ehmrandt, aphrodite lynn

[Aphrodite Lynn Ehmrandt]

APHRODITE EHMRANDT

full name Aphrodite Lynn Ehmrandt
nicknames Aph, Aphy
type Original
gender Female
age Seventeen
birthday August sixteenth
group Neutral
clique Band geek
grade Junior
sexuality Heterosexual
occupation Musician
face claim Kerti Pahk
alias Nova

persona
Heartbroken, reminiscent, insecure, quiet, pessimistic, selectively oblivious, reserved, musically oriented, loyal, sympathetic, dependent, kind, sensitive, honest, doubtful, introverted, cautious, committed, expressive, stubborn.l)

life
Consistence can be considered a blessing for those who find that change only brings about bad luck. Such a saying applies to the live of Aphrodite Ehmrandt. She was born to Geraldine and Henry Emmahaust on August sixteenth, and they told her that the moment they saw her, they had this epiphany that Aphrodite would be the perfect name for her. To this very day, she doesn’t think she’ll ever be able to understand how they foresaw love and beauty in her future, but she won’t question the blinding effects of parental love on one’s ability to perceive reality. Contrary to popular expectation, she is not so dreadfully lacking in confidence that she doesn’t believe she’ll ever find love. She certainly lacks faith in herself, but what matters more is the fact that the only boy she has ever loved and ever will love is gone.

To make matters a little less confusing, it is necessary to turn back the pendulum. Her childhood was normal. No confusion about that. Some people like books. Others like sports. Aphrodite loves music. She hummed and sang before she could speak; she knew how to properly hold a guitar before she could walk; she knew the C-scale before she knew the alphabet. Music was practically her life. She’ll also vouch for the fact that it was just about that only thing that she was particularly good at. Schoolwork was never really her forte. The stuff she studied just wouldn’t stick in her head, and she can’t apply knowledge that she doesn’t have for tests. Sports were never really her thing either. Her stamina was rather low, her aim when throwing was always a little off, and her strength was lacking. That only left the arts, and of the several factions that art can be subdivided into, music was what she loved the most. She was always told that she was a young prodigy when it came to music, and it seemed befitting. She began learning a few instruments at once when she was only in grade school, and now, she’ll proudly stake claim to be familiar with string instruments like those you’d find in an orchestra, guitar, piano, drums, flute, harp, and she has a very, very basic knowledge of most other instruments because there are only oh so many ways to play a variety of instruments. She even took voice lessons for a little while, but once she felt her intonation was perfect, she stopped in favour of picking up yet another instrument.

Then came the most memorable year of her life. There are those moments in life when you have a most important person in your life, and for her, that person was her first and only boyfriend, Gavin Ashbury. They met when they were thirteen, and it was one of those really cliché moments when all of the sudden, they just knew they were perfect for each other. There was electricity between their fingertips, the sparks flew, and they were in love. Most people say thirteen is too young to know that you’re in love, but she’ll tell you that no other word could describe what they felt. An attempt at simple friendship ended when he asked her out a month after they met, and their parents will support claims that they were nearly attached at the hip.

Middle school had gone by in a flash, but high school sort of gave her a slap in the face. She didn’t know the reason back then and she can’t say she knows it now, but she was targeted for bullying. Maybe people didn’t like the way she dressed or acted, and maybe they didn’t like her in general. People were always telling her that she was some sort of freak who was wasting space, and even though she tried not to listen to them, it could get hard to ignore when the words felt like they had a tangible presence that was trying to choke and smother her. She fell back on music and Gavin, and sometimes she really believed that as long as she still had them, she would be okay. She would make it through four harsh years. Everyone knows nothing is ever that simple though.

For three blissful years, Aphy’s relationship thrived and gave her support, and it reached its peak during her sixteenth birthday. Instead of a fancy party, she had wanted to spend the day with her loved ones, and when she was finally alone with Gavin, he slipped a simple but pretty silver ring with cubic zirconium scattered around its circumference on her finger, swearing that someday they would grow up and get married, and he would give her a real diamond ring instead. The memorable moment seemed to promise a bright future, and her luck seemed to change from bad to good when she was recruited to be the guitarist and back-up vocalist of a band.

Things were finally going right until the bad news that was waiting in the shadows reared its ugly head. One night, Gavin was walking home after dropping by her house for a visit, and he became another number in a statistic about hit and runs. He was hospitalized immediately and the entire time he was in critical condition, she stayed by him, wishing and praying that he would wake up and smile at her and tell her that everything would be okay. Her wishes and prayers were answered with a long, monotonous beep, and then it felt like her entire world had crumbled. She withdrew from the world and couldn’t summon up the will to do anything but mope at home, constantly questioning why she just had to pick that day to make him stop by her house or why she wasn’t generous enough to invite him to stay the night instead of heading home alone. Her misery gathered together and eventually she attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills a week later. The attempt was in vain because she was found and hospitalized, and when discharged, her parents immediately sent her to a therapist to deal with her newfound depression. The rest of her time spent being a sixteen year old revolved around being forced to go to school, taking antidepressants, reluctantly meeting up with her therapist after school, and playing music because it was the only thing that had her feeling decently alright. The only highlight of her life was that the bullying ended when news of what happened got around, but the pitiful glances sent her way made her even more miserable and odd than before. The only time she wanted people to look at her was when she was onstage and playing music; when offstage, she wanted to fade into the background and hide from scrutinizing or pitying looks.

By the time she turned seventeen, she asked for her birthday present to be an end to her therapy sessions. In a long, drawn-out discussion, she pointed out that taking Prozac and having to meet up with a therapist only worsened her depression rather than curing it because it had her feeling like some sort of freak. The solution was to allow her to cope using her own means instead of forcing her to pop pills and rant to a stranger. She wanted music to make her better, and though her parents were reluctant, they eventually agreed. Nowadays she’s often hanging around in the music rooms every chance she gets, and it’s rare to see her without an instrument outside of school.

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