There's an old bartender's proverb that goes something along the lines of "almost all bartenders are hot". That's not wrong, you need a face and a body to keep people coming in the door. Thankfully, Davidsville's chock full of hot bartenders, Z, Dustin, Meg, and this absolute twink, Jake Leoni. A chem major, by night, Jake uses his chemistry knowledge to create the seasonal drink menus over at Beacon Hill, which always feature some high class craft cocktails. Notable creations include the Sloppy Santa, the Fling Spring, Sodomy On The Beach, the Monster Mash, the Pumpkin Spice Abomination, and non-seasonals like the Buenos Noches Motherfucker, the Grape Ape, the Slut Shamer, and the I Can't Believe It's Not Vodka, the exact recipes of which are a closely guarded trade secret and are known only to Z. By day, however, Jake hustles over at Ocean Spray, occasionally (and very sneakily) introducing slightly renamed versions of his Beacon Hill original, because fuck it, he can do it. Jake's also a bit of a serial romantic, with a tendency to seduce quite a bit of the women he tends for (and even the odd guy, Jake ain't picky). The promise of free drinks often helps sweeten the deal. Amongst his more notable exes include Nat, Dustin, and even Ashe for a few, quite frankly mind-blowing weeks. Hell, Ashe even managed to get a cocktail named after her, it was THAT GOOD. So come to Beacon Hill for the ambiance, stay for the drinks, and maybe, just maybe, you'll leave with a bartender.

30 Days Of Characters Day 22: Jake Leoni, mixologist

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The Davidsville General Hospital therapy staff is arguably one of the best group of therapists in the state. From cognitive behavioral to physical, from Patrick to Lissa, some of Davidsville's top therapeutic practitioners work at what is one of the oldest operating hospitals in upstate Washington. Amongst those hallowed halls walks Dr. Lian Xiang, a specialist in women's psychology. Dr. Xiang's practice often deals with matters most therapists don't, or at least, don't deal with well. From hormonal problems to trauma, dealing with menopause, post-partum depression, or just plain puberty, Dr. Xiang's got most, if not all, of the answers. Lian and Patrick are rather close coworkers, with Patrick often referring cases over to Lian when he feels a problem is better suited for a specialist. Such is the case of one Grace [Blur]-Sadoki. Patrick started treating Grace at age 9 for aggression and anger issues, something that the Sadokis had seen multiple other therapists about to little avail. Patrick helped stabilize Grace, center her, and, most importantly, medicate her, and this set-up worked out quite well... until Grace hit 8th grade. Grace was suddenly reluctant to talk about the changes her body and mind were going through and how it was affecting her mental health, and that's when Patrick realized he needed someone who could speak to her not just in a clinical sense, but as a fellow woman. Suddenly, under the therapeutic eye of Lian, Grace felt freer to open up, talk about her struggles with her self-image, her confidence, and most importantly, Patrick's son, whom she had fallen in love with. After all, it's unbecoming of a therapist to deal with matters directly relating to the partner of their children. While Grace credits Patrick with being the therapist who got her life together, she considers Lian the one who made it all fit into place, who made it all made sense. And, even after ten years, she still sees her every Thursday afternoon.

30 Days Of Characters Day 21: Dr. Lian Xiang, Grace's therapist

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When you've been around the block as much as Sunny and Nat, it's not out of the question that you've shared a partner. Even in a city of over 700,000 people, there's still a slim chance, especially if you run in similar circles. Or attended the same college. Enter Casey Hampton. He is a dancer, that is to say, a conduit. He doesn't define movement, movement defines him. He's an artist, a creator, the spiritual guide into a realm unknown, just drop into his arms and he'll throw you up with the grace of a gazelle, leaping through the air. Yes, Casey was quite the ladykiller back in college, smooth, suave, sensual, and REALLY good in bed. It was with that charm that he found his way into the hearts (and beds) of both Sunny and Nat, relationships that both went and ended... surprisingly similarly, and surprisingly well. See, dancing is Casey's first love, and unfortunately, in both cases, that first love came before his own girlfriends. Well... really ALL of his girlfriends. It's honestly a wonder he dated at all, given how busy his schedule was as a top-of-his-class dance major at Grassmore C. University. One of these days though, one of these days he'll find the one, the RIGHT one, his dance partner for life, the one he can do the Dirty Dancing lift right with the first time. And preferably, not one who has a short, musclebound, and extremely irritable bandmate who'll continually threaten him throughout his courtship. That was a pain. And also extremely painful. Such is life! Casey is based on the Fiery Minivet (Pericrocotus Igneus).

30 Days Of Characters Day 20: Casey Hampton, dancer and ex-boyfriend of both Sunny and Nat

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David: A Webcomic Glamour Profession

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Veronica Ditko used to be a wimp. A shrimp. A double-dimp. Whatever that is. A sudden series of growth spurts in her junior year of high school changed all that. Suddenly, this 4'11" nobody was a 6'1" somebody, and a 6'1" somebody that could hit the gym and come out with like, three new muscles. This was a woman that could do any sport, and that sport she chose was... volleyball. She was the star setter on the Grassmore C. High Varsity team, she could smack that ball at record speeds, and under her supervision, the GCHS Volleyball team became the biggest must-see women's sport on campus after Lissa and Grace's basketball moved on to greener, more collegiate pastures. It was on this team that Corinne and Andrea would eventually join, and it was this team that Veronica would decide to come back to as an assistant coach through Grassmore C. High's alumni program. Ronnie's a surprisingly capable coach, too, having played nearly every position on the team before settling on being setter really had its benefits. Outside sports, Ronnie's a bit of a ditz. Well... "bit" might be the wrong word here, bull in a china shop is more like it. Ronnie... sometimes forgets how big she is, and can and will accidentally sweep fragile things off counters, hurt spines in hugs, and punch things a little too hard. She means well, it's just... sometimes she just doesn't know her own strength. Veronica is based on the Amazonian Motmot (Momotus Momota)

30 Days Of Characters Day 19: Veronica Ditko, D1 college volleyball player and assistant volleyball coach at Grassmore C. High

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For incredibly obvious reasons, one of the first things Kylie did when she took office after the resounding collapse of Al Maranus' political career was fire the old bastard's legal counsel. The old guy was one of the only people who actually knew about the slush fund and was literally doing everything in his power to keep it a secret. Unfortunately for Kylie, that left an annoyingly persistent paper trail that she felt obligated to search for, if only to provide the state with more evidence against Maranus. Enter Ken Kurtiss, Harvard Law. Ken was an old college flame of Kylie's, having met finding out that they both lived in Davidsville, and, while they didn't work out as a couple (back then), they still kept in touch. As soon as Ken heard that Kylie was suddenly thrust into the mayoral spotlight and had a bunch of rather nasty, lingering legal shit to sift through, Ken dropped everything and put his full attention (and a few of his staff members at Venkman, Monroe, Peterson, & Vine) on the bizarre legal puzzle of the Maranus Slush Funds. And it's not just that, Ken's been helping Kylie run through over a century and half of Davidsville ordinances, declarations, and assorted legal ephemera in a concerted effort to detangle a few outdated laws and statures. When he's not practicing law (or more accurately, investigating it), Ken's a necklace-wearing member of the Shark Tooths, and often spends his weekends during spring and summer at the beach, catching waves. Lately though, both he and Kyle are coming to the realization that... there might still be a spark between the two of 'em yet. Just... don't tell that to Devon, okay?

30 Days Of Characters Day 18: Ken Kurtiss, legal counsel to the mayor and occasional surfer

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Whazzat? Who's the hot chick in the slideshow? Well, that's... a li'l tough t'explain, see, I don't actually know her real name. Which, considerin' our relationship, is a little weird. Here's what I do know though, this fine femme fatale is known to the world by her codename of Tits McGee. Yeah, on the nose, I know, she didn't choose it. She's a member of The 101, a group of some of the baddest motherfuckers on the planet. I'm talkin' top level hired guns, espionage agents, terrorists, these guys are used by both big name gangs and actual world governments alike, like any kinda dirty work that a president, prime minister, or dictator just doesn't want on their hands, they give it to the 101. Tits here is number 80, but that number's just an identification, not a ranking. By her own admission, she's like, top 25. And Ms. McGee here is a fuckin' BADASS. Coop and I mostly stick to guns and other weapons, Tits can kill a man with her bare hands. And I'm not talkin' like snapping their necks, one time I saw her karate chop a guy in the neck so hard the internal bleeding killed him in less than a minute. That was hot. Tits is trained in like, six kinds of martial arts, she can handle guns, swords, spears, cannons, tanks, she speaks fifteen languages, she's a god damn tactical genius, she can seduce information out of just about anyone, she's like Einstein if Einstein was lowkey thicc as hell and killed people. Our relationship to her is... interesting to say the least, sometimes we're allies, sometimes we're adversaries, no matter what, it's always fun to spend time with her, her wicked sense of humor, and her gorgeous... uh, presence. Yeah. That's it. While the two of us have had our, ah, entanglements, she and Coop are actually pretty good friends, neither of them just wants to admit it 'cause in the world of assassins, there are no friends. Except me and Coop. We're cool. We're fine. We're bros.

30 Days Of Characters Day 17: ███████ ██████, spy, assassin, and terrible codename haver

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Devon McShane is just about everything a career politician isn't. Pure, playful, energetic, committed, almost childish in a way that's endearing and not grating. Devon's a martial artist, a romantic, occasionally a stand-up comedian, an overall goofball, and, somehow, Davidsville's new deputy mayor. See, Devon was the chief of staff of Al Maranus' fourth term, and, the way that Davidsville handles mayoral succession, the chief of staff assumes the role of deputy mayor, the city administrator assumes the chief of staff, the assistant city administrator assumes the city administrator, and so on and so forth until the seniormost intern suddenly gets promoted into a permanent position. Devon and Kylie actually go back to her time at Spokane, where she met the starry-eyed himbo-lite as the city's assistant commerce secretary. The two quickly became good friends through a shared ideology and Devon's natural charisma completely overpowering Kylie's awkward charm. The two quickly became a dual ticket, a double feature, one following the other wherever they went (in a fun, friendly way, not a creepy way). Over time, Devon developed a bit of a crush on his dorky green coworker, one that's gone sadly unrequited as Devon's too much of a gentleman to try and break up their working relationship. After all, politics is arguably one of the worst places to have an workplace romance. But maybe one day. Just maybe... Devon is based on the San Blas Jay (Cyanocorax Sanblasianus).

30 Days Of Characters Day 16: Devon McShane, deputy mayor of Davidsville

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Corinne and Kenzie walk down the halls of GCHS Corinne: A *fashion* photographer!? God *damn,* girl, if that ain't you all over! Kenzie: *I KNOW, RIGHT!?* Dude, Kaiden's like, a legit genius. He might know me better than *I* do.

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A shy, nerdy middle school girl bullied by a group of cruel 8th graders. A big, imposing jock coming to her rescue. The two become best friends but lose contact after high school. The jock? Rocky Fletcher. The nerd? Kylie Thomas. The relationship? Close. This unlikely pair was inseparable during their later school years, sharing their joy, heartbreak, hopes, and dreams with each other. Kylie was the first person Rocky came out to, Rocky helped Kylie score her first boyfriend. Unfortunately, those hopes and dreams were separated after their senior year, where Rocky stayed in state to study Architecture at Grassmore C. University, while Kylie moved to Cambridge to study Political Science at Harvard. Kylie would bounce around several state governments throughout her career, before eventually finding her way back to Washington state, serving on the local boards of Spokane, Tacoma, and Seattle. It was her work with the King County transport board that eventually attracted the office of Mayor Albert Maranus of Davidsville to her. Kyle would join the Maranus office midway through his third term as transport secretary, before getting the all-important promotion to deputy mayor come his record-breaking fourth. Now, however, almost a year and a half into Al's fourth term, a covert intelligence operation based on an anonymous whistleblower complaint revealed ol' Al had masterminded an expansive and illicit slush fund conspiracy, unbeknownst to anyone else in his administration. The resulting raid on his suburban residence and arrest at the city capital has left Kylie picking up the pieces of a shattered dynasty. Her progressive streak is a definitive change from Al's more moderate policies, but maybe, just maybe, she can win over her constituents to become an endearing figure in Davidsville's history. With the help of her quirky crew (and a newly reconnected Rocky), she might just stand a chance in this crazy world. Kylie is based on the Swallow Tanager (Tersina Viridis).

30 Days Of Characters Day 15: Kylie Thomas, mayor of Davidsville

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The second Crappi child, Mona's younger brother, Jayce Crappi is... a lot less well-adjusted than his sister, which admittedly isn't saying much, but uh... well, he's a victim of his own upbringing. See, Susan decided that she had her hands full enough "raising" Mona, so a lot of her parenting of Jayce was largely deferred to her husband and her various assistants. For the last nine years, that's been through Marcie, seeing the Crappi the younger through the latter half of middle school, high school, and up to his college graduation. And while Marcie is a bit of an odd wunderkind, teenager-rearing was never in her training. So when Jayce started getting moody, needy, angry, just overall hormonal, Marcie was... ill prepared for the figurative carnage that ensued. Jayce became rebellious, unpredictable, and, after his sexual awakening in his senior year of high school, a bit of a slut. Jayce, unlike Mona, has given up. He's resigned himself to his fate of being a wealthy fool, even if he doesn't necessarily WANT that to be his life, any small, minuscule spark of hope he had of changing it was snuffed out years ago. Maybe it's the fact that he's unable to see his own mother without an appointment. Maybe it's because neither of his parents seem to remember that he's gay, and coming out to them every time he tries to introduce a new boyfriend is getting old. Maybe it's because of his undiagnosed ADHD and depression slowly eating him alive. Ennui is a funny thing, and relishing in it the way Jayce does is unhealthy, to say the least.

30 Days Of Characters Day 14: Jayce Crappi, son of Susan

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It's every kid's dream to be born into a rich family but the fact of the matter is, if you're born into a rich family, you have absolutely garbage parents. Such is the unfortunate reality of the Crappi kids, of which Ramona Crappi is the eldest. Mona had her life handed to her on a silver platter, which, nearly a quarter of a century into it, isn't nearly as fulfilling as it sounds. In fact, it's quite lonely at the top. Most of the girls in private school are in various Snobby Bitch Cliques™, and when you're in college, most people assume that, since you're rich, you a. belonged to a Snobby Bitch Clique™ in high school and never grew out of it and/or b. you're a nepo baby and your parents are just buying your diploma outright, so all you're doing is coasting for four years and not doing shit. The problem is, against all odds, Mona defies many of the Rich Girl™ stereotypes. Mona WANTS to be independent, self-sufficient, and divorced completely from the Crappi name, basically the polar opposite of a nepo baby. So what's keeping her from doing this? Her mom, Susan Crappi, second generation CEO of Crappi Coffee. Somehow, Susan is both suffocatingly coddling and thoroughly neglectful at the same time. There's no problem Susan found that couldn't be fixed by throwing money at it, for better or for worse, mostly worse. At the same time, Susan was cold, distant, and manipulative towards Mona at best, constantly comparing her, unfavorably, to a literal bag of coffee beans she's dubbed "Deborah". A bag of coffee beans that she has somehow genuinely grown attached to, a bag of coffee beans that Marcie has to secretly replace on a regular basis, there have been 236 Deborahs that we know of. Let me reiterate, THAT WE KNOW OF. Mona just wants to live a normal life, free of domineering mothers, judgemental peers, and unduly anthropomorphized burlap sacks. Unfortunately for her, that's just not the life she was born into. She has a mouth, and she must scream.

30 Days Of Characters Day 13: Ramona Crappi, daughter of Susan

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David: A Webcomic Call Me Any Day Or Night

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Yes, against all odds, Steve has a dad, too. And, against all odds, Doug The Penguin is absolutely nothing like his violent, rebellious hellspawn, the Dougster is a career accountant, a responsible, functional adult. How do two loving parents conceive of and raise a child THIS dysfunctional? Well, yes, there is the little detail that they were... y'know, kinda lenient on their son's "quirks" and "eccentricities". The constant praise and validation, god it absolutely suffocated Steve, and all of the lame family shit he suffered through didn't help. Family photos, family vacations, family dinners, family game nights, family reunions, family holidays, family families, Family Guys, the only bright spot in any large-scale family outing for Steve was getting to ditch hes absolute squares of parents hang out with his equally chaotic cousins and fuck around with Rick's psyche for a few hours... or days, depending. Now, the crux of Steve's issues with his parents lies in how he perceives they perceive him. The coddling, the smothering, the... well, constant suffocation, Steve's convinced his folks see him as nothing but an overgrown child and he resents that. And he shows that resentment by, well... lashing out. It's an unfortunately viscous cycle within the The Penguin family.

30 Days Of Characters Day 12: Doug The Penguin, chronic accountant and Steve's dad

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Yeah betcha didn't expect Steve to have a mom. But in this wide, weird world of Davidsville, everybody comes from somewhere (except maybe Carter, he's special), and Steve('s egg) was ejected from the womb of one Jane The Penguin. Jane is inherently a motherly, nurturing soul, and that couldn't be worse for a loud, rebellious kid like Steve. See, on one hand, she kind of enabled some of his more destructive tendencies. Casual vandalism? He's just expressing his creativity. Noise complaints from the neighbors? It's just his active imagination. Hyperactivity? That boy loves his coffee. Not going to college? It's a gap year. Yeah. That's the ticket. On the other hand, though, in many ways Jane mothered Steve a bit TOO much, veritably smothering him, for... lack of a better term. Always sending him off with the "have a nice day sweetie" special or the "I packed your lunch special sweetie" special or... well just about anything that could possibly embarrass him in public, she would do, seemingly oblivious as to how it would affect the public perception of her son (or hell, her son's own perception of himself). And it's... quite possibly that which gives Steve his own, unique personality, this fear that one day he could very well become his mom and, well, what's the best way to avoid doing that? Blowing shit up. Burning shit down. Spray painting dicks and boobs on the sides of buildings. Steve is a wild and crazy guy by choice. Mostly.

30 Days Of Characters Day 11: Jane The Penguin, Steve's mom

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There are two sides to Sydney Chen. One side is as a member of the Skull Kickers, part of Davidsville's local Roller Derby association. There, they're known only as "Claw", they don't speak much, mostly communicating in glances and unnervingly sharp-toothed grins. Being the biggest, strongest member of the team, they're a pivot, really a solid all-around player. Really though, they work best as intimidation. I mean, a 6+ foot musclebound punk who operates in deadly silence and looks like they can snap your spine with their bare hands, Sydney's quite a specimen. The other side to this buff femby's life is a complete 180 from their derby life. See, despite their appearances, Sydney's actually a rather learned individual, dual majoring in English and Journalism in college and holding a Master's in Mass Communication from the Walter Cronkite School at ASU. It's with these credentials that they found themself running the Davidsville Gay Times, shortly after the previous editor disappeared under mysterious circumstances. As editor, they use the commonly held belief that nobody gives a shit about print news media anymore to their advantage, running some truly unique, occasionally bizarre, and unquestionably subversive material, that have come close to (but not quite) winning a Pulitzer. Their star reporter is Rodrigo Lopez, whose hiring on staff was one of their first acts as editor after falling in love with his unique brand of journalism. Together they make a most unique journalistic pair with Sydney making annual offers to promote Rodrigo to assistant editor, which Rodrigo always refuses because, well, he doesn't want to put that much stress on himself. After all, it's not like he has something like roller derby to blow off that amount of steam.

30 Days Of Characters Day 10: Sydney Chen, derby girl and newspaper editor

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Sage and Mike buddy up naked in the gym showers, comparing their erect dicks. Sage's is cut and skinnier, Mike's is uncut and girthier. Sage and Mike: Impressive.

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Okay, okay, you're not sold yet. I can see it in your face. I know how to read people. Lemme, uh, lemme introduce you to my partner then, that handsome motherfucker over there, Cooper Lode. Say hi, Cooper! ...he doesn't have great people skills. Anyway, that right there, that's my ride-or-die, that's my BFF, I would kill for this man. I HAVE killed for this man. How'd we meet? Funny story. I was on a hit for the Quagiozzis, wealthy businessman, he knew too much about their uh, shall we say, legitimate business. Yeah. That's it. Anyway, I'm hired to kill this guy, and as I'm sneaking into his apartment (from the roof, I'm a professional), I run into Coop here. Turns out, he also knew too much about the Papadelias guys too, and they are NASTY. They're also incredibly cheap, that's important later. ANYWAY, we run into each other, literally, and it turns out the Papadelias family hired HIM to kill that guy, too. We fight, like the beginning of all great bromances, and this guy's got SKILL. I have power, I can brute force my way through a lot of his moves, but he KNOWS SHIT. As we're yelling at each other, suddenly the topic of payment comes up, turns out Coop's making less than half I am on this hit. I feel bad for the guy so I'm like "ok you let me take this one, we can split the reward, capiche?" To which he was all "dude yes I'm barely making rent this month" and then I'm all like "dude you're a hitman, I'm a hitman, why don't we just like, live together and shit" and he's like "hell yeah dude" and--well that wasn't exactly how it happened, I kinda condensed like four months into one conversation, but we wound up working and living together. He's the stoic one, the straight man. If anyone's gonna take your job seriously, it's him. I have fun with it. I'm a playful little scamp. Between you and me, I think he only keeps me around because he has a crush on me, but uh, I don't swing that way. Anyway, that's us. Now let's talk shop, who d'ya want killed?

30 Days Of Characters Day 9: Cooper Lode, freelance hitman

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Hey, wassup? Grayson Locke, freelance hitman. Y'said you needed a job done, right? Well y'came to the right place, me and my partner, we're the best in the business. At least, that's what we tell people. For marketing reasons. But nah, man, we're good at our job, and we're hella discrete. To a point. Explosions are just part of the business, bud. Ok look, I can see you're unsure, lemme tell ya a little bit about myself and then we can talk business, m'kay? What got me here, that's not important. They said I had psychopathic tendencies and y'know what? I proved 'em right. What can I say, I'm easy to read. Ya get exactly whatcha get. Anyway, I somehow found myself with a bit of a debt to the Quagiozzi family and you know those Quagiozzi guidos don't fuck around, they're deadly efficient when they wanna be. Tell me they want this guy killed, I say okay, how fast y'want it? They tell me they want it done in a week, I say I'll do it in three days. Find out where the guy lives, find out what he does, there's a common pattern, I can pick him off on any old weekday. I break into his apartment while he's at work, poison... well literally everything in his fridge, stake out the place for another couple'a hours, bing bam boom, he drops dead. Guess the Quagiozzis were impressed because they asked me to do a couple'a more hits and then it just kinda became a thing. Eventually I started getting bored with just doing hits for one set'a guys, so I decided to go freelance. And lemme tell ya, that was probably the best thing I've ever done, it is HELLA freeing. Y'get to set your own prices, set your own hours, it's great. We even have our own li'l training room, me and my good buddy Steve tear it up like once a month. Anyway, that's me. Impressed yet? Grayson is based on the Restless Flycatcher (Myiagra Inquieta).

30 Days Of Characters Day 8: Grayson Locke, freelance hitman

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Andrea Kirby has a problem. It's not her relatively short stature (especially compared to the other women on the GCHS Varsity Women's Volleyball team, I mean some of those ladies are over six foot), it's not her personality (she's actually quite fun to know), it's not her overly enthusiastic nature, nor is it the fact that there's a pronounced (like, more than usual) wet bird smell when she works up a proper sweat. No, Andrea has commitment issues. Who's to blame for those issues? Is it her parents, who were mutually and chronically unfaithful to each other, and not in a chill, ENM way, in a furtive and very, very UNM way. Possibly. It does give her a healthy distrust of the older generation at least. Is it her own insecurities? True, she can get into her own head quite often and she's got a bit of a self-deprecating streak that can get very old very quickly. Maybe she's just born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline. Whatever the case, those commitment issues ruined what could've been a promising relationship between her and her teammate, Corinne, much like it did with nearly a dozen other women. And this was a particularly disappointing inevitability because she and Corinne had so much going for them. Similar tastes, similar athletic backgrounds, similar senses of humor, but as soon as that damn Valentine's Day date was sprung on her, she noped out of what might've been the best thing that ever happened to her. Maybe one of these days she'll realize that calling yourself a romantic means you actually need to put in the effort to try and foster a relationship rather than just let it happen and get scared as soon as something remotely serious starts happening. Fuckin' Andrea. Andrea is based on the Cerulean Kingfisher (Alcedo Coerulescens).

30 Days Of Characters Day 7: Andrea Kirby, GCHS volleyball player and Corinne's most recent ex

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Kenzie FaceTimes Kaiden in the middle of the night. Kenzie: Uh... h-hey Kaiden. I-I know it's late, I'm sorry. Kaiden: Nah, s'okay, s'okay. Kenzie: I just... I can't sleep. My mind is racing and I *need* to talk to someone who... isn't my family. Kaiden: *yawn* Whazzup, girl?

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If it seems surf styles run naturally in the Lopez family, you're not wrong. Although in the case of Rodrigo Lopez, the oldest son of clan Lopez and older brother of Meg, he'll tell you it's "kitsch" and "ironic" when deep down, he just likes khaki shorts and Hawaiian shirts. Perpetually gay, perpetually single, and perpetually unemployed, Rodrigo prefers to consider himself a "freelancer", spending his time as a writer, artist, and overall bon vivant, with much of his work falling distinctly into the lowbrow movement. Yes, the surf culture strikes again. Despite being, y'know, gay, Rodrigo's art is known for his distinct, stylized, strikingly beautiful women, with his work often appearing on t-shirts, posters, and album covers, as well as regular showings at the Davidsville Contemporary Art Museum. Some of his most recognizable works can be found across both the Arts District and the Wharf District, large, alfresco murals of surf, sun, women, and occasionally, when he's feeling spicy, punks. His prose takes on a similarly outsider-ish view, often very stream of consciousness focused, wistful stories of romantic lust and longing, basically writing what he knows while also knowing how to vary it juuuuust enough so each piece is unique. Did I mention he's also a journalist? Well, in the same way that you'd be able to call Hunter S. Thompson a "journalist", it's a pretty loose, anarchic definition of the term, his unconventional style is often on display in the Davidsville Gay Times, the local queer newspaper, where he's a personal favorite of the upstanding publication's equally unconventional editor. When asked about how he views himself, Rodrigo usually says that he's been called it so many times that he considers himself, in his little sister's words, a "giant fucking dweeb", because at the end of the day, aren't we all?

30 Days Of Characters Day 6: Rodrigo Lopez, writer, artist, and Meg's older brother

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David: A Webcomic It's You

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If you've seen any advertisements for Fullpipe around Davidsville (usually plastered on lampposts and traffic lights, though the occasional billboard pops up), you might recognize a certain, striking, blue haired Latina punk on most of them. That woman is Lily Cruz, Kate's roommate and fellow Fullpipe employee, who was quickly chosen as the face of the store by Kate and her parents when they realized that guys absolutely flocked to her whenever she was up on the registers. Lily's effortless attitude and unconventionally conventional sex appeal provided a certain je ne sais quoi that the store's advertisements needed, and damned if it didn't work, once Lily's ads hit the streets, foot traffic at Fullpipe shot up. Now, one thing you'll notice if you've seen enough of her ads is that Lily never actually rides a skateboard on any of them, despite Fullpipe being, y'know, a skate shop. Oh sure, she may be on or around a skateboard, but she's never actively skating. That's because Lily is what you might generously call a "poser", believe it or not, Lily cannot skate for the life of her. Not for lack of trying, but it just ain't her cup of tea. That's okay, though, Fullpipe has an entire team of skaters (Kate, Nat, Annika, Alan, and Becca) that do the action shots. The pin-ups? That's Lily's job. Lily doesn't mind modeling, in fact, she's all for the easy money. She's just using the parts her mom gave her is all. As long as she doesn't have to get up onto and balance on a skateboard, she's happy.

30 Days Of Characters Day 5: Lily Cruz, amateur model and Fullpipe employee

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If you're looking for the story of a charmed life, then that's not Braeden Macmillan. Dude's had it rough, always feeling like an outsider looking in, never feeling comfortable within his own plumage, isolated, stressed, depressed, a family that didn't accept him for who he was, it damn near makes one turn... *gasp* punk! Thus became Braeden, a punk who liked men so much he became one, an A/V geek in high school who turned to music production in college. During his studies, Braeden stumbled across one Jaxton Michaels, formerly of Holsteed, who took the young dweeb under his wing, so to say, at his personal studio, Studio Michaels. It was there Braeden first stumbled across Vaginal Papercuts, then still a college band, and more importantly, one Mike Ulcombe. Mike was everything Braeden ever wanted in a man, tall, buff, punky, and a killer voice to boot. Did I mention he played drums? Suddenly, Braeden was... well, on the outside looking in, quite literally, at his new crush from behind the thick, thick glass of the recording booth. The longing, the yearning for someone he thought could've done so much better than him. And yet, one day, while mixing their latest album alone in the studio, who should stumble in having forgotten something a few days earlier but the big man himself. As if on cue, Braeden suddenly grew the balls to get to talking (not literally, he has yet to get any bottom work done), and the two self-professed acid punks found out that they had a hell of a lot more in common than they thought. A few dates later, and... well, let's just say there's at least one song about his ass floating around out there. He thinks it's hilarious.

30 Days Of Characters Day 4: Braeden Macmillan, A/V nerd, music mixboard master, and Mike's hunky new boytoy

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If you wanna contort your body into bizarre shapes and you wanna do it fast, you go to the Namaste Down Yoga Studio, run by one of Davidsville's most bizarre characters, Llandra Lee. And given some of the characters that make up Davidsville, that's saying a LOT. Llandra's a little bit of everything, a professional yoga instructor, a certified wellness expert, a licensed sex therapist, an unlicensed chiropractor, an amateur herbalist, and a freelance poet. Your next question is probably "aren't all poets inherently freelance" to which she'd typically respond "that's what they'd like you to think." Who are they? Who knows, Llandra lives in her own world sometimes. For all intents and purposes, Llandra's a great yogi. The fact that she studied sex therapy, uh... helps. And she's limber, flexible, damn near a contortionist, sometimes you'd think her body's made of rubber. It's not, but don't tell her that. Amongst her student population include Sunny, Erica, Jade, and Jazzy (from whom she gets her, uh, herb supply from, if you catch my drift), all of whom can honestly state they've learned a hell of a lot more than they expected to. Is that a good or a bad thing? That depends. That... really depends. At the end of the day though, as long as you can get over the smell of weed and her... active imagination, Llandra's actually a pretty fun chick to know. Just don't try anything she tries to give you. You'll never make that mistake twice. Llandra is based on the Chestnut-headed Bee-eater (Merops Leschenaulti).

30 Days Of Characters Day 3: Llandra Lee, yoga instructor

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Tetsuyo Hikigara was just your everyday transfer student, a native of Japan, studying astrophysics abroad at Davidsville's storied Grassmore C. University. Nothing special about him, he mostly hung out with the other exchange students, occasionally indulging in his moderate athletic pursuits of baseball and skiing. Everything changed, however, when he met Kozue. Or well, "met" is putting it mildly, the more accurate term is "crashed straight into on a black diamond slope". Tetsuyo, unfortunately, took the brunt of the crash, breaking his left arm and his right leg. Kozue, fortunately, was resourceful enough to bring him down the slope to the lodge's medical ward, certain... advantages to being outdoorsy. Kozue, guilty about what happened, never left Tetsuyo's side during his stay at the hospital, and helped him on his shaky road to recovery. And that's when he met the rest of the GCU basketball team, especially Lissa, the med student, whose knowledge of sports medicine proved invaluable to Kozue and Tetsuyo's situation. Their time together, naturally, saw them fall in love, and as soon as Tetsu (as Koze since dubbed him) was healthy enough to do... well, anything involving standing, she asked him on their first date. That was four years ago, since then, their whirlwind romance has taken them across the country in a wild March Madness, to Japan and back, and, spurred on by the recent nuptials of David and Grace, to Konogohan, Davidsville's premier gourmet sushi restaurant, where Tetsu proposed to Kozue over dragon rolls and salmon roe. The two have yet to set a date, but they're more than excited to start their lives together. In fact, some may say that they already have.

30 Days Of Characters Day 2: Tetsuyo Hikigara, skiier and Kozue's fiance

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One of Grace and Lissa's old basketball teammates, Kozue Nichihara met the duo in high school, when she joined the GCHS Junior Varsity team as a shooting guard. Between the three of them, an unstoppable dynasty formed, the trinity of her, Grace's small forward, and Lissa's center pushed GCHS to state victory, and eventually, bringing Grassmore C. University to the NCAA finals. This lanky, spunky demi-femme is a lot more rugged than she looks, having grown up taking regular camping trips with her mom. Need to fend off a lurking bear? Kozue can do it. Need to make a fire with sticks and string? Kozue can do it. Need to pull a fast break into a half court three pointer to force a game into overtime with thirteen seconds left in the last quarter? Lissa to Raina, Raina to Kozue, and a last minute shot gave the team just enough to edge out UConn with their newfound five minutes. While she, Grace, and Lissa still do the occasional 3-on-3 pickup, since graduating (with a degree in Applied Mathematics), Kozue's been splitting her time between Davidsville and her grandparents' chalet in the Cascades, spending time with her first love, her fiance Tetsuyo, and her fourth love, snowboarding. Yes, trading in one competitive sport for another, Kozue's been spending her post college life developing her snowboarding skills, and has even ranked top five in a few competitions. Just give her a few years, Kozue may surprise you.

30 Days Of Characters Day 1: Kozue Nichihara, snowboarder and ex-college basketballer

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