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[div style="0px; width:400px; height:auto; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; line-height:13px;"]chandler blake — this yellow soul needs summer rays, but tell me what blooms in the shade
— chandler elizabeth blake was born on september seventh to charles and leanne blake in norwalk, connecticut. her father runs his own accounting firm out of brooklyn, where the family is originally from, and her mother is an english teacher at one of norwalk's many private schools.
— chandler is the youngest of four, with three older brothers. xavier, the oldest, is five years older than chandler and is currently a student in howard university's medical school. caleb and cameron, the twins, are two years older than chandler and are sophomores at indiana university and brown university, respectively. they're all close, and now that chandler is the only one still at home, their groupchat is rarely ever not blowing up chandler's phone.
— the blakes are originally from brooklyn, but they moved to norwalk with leanne's job when the twins were a year old and xavier was four. even though chandler was the only blake child not born in brooklyn, she still reps it every chance she gets.
— she's gone to majority white schools her entire life and so at this point, it really doesn't even faze her. for elementary and middle school she went to a private catholic school, transferring to public school for high school because she swears she was tired of wearing uniforms everyday.
— she started cheering when she was five, participating in the same recreational league as the twins' football team. once the twins quit playing for that league, she started doing all-star cheer. she kept it up until her freshman year of high school, when she quit to join her school's team. she made varsity, mostly because she was the only underclassmen who could easily do a full twisting layout.
— chandler has a love-hate relationship with high school cheer; she never misses a practice but if she's crying on her finsta or private story, 9/10 it's about cheer. her number one grievance is every time that her coach has made her tumble on gym floor during a basketball game, but a close second is the fact that she is one of two black girls on a squad of about 20 girls.
— she's the senior captain this year and though she swears she's the worst captain in the history of cheer, she's not. a lot of it is just nerves, which may or may not have been cause by an incident with a spirit stick at nca camp the summer before her senior year.
— she has an abundance of cheer shoes, bows, and nike pros. she knows she probably has a problem at this point, as she can go three weeks without having to wash clothes for a clean pair of nike pros, but she insists it's not her fault that nike makes the best shorts for cheer. she's tried lululemon, but they just don't hit the same.
— even though her parents have money, they're the "we worked hard so you should work even harder" type, which is why chandler works at a nearby bubble tea shop to pay for anything that isn't school or cheer-related. she's worked there since her sophomore year, and she's pretty good at it. the only downside is that now her dad has a boba addiction, and is always asking her to make bubble tea for him at home, when she's clearly off the clock.
— the entirety of her high school career has just been teachers seeing her last name on the attendance sheet and asking her if she's related to xavier/cameron/caleb. most of the time she doesn't mind, but when she knows a teacher had one of her older brothers and didn't like them, she'll lie and let them put the pieces together after they've already decided they like her.
— despite the stereotype of the head cheerleader, she's actually a good student. for a while in sophomore year she was the girl who had the super colorful, studyblr-worthy notes, but once she realized she wasn't retaining any of that information, she dropped that pretty quickly. her favorite subject in school is mandarin whereas her least favorite is english, surprinsingly. she's really good at it, but after years of having an english teacher for a mother, she's really just over it.
— she doesn't like cheering during football season at all, because it's cold, it's outside, and she does not enjoy watching football at all. she gets through it, but only because she knows basketball season is right around the corner.
— her ideal friday night is cheering at a basketball game and going right home to see her dog, buffy. the blakes got buffy when chandler was ten, so she's old, but chandler doesn't care as long as buffy doesn't walk in her room, fart, and then leave, which happens more often than chandler would like.
— everyone thinks she's named after the character from friends and she's not. she's named after the neighborhood in detroit that her mom is from, and she wishes people would stop making friends jokes with her because she's never seen it before and doesn't ever intend to.
— she isn't entirely sure where she wants to go to college. as of right now, she's super partial to university of oregon, but she also applied to thirteen other schools, so she thinks she'll just figure it out when acceptances roll in.
[div style="0px; width:400px; height:auto; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; line-height:13px;"]chandler blake — this yellow soul needs summer rays, but tell me what blooms in the shade
— chandler elizabeth blake was born on september seventh to charles and leanne blake in norwalk, connecticut. her father runs his own accounting firm out of brooklyn, where the family is originally from, and her mother is an english teacher at one of norwalk's many private schools.
— chandler is the youngest of four, with three older brothers. xavier, the oldest, is five years older than chandler and is currently a student in howard university's medical school. caleb and cameron, the twins, are two years older than chandler and are sophomores at indiana university and brown university, respectively. they're all close, and now that chandler is the only one still at home, their groupchat is rarely ever not blowing up chandler's phone.
— the blakes are originally from brooklyn, but they moved to norwalk with leanne's job when the twins were a year old and xavier was four. even though chandler was the only blake child not born in brooklyn, she still reps it every chance she gets.
— she's gone to majority white schools her entire life and so at this point, it really doesn't even faze her. for elementary and middle school she went to a private catholic school, transferring to public school for high school because she swears she was tired of wearing uniforms everyday.
— she started cheering when she was five, participating in the same recreational league as the twins' football team. once the twins quit playing for that league, she started doing all-star cheer. she kept it up until her freshman year of high school, when she quit to join her school's team. she made varsity, mostly because she was the only underclassmen who could easily do a full twisting layout.
— chandler has a love-hate relationship with high school cheer; she never misses a practice but if she's crying on her finsta or private story, 9/10 it's about cheer. her number one grievance is every time that her coach has made her tumble on gym floor during a basketball game, but a close second is the fact that she is one of two black girls on a squad of about 20 girls.
— she's the senior captain this year and though she swears she's the worst captain in the history of cheer, she's not. a lot of it is just nerves, which may or may not have been cause by an incident with a spirit stick at nca camp the summer before her senior year.
— she has an abundance of cheer shoes, bows, and nike pros. she knows she probably has a problem at this point, as she can go three weeks without having to wash clothes for a clean pair of nike pros, but she insists it's not her fault that nike makes the best shorts for cheer. she's tried lululemon, but they just don't hit the same.
— even though her parents have money, they're the "we worked hard so you should work even harder" type, which is why chandler works at a nearby bubble tea shop to pay for anything that isn't school or cheer-related. she's worked there since her sophomore year, and she's pretty good at it. the only downside is that now her dad has a boba addiction, and is always asking her to make bubble tea for him at home, when she's clearly off the clock.
— the entirety of her high school career has just been teachers seeing her last name on the attendance sheet and asking her if she's related to xavier/cameron/caleb. most of the time she doesn't mind, but when she knows a teacher had one of her older brothers and didn't like them, she'll lie and let them put the pieces together after they've already decided they like her.
— despite the stereotype of the head cheerleader, she's actually a good student. for a while in sophomore year she was the girl who had the super colorful, studyblr-worthy notes, but once she realized she wasn't retaining any of that information, she dropped that pretty quickly. her favorite subject in school is mandarin whereas her least favorite is english, surprinsingly. she's really good at it, but after years of having an english teacher for a mother, she's really just over it.
— she doesn't like cheering during football season at all, because it's cold, it's outside, and she does not enjoy watching football at all. she gets through it, but only because she knows basketball season is right around the corner.
— her ideal friday night is cheering at a basketball game and going right home to see her dog, buffy. the blakes got buffy when chandler was ten, so she's old, but chandler doesn't care as long as buffy doesn't walk in her room, fart, and then leave, which happens more often than chandler would like.
— everyone thinks she's named after the character from friends and she's not. she's named after the neighborhood in detroit that her mom is from, and she wishes people would stop making friends jokes with her because she's never seen it before and doesn't ever intend to.
— she isn't entirely sure where she wants to go to college. as of right now, she's super partial to university of oregon, but she also applied to thirteen other schools, so she thinks she'll just figure it out when acceptances roll in.
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oh, what a time to be alive! — hub