âș Name: Jeffrey âJeffâ Anthony Sterling
âș Face Claim: Riker Lynch
âș Gender Identity & Pronouns: Cis-male, he/him
âș Sexual & Romantic Orientation: Bisexual
âș Age & Birthday: 16, November 8
âș School: Dalton Academy
âș Grade: JuniorÂ
âș Extracurricular Activities: Football Team, Basketball Team & New Directions
âș Family: Mark Sterling (father), Stormie Sterling (mother), Jessica (15, sister), John (14, brother), Jace (13, brother), Drew (15, family best friend)
âș Personality Traits:Â optimistic, loyal, kind, stubborn, jealous, thin-skinned
Jeff can walk in a room full of people and light up everybodyâs mood. Jeff is everybodyâs friend, he is a great listener. He is faithful and loyal, he knows how to take care of people. He does his best to make people feel at ease, and as loved as possible. He can be quite shy at first, but he becomes the life of the party if he knows the crowd well enough.
He has a big family made up of his parents and his four siblings. They all live in Dayton, Jeff drives there as often as he can. He grew up taking singing, acting, and dancing lessons with his siblings. He loves hanging out with them and Drew, their neighbour and best friends, whenever heâs at home. He bakes with his mom, dances with his sister, and plays video games and guitar with his brothers. He has a very special relationship with his dad, and whenever they ask him who his hero is, Jeff always answers itâs his dad.
He misses home when heâs at Dalton, but he loves school so much that he considers it his second home. He is a brilliant student, he loves his friends â especially his Warbler bros â so much. No matter how badly he misses his siblings, he knows whenever heâs at home that he has another family to come back to.
Heâs been studying dance in a studio in Westerville since he moved to Dalton, where he also teaches little kids ballet. Lately heâs been working on his ballroom skills to perfect them. Looking for a dancing partner, he found Allison. The two of them became good friends straight away, and itâs safe to say he spends more time at the studio than his parents think he would. He has people from Juilliard and Boston Conservatory sitting in the audience at recitals, at this point heâs not afraid to admit he dreams big. New York, London, wherever. He just wants to dance for the rest of his life.
Jeff tries to keep a positive outlook on life, even though he had a hard time dealing with bullying in his old school before he transferred to Dalton. He still talks to his old therapist, and most days heâs okay. He has his bad days, though, when heâs all but fine. He wonât show up to class, he wonât pick up the fork, the phone, his Dalton ties from the floor. Heâll disappear for a day and come back shiny and new the following one, like nothing ever happened. The bullying is the reason why he decided to join the Dalton Fight Club, growing up he realized he had to start standing up for himself, although he still struggles with self-confidence.
He adores travelling, heâs picked up the habit of visiting a different European country each summer since he turned fifteen. His favourite quote is âI have never met a person I could not call a beautyâ by Andy Warhol. His family always makes fun of him, they tell him he falls in love with every single person he sees. He is the biggest Harry Potter fan, he can stay up all night reading those books over and over and never get tired.Â