Dakota

Full name: Dakota Mei Love

Name meaning: Dakota; friend, friendly, ally. Mei; beautiful Love; to love

Nickname(s): Kota, Dakota Mei (by their mother)

General info

Age and Birthdate: 18, April 8th (Aries, Diamond/Opal)

Gender: Non-binary

Orientation: Demisexual/Demiromantic

Nationality: American

Voice: Somewhat loud and enthusiastic, but still soft sounding.

Physical Appearance

Ethnicity and Skin tone: Asian/Caucasian, medium toned.

Hair color and style: Short and colored a light green (originally brown)

Eye color: Gray (left) / gray/clouded (right, cataract)

Body type: Curvy

Height: 5'2 ft

Body Modifications: Earrings and septum

Clothing style: Rainbows! Loves bright clothing and cute fashion.

Accessories: Rainbow roller skates, pastel longboard, rainbow kneepads & elbow pads, Kandi bracelets, multicolored bandaids, rainbow animal hat, glowsticks.

Physical Description

Dakota is androgynous, with medium toned skin, curvy body, green colored hair that's styled in a short side buzzcut that covers one eye and round eye. One of their eyes is gray, the other is more clouded due to cataract. They enjoy wearing glitter makeup, band-aids, colorful clothing and wearing 'Kandi' bracelets of different colors. They stand rather short, at only 5'2 ft.  They're curvy - especially their legs, mainly because they roller skate.

About

Personality:

+ Friendly, tolerant, caring, optimistic, adventurous, energetic, curious, enthusiastic, humorous.

- Disorganized, irresponsible, emotional, childish, obsessive, naive, weak-willed, hopeless romantic, anxious.

♥ Likes:

Rainbows, rave fashion, longboarding/skateboarding, roller skating, candy, video games, anime, the 1990s, happy hardcore, EDM, colorful clothing, pastels, stuffed animals (collects them), rats.

x  Dislikes:

Fighting and yelling, bullies, bigotry, the color gray, horror, slow music, sad movies.

Pet(s): Two dumbo rats named Squeaks and Squeakers

Hobbies: Longboarding & skateboarding, roller skating, video games and, music.

Occupation: Waiter at a roller skate drive in

Theme Song(s): Any S3RL song, basically

Biggest fears:  

- the dark

- going fully blind

- losing Axel

Dreams/Aspirations:

- find a steady job

- find love

- go to a rave (and have fun)

Favorites:

Foods: Candy! Of any kind

Drinks: Koolaid (Blue Raspberry)

Animals: Rats

Color: All of them! (rainbows)

Season: Spring

Music Genre: Happy hardcore and EDM

Backstory:

Dakota was the youngest of two children and was born to a middle-class family. Life was normal for Dakota, with caring but protective parents and a brother they found annoying. However, they were different than other kids, causing bullying. The older boys liked to target Dakota. One day, while being targeted, a bully punched them in the eye, causing damage and later trauma cataracts in their right eye. Not soon after this, their family made the decision to move. Traumatized by the incident, they became more timid and shy.

After the move, they met Axel. At this time, he was just a normal, friendly kid and didn't treat Dakota bad like the other kids. They quickly became friends.

As Dakota aged, they started to open up more because of therapy and medication. Putting on a happy and energetic persona. They developed a love for all things rainbow and cute. Dakota and Axel stayed friends, even after he embraced his goth side. They continued to support and be his friend no matter how different they both are. They support Axel and his art, his style and music taste.

Facts and design notes  

Facts

- they hate the color gray. because of this, they don't like their eye color. they find it dull and boring- especially compared to blue or green eyes.

- roller skates and knows how to skateboard

- covers their cataract eye with hair

- mother is Asian(Chinese), father is caucasian

- hangs Axel's art on their walls, no matter how creepy some of the drawings are.

- they're terrible at names. (hence why their rats are named squeaker and squeak). they also named their penny board Rollie and their skates Skaties. 

Design notes

- shaved hair sides

- rainbow socks

- really just rainbow everything

- bandaids

- glitter makeup

- kandi bracelets

- overalls