Jannet

Jannet is a 16 year old girl who harbours a lot of deep-seated self-hatred. Roughly since the age of 13, she has gone through a cycle of trying new hobbies, failing catastrophically (in her eyes), giving up on said hobbies and wallowing in self loathing.

Jannet's primary theme is imperfection. Other themes associated with her are self destruction and justice.

I also associate her with the following motifs - Mirrors, especially broken ones, birds, especially pigeons, vultures and cuckoos, poison and poisonous animals, concrete and rebar, and the colors grey, green and brown.

Jannet is white, with deep green eyes and shoulder-length, brown hair. Her face is speckled with acne (missing in the ref seen here), she has prominent eyebags, and she has had braces since she was 14. She usually wears a dark grey pullover hoodie, grey sweatpants, and dull, mauve crocs.
Alternative outfits/clothing items include a near-black hoodie with a ribcage-like pattern, any outfit patterned after a species of bird (esp. pigeons, vultures and cuckoos), a slightly too large shirt that reads "Dodgebob Annihilator", and a t-shirt with a Garbodor graphic on the front.
She is generally uncomfortable with showing a lot of skin. She chooses her clothes mainly based on comfort - wearing crocs because they're easy to put on, avoiding jeans because she dislikes the feel of denim... things like that. Her style tends towards being more masculine in general.

Jannet, on particularly bad days, has a tendency to be rude, mean, and quick to anger. Usually, however, she's more sullen and distant.

However, Jannet has a strong sense of justice. She is particularly fond of pigeons, seeing them as delightful birds maligned by wider society with such foul monikers as "rats with wings". But her strong sense of justice is not exclusive to pigeons - she just has a tendency to immediately offer to help people in general. When the question, "Who will bell the cat?" is broached, Jannet raises her hand.

Jannet lives with her single mom, Margaret. The few times Jannet inquired about her dad when she was younger, she noticed that it would make hr mom upset for the rest of the day. Now, Jannet doesn't really care for any potential dad, over the mom she already has.

She has an odd relationship with love. She is starved for affection but doesn't acknowledge that she is and actively rejects it usually, and she can feel love but doesn't believe she can due to her self loathing.

Anecdotes

The Sour Gummy Worm Incident

Ok, so when Jannet was a kid, she loved sour gummy worms. So much so that she would search for any excuse to get her grubby grippers on them. (She also had more friends and touched more grass)
So when she was around eight, she and her old childhood friend group had this sort of kid LARPing sort of thing they did where they'd pretend to be sorcerers and stuff. Jannet played as a bird mage, who got her magic from her "inner bird" ("Like an inner child but a bird. Y'know."). This inner bird - and as a consequence, her magic - was fueled by eating (gummy) worms.
At the end of a minor school holiday, Jannet's LARPing friend group organized this big fight against some sort of big boss monster. Jannet, to prepare, brought as many gummy worms as she could. By the time the big fight was over, lil' baby eight year old Jannet had eaten so many gummy worms that she fell ill.
From that day on - her mother, worried that Jannet would overindulge in her favourite snack again, made it clear: no more sour gummy worms.

AITA for my mom's terrible birthday?

Why Jannet stopped baking.

I (16F) have been thinking on this incident and I still feel guilty about it
So about a year or so ago, I got wayyyyy into baking. I had a big old cookbook, and I just did it for fun when I had the chance, and baked all sorts of things like muffins, banana bread, cookies
Anyways, at the time, my mom's (57F) birthday was coming up and I had the "brilliant" idea to bake her a cake. I should have known better, the closest thing I ever got to making a cake was making cupcakes
So I wanted to make a red velvet cake with three layers. I baked the cakes, made the icing while it was baking, stacked the layers on top of each other and laid the icing on. It already looked pretty scuffed
I wanted to add sprinkles, but while I was looking through the cabinet for the sprinkle sprinkler, I glanced over my shoulder only to spot my cake collapsing, to my mounting horror. The top layer fell on the counter and could not be saved and had to be thrown out. The rest of the cake looked terrible, but I couldn't not serve my mom a cake for her birthday
After cleaning up the icing that had gotten all over the kitchen, I was thinking of ways to fix it up, when I noticed my mom was coming home early. All I could do was put on the sprinkles and the candles and present my failure to her. This is why I don't bake anymore
AITA for not doing anything to fix the cake?

AITA for ditching my cousin's wedding to chase after a dove?

An Am I The Asshole story, written from the perspective of a 14 year old Jannet.

Ok, so I(14F) went with my mom(55F) to my cousin(24F)'s wedding. Admittedly, I don't really get weddings. The food's alright, but otherwise they're kinda boring IMHO. Anyways, I sat there as my cousin and her soon-to-be husband made their vows. They said their vows, and that's when the doves were released
I've been reading about pigeons. Doves are just white pigeons. And these doves have no homing instinct and no survival skills. I could not let these birds go.
So I bolted out of my chair, raced after the nearest dove into the woods. It landed in a tree near the edge of the forest, and I lured it down with some food (I always have some sort of bird food in my pockets, just in case). It had gotten close enough for me to nab it when I heard my mom chasing after me, yelling "What do you think you're doing!?" I wasn't sure exactly what I was gonna say, when my mom just said that we were gonna go back to the wedding. I brought the dove with me
When we got back, the wedding was ending and my boomer aunt confronted my mom about trying to get me under control or something. My mom was dealing with none of it, and after a few minutes she said something along the lines of "I'm tired." and we went to the car. I still had the dove. She drove a few miles away and then stopped, before saying, "We aren't keeping that bird in the house." I told her to find a pigeon-friendly shelter so we could drop it off because the dove could not survive in the wild. She sighed, found a nearby shelter and drove there to drop off the pigeon. We got home at like eight
Now the family group chat is blowing up about how I made a scene by running after the doves. I feel bad for my mom for dealing with all this but today kinda knocked the wind out of me
tl;dr: I chased after some doves that were released at my cousin's wedding so they wouldn't be doomed, and this caused a big stink among my family. AITA?

Plot Synopses

The Magical Girl AU

A story where Jannet, aided by a rat-shaped alien and maybe some friends, goes up against an alien invasion as a garbage-themed magical girl.

When Jannet pretends to throw herself away as a self-deprecating joke, she instead finds an odd ratlike creature. This critter introduces itself as Foyle, and through a currently-unknown mechanism, allows her to become a garbage-themed magical girl. Foyle then instructs Jannet to fight an encroaching fleet of shiny invading aliens known as the Illustrous. The Illustrous claim that they're attempting to "liberate humanity from itself", but the truth is that the invading Illustrous are so obsessed with beauty that they've decided to destroy everything "ugly" in the universe... and they find humans to be ugly.

Maybe any allies of Jannet that also become magical girls are also themed around garbage of some kind - for example, a kid from a coastal city whose magical girl form is themed around fish skeletons. This might change, though because I'm not sure if I can think of ways to come up with themes/themed outfits that still tie into the overarching garbage theme, especially considering one particular character that could join Jannet in her magical girl escapades.

Jannet's companion and mentor, Foyle, is also an Illustrous. At first, Jannet doesn't realize this because the Illustrous she's been fighting all kinda look like giant jellyfish, or perhaps other sea creatures. As it turns out, Illustrous have a reproductive cycle similar to ferns and mosses - the small, rat-sized and rat-shaped Foyle is a haploid, whereas the towering jellyfish-shaped Illustrous are diploids. In fact, Foyle is one of the parents of the main antagonist - General Dastar, the Illustrous general in charge of the genocide of humanity. Foyle genuinely opposes Dastar, but it starts the story having internalized some of the Illustrous's beauty-obsessed ideology. The difference between Foyle and Dastar is that Dastar believes that beauty is inherent to its species and that the Illustrous will be beautiful in all situations, whereas Foyle believes that beauty is an idea to strive towards, and that the Illustrous should maintain a "beautiful mind" (ie. act as mentors and good examples to other sophonts), which Dastar is not.

Perhaps Jannet's mom Margaret eventually finds Foyle and learns about Jannet's whole magical girl shenanigans. Upon learning this, Margaret's main concerns are Jannet's safety, her autonomy (she's worried that Jannet is being coerced into fighting the Illustrous - which is sort of true near the beginning of the story, but given the choice, Jannet would continue fighting and being a magical girl, because she can't stand to be a bystander when it comes to the Illustrous issue.), and her grades (Jannet's retort to this is that her grades won't matter if the Illustrous get their way). This might motivate Margaret to become a magical girl alongside Jannet to ensure the latter's safety.