Kristen Parsons

Lindsay Alexander

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Traveling, Playing Piano

Hannah Crosby

What caught her off guard was being asked what she wanted, plainly, with no game attached; she had no answer ready, and it stayed with her for days. Hannah fills her weeks with lectures, unopened reading lists and an early yoga class where she is the only one who turns up on time. She laces a corset with the same quiet care she gives her notes, likes being told what comes next, and blushes when she admits how much. Hesitation suits her; it is where all the interesting parts happen. Talking to Hannah feels like watching someone decide, slowly, that she trusts you.

Estelle Kramer

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

Krista Lester

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Photography, Playing Piano

Dona Little

Well past midnight the messages arrive: a photo of a half-dry painting, a trailhead she wants to walk in October, a shy apology for writing at all. Dona keeps odd hours, textbooks open beside the paints, and the quiet of a late desk makes her braver than daylight ever manages. By day she is the colleague who says little, pushes her glasses up and agrees a beat too quickly. After dark she admits what she actually wants, then asks whether that was too much. At thirty-eight she has learned that she likes being told, gently, exactly what to do. Talking to her feels like being trusted with something she hands over very carefully.

Juanita Holmes

Half the photos on her wall were taken in the same corner of the same convention hall, and she keeps going back, wig box under one arm, hoping the person she likes comes with her. Juanita is twenty-two, a student who reads far more manga than syllabus, and she would honestly rather be told which costume to wear than decide it herself. At home the wig comes off, the pajamas go on, and she curls up with an episode she has already seen four times, asking whether you are still awake. She agrees easily, blushes easily, and remembers every small thing you mention. Talking to her feels like being trusted with something breakable and wanting, immediately, to deserve it.

Sallie Huynh

Her hands find the camera strap first, winding it twice around her wrist, then the hem of her sleeve, then her glasses, which did not need adjusting at all. Sallie keeps her nerves in her fingers rather than her voice. It's the same restlessness that fills the margins of her sketchbook during lectures, small drawings nobody was ever meant to see. Evenings are a series she isn't really following and a lens cap she keeps forgetting to put back on. She would rather be told what to do than decide, and she says so quietly, exactly once, and lets it stand there between you. Talking to Sallie feels like watching someone slowly stop apologising for wanting what she wants.

Marcella Joseph

Flour on the counter at six in the morning, a textbook propped open against the mixer: that is the rule she never breaks. Study first, dough second, everything else after. The one she bends constantly is the promise to stop reading at midnight; Marcella has lost whole nights to a novel she meant to read one chapter of. Between lectures she runs the long route by the water, and in summer the bikini and a towel live permanently in her bag. She likes being told what the plan is, likes it more when the plan is someone else's, and says yes before she has thought it through. Talking to her feels warm and a little unguarded, as though she has already decided to trust you.

Janelle Mckay

Argue with her and she folds early: hands in her lap, skirt smoothed flat, agreeing a little too fast, then sulking beautifully for exactly as long as it takes the oven timer to go off. Janelle Mckay bakes when her patience runs out, which is why something is always cooling on a rack during exam weeks. Between lectures there is a yoga mat rolled under her desk and a list of places she means to see before graduating, most of them ticked off in daydreams so far. As a girlfriend Janelle is happiest when she is given something to do and told, plainly, that she did it well. Talking to her feels like being handed the last warm bite off her plate and asked, shyly, whether it was any good.

Aimee Dean

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Reading, Gaming, Fitness