username: OrangeSocks
name: Celeste
why does she collect knives:
When you currently hold the record for fastest tomato slicing in the world, you have to keep your game up! Celeste practices whenever she has a chance, or just show off her skill (which is why she also carries around tomatoes in her backpack). I guess she's just paranoid that someone will beat her record? Or maybe she's just obsessed with getting faster and faster.
I guess you may want to know how the heck this teen got in the record book for slicing tomatoes, when you'd think it would be some famous chef... No, Celeste is not a chef, but we can all blame her skill on her older brother. Left alone with his sibling, Celeste's brother didn't see a problem with leaving his tween sister alone in the kitchen, especially in the middle of slicing tomatoes for dinner (he was making some weird salad). Celeste, seeing the thing she was not supposed to touch left out, couldn't resist. She started to mess with the tomato. She tried to make the slices as thin as possible, moving onto faster. This obviously ended up with her almost chopping her paw off, but even in the ER getting stitches, Celeste couldn't stop smiling. After this first incident Celeste would snatch time to practice slicing things, it became an obsession. When she was old enough for her parents to give in and let her help with meals, they were surprised at her knife work. Celeste never formally fessed up to her practice time, but the whole family has an idea of how she got so good. Tomatoes, being the first thing she tried slicing, became her main focus and her brother, taking pride in her skill after getting over blaming himself for the ER trip entered her into the record books.
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