1. what would completely break your character?
Other than moving and transferring schools for a guy who’s just gonna dump her? Talia wouldn’t know what to do if she lost her voice in any permanent way. When all else fails, she knows she can ask for help, or sing her li’l feelings out, or just scream (into a pillow or outside where no one will bother her). If something happened to her vocal chords and she had to re-learn communication, she would not do well for a long time.
7. how does your character feel about sex?
In a lot of ways, Mitch was a shitty boyfriend, but he wasn’t bad in bed, and Talia just loves being physically touched/near people, so sex is something she really misses. To her, it’s the highest form of intimacy, but it’s also something she totally gets why people would be casual about. She’s just never had casual sex before, so she wouldn’t really know how.
14. how does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?
Honestly, and this is gonna sound kinda bad, Talia does play dumb/hopeless. When she’s frustrated or hurt, the thing she wants most is for someone else to tell her how to fix it so she doesn’t have to worry about making things worse for herself. In reality, she’s very smart, and very capable of figuring things out on her own, but if she can get someone else to do it for her, it’s likely that she’ll try, and a lot of the time, it makes her come off as more clueless than she actually is.