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Name: Daphne Davidson
Age: 19
Role: Drummer (Used to be the partial manager)
Occupation:
Daphne is a party, wedding, and event planner. She works for a larger company but hopes to have her own company one day. (Unless the band makes it big, because that's her ultimate dream). She's still getting settled into her career and lives with her brother in an apartment since she wanted to move out but couldn't afford to be by herself yet.
Years of Experience:
Daphne currently has no band experience, unless you count countless hours watching bands on YouTube and booking them for her client's events. Daphne does have eight years of drumming experience, her older brother took lesson and then taught her until one day she surpassed his abilities and began to teach him.
Identity:
Daphne's PoV:
Daphne sees herself as a misunderstood individual. She is torn between being very mechanical, and thinking very straight forward, and just living her life and letting things be. Daphne thinks in beats, numbers, and she's very analytical. Everything has a spot and a place, when she is drumming everything has a beat and she doesn't like to improvise, even though she is creative. She thinks creativity needs to be thought prior to execution of the creativity. (She likes to plan and think about creativity but creativity needs to be planned). Daphne sees herself as a helper, a person who is here to only silently lead. She's not a true leader, she feels like she doesn't stand out in a crowd, but she's the behind the curtains kind of person. Daphne believes things wouldn't be the same without her even if nobody knows it.
Other people's PoV of Daphne:
A lot of people see Daphne as a regular stranger on the street until they get to know her. Sometimes they get a peek into the wonderful world going on inside of her mind but often don't realize they have barely scratched the surface. Daphne is a loud laugher and you can basically tell if she is amused with you or hates what you are doing because she appears to be a very blunt person who spares no feelings. People see her as organized because it blatantly obvious by the way she acts and when she's silent she's usually fixing something, putting something away, straightening something out, etc. Even though she is organized and likes things to be just right she's still funny and super outgoing. (She sees herself less outgoing then people think). She knows how to have fun but also knows when to reign it in though she is still often called a buzz kill. People can see her ideas and they wouldn't guess she has to really think about them and make sure plans will work before she expresses her mind. People just assume she can think on her feet, which isn't true.
Strengths:
Daphne is creative, somewhat outgoing, organized, analytical, can think herself out of problems and solve situations fairly well, and she's mindful of people's feelings.
Weaknesses:
Daphne can be too organized, she can retreat to a 'shell' when she feels like she's being picked on, she gets embarrassed easily, and she really is OCD. If things aren't set just right sometimes it makes her nauseous and she has to fix it before she can think of anything else. Also, once again, she can't just come up with ideas. She has to really think about them, though when they come out her ideas can be pretty great.
Family/Relationships:
Mother: Daphne isn't close to her mother. She never really understood her mom or the decisions she made in life that ended in getting a divorce and not being able to take care of her children. She still sees her from time to time but it's a civil relationship.
Father: Daphne and her father are best friends. They barely have the daughter/father relationship because he's really loose and carefree. He isn't organized but he has his life together enough that he could take care of two children. Daphne often parents him but she takes it light heartedly knowing he has done a lot for her.
Brother: His name is Daxton (age 23) and he is Daphne's other best friend, her dad being the other one. Daxton is a very well organized person who dreams big, plays several instruments, is majoring in two things in college, and is very outgoing. He got Daphne out of her shell and tries to give her a life she wouldn't have if she stayed who she was when she was younger. He loves to play music but hates performing for other people, he only plays in front of his father and Daphne. He pushes Daphne to get over the fear of not trying, his goal is to make her a better person then he is. He works well with very few people, which is another reason why he could never be in a band. Which is okay with him, he thinks life has too many options to be tied down to one forever.
Brief Bio:
Daphne lived a fairly normal life, a normal household, brother-sister relationship, etc. Though it all changed when she was fifteen and her mother and father got divorced. This divorce seemed completely out of the blue but really her parents hadn't been happy in a fairly long time and they just kept it in the background. When Daphne graduated high school she learned more about it and it was pretty messy with everything that happened.
Throughout all the hardships of this divorce her brother, Daxton, had his own apartment with a couple of friends so she would often spend time over there to just live life. They grew even closer in this time and her drumming lessons became more intense with her brother, she took out her anger on the drums. Her brother learned how her mind worked and taught her she could still be a likeable person, not some boring stiff person, even though she thinks very mechanically sometimes. He basically made her a creative person and if it wasn't for the divorce then Daphne and Daxton probably wouldn't be very close, so she has that to thank.
When she was 16 she was offered an externship with a high profile planner, because of her new creative outlook on life and her organized thoughts The Planner thought she could be very gifted in the area of party planning!( Which is much underrated job and pays well if you are good enough). Daphne began working for this person and when she graduated The Planner's gift to her was to hire her as a paid employee instead of an unpaid intern.
Daphne still works under her, it's only been a year since graduation, but she gets paid enough to pay for rent with her brother who lives in an apartment with her. Daphne gets her own small parties, and once in a while helps with a bigger wedding, but still finds plenty of time to play her drums, write music/lyrics, and live life.
Bandships:
Vince Hall-Daphne was recruited for the band by Vince, who had previously met Daxton and asked him to join but referred him to Daphne. Vince is like another brother figure to Daphne.
Rob Lowell-
Anastasia Fournival- Daphne gets along well with Anastasia but also sees her as a rival. They have clashing personalities and often differ in opinions but still get along well. (Yin and Yang situation)
Solly Redtler- Daphne is closest to Solly and lets him see behind her shell. She also loves to hear from him and what his problems are, she finds it easy to listen to him. Their relationship is complicated though...
Alexandrina Steele-
Tam Sanchez-
Audition:
The numbers flashed in Daphne's head just like they did every time she sat down by her drums. The 5,6,7,8 lead off pulsed in her mind, her foot barely tapping, she breathed an unnoticeable breath and began to drum. The drum sticks in her hand had her brother's name carved into one and her name carved into the other, they were held loosely in her grasp so they could move and play, a flick of her wrist was all it took to hit a beat, her shoulders occasionally moved and bounced too, almost like she was dancing with just her shoulders. The beat played in her head with the counts almost being visible inside her mind, she could see the numbers and feel the music she was playing. Small criticisms would slip into her mind but the numbers held on strong and she continued to play, later she would scold herself for not hitting her crash cymbal as hard as it should have been it, though it probably had gone unnoticed by everyone else. She became the music and when it ended she longed for it once more, this very feeling is the reason why she knows she loves to play.
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