Cherie "Cherry" Elisabeth Tracy

Born: May 3, 2054
Current Age: 14
Position: Oldest child and only daughter of Dianne Tracy, only girl in Tracy children.

First born child and only daughter of Richard and Dianne Koch, Cherry was eight, nearly nine, when her father died. Of Dianne's three children, she retains the strongest memories of her natural father and they are not colored by nostalgia, but are clear and truthful, often revealing sides of Richard that her brothers either do not know or have forgotten.

When the family moved to Tracy Island in 2066, Cherry mourned the loss of her friends and budding social life, but tried to make the best of the move. She made herself useful, claiming the job and title of Island mail carrier, and generally helping Ruth Tracy and Kyrano in the kitchen, and her mother in the infirmary. She was ecstatic to see the romance between her mother and Jeff Tracy blossom and welcomed the idea of Jeff as first her stepfather and then her adoptive father. She soon accepted him and his role in her life wholeheartedly and he was thrilled to finally have the daughter he craved for so long. Jeff alone in the family calls her "Princess".

Since the adoption, she has grown close to her oldest brother, Scott, as well as developing a good relationship with her new grandmother, Ruth Tracy. She has managed to keep up with her friends back home through computer messaging and planned get-togethers. Her nickname and her silliness caused her friends to call her "Fruitcake" a name that she does not like to be called outside her circle of friends.

Cherry is a sensitive, intelligent and very feminine child, artistic and a voracious reader. She likes outdoor pursuits to a point, and gets along well with her brothers, especially Alex. Her chattiness amuses the denizens of the Villa, and she is beginning to look at the opposite sex in a more romantic way. Fashion is starting to be important to her; a development that puts her in conflict with her mother who prefers her daughter to wear more modest clothes and still has veto power over what Cherry purchases to wear. She makes friends easily but is picky about the friends she chooses. The isolation of the island is becoming a sore spot with her, and she is endeavoring to find ways of making new friends while maintaining contact with her old ones, especially with her cousin, Stephanie, to whom she is very close.

Her favorite subject is art, and she can often be found creating new and fantastic creatures in her sketch books, usually in a manga style. She has been an A-B student in all of her other subjects during junior high and now into high school.

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