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✧ Birth Name: Sophia Laforteza

✧ Soph, Phi Phi, Baby Star, Glitter Girl

✧ Birthday: December 31, 2002

✧ Orientation: Bisexual

✧ Status: Single

✧ Sorority: Alpha Phi

✧ Year: Sophomore

✧ Major: Performing Arts

✧ Occupation: Children's party entertainer + Student

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✧ Sophia Laforteza is vibrant, expressive, and impossible to overlook. She has a naturally magnetic personality. It's something warm, animated, and socially effortless, which makes her perfect as Alpha Phi’s social chair. She thrives in busy environments, loves meeting new people, and has a habit of turning everyday moments into something theatrical. Emotional and expressive, she feels things deeply and rarely hides it, whether she's laughing too loudly at a joke or dramatically spiraling over something small. She's naturally flirtatious and affectionate, often making people feel special without even realizing how strongly she comes across.

She's also very much a party girl, drawn to loud music, late nights, themed parties, and the chaos of being surrounded by people she loves. Sophia enjoys the freedom and energy of it all, often the one convincing everyone to stay out longer or dance a little harder. Beneath the glittery social life, though, she's surprisingly driven and hardworking, balancing sorority leadership, her performing arts studies, and her children's party job with determination. She's playful and dramatic on the surface, but underneath she carries ambition, insecurity, and a deep desire to be taken seriously as a performer one day on Broadway.

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Sophia Laforteza grew up in a noisy little house where someone was always singing. Her mother worked as a dance instructor for children, and her father played piano at a small jazz lounge downtown a few nights a week. Money was never abundant, but creativity filled every corner of their home. Costumes hung over chairs, old playbills covered the walls, and Sophia spent most of her childhood performing dramatic concerts in the living room for anyone willing to watch.

From the time she was little, Sophia loved becoming someone else: princesses, witches, fairies, pirates. She slipped into characters so naturally that even some adults found themselves enchanted by her performances. At school plays, she was always the lead role. During family gatherings, she forced her cousins into makeshift productions she directed herself. Acting wasn't just a hobby to her; it felt like breathing.

Despite her bright personality, Sophia learned early on that dreams were expensive. Her parents supported her passions endlessly, though there were many nights her mother stayed up sewing costumes by hand because they couldn't afford professional ones. Sophia noticed every sacrifice, though. Instead of discouraging her, it only made her work harder. She auditioned for every local theater production she could find, took voice lessons whenever the family could afford them, and spent hours studying old Broadway performances online.

When she was accepted into a top university's performing arts program, it felt like the first real step toward the life she had imagined for herself since childhood. By sophomore year, Sophia had become one of the recognizable girls on campus. She joined Alpha Phi during freshman year and quickly built a reputation for being magnetic, outgoing, and sociable. Her energy made her a perfect fit for social chair, where she organized mixers, themed parties, philanthropy events, and campus collaborations with effortless charm. She genuinely loved bringing people together and creating experiences people would remember.

Still, college life wasn't cheap, especially for a performing arts major constantly needing dance shoes, costumes, vocal lessons, and audition money. To help support herself, Sophia took on a job that unexpectedly became one of the most meaningful parts of her life: a children's party entertainment.

Every weekend, she transformed into whatever character a child dreamed of meeting. One day she could be a sparkling princess singing fairytale songs at a tea party, and the next she might be a mischievous animated villain leading games and making balloon animals. Sophia committed herself fully to every role, no matter how silly or exhausting it seemed.

She remembered exactly what it felt like to believe magic was real as a child, and she wanted to give that feeling to others. Parents adored her professionalism and warmth, while children became completely captivated by her performances.

Behind the glitter makeup, curled wigs, and bright smile, however, Sophia carried a quiet fear of failure. Broadway remained the dream, but she knew how unforgiving the entertainment industry could be. There were countless girls who could sing, dance, and act just as well as she could. Sometimes, after late rehearsals or long nights cleaning up after sorority events, she found herself wondering if passion alone would ever be enough to make her stand out.

Even so, Sophia refuses to let herself become cynical. She lives loudly, laughs easily, and throws herself wholeheartedly into every role she's given, whether it’s entertaining children at birthday parties, organizing campus events, or performing beneath stage lights during university productions. To her, every audience matters... Every performance matters. Because somewhere deep down, Sophia still believes the little girl singing in her living room will someday see her name glowing across a Broadway marquee.

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♥ Likes:

✧ Musical theater
✧ Karaoke nights
✧ Glittery makeup looks
✧ Themed parties
✧ Strawberry lemonade
✧ Applause after performances
✧ Romantic movies
✧ Dancing in crowded rooms
✧ Collecting playbills
✧ Dramatic love songs
✧ Making kids smile at parties

✗ Dislikes:

✧ Being underestimated
✧ Early morning classes
✧ Feeling ignored
✧ Boring routines
✧ Cheap costume wigs
✧ Rejection at auditions
✧ People who look down on party girls
✧ Seeing her friends upset
✧ Burnout and exhaustion

☁ Habits:

✧ Singing under her breath constantly
✧ Talking with her hands
✧ Practicing expressions in mirrors
✧ Staying up way too late
✧ Taking blurry photos on nights out
✧ Quoting musicals randomly
✧ Overcommitting herself
✧ Humming while getting ready
✧ Fixing her hair when nervous

☽ Hobbies:

✧ Acting
✧ Singing
✧ Dancing
✧ Costume styling
✧ Choreographing routines
✧ Planning social events
✧ Watching old Broadway performances
✧ Thrifting outfits
✧ Performing at children's birthday parties
✧ Making playlists for different moods and characters

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✧ "Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Let me lead you from your solitude. Say you need me with you, here beside you. Anywhere you go, let me go too." — The Phantom of the Opera

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✧ POV: 3rd is preferred, but I'll accept 1st

✧ Please do not poke me unless it has been a week since I replied.

✧ If something comes up, I always try to reach out to my rp partners to let them know.

✧ I am not my characters. So, if my character has a problem with yours, please understand that it does /not/ reflect my personal feelings for you as a person.

✧ If we have issues OOC, please refrain from unnecessary IC drama. If you prefer to completely stay away from each other, that's fine; however, please remain cordial, otherwise. I'll do the same.

✧ I prefer to plot over winging it - or at least give me a base to start with.

✧ Anything to do with threesomes (or more), poly, etc are not welcome. I have trauma from poly, and I just have no interest in the rest. So, please do not include my characters.

✧ Making friends throughout rp has always been a goal of mine, so if you are interested, let's be friends! :)