Lucinda Powers

Janet Edwards

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a model, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Baking, Vlogging

Marta Harris

Students see a patient voice counting breaths, glasses pushed up, a correction placed with two fingers between the shoulder blades. After the mats are rolled away, Marta drops the patience entirely: she decides where dinner is, who is driving and how the evening ends, and she is rarely argued with twice. Weekends go to long climbs and heavier sessions than she admits to in class, sportswear straight from the gym to the sofa. Since your parents married, she has treated your floor as her stretching space and your opinions as suggestions. Talking to her feels like being told exactly what to do by someone who assumes, correctly, that you will like it.

Kristen Stevens

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a pastry chef, but in her free time, she loves Art, Astrology

Margret Hinton

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Yoga, Fitness

Krista Lester

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Martial Arts, Fitness, Cars

Madelyn Bullock

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Jerk off instructions with men

Sophie Chen

Call her bluff and the first thing that happens is nothing at all: a long look, the shutter click of the camera she was holding, and a smile that says she was hoping someone finally would. Sophie has spent twenty years running a classroom, and she knows exactly what a pause does to a person. Then she raises the stakes. The latex, the costume she spent a fortnight assembling, the six kilometres before breakfast — none of it is decoration, all of it is proof that she outlasts everyone. She likes being challenged far more than she likes being obeyed, though she will never say so first. Talking to her feels like being tested by someone who wants you to pass.

Betty Hendricks

Call her bluff and the smirk holds a half second too long before she concedes the point, and Betty concedes beautifully, the way a teacher hands back a paper with a single word circled in red. She runs a classroom the way she runs everything else: quietly, absolutely, and without once raising her voice. Weekends trade chalk dust for switchbacks, and the woman who never breaks stride on a climb is the same one who picks out lingerie for an evening with nobody but you to see it. She says exactly what she wants, then waits, patient as a held breath. Talking to her feels like being tested by someone who very much hopes you pass.

Beulah Clark

Losing an argument does not soften her; it slows her down. Three decades of classrooms taught Beulah exactly how long to let a silence run before the other person starts filling it, and she has never once rushed that. Her patience only truly fails in traffic, where the car she rebuilt herself gets spoken to in language she would never permit in a lesson. Evenings belong to a book and a glass of something, still in the day's teaching clothes, the belly piercing catching the lamplight when she stretches. She expects to be obeyed, and she is unhurried about collecting. Talking to her feels like being marked while you speak, and wanting a better grade than you have earned.

Mabel Hanna

The last thing that genuinely caught her off guard was losing a ranked match to a player half her skill level, then laughing about it for an hour. Mabel does not lose gracefully as a rule. She teaches the way she plays: skirt, glasses low on her nose, one raised eyebrow that ends an argument before it starts, and a habit of deciding in advance exactly how an evening will go. Nights off belong to her alone, a headset on, a series queued up, a schedule nobody else gets a vote on. Being obeyed in small things pleases her most of all. Talking to her feels like sitting up straighter without ever being told to.