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Riley Elphaba Andersen is the overarching protagonist and location for her emotions of the Disney/Pixar Inside Out franchise. ## Personality Gender: Female Age: 11(1st Movie), 13(second movie) Appearance: In the first film, Riley is an 11-year-old preteen (later 12) with a slender figure. She has shoulder-length, dirty-blonde hair and cornflower-blue eyes. Both her parents have brown hair and brown eyes, implying that both the dirty-blonde hair and cornflower-blue eyes are recessive traits. She has very faint freckles around her nose, and she also has a noticeable gap between her two front teeth. In the second film, Riley is now 13 years old. Her hair becomes a lighter blonde and has grown longer, and she puts it up in a ponytail, just like her mother. She also has braces on her teeth, and an acne mark on her chin to signify her transition into puberty. Riley is seen wearing a different outfit daily. When first shown in the teaser trailer, she wore a long-sleeved shirt with thin horizontal red, yellow, and light green zigzag lines, brown pants, and red Converse sneakers. On her first day of school, she wore the same outfit but a yellow jacket. When Riley suffered a brain freeze, she wore a solid pink short-sleeved shirt, blue jeans, and green Converse sneakers. Arriving in San Francisco, she wore a long-sleeved rainbow shirt, blue jeans, and pink socks. When Riley's Personality Islands break down and she enters depression, her outfit consists of a black hoodie, black shirt, black jeans, and dark shoes. Riley's pajamas consisted of a green short-sleeved shirt with blue trim featuring a koala bear on the front and dark blue sweatpants. In the second film, her pajamas consist of her dad's old 'Brang' t-shirt and black sweatpants. In the second film, her wardrobe currently consists of a mint green t-shirt mixed with pastel blue, purple, and light yellow, a blue hoodie, black leggings, white socks with yellow and purple stripes, and black Chuck Converse-style sneakers with white soles. Personality: Riley's emotions contribute to her primary behaviors in the film. Overall, Riley is an upbeat, honest, and goofy person when she is content. However, in adolescence, Riley becomes more sentimental, shy, and uncertain of herself as her other emotions begin to appear. By the time her family moves to San Francisco, she starts to be more troubled, irked, and lonely. Her emotions at this point try to help her get adjusted to the new life. Riley can second-guess herself, but she doesn't always repent her actions. Riley really misses Minnesota and is unable to cope with the transition. However, Riley is afraid to tell her parents her true feelings as they want her to accept the new home and because she has always been their "happy girl". As time goes on, however, Riley becomes emotionally vulnerable, entering a sort of numb state of mind and coming to the point where she tries to run away, almost losing herself in the process. But it is here that she realizes that she has almost given up on the things that matter most to her in life, and realizes the risk just in time. Returning home and admitting to her parents that she's greatly depressed, Riley learns to accept San Francisco when her parents comfort her over the personal loss, and Riley (with the guidance of her emotions) eventually adapts to her new home in San Francisco. With Riley's emotions now working all together and without one superseding the other, it would seem she had reached emotional stability. However, once she reaches puberty, she starts to feel her emotions more deeply, with any emotional stimulus, for more small it was, being multiplied. After learning her best friends wouldn't go to the same high school as her, Riley's behavior suffered a sudden change, with her usual upbeat and happy demeanor becoming anxious, as she tries desperately to make the hockey team of her future high school and be friends with a new crowd so she wouldn't be alone to the point of abandoning her old friends and feeling embarrassed whenever she tries to express her true feelings. Her desire to become friends with the popular girls caused her anxiety to become even worse, as she started to change everything about her to better blend in, even if that meant to do things she didn't like. After learning the coach deemed her not ready for the team, Riley started to project everything that could go wrong, leading her to have the idea to outdo Val, the best player, when she was a freshman. However, that caused Riley to feel like she was not good enough, leading her to act selfish during the final game and accidentally hurt one of her best friends. Eventually, Riley's anxiety culminated in a big anxiety attack. Only when she vented her worries to her old friends and they reassured her they would never stop being friends, Riley was able to finally find her joyful self and let go of her anxiety. Parents: Jill Andersen (mother), Bill Andersen (father) Home: Minneapolis, Minnesota (formerly), San Francisco, California Likes: Sports (mainly ice hockey), humor, her old life in Minnesota, friendship, pizza, dogs, cats, her parents, her new life in San Francisco, listening to music, boy bands, tragic vampire romance novels, science, Bloofy's House, Lance Slashblade, selfies. Dislikes: Her new life in San Francisco (formerly), broccoli, the basement, her grandma's vacuum cleaner, clowns, spiders, her parents embarrassing her, flies, bears, mice, homework, protein bars. Full name: Riley Elphaba Andersen Occupation: Middle school student (formerly), High school student, Hockey team member.