lilah:

she was raised in a wealthy family (this is how she knew christian, they grew up together) and she’s fairly close with her parents who are really supportive of her, but she knows they wouldn’t understand her wanting to pursue being a gamer/streamer so she decided to go off on her own. in a&d, she decided to go on her own because she didn’t want her parents’ wealth to be a crutch. it’s why she’s so serious/competitive about her journalism. she has ocd which makes her a bit of a control freak at times and causes her to lash out. she finds ethan exhausting at first because of how he disrupts her life

lucas:

his family is rarely mentioned and he doesn’t seem very torn up about it so i don’t think it’s a stretch to say he prefers not having contact with his folks. i personally think it would make sense that they had a big falling out after he came out in college and he decided to get emancipated. he’s lived with ethan ever since. he thought he’d hate working under ethan but actually finds it nice to not have to be in charge all the time. his dream is just to be surrounded by people who care about him so he’ll follow ethan to the ends of the earth

ethan: