STATISTICS

BASICS

name
stephanie "steph" zhang, zhang yue qian

age
23

gender & pronouns
cis female, she/her

sexuality
bisexual

occupation
artist, mua, and broadcast jockey/streamer

academics
b.f.a. visual art, minor in photography

APPEARANCE

height
5'7", 170 cm

hair color
black

eye color
dark brown, often wears color contacts

notable characteristics
three equidistant moles on her left cheek, a bow ribbon tattoo under her left ear

SOCIALS/CONTACT

instagram
@scaryoddmotha

AfreecaTV
@suetefmeimei

Twitch
spookysp1ce

email
stephzharts@gmail.com ; bjstephzh@naver.com

kakaotalk
@scaryoddmotha

CONNECTIONS

package deal (0/1)
you're an unlikely duo, honestly. you had different majors and steph only spoke basic Korean when you first met. what brought you together was mutual suffering through a shitty professor's class aaand the rest is history.

once upon a time (0/1)
you're the reason she moved all the way out to busan. you loved each other and promised forever. but 'forever' isn't all that long, is it?

parasocialite - twitch (0/1)
steph started streaming on twitch as a way to have company during long nights in the old art building. just as she found companionship in her viewers, you've found comfort in her. yet, you don't even know each other. (read bio for info on each stream!)

parasocialite - afreeca tv (0/1)
starting an afreecatv account originally started as a half-joke for steph. "you get paid just for being hot!" a friend had told her and, well, she needed the cash. she gained a ton of fans within the first week of being a dance streamer and more and more as the years went on. one of those fans is you. (read bio for info on each stream!)

BIOGRAPHY

chapter one

TW: DEATH MENTION

Born and raised in the countryside near Shanghai, Yue Qian didn't have the greatest childhood. Though her parents were loving, they were struggling to raise her and her brother, Yangming, on top of affording medical bills for her sick mother. There were many things the twins simply couldn't have or do because pretty much all household money went to the absolute necessities.

So, to keep themselves busy after school, the twins spent all of their time at the locally funded community center. There, they had unlimited access to recreational classes, sports, and friends without having to worry about spending money. As long as they had their shared bike, weather permitted, and the place was open, they had an outlet for the stresses of their home life.

While Ming gravitated toward music, Yue always found herself in the visual art classes. If she wasn't drawing, she was painting and if she wasn't painting, she was learning a new sculpture technique. The hours logged in the old building planted the seed that would eventually grow into dreams of being a professional artist. However, her life was turned upside down on the inevitible day that her mother died. The twins were just 12 when their father decided, after months of poorly handling his wife's death, that the family would be moving and finding a new life in America.

chapter two

It was a difficult adjustment period with money still hard to come by, but the two—now referred to as Stephanie and Sean—gravitated to another local community center to continue coping in the same way. Stephanie had begun to branch her interests out into other things, too. She would often go online to watch makeup tutorial videos or hook her hard drive up to the center's computers to play her favorite games.

By her senior year of high school, she had one game that she played religiously just for the chance to talk to a friend she'd made. Over the prior couple of years, they'd become someone really dear to her and the friendship became something more. It became enough that, during uni discussions, she readily agreed to go to their top school together: University of South Korea, Busan.

Things were great for a while—at least a whole semester—but being with someone in person is way different from being together online. They eventually broke up, but Steph was already quite settled into her life in Busan and she decided to stay and finish out her degree in visual art. By the time that she graduated, she was extremely settled in and hasn't made any plans to leave outside of the rare vacation or yearly visits to see her dad in California; especially now that her brother has moved into the area.

Two years post-grad, she makes a living and makes rent with work as a freelance makeup artist and streamer—the latter being a trade she picked up during her time as a student to make some extra cash. During Twitch streams, she'll do different things depending on the day or her mood: grwm chats, mukbags, gaming, or even just chatting/studyhall streams where she works on an art piece and invites others to work on their own assignments or projects. In order to separate her brands, she uses AfreecaTV for more adult-focused content. It's never anything M-rated, but everyone knows dance streamers are more for the sexualized male gaze than anything. She likes to sum it all up to being a friend on Twitch and being a girlfriend on Afreeca.

PERSONALITY

The put it at its simplest, Steph is an aquired taste. She's pretty, friendly, and able to make friends with just about anybody she meets. But, she's also the type to go on lengthy tangents about the gruesome history of a "cursed" movie set where every movie shot there has at least one cast/crew death. She has a pet snake named Ashmute, a huge dobie named Poly Styrene, and she will not hesitate to house an injured bird/insect/etc. long enough to rehabilitate and release it. She once raised a hurt praying mantis in her dorm and later went out to find another one so it could mate. Then, she ended up with hundreds of styrafoam cups each housing a little mantis baby. (Her roommate hated it until she started using the mantis she kept to catch other unwanted bugs.) Steph can be impulsive and doesn't stress much about anything. Every single aspect of her life is lived in the sole interest and pursuit of happiness and enjoying the moment.

LIKES
animals, pizza, spicy foods, sunshowers, horror movies and shows, american sitcoms, horror games, mmorpgs, sandbox games, maximalism, and sweet coffee drinks

DISLIKES
heights, spiders, bitter tastes, and cherry-flavored things

HOBBIES
painting, avant garde makeup, photography, photomanipulation, swimming, and urbex

USKB EXTRACURRICULARS
- Malmyeong Horror Collective, met weekly to just hang out and watch a horror movie of choice | vice president during her junior & senior year
- USKB Happy Trees, met weekly to just create and share art without worrying about critiques and grades | co-founder and treasurer

LIFE GOALS
- to have her own art exhibition in a notable gallery
- to do special effects makeup for a horror movie/show