Chickpenguin

Chika Flipperton is an 11-year-old fifth-grade student at Penguin Academy. She is well known for eating cupcakes, daydreaming, and reading comics.

Background
She was born on a bright, sunny day. All was well in Chika's youth until she realized she was getting a little brother, Peep. At first, she was excited to have a younger sibling, but when Peep arrived, her life became awful. All of the attention her parents formerly gave her was now dashed in favor of her baby brother and how cute he was. And to make matters worse, that was also the year she started school.

On the first day, she was informed to sit by a student named Alyssa Featherfoot, who she believed would become her best friend. To incite this friendship, Chika began talking nonstop to Alyssa until she was mocked and ostracized by the girl, often being called a loser who can't shut up. Among these insults, Chika was also called "babyish", which eventually evolved into her nickname of Chickpenguin. The nickname, at first, felt uncalled for and disrespectful, but Chika reclaimed it and grew proud of it.

Throughout her school years, Chika was best described in parent-teacher conferences as "creative but aloof", "socially awkward", and having a "massive appetite for reading - even skipping class lessons to read more comics". Her parents, unsure of how to handle these conflicting reports, decided to restrict her reading to only a few hours a day, opting to keep her comic books at home when she was at school. This did not bode well for her, as she found ways to sneak into the school library for more comics.

Later in her school years, Chickpenguin was forced to play a friendly game of dodgeball in gym, against her now-mortal enemy Alyssa. The dodgeball flew across the gym, "accidentally" hitting Chika in the eye and knocking her out cold. Needless to say, she didn't dodge and now uses every excuse in the book to get out of gym class. Sprained flipper, conveniently forgetting gym clothes, stuck on the toilet in the locker room... everything seemed to work until one fateful day outside.

Baseball. Easily the most boring, albeit high-stakes game a gym class could play. Alyssa, up to bat, waited as the non-athletic Chika delivered a surprisingly perfect pitch of the ball. The crack sound of the bat striking the ball resonated throughout, creating a mighty echo heard all across the playground. A home run! Alyssa began to run like her life depended on it. Baseball was one of her favorite sports, after all, and she even practiced when she wasn't at school.

But fate had other plans for Alyssa. As she began to run, feeling her shoes skid across first base, she slipped on her aglet and had no time to get up and keep running. She was tagged out by her classmate on the second base, successfully getting enough points for Chickpenguin's team to win over hers. Alyssa swore she'd get her revenge, but that day has yet to come.

Involvement
She loves to eat cupcakes. When she isn't eating cupcakes, she is looking for comics in the library or reading them, getting lost in their stories. And when she isn't doing those things, chances are she's daydreaming about something or other.

Trivia

 * She is a parody of Babymouse from the Babymouse comic book series.
 * She's late for class due to a myriad of excuses. Somehow she's never gotten in trouble for this.
 * She thinks her life needs more glamour, excitement, and adventure.
 * She has a tendency to get carried away with her daydreams.
 * It's rumored that her backpack is evil, but there's no way to know. Maybe it's another daydream?