Jem and the Holograms:
Jerrica Benton/ Jem: Manager, Lead singer
Jerrica grew up in a loving family environment with her younger sister Kimber and her two parents Emmett and Jacqui. Jerrica was very close to her mother and would often look to her for advice. Over time, her parents took in foster girls and this is where Aja and Shana became good friends with Jerrica and Kimber. Jerrica grew up with good values and with responsibility and confidence. It was after the death of her father that Jerrica discovered Synergy and then with the help of Synergy’s holographic earrings, Jerrica could become Jem.
Jerrica is the responsible side of the Jem/ Jerrica personality. She is the manager of Starlight Music and runs Starlight house, a foster home for girls. She takes responsibility, is great with delegating tasks and gets things done in a timely manor. Yet at times, she feels to do things right, she has to do them herself. Jerrica often finds herself jealous of her alter ego Jem and does not always see that it is her personality that shines through in Jem that people are so taken by. Jerrica is caring, but can be stubborn in some situations and can be a little quick to judge a person or situation before she has given them a real chance to portray themselves. Yet she will always admit if she is in the wrong and turn her thoughts around. Jerrica is also Rio Pachecco’s girlfriend.
As Jem, she is the lead singer of Jem and the Holograms. Jem knows how to have fun and has a very optimistic personality. When Jerrica changes into Jem, she will let go of her responsibilities and really enjoy herself. As Jem, per attitude is more cheery than as Jerrica and she speaks with more enthusiasm.
It is not very often that the Jerrica personality slips out when she is Jem, but in very stressful times, it does occasionally show through.
Jem can sometimes be easily persuaded and end up in situations that as Jerrica, she would be set against. So the two sides of her personality certain ly do have their differences.
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Banee:
Banee came to Starlight House after her mother died and became one of the Starlight Girls of Starlight House.
Banee is a very sweet young girl. She loves to play toys and dolls and is very loving to the other Starlight Girls. When Banee gets an idea set in her mind, she is hard to convince otherwise and needs to seek out that idea for satisfaction.
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Ashley:
Ashley is quite the mischievous Starlight Girl. She finds trouble easily and is quick to rebel once things don’t go her way.
When Ashley gets herself into trouble, she is quick to learn from her mistakes and then appreciates what she does have. In many ways, she is very caring and loves the other Starlight Girls very much. So there is quite a responsible side to Ashley in a lot of cases.
Ashley also is very interested in helping out Jem and the Holograms and gets involved in some of their concert set ups. Still, every now and then, she finds that she isn’t getting her way and ends up causing some trouble.
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Krissie:
Krissie is one of the wiser Starlight Girls and can be a good advice giver for the others. She goes by her mind and not to follow along with the crowd.
Krissie uses her common sense in a lot of situations which usually ends up being the right thing to do, but sometimes it leads her into bad situations where she is not sure if she can get out of.
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Zipper:
Making people nervous is Zipper’s specialty.
Zipper is the bad guy and does some pretty bad things for the money. He starts out as Eric’s first bad guy to do what ever her can to sabotage Jem and the Holograms. Zipper is sneaky, eager and enjoys the thrill. One look at him, and the word ‘bad guy’ is written all over him. Usually he gets away with what he does as Eric takes the falling.
Zipper is relaxed and laid back and confident and finds devious ways for his plans to come into action. he is a quick thinker, spontaneous and a risk taker. He is also proud of his name and so confident that he wears a black leather jacket with the words ‘Zipper’ on the back.
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Techrat:
Techrat is an electronics genius. He has his own lab called the ‘Rathole’ where he has masses of computers, gadgets and the place he performs his electronic inventions.
He is hired by Eric Raymond to create gadgets for the Misfits which usually are for the purpose of messing up Jem and The Holograms concerts. Some of his inventions include, remote controls, frequency jammers, laser light gadgets, flying objects and even a time machine. So often, his gadgets end up being destroyed by Pizzazz due to the fact she wants to have a play.
Techrat is rather introverted and is happy to spend hours at a time working on his inventions. Still, he finds interaction with people an enjoyment only when he has completed a project and can show it off to his audience. He gets along better with his computers than he does with people. He doesn’t like to be too close to people and hates being touched.
Techrat is kept as Eric’s secret weapon against Jem and the Holograms and they have never seen him and do not know he exists. Techrat enjoys the games played against Jem and the Holograms and loves to see his gadgets take on their full impact this way.
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Eric Raymond:
Eric got his big break as a business manager in the Music scene when Emmet Benton needed a new manager to help take care of things at Starlight Music.
After Emmett’s death, Eric took control of Starlight music for six months while signing on The Misfits. This was up until the point when Jerrica over took control due to Jem and the Holograms winning the Battle of The Bands. Eric then started his own music company called ‘Misfits Music’ which was primarily to promote the Misfits. Then in time when the Misfits temporarily broke up, Eric turned the Company into ‘Stingers Sound’ where he signed on The Stingers and then The Misfits soon signed onto Stingers Sound.
Eric is an extremely confident, aggressive, business minded person. He also indulges in deceit and illegal action to get what he wants. His slick ways can get him out of a bad situation and he will resort to using people with money to make sure things go his way.
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Lin - Z (Lindsey Pierce)
Lindsey is a popular face in the music scene. She is a reporter and has her own tv show called ‘The Lin - Z Show’
Lindsey works hard at what she loves and makes sure she is on the scene to capture reports on new coming music acts and to keep up with what the current popular music acts are up to.
She became friends with Jem and The Holograms in their early days and was eager to help them out with people to work on their first music clip. Lindsey is a very busy person, yet quick to fit things into her schedule and make quick changes. No matter what she is doing, she always makes time for letting Jem and the Holograms know of quick tips as a little help for their career.
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Clash (Constance Montgomery):
Constance grew up as Vivien’s little cousin and looked up to Vivien. Everything Vivien did, Constance wanted to do also. Even though she idolized her cousin, she would not let it show and found entertainment in making fun of Vivien when her attempts failed.
Constance called herself Clash due to the wearing of cymbals on each wrist that she would clash together. Her goal was to have fun and cause a little trouble and she succeeded when becoming good friends with the Misfits, even though they sometimes enjoy just having her around as someone to worship them.
Clash wants to find acceptance in herself and in others, to fit in and be a part of something. She goes about this the wrong way by doing things to please others and copying people to try to find her own thing.
Something that Clash does do very well is being a master of disguise. She goes to great lengths to dress up as other people, puts on a great voice of them and can trick anyone that she is the real deal.
Even though The Misfits don’t show their appreciation towards Clash, she plays a big role is some of their schemes and enjoys the fun of causing mischief.
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Video (Vivien Montgomery):
Vivien grew up in a small town called Mulbury. Her father has a twin brother in the same town who also had a daughter called Constance who was a little younger than Vivien. Vivien always liked to make her father proud and has always had the dream of becoming a videographer.
Vivien soon became known as ‘Video’ as her career took flight. She really gets out and goes for what she wants and gets involved in some great video projects.
Video is very sweet spoken and an understanding person, she is good friends with Jem and the Holograms and films a lot of their video clips.
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Danse (Giselle Dvorak):
Giselle grew up as an only child with her mother Nadia who was a prima ballerina in The Great Balet. At one point, her mother disappeared, a reason unknown to Gissell, which she is determined to find out why.
Giselle is known as Danse as she is an amazing dancer. She is involved in a charity for homeless young people called ‘Haven House’ where she volunteers her time to help out. Danse performs for Jem and the Holograms in some of their live and video performances and she is a great choreographer.
Danse is a very honorable and caring person. She likes to keep to her word and does things for the love of it. Dancing is her passion and a big part of her life. She loves to express herself through her dancing.
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Other characters:
Rio Pachecco:
Rio lived near the Benton’s and would come over to learn electronics from Emmett Benton. He was like Emmett’s apprentice. Jerrica first showed interest in Rio, but he was more interested in learning his craft. Then when Jerrica and Rio ended up at the same high school and Jerrica had matured, he started showing interest in her and they soon became an item.
When the band ‘Jem and the Holograms’ formed, Rio became their road and stage manager, organizing their props, equipment and making sure the band’s performance was all put together.
Rio is very proud and a little stubborn. He is sometimes blinded by situations as though he is looking through a tunnel and only sees things one way. He can sometimes be a little clumsy, especially when he is excited.
Rio will stick at what he believes in and focusses on what he wants and is eager to always be learning new things to improve his skills.
Rio is Jerrica’s long term boyfriend and he does not know Jem is Jerrica. He loves Jerrica very much, but is also affectionate towards Jem, as it is her inner personality that he is drawn to.
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Minx (Ingrid Kruger):
Minx is from Germany. She went to high school with Rory (Riot) when Rory’s father was stationed in Germany for a period of time. Minx became keyboardist for a band called ‘Nirvana’ who performed in Germany. Nirvana was quite successful as a live performance band and it was on one night when their rhythm guitarist walked off stage and Rory (Riot) joined the band.
When Riot and Minx left Nirvana, they stuck together and were determined to form their own band and found Rapture to join.
Minx plays keyboards for The Stingers, sings some lead parts and sings back ups. Minx is very confident and knows of her beauty and says ‘I can have any man I like.’ With this confidence, if she can’t score the man she is after, she will try at every means to do so, as she loves the chase. Minx loves to go along with Rapture’s games and will happy use people to get what she wants. Yet Minx does have a sweet side deep down where if someone does something very kind for her, she will be kind ion return, but one flinch showing her that she is over doing it, she over reacts and will snap back to her devious ways.
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Rapture (Phoebe Ashe):
When Rapture first laid eyes on Riot, she knew they were meant to be together and soon joined the Stingers when Riot and Minx were in need of another band member for their group. She started out playing tamborine and vocals and as they became more popular, she soon moved to guitar, either being as they could afford to buy one, or she had then learnt how to play. Their start out was a hard road, she would spend nights with Minx and Riot, on the streets of Germany. Determined to stick which her belief of the band becoming a success, she stuck it out and all the hard work proved successful.
Rapture plays rhythm guitarist for the Stingers, sings lead parts in some of their songs and sings back ups. When she is not playing music, she loves to play tricks and games on people for her own entertainment. She finds great pleasure in making fools of people just for kicks and deceiving them for their money. She is extremely good in trickery and can ever so easily convince people that she can use a crystal ball or a chunk of quartz to tell them their future and then push the boundaries further by selling them the item she uses to do so. Rapture is very insensitive and does not take things personally. It’s as though her success and strong personality reflect any harsh words aimed towards her and she can just laugh them off.
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The Stingers:
Riot (Rory Llewelyn):
Rory grew up as an only child with his mother and father who was an army officer. His father wanted Rory to grow up strong and proud and wanted his son to follow the values that he had. Rory loved to play music from a young age and this has been his passion. His father was set against Rory playing music, yet his mother encouraged it, but they were forced to go by what his father wanted.
When Rory was old enough to join the army, he decided to just so he could get away from his father and he was stationed in Germany. He soon went awol and joined a band called ‘Nirvana’ where he met Minx and this is when Rory got his name ‘Riot’.
In time, Riot left Nirvana and Minx came with him to form their own band. Rapture soon joined the band and they became ‘The Stingers’. Their road to success was a hard road, but proved successful when they were invited for a performance at ‘Le Club Cool’ in The United States.
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Jetta (Sheila Burns):
Jetta grew up as an only child of two parents in Wissix, UK. Her family did not have a lot of money, but they certainly had a sense of humor and confidence. Jetta played saxaphone with a band called The Tinkerbillies in the UK. When the Tinkerbillies were playing at a club in the United States, this is where Pizzazz discovered her amazing talent and asked her to join the Misfits.
Jetta is extremely confident and knows she has a great talent for playing music. She plays saxaphone for the Misfits and also sings back ups.
Jetta is very witty and has an extreme British sense of humor. One of which some American’s possibly don’t even get, but it amuses Jetta all the same. Jetta is also a big liar and comes out with the biggest load of nonsense but pulls it off to some extent. In situations where someone is an easy target, she will be first to make a laugh out of them for her own amusement, even if it’s at the expense of one of the members of her band. She has a similar ranking to Pizzazz, in that Pizzazz shows high regard for Jetta and can’t step all over her like she can with Roxy and Stormer. This also adds to Jetta’s confidence as an important member of The Misfits.
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Stormer (Mary Phillips):
Mary Phillips grew up with her big brother Craig, very close to her. He would always make sure Mary was well protected and look out for her.
Known as Stormer, she joined the Misfits with Pizzazz and Roxy and Stormer played keyboards and writes most of the lyrics and music. Stormer has quite a sweet personality, but with guts. She is sometimes torn between good and evil and sometimes has to do what is right in her heart and go against the Misfits so that she can do the right thing. She is sneaky about it enough to not always let the Misfits know what she is up to.
Stormer wants to feel like she is an important part of her group and that her opinion is valuable. At times when she has felt unconfident, she will just go along with what the others say and keep her mouth shut. But as her confidence grew stronger and her talent was proven needed to their group, she gained more confidence to say what she feels.
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Roxy (Roxanne Pelligrini):
Roxy grew up in Philadelphia and never did good in school. She was friends with the ‘tough guys’ and ended up dropping out of school at a very young age. She was not terribly smart in the way of reading and writing, yet very witty with her street sense, being independent and looking after herself.
Roxy plays guitar for the Misfits and sings backups. She is very confident and very outspoken. Yet she can be a little sensitive at times. Roxy loves causing mischief with the Misfits and can be quite the instigator in a lot of those situations.
Roxy is sensitive to being made fun of due to her dropping out of school. She takes this to heart and reacts accordingly, which makes her even a bigger target for laughs. In situations she find hard to deal with, she would rather run away from the problem rather than to deal with it head on.
Roxy thinks that money will solve her problems, yet, she is terrible at managing it and is quick to waist it on frivolous things. She also has a low regard for personal property and has a tendency to smash guitars with no regard to their value.
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The Misfits:
Pizzazz (Phyllis Gabor):
Pizzazz grew up as an only child of a very wealthy family. At a young age, her mother up and left them and she has not had contact with her since. And being that her father was always so busy with business, he would often buy her gifts as a consolation for his time with her, as he is too busy working on business ventures. Pizzazz became very demanding and to get her father’s attention, she would need to go over the top to get it.
Pizzazz is the lead singer of the Misfits and also plays guitar. She loves power, fame and fortune and she has a huge ego. And she strives for the admiration of others. She is extremely ambitious and aims directly for what she wants. She puts her competition against Jem and the Holograms as a high regard and will stop at nothing to out do them. Pizzazz is rude, arrogant, boys-tress and loud!
Pizzazz walks all over people and often to her own band members. Her strong personality even has her own manager, Eric Raymond eating out of her hand and won’t say anything bad about her to her face.
She absolutely loves the glory of being a rock star and thrives on this and is so confident for her success, yet even so, she always strives to do better.
Being a Misfit is the perfect name for Pizzazz, she loves to indulge in trouble causing and easily gets the other Misfits and even their groupie friend Clash to join along in their games. She gets a real kick out of making fun of others and ultimately having the power over them. She is so often causing trouble for Jem and the Holograms and loves to go along with Eric’s schemes against them.
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Synergy:
Synergy is a super computer that creates and projects 3D realistic holograms. She was developed by Jerrica and Kimber’s father Emmett Benton who programmed her to have the likeness of his late wife, Jacqui. He worked on Synergy privately due to not being able to get his machine patented, then after the death of Emmet, Synergy revealed herself to Jerrica and Synergy has ever since been and important part of Jem and the Holograms’ act, as with Synergy, Jerrica becomes Jem.
Synergy is kept secret to members of Jem and the Holograms and is like a mother to them as she is intelligent enough to offer advice and has some very good advice to offer. She is caring, understanding and patient.
Synergy is a large computer and kept in a secret room inside of Starlight Mansion. She can project holograms directly from her or from Jerrica’s star earrings which are Synergy’s micro processors. With this ability, Jerrica turns into Jem by holographic disguise and sometimes the other members of the group can change their fashions with the help of Synergy. Synergy’s holograms also create diversions for Jem and the Holograms in bad situations, especially against the Misfits, so Synergy plays a huge role for the band in many ways.
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Raya (Carmen Alonso): Drummer
Raya was born on the United Stares and her parents are both from Mexico, so her Mexican heritage is very important to her. She is the only daughter of her parents and has four brothers. As a child, her father got her the first set of drums which she played in her garage. Playing drums from such a young age gained Raya the experience to be an extremely talented drummer with a great feel for the beat.
Raya joined Jem and the Holograms as their new Drummer at a time when Shana was pursuing a fashion design career. Raya couldn’t believe her talent was so good to be their new drummer and was so appreciative of becoming a member of their band. Raya is soft spoken, sweet and sometimes a little shy. But in situations where she has gained confidence to stand up for herself, a strong, abrupt side really comes through and she won’t take any flack.
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Shana Elmsford: Guitarist/ Drummer
Shana was the Benton family’s second foster girl. At first she was very quiet and awaited the other girls to accept her before feeling that she was part of the family.
Shana starts as the Drummer for Jem and the Holograms and then moves to bass guitarists when they gain a new member who takes drums plus she also sings backups. Shana has a creative ability with designing and sewing clothes which she makes for a number of the band’s fashions and even keeps some of the Starlight girls well dressed from her own designs. Shana is not highly outspoken, and can be a little sensitive to situations and feeling the effect of them to the point she won’t question the situation and put up with it.
In most situations, Shana is easy going and is happy to go along with things and is liked by a lot of people. She has a steady boyfriend called ‘Anthony Julian’.
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Aja Leith: Lead guitarist
At a young age, Aja become the first foster girl to the Benton family and soon became very close friends with Jerrica. She was a bit of a tom boy and enjoyed doing things such as electronics that the boys were into.
Aja plays lead guitar for Jem and the Holograms and sings backups. She is the most responsible and outspoken of Jem and the Holograms. She likes to make sure decisions are made for the right reason and that the welfare of their group is put as first place over anything else. She is handy with electronics and is confident to approach difficult situations amongst other people.
Aja is known to be very stubborn at times which is usually for the right reasons as she seams to have a good sense of situations and people at early stages.
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Kimber Benton: Keyboardist
Kimber is Jerrica’s younger sister and grew up as the youngest in her family. She gained musical talent from a young age and was closest to her father. She was known to be cheeky at times and thought fun of making fun of Jerrica while growing up. The death of her father was something she took very hard.
Kimber is the brains of the music for Jem and the Holograms, as she writes most of the music and lyrics for their songs and plays Keyboard for their band plus sings backups. Kimber is a little mischievous at will sometime rebel against authority when she feels authority taking over or is being unappreciated. She often feels that Jerrica, her big sister is trying to be too much of a mother to her and reacts to the extreme at times. She is quick to make decisions, sometimes the wrong decisions without thinking things through. Sometimes her anger lashes out without thinking about what she’s doing, but her quick decisions also help her to come up with some of her best songs and in a good time too. Kimber is sentimental and deep down a very caring person. She is also very expressive and loves expressing her happiness. She certainly gets the band excited and loves to say the words ‘Outrageous!’
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