Meet The Characters

Chi

Age 15

Chi is an extremely well-read Black girl. She is driven and focused but equally out-spoken and caring. Although 10 minutes younger than her twin brother, Kam, she takes good care of him at her mother’s insistence.

If Chi was to tell you why she’s so smart, she would say it’s because she has to be. She has to be ready to argue clearly and concisely for fear of being called irrational, she has to be better than everyone else if she is going to go through life as a young black girl from the ghetto, she has to work three times as hard. Chi has never been allowed to be a child, she faces constant adultification and infantilisation at the same time, she lives in constant paradox. She desperately wants to have fun and let loose but can’t quite fathom that it won't be the end of the world if she does.

Kam

15

Kam is Chi’s twin brother. He is fun and extremely affectionate with big dreams of being a content creator. Kam has ultimate golden retriever energy, he’s sensitive about his intelligence and hates being compared to his sister who is in higher sets at school.

Kam cares a lot but is an unfortunate product of his environment. He generally believes in the equality of all genders but doesn’t have the knowledge of how deep rooted the sexism is within his culture and environment. This means his sexism and gender bias is more casual rather than intentionally problematic.

Charlie

Age 16

Charlie is a ‘lad’s lad’, an alpha male, a young geezer who is also a product of his environment. He’s working class and his parents are, potentially, bigoted, mostly due to the fact that they feel disenfranchised as born and bred English Brits with right-wing views. Charlie would identify as a proud “meninist” or men’s rights activist, he holds a lot of unconscious bias and prejudice but has done none of the work to undo that. He is smart and in the top sets at school but does not apply his intelligence to thinking about societal issues. He can be funny and likeable and is very popular at school.

Ella

15

Ella is from a Muslim family, the middle child and only girl. Ella is shy and aloof in bigger groups but one-on-one with both Chi and Kam, she finds her voice a little. She’s kind but lacks confidence. Ella is very good at make- up and art and finds confidence through this.  Ella is confused about her sexuality and developed a crush on Chi, which led to a “kiss” in Year 10.  In the summer, their group of friends hosted a party, at which Chi kissed a boy one of the other girls was dating. Feeling pressured by the rest of the group, Ella passively joined the campaign against Chi by ignoring her and not standing up for her with the other girls.