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[cheerleader]

PLAYER
Name: Brandi
Age: Over 18
Contact: trashpanda
Permission Post: here
Reserve: Not reserved

CHARACTER
Name: Chrissy Cunningham
True Name: Chrissy Elizabeth Cunningham
Canon: Stranger Things (4.01)
Age: 17
History: wiki

Powers/Abilities: Chrissy is a baseline human with no exceptional powers or abilities. She is a cheerleader though, which would at least imply she's athletic and pretty good at flips & tumbling.

Inventory: cheerleading uniform & sweater, socks & sneakers, green scrunchie, and a gold necklace with a charm that says 86.

Job History: Chrissy is a high school student, and is shown in her counselor's profile as being a below average student. Her highest grade is in cheerleading, with her lowest grades being in Spanish 2 and Woodworking 2. Yes, she's in woodworking. Which means she took and enjoyed woodworking 1 enough to take a 2nd section of it. But as a student she has general academic knowledge and organizational skills. These skills are better put on display knowing she's a head cheerleader. It takes hard work to be named head cheerleader by the cheerleading coach. Chrissy had to show work ethic, organizational skills, an ability to communicate well with the other cheerleaders, and an ability to actually be a really good cheerleader to be named to the position. It's something she had to earn rather than something that was given to her. She's also named as being homecoming queen, which shows that she's generally well-liked among her peers. Her popularity isn't shown as making her mean, though. She's generally soft-spoken and kind to everyone she speaks to, and seems shocked when it's mentioned that she might be terrifying.

cw: eating disorder discussed below



Suppressions: Chrissy doesn't want anyone to know that she's struggling. She's terrified to let anyone know about the auditory and visual hallucinations she's been having. They're severe enough that they impact her ability to sleep at night, and she seeks out drugs as a method of coping with the trauma. She tries to hide the fact that she's a shell of her former self, and actually does a pretty good job of it. No one notices that she's withdrawn and suffering, and she continues on through her ordeal alone until things escalate and she dies. When she became a cheerleader in middle school, her mother verbally abused her for having to let out her cheerleading outfits because she was either growing or because she was gaining weight. Either way, Chrissy developed a complex from it that led to her having an eating disorder. She is shown purging in the bathroom when one of the hallucinatory episodes hits. She's an easy target for Vecna because of her lack of self-confidence and the guilt that she carries from not being perfect like her mother wants. At her canon point she feels isolated and alone, even though she's the "queen of Hawkins" and the head cheerleader. No one except the school counselor knows about her eating disorder, so she must be suppressing and hiding things pretty well for the most part. But she's learned that's a dangerous thing.

Greatest Fear: The recurring memory of her final moments in the upside down, specifically the first moments where Vecna kills her. Pretty much anything that makes her feel like she may be hallucinating or a target of Vecna again is going to make her absolutely terrified.

Greatest Desire: To not feel the need to be perfect. She feels like she has to be thin, has to be smiling, and has to maintain her image as queen of the school in order to get by. This likely stems from her mother berating her and demanding these things of her.

Greatest Regret: Not being strong enough to save herself. She knows know that she wasn't strong enough to realize it was okay to break her perfect image to ask someone for help that might have saved her. She was so worried about looking perfect that she didn't want to worry anyone with the hallucinations she was having, or any of her other problems. She was seeing the school counselor, but likely wasn't very forthcoming with her. If she could go back and do things over again, she would drop the need to appear perfect and beg someone for help.

Sample: tdm