George Nepenthe

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History: Quiri grew up with his father, Austin. He was once a hardworking businessman until his company went bankrupt; this was when Quiri was only one year old. Since then, his mother became the breadwinner of the family, running multiple jobs day and night, coming home only to sleep and eat for a few hours. Due to the limited budget however, it was decided that Austin, the one who was unsuccessful at getting a new job and was always home, was to teach their only son education while Jennifer, Quiri's mother, worked. Quiri's life wasn't exactly luxurious or free, since everything he owned was second-hand and cheap while having barely any moneyto spend or need to go outside, and only had his father's prized shoujo manga collection as reading materials to pass time. Now, Austin had a peculiar hobby of sewing cosplay outfits. Deciding it wasn't bad for another member of the household to know how to mend clothing, he passed on his skills of creating maid costumes and princess dresses from leftover fabric and tattered clothing remains as one of the mandatory subjects of homeschooling along with English and Math and all that. Then he proceeded to put them on Quiri, saying it was a waste to throw them away.

The big change came when Quiri was seven, when someone had seen him in his usual little cosplay outfit. they were very interested in buying and ordering various outfits and seeing it as an opportunity, Austin agreed to work on it. They were soon selling millions of outfits, and Quiri had to help out whenever he can, leading them to open a small online shop as well. Their funds gradually increased, and Quiri was able to see Jennifer at home more without a dreadfully tired face. By this point, Quiri had accustomed to wearing the pretty sailor uniforms and dresses. He knew it wasn't befitting to his gender, but since his parents didn't oppose it, he kept them on.

The Nephenthe family struck crisis once again when they could afford to give Quiri a chance to learn at a school [his parents strongly believed interacting with others is a necessary aspect of growing up]. First day back from school, Quiri was a mess; a shoe deformed, clothes tattered, stuff gone. He didn't understand why he was bullied, but his parents realized what the problem was; his clothing. They were so used to the idea that they forgot how the community may react. It may have been fine since he was indistinguishable to a girl, but his name had ticked off many.

The next day Quiri was dressed in a boy's clothing much to his uncomfort after wearing dresses and blouses for so long, but the news had spread far and wide; everyone in the school saw him as a freak who cross-dresses. He was bullied and called names at school, which dampened his personality. His parents provided little help in solving this, and so did the staffs; rereading the shoujo manga about a bullied heroine becoming a couple with the prettiest boy made him keep going, and madehis life a little more bearable.

Quiri decided to start his own web idol blog when he was ten, not so long after the Digimon Incident; while Digimons gave the boy a new found hope, he wasn't brave enough at the time to actively look for ways to enter the Digital World or befriend a Digimon before it was too late. The idea to become a web idol hit Quiri after he got a peculiar text message. In it was an app which turned out to be Digimon who had snuck itself into the Net when the last gateway to the Digital World had closed. They talked to each other with text messages, and soon became good friends. It wasn't long before the Digimon knew what Quiri had really wanted through the texts, and suggested to become a web idol. He got into his favourite dresses and took a photo of himself, knowing the perfect angle and posture to take from the little tips from his father and the hundreds of images he had to take and pose for the online clothing shop; he just had to make sure his face wasn't visible, in case people recognized him. He used a pen name Quiri from Daiquiri, a cocktail which was a major drink from a shoujo manga he loved... since he couldn't exactly use his real name in fear of people judging him again.

The blog was a huge success, gaining popularity in a short time, and Quiri eventually found himself taking photos of places he go to, things he eat and attire he wears, commenting and uploading them on his blog. The more he did so, the stronger his escapism grew, often going to his blog and dressing up as a refuge from reality.

Quiri started to hate his real name, George, as it held bitter memories of the past as well as the fact that it was a name that was binding him to reality. It came to a point where he introduced himself as Quiri to everyone, eventually to the point where only his parents would call him by his real name. They were happy for him to have found a place in the society, and eventually gave in to calling him Quiri too.

In the current day, the thirteen year old Quiri has no problem posting images of himself, face and all. His personality also grew to be bolder than before; once he accepted the fact that he wished to live for himself and himself alone, it was easy to shrug off the past and start anew, as Quiri. When things were rough, he had his partner Digimon who was now able to materialize with the aid of the D-Hack App that appeared on his phone when the rumours of Digimons being sighted once more started going around.

RP Sample: Have fun reading.