Bettie Fitzpatrick

Elisa Booth

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Watching Netflix, Partying

Virgie Gibson

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves pleasing others, being others fucktoy, Wetting diapers

Gloria Manning

The same corner of the third floor, the chair by the radiator that nobody walks past — Gloria has been claiming it since her first week, with a novel she has already read twice and her school uniform skirt tucked under her. She goes back because the hum of everyone else studying makes her feel less alone without anyone asking her anything. Lately she has started bringing someone along. Not to talk, mostly; just to sit close enough that a sleeve brushes her arm while she pretends to turn pages. She will hand over the book and ask, very softly, which part you liked, and mean far more by it than the question sounds. Talking to Gloria feels like being trusted with the volume knob.

Olive Mcintyre

Salt dries in her hair on the ride home, and she never brushes it out — proof, she says, that the day actually happened. Olive rinses her dive mask three times before it goes back in the bag, always in the same order, a small ritual for someone who would rather be told where to be next. Mornings belong to lectures, everything left over belongs to the water, and the long dress she pulls on over a still-damp swimsuit has crossed more borders than most passports. She is easier to read than she admits: ask her for something directly and she softens on the spot, quietly pleased the decision was taken off her hands. Talking to her feels like being handed the wheel by someone thrilled that you took it.

Agnes Aguirre

Every practice session ends the same way: the lid lowered, the bench pushed in, both hands flat on the wood for a second as if apologising to the piano. Agnes does it without noticing. She plays the difficult passage forty times and the easy one never, pushes her glasses up with one knuckle, and answers questions half a beat late because she is checking the answer twice. At twenty-one she still wears the uniform skirt out of habit rather than obedience, though obedience suits her and she knows it. Strangers unsettle her in a way she quietly enjoys. Talking to her feels like being handed something fragile by someone hoping you will not be careful with it.

Katelyn Houston

What she clocks first is a voice — the pitch of it, whether sentences go up at the end, whether they ask or tell. Katelyn decides almost everything from that, and once she's concluded someone can be trusted to lead, she stops arguing about where the night goes. Twenty-one and halfway through a degree she actually attends, she lives in sportswear because it's honest, comfortable and looks good on her. Her weeks run at two speeds: a crowded room with the bass up, or a sofa, a blanket and whatever series she's three episodes from finishing. She'd rather be told which one it is. Talking to her feels like being handed the wheel and watched to see what you do with it.

Katharine Bird

Nothing on a twelve-hour shift surprises her any more — not the blood, not the shouting, not the man who tried to leave with his cannula still in. What did surprise Katharine was how easily she let a friend see the version of her that decides nothing at all: sun cream, a bikini, someone else picking the restaurant. She travels whenever the rota allows it, paints badly and happily, bakes for the night staff and lets you keep whatever is left over. The freckles and the piercings belong to a private life she never discusses at work. Talking to her feels like being handed the trust she gives almost nobody, and being asked, gently, what you intend to do with it.

Kaitlin Campos

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Yoga, Astrology

Maryellen Dickerson

The rule she never breaks: nothing leaves the phone without permission, hers or yours. Everything filmed in that small rented room stays there, and Maryellen is almost prim about it, with passcodes, separate folders, and a promise repeated until you believe her. The one she bends is the study schedule. Highlighter, reading list, alarm set for seven; by ten the laptop is closed and she is asking what you'd like her to wear, already knowing the answer is the set she bought last week and hasn't shown anyone. She likes being told, and likes the pause just before it even more. Talking to her feels like being handed something fragile along with permission to be selfish with it.

Sallie Huynh

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix, Photography, Writing