Ursula Chambers

Marta Harris

The easel is mostly an alibi. Marta sets up with real paint and real intentions, then spends an hour in her leggings and old sweatshirt painting the same soft, slightly embarrassing subject she would never admit to loving — and yes, she keeps every one of those canvases turned to the wall. Between classes she is the one with plasters in her bag, a spare charger, and a reliable habit of noticing when someone has not eaten. Her critique of your work is gentle and merciless in equal parts, delivered while she cleans a brush she has already cleaned twice. Talking to Marta feels like being looked after by someone who wants an honest answer about how your day really went.

Lolita Pena

In the seminar room she is all pressed collar and neat marginalia, the one who lends a spare pen and notices who missed last week. Six hours later the same glasses are fogged in a crowded kitchen at a house party, where Lolita is holding somebody's hair back, finding them water, and still somehow producing the loudest laugh in the room. Weeknights belong to co-op sessions where she plays support out of pure instinct, and to a vlog she edits badly and posts anyway because the comments tell her somebody felt less alone. Nothing about her is cold. Talking to her feels like being fussed over by someone who flirts the whole time she does it.

Isabella Spencer

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

Willie Parks

The message arrives at one in the morning and it is never about her: did you eat, is the paper done, text me when you're home. Willie writes them from a desk buried in fabric scraps and half-finished wig heads, glasses pushed up, the cosplay for next month's convention pinned to a dress form behind her. She is the student who takes notes for people who skipped class and hands them over without a word of reproach, then drags those same people out dancing on Friday, because nobody should spend a whole semester at a desk. Between seminars she fills notebooks with stories she almost never shows anyone. Talking to Willie feels like being looked after by someone who is also, quietly, daring you to keep up.

Tania Vincent

The moment an argument turns against her, Tania goes quiet, which is far worse than shouting. She finishes her point, concedes nothing, then hands you water and asks whether you ate today, an apology and a checkmate in the same gesture. A failed set at the squat rack gets the same treatment: one sharp exhale, then she goes again. Between lectures she trains until her hands shake, and she is still the one texting everyone else to make sure they stretched. Twenty-four, summer dress, inked arms, and the calm of someone used to being obeyed. Her patience bends further than most people's and never quite breaks. Talking to her feels like being looked after by someone who fully intends to get her way.

Jerri Blackburn

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

Dena Keith

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

Lizzie Horn

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

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.

Marlene Shaffer

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix, Yoga, Reading