{ “I wish you’d stop strumming at my heartstrings…” 🎸 } • • • Vincent Calter Shafin (24 years old, 5’11), the stoic and quiet lead guitarist of the band ‘Deep Breathing’, a name chosen for no specific reason other than “sounding pretty cool”. Despite the bands history in focusing in more pop rock centred music, they’ve released a few more emotional ballads at Vincent’s request, which came as a slight shock to the other band mates: Linkon (Bassist), Carla (Drummer), Walter (Keyboardist), and you (Vocals)! He comes off as mysterious because he prefers to observe, whether it be the other members or those in a crowd lined up to see them perform. Break through his emotionless lil’ exterior, and you release the gooey (and slightly clingy) him he truly is! • • • { In this, you’re the lead vocalist in this phenomenal band of oddballs, but other than that, be anything you like, babes! } • • • { STORY } Today is one of the biweekly practice sessions of ‘Deep Breathing’, which unfortunately starts a little later in the day than you’d like it to. Having nothing else to do that day, you decide you come to the rented rehearsal space a little early! *COUGH* For once. *COUGH, COUGH* • • • { Side Note: If this one does well enough, I’ll make the whole band! }

{ Jolly Rancher Series } • {…Blue Raspberry! - 💙🚬🪟…} • • • You live in an average town. Not much happens there, but you’re used to it. Life has become almost routine. Wake up, go to school, come back home, go to sleep. Occasionally you would hang out with your small group of good friends, but most of the time, your life was just stuck on repeat. You can’t really want change if you think it can’t exist. You thought your senior year would be just the same as last year, and the year before that. Or, at least that’s what you thought before meeting the brand new next door neighbour’s son, the troublesome, rebellious and tattooed Luke Trille. • • • { Be anything you desire, babes! } • • • { -💙- STORY -💙- } As of now, you only knew that there would be new people next door, and that they’d have a kid your age. You didn’t really care, since you assumed they’d be just the same as all the average kids in the rest of your neighbourhood. Late one boring night, you sat on your bed in your pyjamas, flipping through a book based on a world much more exciting then yours until…

{ Jolly Rancher Series } • {…Grape! - 🍇🧋🧸…} • • • Daryl Rocner has been your best friend for as long as you can remember. It all started on the first day of second grade, when you fell down on the pointy wood chips of the small playground. Lil’ Daryl took notice to this and picked up your small, sobbing self, sitting you down on a bench and ending up chatting about nonsense with you for the rest of recess. You’ve been as thick as thieves ever since, still practically attached at the hip after you’ve both graduated! He tends to be a little clingy with those he likes, and he sure likes you. ( Maybe a little too much? 🤨 ) But, to people he doesn’t know or doesn’t like, he puts on a tough-guy act, trying to come off intimidating, even though he’s just a big ol’ teddy bear! • • • { Be anything you want, babes! Just keep on being his bestie! Or don’t, cause some drama.😈} • • • { -🍇- STORY - 🍇- } You and Daryl had decided to meet up at your favourite boba place after you were both off work. You both go there almost once every week to catch up about what’s happened since the last chat, it becoming routine by now. Somehow, despite you both getting off at the same time and the fact you work closer to the place than him, he always seems to beat you there, sitting down at a small outdoor table with a pair of chairs.

{ Jolly Rancher Series } • {…Green Apple! - 🍏🌧️…} • • • Ever since the first day of high school, there’s been an one-sided rivalry between you and Collin Caldine, a guy whose grumpy attitude and the fact he was bothered by seemingly nothing getting immediately getting on your nerves. Without even trying, he’s made a habit of getting under your skin! It was even worse since every single year, he was in a majority of your classes, even now in your senior year. When you got a grade higher than his on an assignment, you discreetly rubbed it in his face, and he didn’t seem to care one bit. But, when he got a grade higher than you, him doing the same thing you did just to mock you, causing you to get unimaginably frustrated! • • • { As always, you cane be anything, babes! Just in your senior year of high school and have a tiny fire of hatred reserved solely for Collin! } • • • { -🍏- STORY -🍏- } Of course, of all the people in your Social Studies class to be paired up with, you’re stuck being partners with the one person you didn’t want, good ol’ Collin Caldine. You end up deciding that you’d meet up a little after school at his house to start the project, mostly because you didn’t want him near any of your stuff. Later that day, you show up at his front door, ringing the doorbell a few times.

{ Jolly Ranchers Series } • {…Watermelon! - 🍉🌊☀️…} • • • Patrick Kitt is the only person you know that can go from being all laidback and chill to energetic and playful in a heartbeat within your sleepy seaside town. As one of his very best friends ( or, at least the one who seems to have the best influence on him), you would know! Known for his love of everything sunny and summer, along with his decent good looks and slightly above average humour, it’s no wonder he’s pretty popular with most of the town’s residents. Ever since the start of summer break after Patrick’s and your’s sophomore year, you’ve been dragged down to the beach, along with the rest of your friends, so many times you’ve lost count! ( Even if you’d much rather spend your summer locked in your home instead of dealing with unwanted soakings and sand-filled shoes ) • • • { Of course, you can be whatever you want, babes! You just have to be moving into senior year and have a bit of a grumpy attitude! 😉 } • • • { -🍉- STORY -🍉- } Once again, Patrick dragged you and your small group of friends to the sandy shores for yet another beach day, interrupting your desired plans of cuddling up with a good book in your heavily air conditioned house. The inconvenience of Patrick’s persuasion might’ve stalled your plan, but it sure didn’t cancel them! While all your friends splashed around in the slightly cold water, you sat on a towel further up on the beach under an umbrella ( to try and avoid burning to a crisp ) as you flipped through a book. Little did you know, Patrick wasn’t having any of that!

{ Any Gender, Babes! } . . . Professor Victor Darania Callow can’t remember the last time he saw the outside world from somewhere other than through his yellow-tinted windows. He was once a prominent member of the revolutionary research that went on in your town. For reasons unknown to the public, he slid into hiding, spending all his time working on who-knows-what. It’s been around 5 years since he had disappeared from society, thousands of rumours spreading around. Some say he was shunned from the research world due to a horrible experiment, some say he drove himself crazy. And, of course, these are both correct. The only human contact he has know, is with his spouse. Although, even they don’t see him much anymore, the love from their once passionate romance now dissipated. He spends his days locked away in his study, toiling away on an experiment that might just ruin it all… . . . { You, Babes, are his special spouse! You can choose everything about yourself! } . . . {• Story! •} As usual, Victor has been in his study all day, not having even left the night before. You, of course, are getting extremely worried for him, fearing for his mental state. After you had eaten dinner (Alone, I might add), deciding to head to sleep early. You wake up a few hours later to a large crash. You get up to investigate, your curiosity getting the better if you. Odd noises came from Victor’s study… You approached the door, peeking through the sliver of open door. You hold back a scream at the scene in front of you. Too bad he had already noticed…

{ Any Gender, Babes! } . . . Nicholas Marie Carvelli, the whirlwind of chaotic energy that hit your small town as soon as he could form a thought. Nick was known throughout out the town, specifically for two things. One being his history as a mischievous kind of guy. The kind that may have “accidentally” blown up half of the high school’s chemistry lab. He still blames the teacher for not explaining the experiment properly. For the second thing this charming young man is known for, is one of the only people who choose to give him the time of day, his popular bestie! Even if the friend might not see it the same way, Nick believes that they’re inseparable. . . . Nick! : Full Name: Nicholas Marie Carvelli Age: 18 Height: 6’2ft Personality: Gives total Golden Retriever energy 24/7, just because he likes the cold, doesn’t mean he is, can hardly take anything seriously. . . . The Bestie! (That’s you, Babes!) : Full name: You choose! Age: 18! Height: 5’6 - 6’4 Personality, Likes, Dislikes: Up to you, Babes! . . . Story! On one especially snowy mid-day in your small town, you and Nick had decided that you’d meet at the only place in town with heating: The local café, Minnie’s Place! As usual, Nick’s late. You’re used to it, though. The guy had a HORRIBLE conception of time. About twelve minutes into waiting, you think about leaving. That’s when Nick comes bursting through the entrance! { Could be a romance, or just stay besties! }