History Characters / SexEducationMoordaleSecondarySchoolStudents

* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. He’s vocal about his affinity for dogs, and it’s a trait quite a few characters seem to know about him. He cares very much for his own dog (fittingly named Madam), scolds Eric about proper dog care, and eventually vandalizes Abeo’s car with dog feces when Eric causes Madam to run away. It suits his personality well: he’s aggressive and slow to trust others, but also loyal to a fault and mostly just seeking affection and approval.

* CryCute: [[spoiler: When Aimee breaks up with him.]]

* [[TheFashionista The Fashionistas]]: AND HOW. Constantly dressed to the nines, obsessed with their appearances, and merciless towards those they deem unfashionable. They have their own rules about what to wear and when to wear it, including a specific day dedicated to wearing the color purple. While dating Otis, Ruby practically forces him to dress “cool” enough to hang out with the three of them. Needless to say they are nothing short of horrified about Moordale’s new uniforms—Olivia is literally brought to tears over hers.

-->'''Hope:''' School uniforms will be introduced on campus from next week. They are compulsory, and non-negotiable.

* [[TheFashionista The Fashionistas]]: AND HOW. Constantly dressed to the nines, obsessed with their appearances, and merciless towards those they deem unfashionable. They have their own rules about what to wear and when to wear it, including a specific day dedicated to wearing the color purple. While dating Otis, Ruby practically forces him to dress “cool” enough to hang out with the three of them. Needless to say they are nothing short of horrified about Moordale’s new uniforms—Olivia is literally brought to tears over it.

* TheFashionista: AND HOW. Constantly dressed to the nines, obsessed with their appearances, and merciless towards those they deem unfashionable. They have their own rules about what to wear and when to wear it, including a specific day dedicated to wearing the color purple. While dating Otis, Ruby practically forces him to dress “cool” enough to hang out with the three of them. Needless to say they are nothing short of horrified about Moordale’s new uniforms—Olivia is literally brought to tears over it.

* PetTheDog: Strangely, they compliment Lily of all people when they see her wearing a normal hairstyle for the first time, possibly because they can tell how uncomfortable she seems about it. It’s really the only time they’re ever nice to someone just for the sake of being nice.

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!!Anwar Bakshi, Ruby Matthews, and Olivia Hanan

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachother:[[spoiler:In season 3, they have an unusual moment of friendship; Anwar and Olivia comfort Ruby when she and Otis break up.]]
* CarloadOfCoolKids: Eric is impressed in the very first episode that they got a car and got even more cool over the summer. In season two - when [[spoiler: Aimee has denounced their friendship]] - they yell insults at her from their car.

* FlowerMotifs: The corwn imperial, which symbolises majesty and arrogance. Need we say more?

An incredibly bright and driven girl who is of Moordale's best students. She’s tasked with tutoring Jackson in Season 2 and forms an unlikely bond with him.

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* WhenSheSmiles: Brooding outcast that she is, Maeve is slow to a smile, but when something goes her way (usually Otis doing something nice for her), she often can’t help but show a small smirk. It’s one of the few times we get to see her walls come down.

* JerkassBall: In Season 3, her obsession with improving her CV (and with Hope) causes her to blindly enforce Hope’s incredibly fascist policies. This puts her at odds with the rest of the school, but especially Jackson, whose Head Boy position she totally hijacks when Hope offers it to her.

One of Moordale's best students.

A non-binary student introduced in Season 3, who becomes Jackson's new maybe Love Interest.

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* KickTheDog: She already heard Cal's pronouns are They / Them, which makes Viv's decision to accost them over wearing the "wrong" uniform (Cal wore the more gender-neutral boy's uniform), and aggressively demand they put on the girl's uniform, humiliating them.

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: At first, until they clarify they identify as They / Them. Despite their identification, it seems others are confused/dismissive, as Hope and Viv both insist on treating them as simply a tomboyish girl. Jackson too has trouble wrapping his head around his attraction to them, and Cal fears he still shares Viv and Hope's perspective of their identity.

* CluelessChickMagnet: An understated example, but throughout the series he catches the attention of Ola, [[spoiler: Maeve]] and Lily. [[spoiler: In season 2, he finally loses his virginity to ''Ruby'' of all people]].

* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. He’s vocal about his affinity for dogs—a trait quite a few characters seem to know about him—and he cares very much for his own dog (fittingly named Madam). It suits his personality nicely: he’s aggressive and slow to trust others, but also loyal to a fault and mostly just seeking affection and approval.

** Season 3 has him finding his passion participating in dog shows with Madam. Additionally, the season’s “flowers” promotional material associates him with the dog rose.

** His Season 2 arc continues this via his brief stints in boarding school and the convenience store, which his father’s attempts to teach him discipline and obedience (as one would a dog). He also manages to train his boss’s previously untrainable dog.

* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. He cares very much for his family’s dog (fittingly named Madam), and many characters reference his general affinity for dogs. He trains his boss’s previously untrainable dog, and eventually finds his passion participating in dog shows with Madam. Continued in the Season 3 “flowers” promotional material, in which he is associated with the dog rose.

* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: With Otis throughout the show, with them both taking it in-turns to pine over the other, only to then decide to move on with someone else. A similar and obviously non-romantic dynamic happens with her mother, who spends much of season 2 desperate for Maeve to forgive her and welcome her back into her life, only for, when Maeve begins to trust her again, she discovers Erin is taking heroin again and calls the police. After she tries desperately to rebuild a relationship, but Erin refuses to forgive her.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: When Maeve becomes pregnant, there is little debate on the subject. The clinic worker asks whether she has considered adoption, to which she jokes that no one would want a pregnant teenager. Aside from some anti-choice protesters in front of the clinic, no one else tries to dissuade her.

* AnimalMotif: An odd one with Frogs. Both her brother and mother call her "Froggy" and "Frogface" as an AffectionateNickname, and growing up, it's shown local boys used to call her "Kermit" when sexually harassing her.

!!Jackson Marchetti

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!!Anwar, Ruby Matthews, and Olivia Hanan

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!! Ruby

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!! Olivia

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!! Anwar

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!!Rahim

!!Anwar, Ruby, and Olivia

* PercussiveTherapy: The second season features a junkyard. Adam comes here to smash things as an outlet, which he shows Eric. Following the Detention Episode, the other girls come here and wreck things InUniverseCatharsis for their shared experiences of sexual harassment

* PercussiveTherapy: The second season features a junkyard. Adam comes here to smash things as an outlet, which he shows Eric. Following the Detention Episode, the other girls come here and wreck things as InUniverseCatharsis for their shared experiences of sexual harassment