Zoe Thomson

Zoe Isabelle Thomson(Chinese: 程 生活 Pinyin: Chéng Shēng Huó) is the main protagonist of The Secondary School Choir. She is 13-years-old in Year 7 and sings Alto.

Appearance
She is shown to have medium length dark brown hair with slightly curly bangs moved to the right, large brown eyes and fair skin with a slight tan. She wears a red polo shirt, black jeans and white shoes. Her sleepwear consists of the same shirt she wears everyday and white shorts. She stands on 5 ft. 1 and is of average weight. She and Kenneth have larger eyes than their older brothers.

Personality
At first she is shy and gets nervous easily. Mostly around George who has a crush on her. Later in the series, she develops confidence around her new friends. She is kind and caring as shown when she shows concern to her brothers even though she is the second youngest. She is also immature and playful and has a good sense of humor. She is described as a prodigy as shown when she takes notes and passes every exam which causes her to be a victim of Annika's bullying. She is also described as a tomboy because she grows up with a lot of brothers. Zoe doesn't enjoy Spice Girls because of their influence as of 'Power of an Alto.'

Etymology
Her first name, Zoe means "life" in Greek. From early times it was adopted by Hellenized Jews as a translation of EVE. It was borne by two early Christian saints, one martyred under Emperor Hadrian, the other martyred under Diocletian. The name was common in the Byzantine Empire, being borne by a ruling empress of the 11th century.

Her middle name, Isabelle  is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name Isabelle is: My God is bountiful;God of plenty.

Her Chinese name, 程 生活(Pinyin: Chéng Shēng Huó) literally means life(生活) to reflect her English first name, Zoe.

Her last name, Thomson is named after a new Singaporean train line, Thomson East Coast line which sounds British.

Abilities
Zoe is an alto in the choir as she is described as having an angelic voice. She is also good at football and Frisbee. She is also the only member of the family to have powers as she is shown to have telekinesis. She is also good in art.

Trivia

 * Zoe is right-handed as shown when she holds her chopsticks or pencil
 * Zoe speaks in a Cockney accent mixed with a slight Manchester accent
 * Zoe is of Nordic, German, Irish, French, Greek and British descent on her father's side and Chinese(Hong Kong) on her mother's side in order to show British history in the series
 * However, it is unknown what Nordic country she has descended from but because her ethnicity is to portray English history, it might be possible if she is of Swedish or Norwegian descent because of the viking raid of England
 * She is of German descent because the Saxons are German and how in both World Wars, the German Reich(WW1) and Nazi Germany(WW2) invaded the UK
 * She is of Irish descent because of how the British didn't help the Irish during the famine
 * Shee is of French descent because the British started the 100 years war
 * She is of Greek descent because Blake's actor, Blake Richardson is of Greek descent
 * She is of Chinese(Hong Kong) descent because of the opium wars and how the British took Hong Kong during that time before returning it to China in 1997
 * Originally she was going to be of Spanish descent to show the War Against Spain but it was cut for unknown reasons
 * Zoe doesn't enjoy the PPAP song because it's annoying
 * Zoe having telekinesis might be inspired by Eleven from Stranger Things or Matilda from the book Matilda