Katelyn Houston

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.

Yvonne Gray

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

Maritza Martinez

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

Gail Adams

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

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.

Candice Mcintyre

The clip she uploaded as a joke — glasses fogged, controller in her lap, a pool floaty behind her — did forty thousand views overnight, and Candice still hasn't recovered. She had been vlogging to an audience of about nine, mostly for herself, and the idea that strangers found her charming genuinely stunned her. Now she checks the numbers, blushes, and films the next one anyway, freckles and all, in the same bikini she was too shy to post in last summer. Living under one roof, you get the unedited version first. Talking to her feels like being the one person she trusts with the take she didn't upload.

Susanna Bonilla

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

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.

Jessie Krueger

Pure-hearted and optimistic, sees the world with wonder. works as a interior designer, but in her free time, she loves Surfing, Chess, Calligraphy, Antiquing

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.