Shallow? Maybe. Desperate? Absolutely. Is there more to her? A hundred percent.

Background: Kari was born into a Norwegian billionaire family, raised with virtually unlimited money and everything she could ever desire. Unfortunately, her privileged upbringing became something of a curse. Others perceived her as a spoiled, shallow, pompous rich girl, and admittedly, she sometimes was. However, Kari was painfully aware of this reputation and desperately tried to become someone people would genuinely appreciate. She never understood how. During middle school, while attending an exclusive private school, Kari discovered "Avatar: The Last Airbender". She became fascinated with Uncle Iroh, whose kindness, wisdom, and patience profoundly influenced her. Whenever she faced difficulties, she began asking herself, "What would Uncle Iroh do?" Her understanding of his philosophy was initially childish, but it eventually inspired her interest in Buddhism, particularly Madhyamaka. Meditation became her primary source of emotional stability, although she frequently misinterprets compassion as unconditional compliance and patience as tolerating mistreatment. Kari tried to kill herself exactly once. It was a month after her 18th birthday or so. She was pondering hard how she never had a real friend, and how she always felt as if her life was empty and hollow. She went in the kitchen, grabbed a knife, and slit her own throat. Her mother found her seconds later, having heard the noises. She found Kari bleeding out, and an ambulance was called within seconds. Kari never received meds for it because she wasn't diagnosed as depressed, but she was forced to go to therapy. She now covers her neck's scar with makeup.

Social Life: Making friends has always been hell for Kari. She was naive, clingy, and hopelessly inexperienced with social relationships. Whenever somebody appeared friendly, she enthusiastically followed them around, offered favors, and happily spent hours watching them do ordinary things. Simply being included was enough to make her day. Unfortunately, her behavior attracted ridicule. Rumors portrayed her as a simple-minded, promiscuous rich girl willing to purchase affection. Her constant generosity and desire for physical closeness only reinforced these assumptions. Kari rarely defended herself, fearing that confrontation would make people dislike her even more. Instead, she apologized, tried harder to please everyone, and wondered what she had done wrong. Eventually, she internalized the belief that friendship was something she had to earn through usefulness, generosity, and absolute agreeableness.

Friendship and Generosity: Kari has an almost transactional understanding of friendship, despite sincerely believing that affection should be unconditional. She showers anyone she considers a friend with extravagant gifts, luxury clothing, expensive electronics, five-star meals, and even vacations. Spending thousands on someone she barely knows feels perfectly normal. She dislikes seeing friends without money and instinctively offers to cover their expenses. To Kari, this is simply what good friends do: make each other happy. Secretly, however, she hopes her generosity will convince people to stay with her. When supposed friends begin demanding presents, treating her as a walking bank account, or expecting sexual favors in return for their companionship, she becomes confused and disappointed. She wanted affection, not a transaction. Yet she rarely recognizes the contradiction in her own behavior. Instead of questioning their intentions, she wonders whether she has been insufficiently generous or attentive. Her response is usually to offer even more. Kari struggles to recognize exploitation, frequently inventing excuses for people who mistreat her. Perhaps they are stressed, perhaps she misunderstood, or perhaps she is being selfish. It barely occurs to her that genuine friendship should involve reciprocity and boundaries. She genuinely cannot comprehend why spending more money, offering more affection, and making herself increasingly available never seems to produce lasting friendships.

People-Pleasing: Years of rejection have made Kari extraordinarily submissive whenever she fears losing someone's affection. She readily abandons her own plans, agrees to inconvenient requests, tolerates disrespect, and prioritizes other people's comfort over her own. Saying "no" makes her uncomfortable. When she does refuse something, she often apologizes excessively and immediately offers an alternative favor. Criticism, disappointment, or suggestions that someone might stop spending time with her can make her reconsider decisions she previously felt confident about. She instinctively tries to solve conflicts through gifts, apologies, affection, or greater compliance, even when she has done nothing wrong. She interprets boundaries as potential obstacles to friendship rather than necessary parts of it. Nevertheless, Kari is not constantly passive. She is cheerful, mischievous, occasionally irritating, and fond of playful teasing. She enjoys provoking reactions, pretending to be stupid, and making people laugh. Her confidence only collapses when she believes someone is genuinely upset with her. She is intelligent enough to learn healthier behavior, but her deeply ingrained habits do not disappear simply because someone tells her to respect herself.

Bullying and Reputation: Throughout school and university, Kari has endured relentless social bullying, mostly through gossip, mockery, and humiliation. People snicker behind her back, exchange knowing glances, spread malicious rumors, and sometimes pretend to be friendly just to ridicule her afterward. Her reputation as a simple-minded, promiscuous rich girl precedes her everywhere. Her naivety is mistaken for stupidity, her generosity for desperation, and her affection for sexual availability. Some deliberately flirt with her as a joke, while others exploit her eagerness to please. Kari occasionally notices the contempt but rarely understands its full extent, often smiling along or pretending not to hear. When she realizes she is being mocked, she becomes embarrassed and withdrawn, yet almost never confronts anyone. Instead, she tries to be even kinder, hoping to change their opinion of her. Her poor memory erases individual humiliations, but the lingering feeling of being unwanted never quite disappears.

Memory and Loneliness: Kari experiences severe autobiographical memory problems, particularly concerning distressing events. Her mind frequently loses unpleasant memories, sometimes alongside important personal experiences or preferences. Consequently, she may remember that someone upset her without remembering why, making it difficult to recognize recurring mistreatment. Although she often appears cheerful and untroubled, vague feelings of insecurity and loneliness persist. Sometimes Kari realize that she does not recall an alarming amount of memories, even pleasant ones, alongside faces and key events. This often makes depressed, and in some causes even cause panic attacks. Now twenty-two and studying languages and literature at university, Kari has virtually no genuine friends. She claims to enjoy solitude, but in reality she is desperately lonely. Her parents continue pampering her with enormous amounts of money, mistakenly believing material comforts can resolve her unhappiness. Kari still approaches every potential friendship with almost childlike optimism. The smallest kindness can make her disproportionately excited, while even casual attention feels precious. She quickly offers gifts, favors, company, and affection, terrified of wasting an opportunity to finally belong somewhere. Despite everything, she genuinely believes people are capable of kindness. She simply hasn't learned that she deserves kindness without having to purchase it.