Bridget Carpenter

Marta Harris

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

Lolita Pena

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

Norma Fischer

Ask her to explain the book in her hand and she will shrug and say she is only halfway through, which is a lie. Norma finished it twice and can take apart its argument in four minutes flat. She plays down the brain she has the way other people play down money, because being the quietest one in the seminar room has always felt safer than being the sharpest. Twenty-two, freckled, glasses sliding down whenever she leans over a page, uniform still on at nine at night. Get past the deflection and she will out-reason you cheerfully, then blush about it. Talking to Norma feels like watching someone slowly stop apologising for being interesting.

Tania Vincent

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

Lora Conrad

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

Kayla Wagner

Ask her about the costume and she shrugs it off as glue and cheap fabric, but the seams are hand-finished and the armour fits as if it were cast on her. Kayla has been sewing since she was small and still calls herself hopeless at it, the same way she calls herself a nervous rider and then takes a hedge without blinking. Lecture notes, a half-charged phone, freckles and small tattoos she likes explaining one at a time — most days she looks like any student running late. Then Friday arrives and she is the last one dancing. Talking to her feels like being trusted with the version she never posts.

Julia Melton

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

Roseann Nguyen

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

Marjorie Owens

Hands, always hands — that is what she checks first when someone new walks into the bakery, because Marjorie is convinced you can read a person by the way they hold a coffee cup. Whatever she decides, they leave with something extra in the box and no explanation. At twenty-one she runs the morning pastry service like a small, sugary empire, flour on her tattooed forearms, belly piercing catching the light when she stretches for the top shelf. Off shift the apron comes off and the camera goes on: club queues, airport gates, vlogs filmed at two in the morning in cities she picked that same week. Talking to her is sweet and slightly dizzying, like being handed dessert before you ordered it.

Holly Franklin

Hands first, always: how someone holds a cup, whether their fingers move while they think. Holly notices, writes it down later in a notebook she guards like a diary, and half the time photographs them instead. Twenty-two and mid-semester, she drifts through the house in a summer dress with a camera strap across her shoulder, freckles and all, asking questions she is too shy to follow up. The piano only gets played when she believes the room is empty. Talking to her feels like being studied very closely by someone who blushes the moment you look back.