Poll: Name the Artist Roommate (Patreon)

Feel free to read this character brief before picking the name you like the best. Voting ends at midnight Next Friday:

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An art school dropout, she always thinks she's the coolest person in the room, & often, the smartest. Irony-poisoned, brassy, & sarcastic, she takes pride in only liking things most people have never even heard of, & telling you the stuff you have is all washed & passe at this point. The thing is, at this point, she realizes these are all terrible personality traits, & she's desperately trying to change her ways, but fears she may already be too far gone. She's always been a bit of a tomboy with a strong, independent streak. She's been coming to the city ever since she was a teenager. Now, she seems horrifically out of place anywhere other than the confines of her own neighborhood.

She's got art for sale, but no one's buying her... unique, often gynecologically inspired pieces. So she earns scratch working at an artesanal bake shop by day, the type of place she rails against for "ruining the neighborhood's character," but is secretly thankful to have. By night, she gets paid under the table tending bar at a pop-up (ie unlicensed & not legal) cool kids bar certain nights of the week. And while both take up a decent chunk of her time, she sometimes has a hard time sleeping, meaning she's up on her phone, online, into the wee hours of the night.

She tries to take her nerdier roommate under her wing, to help her survive in the big city, & to develop her tastes into things like arthouse cinema & live shows. She sees this almost as community service. Ultimately, they like a lot of similar music, & are both lowkey foodies. Meanwhile, she is the one that often provokes a lot of the drama with her other roommate, whom she often likes getting a rise out of.

She enjoys exploring thrift shops. Her bedroom shows signs of hoarding tendencies. She played bass guitar in a crappy pop punk style band in high school. She claims (& often hassles people with the fact) that she is vegan, but she constantly "slips up," often when no one seems to be looking. While she walks & bikes everywhere, she has a tendency to put on weight a bit easily. She likes girls & is open to a bit of rough stuff. Hidden under a floorboard next to her bed is a small sketchbook that may or may not be mostly full of possibly erotic drawings of a certain someone she lives with.