History Characters / TheFosters

* AmbiguousDisorder: Is this in the pilot before being revealed to have...

* PoisonousFriend

* AngryBlackMan: In his first meeting with Callie, he assumes her to be a "privileged white girl" (though, given her birth father, he's not entirely wrong).

* IllGirl: [[spoiler:She was diagnosed with leukemia when she was nine. The treatments have failed and she eventually decided to give up and let the disease take her away.]]

* IllBoy: As a result of a TBI, he now has seizures and has major problems with his memory, speaking, and purposeful movement.

* BetterAsFriends: After seasons of toxic romantic tension between them, he and Callie finally resolve their strong emotional connection by calling each other their best friend in the SeriesFinale.

* DrowningMySorrows: In the Season 1 finale, aside from [[{{LoveHurts}} his heartbreak over Callie]], Brandon reels from having to turn himself in for his part in Vico Cerar's fake ID scheme, he gets drunk which leads to him being raped by Dani, his dad's girlfriend.

* EmoTeen: Whenever he's in a mood, making or feeling from the consequences of his many bad decisions.

* BetterAsFriends: After seasons of the toxic romantic tension between them, he and Callie finally resolve their strong emotional connection to each by calling each other their vest friend in the SeriesFinale.

* BreakTheCutie: Happens to him near the end of Season 1 going into Season 2, aside from his heartbreak over Callie, he's been arrested to save Callie from criminal charges after she's framed, been raped by [[{{Squick}} his dad's girlfriend]] who directs the guilt onto him, then beaten up by bullies, getting his hand crushed which affects his piano playing ability.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Boy doe she suffer hard from this. Notable examples include(and have probably already been mentioned under other entries) spilling Jesus and Emma's sexual relationship because she doesn't want her brother dating her best friend, taking Jesus's ADHD meds for her own consumption and letting Callie and Jesus take the blame for it, then selling said meds which ultimately leads to Stef getting shot.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: She was constantly afraid Brandon would leave her for Callie, his actions giving her plenty of reason for it. Of course, acting catty towards her only served to mmake it happen even faster.

* NotSoDifferent: She tells Callie at least two stories that help her relate to Callie's situations. The best example is the time she cheated on a good man because she didn't believe she deserved him and that he'd go find someone else anyway, in relation to Callie not trusting the Fosters and thus constantly hurting them.

[-(Portrayed by Creator/DenyseTonz)-]

** The girls at GU criticize her after she irresponsibly allows Cole to endanger his life by taking un-prescribed hormones. They point out that she is making things worse for everybody and is really only looking out for herself, even though she has a big family who cares about her. Even Gabi, who up to that point refused to refer to Cole with male pronouns, [[EveryoneHasStandards was worried about him and furious with Callie]]. Rita comes in later and adds to this by [[NotSoDifferent relating to Callie's inability to trust in anything or anyone]].

* MixedAncestry: Her mother is black and her father is white.

A youth in the foster system, Callie and her brother Jude have bounced from home to home. Over the course of six years, they've been in at least seven different homes before ending up with Lena and Stef. As a long term foster child that's been in some questionable homes, she's learn to live apart from others and trust even less.

* NobleBigot: She is mildly homo/transphobic, as she worries that Jude acting differently will get him beat up. That said, since Jude ''has'' been beat up before because of their abusive foster father but there's a certain level of FreudianExcuse going on since she has zero issues with Stef and Lena and seems to be the most supportive of [[{{Transgender}} Cole]] out of everyone at Girls United; it may very well be that she's not bigoted but just excessively worried about her brother getting injured or worse.

* {{Transgender}}: Already had the transition prior to his first appearance. His parents found it easier to accept when he thought he was a lesbian.

* {{Transgender}}: He gets the procedure some time after Callie leaves GU.

* WellDoneSonGuy: She truly wanted to spend time with her father, [[spoiler:even going so far as to do drugs with him]]. It didn't go so well.

* ButchLesbian: Like Carmen before her, Ximena is a downplayed example, more of a tomboy than an all-out butch. She is the leader of a roller derby team called the Traumacitas. During her first night at the church, she comes out to Callie. After her situation with ICE makes it to the Huffington Post, she excitedly kisses Callie.

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The characters of the television series ''Series/TheFosters''.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: After learning that her situation with ICE has made it to the Huffington Post, she excitedly kisses Callie on the mouth. It's downplayed in that she had already come out to Callie as gay the first night at the church, but it's still never mentioned again.

* SheCleansUpNicely: While she's not ugly in any capacity even at the worst of times, she is quite a site on prom night.

* IncompatibleOrientation: With Mike.

* LipstickLesbian

* FlirtyStepSiblings

* BrotherSisterIncest

* FlirtyStepSiblings

* OdangoHair: Sometimes she sports this hairstyle.

[-(Portrayed by: Creator/GavinMacintosh)-]

* YourCheatingHeart: With Aaron.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Though her treatment of Callie was petty, Brandon's infatuation with Callie was inappropriate for a number of reasons, and given how he had started doing things that would strain their relationship in the very first episode, she had every right to worry that he would dump her for Callie... and then he does so twice (though the way she treated Callie certainly didn't help her case the first time). The second time Brandon dumps her, she warns him that Callie is only going to hurt him. Brandon rudely brushes it off as her not knowing what she's talking about, but Callie ends up validating her a number of times throughout the series.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Though her treatment of Callie was petty, Brandon's infatuation with Callie was inappropriate for a number of reasons, and given how he had started doing things that would strain their relationship in the very first episode, she had every right to worry that he would dump her for Callie... and then he does so twice (though the way she treated Callie certainly didn't help her case). The second time Brandon dumps her, she warns him that Callie is only going to hurt him. Brandon rudely brushes it off as her not knowing what she's talking about, but Callie ends up validating her a number of times throughout the series.
* TookALevelInKindness: While partaking in Callie's senior project, she only has positive words for Callie, appearing to have matured a little and see her in a more sympathetic light. She even persuades her fellow students to stand up for Callie when Monte tries to make her take down the project, which Callie decides not to rat her out for.