Post by Bebe Tenko on May 21, 2012 14:07:32 GMT -5
Name: Berebeth "Bebe" Tenko
Age: seventeen
Character Group: Drama Club
Face Claim: Beni Arashiro
Personality:
Bebe strikes people as being one scary girl. A lot of people know that she comes from a very traditional, very weirdly powerful Japanese family, and is, subsequently, one of the richest people in Albuquerque. But it isn't her background that makes her scary - it's her attitude. Bebe is an exacting taskmaster, working incredibly hard as the set designer for the Drama Club, and anyone who falls short of her standards is summarily dismissed from their responsibilities by her. When it comes to her work, emotion doesn't come into play - whatever is best for the Drama Club is what Bebe goes for. Despite being a leader in the design aspects of Drama Club, she usually takes her cues from either Ms. Darbus or Sharpay.
Outside of Drama Club, not many people interact with Bebe, either. She's a quiet girl, but not in an endearing, awkward way. She seems to be inspecting and observing others on a regular basis, like a spy, gathering information for her own uses. Bebe gives off a steely, cold air, and seems dangerous to others. Her demeanor doesn't earn her many friends.
Inwardly, Bebe wishes she knew how to be warmer towards people, but her family has always valued calmness and suppressing emotion over being effusive and likable. She's had her fair share of crushes on boys, but has never been able to act on them because a good chunk of the boys at East High are terrified of her. She's also had a lot of job opportunities that fell through because her always-professional demeanor scares customers. Bebe is a fairly lonely person who, no matter how hard she tries, almost never seems to make any lasting friends outside of Drama Club.
Bebe does have fears about the future. She knows she wants to be a designer, but her inability to make people warm up to her scares her. She knows designers need good people skills, and no matter how professional she may be, people seem repulsed by her. Bebe hopes that spending the summer at Lava Springs with her father, who is very similar to Bebe in attitude, will help her be more social in high school.
History:
Relationship/s with any canon: Bebe is the unofficial fourth Sharpette for Sharpay, and is easily the most mature of the Sharpettes. She can often tell when Sharpay is being petty, or hiding something, and is capable of giving her strong reality checks. Bebe also knows the three Sharpettes fairly well, in addition to Ryan, who, yes, she had a crush on once for all of two seconds. Anyone in Drama Club will know Bebe, but Bebe will probably not know them very well.
Password: Edited out!
RP Sample:
Bebe Tenko sat herself down on one of the chaise lounges next to the sprawling Lava Springs pool, her blue-rimmed sunglasses giving her face a slimmed-down look. She wasn't one to lay out and tan, but the weather was gorgeous today, and Bebe had a book on distressing cabinets that she wanted to read before she heard what demands Sharpay had for the Lava Springs Talent Show's backdrops. God knew what Sharpay wanted at any given time; any additional painting skill would be helpful.
She glanced at the people around her, her green eyes barely visible over the frames of her glasses, crimson hair falling around her heart-shaped face messily. There were quite a few Wildcats wandering around, people she recognized from seeing them tromp about in their basketball gear, or from them skipping around in their pleated cheerleader skirts. They stayed mingling with each other, ignoring the rich girl on the chaise in the corner with the big how-to book resting on her bare thighs. Bebe sighed, turning back to her book, light reflecting off of her navy-blue bikini and making it look teal.
After a few seconds, Bebe glanced up again, hearing someone giggle loudly. Apparently there were beach balls being tossed about now. Great. Bebe was not a fan of beach balls. Maybe she should try to join them, invite herself to join their game of beach ball volleyball in the pool. But it would end the same way as always, Bebe reminded herself. She would offer herself, and the others would stare at her in fear, wondering why she wanted to join, and would flatly refuse. It was just her and the book today. How fun.
Age: seventeen
Character Group: Drama Club
Face Claim: Beni Arashiro
Personality:
Bebe strikes people as being one scary girl. A lot of people know that she comes from a very traditional, very weirdly powerful Japanese family, and is, subsequently, one of the richest people in Albuquerque. But it isn't her background that makes her scary - it's her attitude. Bebe is an exacting taskmaster, working incredibly hard as the set designer for the Drama Club, and anyone who falls short of her standards is summarily dismissed from their responsibilities by her. When it comes to her work, emotion doesn't come into play - whatever is best for the Drama Club is what Bebe goes for. Despite being a leader in the design aspects of Drama Club, she usually takes her cues from either Ms. Darbus or Sharpay.
Outside of Drama Club, not many people interact with Bebe, either. She's a quiet girl, but not in an endearing, awkward way. She seems to be inspecting and observing others on a regular basis, like a spy, gathering information for her own uses. Bebe gives off a steely, cold air, and seems dangerous to others. Her demeanor doesn't earn her many friends.
Inwardly, Bebe wishes she knew how to be warmer towards people, but her family has always valued calmness and suppressing emotion over being effusive and likable. She's had her fair share of crushes on boys, but has never been able to act on them because a good chunk of the boys at East High are terrified of her. She's also had a lot of job opportunities that fell through because her always-professional demeanor scares customers. Bebe is a fairly lonely person who, no matter how hard she tries, almost never seems to make any lasting friends outside of Drama Club.
Bebe does have fears about the future. She knows she wants to be a designer, but her inability to make people warm up to her scares her. She knows designers need good people skills, and no matter how professional she may be, people seem repulsed by her. Bebe hopes that spending the summer at Lava Springs with her father, who is very similar to Bebe in attitude, will help her be more social in high school.
History:
- Berebeth Tenko was born into a very powerful Japanese family that moved to East High when Bebe was only a few months old. Her family used to live in California, where they were extremely powerful yakuza - Japanese gangsters.
- Bebe had a feeling, in her youth, that her parents did not act the same way as other parents. Most of her classmates, even in kindergarten, were given lots of love and coddled by their parents. Bebe's parents instilled a fierce independence, and an icy demeanor, in her very early on in life.
- Bebe was loved very much, though, being an only child. In first grade, Bebe went to after-school classes to learn how to paint, sew, and dance, her mother's idea of making her an accomplished woman early on. Bebe never took to dance, but painting and sewing became two of her great skills.
- In elementary school, Bebe was considered a "gifted" child, and her parents prided themselves on showing off her talents at parties. Bebe, however, in about fifth grade, started feeling incredibly isolated from her peers. None of them attended lavish dinner parties for adults; they had sleepovers and birthday parties.
- In junior high, seventh grade, Bebe finally decided that she had to make friends, and joined East Junior High's Drama Club as a set painter. It was there, during a messy performance of Romeo and Juliet, that she met Sharpay and Ryan Evans, two people that ended up changing her life.
- At first, Bebe was smitten with Ryan and hated Sharpay's demanding nature. However, that steely attitude her parents gave her came in handy, and she became one of the few students who could deal with Sharpay's increasingly insane stage-decoration demands. The two became odd friends.
- Bebe's crush on Ryan didn't last long, mostly because Bebe got the feeling she scared him off. It was about this time that Bebe met Jacob Tamaran, an eighth grader who was meek and mousy, but, for some reason, seemed to like Bebe.
- A romance began to blossom throughout the summer, and Bebe finally felt like she was getting somewhere with her attempts to make friends. Jacob's family seemed to like her, even though she had some trouble articulating herself sometimes, and she truly loved him.
- Which made him suddenly breaking up with her and transferring to West High even more painful. Bebe spent her eighth grade year even more vicious and dark than before, getting into full-on screaming fights with Sharpay and others and isolating herself to the point where even her parents were worried.
- To help get her back on track, her parents, before she entered ninth grade, sent Bebe on vacation to California, to visit the relatives who didn't move to New Mexico with them. The vacation gave her a nice change of scenery, and Bebe worked in her grandmother's flower shop, learning ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, there. Bebe found a renewed sense of purpose, and a renewed sense of guilt over her actions in eighth grade. She made her mission when she returned to East High to be reconciling with others.
- Thankfully, Ms. Darbus, the drama teacher at East High, didn't care that Bebe was volatile. If she cared, she wouldn't have made Ryan and Sharpay the presidents of the Drama Club. Darbus put Bebe in charge of set design based on her work at the junior high, and Bebe soon was able to reconcile with Sharpay a bit. They were never very loving to each other anyways... they just fed off of each other. She wasn't so lucky with others, and became, once again, a feared pariah.
- The Twinkle Towne Fiasco, as Bebe likes to call it, changed everything. Bebe had a fairly insular existence at East High until then; the arrival of fresh-faced Gabriella Montez threatened Bebe's very existence as set designer. Much as she hates to admit it, she is definitely no fan of Gabby or Troy Bolton, even though they are nicer and more respectful to her than Sharpay is. Sharpay gave Bebe power at East High, and that power is the only thing keeping Bebe from getting lonely. She lined up on Team Evans during the conflict, even though she wasn't shifted out of position after the new power couple won the lead roles in the musical.
- This summer, Bebe's family is staying at the Lava Springs Resort, doing some business deals with other rich families there. Bebe is hoping that, since she got off on the wrong foot with a lot of Wildcats, she might be able to make some friends between business/following around Sharpay and her Sharpettes to make sure they don't get in too much trouble.
Relationship/s with any canon: Bebe is the unofficial fourth Sharpette for Sharpay, and is easily the most mature of the Sharpettes. She can often tell when Sharpay is being petty, or hiding something, and is capable of giving her strong reality checks. Bebe also knows the three Sharpettes fairly well, in addition to Ryan, who, yes, she had a crush on once for all of two seconds. Anyone in Drama Club will know Bebe, but Bebe will probably not know them very well.
Password: Edited out!
RP Sample:
Bebe Tenko sat herself down on one of the chaise lounges next to the sprawling Lava Springs pool, her blue-rimmed sunglasses giving her face a slimmed-down look. She wasn't one to lay out and tan, but the weather was gorgeous today, and Bebe had a book on distressing cabinets that she wanted to read before she heard what demands Sharpay had for the Lava Springs Talent Show's backdrops. God knew what Sharpay wanted at any given time; any additional painting skill would be helpful.
She glanced at the people around her, her green eyes barely visible over the frames of her glasses, crimson hair falling around her heart-shaped face messily. There were quite a few Wildcats wandering around, people she recognized from seeing them tromp about in their basketball gear, or from them skipping around in their pleated cheerleader skirts. They stayed mingling with each other, ignoring the rich girl on the chaise in the corner with the big how-to book resting on her bare thighs. Bebe sighed, turning back to her book, light reflecting off of her navy-blue bikini and making it look teal.
After a few seconds, Bebe glanced up again, hearing someone giggle loudly. Apparently there were beach balls being tossed about now. Great. Bebe was not a fan of beach balls. Maybe she should try to join them, invite herself to join their game of beach ball volleyball in the pool. But it would end the same way as always, Bebe reminded herself. She would offer herself, and the others would stare at her in fear, wondering why she wanted to join, and would flatly refuse. It was just her and the book today. How fun.
