streets, using a new name - Zoie Kaji - as a pseudonym so as not to be traced back to them.

#### Meeting Gretta and the idol industry

After several months of begging on the streets, Zoie had a chance encounter with a woman named Gretta d'Gio. Zoie lied to her and told her that her family was dead, which led to the two bonding over supposedly having missing family members. The woman took Zoie into her own household and started caring for her like a daughter while also working to afford college. To make money, Zoie's new unofficial adoptive mother would turn to prostitution, and eventually, to the idol business, bringing Zoie along for the latter.

In the time the pair were an idol duo, they met and befriended UV Brite, who helped the fledgling stars along the road to fame with additional funding and marketing advice. It was also during this time that Zoie discovered her love for playing the guitar, and became quite skilled in a very short period of time. Eventually, the three rising stars scheduled a show together where UV got upstaged badly by Zoie and Gretta. Seeing this as a wrong to be righted, UV set out to forcibly separate the two, sending Zoie back with her mother and arresting Gretta on a kidnapping charge. Zoie ran away from her house a second time, and supposedly in this time met with Aya Radiata, though this encounter has not been brought up or expanded upon. Instead of the streets, this time, she ran into the forest.

### Mansion in the forest

After an undisclosed time period of fighting off monsters in the forest, Zoie met Otarion von Eroberung, who immediately offered her a place to stay. While Zoie was skeptical of the man, she nonetheless accepted. She got around to meeting the vast majority of the mansion-dwellers, though had positive opinions on next to none of them for one reason or another. Other than that, Zoie's stay at the mansion was fairly uneventful aside from the odd abrasive conversation and getting a reputation as the trouble child. For about seven months, she cooped herself up, until Aya and Bane evacuated the place in preparation for Loki's attack. In the middle of the chaos, Zoie left the mansion of her own accord, stole one of Otarion's guitars, and took it with her to the city.

### A performing street rat

Having escaped the mansion full of people with powers and backstories that easily exasperated her, Zoie returned to what she had considered her truest home. Plus, with her new stolen guitar, she had a way to make a quick buck. She met a few people during her guitar-playing sessions, though failed to form too many meaningful connections. Short and frivolous as her street-side conversations usually were, she had a fair number of people that would give her upwards of three-figure payouts for her performances.

At night, sometimes she decided that she hadn't made enough during the day. This was the case on the night that she mugged Avia Bluskai. Aria Tamanegi almost caught her in the act, but some quick thinking and quiet feet got her into a dilapidated apartment building scot-free. It was in this building that she met Kaz von Eroberung, a figure she would meet a few times in her perpetual city stay. The two, over the course of their meetings, bonded over having less-than-ideal home situations and awful parents. Kaz was the first of two characters Zoie would openly share a piece of her past with, the other being Aria a few months later. After several run-ins with each other both in the mansion and out, Zoie knew Aria's abilities fairly well and found it futile to hide anything from her. Thus, she decided to tell Aria her life story, up to and including Gretta's jail sentence, which, unbeknownst to her, would be ending very soon.

### Reunion with Gretta

About a week after reluctantly spilling her heart out to Aria, Zoie had started up her guitar routine again when she encountered Elise Engel. Elise had tried and was mostly failing to strike conversation with Zoie. Elise, through various grandstanding and moralizing diatribes, eventually found out that she was speaking to the girl that Gretta was taking care of before she had her life ruined by UV Brite, revealed that she was Gretta's cousin, and that knew that Gretta had been released from her jail sentence. After taking a moment to shove aside her skepticism, Zoie followed Elise back into the forest that hosted Otarion's mansion and quickly found who they were looking for. After a tearful reunion with Gretta, the three of them headed back to Elise's hotel, where Zoie was given a VIP room. Zoie currently is hanging out there, trying to help Elise and Gretta plot their revenge against UV for ruining Gretta's life.

## Personality

Zoie is a brash, abrasive child who takes a long time to warm up to people. She doesn't speak with others well, blaming her parents for her lack of social skills. Zoie is short-tempered, slightly profane, and has a low tolerance for improbability or anything she considers silly.

## Powers and abilities

### Pyrokinesis

Zoie is able to utilize a small amount of fire magic. Through focus, anything within her line of sight can suddenly erupt into flames, though she struggles to do this with items that are either of considerable size, or are a considerable distance away. She's mostly just used this to reheat food and bathwater for herself.

### Thievery

Despite being brash and a loudmouth, Zoie has demonstrated a certain lightness in the feet, swiftness of the hands, and sharpness of the mind necessary to pull off a couple of small-scale heists on other characters, such as when she stole Otarion's guitar, or Avia's pouch full of gold coins.

### Guitar-playing

She's just good at playing the guitar, though she prefers electric guitars over the acoustic one she stole from Otarion.

## Notable relationships

### Otarion von Eroberung

Zoie was never certain how she felt about the edgy landlord of the mansion. She claims he reminds her of a lot of people she knows, some good, some bad. She revealed to Kaz that she never liked it in the mansion, however, and she was sure Otarion was a big part of it because he reminded her a lot of her father.

### Aria Tamanegi

Zoie sees Aria as the most persistent nuisance from the mansion. Zoie had been on edge about her ever since it was revealed that she had seen a glimpse of her childhood in her sleep, and even knew her legal name. Despite this, Aria is one of the few people Zoie has opened up to about her past, though it was less out of friendship and more out of a feeling she was going to find out anyways.

### Kaz von Eroberung

The closest thing Zoie's made to a friend throughout her journey in Hell. She still treats him coldly, but bonding over bad parents has dulled her edge around him somewhat, and she's slightly less inhospitable around him.

### Gretta d'Gio

Zoie's best friend and guardian, though not through legal means. Zoie is at her kindest whenever Gretta is around, and still finds it somewhat difficult to believe that they had been reunited so soon.

### UV Brite

Zoie's third most hated person in the entire world, only eclipsed by her mother and father. Zoie is one of the few people in Hell to see UV for the manipulative snake she is, and will take any opportunity she can to badmouth her, or tell people to stay away.