#nyccyearbook

writing prompt: whatever is going on here

Ashley Eckstein

Poster on the wall: New Kids on the Block

Food fight food: Cupcakes

Theater kid moment: Starring as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker

Advice for high school self: You're more than one thing. You can have multiple dreams, and you can make them all come true.

Student council platform: [As senior class vice president] I platformed for the truth of what I could achieve. We actually planned our very first senior day, and with that we raised money as a class that we donated to the Ronald McDonald House.

High school movie title: Dreaming It and Doing It

Cissy Jones & Sarah-Nicole Robles

Most Likely To: Live Laugh Love

Vico Ortiz | Tumblr Yearbook

Rhys Darby

Posters on your wall growing up: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Teenage Rhys-Con: Sports, video games, British comedy

Catchphrase: Watch out world, here I come.

Where are you eating lunch: On the field, underneath the tree

Why do you have detention: I was very disruptive in class. Despite all the laughter, it's worth it.

What're you doing after school: Air Force training, with the cadets.

Favorite meal: Ham steak and pineapple

Vico Ortiz

Posters on your wall growing up: Star Wars and dragons. When I was a teenager, I actually drew flowers on my walls. I made a whole little flower bed around my room. It was really sweet.

Food fight food: Something that's not going to turn me into a murderer. A banana, maybe, or a plantain. 

High school fashion statement: I wasn't big with fashion when I was in high school. When I was in high school, I was not really sure who I was. I was trying to figure out how do I fit in, and I was trying to follow like what I was supposed to look like or what was like society telling me. For the longest time, I kind of felt like things never really fit right. Things for either too tight or too loose. And it never really felt right. It wasn't until my twenties and I was like, “Oh, okay, this feels like a bit more aligned with myself.” If you see photos of me in high school, there's a lot of like baggy shirts and baggy jeans.

What would teenage Vico-Con include: A lot of dragons. A hyperfixation on swords and lightsabers.  I actually had a journal that I doodled all the different types of lightsaber handles from all the different Star Wars characters, and then I could mash up the storylines.  Star Wars, dragons, fairies, elves, and magic. I love magic. Magic in general. And swords, just like, sharp objects.

📸: Rob Douthat

Sarah-Nicole Robles out of context.

Sean Gunn

First thing you remember being a fan of: Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica

Posters on your wall growing up: I definitely had the Fonz at some point. I also had a poster for the Steve Martin movie, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. I always had to share rooms with my older brothers, so I would I would have to defer to their posters, really more than anything.

How you rebelled: I would do things with my hair a lot, like shaved the sides and the back of my hair and then leave the top long or or shave weird stuff into it. And I used to wear I used to wear purple every single day for some reason.

Your high school experience as a film title: Why So Angry?

High school experience credit song:

Student government platform: Free stuff. I think actually, honestly, though, my platform would be, "Hey, let's try to get along better with our rivals." And then I'd get food and stuff thrown at me because I didn't want to get into a fight with the school from across town.

Advice you'd write in your high school yearbook: Dude, chill out. Everything is going to be fine. Just. Just take it easy.

📸: Emeline Lotherington