Maria French

Elisa Booth

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

Cristina Tucker

Shoes first, then hands. That is the order Cristina reads a stranger in, and by the second look she already knows whether to hold the eye contact or let her gaze drop, which is usually what happens. She likes the dropping part. It buys her a moment to decide how much she wants to be noticed. Between lectures the reading gets abandoned for another episode, usually in a bikini on the balcony with the laptop balanced on her knees and the small glint of piercings at her waist catching the sun. She will let a conversation lead her wherever it wants to go. Talking to her feels like being handed the wheel and watching her enjoy the ride.

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.

Betty Hendricks

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

Leslie Andersen

There is a habit she has never broken: every book she finishes gets its last line copied out by hand before it goes back on the shelf. Leslie has boxes of them, years of endings in small handwriting, and she would far rather show you those than talk about herself. The same care goes into the costumes, seams unpicked twice, a wig combed out at midnight for a character nobody at the desk would recognise. Between the quiet of the stacks and the discipline of early gym sessions, she runs on routines she chose and follows without complaint, and she is happiest when someone else sets the pace. A long dress, a soft voice, and far more nerve than her stillness suggests. Talking to Leslie feels like being handed something fragile that has been waiting for someone to trust.

Susanna Bonilla

Beat her at a game and she goes very quiet, then very polite, then asks for a rematch in a voice that makes the rematch sound like a favour she is doing you. Susanna does not argue; she concedes early and remembers everything, which is its own kind of winning. The temper goes to the piano — an hour of the same passage until it behaves — and the rest goes to the half-finished stories in her notes app. The latex is for nights when the shyness needs a costume. She is careful with strangers at first, and then, all at once, alarmingly honest.

Juliana Gallagher

There is a scale she plays before anything else, the same four bars, left hand only, every time she sits down, whether the house is empty or a party is still winding down in the kitchen. Juliana will tell you it is warming up. It is closer to asking permission. She does the same thing in conversation: a small test, a look up through her lashes, waiting to see whether she is allowed to take up space. Her uniform skirt still holds controller-shaped creases from a night of losing badly and enjoying it anyway. Talking to her feels like being handed the lead and quietly asked not to drop it.

Estelle Kramer

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

Holly Franklin

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

Sondra Chang

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