[name_f]Petunia[/name] [name_f]Mei[/name] “Tuney” Chandler (7) is a classmate of [name_u]Vinnie[/name]'s. She was adopted from China was she was a few months old by two loving fathers. She sees [name_u]Vinnie[/name] often because she also skates and wishes to become a figure skater one day. When she’s not at the rink or at school, Tuney likes playing with the family German Shepard, [name_u]Kova[/name].
[name_f]Oceana[/name_f] [name_f]Cosette[/name_f] [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_m]Knox[/name_m] ( 7 ) is a classmate of both Tuney and [name_u]Vinnie[/name_u]. [name_f]Oceana[/name_f] is very shy at first but is extremely kind and hardworking. She enjoys taking dance classes and [name_u]Jazz[/name_u], Acro, and Ballet are her favorites. [name_f]Oceana[/name_f]’s mother a single mom since she lost her father in a car accident and [name_f]Oceana[/name_f] also has an older sister she extremely admires. [name_f]Oceana[/name_f] owns a black cat named [name_m]Alfredo[/name_m] and wants to adopt another cat as soon as possible.
Kathleen “[name_f]Kate[/name_f]” [name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_m]Knox[/name_m] (43) is [name_f]Oceana[/name_f]’s mother. She’s an OB/GYN and loves her job because it allows her to help so many women and children. She also loves to listen to jazz music and go mountain biking. She’s recently started dating again, although she wants to wait a while before she introduces her boyfriend to her daughters.
[name_f]Lilith[/name_f] “[name_f]Lily[/name_f]” [name_f]Venus[/name_f] [name_f]Eileen[/name_f] ( 15 ) is the daughter of [name_f]Kate[/name_f] and the older sister of [name_f]Oceana[/name_f]. She currently is a high school freshman and is on her school’s cheerleading squad and basketball team. She is also a part of her school’s environmental club. [name_f]Lily[/name_f] wants to study marine biology after high school and be able to travel in the future for work. [name_f]Lily[/name_f] just got a girlfriend and has not told her family yet.
[name_u]Jay[/name] Jieun Son Timbre (16) is [name_f]Lily[/name]'s aforementioned girlfriend. She’s a high school sophomore and is on the school’s varsity volleyball team. She’s also part of the school’s debate club. She is the second eldest of four siblings whom are all adopted. She has two loving mothers. She resents her mothers for taking out of her culture, but she still loves them. She has a pet budgie named Siren.
[name_f]Linnea[/name_f] ‘Lel’ [name_f]Elise[/name_f] Timbre (15) is [name_u]Jay[/name_u]'s younger sibling. They’ve just begun attending high school and are already involved in the school’s arts club, having a keen interest in sculpting and incorporating recycled materials into their pieces, being a dedicated environmentalist. Lel was adopted by their mothers when they were six and still has unpleasant memories of their upbringing, which they’ve been helping them address recently.
Ellis [name_m]Keitaro[/name_m] Timbre (19) is the eldest sibling, who’s known by his middle name. He’s just begun attending the San [name_m]Francisco[/name_m] [name_m]Art[/name_m] Institute, after deferring for a year to get work experience and work through some anxiety he’d been experiencing. [name_m]Keitaro[/name_m] speaks Japanese fluently, having asked his parents for lessons when he was seven, always having been confident in asking questions and hopes to take a year of study there. He wants to become an illustrator or conceptual designer for video games, who also has a passion for baking and hiking, often going for long walks to help clear his mind.
Arianell ‘[name_f]Nell[/name_f]’ [name_f]Quintana[/name_f] Villaflor (19) is [name_m]Keitaro[/name_m]’s girlfriend who met him at university. [name_f]Nell[/name_f]’s father is Spanish and her mother’s Welsh, with her being raised in Carmarthen, until she decided to attend school abroad as her paternal aunt lives in San [name_m]Francisco[/name_m]; which reassured her parents, whom [name_f]Nell[/name_f] shares a close bond with. She’s a graphic designer who enjoys making jewelry, writing poems and playing with her cat, a tortoiseshell named [name_m]Humphrey[/name_m].
[name_m]Silas[/name_m] [name_m]Donovan[/name_m] Timbre ( 12 ) is [name_f]Nell[/name_f]’s boyfriend [name_m]Keitaro[/name_m]’s younger brother. [name_m]Silas[/name_m] is the youngest sibling and is closest to his sister [name_u]Jay[/name_u]. He enjoys playing baseball with his friends but has a hard time in school concentrating. [name_m]Silas[/name_m] enjoys cooking and reading comic books about his favorite characters. [name_m]Silas[/name_m] has been asking his mothers to adopt a kitten to join their family and wants to name the cat [name_m]Hercules[/name_m] if it’s a boy or [name_u]Ari[/name_u] if it’s a girl.
Yekaterina “[name_f]Kat[/name]” Petrovna Kuvayeva (12) is a classmate of [name_m]Silas[/name] and a friend of his. Her parents immigrated from Russia when she was four. She is an only child and enjoys playing soccer with the boys, which leads to a lot of scraped knees and injuries. [name_f]Kat[/name] knows that her mother wishes she was more ‘girly,’ but soccer’s so much more fun than sitting around and being dainty. She has a best friend who’s her polar opposite, but they care about each other nontheless.
Windsor ‘[name_f]Dora[/name_f]’ [name_u]Marie[/name_u] Candlish (12) is [name_f]Kat[/name_f]’s best friend. A contrast to [name_f]Kat[/name_f] in every single way, [name_f]Dora[/name_f]’s always wearing a pink clothing item, is being taught to embroider by her grandma, and attends ballet class twice a week. She’s one of five children, being the second youngest (and isn’t always fond of this status), but escapes the hectic environment of home to her grandma’s house, where she regularly hangs out with her best friend. In spite of her aversion to most sports, [name_f]Dora[/name_f] is a keen swimmer, and the close to her family’s house is a perfect place for her and [name_f]Kat[/name_f] to explore.
[name_u]Tiernan[/name_u] [name_f]Amanda[/name_f] Candlish (21) is the eldest Candlish sibling, who’s currently living in [name_u]Colorado[/name_u] to attend university, where they’re studying biochemistry and are on placement at a pharmacy currently. [name_u]Tiernan[/name_u] loves the outdoors, with rock climbing, snowboarding and parkour being their primary hobbies. They’ve just been employed at a gaming cafe known as All Nighter and room with their girlfriend and two friends in a small house. [name_u]Tiernan[/name_u]'s also the proud owner of two gerbils: Pancake and Bon-Bon. Although they like the space of being away from home, they make sure to keep in regular contact with their family.
Caitlin Arielle Brooks (22) is Tiernan’s girlfriend. She attends the same university as them and is a current senior studying political science with a minor in communications. Her family lives nearby but she chose to move out and live with roommates to get some adult life experience. She does visit them once a week for Saturday night dinner and game night to which Tiernan is also invited. She works in the campus library and runs an Instagram for Tiernan’s gerbils.
Yoonah ‘[name_u]Ashley[/name]’ Kim (21) is a roommate and friend of [name_f]Caitlin[/name] and [name_u]Tiernan[/name]. She is also studying biochemistry and met [name_u]Tiernan[/name] through being lab partners with them. She is on a premed track and is planning on becoming a neurosurgeon. She has a younger brother in South Korea. When she’s not with her roommates and friends, [name_u]Ashley[/name] can be found in her school’s a capella group, singing her heart out. She’s dating the leader, so there’s that, too.
Dorea “[name_f]Rea[/name_f]” [name_f]Amelie[/name_f] [name_m]Perkins[/name_m] (23) is [name_f]Ashely[/name_f], [name_u]Tiernan[/name_u], and [name_f]Caitlin[/name_f]’s roommate. She used to attend the same university but dropped out to pursue a career as an author after her first book was a success. She is currently writing the second book in her YA sci-fi series and has a large twitter following due to her complex and interesting characters. She prefers to go out to cafe’s to work and is very secretive about what will happen next in the story.
Pearl [name_u]Artemis[/name_u] Hodgekiss (22) is [name_f]Rea[/name_f]’s close friend and the person who encouraged her to pursue getting her first book published. She’s also [name_u]Ashley[/name_u]’s girlfriend and aspires to become an opera singer, dedicating most of her current time to practice for upcoming auditions now she’s on the verge of finishing her music degree. [name_f]Pearl[/name_f] wants to get a place for her and [name_u]Ashley[/name_u], as she’s a very private person who hides her fears and anxieties behind a veneer of sardonic aloofness.
[name_f]Ariana[/name] [name_u]Blair[/name] “[name_u]Ari[/name]” Hodgekiss (19) is [name_f]Pearl[/name]‘s younger sister. They are exceptionally close despite the two year age difference and is glad that there’s at least one sibling who doesn’t share their parents’ stance of how music and the arts aren’t sustainable careers. [name_u]Ari[/name] herself is an illustration major who’s thinking of becoming a concept artist for video game companies some day. She also provides sketches to her tattoo artist friend and loves seeing her work on people’s skin.
Cerys [name_f]Nora[/name_f] Guild (19) is [name_u]Ari[/name_u]’s best friend and the aforementioned tattoo artist, who has at least two tattoos designed by her. She opted to not attend university in order to dedicate her time to an apprenticeship and now is formerly employed where she began to learn tattooing, something that [name_f]Cerys[/name_f] worried would annoy her dad’s, but they’ve been nothing but supportive of her. She owns a bearded dragon named Sherbet - ‘[name_u]Bertie[/name_u]’ for short - and has just moved into her own place, which is tiny but already decorated by her.
Bernard [name_u]Oliver[/name_u] [name_u]Davis[/name_u] (46) is one of [name_f]Cerys[/name_f]’ dads’. He works in IT at a law firm where his husband also works as an attorney. He went pescatarian and started to train to run marathons after a cancer scare 10 years ago. He is very proud of his daughter for her creative talents in tattoo art though he doesn’t feel like he has an artistic perspective himself.
Helene [name_f]Rebecca[/name_f] Goodman [nee [name_u]Davis[/name_u]] (48) is [name_m]Bernard[/name_m]’s older sister and [name_f]Cerys[/name_f]’s aunt. She and her husband live in [name_f]Savannah[/name_f], GA and both work as middle school teachers. Most of [name_f]Helene[/name_f]’s children have already left the nest, but one of her daughters is still in high school. She likes relaxing by the ocean and watching documentaries.