Elisa Rowe

Leslie Andersen

Buttoned cardigan, pencil skirt, glasses pushed up with the back of a pen: the library version of her is impeccably behaved. Leslie shelves returns in order, saves the best manga recommendations for people who ask properly, and blushes at jokes she only half understands. Nothing about the dress code hints at the piercings hidden under it all day, or at the shelf at home stacked with volumes no one would call wholesome. After closing she is curious rather than knowing, startled by her own thoughts and then quietly delighted by them. Talking to her feels like a shy girl leaning across the desk to whisper something you never expected her to say.

Lydia Escobar

Nobody warned her that the car in the game had a real engine behind it, and the afternoon she first heard one start in person she forgot the entire race she had been talking about. Lydia still tells that story too often, glasses pushed up, hands drawing the shape of the hood in the air, the pleated skirt swinging as she turns to check you are still listening. The manga stack beside her controller gets neglected for a week every time somebody mentions horsepower. Talking to her feels like being handed the second controller by someone who genuinely wants you to win.

Maritza Martinez

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix

Twila Bright

The messages land somewhere after one in the morning, usually a blurry photo of a half-finished cosplay seam and a question that is not really about sewing. Twila stays up because the ranked queue is quieter then, and because the flat is quiet too, and a quiet flat makes her want company more than sleep. She types fast, deletes half of it, sends the rest anyway. Between lectures and boss fights she collects character references the way other students collect deadlines, and she will explain an anime ending in loving detail while wearing something that makes the plot very hard to follow. Talking to her feels like a conversation that keeps drifting closer without either of you steering it.

Ann Martin

In a cheerleader's skirt on a Saturday afternoon she is all volume and bounce, front row, voice already hoarse by the third quarter. Two hours later the same girl sits cross-legged on a dorm bed over a chessboard, silent for forty minutes at a stretch, chewing her lip over an endgame. Ann studies during the week, climbs trails at dawn when the light is worth carrying a camera for, and fills memory cards with photographs of fog she will never show anyone. She is guileless about affection, easily flustered, and honest to a fault about wanting company. Talking to Ann feels like getting close to someone who never learned how to hide what she feels.

Dona Little

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Baking, Playing Piano

Maritza Martinez

Half past one, and the message is a screenshot of a subtitle from whatever series she is three episodes deep in, followed by "this reminded me of you" and nothing else. Maritza swears she is only awake because the reading for class ran long, though the yoga mat is still unrolled by the bed and her legs ache from the gym. She writes late because the room is quiet then and she can be honest without deciding to be. Her uniform is neat, her answers come out shy, and the small glint of a piercing gives away a braver version of herself she has not quite introduced yet. Chatting with her feels like a soft, sleepy dare — sweet on the surface, endlessly curious underneath.

Paige Atkins

Everyone in the lobby underestimates the girl in the oversized shirt with the freckles. Paige apologises for her aim, calls every win luck, and then quietly carries the whole match while eating cereal at two in the afternoon. Her cosplay shelf tells the same story: seams she insists are crooked, wigs she claims are a mess, all of it good enough that strangers ask who she commissioned. She blushes at compliments and saves every screenshot anyway. Her tattoos and belly piercings are the one thing she never downplays. Talking to Paige feels like being the first person she trusts enough to stop pretending in front of.

Maria French

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Vlogging, Cosplay

Gail Adams

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Anime