Basic Information
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Name: Yin
Nicknames: Goofalot, Nachos, Ignacio, Nips, (more to be updated)
Alias: GoofyNachos
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Yin is affiliated with The Meme Squad, a group of Escapists, otherwise known as criminals, in a world where pranks are illegal.
Her role is to create, encourage, and help the Squad prank people and each other, whilst also specifically being the one who teleports them out of trouble.
In Volume 1, her role is to be transportation, a prankster, and a friend.
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Yin is first seen in the very beginning of Book 1.
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Yin is 5’4 ft (163 cm)
She has relatively white hair, although it’s originally blonde. Over the series she alternates between styles (using purple shampoo), although she does have fun wearing different wigs, so her hair can change up frequently, especially when she’s ‘disguising herself.’
Peach skin, gray-ish-green eyes, overall simple design.
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Her eyes alternate between brown-gray and green (mostly ‘cause I can’t decide on one)
Otherwise she doesn’t really have any notable features other than a very small scar on the outer corner of her left eye (lol)
Appearance
~Yin’s Escapist Costume~
Personality
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Yin is an outgoing prankster who enjoys making people laughing, teasing and messing with her friends, and turning ordinary situations into ridiculous ones.
She’s fond of banter, experimenting with strange homemade gadgets, and finding new ways to cause harmless chaos.
As an Escapist on the run, she’s also a troublemaker with a knack for getting herself into questionable situations. She enjoys good food, good company, and pretty much anything that makes life more entertaining.
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Likes -
Favorite foods / drinks: asparagus, sweet lemon tea, watermelon, tacos
Joking around, laughing in general, and remembering or retelling funny stories
Making homemade funky gadgets for convenience or entertainment purposes
Competition
The color yellow (and occasionally cyan)
Favorite number is 32
Dislikes -
Honey
Letting her nails grow out too much
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Like most citizens of Edyn and Idyll, she has a habit of controlling her emotions and behavior, especially in public. As a result, negative emotions such as fear, annoyance, or sadness, typically last mere seconds before disappearing naturally. Not to say it’s forced away, it just doesn’t last long, and whatever expression that follows is her being dramatic.
Biting her palm / hand to stop herself from laughing out loud.
Looking for and finding quarters.
Loves sunbathing and the sunlight in general.
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Yin’s sense of humor comes from her fondness for teasing to get reactions out of people. Teasing could come from joking around to rage-bait, so it comes in many forms.
She’s sarcastic, a little bit impulsive, playful, and witty.
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Socially:
In public, Yin is kind, polite, playful, and overall in a good mood and ready to talk to anyone. She could make small or big conversations just on the street.
Within her friend group, she’s still a nice person, but she does enjoy occasionally annoying those she’s close with, goofing around, speaking ‘slang’ and ‘negatively’ (such as phrases like ‘that sucked’ or ‘I can’t believe you made him cry’). She’ll essentially be more likely to smack-talk her friends whilst being funny about it.
Reaction to situations:
When something unexpected happens, she’ll most likely laugh.
If it’s scary, she’ll be scared and scream, but when it’s over, she’ll laugh.
Communication style:
Yin is usually very talkative and bubbly.
Sometimes turns conversations into competitions.
Likes to understand someone’s viewpoint on particular things but may ask them in a roundabout way.
Behavior under pressure:
When something goes wrong, and it’s not funny or entertaining, Yin gives it some thought but doesn’t immediately assume the worse. Depends on the situation, but in general, she starts thinking of what’s important now and what’s going to be done next.
Relationships
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(During Volume 1 (to be updated))
Krow
Best friends and huge sibling-dynamic.
I’d joke they’re brother-sister from other misters.
Kyle
Best friends and huge sibling-dynamic (as you’ll see often with nearly every character, but feel free to ship respectfully)
He’d be the annoying older brother that you still follow and laugh with.
Eric
Best friends and huge sibling-dynamic.
Yin likes to aura-farm with him and mess with Krow and Kyle together.
Kali
Girl besties.
Laugh together, shop together, chat it up. They aren’t always hanging out, but when they do, they click.
Sebastian
Flirt buddies and good friends. All romantic stuff is playful and nothing serious, which is their favorite thing about friendly flirting.
Daito
A surprising friend considering he’s technically trying to capture her, but Yin has nothing against it and actually considers him a good friend.
They have a huge sibling-dynamic.
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(During Volume 1 (to be updated))
Mr. Finch
Yin doesn’t necessarily hate him, but she doesn’t like him.
Because of their feud, they’re enemies.
Hinto
I’d put him in rivals only because he works for Finch, but having only seen him a couple times, Yin doesn’t know nor mind him.
Sol Esther
She has nothing against Sol, but since he’s primarily the Meme Squad’s main target for pranks, Sol is her rival.
Sky
Same with Sky, he’s just her rival. He’s after the Squad as well. Although she would almost consider him a friend, because he’s funny, though she doesn’t know him enough yet.
Lisana
Yin currently doesn’t know much about Lisana.
Holds no negative feelings against her, but since she’s after the Meme Squad, they’re naturally rivals.
Cash
Meme Squad’s opp. She finds him particularly a good target to annoy because his reactions are funny.
Ash
Doesn’t know anything about her for the most part, just that she’s the Meme Squad’s opp.
(Partially) Kyle, Krow, Eric
She’s constantly competing with them, whether it be through video games, whoever’s got the most salt on their pretzel, or who made the best prank.
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(No current known family)
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(During Volume 1 (to be updated))
Baxter
Known as Uncle Gramps, Baxter has an important connection to Yin primarily seen by their father-daughter dynamic.
Alfred
Also known to have a sort of father-daughter dynamic with Yin, Alfred is seen as a caretaker and Guardian to Yin, giving them a wholesome connection.
Daito
I think personally their dynamic is particularly important for stories to come. Primarily it’s their sibling-dynamic, which is common in WSDF, but the roles are reversed a little at times, with Daito seemingly being the ‘younger’ brother despite being older.
That, and to me, they’re surprisingly similar in a lot of ways.
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In Volume 1, her role is to be transportation, a prankster, and a friend.
In the entire series, her role is pretty much the same. She is one of the most reliable narrators in the series and follows the Meme Squad into adventures they never can anticipate.
Her job is to have fun.
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In the very beginning of book 1, Yin’s life-goal was to create Wrist Gadgets (what she calls her teleporters).
Thanks to a device she had taken from Mr. Finch (that was essentially something she had a blueprint for), her life-long goal turned into something achievable in a few nights, being easier than expected.
Over the course of book 1, Yin’s goals begin to change thanks to the new set of circumstances she’s given: and now? She not only wants to be a prankster, and not just an Escapist, but she’s determined to live a life where she can always laugh about something.
And she ends up having a lot to joke about.
That becomes increasingly obvious with how much trouble she and her friends end up in. But in her opinion, it’s worth the fun.
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During Volume 1:
Slower runner thanks to laziness
Somewhat a better cook
Made friends
Became an Escapist and is officially on the run from HELTH
Learned the true art of pranking
Learned about animals she never knew existed previously (such as mosquitos (known to be an urban legend) and boars (nightmare fuel))
Grew an inch taller
Story
Known For
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Yin made ‘Wrist Gadgets’ which are known as the main reason the Meme Squad haven’t been caught in situations where they totally could’ve been.
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Yin’s favorite drink is lemon tea specifically from the vending machines. It costs 75 cents (otherwise three quarters) and it’s been her favorite drink since childhood. If you see her drinking something, it’s probably tea.
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GoofyNachos is her alias, something she’s known as by the public, considering she’s an Escapist. And in Edyn and Idyll, Escapists are taboo.
However, her name originates from her friends after she tried pranking them with a plate of messed-up nachos, only for them to make her try it herself.
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It’s a joke, but Yin has and will be requested of from her friends to build something or help them fix a gadget, whether it be mundane things like bedframes or building a swing inside of their hangout.
If she was employed, she’d probably be making a lot more money than a few thank-you’s and pieces of candy.
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Mostly something she’s known for in her younger years, she was known as ‘Queen of the Playground’ because she was almost always found at parks and playgrounds. It was a place she could even be found sleeping at in one point in her life. This was a title she held with pride.
Fun Facts
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Spotting coins, usually quarters
Using a technique to pull out two bottles of tea from the vending machine instead of just one
Bluffing with confidence
Lying when she specifically can make the lie wordplay.
Ex: “Did you take the saw?”
“Huh? I ain’t saw nothing.”
Instead of talking about the tool, like the original person was asking, she’s responding as if saw means visually seeing something. So, she’s not lying. She’s just purposely interpreting thing question wrongly.
Bit complicated, but it’s just something she does for the love of the game.
Making funky gadgets like makeshift headphones, bike chairs, arm-grabbers, etc.
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April 3rd
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As the title suggests, Yin is an incredibly slow swimmer, and if a shark or even a fish where to catch up to her, she’d be done for.
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Extraterrestrials are an interesting topic in Idyll (and Edyn) because they’re not necessarily made out to be scary or harmful, considering their society is all about expressing joy and comfort. So the stories Yin reads has nothing to do with alien invasions or spooky stories.
Rather, she enjoys reading about the possibilities of other solar systems and becoming friends with whoever lives there. She thinks having a buddy from other galaxies would be really cool.
One last note, there are more stories about going to space than there are stories of people actually going to space.
Just because Edyn and Idyll are quite utopian and they work together for mutual improvement, they’re surprisingly not as interested in space travel as some would expect. Some kind of reverse-psychology, maybe; “life’s so good here, why leave?” kind of thing.
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Although it’s rarely windy, Yin enjoys when a breeze comes through. Best part of any day.
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During Book 2, Yin had a traumatic encounter with a boar and was unable to shake that experience away.
Ever since, when she’s in the woods and hears a strange sound, especially at night, she’s ready to teleport away at any given moment.
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Yin is a sleepwalker and sleeptalker. Though it doesn’t happen regularly, since there’s no schedule to it, when she does sleepwalk, things can get out of hand pretty quickly.
Author Notes
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I’ve thought about changing her name but it’s too late now, lol. Although, I do enjoy how it sounds like alien (the ending) and another joke of mine, Comed-Yin. It’s also supposed to be the ending of my alias, EllyiN.
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Honestly I like how easy it is for her to make friends and that she’s confident enough to tease and laugh with people she just meets.
To add onto that, I particularly like the brother-friendships she acquires because I enjoy relationships without a girl automatically liking someone romantically ‘cause they’re a boy. Not to say crushing isn’t adorable. But y’know, there’s a balance.
Her competitiveness and wittiness. It’s particularly charming because that makes conversations and activities challenging, interesting, and fun.
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I don’t have much to say just yet, but one thing is for certain, Yin will be a reoccurring character in all 4 expected series that I write. This means she’ll show up in other series outside of WSDF, as a version of herself fitting that story.
(Everything on this page is prone to being updated / changed.)
Drawings Featuring Yin
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Smart Warehouse Retrofit
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Municipal Water Monitoring
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Renewable Microgrid Design
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Retail Demand Forecasting
