AFF Username: striped-cat

Birth Name: 송리해 Song RiHae

Stage Name: Rate (?)
Birth Date: January 18th, 1995
Hobbies: piano, guitar
Interests: one day being able to perform in front of a crowd
About Her: Getting teased by the boy she liked and being pushed around by the girls in her classes since her entire childhood has made RiHae hide away in music. She never wanted to fight back, knowing she would simply lose anyway. What is one girl against ten? What dent could she make to break them, the bullies? Nothing, of course. So, she always tries to avoid the troublemakers as much as possible, and the best place for solitary tears has always been the school's music room. There, she discovered something even better...

The music room's grand piano and it's magical notes and keys. It opened up a door in her mind to a place she never imagined she could do; music making. The concept of producing music was such a gorgeous sight in her mind, and it was reserved for those artists on television who never made a single mistake. Taking baby steps with the piano, she tried hard with scales, then simple folk melodies, and it has now come to the point where she can play fast-paced pop songs by ear.

Playing music in seclusion was always the best part of her day for her. She would go to her school's music room early before school and almost everyday after school just to use the instruments there. All the time spent in that room added up to her practicing for about 2 hours a day. Making music is such a beautiful thing to her, and it came almost naturally. She taught herself the piano, and borrowed the school's guitar and watched tutorials on Youtube. For every new skill she learned, she gained confidence that she wasn't such a waste in society. She knows she has to belong somewhere. Everyone does, right? Even if the popular girls don't like her, and even if her crush doesn't like her... Even if the whole class doesn't like her, RiHae knows that she has a place in the world where someone could love her for her talents and quiet personality.

Wanting her skills to be acknowledged some day, she tries hard to make her playing as presentable and pleasing to the ears. She even tries polishing her artistic skills by composing a few songs herself. Hopefully, one day, she can perhaps play in front of people and get cheers that would resound all the way to her first crush. Would he like her then?