Hellooo! So I don't entirely know how this character just seemed to fall together in my head, but she definitely did and I've decided not to question it. This is Phoebe Wu! In another life, she is Art3mis from "Ready Player One", specifically the book.
Phoebe is a Dunhaven native, though she left for college and is only just now coming back to town after having been away (outside of holidays and visits home) since fall of 2012. The middle child of three sisters, she was pretty happy in her younger years to sort of exist in the shadow of her sisters. She was shy and withdrawn for most of her childhood thanks to elementary school bullies that laid a foundation of shaky self esteem. She has a birthmark on her face that covers her left eye and part of her cheek, which made her the target of teasing as a child. (This obv isn't in her icons, so we must all pretend.) Though she started to open up more near the end of high school, it wasn't until she went college that she really came out of her shell. She attended Athena and graduated in 2012.
For college, she went across the country to attend USC as they're #1 in Game Design and that's her life goal. She struggled socially in person with people as a child, but she was much more comfortable when gaming online and that gave her a love for video games. In 2013, she made Twitch and Youtube channels, deciding to sort of play around as the former started to get popular. Thanks to timing and quality content, she's now the #1 followed female Twitch streamer and is pretty popular in the gaming and eSports communities as a personality. Being in LA helped her career when she first started out, but given that she missed being close to her family, has a job that is pretty mobile as she isn't beholden to anyone else, and seeing a gaming company find success in her hometown of all places, she decided to make the move back to Dunhaven after being accepted into the university for grad school. She'll have just gotten settled in when I introduce her in character!
If you want to read more about her, you can do so at her monster of an app here! I went into greater detail about what her online presence is about in her app, if you're curious. Otherwise, I would love plots of all shapes and sizes. Since she grew up in town, I'm sure there are people she'll have known from school or family friends, so people she kept in touch with or maybe drifted and can reconnect with would be great! Any other connections in places are also welcome. I wouldn't mind family connections, maybe cousins or something? She's half-Chinese and otherwise white, with both parents being native to Dunhaven. Other than that, she's wide open! Gimme stuffs~