• Hamia Riyah Aboud
  • Confident little firecracker.
  • Likes boys a lot.
  • Loves summer nights on the beach, thanks to growing up on the Isle of Wight.
  • Very emotionally aware and stable.
  • Protective, always tends to be looking after the others.
  • Having experienced some life-threatening infections in her early teens, never takes a day for granted.
  • Will take part in organising pretty much anything.
  • Not afraid to speak her mind.
  • Enjoys reading a wide range of fiction, especially outside or curled up in bed.
  • Gets excited about pretty colours in the sky and random little celebrations.
  • Loves her job as a youth worker in secondary schools.
  • The sort of person anyone would call if they just need someone to talk to.
  • Makes really good coffee.
  • Proud of her Lebanese culture.

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• Jasdeep “Jas” Akter
  • Generally nervous boy.
  • Plays with an elastic band on his wrist when he’s worried about something.
  • Comes alive on a night out.
  • Terrified of commitment and messing things up with someone he really likes.
  • Tends to run away from situations when they start to get to serious.
  • Enjoys working with numbers.
  • Loves a good suit and a pair of brogues.
  • Found his traditional upbringing stifling, and felt like he couldn’t be open about his sexuality.

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• Reena Akter
  • Emotionally insecure introvert.
  • Wants to not be alone, but the thought of being with other people is overwhelmingly scary for her.
  • Particularly scared that she wants too much from relationships and people will just find her annoying.
  • ADHDer.
  • Easily bored, particularly of working, and constantly jumps between hobbies and interests.
  • Manages to find some peace of mind through yoga and adventure sports.

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• Leslie “Elle” Bereiter
  • Sweet, benevolent girl from a messed up family with criminal tendencies.
  • Feels like she hasn’t had much choice over the direction her life has taken.
  • Too much responsibility from a very young age.
  • Mostly overlooked mathematical / technical genius.
  • Likes sex a lot, and is very good at it.
  • Very impressive tattoo ‘collection’ from her neck the whole way down her back.
  • Always working out, especially running and weight lifting.
  • Usually handles things really well, occasionally crashes and self-medicates with alcohol and antidepressants.
  • Has heterochromia, which she grew up believing was because she was cursed somehow.
  • Loves night time and the sound of rain on glass.
  • Enjoys getting lost in new cities whenever she gets the opportunity.
  • Prioritises taking care of her body over pretty much anything else in life, outside of her loved ones.
  • Doesn’t like causing trouble, despite that being pretty normal in her family.
  • Writes a lot of notes about life.

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• Maeve Laurence Jeffs
  • Gentle queer, autistic girl.
  • Has a lot of patience for the people she cares about, but basically none for anyone else.
  • Once she falls in love with someone she never falls out.
  • Wealthy yet dysfunctional parents didn’t want her, so she was basically raised by Esther’s mum.
  • Basically left to her own devices whenever she was at home as a kid.
  • Highly sensitive but tries to shrug it off.
  • Will pretty much love any show or book if it features good queer content.
  • Became obsessed with ancient civilisations, because Esther was, and has been fascinated ever since.
  • Really specific about clothes, will only wear items which are plain black or black with a coloured floral design.
  • Except for Dr. Martens, which she has a large collection of in every colour.
  • Smoked an excessive amount as a teenager, slowly trying to stop.
  • Has accidentally formed a habit of looking after really drunk people in clubs.
  • Does not trust the world because she has lost too many important people.

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• Kelly Ayorochukwu Johnson
  • Mature and capable yet playful boy.
  • Experienced poverty, loss and his father’s mental ill health at a young age.
  • Not confident in his ability to improve his life.
  • Still tries to get through every day with a smile on his face.
  • Loves classic rock and making Nigerian and Caribbean food.
  • Spent a lot of his childhood running about in the park.
  • Likes the sun and the rain, but not so keen on anything in the middle.
  • Very much a city boy.
  • Careful, but always seems to drop and smash phones.
  • Good in a crisis.

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• Kieran Emil Jake Jones
  • Trans-boy, musician and nature-lover.
  • Spent his teens and most of his twenties hopelessly in love with his childhood best friend.
  • Constantly drinks herbal teas.
  • Never without a tangled pair of headphones.
  • Loves writing music, cosy jumpers, mushrooms, flowers, frogs, moths and unicorns.
  • Forages.
  • Always wears black nail polish, jeans and white trainers.
  • Linkin Park got him through his hardest times growing up.
  • Covers his room with Polaroid photos of his loved ones.

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• Theo Mathew Jones
  • Messy little hurricane.
  • Very, very dependent, with a string of disastrous relationships in his past.
  • Will get into trouble in any way he conceivably can.
  • Quite possibly has several undiagnosed personality disorders.

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• Angus David Malone
  • Middle child who uses humour for everything.
  • Very protective of his younger sister.

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• Niamh Julianne Malone
  • All-around lovely human being.
  • Gets most joy from helping other people, and loves her job as a nurse.
  • Serious struggles with self-hate and body image.
  • Rejection of queer identity led to her marrying an older man at 20.
  • Experienced continual abuse throughout her two-year marriage.
  • Managed to piece her life back together following their divorce, and started to learn how to like herself.

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• Maximilian “Max” George Enderby Manning
  • Maeve’s straight, male counterpart.
  • Absorbed by music, and spends a lot of time creating and mixing it.
  • Slightly punk to distract from the fact he’s just a hopeless romantic at heart.

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• Daniel “Danny” Edward Maurer
  • Daydreamy, philosophical autistic boy.
  • Aims to see and experience as many different things as possible in his life.

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• Mila Amelia Mitchell McAllister
  • Honestly too good for this world.
  • Autistic ADHDer.
  • Developmental delays from childhood led to her believing that she’s not as smart as other people.
  • Genuinely sees the good in everyone and likes to let them know how amazing they are.
  • Queer, asexual and polyamorous.
  • Takes everything very literally.
  • Can be way too trusting and extremely vulnerable to people’s bad intentions.
  • Special interests include Stranger Things, Nirvana, Hayley Kiyoko, the beach and glass art.
  • Finds it easiest to express herself through glass art because words and feelings don’t always match.

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• Rose Elise McGinty
  • Insecure girl who definitely doesn’t mean to keep pressing ‘self destruct’ but seems to be pretty good at it.
  • Grew up afraid of getting anything wrong.
  • When things kept going wrong anyway, she sort of gave up trying.
  • Lost her identical twin when she was 10.
  • Loves Taylor Swift, baking and flowers.

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• Lilianna “Lilia” Rose Petie
  • Damaged girl who eventually learned that if you keep going, things actually do get better one day.
  • Would never hurt anyone other than herself.
  • Afraid of physical touch to the extent that it makes her feel physically sick.
  • Former emo / alt kid, whose aesthetic is now mostly icy blue and grey everything.
• Self-taught painter who doesn’t realise how good she is.
  • Listens to Wolf Alice a lot.

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• Elizabeth “Eliza” Sophie Reilly
  • Daydreamer and gamer girl.
  • Thinks of herself as being a very boring and average person.
  • Spent a lot of her childhood and teens alone because she tended to be teased by other kids.
  • Loves Kawaii, Japanese and South Korean culture, and pastel colours.
  • Has an amazing gaming setup, which she’s dedicated a lot of time to upgrading.

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• Esther Margarita Rollins
  • Sensible good girl turned confused adult in inertia.
  • Grew up academically gifted and always found school work easy.
  • Her mental health declined after her friend died when she was 15.
  • Experiences auditory and occasionally visual hallucinations.
  • Sometimes struggles with extreme dysphoric thoughts brought on by psychosis.
  • Fascinated by ancient history and long-lost civilisations.
  • Reads a lot of classic literature.
  • Feels most at home in a cosy coffee shop drinking a warm mocha.
  • Afraid of wasting her potential and getting too caught up in her own head.

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• Sienna Sarah Stone
  • Fiery, self-assured and independent.
  • Anger issues.
  • The ‘VSCO girl’ aesthetic somehow still looks good on her.
  • Likes weed a lot.

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• Cobie Lin Jing Xiao
  • Constant and reliable, and very good at holding things together.
  • Naturally able to defuse difficult situations.