hello hello hello ! my name is lara and i like to be extra and make graphics for my intros ! i’m very happy to be here , and excited to be playing greta here !! if you like what you see , like this post , send me an im , or ask for my discord which i will gladly share ! so let’s get to it. allow me to introduce to you all , the friend who wants to comfort you but has no idea what she’s doing, the girl who wanted to compliment you but accidentally insulted you and now doesn’t know how to fix it, who regularly says “ thanks, you too ” to ticket salesmen at the movie theatre tell her to “ have fun ” , GEE !
greta’s mom , suzu , was pretty young when she got pregnant. she was not planned , but that didn’t matter too much. greta never met her biological father , since he was out of the picture way before she was born , and never really cared to , either.
still pregnant , greta’s mom fell in love with an american man , david. they were both musicians. they fell in love hard and fast. being two wild , bohemian , free - spirited artists , they decided to sell pretty much everything they had and move to san francisco to start a band. he played guitar , she sang and played the piano.
when she was born , david adopted her. so they gave her his last name. harrison ( like george , she’d say ). she was always surrounded by music. she listened to her dad’s records , and he taught her how to play guitar. her mom taught her how to play the piano.
in high school , instead of going to the movies and hanging with her friends ( like any normal teenager ) , greta would hang out at music stores , picking up random instruments and teaching herself how to play them. the first time she picked up a bass guitar , that was it , she was done , she knew that was the one for her.
once she turned fifteen , she got a job and worked all summer until she could buy herself a seafoam green bass which she named penny lane. she still plays it to this day.
as she grew older , she witnessed her parents’ relationship grow sour. she noticed how often her dad’s breath smelled of alcohol , but neither her nor her mother said or did anything about it.
in her senior year of high school , just a few weeks before graduating , david crashed the car as he and suzu were driving home one night. he was drunk , of course. greta was at a gig , and by the time she got the phone call and rushed to the hospital , it was already too late. her mother had already taken her last breath.
she almost didn’t graduate. she stopped playing. she held so much resentment against her father , they practically lived in silence for an entire year. the distance between greta and david grew wider every day.
somehow , he moved on. he met someone else. he proposed. they got married. greta had a stepmother. she was sweet , but not her mom. greta let her know , constantly. she had step-siblings , around her same age. they were just strangers to her.
when she found out there was a baby on the way , she new she couldn’t stay there. she had to get out. so she packed her bags and made her way across the us , all the way to new york. she didn’t have a destination in mind , initially. she was just driving to get away , playing her way across the country , and then ended up in nyc. and then she didn’t want to leave.
she got an apartment ( shared with a few others , of course ) , got a job at a record store ( those always felt like home ) , and formed a band.
so that’s pretty much it for her history up until this point ( sorry this is getting so long ) , so here are some tidbits about her personality !
at first, she’s kinda quiet and reserved. she has a one-track mind , and the only thing she cares about is the music. needs to learn how to chill.
she’s pretty great at what she does and she knows it , so she can get cocky sometimes. she’s very proud of what she’s achieved , and sometimes that can go to her head. but the truth is she has the chops to back up her talk.
she’s stubborn as a mule.
she doesn’t trust people easily , so she’s very cautious when making band-related decisions. who they sign with , where they play , etc. she’s kind of a control freak.
she’s a generally friendly person , but she doesn’t open up easily and plays things close to the vest. she can come off a little cold sometimes , but not rude. just awkward. her communication skills are shit.
she’s only comfortable enough to be emotionally open with a few select people. or , of course , through the music she writes.
she can’t back down from a fight. it’s a problem , and she knows it , but she can’t avoid confrontation , she runs headfirst into it , even if she’s in the wrong. mama didn’t raise a quitter , but she did raise a fool.
she’s always listening to music. she’s that – *planet explodes* *removes one earbud* what – meme.
she doesn’t really drink, partly because she’s a control freak , and partly because she’s still spooked by what happened to her mom. she’s not very comfortable around drunk people , unless she’s also a little tipsy. she’ll drink just enough so that the people around her don’t think she’s weird , but she’s always the sober friend at the end of the night.
a bicon™ because like every single character i write.
she’s also a taurus !! which is evident in the everything about her.
HERE’S her pinterest !!
i’m very bad at thinking up connections , but i’m open to anything ! best friends , exes , roommates , BANDMATES ( i purposely haven’t named the band yet , in case anyone wants to join in ) !!! people who sorta took her in when she first got to new york , coworkers from the record store , crushes , fans of her band , groupies , anything !!
