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heerequeerandfulloffearPlayer Information
Name: (deadname removed 2023) Jordan / Pika
Age: 25
Contact: Discord at Bakurapika#4565
Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Jeremy Heere
Canon: Be More Chill (Musical)
Canon Point: A few months post-canon
Age: 17
History:
Jeremy Heere is and always has been a loser. Not even the fun kind of loser who you'd write a book about--more like a guy you wouldn't notice no matter how many times you passed him in a crowd. Life passed him by without so much as a "hello" unless it was actively trying to beat the crap out of him. Which life (in the form of height-challenged asshole Rich Goranski) did, repeatedly and gleefully. Jeremy's only escape was through fantasizing about his dream girl Christine, playing ancient Nintendo games, and getting stoned with his fellow loser Michael Mell.
In junior year of high school, Jeremy's life changed.
It started when Rich pulled him aside by the urinals in the school bathroom, promising not to beat him up if he bought some wonder drug from him called the SQUIP. Or, well, Rich was insistent that a SQUIP was not drugs. It was a Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor, a supercomputer that would install into Jeremy's own brain, fixing Jeremy's many flaws by instructing him directly.
Jeremy was dying for a solution and Rich gave it to him.
The SQUIP wasn't without its side effects. Sure, it got Jeremy tons of hot girls... who weren't Christine. It got him invited to parties... that went up in flames. It taught him how to make friends... and how to lose the one real friend he had, after the SQUIP calculated how dangerous Michael would be for its future.
But the SQUIP inarguably made Jeremy a more functional person, so Jeremy was totally (completely... maybe 80%) on board when the SQUIP suggested giving the pill to all his classmates. It was only after Christine got SQUIPped against her will that Jeremy realized the error of his ways.
It was too late for him until Michael burst in to save the day, having figured out how to disable the SQUIP using an obscure soft drink from the 1990s.
Somehow the road to recovery post-SQUIP was even harder for Jeremy than fixing his flaws had been, but he no longer had to go it alone. Michael and Jeremy's best-friendship was restored, Jeremy got a lunch date with his dream girl, and even Rich was reformed from being Jeremy's bully into acting like a pretty decent guy. (It turns out that one of the main symptoms of getting SQUIPped, aside from being controlled by an evil supercomputer, is acting like a douche. The jerkiness gets uninstalled when the SQUIP is. Who knew?)
The SQUIP's damage was already done. Its voice still echoes through Jeremy's head, becoming the anthropomorphization of Jeremy's worst anxiety and fears--only now, Jeremy knows that these worries aren't rational. He has a support network and a new understanding of himself and the world around him.
By the last half of his junior year, Jeremy knows that no matter who tries to control him and how, the only person responsible for his own actions is him.
Personality:
Jeremy has what can charitably be called a "nervous disposition." He doesn't tend to have a bigger-picture perspective of anything that happens to him--instead, he focuses on minutiae, obsessing over details that he can influence. He struggles to make personal decisions unless someone's actively influencing him one way or the other--a role first occupied by Michael and, soon, by the SQUIP. He's self-conscious to a fault. Post-SQUIP, he's learned to recognize when he's spiraling or getting too wrapped up in his own head and to cope more healthily when it happens.
Because of how much he throws himself into situations, he has an excitement for things he loves that is either annoying or infectious (depending on who's describing it).
Jeremy has generalized anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, seen in the way Jeremy wraps his head around concepts if they have clearly defined rules. Jeremy's first reaction to an unknown situation is usually "what am I supposed to do" instead of "what do I want to do." (The SQUIP knew this and thoroughly abused the concept by giving Jeremy an infinite list of rules and compulsions to follow.)
Because Jeremy tends to over-value how others see him, he comes across as nervous to new people, although he has learned post-SQUIP to stand up for himself when pushed. With close, trusted friends, Jeremy has a much less extreme personality-- friendly, goofy, humble, and kind.
Abilities & Skills:
Due to Jeremy's history with the SQUIP, he has an affinity for technology that borders on inhuman. He can do a few party tricks, like turning on the television with his mind.
The SQUIP gave Jeremy a crash-course on social manipulation. Jeremy isn't naturally charismatic, but he can "flip a switch" to shut down his own emotions and focus on the people around him if the situation requires.
Jeremy is naturally good at video games. He's great at sorting and categorizing information. He is self-consciously meticulous about doing anything he considers important. He's also amazing at rote memorization, which used to give him excellence as a SQUIP-follower and now is mostly used for learning lines at his school plays.
Inventory/Companions:
Jeremy has a backpack with the faded letters BOYF scrawled across it in sharpie. Inside are unfinished worksheets, both for school and from his therapist. He has a journal full of meticulous lists with assorted codes and tallies that only make sense to him. Various school supplies are littered in the backpack as well as two or three sticks of backup deodorant and a Hello Kitty beanie baby that Michael won for him at the arcade. He's wearing faded Converse sneakers and a Gameboy Color is in his pocket.
Choice: Witch
Reason: Jeremy's affinity for electrical energy may lend itself to evocation (and he will be curious about the workings and manipulation of magitech). Jeremy is already prone to exploding emotionally from pent-up self-created energy; the switch to magical energy will not be a large leap. Jeremy's canon and post-canon character development have focused on self-control so it will be an interesting challenge for him to have the limits of it tested.
Sample:
Sample 1 (September TDM)
Sample 2 (Private roleplay excerpt)
Name: (deadname removed 2023) Jordan / Pika
Age: 25
Contact: Discord at Bakurapika#4565
Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Jeremy Heere
Canon: Be More Chill (Musical)
Canon Point: A few months post-canon
Age: 17
History:
Jeremy Heere is and always has been a loser. Not even the fun kind of loser who you'd write a book about--more like a guy you wouldn't notice no matter how many times you passed him in a crowd. Life passed him by without so much as a "hello" unless it was actively trying to beat the crap out of him. Which life (in the form of height-challenged asshole Rich Goranski) did, repeatedly and gleefully. Jeremy's only escape was through fantasizing about his dream girl Christine, playing ancient Nintendo games, and getting stoned with his fellow loser Michael Mell.
In junior year of high school, Jeremy's life changed.
It started when Rich pulled him aside by the urinals in the school bathroom, promising not to beat him up if he bought some wonder drug from him called the SQUIP. Or, well, Rich was insistent that a SQUIP was not drugs. It was a Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor, a supercomputer that would install into Jeremy's own brain, fixing Jeremy's many flaws by instructing him directly.
Jeremy was dying for a solution and Rich gave it to him.
The SQUIP wasn't without its side effects. Sure, it got Jeremy tons of hot girls... who weren't Christine. It got him invited to parties... that went up in flames. It taught him how to make friends... and how to lose the one real friend he had, after the SQUIP calculated how dangerous Michael would be for its future.
But the SQUIP inarguably made Jeremy a more functional person, so Jeremy was totally (completely... maybe 80%) on board when the SQUIP suggested giving the pill to all his classmates. It was only after Christine got SQUIPped against her will that Jeremy realized the error of his ways.
It was too late for him until Michael burst in to save the day, having figured out how to disable the SQUIP using an obscure soft drink from the 1990s.
Somehow the road to recovery post-SQUIP was even harder for Jeremy than fixing his flaws had been, but he no longer had to go it alone. Michael and Jeremy's best-friendship was restored, Jeremy got a lunch date with his dream girl, and even Rich was reformed from being Jeremy's bully into acting like a pretty decent guy. (It turns out that one of the main symptoms of getting SQUIPped, aside from being controlled by an evil supercomputer, is acting like a douche. The jerkiness gets uninstalled when the SQUIP is. Who knew?)
The SQUIP's damage was already done. Its voice still echoes through Jeremy's head, becoming the anthropomorphization of Jeremy's worst anxiety and fears--only now, Jeremy knows that these worries aren't rational. He has a support network and a new understanding of himself and the world around him.
By the last half of his junior year, Jeremy knows that no matter who tries to control him and how, the only person responsible for his own actions is him.
Personality:
Jeremy has what can charitably be called a "nervous disposition." He doesn't tend to have a bigger-picture perspective of anything that happens to him--instead, he focuses on minutiae, obsessing over details that he can influence. He struggles to make personal decisions unless someone's actively influencing him one way or the other--a role first occupied by Michael and, soon, by the SQUIP. He's self-conscious to a fault. Post-SQUIP, he's learned to recognize when he's spiraling or getting too wrapped up in his own head and to cope more healthily when it happens.
Because of how much he throws himself into situations, he has an excitement for things he loves that is either annoying or infectious (depending on who's describing it).
Jeremy has generalized anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, seen in the way Jeremy wraps his head around concepts if they have clearly defined rules. Jeremy's first reaction to an unknown situation is usually "what am I supposed to do" instead of "what do I want to do." (The SQUIP knew this and thoroughly abused the concept by giving Jeremy an infinite list of rules and compulsions to follow.)
Because Jeremy tends to over-value how others see him, he comes across as nervous to new people, although he has learned post-SQUIP to stand up for himself when pushed. With close, trusted friends, Jeremy has a much less extreme personality-- friendly, goofy, humble, and kind.
Abilities & Skills:
Due to Jeremy's history with the SQUIP, he has an affinity for technology that borders on inhuman. He can do a few party tricks, like turning on the television with his mind.
The SQUIP gave Jeremy a crash-course on social manipulation. Jeremy isn't naturally charismatic, but he can "flip a switch" to shut down his own emotions and focus on the people around him if the situation requires.
Jeremy is naturally good at video games. He's great at sorting and categorizing information. He is self-consciously meticulous about doing anything he considers important. He's also amazing at rote memorization, which used to give him excellence as a SQUIP-follower and now is mostly used for learning lines at his school plays.
Inventory/Companions:
Jeremy has a backpack with the faded letters BOYF scrawled across it in sharpie. Inside are unfinished worksheets, both for school and from his therapist. He has a journal full of meticulous lists with assorted codes and tallies that only make sense to him. Various school supplies are littered in the backpack as well as two or three sticks of backup deodorant and a Hello Kitty beanie baby that Michael won for him at the arcade. He's wearing faded Converse sneakers and a Gameboy Color is in his pocket.
Choice: Witch
Reason: Jeremy's affinity for electrical energy may lend itself to evocation (and he will be curious about the workings and manipulation of magitech). Jeremy is already prone to exploding emotionally from pent-up self-created energy; the switch to magical energy will not be a large leap. Jeremy's canon and post-canon character development have focused on self-control so it will be an interesting challenge for him to have the limits of it tested.
Sample:
Sample 1 (September TDM)
Sample 2 (Private roleplay excerpt)
