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full name: Brittany Susan Pierce. age: 17. grade: Senior. gender identity: Female. pronouns: She/Her. sexual & romantic orientation: Openly Bisexual. family members of importance: Whitney Pierce (Mom), Pierce Pierce (Dad). Lord Tubbington (Cat, evil mastermind)  clubs/teams (if any): Cheerios, Glee Club, Troubletones positive traits: Imaginative, Kind Hearted, Loyal, Humorous, Supportive. negative traits: Carefree, Gullible, Flirtatious, Impractical, Naive.

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Brittany Susan Pierce entered this world on April 16, 1994, but her birth was a little more unique. While on the road looking for electric fireplaces, the Pierce’s had to pull over and what Whitney thought was bad indigestion, turned into something more special and appealing. You could imagine the shock on her fathers face when her mother returned, still attached like an old phone line to this baby, quickly rushing to the nearest hospital.

Brittany’s life was eccentric to say the least, her parents weren’t strict, they were very loving and always supported her in whatever she decided to do. Dance classes, cheerleading, the family were always in the front row watching their little girl perform, knowing one day she’d become a star.

School was tough for Brittany, she wasn’t the smartest person and even though she was a part of the ‘popular’ squad in middle school, the girls were mean and always called her stupid and dumb, but when it came to moving her body, she was a genius at that, plus she had her cat to turn to, Lord Tubbington always understood her.

High School was a whole different world for her, she was recruited onto the Cheerios in the first few weeks and making friends was easy. Joining the Glee club was the last thing on her mind, she was the one who always defaced their pictures in the yearbooks, she became somewhat of a bully to those she didn’t understand and when she grew to love Glee club, she dropped the spying act for Sue and stayed because she wanted to and nobody judged her for being a little odd, everyone was different.

Brittany is very open about her sexuality, everyone in the school has made out with her at some point and she doesn’t care, bisexual, bicurious or a bicorn? She likes the guys and the girls and it’s fun to be with both.

full name: jesse isaac st. james age: 20 grade: n/a gender identity: cismale pronouns: he + him sexual & romantic orientation: pansexual panromantic family members of importance: jacob st. james - father, amelia st. james - mother, jeremiah st. james - uncle, lima resident, jaiden st. james - brother, jessica st. james - sister clubs/teams: vocal adrenaline - coach + choreographer positive traits: talented, impulsive, supportive, persuasive, decisive negative traits: intense, tactless, over dramatic, ambitious, dismissive

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Growing up Jesse always knew that he was destined for far greater things than Ohio could provide. Growing up Jesse was both the youngest and the favorite of the St. James children. In school Jesse was never as interested in the more academic subjects like math and English as he was with music. Math and English required more work than he was usually prepared to do, resulting in less than stellar grades. A fact that both of his parents were never quite okay with, doing all that they could to get Jesse to work harder, usually to no avail.

Then in middle school Jesse’s English teacher suggested that he try out for the school play, and despite having some reservations about it he decided to audition for it; fully expecting not to get cast. Then against all odds he was and Jesse was pretty much instantly pulled out of his shell. He’d finally found that thing that he was actually good at, aside from music class. Jesse’s parents used this new found passion to their advantage, warning Jesse that if his grades dipped below a B average they wouldn’t let him continue with the acting. While it didn’t make Jesse any more interested in the academic side of school it did force him to pay attention and work harder.

In high school Jesse gained more confidence as he continued to come out of his shell due to his passion for drama. As his senior year rolled around he’d developed something of an ego when it came to the performing arts. Academically speaking he was actually doing better. he was by no means at the top of his class, but he wasn’t struggling as badly as he had been previously. While he would have hated to admit it he was actually enjoying classes that weren’t drama. In the spring semester of his senior year Jesse received his acceptance letter to UCLA [ it’s in Los Angeles…].

full name: Santana Maria Lopez age: 17 Grade: Senior gender identity: Female Pronouns: She/Her sexual & romantic orientation: Closeted Lesbian family members of importance: Dr. Benjamin Lopez (father), Maribel Lopez (mother), Alma Lopez (grandmother) clubs/teams (if any): cheerleading, glee club, positive traits: honest, protective, ambitious, passionate, intelligent negative traits: insecure, judgmental, oversensitive, impulsive, jealous

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As an only child, Santana grew up thinking she could run the world around her. She was showered with attention and love, always being given what she wanted. This was only magnified when she was 12 and her parents divorced. Her mom moved out to live with her abuela in Lima Heights Adjacent and it wasn’t like she was even given a choice. She was packed up and moved with her, leaving behind the house and life she had always known. Since her father was always working and didn’t seem to have time to spend with her, he just showered her with gifts and money. She began to use that to her advantage as she was angry all the time at her parents and the messiness that was involved in the divorce - as is seen by the fact that she convinced her father to pay for her breast implants the summer before junior year. She found that she had always had crushes - her first unofficial boyfriend being in kindergarten when she kissed a boy behind the slide on the playground. She was 13 when she had her first kiss with a girl and it was like the sky opened up and heaven rained down. She had already been dealing with the idea of having a crush on the other girl but when they kissed at a birthday party, it just felt right. Nothing came of anything with that kiss but it made her realize over the next year that those secret feelings she had been holding mean something. That was the beginning of the biggest secret she had ever held. Her family would never approve of her sexuality and she knew that if she were to ever come out, it would cause hell. When she started high school, she immediately gravitated to the Cheerios. Her mother had been cheerleading captain in high school and she just always wanted to make her parents proud of her. Being on the Cheerios and at the top of the social ladder meant it was easier to hide behind a sneer and the pompoms than show her thoughts. It also meant that when it came to her sexuality, she could hide behind the parties because hooking up with girls while drunk didn’t actually mean she was a lesbian - or she pretends to believe.

full name: Joseph Adam Hart age: 17 grade: Junior gender identity: Male pronouns: He/him sexual & romantic orientation: Pansexual biromantic family members of importance: Rebecca Hart (mother), Samuel Hart (father) clubs/teams (if any): Glee Club, God Squad positive traits: Compassionate, patient, honest, humble, upbeat negative traits: Gullible, inexperienced, scatterbrained, indecisive, timid

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Where many children grew up listening to nursery rhymes and fairytales, Joe Hart was raised on hymns and Bible verses. His father was a traveling Bible salesman and his mother was a Sunday school teacher, so they never had very much money – but that didn’t matter. Growing up in the church, they always had plenty one way or another, and they were surrounded by a community of people who loved and supported them. Joe had friends in the other children whose parents attended the same church, attending the Sunday school his mother taught, going to church picnics and trips, and becoming more and more active in youth group as he got older. He was taught at home by his mother, and the two of them were always close.

As Joe grew up, a second love began to form in his life, blooming from his faith like a flower pushing up through the vibrant, healthy soil. His favorite part of church was undoubtedly the music; he found more peace and happiness in the lyrics of his favorite hymns or Christian rock songs than anything else. When his youth pastor suggested that he join the church band, Joe leapt at the chance, initially starting out as a background singer. Then the band’s guitarist began to teach him to play, and Joe often joined him, or even began to play by himself. It came as a bit of a shock to him when he started to receive more attention from girls around this point, especially as he had no idea how to respond. Being homeschooled has a lot of benefits, but he was starting to realize that socializing wasn’t one of them.

Even with his friends in church group, Joe was starting to realize that if he was going to make his own way in the world someday, he would have to start branching out socially. He couldn’t spend his entire life with people who were just like him. And truth be told, he didn’t want to do that. Joe wanted to experience as much of this gift of life that he had been given as he possibly could, and he knew that meant breaking away from his mother and from home. He was seventeen years old, and soon it would be time for him to leave home, to go to college, to begin a new chapter in his life where he was the writer instead of a character.

So he begged his parents to allow him to enter mainstream school. Joe was sure they weren’t going to be open to it, but to his surprise, his parents agreed readily. His mother told him that she was more than happy to continue his education at home, but she also understood that it was time for him to spread his wings. At the beginning of the 2018 school year, his parents enrolled him at McKinley High. Joe was surprised to discover that there was already a club at McKinley for Christian students (and it didn’t hurt that one of the members, Quinn, was very pretty). They introduced him to the Glee club, allowing him to pursue both his love of God and his love of music.

full name: William Alexander “Biff” McIntosh, IV age: 18 grade: Senior gender identity: Cismale pronouns: He/him sexual & romantic orientation: Closeted bisexual/Closeted biromantic family members of importance: William Alexander McIntosh III (father), Elizabeth Grace McIntosh (mother). clubs/teams (if any): Rugby, Lacrosse, Golf positive traits: Adventurous, Ambitious, Dedicated, Educated, Straightforward negative traits: Conceited, Materialistic, Pompous, Prejudiced, Vain

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Born and raised in Greenwich, CT, William Alexander McIntosh, IV had everything he could’ve wished for. A ridiculously expensive home with high ceilings, marble floors, a dock for their boats and a wine cellar he could raid whenever without fear of punishment? Check, check, check. The McIntosh’s have long come from old money and are all seemingly Yale alumni - they often donate to their alma mater, but no one will confirm or deny whether or not there’s an actual wing dedicated to their family. Money could actually buy happiness, much to the chagrin of those who worked under them.

Although William would rather go by anything but Biff, it was a nickname given to him by his grandfather - the one person who seemingly paid attention to him and wasn’t too busy to teach him about life outside of Greenwich. He loved his grandfather and cared for him more than anyone else in his family so when his grandfather died, William - Biff - was at a loss, feeling lonely and neglected as both his mother and father chose to worry about work than about their son. It was freshman year in high school when he passed away, and Biff quickly decided to rebel - drinking, partying, neglecting his schoolwork, even almost failing the school year all around. Because of that, William and Elizabeth decided to send him to study elsewhere, with family members away from the glamorous life he led in Connecticut.

William McKinley high school was no joke, unfortunately, and it took Biff some time to get used to going to public school rather than board school in the Northeast. At first, he was a little too used to the glitz and the glamour back home - he was still living in the nicest part of town, but it wasn’t the same. He knew that if he wanted to fit in and actually be liked rather than be known as the ‘douchey rich dude’, that he needed to dress down a little, talk without acting as if he was a part of the 1%, and join some extracurriculars. Still, he does flaunt his money from time to time - throwing extravagant parties, asking his friends if they’d join him on vacations, taking some to the biggest sports games of the week.

full name: Hunter James Clarington age: 17 grade: Junior gender identity: cismale pronouns: he/him sexual & romantic orientation: bisexual and biromantic family members of importance: Amelia Clarington (biologically Hunter’s daughter, but everyone knows her as his adopted sister), Charles Clarington (father), Laura Clarington (step-mother), and Clarence (cat). clubs/teams (if any): swim club, mathletes and track & field positive traits: confident, intelligent, ambitious, hard-worker, dependable negative traits: stubborn, narcissistic, rude, impatient, reserved

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Hunter is the only son of Anne and Charles Clarington, two pilots who met during training in the Air Force and fell madly in love. Anne died during one of her deployments due to a technological failure in the aircraft, leaving Charles to raise a 5-year-old Hunter alone. Although it was hard for the military man to keep up with a toddler, Charles worked hard to make sure Hunter had everything he needed. Charles loved his son more than he had ever thought possible, but he often had trouble expressing this love as openly as perhaps Anne would have. Instead, Charles’ love was shown in the little acts— when Hunter was younger, he called him his “little soldier,” packed him a lunch box every morning, and played football with him in the park. This is how Hunter learned to love, not in big elaborate acts of confession, or even I love you’s, it was the little things done in silence.

Hunter had looked up to his father for as long as he could remember. Most young boys want to grow up to be some kind of super hero, but Hunter wanted to be just like his father. After all, his father flew airplanes and fought with bad guys, what could be cooler than that? Hunter was definitely going to join the Air Force someday and wear that same navy uniform that his father wore with all those badges pinned to it. While the dreams of most boys change as they get older, Hunter’s dreams are still the same. While Hunter doesn’t give much thought to what others think, in fact he really doesn’t care for most people’s opinions, it’s his father’s opinion that matters. He strives to make his father proud.

Growing up in military bases, Hunter’s childhood consisted of playing more in training courses than with colourful toys. Since they constantly moved from one base to another (depending on his father’s assignments), Hunter was always the new kid at school. Perhaps it was the culture of military academies, or just the environment he was raised in, but Hunter associated the more stereotypically male qualities with masculinity. He realized early on that he was attracted to both girls and guys, that’s how he had felt for as long as he could remember. It wasn’t that he feared being disowned, or feared being bullied if he came out, it was just easier to let people assume he was straight. After all, he did like girls. He still wanted kids someday and that white picket fence cliché, so why did he need to come out? In fact, why did he have to label himself all? All it would do is change the way others saw him and maybe disappoint his father a little.

When Hunter was 10, Charles began dating again. Hunter didn’t particularly care for his father’s girlfriends, they were mostly flings, a few dates here and there. It was hard to date as a single father, especially when you frequently had to leave for deployed— you had to move your things, get your son adjusted to a new academy, there was no time to devote to starting a committed relationship. It was 4 years later when Charles and Hunter took a trip to Lima, Ohio to visit some old air force buddies that Charles met Laura. He was deployed in Colorado at the time, and the two started a long-distance relationship that ultimately led to a wedding one year later.

It was only when Charles and Laura got married that things started to change. Laura came from a strict, Catholic household, which meant she had the same expectations for her new family. Hunter wasn’t too fond of these changes, and like any teenage boy, he responded by acting out. He started throwing parties, skipping classes, sneaking in girls. All of this came to an abrupt end when his girlfriend found out she was pregnant and suddenly his world came shattering down.

full name: Bree Noelle Cooper. age: 16. grade: Sophomore. gender identity: Female. pronouns: She/Her. sexual & romantic orientation: Heterosexual/Heteroromantic. family members of importance: Jason Cooper (Father), Amy Cooper (Mother), no siblings and no pets. clubs/teams (if any): Cheerios! positive traits: passionate, sarcastic, loyal, talented, quick-witted. negative traits: slightly insecure, ruthless, quick-tempered, self-destructive, jealous.

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Bree is new to WMHS and this is her first year here. Even with it being her first year, she’s made it onto the Cheerios! and plans to keep her spot there until one day when she plans to become captain. That would be her ultimate goal. Ultimate popularity, being the best of the best in McKinley and getting to be prom queen. Nothing else matters to her in her high school career.

She comes from a very intelligent family with her dad being a doctor and her mom giving up a career in law to be a stay at home mom when Bree was born. It’s been really hard on her with that kind of pressure. She’s always pushed herself to be the best. Get the best grades, be the best Cheerleader and be better than any other girl around her. Some may say it’s made her a horrible person but she wants to be the best and she’ll settle for nothing less.

Bree hates the Glee club. In fact, Sue is now using her as her mole to tear the Glee club down.. again. And since she see’s them as nothing but a bunch of losers it makes her job that much easier. What she doesn’t realize is that one day she might even need the Glee club, someone to have her back and be there for her. But until that day ever does come, she’s just happy tearing them all down one by one.

full name: Jane Elizabeth Hayward age: 17 grade: junior gender identity: cisfemale pronouns: She/Her sexual & romantic orientation: Bisexual/Biromantic family members of importance: Johnathan Hayward IV (Father) & Dr. Margaret Elizabeth Hayward (Mother),  Johnathan Hayward V (Eldest brother by 5 years), James Hayward (Elder brother by 3 years) clubs/teams (if any): Drama Club, Debate Team positive traits: Ambitious, Intelligent, Peacful, Respectful, Witty negative traits:  Bullheaded, Abrupt, Critical, Passive, Awkward

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Jane Hayward was not a disappointment. Or at least that’s what she told herself no matter how many times her parents looked at her with less light in their eyes than they looked at their other children. With both her older brothers following in their parents footsteps, Jane was the obvious black sheep. Even so, she tried her hardest to earn the respect and love of her parents that she deserved. As a lawyer and doctor, it was expected for them to be a bit cold at times and Jane was no stranger to the frequent breeze during family dinners, but none of that mattered to her. She saw it as what it was: an obstacle to defeat and later include in a memoir if she so chose to.

For years she threw herself into being the perfect child, volunteering at the hospital where her mother worked, and sitting silently while her father won case after case. But it was far too easy to grow bored with her lifestyle and one day, Jane decided she was done with it. She wanted to do her own thing; find something to call her own. Of course until she had a definitive something, it was scrubs and courtrooms. Though, with her parents finally caving in and letting her attend public school, she knew that her “something” wouldn’t take long to find.

Being the new girl was always hard, but for Jane it was impossible to deal with; she was simply unapproachable. She was always too tall, too argumentative, and no one ever knew where they stood with her. Not exactly sure where she went, Jane opted to stick to the things she knew despite not enjoying them as much. Everything changed, however, when she walked into her first drama club meeting. It was as if the minute she stepped foot into the room, sparks went off– far more than what she felt playing pretend bar exam as a child.