JOEY LURAL

• she might sometimes act like she’s a total womanizer (fine, she sort of is), but she never actually wanted to break up cris and rockwell. she would’ve been completely fine burying her feelings in a string of random girls’ pussies until she got over it. but she doesn’t like the thought of being a homewrecker.
• in her mind, pretending to be excited about the baby and pretending to care was a good idea. in theory. sure, sooner or later she would end up somehow letting that child know how she felt about it. but because it was what cris wanted, and joey already had screwed up so much in cris’ life, she was going to go along with it. cris wanting rockwell to donate the sperm was her final straw though.
• uh, she’s the best lay in three states. suck on that, brook.

MICHELLE LOCKE

• the cheerleading squad is the closest thing to a child michelle has. the squad was suffering when michelle came in as a freshman. she literally rebuilt the squad from licking the floor up to where they were. so she is in charge of the team. and she cares more about each and every girl than most people do.
• why does she find erica so attractive? she’s the only person to stand up to michelle. to dish back what michelle gives when she’s laying down the law. and, erica doesn’t submit. michelle finds that irresistibly sexy. she really does need someone like erica to challenge her on more than just a physical level.
• a big part of why she always needs to be in control is that she’s always been competitive. and she’s told herself that she’s never allowed to lose. it’s that and the fact that she’s sort of a bit of a control freak with her own body. and sex. and sometimes the squad.

DANNY EGAN

• danny doesn’t see herself as having redeeming qualities. as in, she doesn’t understand why katy has been her friend for so long, or why chandler has ever had interest in her. despite having been adopted, she never was treated very well. nor told that she was worth anything.
• despite everything that has happened because of her drug and alcohol use, she wouldn’t go back and change that part of her life. as strange as it sounds, taking back something like that is just stupid and cowardly and it’s a huge part of who danny is. besides, if she didn’t do all of that shit earlier, she’d probably end up doing it later. and looking like nick nolte.
• she’s never told anybody this, but if it wasn’t for katy miller, danny would’ve killed herself a while ago. either on accident or on purpose. it’s probably been a little of both. but, in a non-lesbian way, katy is her world. katy’s been the only person to actually love her, and care about her, and katy definitely is the reason that danny has been alive for this long, whether she realizes it or not.

RONNIE BENDIS

• there was only one time when ronnie wondered what it would be like to be single. but that was for a grand total of sixty seconds before mari walked into the room and ronnie realized that she was stupid for ever thinking that there could be someone other than marisol for her.
• she has a secret love of the fact that everyone used to think she was the dumb sidekick in high school. because then she got to be a nerd in secret and not have to do everyone’s physics homework.
• ronnie isn’t entirely sure if she wants kids. not because she doesn’t want them or anything, but because she doesn’t want a child to ever be subjected to the bullying that she was subjected to in high school once she came out. but if her and marisol did have kids, ronnie wants to adopt. always.

MARYA KAYAKOVA

• her reputation is everything to her. at juilliard, it’s the only thing left to her since her dancing career was brutally ended and she was stooped to teaching. so her reputation and her teaching job is pretty much everything for her.
• while some former dancers will always try and relive their glory years, marya refuses to do so. in fact, watching old performances makes her cry. and not in the good way. they bring up painful memories.
• she loves old movies. black and white classics. there are only a handful of colour films that she has in her collection. her weekends usually consist of her watching one of those movies with some small meal on fridays, saturdays planning lessons for the next week, and sundays cleaning. sometimes she spends her sundays going somewhere by herself.

ALEKSANDRA GRUJIC

• despite all of the grief she gets for being nikki heat, or just having to have clayton tag along with her, she’d never not make that promise to clayton when she was younger. if it wasn’t for clayton, aleks would not be where she is now. she would probably be just like her mother, a maid in some rich person’s house who doesn’t speak very much english.
• she does kind of like it when ellie is completely inappropriate because that’s just her personality. although, it does give her a little bit of satisfaction that she has enough of an impact on someone to have them change a little bit.
• ellie is the fourth person she has ever had to depend on. first were her parents, and then clayton. and the fact that she’s already lost her dad, and is losing her mother, that really hit it home worse for aleks when ellie let herself get shot. and she frequently thinks about what she could have done to stop it. which kills her so much.