Get to know PHOEBE CARUSO who’s TWENTY-TWO years old and a JUNIOR in college majoring in MUSIC. She is from ITALY and is often times mistaken for MADELYN CLINE while others say she reminds them of PHANTASMA from SCOOBY DOO & THE GHOUL SCHOOL
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daughter of an accomplished opera singer, most of her childhood was spent going to his performances at various opera houses around italy. she herself wasn’t much of a singer but she still absolutely loved music. she knew how to play most of the instruments her father kept around the house but her absolute favorite was the organ. as she got older, she even started playing it for her father’s operas.
then, she died. she claims not to remember much about the day she died, she just knows it had something to do with a fire and it involved one of her father’s enemies. she likes to believe that it was just an accident, they just got carried away. surely, they weren’t meaning to hurt her and her father.
her father had a different outlook on it and was incredibly angry. he lost everything. his life, his home, his career. and so, he began haunting the opera houses around italy. he’s proud of the reputation he has as the terrifying specter that haunts the opera houses. “enter at your own peril,” the tour guide warns menacingly as they lead a group pass one of the buildings. he truly seems to enjoy scaring people.
phoebe... doesn’t. she doesn’t want to scare anyone, she just wants to play her music. it was her death that she actually began to compose her own music, it was always something she had wanted to do when she was alive but never got the chance to. now? she had an entire afterlife to learn! for years, her father was the only one who would listen. anyone else she would try to play her songs for would just run, either because her father scared them off or they were just scared of her.
then, her whole life changed (again) when she was invited to study at miss grimwood’s finishing school for girls. it was under her watchful eye that phoebe was finally able to perfect her music and play for someone other than her father. and she was able to actually make connections with other people, with girls who were in the same predicament as hers.
soon enough though, playing for the other students at grimwood got old. she felt like she wasn’t truly progressing as an artist. so, when the opportunity arose for the girls to move to corona, she took it. being able to play her music in a new place alongside her closest (and only) friends? sign her up! she’s worked on controlling and perfecting her powers, even tangibility. it can be a little exhausting at times but it’s worth it to her.
One might think that due to her circumstances, Phoebe would be a very gloomy girl but she's far from it. She's just as excitable and playful as she was when she was alive, always eager to meet new people. She has no interest in scaring people like her father, she wants to make people happy. Whether it's through her music or just her positive attitude! She is a little sensitive to rejection - especially if it's due to them being scared of her. It just... breaks her heart.
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most of the music she's composed over the years has been classical, it's all she's ever really been exposed to. since arriving at corona though and being introduced to various "modern" genres, she's started to branch out a bit. she still vastly prefers classical but she doesn't look down on modern music. she especially likes jazz.
loves musicals!!! she thinks they're so fun and is often in the front seat at the university's productions - even if the performances don't match up to the originals. she finds phantom of the opera a little humorous - considering her father is a literal phantom of the opera. it just makes her giggle.
she is absolutely fascinated by a lot of modern things. most of them she hadn't seen before attending grimwood, some she hadn't even seen before her arrival in corona. she has so many questions about them. how do they work? what are they used for? what is the point? her personal favorite is the flip phone. she's had people try to show her smart phones before but she just... doesn't get it. she also just likes the snap the flip phone makes when you close it. it pleases her.
as homesick as she gets sometimes, she doesn't think she'll ever really move back home. not unless her father's outlook changes and he stops haunting people. she doesn't think she could truly handle going back to where everyone just fears her and runs away. she's not sure how to break this to her father though - who she has yet to tell this.
despite not wishing to scare anyone, she still absolutely adores halloween. everything about it. carving pumpkins, cobwebs, plastic skeletons. it all just reminds her of grimwood's and helps her when she's missing it.
