Peppa Porosenok

**Peppa Porosenok** is an 18-year-old 2nd-year student at Lavender Moon Arts in the Starlit house. Her colour image is coral. She is in the Urania's Mirror subunit Færie Tæl alongside Rikku and Litzy.

## Backstory

Peppa Porosenok was born and raised in North London in the mid-2000s to Jewish-Russian and Ukrainian heritage parents. Peppa grew up in a middle-class suburban household with her mother, a firefighter, father, journalist, and 21-year-old brother, Percy, a law student.

Peppa had selective mutism throughout her childhood and tended to hide behind her older brother in social situations, despite being loud and goofy at home. Her attachment to him caused her struggles making friends at school, even up to her 2nd year of Lavender Moon.

As she couldn't make friends in real life, she made like-minded friends online. She became attached to the internet and soon discovered the J-pop and gyaru fashion world. Peppa's brother, Percy, took her to the nearest comic convention, and she fell in love with the loud and expressive atmosphere where introverts like her could be whoever they liked. At 14, Peppa finally blossomed into London's cosplay, karaoke and fashion community and met up with her internet friends often, not needing to hide behind her brother as much anymore.

However, only two years into finally discovering herself and making friends, Peppa's parents were forced to move to Bath in the countryside to live closer to her elderly grandparents, who were getting ill. Not only did Peppa have to say goodbye to her last year at her secondary school and her newfound friends, but she had to say goodbye to Percy too, who had to stay in London for university.

Peppa very much found herself back to the drawing board, a fish out of water, and found it hard to know what she wanted to do with all of this amount of loss in her life.

Peppa took up piano and wrote songs after school. To get her up and experiencing new things again, her parents moved her to Lavender Moon Arts after her first year of 6th form went badly, knowing she needed to be around other creative people to feel happy again.

Determined to be happy again, Peppa joined Lavender Moon Arts and decided to embrace gyaru fashion fully. She altered the cute new uniform by rolling up her skirt, getting her nails done, wearing big earrings and loud makeup, and even dip-dying the ends of her hair in new colours every week, which attracted a lot of attention from others students - good and bad.

Peppa became friends with a fellow fashion student within her first week, Shannon, who shared her classes and chaotic sense of humour. Soon Peppa began to Shannon as she did her brother and friends in London, but her clinginess was met with snarky comments about her appearance by Shannon. Peppa dismissed the comments mentally as just her edgy sense of humour.

Gradually, Peppa began to get laughed at in hallways, became the butt of stranger's jokes, and wasn't invited to any parties. When trying to confide in Shannon, it was revealed that Shannon had told everyone that Peppa was "really the whore she dressed as every day".

Labelled the campus sleaze by her own best friend and her classmates, Peppa found herself more anxious and closed off than ever, hiding away from other girls, and terrified to take a compliment in fears of opening herself up again to the wrong person.

## Personality

Unlike the typical loud and happy-go-lucky gyaru, Peppa is surprisingly modest and downright awkward.

Peppa very much lives inside her head. She is wrapped up in a constant girly inner dialogue based on a fantasy where everyone thinks she's the hottest girl in the room. When she's alone, she even pretends she's a world-famous popstar, giving concerts on her bed to her teddies and jars of mayonnaise and answering interview questions in the mirror.

Nevertheless, outwardly, Peppa's love-hate relationship with attention leaves her paralysed between wanting what she has in her fantasy and being terrified of getting rejected.

Despite her real, awkward nature, she attempts to match her fashion sense with her personality. She moves stiffly and is reserved and uncomfortable in her mannerisms, deadened about thinking how others must perceive her. Jarringly, as an introvert, any attempt at being 'wild & sexy' goes past people's heads, leaving Peppa flustered and embarrassed in the dust.

While people from afar may think she's bold and confident, she's fiercely under-confident in every aspect, remarkably reluctant to reveal anything about herself. This self-hatred is apparent when she claims she can't be in a group like Urania's Mirror surrounded by confident and talented young people, often underselling herself and her gifts.

However, thanks to the sense of camaraderie in Urania's Mirror, she finds herself and newfound confidence to express herself and be the gal she wants to be. She is able to open up around Urania's Mirror and reveals her more relaxed, real chaotic and silly side. She can be very gossipy and headstrong about things in secret, rarely going with the consensus.

Peppa continues to be inspired by Rikku, starting with Rikku's persistence and interest in her, finally feeling at home in their little friendship group.

## Arcs

Overcoming insecurities about not being good enough

Overcoming her past trauma and open herself up to new friends who will treat her with respect

Becoming the confident gyaru she's always wanted to be

Coming to terms with falling in love with Rikku and eventually dating

## Physical Description

Peppa has shoulder-length fluffy platinum hair with apricot tinted ends. Her usual hairstyle is fluffy, backcombed twintails with the occasional bow or accessory. Peppa also has wide, wistful scarlet eyes and thick light brown eyebrows.

Peppa has an aura of awkwardness, eyes shifting around a lot when not talking to familiar people. However, she tries desperately hard to change that by wearing platform mary janes, which raise her by 5cm.

She stands at around 165cm or 5'4 feet tall out of her typical platform heels, and her skin is pinkish-white, often covered up by several layers of makeup.

Peppa's school uniform is usually "untidy", with rolled-up sleeves, leg warmers on socks, skirts, and whole jewellers worth of bracelets, earrings, and other accessories that are typically against clothes regulation. Peppa claims it's for her fashion course to anyone who asks. Peppa draws most of her fashion inspiration from Kogal Gyaru fashion and bright and bold statements. Out of school, she is seen in a lot of goshikku and rokku gyaru fashion.

## Etymology

* The name Peppa means 'Jehovah increases' in Hebrew, also deriving from the name "Pepita".
* The name Porosenok is the Russian word for "Hog" or "Pig", much to the dismay of Peppa.

## School classes

* Fashion & textiles
* Figure Skating
* Classical music
* Singing and composition

## Clubs and Hobbies

Peppa was originally part of the design club before joining Urania's Mirror and doing band practice full time.

Her hobbies include singing in private, interviewing herself, studying gyaru fashion, shitposting on the internet, petting cats, and listening to city pop.

Peppa also enjoys trolling forums with her cooking blog, pretending to be a middle-aged woman and uploading unfavourable recipes to BBC Good Food's official website. She once won an award for the most inedible dish.

## Trivia

* Peppa is played by Luwuci, who also shares a similar heritage.
* Peppa thoroughly enjoys reading yuri manga, which she collects and stores under her bed.
* Despite being Russian, she cannot speak more than three words.
* Additionally, despite being Jewish, she didn't even know what the Torah was until she was 13.
* Peppa has an irrational fear of geese.
* She was once caught stealing the University cafeteria's mayo jar to bring to her dorm, and consequently, she has put on door duty for two weeks.
* She has a collection of various brands of mayonnaise packets in her bedside drawer.
* Peppa enjoys spicy food, but her favourite food is pork belly.
* At 15, she got drunk at her cousin's bat mitzvah and kissed the rabbi. She was promptly banned from the synagogue and occasionally cringes thinking about it.
* Peppa once wrote a Urania's Mirror fanfiction about Yumiko being a criminal. It was awkward when she found out that Yumiko actually was a criminal.
* Peppa tries to get away with making her uniform as promiscuous as possible for fun.
* She won't get out of your chocolate.
* Peppa once ordered 200 packets of fuzzy worms on strings to the school and, with Robyn's help, decorated all the classrooms with them.
* Peppa has a not-so-secret crush on Rikku.
* Peppa aims to keep Gyaru fashion alive but is often mistaken for a chav.
* Some people think her aesthetic is actually Y2K Essex girl.
* Peppa's first party at Lavender Moon involved her drinking a whole toilet bowl full of alcohol and water. She threw up the next day all over her lecturer, and her class refuse to let her live it down.