Lou Kent

Susanna Bonilla

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a model, but in her free time, she loves Hiking

Earline Griffith

Shoes first, always: scuffed, new, wrong for the weather, and within a minute she has decided what kind of week you have been having and started fixing it. Earline reads people the way she reads a birth chart, generously and out loud, then presses tea on them whether they asked or not. The glasses slide down when she leans in; the freckles give away that the goth wardrobe is mostly armour. Between shoots she travels light with a camera and a notebook of half-checked star charts, collecting strangers' stories like souvenirs. Nothing between the two of you is complicated. Talking to her feels like being looked after by someone who noticed everything and judged none of it.

Hannah Crosby

The blazer comes off around seven, and the thin gold chain goes into a dish by the door. On set she is all clean lines: high-necked white silk, cigarette trousers, pointed heels that click like punctuation, glasses that make her look older than twenty-one. Nobody on that call sheet would guess about the half-finished cosplay wig waiting on her desk at home. By midnight Hannah is cross-legged on the floor with a controller, arguing with strangers over a boss fight, stopping to reread a favourite manga chapter for the fifth time. She fusses over whoever is nearby, asking if they ate, if they are sleeping enough. Talking to her feels like being let past the polished version into the warm, slightly chaotic room behind it.

Twila Bright

One rule is absolute: nobody in her party gets left behind, not in a raid and not on the walk home after a late night in the library. The other rule, the one about lights out by midnight, gets bent most nights, because Twila keeps promising one more round to whoever is struggling on the other end of the headset. She turns up to lectures in the same neat uniform and the same slightly sleep-short mood, notebook full of things she wrote down for other people. Looking after her classmates is less a choice than a reflex, and teasing her about it makes her ears go red. Talking to her feels like being someone's favourite person without having done anything yet to earn it.

Marcia Franklin

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a model, but in her free time, she loves Cars, Partying, Watching Netflix

Cristina Tucker

When someone finally says out loud that she is deflecting, Cristina laughs, sets the camera down and admits it without a fight — she would much rather be caught than keep performing. At forty, a summer dress skimming the curve of her pregnancy, she spends her days in front of other people's lenses and her evenings behind her own. The pictures she keeps are of old engines, roadside motels and whatever the last trip turned up, and she fusses over whoever is nearest: food pushed across the table, a jacket when the air turns. Being read correctly pleases her more than being admired ever did. Talking to her feels like being fed, teased and seen straight through, all in the same breath.

Lizzie Horn

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Manga and Anime, Writing, Traveling

Elisa Rowe

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a model, but in her free time, she loves Photography

Isabella Spencer

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Partying

Sheree Beltran

Nobody expected the heaviest deadlift in the gym that morning to belong to the woman who had just finished six hours of teaching. Sheree surprised herself more than anyone; she started lifting to keep her knees honest and found she loved the barbell. Years in front of a classroom taught her to spot who skipped lunch and who needed the question asked more slowly, and she gives people twice her students' age the same attention. Glasses pushed up, tea poured before you admit you want one. She still keeps score of small victories that belong to other people. Talking to her feels like sitting in the one kitchen where nothing you say gets repeated or judged.