So... so much hair...
RAYA (Carmen Alonso)
Created By: Christy Marx
Role: The Newbie
Voice Actor: Linda Dangcil
PL 4 (50)
STRENGTH 0 STAMINA 1 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 2 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 2
Skills:
Acrobatics 3 (+6)
Athletics 4 (+4)
Deception 2 (+4)
Expertise (Rock Star- Drums) 11 (+13)
Investigation 2 (+5)
Perception 3 (+5)
Stealth 1 (+4)
Vehicles 2 (+2)
Advantages:
Beginner's Luck, Benefit 1 (Wealth), Inspire 2, Ranged Attack 1, Teamwork
Offense:
Unarmed +2 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +3 (DC 13), Parry +2 (DC 12), Toughness +1, Fortitude +2, Will +6
Complications:
Secret (Jem's Identity)- The other Holograms must help keep Jem's secret.
Enemy (The Misfits, Eric Raymond)- What goes for Jem, goes for the Holograms.
Rivalry (The Stingers)- When Riot and the Stingers arrive in town, there's yet ANOTHER rival band on the docket.
Responsibility (Starlight House & Starlight Music)- All of the Holograms are as committed as Jerrica to the Starlight Girls.
Relationship (Family)- Raya is the only member of the Holograms not to be an orphan- she loves her parents dearly, though only her father really supported her decision to become a rock star.
Fame- Raya is pretty famous, and will get mobbed whenever she goes out in public.
Relationship (The Holograms)- As the newbie, Raya still openly looks up to her bandmates.
Total: Abilities: 24 / Skills: 30--15 / Advantages: 6 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 5 (50)
-Raya is essentially the "New Toy" character from the second season of the show. The quartet gained a fourth member when Shana temporarily-left to work on her fashion career, and a Talent Search was organized. The two finalists were Carmen Alonso (nicknamed "Raya") and Craig Phillips, the brother of Stormer from The Misfits. A climactic concert was performed with the two rival drummers, while at the same time Eric Raymond was bribing Raya into giving up Jem's real identity. Coincidentally, Raya had accidentally stumbled INTO said identity only a little while before! Needing the money for her father's wrecked flower shop (guess who was responsible?). Raya did the right thing and rejected Raymond, uncovered the Misfit plot to wreck her dad's shop, and she won the contest and was invited to join the Holograms full-time.
-Sadly, after that point, there was nothing for Raya to do. She was given less personality, and her biggest personality traits were taken up by others: too shy to confront the group and perform at first, she was out-done in the "shy" department by Shana already, and she couldn't even do the "gullible rookie" bit, since KIMBER had that role locked up! And honestly, in the ENTIRETY of the Post-Raya Episodes of the series, she doesn't do a single thing. She kinda flirts with a Mexican tour guide, but that's the extent of it. She barely even had any lines! Kind of disappointing.
Behold... Young Jab's first crush.
KIMBER BENTON
Created By: Christy Marx
Role: The Shy One
Voice Actor: Cathianne Blore
PL 4 (47)
STRENGTH 0 STAMINA 1 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 1 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Acrobatics 3 (+6)
Athletics 4 (+4)
Deception 1 (+5)
Expertise (Rock Star- Keyboards & Songwriting) 10 (+14)
Investigation 3 (+3)
Perception 3 (+6)
Persuasion 3 (+7)
Stealth 1 (+4)
Advantages:
Benefit 1 (Wealth), Daze (Deception), Inspire, Luck, Ranged Attack 1, Taunt, Teamwork
Offense:
Unarmed +1 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +3 (DC 13), Parry +2 (DC 12), Toughness +1, Fortitude +2, Will +6
Complications:
Secret (Jem's Identity)- The other Holograms must help keep Jem's secret.
Responsibility (Immature)- Kimber is flighty, irresponsible and very much an in-the-moment kind of person. She'd get married just to "have a big party!", set two dates up for the same time, quit the Holograms the second she felt unappreciated, and more. She's also the easiest of the group to fool by FAR.
Enemy (The Misfits, Eric Raymond)- What goes for Jem, goes for the Holograms.
Rivalry (The Stingers)- When Riot and the Stingers arrive in town, there's yet ANOTHER rival band on the docket.
Responsibility (Starlight House & Starlight Music)- All of the Holograms are as committed as Jerrica to the Starlight Girls.
Relationship (Two Guys)- Kimber loves both an actor and a stuntman, and has trouble choosing between them. She often plays them against each other, and impetuously wanted to marry one when the other wanted to wait.
Fame- Kimber is pretty famous, and will get mobbed whenever she goes out in public.
Relationship (The Holograms)- Kimber is devoted to the band, unless something distracts her ("ooh, shiny!"). While she loves her sister dearly, Kimber finds Jerrica boring, and often gets annoyed at the focus Jem receives. Aja is a taskmaster, and Shana is too much of a pushover for her, as well.
Total: Abilities: 18 / Skills: 28--14 / Advantages: 7 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 8 (47)
-Kimber is probably the most dynamic and drama-crazy member of the main cast, with her legendary impetuousness and infantile behavior. Not to mention her own boy problems (various crushes and paramours came and went, including one hilarious fight scene during an Archie-moment on Kimber's part when she set two dates for the same time). Kimber's impulse control was basically non-existant, and she caused a huge chunk of the group's problems by storming off after a random fight or something. She even QUIT the Holograms at one point (when they were insisting on a fast beat when she wanted a slow ballad for her new song), which revealed just how important she was to the rest of the group- not only is she the Songwriter for the band, but she set up all of their cues and timing, so they were a MESS in concert without her. And of course she hooked up with Stormer, changed her look to be more punk-ish, and they had Harley & Ivy-levels of sexual tension between them.
-I also had a pretty big crush on Kimber back in the day, and since I was probably six or seven or something, that probably makes her my first crush ever. So yeah, here's to hottie cartoon characters
. But like I said, Kimber was the driving force for a lot of the show's drama- quitting the group, storming off, being mistasken for the Princess of a kingdom ("The Princess and The Rock Star", and you can pretty much guess the entire plot just from that), managing to survive TWO hundred-plus-foot falls into water without a scratch, etc. She even once had a breakdown over her father's death after carrying the burden with her for a long time (Jerrica had dealt with it more maturely earlier), only to come to terms with it thanks to PIZZAZZ's father! By adding so many negative traits to one character, the writers actually managed to make her the most interesting one of the bunch, in my opinion.
