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BASIC LORE:

XIMENA: grew up in cape suzette until bullying caused her family to move. made friends with juniper who defended her and urged her to tell her parents. moving to st. canard, she eventually met ozzy, who was sitting out in the balcony smoking a cigarette. he saw her staring, and the two eventually met and became friends overtime as she let him break through her walls since she felt bad for him. she met louie through ozzy- thus, meeting everyone else. probably the only person with a completely healthy family dynamic.

JUNIPER: spotting a little girl getting bullied, juniper stepped in and gave herself the title of protector and best friend of ximena. after juniper’s parents divorced due to falling out of love (this is after ximena moved away) her mother eventually met a guy who preyed on juniper. he kickstarted an eating disorder and make creepy comments towards her. from another city, ximena helped however she could, urging juniper to tell someone like she urged her to about her bullying. by sheer luck, the day he decides to assault her (as he deemed her pretty enough), her mother came home and caught him. breaking up with him on the spot and calling the authorities, she called her ex husband for support. juniper’s parents fell back in love and remarried. her mother is constantly trying to make it up to her daughter, event if juniper says that it’s okay. juniper met everyone else through ximena, including meeting ozzy a few times before he met louie.

OZZY: he has never seen a healthy display of love ever since he can remember. his (young) mother was never around due to working, and his father was a playboy and always out with some other woman. when she was home, his mother would excuse his fathers behavior and his father would make passive aggressive remarks. as ozzy got older, he recognized the problems in his family life and quickly became depressed. one day, his father left behind some cigarettes (accidentally taken from a hookup) and ozzy, knowing what they were, decided to try them. the addiction came quick, as it numbed him. the first time, ximena caught him and she kept him company when he was lonely. eventually, his father caught him, and ozzy realized he could extort money out of his father. one night, ozzy lured louie into an alleyway and attempted to flirt, copying what he’d seen from the movies his father seemed to like. it went not as planned, but he and louie kept in contact. he knows louie’s feelings aren’t not returned, but that won’t stop him from loving him anyway.

EVERETT: his parents are children of immigrants who have held most of the same values of their parents. they expect him to be hardworking when he simply isn’t and would rather hone his skills in technology, something they don’t understand. at school in cape suzette, he was unexpectantly dragged to a drama club meeting by an excited whittany to join. she kept trying to get him to join, and he finally relented, managing lights and such. over time, he realized he and whittany aren’t so different and began to develop a major crush on the girl who essentially changed his lonely life. his parents don’t accept her, though. he doesn’t care. he met louie through whittany- thus meeting everyone else.

WHITTANY: born into a huge and wealthy family (though not nearly as much as the McDuck clan), her family legacy isn’t as wholesome(?) as theirs. her mother is the head of the house and demands a good image without actually caring for her kids. this means she go as far as to hide atrocities her children commit. whittany’s father follows in her footsteps, rarely pushing back against her demands. she keeps up the totally happy facade, though. joining the drama club to freely express negative emotions, she spots a boy sitting alone in the library after school. he is notorious for being alone and unfriendly, and whittany decides to make him her project. she drags him continuously to meetings and interrupts his alone time until the two become genuine friends. he helps her get rid of the fake friends she has, too. she develops feelings once he shows her the sweet side of himself. she meets louie at a gala for the rich, where she complains about her family issues, with louie ranting about his own family. the two banter, and become good friends.

DOTTIE: given up at birth to a gang in exchange for a paid off house and easy beginning to adulthood, dottie spent her youth in an unforgiving environment. assaulted and groomed, dottie became one of the top members of her age bracket and quite feared. despite this, she was miserable. making close friends and surrogate sisters with a deer named snow. on one mission in her preteen years, dottie was at a breaking point. louie noticed and offered her to come hide away with him (his family was on a mission of their own and he wanted to get away). they become friends, and he ends up running into her every time he goes to st. canard, even talking people like fenton out of arresting her. she was actually the last person added to the friend group. her friends help her get out of the gang (and to further disband it) and reunite her with her birth parents (who never wanted to give her up but had to since they had no other options). her parents want to make it up to her, always. sometimes they can’t believe their first daughter found her way home.