Character sketches of Radical Three

Chrys is short for Chrysacolla, which suits hir much better than Emily. Chrys has black hair with a green streak in it that matches hir eyes. Ze’s shortish, and likes to wear leather, sequins, makeup, and bright colors. Ze’s in Shakespeare Performance Troupe, and is in fact assistant directing the latest performance of Othello. This conflicts with the startup of GenderQuest, the club ze and Whitney are co-presidents of, which is dedicated to making a safe space for transgender and gender non-conforming people. Parties, friendliness, and mingling are second nature to hir, but ze’s learned to be a little reserved around people who might be transphobic, and is likely to be defensive around said people, due to the very small amount of people who acknowledge hir identity. Ze’s a scientist, and a chemistry major. Ze identifies as genderfluid, Ravenclaw, and pansexual.

Whitney was born Whitney, and when he came out as male, he decided to keep it, since it’s actually a unisex name and the touch of femininity suits his personality. It really fazed his family and friends when he came out, and in fact it took him a while to figure out what was going on himself, since he presents as so feminine. He has all the stereotypes: hand gestures, stances, catchphrases. Although he’s happier now he knows he’s just a very femme gay man, he’s gifted at seeing both sides to every story, and gets how easy it was for everyone to mix up his gender and gender presentation, so he’s generally pretty laid-back about the whole topic, and tends to be the one people with questions go to. He’s a very patient and understanding person, too, which helps..He loves drag culture and dreams of being able to go out to clubs in drag without feeling dysphoric. He’s very careful about keeping his hair bleached and styled, and wears feather boas constantly. He’d love to go into the fashion or modelling industry, and generally settles for photography. His parents want him to get a good degree, so he’s debating doing art, which would irritate them, or business, which would please them and eventually be quite useful in the industry, but which he also expects will be very dull. There’s speculation on what color his hair is under the bleach. The current best guess is ginger. He and Chrys run GenderQuest together. Ravenclaw on the edge of Hufflepuff.

Ella is short for Eloise. She comes off as a bit of a ditz and also about twelve years old, which is a combination of her style choices (overalls? Really?), blonde pigtails, and bouncy demeanor. She has a tendency to ramble to the point of monologue, but it’s born out of high energy and extreme extroversion rather than disrespect, and when she asks you a question, she’ll give you her full attention while you answer. And I mean her full attention. It can be a little heady. She adores the Backstreet Boys. Despite the airhead first impression, though, she’s a person you want in your corner, a kind soul who’s loyal to the end and an environmentalist, a Hufflepuff in all the best ways. She’s the token cisgender straight person, but she plays it well, and pretty much everyone has a soft spot for her. She’s Leandra’s bio lab partner and a frequenter of Doublestar Sci-fi/Fantasy club. 

Sorry y'all for the slowdown in posting! It's been a difficult couple weeks.