Raphael Lam

**Raphael Lam** (born 2 August 2004), is the twin brother of Rachel Lam and a member of the Carmelian PopStars. His stage name is #SetterBroRaphael.

## Basic information

 Position
 Jersey №
 Height
 NSS Electives

## Official biography

Rachel and Raphael are twins born in 2004. Although they did not do excellently in academic performance in their primary years, they started to strike a balance between volleyball and academic performance at CALFSS. Soon, they become top-flight students in terms of studies and volleyball skills.

## Appearances

### Second Term, 2018-2019

Raphael debuted on the @carmelpopstars Instagram account in *Character Introductions - Rachel and Raphael Lam* on 29 March 2019, along with his twin sisrer. They later appeared in *We're Different, But Alike - Houses (Part 2)*, where they met Francis Yuen, a wing spiker from Carmel Pak U Secondary School. On 21 May, they presented the 2018-2019 volleyball season results of her school in *Good News!! 2018-19 Season Results*.

### Summer 2019

The siblings appeared in the meme post *Islands* on 13 August. On 25 August, the siblings comforted Mike, a cheerleader from Carmel Secondary School, in *Carmelians, Unite! We are the true Syzygy of Carmel!*. On 30 August, they talked to Lucia Moyung, a wing spiker from Carmel Divine Grace Foundation Secondary School, about her upcoming DSE.

### First Term, 2019-2020

The siblings presented their groupings in *New Territories Grouping Lists 2019* on 3 September 2019. In the post *CBT vs CACTM*, which was published on 18 September 2019, they complained about the HKSSF delaying the season opening date, and later received a phone call from Mike, who asked them to come to the match between Carmel Bunnan Tong Memorial Secondary School and Christian Alliance College Tuen Mun on 23 September. In *Clashing Matches?*, Raphael had a non-speaking role.

The siblings later discussed about the cancellation of all October matches on 4 October in *Cancellation.* They spoke again on 25 October in the post *CSS 55th & CPU 40th Anniversary Celebration*, wishing CSS a happy 55th birthday and CPU a happy 40th.

The siblings appeared in *Postponement of Jing Ying 2019* on Halloween, announcing that the Jing Ying Tournament will not be held in 2019 as scheduled and the Instagram account name will be changed to simply @carmelpopstars. On 5 November, they were seen watcing the English dub of the anime Haikyuu!! on Volley TV while announcing the rearranged match schedule in *Match Rearrangements.*

On Christmas Day, they spoke in a monologue, *The Setter Twins' Christmas Message*, about the match cancellations. On 3 January 2020, Rachel appeared alone, promoting the match between her team and the Church of Christ in China Chuen Yuen College in the post *CALFSS vs Chuen Yuen*. She later appeared with her brother on 10 January to present their U15 groupings in the post *2019-2020 C-Grade Groupings*, and shouted "ASSEMBLE!" with other members in response to Mikael shouting "Carmelians!" in the post *Profile Picture for 2020*.

### Second Term, 2019-2020

*Those were the good days...,* published on 21 February, tells the story of how Mike first met the siblings at the match on 23 March 2019, and their reunion on 29 September.

In the post *Jing Ying '19, a ball that never was*, Raphael expressed on 3 March that he has only played one match in the entire season. In the post *Carmelpopstars, Year 2030*, which was published on 11 April, Rachel and Raphael obtained their BEng&BBA(COGBM) degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2027, and emigrated to Sweden to work at Mike's startup.

On 13 May, Raphael was told by Lucia to work out in *Carmelians, be strong!*.

### Summer 2020

In *Back to School 2020-2021*, Raphael called Richard through a hologram and asked him about his NSS subjects.

### First Term, 2020-2021

Raphael and his sister appeared in multiple campaigns promoting student union and house elections in the autumn of 2020, and they sent a Christmas greeting on 23 December. On 28 December, *CALFSS vs CHWSS*, a short story about how Josie, Rachel and Raphael met on 28 December 2017, was published.

### Second Term, 2020-2021

*New Year 2021* features Raphael's new year message. In *The Legend of the Wishing Trees*, it was told by Josie that Raphael and his sister went to the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees during the Lunar New Year of 2018. Raphael and his sister announced their decision to take their first dose of coronavirus vaccines in early May in *Special Act: We're Getting Vaccinated!!*, and they later revealed that the moment of injection was painless.

## Trivia

* The reason for having twins of opposite genders to represent CALFSS is because of the good performance of both the boys and the girls of their volleyball team, in contrast with CHWSS which has much stronger girls' team, CBT which has a much stronger boys' team.

## References

1. ↑ More about our characters!, @carmelpopstars (2020-03-24)
2. ↑ *Character Introductions - Rachel and Raphael Lam*, @carmelpopstars (2019-03-29)