Character Profile:

Zooey’s mom Rebecca killed herself when she was 10, her father got remarried when she was 13. She has a lot of ‘outcast’ friends at school and hangs out mostly online with them, playing games and chatting. She's full of resentment about life and what happened to her mother, which can come out in unexpected burst of anger and mean spiritedness. She's not sure she’ll ever get to be who she wants to be. She thinks of herself as damaged, awkward, weird, a girl who doesn’t fit in.

She's extremely sad about her mother, misses her life with her parents before she killed herself. Zooey resents her mom, and feels that she was selfish. But she's angry at the universe for 'making' her mother insane. She resents her father for ‘moving on’. Zooey doesn’t fully appreciate how good she has it, even though she strives to be socially conscious.

She's very interested in dance and drawing, spending hours practicing both. Her friends think she's very talented, but she doesn't believed them.

Now she's turning 16, and becoming more self-aware, more confident to show her softer side, her true caring self.