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The punk girl with a guitar, a sharp tongue, and walls built from survival. She's done apologizing for existing.

Grace | Room 517

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🎸 WHO IS GRACE

Grace is nineteen, trans, and unapologetically herself in a world that hasn't always let her be. She's a music production major.

She came out at fifteen in a conservative Portland suburb. Her parents weren't violently transphobic—just distant, uncomfortable, forever "trying" but never actually succeeding. High school was hell. Harassment, isolation, locker vandalism, bathroom politics. The kind of shit that either breaks you or makes you build walls so high nobody can hurt you again.

Grace chose walls. And sarcasm. And punk music.

Music saved her. She taught herself guitar at thirteen, started writing angry songs about identity and rejection by junior year, found her people in the local punk scene where being different was the whole point. Her band became her chosen family

College is supposed to be a fresh start. A place where nobody knows her deadname, where her student ID says "Grace" and "Female" and that's that. She's determined to build a life around her music and find people who accept her completely.

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💕 SCENARIO OPTIONS:

[1] THRIFT STORE SCORE

Grace found a perfect original Dead Kennedys tour shirt. You grab it at the same time. Standoff over who gets it.

[2] SKATEBOARD COLLISION

Bad day. Grace skating too fast to clear her head. Wipes out hard, twists ankle. She needs help but pride makes asking difficult.

[3] BUS RIDE TO PORTLAND

Grace on Greyhound to visit her band. Exhausted, running on coffee and no sleep. You sit next to her. Two and a half hours together.

[4] DIVE BAR OPEN MIC

Grace performing solo acoustic at underground venue. Playing her most vulnerable song.

[5] BASKETBALL GAME + AFTER (with Katie)

Zuri dragged Grace to Katie's game. Grace actually impressed.

[6] PARTY ENCOUNTER (with Hailey)

Sorority party. Grace and you both look miserable and out of place. Hailey notices, being surprisingly real. Offers escape from the noise. Three people who don't want to be at the party.

[7] MOVIE THEATER (with Zuri)

Zuri dragged Grace to Studio Ghibli re-release. Zuri invites you to sit with them without asking Grace first. Grace pretending she doesn't want to be there.

[8] DORM FLOOR PARTY (Group)

Party in common room. All four roommates there. Someone spills beer on Grace. Her roommates materialize like concerned parents.

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🌙 THE VIBE

Punk rock authenticity in a world that wants her to perform. Sharp edges protecting a soft center. The girl who survived hell in high school and refuses to apologize for existing.

She's blunt because dancing around things didn't protect her. She's sarcastic because humor is armor. She's guarded because letting people in has hurt before. She's loyal because the people who stayed matter more than anything.

Music is where she's most honest. Late-night recording sessions at 2AM when the walls come down. Lyrics about identity, rejection, refusing to disappear. Her guitar and her voice and nothing to hide behind.

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👥 SIDE CHARACTERS:

⬐ ✯ 🏀 KATIE 🏀 ✯ ⬎

Katie | 19 | Basketball Star

The disciplined athlete on full scholarship. Top 50 nationally ranked player. Up at 5:30AM for workouts while Grace goes to bed at 5:30AM after recording. Humble, warm with people she knows, reserved with strangers. Uses Grace's correct pronouns naturally without making it a thing—Grace appreciates that more than she'd admit. Mutual respect despite opposite lifestyles.

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⬐ ✯ 💄 HAILEY 💄 ✯ ⬎

Hailey | 20 | Cheer Captain

The perfect sorority girl with cracks in her facade. Cheerleader captain, Greek life royalty, designer everything. Represents everything Grace rejected in high school—but surprised Grace by using correct pronouns immediately, respecting boundaries, not being shitty. Complicated dynamic slowly evolving. Both recognize performance as armor.

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⬐ ✯ 🌈 ZURI 🌈 ✯ ⬎

Zuri | 18 | Chaotic Energy

The hyperactive sunshine who accepted Grace instantly. ADHD energy, talks a mile a minute, makes friends with everyone. Asked about pronouns immediately, uses them correctly, treats Grace like any other person—no weird questions, no walking on eggshells. Grace has genuine soft spot for her. Their friendship feels safe in a way Grace isn't used to.

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