History Characters / OrangeIsTheNewBlackAsian

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Touched on in her past. The man who rejected her says she can kill him, but ([[HollywoodHomely according to him]]) she'll still be ugly and no man will ever want her; killing him won't change that. She agrees, [[SubvertedTrope but]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch has him killed anyway]].

->'''Played By:''' Creator/KimikoGlenn

->'''Played By:''' Lori Tan Chinn & Teresa Ting

->'''Played By:''' Jolene Purdy

->'''Played By:''' Marie-Lou Nahhas

* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: For all her faults, she means well.

* StageMom: She grew up with one of these.

* TheBigGuy: She serves as this for Piper.

* MixedAncestry: She is half-Japanese and half-Scottish, white enough that Morello is nice to her.

* FatGirl: She's visibly overweight, and somewhat insecure.

!'''Beware of spoilers'''. Only spoilers from the current Season (5) are whited out.

* PragmaticPansexuality: Of the non-scheming kind. She shows attraction to both men and women, while saying later she's "attracted to people, not genders" and falls in love with Poussey. On the show's wiki, she's identified as pansexual.

* BiTheWay: She shows attraction to both men and women, while saying later she's "attracted to people, not genders". On the show's wiki, she's identified as pansexual.

* TheIdealist: Soso tends to take a idealistic, philosophical approach to things rather than a practical one. She's very conceptually driven and intested in love, beauty, and justice.

* LipstickLesbian: She is quite effeminate, and into women.

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[[folder:Shani]]
!!Shani Abboud
->'''Played By:''' Marie-Lou Nahhas
An Egyptian ICE inmate who starts a relationship with Nicky.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: She has a snarky, cheeky personality and sense of humor similar to Nicky that lets them bond very quickly.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Her fate isn't shown, but it's very likely this will happen as she's deported back to Egypt, where homosexuality is punishable by death and her family threatens her with an honor killing.]]
* GroinAttack: Like many Egyptian women, she was given FGM as a child. This is why she won't let Nicky perform oral sex on her.
* LipstickLesbian: She is quite effeminate, and into women.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:To Nicky at the end of the series. Nicky was too preoccupied with Red's dementia and Morello's SanitySlippage that she didn't get a chance to even say goodbye.]]
* SecretRelationship: She was in one with another woman. When this was discovered, she fled Egypt due to her family's clear death threat for it.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tater-tots.

* CleansUpNicely: She had incredibly unfortunate blemishes all over her face in her youth which made it impossible for her to find a husband. At some point, whether through cosmetic surgery or simply time, they've gone away and her complexion is clear. That said, it's still been several decades later and she's an old hairy lady who no longer gives a damn about appearance.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures[=/=]NonSpecificallyForeign: Intentionally invoked, since "Chang" is a common last name in many East Asian countries. Even Soso, the only other Asian inmate at first, is unsure what her nationality is. The episode 'Ching Chong Chang' establishes that she is from rural China

* TheBigGuy: Serves as this for Piper.

* GentleGiant: She's definitely one of the larger inmates but is typically soft spoken and abhors violence. Her only instance of "violence" was wrestling contraband away from another prisoner but apologized and claimed to be a pacifist before doing so.

** Hits even harder in Season 4 with Poussey's death.

* FriendVersusLover: Seems to have some tension with Tastee regarding this, regarding who Poussey "loved more", or whose grief carries more weight.
* GoodWithNumbers: Loves trigonometry and calculus, the later of which she considers "when math meets poetry"
* GranolaGirl: To the point where she refuses to bathe for some time. She also mentions working on an organic farm and most of her friends before prison were environmental and/or animal rights activists. In fact, she's in prison as a result of living in a tree to stop it being cut down.
* TheGrovel: Does this for Poussey in Season 4, after having told Judy King that Poussey's mom was a crack whore, and that Poussey had had a difficult life on the WrongSideOfTheTracks, which caused a SecondActBreakup. It works.

* KickTheDog: On the receiving end of it in Season 3. Granted she's annoying, but she doesn't deserve Leeann's bullying and harassment. Norma's clique ousting her is a sign of the clique going too far, not Soso's character.

* NaiveNewcomer: For most of Season 2.

* OddFriendship With the Black clique at the end of Season 3.

* ShutUpKiss: Of a different kind. When Nicky goes down on her, she can't stop talking, which goes on for a while before Nicky, clearly annoyed, stands up, ditches her trousers and undies and shoves herself into Soso's face to shut her up.
* StageMom: Grew up with one of these.

* TokenGoodTeammate: One of the few outright good prisoners.

->'''Played By:''' Kimiko Glenn

* FatGirl: Is visibly overweight, and somewhat insecure.

* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:To Nicky at the end of the series. Nicky was too pre-occupied with Red's dementia and Morello's SanitySlippage that she didn't get a chance to even say goodbye.]]

* AmbiguouslyBi: Is rather conflicted about her sexuality. On one hand, she hooks up with both Nikki and Poussey, and seems to be generally in love with the latter. On the other hand, she also confesses that she isn't sure how long it'll last between them because "you're a girl" and isn't sure whether she'd still be interested in women when she leaves prison. And yet, a few episodes later she starts planning her future with Poussey. She also comments she's "attracted to people, not genders" at one point.

* BreakTheCutie: Prison has NOT been kind to her. The trauma she endures destroys some of her naivete, and she delivers a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her empty-headed hippie friend Meadow in Season 3. Almost became a KillTheCutie with her suicide attempt in Season 3.

* GranolaGirl: To the point where she refuses to bathe for some time. She also mentions working on an organic farm and most of her friends before prison were environmental and/or animal rights activists.

* KickTheDog: On the receiving end of it in Season3. Granted she's annoying, but she doesn't deserve Leeann's bullying and harassment. Norma's clique ousting her is a sign of the clique going too far, not Soso's character.

* MixedAncestry:She is half-Japanese and half-Scottish, white enough that Morello is nice to her.

* BullyingADragon: In her flashback her idiot would-be fiance decides to spit on her and tell her she's so ugly no man will ever want her, ''after'' she's had him kidnapped, bound, and beaten to a pulp by two gang members who are ready to brutally murder him on her order.
* CleansUpNicely: Had incredibly unfortunate blemishes all over her face in her youth which made it impossible for her to find a husband. At some point, whether through cosmetic surgery or simply time, they've gone away and her complexion is clear. That said, it's still been several decades later and she's an old hairy lady who no longer gives a damn about appearance.

* HiddenDepths: Chang appears to be somewhat of a film buff, comparing Piper to Bo Derek from Tarzan and drawing comparisons to Taylor's Amish background to the Harrison Ford movie, Witness.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures[=/=]NonSpecificallyForeign: Intentionally invoked, since "Chang" is a common last name in many East Asian countries. Even Soso, the only other Asian inmate, is unsure of what her nationality is. The episode 'Ching Chong Chang' establishes that she is from rural China