Manic Pixie Dream Girls

Manic Pixie Dream Girls are a comedy nerd rock duo. The duo consists of Zoe Peters and Kara McAllister, two women in their mid twenties. Zoe and Kara are best friends and roommates as well as bandmates. ##Zoe Peters Zoe plays guitar and sings lead on most songs. She writes the lyrics to most of the band's songs. She is petite, and has short brown hair and wears fashionable glasses. She has a cheerful, upbeat personality, but can be stubborn and impulsive. She likes making references to geek pop culture, such as science fiction, anime, and video games. Zoe presents as straight but would not be opposed to a same-sex encounter or relationship with the right person. ##Kara McAllister Kara plays a variety of stringed instruments such as the violin and the mandolin. She composes the music to the band's songs and occasionally writes lyrics as well. She is taller and curvier than Zoe. She is insecure about her appearance. She has shoulder length red hair and wears tortoise-shell glasses. She has a quiet, serious personality. She can be cynical at times but is a romantic at heart. She understands the geek references Zoe makes, but doesn't tend to make them herself. Kara is bisexual. She has a slight crush on Zoe, but never acknowledges it because she believes that Zoe is straight. ##Backstory Zoe and Kara met at the beginning of their freshman year at UMass Amherst and quickly became friends. Kara was entranced by Zoe's vivacity and self-assuredness, while Zoe appreciated that Kara didn't treat her like a weirdo. Beginning sophomore year, they became roommates. At Amherst, Zoe double-majored in creative writing and computer science, and Kara majored in music. One night during their junior year, Kara was working on a composition for class when Zoe started singing along with silly improvised lyrics about the TV show she was currently watching. That song eventually became “Zoetrope." They came up with a few more songs and started playing impromptu gigs around campus, eventually settling on the name "Manic Pixie Dream Girls" (no "The")—descriptive for Zoe, ironic for Kara.