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Kimber Benton | Jem and the Holograms | Reserved
Player nickname: Meagan
Player
LJDW:Way to contact you: DW message, e-mail, or Plurk
Email: kodoku@rocketmail.com
AIM: onlythewicked (i'm never on)
Other: Plurk: chichai
Are you at least 15?: Yep!
Current Characters:
Character: Kimber Benton
Fandom: Jem and the Holograms
Character Notes: Kimber is probably the second/third most important character in the series and owns half the company of Starlight Music. She's the youngest of the Benton sister's and had a special bond with her father, more than her sister. Because of his death, she feels alone a lot and when her sister isn't giving her more attention she gets upset over it. She is the lyricist as well as the major keyboardist/keytarist for the whole band. Her lyrics sometimes get ignored by the rest of the band and makes her angry as well. She was once the youngest in the whole Starlight House until her sister Jerrica started taking in orphans.
I'm going to play her from the beginning so that I can go through everything in canon.
History: BULLETS FTW! I’m just going to go by episodes, if that’s cool.
❥ Emmet Benton dies and Starlight Music is left to his daughters while Eric Raymond, their father’s protégé, tries to take over the company. He pretty much takes over with a band that he makes; the Misfits.
❥ To raise more money for the Starlight Foundation where they foster children and take back Starlight Music, Jerrica finds out about Synergy (a holographic computer that was created by her father) who creates an alter ego known as “Jem” so that she can get back the company as Jerrica herself poses as the group’s manager. Kimber follows along as they keyboardist.
❥ A fire claims the old Starlight House, all part of Eric’s plan. Millionaire Howard Sands gets asked by Jerrica if his mansion (a prize in the battle of the bands contest) can be used while they look for new lodgings. Eric hires Zipper to place a bomb in the building while the Misfits make their way onto the grounds. The mansion is destroyed by the bomb. “Jem”, along with everyone and the Starlight Girls are invited on a luxury cruise by the Countess Du Voisin, which gets crashed by the Misfits…again.
❥ Kimber suddenly starts to feel envious of her sister's rise to sudden fame. While they are shooting a video in Paris, Lin-Z asks for an interview with “just Jem”. Kimber quits the band and vows to go solo. Eric tries to prey on this weakness, but she refuses.
❥ During the Battle of the Bands against the Misfits, Eric kidnaps Ashley (one of the Starlight Girls) and forces Jem and everyone to miss the concert.
❥ Jem and the Holograms begin producing a movie that they won through the Battle of the Bands contest.
❥ Jem and the Holograms travel to Texas to raise money for starving people in Africa during multiple concerts, Kimber begins her romance with Shawn Harrison.
❥ Roxy steals Jerrica's Jemstar earrings while the two bands are in China for a concert tour, causing the band to search everywhere for it.
❥ Jem and the Holograms make a Rock Fashion book, spurring the Misfits to compete with their own book.
❥ The Misfits and Jem and the Holograms compete for roles in a Broadway musical.
❥ Jem and the Holograms fly to "Morvania", a country under the reign of a young princess Adriana, who happens to be a look alike of Kimber. When Adriana's cousin attempts to take over the monarchy, they mistakenly hold Kimber as ransom. The Misfits are all-too-willing to help her.
❥ The Jem and the Holograms' hype is starting to die down, so they reinvent themselves with a "Glitter N' Gold" look. They end up in a competition with the Misfits over who can be the first to sell 500,000 records in order to win the "Glitter N' Gold Roadster."
❥ Shana (the drummer of the band) gets an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work for a famous television actress as her personal designer. Since there is no way she can take the job and play for the Holograms at the same time, a new drummer needed to be hired. Raya becomes the new drummer for the band, while Shana does come back later to play rhythm guitar.
❥ The Misfits end up getting their hands on Kimber's diary, and try to destroy her with bad publicity.
❥ Kimber leaves the band as she feels like no one listens to her. She later meets up with Stormer who is, coincidentally fed up with the Misfits also. They both end up in the same bar together where they are called on stage to play. When they find out they play pretty well together, they form their own band away from both the Holograms and the Misfits. The others that they left can't perform without their respective main songwriters and get annoyed with this new friendship. They both later go back to their own bands.
❥ Kimber begins to realize how much she misses her father since his recent death. She starts to get angry at her band members when they ask her to write music for a Father's Day video. They take her to a retreat for a day of horseback riding to inspire her. Kimber ends up getting injured and is helped out by Pizzazz's father, Harvey Gabor.
❥ Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits are chosen to play at a Magic show. One by one each member of the bands mysteriously disappears.
❥ An old friend of Kimber's asks her for help to get the radio station where he works back on the air. The Holograms agree, of course, and the station decides to call itself KJEM in their honor.
❥ Okay, this can probably be overlooked since this episode is weird and it seems like they just got bored and made this up for lulz or something weird. Techrat (hired by Eric) invents a time machine that sends the Holograms back in time. They meet up with Mozart, Glenn Miller, and Jimi Hendrix in their travels. I’ll probably pretend that that never happens; it’s weird, like I said.
❥ Kimber and Jerrica find their father’s diary and decide to put out their mother's music. Eric, however, is the only one that has the master tapes though and he demands one million dollars ransom for them.
❥ While Jem gets nominated for an Oscar, Kimber becomes heavily involved with both Sean Harrison (who she had dated before) and her old boyfriend Jeff the stuntman. Jeff later proposes to Kimber and she accepts. Then Sean proposes (via Rio; Jerrica’s boyfriend) and Kimber calls off the wedding.
❥ A new band shows up, The Stingers, get introduced and a love triangle ensues (not involving Kimber).
❥ Jem and the Holograms and the Stingers play at a Magic themed benefit (instead of the Misfits this time).
❥ Jem and the Holograms try to find Banee’s (a Starlight Girl mentioned throughout the show) real father. They find him and unfortunately, this is the last episode. There are still lose ends that haven’t been cleared up, but oh well.
Personality: Kimber is the youngest of the group (around 18 years old). She feels like she is always looked down on because of it and it makes her upset. She is impulsive and sensitive, particularly acting like a brat at times to get attention from the others. Because of her older sister's rise to stardom (even if no one knows that it really is Jerrica Benton underneath the Jem disguise), she gets upset when the other gets more attention. Mostly it is because she isn't getting recognized for what she does in the band since most people focus on the lead vocalist, Jem. Her emotions are rather extreme at times. As she's seen throwing tantrums and sobbing from time to time in the show.
Kimber jumps to conclusions a lot, automatically blaming someone for something if she feels like they have done something bad. She also makes decisions very quickly, even ones where she almost gets herself married off to a stuntman during a music video! She also runs off and leans on anyone who is willing to show her the attention that she wants so desperately or sees the potential that she has. She ran off once to join a duo because she realized that no one else in the group cared about what she thought. This turned out to be untrue. She is very talented (which is shown in several flashbacks of her childhood) and is well aware of it, which makes her even more upset when people doubt her abilities.
She is a hopeless romantic, clinging to anyone who shows her affection. Kimber is shown multiple times throughout the series finding men and automatically falling in love with them, even more than a few of the others in the band. She has never had an actual boyfriend (though others beg to differ; but they aren't shown with her for a very long time like Jerrica's boyfriend Rio) through the show, unlike her older sister. But she does enjoy boy watching, flirting, and hoping for a good man to whisk her away!
Even if she is a little bratty, Kimber is a great girl. She is very helpful and would do anything for her friends. She's seen giving helpful speeches to her friends whenever they're feeling down. Even to people who aren't her friends - like Stormer from the Misfits, or Roxy. She doesn't like the Misfits since they're the band's rivals, but she is willing to help them whenever. Helping them is usually the only time when she will really think things through.
Other: Kimber will post to the community from her Diary that she received recently from Synergy from text. The text will appear in cursive in red, black, blue, or pink ink; depending on what color pen she was able to pick up.
Because this is a show set in the 80's without high speed internet, music videos will appear to be posted to the community from video and audio. These come from Synergy herself and that is also the other way that Kimber can access the community. Synergy will also post accidental videos and audio because of various reasons that she sees fit. She will also be influenced by 80's events whenever.
A lot of her lingo will also be 80’s influenced.
Additional Links:
Wiki of Kimber: http://jem.wikia.com/wiki/Kimber_Benton
Kimber singing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLjofcOAvEY
Kimber's childhood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeTrLjc0YH4
Kimber getting married: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUgbwx_chKA
Info on Synergy: http://jem.wikia.com/wiki/Synergy
Info on the band itself: http://jem.wikia.com/wiki/The_Holograms
First Person (entry type):
Dear Diary,
Today… Oh gosh, there’s so much to tell you! Jerrica has a new band that she’s the manager of. But, I can’t say who’s actually the singer. Her name’s Jem – she’s outrageous! I can’t believe how great she is! I get to do lyrics and I get to do keyboard too.
It’s like, a dream come true for all of us! After Dad’s death…we really didn’t have much. Eric Raymond tried to take over Starlight Music, but we are the rightful owners of it! We’re Bentons, of course! We’re going to get it back from him though, through Jem and the Holograms.
Diary, I still miss Dad sometimes… It’s a weird feeling to know that he’s gone already. I didn’t think it would be so sudden. Jerrica’s as strong as ever about it all but I still just act like a little kid. I can’t get over it. Maybe it’s because I was always his little girl…
Oh! Jerrica’s coming! I gotta run!
♥ Kimber~
[ if you need another example, just let me know! ]
Third Person:
BRAAAAAAAAANG
Kimber let her fingers sit on the keys of her keyboard as she looked down at it for the longest time. The noise finally died away and she could feel the eyes of her band mates on her. Slowly, she raised her eyes up to look at them all, dark circles underneath her eyes.
There was a silence before Jem tapped on the microphone, “Kimber, Earth to Kimber.”
“Sorry, just…tired.” She said, looking away. She didn’t really feel like practicing today, but she wasn’t about to complain to them. She would never hear the end of it!
“Well, we won’t be much longer, you can rest then—“
“Don’t be such a complainer, Kimber. We’ve all been working our butts off for this new album.” Shana said jokingly. Kimber immediately had a pout cross her face as she looked dead at Shana. She wasn’t amused, after staying up all night to get the new lyrics done; she still hadn’t gotten a thank you for anything.
“I was the one who stayed up all night to get those done, ya know!” Kimber said as she raised her voice,
“Yeah, but we’ve still got to—“ Kimber could feel her temperature starting to boil not only from the lack of sleep but from everyone being “mean” to her at this time. All she wanted was a thank you!
“You don’t appreciate anything that I ever do for this band! I make the lyrics and I play the keyboard!” she said and slammed her hands down on the keyboard again.
BRAAAAANGRANGBEEEEEWwww
“Kimber, come on, please don’t be upset… We love you and appreciate everything that you do for the band!” Kimber didn’t believe what Jem had said…until she came over to hug her little sister. Kimber was stubborn, not budging for a few moments. Suddenly, everyone else came in for a hug. She relaxed then and hugged back. They all shouted in unison to her as she gave a big smile,
“Thank you, Kimber!”
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