Harper Stille-Mendoza

22 years old - she/him - transandro lesbian - mexican-german

Basic Info:
DOB: Feb 6th, 1991
Height: 5'11 / 180 cm
Body type: Masculine, lightly built
Residency: San Victoria
Job: Body Piercer
Hobbies: Making clothes, jewelry, and music, people watching, spending time on music forums, and collecting industrial and visual kei dvd magazines

Design Notes:
Harper has titanium snake bites and septum piercing. She has three ear piercings, two on top and one on the lobe on each side. She's Catholic, if you draw him make sure she's wearing a cross. Her hair is black with teal underneath. It's long and half-up into two low and teased ponytails. She has dark hazel-green eyes.

Her main inspirations take from kote kei, notably vkei band Jiluka's style. He also likes blending elements from military goth and industrial in her other outfits. Sometimes he will wear breast forms, so feel free to include it if you want.

Harper has a small bit of muscle built around her shoulders, arms, and chest. He keeps an overall masculine bodily appearance.

About:
At Weltraum, a night club with 3 different floors, Harper spends his weekend people watching. At Weltraum, a night club with 3 different floors, Harper spends his weekend people watching. He doesn’t care if he comes off as odd and isn’t the type to go out of his way to begin conversations with others. His quiet nature makes people spread rumors claiming Harper is a real vampire on the watch for her next prey. People who find this rumor interesting come up to Harper and start talking, venting, or gossiping. Harper wouldn’t exactly ignore people who come up to her. She’ll respond briefly as long as it doesn't get her involved in little dramas.

As a hobby, Harper produces simple synthpop and EBM samples and demos. Harper doesn’t consider himself musically talented, but that doesn’t mean he can’t have fun messing around either way. She keeps to herself and has no intention of sharing these outside of friends and internet mutuals. Harper values her hair a lot and has been growing it out since she was 12. He would spend a lot of time braiding it and brushing it while watching TV, movies, or people watching.

Relationships:
╰┈➤ Wolfgang - Best Friend
Childhood friend from Catholic school and public high school, they have a sibling-like bond and are each others' lifeline.
╰┈➤ Charlie - Boyfriend
Harper asked him out to get a reaction out of him since she finds him adorable. It's just a fling but he's enjoying their relationship while it lasts.
╰┈➤ Itsuki - Close Friends
Harper and Itsuki met at an industrial festival and clicked instantly over their shared love for visual kei. They have similar attitudes about life.

Background:
Harper was born in Germany to a Mexican father and a Mexican-German mother. His mother was a goth new waver in the 80s (which highly influenced Harper's taste in music and style) and always wanted her children to embrace self-expression. Though, love and affection was not very well communicated at home making it difficult for Harper to learn how to share his emotions. Harper's dad was a bit more conservative. He was okay with Harper's desire to be androgynous as a child but had limits and restrictions to how far she could stray from masculinity. 

Harper was attending Catholic school where she met her best friend of years, Wolfgang. One summer, Wolfgang and his family disappeared, Harper's mom saying they moved to another town. As Harper grew into self-expression, she was bullied in classes for being queer, which she had no idea that she was even queer.  His parents' response were to withdraw Harper from this Catholic school and move into a new town for a public school. Luckily for Harper, it was the same town that Wolfgang and his family moved to! There, Harper was able to find out who she was and really find her own sense of self and style. 

When she grew older, she decided to move to America in 2010 for almost no reason— odd timing. She found Weltraum, a club inspired by Berlin and made it her regular spot to party on weekends. Wolfgang sends her new issues of her favorite magazines from Germany and they call each other over Skype almost daily until Wolfgang decided to spend a few seasons with her in America.  While at her time in Weltraum, Harper would see Charlie run in and out constantly on weekends. She observed how Charlie would glance and linger around her for a long period of time. One night, Charlie stole Harper's phone under a drunken game. She followed him to get his phone back and Charlie folded instantly when Harper cornered him. That night, Harper found Charlie's number written in her contact list. Their interest for each other grew as Harper would text with Charlie back and forth. She eventually asked Charlie to a date which made him throw up (he was mixing alcohol for hours).

Traits:
╰┈➤ Values her appearance and is very adamant about taking care of herself
╰┈➤ Self-preservation is a migh value, she won't involve herself in people's issues and keeps her problems and information to herself. Sometimes causes apathetic attitudes.
╰┈➤ Highly judgemental— first impressions are everything. If she doesn't like you, she won't say it but will show it.
╰┈➤ Has a very calming but short, blunt way of speaking to others. Very well thought out and articulated sentences
╰┈➤ Very strong spirit with a passion for deviating from the norm and challenging traditional ideas<
Music: Spotify Playlist
EBM, Electro-Industrial, Synthpop, Neue Deutsche Welle, Darkwave, and Industrial V-kei