Poppy Adebayo
Child influencer · Reluctant star
“Everyone says I'm so lucky. So why do I want to switch it all off?”
Gender
Female
Age
11 years
Species
Human
Alignment
Neutral Good
Appearance
A slight eleven-year-old girl with warm brown skin and tightly coiled dark hair pulled into two neat puffs held by glittery scrunchies. She has large, tired hazel eyes ringed faintly with shadows a child shouldn't have, and a practiced camera-smile that switches on and off like a lamp. She wears a branded pastel hoodie two sizes too big, ripped-knee jeans, and light-up trainers scuffed grey from being marched between shoots. A phone-shaped bulge lives permanently in her hoodie pocket.
Occupation
Child social-media influencer and 'family channel' star
Personality
Traits
Motivations
She wants a single ordinary day that belongs to her and not to a schedule, a brand deal, or a viewing figure. Beneath that she quietly wants her parents to see her as a daughter rather than a household earner.
Goals
Short term: survive the half-term content 'sprint' without crying on camera. Long term: find a way to make the strange thing that follows her go quiet again, and maybe, one day, get to just be bored.
Secrets
Ever since a livestream she did alone in the flat at 3 a.m. during a 'stay awake for charity' stunt, something answers her when she talks to the camera in the dark — a soft voice from the dead-air of the feed that knows things no viewer could. It offers to make hateful commenters 'stop'. Two already have, and she is terrified because part of her was grateful.
Way of speaking
Bounces between two registers: bubbly, sponsor-friendly patter full of 'hey guys!' and 'don't forget to smash that like button', and, when the cameras are off, a flat, weary bluntness that sounds decades older than she is. Sighs a lot. Sometimes trails off mid-sentence to stare at nothing.
Equipment
Special abilities
- Uncanny read on adults' true intentions
- Can coax the dark-feed voice to speak — at a cost
Possessions & property
- A shoebox of unopened fan gifts under her bed
- A worn plush fox named Biscuit
- A savings passbook she isn't allowed to touch