There was more to the pretty face than what anyone knew,there was more to that emotive face,riddled with heavy gothic make-up than what we knew,There was more to Tionna than what we really Knew-how do i know this? I have been there too..

The first time i saw this photo on  her blog “Guilty Conscious” i was filled with a sense of dread, i felt an almost eerie chill course through my spine, Was Tiona an Emotive Hardcore? was she emoting? Was she a screamo? what kind of music was Tiona listening to? was she listening to a sub-genre of darrk rock music? Well, Emo according to the online dictionary is a ‘genre of music combining traditional hardrock with personal and emotional lyrics’ it sounds like rocket-science lingo right? This genre of music is typically associated with depressed teens, it offers them lyrics that they can relate to, overtime, it has adverse effects as the victim gives up on life and contemplates suicide.. 

Why the dark make-up?? compare with the Emo below..

I made an excuse to go though her personal blog cum diary, there wasn’t a happy article that the late Tionna ever wrote, all her articles were etched on a state of despondency, they were escape from pain, writing for her had some sort of catharsis, it purged from within her soul, the emptiness and the pain that was her life. Only her could understand her. The blog has been written in the first person point of view (I) its all about her, with random deviations to the reference “You” when she was reffering to someone that had apparently broken her heart-

Here is an excerpt from her blog at Tumblr that you can access here

I decided to do some research on what can be classified as emo/gothic or just plain ‘poserish’ ..

“Emo’s write poetry, unusual you may think from looking at them.  My first impression was , well I cant really pinpoint the exact feelings, enough to put into words, but , Emo’s , they can.  They have a gift of being able to express themselves through their poetry and their music.  They do not hold back, they are able to transfer their inner emotion , however dark , into beautiful poetry“- refer to the kind of poetry that she was writing- 

What about body piercings?

Emo’s definately love piercings, did Tiona have piercings too? 

Yes she did, look closely at her upper lip area…

The tell tale dark hair, ofcourse you may dismiss this as a harmless fashion fad… but..

“Their hair is almost always an unnatural colour , generally jet black , this is to express their feelings. If they are in a real dark mood their hair will stay jet black, though many emo’s will colour their hair“

Now, Emos are suicidal, when they get too entangled and engrossed into the Emo thing they turn onto themselves, and commit suicide as a last resort to escape from themselves, there is quite a lot of documentation if you look in the right places of teenagers who have slit their wrists and bled to death, it is known as “self-Mutilation” 

Emo’s keep to themselves, while this may be fallacious considering that the Emo movement in Kenya is not that wide-spread, we cannot totally ignore the last post that Tionna wrote:

“I have never felt so suicidal in my life, A couple of years ago I was because, of the situation with my mum, but now, Its just more convincing… I do love life, and the thought of being happy, but when will that thought or dream become reality? The more problems that come in, the more the thoughts get worse… Maybe hanging myself or cutting both wrists might be the answer to all of this.. The Black Sheep must fall eventually..” – Tionna

I have a strong feeling that there is more to her than we knew,there was more to that pretty face than was evident- 

In so many Words-

RIP Tionna-