Ginger McElroy

Legal Name: Ginger McElroy
Aliases: Dearie (from Alfred), Little Man (from Brando)
Age: 8 (April 2nd)
Homecoming Day: June 8th
Gender: Male

Faction: Dad always tells me its best to stay Square... The UG are pretty cool though!!!
Affiliation: Saint Mary's Catholic Church
Occupation: Little kid. father's boy, little godbrother, huge weeaboo.

Height: 3'6
Build: TINY, slightly chubby post-adoption, very skinny pre-adoption
Race: Caucasian
Voice: Very thick Irish accent, stutters alot, high-pitched, usually sounds like he doesn't wanna be wherever it is he is, mostly like this with stranger he doesn't know too well yet.

Languages: English, learning Gaelic with his father very very slowly.

・It's abundantly clear that he loves Princess characters but good luck getting him to admit it to you! You can see him shyly eyeing the Disney princess keychains at the store though... He funnily wants one of the silly gangster ones straight out of the 2000s. All around huge Disney Kid.
・Whenever Jonas is over, he always asks if he can wear his jacket, he thinks he looks cool in it but he really looks like more of a dork than ever. Don't tell him that though.
・Huge fan of The Sometimes, especially Claud, but he's only a fan of The Sometimes sometimes, because The Sometimes are only sometimes a band. He also has a poster of The Sometimes, but like how the bands only sometimes a band, the poster is also, only sometimes there.
・Passionate about Kingdom Hearts and other JRPGs, has all the lore memorized and will ramble about it to you for over a year. He's hoping they put vibe in the next game and or make it into a rhythm game.
・He's a little sensitive to noise and crowds, but wants to go to Lightning Street very badly. He wants to see the performances and watch the dance fights, meanwhile Alfreds nervous to take him because he worries he's not gonna have a good time, not to mention Alfred being somewhat uncomfortable tucked between faction territory as a Square.
・Loves collecting audio books, has a small library of tapes he's collected since moving in with Alfred, he wants to try and find some from the outside, and likes to sleep with them on.
・Struggles with issues relating to anxiety, wears noise cancelling headphones in busier parts of the city due in part to the previously mentioned noise sensitivity. They're a fashionable bright toothpaste blue.
・Ginger has very good hygiene but has a tendency to wear clothes he's sentimental over for days on end, with Alfred having to wash his outfits nearly every day. This is most noticeable in a brown sweater Alfred gave him when they first met to keep him warm. Ginger put it on and almost never took it off. He's getting better about this but still sorta dresses in one outfit like a cartoon character from time to time.
・Ginger does almost the exact same routine every single morning without fail, he'll be mildly annoyed if you interrupt his morning ritual he does to prop up his day. It's almost impressive!
・Thinks the UG is COOL, but also very scary. This doesn't stop his curiousity though and he can often be found listening to their radio station to try and learn more about them, but also because he finds it comfy. Along with Lightning Street, his other ultimate goal is to go to Wafflenomz. He finds the Roller Banditos similarly cool from his father's work with them but is also a little scared of them, they have him and his dads back though.
・He and his brother Alan are the reason the weird Border Collie "Adam" hangs around the church, they found him in an alleyway a while back and brought the old dog home. Ginger sleeps with him every night when he isn't slowly taking over his fathers room.
・When others are sick, especially Alfred, he tries to fill his fathers shoes by caring for the others regularly living with them, checking on his brother Alan, his godbrother Jonas, even Damh, Brando, and his Dad, who he mimics while he tries to care for him or others.
・Very cute and pretty singing voice! Too shy to use it, but likes to manifest his vibe with someone he's tagging by doing a duet. Enjoys singing the classic piano song "Heart and Soul" for this, cause he thinks it fits.
・He tries to help out with Alfreds community services, especially since he had benefitted very directly from them due to him being helped by Alfred leading directly into his own adoption by him later on, poor boy can be a little sheepish though with guests and shys away fairly often like a little shrinking violet.

Upon first being taken in by his father, he didn't know much about how to dance but wanted to learn.
Alfred patiently taught him some basics regarding ballroom dancing and would often dance along with him to whatever happened to be on the radio. Ginger over time became very fond of waltzes, and would often stand on his father's feet while he tried to get a hang of how to move his own feet.
When waltzing with others, Ginger insists on leading when he dances with anyone who isn't his dad, but also insists on you spinning him since that's one of his favourite parts, so it's sort of a bizarre mix of roles because he wants to be the lead but also the partner, when he can't have his cake and eat it while doing a dance.
In more recent times despite his shyness. he's also grown more and more fond of singing, often trying to use it to see if he could tag people with his vibe by doing a duet with them, he's got a very sweet singing voice!
He's still learning how to properly dance with his new older brother, Alan, but they're figuring it out as they go along.

Ginger's vibe is an unusual one in the fact that he's not the only one who has it, it's a twin vibe he discovered by dancing with his father Alfred a while back.
Before then. he had lived his life not sure of how to dance, and with no real opportunity to learn as he lived on the street for quite a while without a family. Once Alfred took him in though, things would change and they would discover they both had vibes, and that they were the same ability-- they didn't discover they both had their own vibe, but instead they discovered that they had a twin vibe but couldn't use it because up until that fateful moment, they didn't know who their twin was, but once they had formed this connection they would be able to harness their shared vibe that symbolizes their connections with others.
The main features of their vibe is that if they focus on their hands, they can see a red string tied around their pinky fingers, and no matter what this string never tangles and never breaks, seemingly to fazing through walls connecting them to each other no matter the obstacles.
Due to this, they can never lose one another, if Ginger doesn't know where his father is he can just follow the string and find him, and vice versa.
The other main ability is that they can sense when the other is in danger, their emotions travelling through the string to the other one, who senses the trouble and can go to help. This ties into one last main function, which is that they can communicate with each other over long distances. All they have to do is make a fist with their pinky out, and speak into it as if they were two kids talking through two cans on a string.
Once one of them talks into their fist, the other one will hear what the other said, as if it were a little whisper on the edge of their minds.
Something they didn't know until much later however, was their vibe can extend to other people they care about. If him or his son care about you, they can offer you a dance, and once you've danced with them you've been marked.
Now you too can see the string connecting the two of your together, leading to whichever one of the two marked you.
You can't mark people yourself, and can only communicate with the one who marked you. Otherwise you can now benefit from the two main uses for this vibe, talking to Alfred or Ginger over long distances, or finding your way back to them no matter where they're at.
This is interesting in the fact that, in a way they can give you a vibe and their vibe can spread, they just need to trust and care for you otherwise it wont work.
A hard limit to this though is they can only mark 10 people each, 5 per each hand, 1 for each finger, so you need to choose your team and keep an open ear!