PhantasY :: New Chance :: Valerie
PhantasY :: Valerie
personal info
Name: Sato Erika
Nickname(s):
- Mama | Called by members of Phantasy.
Date of Birth: 14 February 1993
Birthplace | Hometown: Chiba, Japan
Ethnicity: Japanese
Nationality: Japanese
Bloodtype: A
ual Orientation: Aual
Languages:
- Japanese | Native
- Korean | Semi-fluent | Korean language classes were part of her training. She has trouble reading paragraphs or long sentences but speaks and understands well enough for day-to-day use.
- English | Semi-Fluent | She knows some English as she did English song covers before.
Height & Weight: 173cm, 50kg
Faceclaim: Aragaki Yui | (gallery)
Appearance: Erika is slightly taller than her fc. Her fc has B cup s but she has C cup s. She has a scar that goes vertically down from her navel as she had a C-section before.
Name: Sato Erika
Nickname(s):
- Mama | Called by members of Phantasy.
Date of Birth: 14 February 1993
Birthplace | Hometown: Chiba, Japan
Ethnicity: Japanese
Nationality: Japanese
Bloodtype: A
ual Orientation: Aual
Languages:
- Japanese | Native
- Korean | Semi-fluent | Korean language classes were part of her training. She has trouble reading paragraphs or long sentences but speaks and understands well enough for day-to-day use.
- English | Semi-Fluent | She knows some English as she did English song covers before.
Height & Weight: 173cm, 50kg
Faceclaim: Aragaki Yui | (gallery)
Appearance: Erika is slightly taller than her fc. Her fc has B cup s but she has C cup s. She has a scar that goes vertically down from her navel as she had a C-section before.
"I never thought that meeting you could make the world amazingly beautiful."
background info
Personality Traits: creative, determined, kind, insecure, reserved, perfectionist
Personality: INFJ, Ravenclaw
Positive : She has a good imagination and usually even comes up with interesting ideas. When she has a goal to accomplish, she'll give her all to fulfil it. She knows how it is like to feel hated by everyone and therefore tries her best to be kind to everyone she meets even if they tick her off strongly.
Negative : She secretly values others' approval a lot and therefore, can get upset when she feels that she is seen negatively by a particular person and needs lots of reassurance that what she believes is not true. Also, she gets down when she doesn't get the exact results she wants for herself, she feels a strong need to present a "perfect" image of herself to others.
Neutral : She takes time to open up to others and is easily scared off by people who are too friendly immediately or loud and outgoing.
School: She dropped out of school when she was 17.
Fun Facts: - She avoids wearing heels as she is insecure about her height.
- She doesn't mind her daughter to be educated in Korea.
- She wears little to no makeup if the makeup artist doesn't do her makeup for her.
- In her early pregnancy, she often craved for tomatoes.
- She gets carsick and needs to have the window seat when she is in a car as focusing on distant stationary objects helps to relieve her carsickness. She also eats mints when she is carsick to relieve her headache and nausea.
- She sometimes gets nightmares about what happened to her boyfriend.
Family Members:
- Mother | Sato Yuki | 48 | Guitar Teacher | Best Friend | For most of her life, Yuki was the only one who was always there for Erika. She's the one taking care of Hana when Erika has idol activities.
- Daughter | Sato Hana | 6 | Preschooler | Best Friend | Erika will give her life to protect Hana. The little girl is friendly, polite and respectful.
Other Relationships:
- Former groupmates/ Enemies | Ex-Skarf Members | 20-26 | Idol Trainees, Soloists | Erika was a former member of Skarf but they all disliked her.
- Enemy | Natasha Low | 23 | Former leader of Skarf, Former Idol School Contestant, Soloist | Back then, Tasha was quite judgemental and felt that Erika should not have even became an Alpha Entertainment trainee as the latter is a single mother. She also felt that Erika dragged the group down because she devoted so much time to Hana rather than group activities.
- Best Friends | Members of Phantasy | 17-23 | Idols | She was afraid to open up to them at first but they're now the love of her life, even though she doesn't show it openly. She's one of the oldest few members so she sees the younger members as her children.
Background: Erika's mother offered guitar teaching in her home and thus, Erika too learnt to play the guitar when she was 5 years old. She quickly fell in love with singing while playing the guitar. Her neighbour worked in a milk factory and snuck milk home for little Erika. As a result, she quickly grew much taller than most children her age.
Unfortunately, this earned her bullying in elementary and middle school as she was taller than many of the girls and even boys. When she was 14 years old, she wrote a song about her bullies and the pain she suffered from them, recorded a video of her singing while playing the guitar and uploaded it on Youtube. She recieved many praises for her soothing voice and was also offered a few kind words, which spurred her to do more song covers. When she got bullied at school, she just went home and sang any song she felt like while playing her guitar.
In her first year of high school, Erika fell in love with a male schoolmate and became pregnant after they made love in the school library. Although they were very young, he got a part-time job as a convenience store cashier, promised to study hard to get a better job and marry her when they graduated from high school. However, Erika's happiness was short lived. When she was walking home with him one night after work, they ran into his jealous ex, a girl gangster who had several male gangmates with her threatening to beat the two of them up. Long story short, he sacrificed his life to save Erika and his unborn child.
Erika considered to have an abortion at first but she just couldn't bear to take a life she created. In order to earn some money to support herself, she dropped out of school and offered guitar coaching together with her mum. Her daughter was born on 7th May 2010.
Personality Traits: creative, determined, kind, insecure, reserved, perfectionist
Personality: INFJ, Ravenclaw
Positive : She has a good imagination and usually even comes up with interesting ideas. When she has a goal to accomplish, she'll give her all to fulfil it. She knows how it is like to feel hated by everyone and therefore tries her best to be kind to everyone she meets even if they tick her off strongly.
Negative : She secretly values others' approval a lot and therefore, can get upset when she feels that she is seen negatively by a particular person and needs lots of reassurance that what she believes is not true. Also, she gets down when she doesn't get the exact results she wants for herself, she feels a strong need to present a "perfect" image of herself to others.
Neutral : She takes time to open up to others and is easily scared off by people who are too friendly immediately or loud and outgoing.
School: She dropped out of school when she was 17.
Fun Facts: - She avoids wearing heels as she is insecure about her height.
- She doesn't mind her daughter to be educated in Korea.
- She wears little to no makeup if the makeup artist doesn't do her makeup for her.
- In her early pregnancy, she often craved for tomatoes.
- She gets carsick and needs to have the window seat when she is in a car as focusing on distant stationary objects helps to relieve her carsickness. She also eats mints when she is carsick to relieve her headache and nausea.
- She sometimes gets nightmares about what happened to her boyfriend.
Family Members:
- Mother | Sato Yuki | 48 | Guitar Teacher | Best Friend | For most of her life, Yuki was the only one who was always there for Erika. She's the one taking care of Hana when Erika has idol activities.
- Daughter | Sato Hana | 6 | Preschooler | Best Friend | Erika will give her life to protect Hana. The little girl is friendly, polite and respectful.
Other Relationships:
- Former groupmates/ Enemies | Ex-Skarf Members | 20-26 | Idol Trainees, Soloists | Erika was a former member of Skarf but they all disliked her.
- Enemy | Natasha Low | 23 | Former leader of Skarf, Former Idol School Contestant, Soloist | Back then, Tasha was quite judgemental and felt that Erika should not have even became an Alpha Entertainment trainee as the latter is a single mother. She also felt that Erika dragged the group down because she devoted so much time to Hana rather than group activities.
- Best Friends | Members of Phantasy | 17-23 | Idols | She was afraid to open up to them at first but they're now the love of her life, even though she doesn't show it openly. She's one of the oldest few members so she sees the younger members as her children.
Background: Erika's mother offered guitar teaching in her home and thus, Erika too learnt to play the guitar when she was 5 years old. She quickly fell in love with singing while playing the guitar. Her neighbour worked in a milk factory and snuck milk home for little Erika. As a result, she quickly grew much taller than most children her age.
Unfortunately, this earned her bullying in elementary and middle school as she was taller than many of the girls and even boys. When she was 14 years old, she wrote a song about her bullies and the pain she suffered from them, recorded a video of her singing while playing the guitar and uploaded it on Youtube. She recieved many praises for her soothing voice and was also offered a few kind words, which spurred her to do more song covers. When she got bullied at school, she just went home and sang any song she felt like while playing her guitar.
In her first year of high school, Erika fell in love with a male schoolmate and became pregnant after they made love in the school library. Although they were very young, he got a part-time job as a convenience store cashier, promised to study hard to get a better job and marry her when they graduated from high school. However, Erika's happiness was short lived. When she was walking home with him one night after work, they ran into his jealous ex, a girl gangster who had several male gangmates with her threatening to beat the two of them up. Long story short, he sacrificed his life to save Erika and his unborn child.
Erika considered to have an abortion at first but she just couldn't bear to take a life she created. In order to earn some money to support herself, she dropped out of school and offered guitar coaching together with her mum. Her daughter was born on 7th May 2010.
trainee life
Trainee Time : 2010-2012 (Alpha Entertainment), 2013-2016 (Imagine Music)
Trainee Life : Erika continued producing covers alongside guitar coaching while she was pregnant until her belly grew too big for her to hold the guitar properly. When her daughter was two months old, she recieved an email from a person claiming to be a representative from Alpha Entertainment who noticed her covers and invited her to join them as a trainee. Erika accepted and moved to Korea with her mum and Hana (and her guitar) where she started training with the girls who would later become the members of Skarf.
Though she was friendly and nice to them, they didn't return her the same treatment and in fact were very nasty to her. Tasha and Ferlyn especially were forced to go through the "banana diet" where they were only allowed to consume two bananas and two cups of water a day and were salty that Erika could pretty much eat whatever she wanted as she was feeding, the other members of Skarf too were on diets and were salty at this.
Erika debuted with Skarf in 2012 but often was absent from music shows and other activities (fanmeets, variety shows) due to having to take care of Hana. This made the girls of Skarf even more upset. "She doesn't seem to care about the group at all!" Eventually, the issue made its way up to Skarf's management, and Erika had a fight with them over them threatening to terminate her contract. "Do you want everyone to know you left a single mother jobless?"
Erika was suspended from Skarf activities after the fight but she didn't mind since the members were so horrible to her and fans barely noticed her anyway. During her suspension, Erika got in touch with Imagine Music and secretly sent them a recording of her singing while playing the guitar. Imagine Music then got in touch with Alpha Entertainment to take over Erika's contract, the latter was more than happy to hand it over. "Sato Erika is a good for nothing freeloader, if you want to feed her it's your problem!"
Position: Main Vocal
Persona: Ice Princess - she appears cold and unfriendly but is actually just afraid to open up due to trauma. (think of Jessica and Krystal Jung)
Stage Name: Valerie. It seems like just a common English name, but it comes from the "Val" in Valentine as she was born on Valentine's day, and the "Eri" from Erika. When she put the two together, she realised it looked like the English name "Valerie".
Activities:
- 2007-2010 | Youtube Channel
- 2012 | Single "Oh Dance" with Skarf
- 2012-2013 | Member of Skarf (suspended in January 2013, transferred to Imagine Music in March 2013)
Future Scandals:
- 2016 | "Former Skarf Member to debut in Imagine Music girl group" | Erika's profile was posted on Imagine Music's social media channels. (Netizens : I hope she won't neglect the group like how she neglected Skarf.) | True
- 2016-2017 (up to you as you feel appropriate) | "Sato Erika reveals the reason for her inactivity in Skarf" | Erika revealed that she was absent from most of Skarf's activities as she was taking care of the then very young Hana. This was the first time most people knew about her daughter. | True
- 2017 | "Phantasy's Valerie suffering from PTSD and depression?" | A company car of Imagine Music was spotted at a psychiatric clinic and Erika was spotted leaving the clinic and entering the car. A journalist chatted with the receptionist of the clinic and found out that Erika was apparently seeking treatment for PTSD and depression which was caused by her witnessing her boyfriend being beaten to death and the bullying from Skarf. | True
Plastic Surgery
- None. She refused it
Talents :
Singing Ability: 7 (Vocal twins : Japanese, Korean, English)
Dancing Ability: 4 (Dance twin : Im Yeojin)
Rapping Ability: NIL - her plotline doesn't include rapping
Aegyo Ability: 3 - she doesn't think she's cute.
Variety Ability: 4 - she's a bit shy on camera.
Improv Ability: 2 - she gets embarassed easily when making mistakes on camera.
Trainee Time : 2010-2012 (Alpha Entertainment), 2013-2016 (Imagine Music)
Trainee Life : Erika continued producing covers alongside guitar coaching while she was pregnant until her belly grew too big for her to hold the guitar properly. When her daughter was two months old, she recieved an email from a person claiming to be a representative from Alpha Entertainment who noticed her covers and invited her to join them as a trainee. Erika accepted and moved to Korea with her mum and Hana (and her guitar) where she started training with the girls who would later become the members of Skarf.
Though she was friendly and nice to them, they didn't return her the same treatment and in fact were very nasty to her. Tasha and Ferlyn especially were forced to go through the "banana diet" where they were only allowed to consume two bananas and two cups of water a day and were salty that Erika could pretty much eat whatever she wanted as she was feeding, the other members of Skarf too were on diets and were salty at this.
Erika debuted with Skarf in 2012 but often was absent from music shows and other activities (fanmeets, variety shows) due to having to take care of Hana. This made the girls of Skarf even more upset. "She doesn't seem to care about the group at all!" Eventually, the issue made its way up to Skarf's management, and Erika had a fight with them over them threatening to terminate her contract. "Do you want everyone to know you left a single mother jobless?"
Erika was suspended from Skarf activities after the fight but she didn't mind since the members were so horrible to her and fans barely noticed her anyway. During her suspension, Erika got in touch with Imagine Music and secretly sent them a recording of her singing while playing the guitar. Imagine Music then got in touch with Alpha Entertainment to take over Erika's contract, the latter was more than happy to hand it over. "Sato Erika is a good for nothing freeloader, if you want to feed her it's your problem!"
Position: Main Vocal
Persona: Ice Princess - she appears cold and unfriendly but is actually just afraid to open up due to trauma. (think of Jessica and Krystal Jung)
Stage Name: Valerie. It seems like just a common English name, but it comes from the "Val" in Valentine as she was born on Valentine's day, and the "Eri" from Erika. When she put the two together, she realised it looked like the English name "Valerie".
Activities:
- 2007-2010 | Youtube Channel
- 2012 | Single "Oh Dance" with Skarf
- 2012-2013 | Member of Skarf (suspended in January 2013, transferred to Imagine Music in March 2013)
Future Scandals:
- 2016 | "Former Skarf Member to debut in Imagine Music girl group" | Erika's profile was posted on Imagine Music's social media channels. (Netizens : I hope she won't neglect the group like how she neglected Skarf.) | True
- 2016-2017 (up to you as you feel appropriate) | "Sato Erika reveals the reason for her inactivity in Skarf" | Erika revealed that she was absent from most of Skarf's activities as she was taking care of the then very young Hana. This was the first time most people knew about her daughter. | True
- 2017 | "Phantasy's Valerie suffering from PTSD and depression?" | A company car of Imagine Music was spotted at a psychiatric clinic and Erika was spotted leaving the clinic and entering the car. A journalist chatted with the receptionist of the clinic and found out that Erika was apparently seeking treatment for PTSD and depression which was caused by her witnessing her boyfriend being beaten to death and the bullying from Skarf. | True
Plastic Surgery
- None. She refused it
Talents :
Singing Ability: 7 (Vocal twins : Japanese, Korean, English)
Dancing Ability: 4 (Dance twin : Im Yeojin)
Rapping Ability: NIL - her plotline doesn't include rapping
Aegyo Ability: 3 - she doesn't think she's cute.
Variety Ability: 4 - she's a bit shy on camera.
Improv Ability: 2 - she gets embarassed easily when making mistakes on camera.
love interest
None
None
love life
She doesn't have a love interest. She's afraid to fall in love as she fears something bad happening like what happened to her boyfriend.
She doesn't have a love interest. She's afraid to fall in love as she fears something bad happening like what happened to her boyfriend.
new member questions
How did you feel when you discovered you were going to debut in a previously debuted group instead of a new one?
- I'm still happy, at least I can still be a singer.
Did you want to become an idol, why?
- I never actually thought I would become an idol, but I needed a job after having my daughter, and guitar coaching wasn't earning me much. (she pauses for a while and tears up) To be honest, I wanted to quit after what I experienced in Skarf but I persevered for the sake of my daughter, and I'm thankful to Imagine for giving me a second chance.
What do you know of PhantasY?
- I know that one of their members is a fashion designer, and one is Lu Han's sister.
What's your end goal? (to be an idol member, actor, solo artist, etc.)
- I never really thought about it. I do love singing, but I'm mostly doing it for my daughter.
What's your favorite color?
- I don't have one, but Hana likes yellow so I'll say yellow.
Do you forgive Skarf for what they did to you?
- Yes. I feel that holding a grudge against them will only hurt me more.
What's something you would like to happen to you?
- Tasha apologising to Erika
- Erika releasing a self-written solo song (Dakara Hitorijyanai - original by Little Glee Monster)
- Erika's mum supporting Phantasy
- Phantasy on a show inspired by Sonamoo's Pet House
- Phantasy's first win!
If your character isn't accepted would you like them to have a minor role?
- Yes
How did you feel when you discovered you were going to debut in a previously debuted group instead of a new one?
- I'm still happy, at least I can still be a singer.
Did you want to become an idol, why?
- I never actually thought I would become an idol, but I needed a job after having my daughter, and guitar coaching wasn't earning me much. (she pauses for a while and tears up) To be honest, I wanted to quit after what I experienced in Skarf but I persevered for the sake of my daughter, and I'm thankful to Imagine for giving me a second chance.
What do you know of PhantasY?
- I know that one of their members is a fashion designer, and one is Lu Han's sister.
What's your end goal? (to be an idol member, actor, solo artist, etc.)
- I never really thought about it. I do love singing, but I'm mostly doing it for my daughter.
What's your favorite color?
- I don't have one, but Hana likes yellow so I'll say yellow.
Do you forgive Skarf for what they did to you?
- Yes. I feel that holding a grudge against them will only hurt me more.
What's something you would like to happen to you?
- Tasha apologising to Erika
- Erika releasing a self-written solo song (Dakara Hitorijyanai - original by Little Glee Monster)
- Erika's mum supporting Phantasy
- Phantasy on a show inspired by Sonamoo's Pet House
- Phantasy's first win!
If your character isn't accepted would you like them to have a minor role?
- Yes
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