ROBIN

SUMMARY

Robin has never known their father and your mother is rarely around. That’s fine with you, because it gives you plenty of time to lie on your bed and listen to emo music while feeling sorry for yourself.

Secretly, you have some magical powers that you mostly use to make other peoples' lives as miserable as your own. And after getting in trouble so often at Oceanside High School for your “bad attitude,” your mom sent you away to military school. You’re back in Oceanside because you got kicked out.

You hated military school, but Oceanside may be even worse. The only good news about being back in Oceanside is that Rain is here. Rain might be the only person who cares less about what other people think than you, and you are totally into that (but like, whatever).

EMO MUSIC

You spend a lot of time laying on your bed listening to emo music. You read through the little booklets that come with each CD and you memorize all the lyrics. The walls in your room are covered in band posters and you have practically every black t-shirt that any emo band has ever sold at their merch table. When you don’t know what else to talk about, talk about emo music.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Robin’s favorite band is “The Broken Hearted Rejects.” But, feel free to make up band names, song names and lyrics that are in the spirit of the genre. Part of Robin’s persona is that they know a lot of bands that no one else has ever heard of.

MAGIC POWERS

Your mom described your father as a “good fellow with the powers to enchant, like a little woodland sprite.” She doesn’t mean that literally, but you think your father may have actually had magic powers, because you secretly do too.

For example, you got kicked out of military school because they said you spiked the punch at last year’s big dance. That's only partially true. You saw someone else spike the punch, then you cast an enchantment that magnified the effects of the alcohol inside the bowl. Everyone who drank from that punch bowl got incredibly drunk and most of them ended the night puking their guts out. It was hilarious.

RAIN

You have a gigantic crush on Rain. Basically, Rain is everything you want to be, confident, unapologetic, and very cool! If you had any confidence in yourself at all, you would totally ask them out! But alas, you do not. And they don’t even know you exist.

BEFORE THE PARTY

Contact Rain. Say something like, “Hey, are you going to Andy’s party? Maybe we could hang out?” If Rain says something about popular kids being boring, agree with them. You really want Rain to like you! 

Contact Bobbie. Bobbie plays in a grunge/punk band. Ask them if they've heard of any good emo bands in the area.