History Characters / FakingIt

* TeensAreShort: A little firecracker at barely 5 feet tall.

* TeensAreShort: She subverts this at Hester by her sub-five-foot presence as an authority figure (she's even shorter than Lauren.)

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite being extremely maniuplative, breaking his "Gay Scouts Honor" almost constantly and often using others to his own ends, he does prove to be very loyal to his best friends and even willing to help the not-so-great friends with their various dilemmas.

* HollywoodDateless: The Glasses + the a.v obsessions = total dateless nerd.

* HollywoodDateless: Even with Hester's... unconventional... sense of social order, it's really hard to believe Karma would have trouble getting noticed or finding a date.

!! The MTV series

* AmbiguouslyBi: During season 1 and the first part of 2, she has repeated ShipTease moments with Amy that could suggest she isn't as straight as she seems. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven in the season 2A finale in which she dreams of herself and Amy making out, in their underwear. It's a very neat parallel to Amy's reaction when the two kissed in the first ever episode when the camera focuses on her shocked reaction when she wakes up from the dream.]]

->Portrayed by: Katie Stevens

->Portrayed by: Rita Volk

* FoeYay: To a certain extent with Shane.

%%* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Karma.

%%* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Amy.

->Portrayed by: Yvette Monreal

* ComingOutStory: An odder trajectory than most but definitely has one.

* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Karma's red.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Karma.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Karma's girly-girl.
* TownGirls: the Butch to Karma's Femme and Lauren's Neither.

* CantHoldHerLiquor: Leads to a very regrettable kiss [[spoiler:with Amy]] in the next-to-last episode of Season 2.

* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Amy's Blue.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Amy.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly-girl to Amy's tomboy.
* TownGirls: The Femme to Amy's Butch and Lauren's Neither.

* AlphaBitch: Subverted. has all the personality traits associated with the trop but doesn't get a chance to flaunt it as the school looks down on traditional popularity tropes and social order. More hidden depths than most characters of this trope, too.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Her speech to the school board:
-->"When I first came to Hester, I thought, 'What the f*ck is wrong with this place?' Drama club is cooler than football? The most popular kid in school is an obnoxious gay guy and his best friend is a straight man-whore and it's not even a little weird. Two girls pretended to be lesbians. Why? Because at Hester, being different makes you cool. I had a hard time with that. The one thing that makes me different is the one thing I've always tried to hide. [[spoiler:I'm intersex.]] I never said that out loud before I came here. Turner wants Hester to be more like other schools, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think more schools should be like Hester. Because this is a school that accepts you. Even if you don't accept yourself."

* BiTheWay: When confronted by Shane and Karma, he tells them he's bi. [[NoBisexuals Neither Shane nor Karma had even considered the possibility.]]

* AmbiguouslyBi: During season 1 and the first part of 2, she has repeated ShipTease moments with Amy that could suggest she isn't as straight as she seems. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven in the season 2A finale in which she dreams of herself and Amy making out, in their underwear. It's a very neat parallel to Amy's reaction when the two kissed in the first ever episode when the camera focuses on her shocked reaction when she wakes up up the dream.]]

* ObliviousToLove: Sh seems unaware of Amy's attraction to her, until Amy's not so subtle speech at her mother's wedding rehearsal which leads to [[spoiler: Amy's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove]].

* GenerationXerox: Subverted to an extent. She definitely seems to have her parents sunny optimism but little interest in their mother-earth hippie routine, instead more concerned about the prosaic dilemmas of being a teenage (ie climbing the school's social ladder).

* IncompatibleOrientation: She bittersweetly invokes this trope, when she says she wishes she felt the same way about Amy as Amy feels about her... but justdoesn't.

* LingerieShot

* NewTransferStudent: For the back half of Season 2.

* CantHoldHerLiquor: Leads to an extremely regrettable hookup at the end of season one.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Shows a passing attraction to a Brazilian male visitor and does [[spoiler: sleep with Liam, although that was firmly with beer goggles in place and with an intent to hurt Karma]], although only has shown signs of being romantically drawn to women.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: to Karma, in the season one finale]].
* ButchLesbian: Subverted. She is easily labeled this by others in her "relationship" with Karma, though in reality is just somewhat Tomboy-ish and less concerned with overall appearence, falling more into the 'Chapstick' category.

* ChickMagnet: Although sometimes gets the HollywoodHomely treatment at Hester, when she and Shane go to the lesbian bar the girls are ''very'' easily drawn to her advances (though she always shoots herself in the foot before any connection is made) and Reagan wastes no time checking her out during their first meeting in "Lying Kings and Drama Queens".

* DeadpanSnarker: Can be this at times, especially towards her mother and stepsister.
* EroticDream: Has one about Karma during the second episode.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Gives Karma her blessing to see Liam.

* SingleTargetSexuality: Through season one, which is even {{Lampshaded}} by Shane when discussing her sexuality by declaring that she's firmly "Karma-sexual". That changes in season two as she shows signs of attraction to different people and [[spoiler: gets her first actual girlfriend]].

* ComingStraightStory: Has this during drama auditions when she reveals [[spoiler: she isn't a lesbian and just went along with the ruse in an effort to gain popularity.]] She has to do the same thing a season later at her mother's PFLAG group, because her mother neglected to tell them her daughter was straight.
* FieryRedhead: Averted. More a mild case of ManicPixieDreamGirl.

* ObliviousToLove: Seems unaware of Amy's attraction to her, until Amy's not so subtle speech at her mother's wedding rehearsal which leads to [[spoiler: Amy's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove]].

* ThreeWaySex: Coaxes Liam into a planned threesome with her and Amy so he won't feel like they're cheating... it doesn't end well. [[AesopAmnesia And then]] she does the same thing to Wade, hoping to win him over Shane. That one also doesn't end well.

* TheUnfavorite: Thinks her parents prefer her adopted brother Zen over her.

* ObliviousToLove: Seems unaware of Amy's attraction to her, until Amy's not so subtle speech at her mother's wedding rehearsal which leads to [[spoiler: Amy's AnguishedDeclerationOfLove]].

->Portrayed by: SentaMoses[[note]]Senta Moses Mikan from Season 3 on[[/note]]

->Portrayed by: SentaMoses

* GayBestFriend: To Liam and Amy, respectively.

Amy's mom and Lauren's dad. Married at the end of Season 1.