Why won't this script find the player's character?

Assuming p ends up ultimately becoming the player, why won't this script find the appropriate player's character and do the appropriate effects to them?

        func = function( p ) -- functions go HERE
            print(p.Name .. " GOT REKT")
		local playername = p.Name
		local Character = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(playername)
		local farasound = game.ServerStorage.LOL:Clone()
		farasound.Parent = Character.Torso
		Character.Torso.Velocity = Vector3.new(0,879,0)
		end

Well, you could find the Character of a player using

player.Character

Just adding onto what Volo said.

func = function( p ) -- functions go HERE
print(p.Name .. " GOT REKT")
local Character = p.Character
local farasound = game.ServerStorage.LOL:Clone()
farasound.Parent = Character.Torso
Character.Torso.Velocity = Vector3.new(0,879,0)
end

What you did was you used FindFirstChild to find the Player's name in the Workspace. I'm not entirely sure if that would even work, but I'm assuming it doesn't.

A more efficient method for getting the player's character would be using player.Character.

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