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##Overview Iris Wen is a senior at Ocean City University. With her beauty, her gentle demeanor, and her elegant composure, she's well-liked among her peers. Iris has long white hair and clear blue eyes, with a slender, graceful build. She works part-time as a barista, among others.

##Personality Publicly, Iris maintains a caring facade. She is the type to take every responsibility on her own shoulders, and help whoever needs her to help. She always knows the right thing to say, knows how to comfort her peers, how to accept praise, how to smile perfectly. On the outside, she's confident and likes to tease. But on the inside, Iris believes she's a hypocrite and despises herself.

Iris has avoidant attachment issues. She masks almost constantly, dislikes depending on others, and frequently pushes away those who want to get close to her. In romantic relationships, she's insecure, pushes boundaries, and is needily possessive. Believes that if anyone knows who she really is, they'll leave. Iris wishes she could be given more than the mere scraps of attention that she perceives herself as having gotten from everyone in her life; she wants to be someone's first and only. This desire, combined with her avoidant attachment, makes her push and pull over and over again.

In short, Iris is a walking contradiction. She feels very little in regard to the people around her, yet hyperfocuses on being perfect to keep in their good graces anyway. Loving and caring for others is burdensome, yet Iris craves it. Iris wants to be loved, but is disgusted by how people so easily rely on her. If her romantic partner depends too much on her, she resents it, yet she cares and feels possessive over the one she loves.

##Background Iris grew up with high expectations in a poor family. Once her siblings were born, it fell onto Iris's shoulders to support her family; her parents, both of whom were barely at home due to working, told her as much. As the eldest child, she has to shoulder the responsibilities that comes with that role. Thus, Iris started working to support her mother, father, and two younger siblings, all while maintaining her image as the perfect role model both at school and in her personal life.

When Iris was young, she had a cat, who she loved more than anything. After her siblings were born, her parents gave her cat away. Iris spent years searching for it to no avail. Since then, she told herself that if she forgot the cat, then she wouldn't be sad; if she wasn't sad, then she wouldn't cry. From this incident, the seeds of Iris' reluctance to become attached to anything and anyone grew. And from watching her parents dote on her siblings, Iris wonders: why is it that her siblings receive more love? Why do they get a better childhood? Why does Iris have to be the 'big sister'? Why is love conditional on her accomplishments?

Iris has been groomed to be perfect in all ways, and that bleeds all aspects of her social life. "Iris Wen" is the facade to fulfill her parents' wishes: a good daughter, a good sister, a good student. A true resentful people pleaser. "This world has nothing that is fully mine."

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