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* AnythingThatMoves: Court doesn't have particularly discriminating taste when it comes to her sexual exploits, to put it simply.
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** TheLeader: Van
** TheLancer: Jake
** TheBigGuy: Logan
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Gir:l]] Jane
** TheChick: Ale
** TheLeader: Van
** TheLancer: Jake
** TheBigGuy: Logan
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Gir:l]] Jane
** TheChick: Ale
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---> Ale: [[spoiler: "I mean, she grabs me and kisses me- and I mean, I'm not the smartest unless I'm getting compared to you two or whatever- but I think that's pretty fucking... 'gay' of her, isn't it?"]]
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---> Ale: '''Ale''': [[spoiler: "I mean, she grabs me and kisses me- and I mean, I'm not the smartest unless I'm getting compared to you two or whatever- but I think that's pretty fucking... 'gay' of her, isn't it?"]]
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* TransparentCloset: Sarah and Ethan both identify as straight in public, though almost nobody seems to be buying it. Ethan has come out to his sister prior to the beginning of the story, but Sarah is still in denial about it.
--> Ale: [[spoiler: "I mean, she grabs me and kisses me- and I mean, I'm not the smartest unless I'm getting compared to you two or whatever- but I think that's pretty fucking... 'gay' of her, isn't it?"]]\\
Considering that Peyton had never even considered that Ethan might be gay [[spoiler: until Courtney essentially screamed it at her]], his closet is more translucent than transparent.
--> Ale: [[spoiler: "I mean, she grabs me and kisses me- and I mean, I'm not the smartest unless I'm getting compared to you two or whatever- but I think that's pretty fucking... 'gay' of her, isn't it?"]]\\
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* TransparentCloset: TransparentCloset:
** Sarah and Ethan both identify as straight in public, though almost nobody seems to be buying it. Ethan has come out to his sister prior to the beginning of the story, but Sarah is still in denial about it.
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it?"]]
** Considering that Peyton had never even considered that Ethan might be gay [[spoiler: until Courtney essentially screamed it at her]], his closet is more translucent than transparent.
** Sarah and Ethan both identify as straight in public, though almost nobody seems to be buying it. Ethan has come out to his sister prior to the beginning of the story, but Sarah is still in denial about it.
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* BettyAndVeronica: The straightest example, Morgan is the Archie to Hunter's Betty and Van's Veronica.
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* BettyAndVeronica: BettyAndVeronica:
** The straightest example, Morgan is the Archie to Hunter's Betty and Van's Veronica.
** The straightest example, Morgan is the Archie to Hunter's Betty and Van's Veronica.
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* BreakoutCharacter: So far, Ale definitely qualifies as this among the readers.
** Julie as well, to a smaller extent.
** Jane got a perspective chapter because of a couple different people mentioning her being their favorite character.
** Julie as well, to a smaller extent.
** Jane got a perspective chapter because of a couple different people mentioning her being their favorite character.
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* ByronicHero: Van either qualifies as this, or a TragicVillain depending on your opinion of him. [[PrettyBoy Attractive]]? Check. [[HighSchoolHustler Intelligent and cunning]]? Check. Hot-headed and passionate? Check. Self-centred? Big check.
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* ByronicHero: ByronicHero:
** Van either qualifies as this, or a TragicVillain depending on your opinion of him. [[PrettyBoy Attractive]]? Check. [[HighSchoolHustler Intelligent and cunning]]? Check. Hot-headed and passionate? Check. Self-centred? Big check.
** Van either qualifies as this, or a TragicVillain depending on your opinion of him. [[PrettyBoy Attractive]]? Check. [[HighSchoolHustler Intelligent and cunning]]? Check. Hot-headed and passionate? Check. Self-centred? Big check.
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* LowerClassLout: Jake was formerly one of these, a past that he's noticeably ashamed of and is trying to move away from.
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* LowerClassLout: LowerClassLout:
** Jake was formerly one of these, a past that he's noticeably ashamed of and is trying to move away from.
** Jake was formerly one of these, a past that he's noticeably ashamed of and is trying to move away from.
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* ShoutOut: To a Wattpad story called [[http://www.wattpad.com/story/9045569-end-of-the-road "End of the Road"]] by NatalieChic, which Elizabeth references to reading on her kindle at one point.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** To a Wattpad story called [[http://www.wattpad.com/story/9045569-end-of-the-road "End of the Road"]] by NatalieChic, which Elizabeth references to reading on her kindle at one point.
** To a Wattpad story called [[http://www.wattpad.com/story/9045569-end-of-the-road "End of the Road"]] by NatalieChic, which Elizabeth references to reading on her kindle at one point.
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* StepfordSmiler: Played with. Though Jake rarely actually 'smiles', much of his near-constant rage is always stuffed down below the surface and he's generally at least moderately sociable and polite, unless he's around someone he knows well enough to snark at or he's been put on the defensive.
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* StepfordSmiler: StepfordSmiler:
** Played with. Though Jake rarely actually 'smiles', much of his near-constant rage is always stuffed down below the surface and he's generally at least moderately sociable and polite, unless he's around someone he knows well enough to snark at or he's been put on the defensive.
** Played with. Though Jake rarely actually 'smiles', much of his near-constant rage is always stuffed down below the surface and he's generally at least moderately sociable and polite, unless he's around someone he knows well enough to snark at or he's been put on the defensive.
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** Considering that Peyton had never even considered that Ethan might be gay [[spoiler: until Courtney essentially screamed it at her]], his closet is more translucent than transparent.
** Considering that Peyton had never even considered that Ethan might be gay [[spoiler: until Courtney essentially screamed it at her]], his closet is more translucent than transparent.
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Considering that Peyton had never even considered that Ethan might be gay [[spoiler: until Courtney essentially screamed it at her]], his closet is more translucent than transparent.
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* RantInducingSlight: [[spoiler: Elizabeth's attempt to get to know Jake during their dancing lesson winds up causing this. He admits that he only told her all of this to shut her up, after the fact.]]
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* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Somewhat rare for a book without pictures, but if the cast on the right-hand side of the story is anything to go by, Stay Gold definitely qualifies, from PrettyBoy HighSchoolHustler Van to the more conventionally [[{{Hunk}} hunky]] Jake or Logan; Even HollywoodNerd Andy isn't too hard on the eyes.
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* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Somewhat rare for a book without pictures, but if the cast on the right-hand side of the story is anything to go by, Stay Gold definitely qualifies, from PrettyBoy HighSchoolHustler Van to the more conventionally [[{{Hunk}} hunky]] Jake or Logan; Even HollywoodNerd geeky Andy isn't too hard on the eyes.
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* HollywoodNerd: Both Sarah and Andy are pretty straight examples.
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* MixedAncestry: Jake and Jane are Caucasian on their mother's side, but Mexican-American on their father's.
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* BadassGay: Alejandra Flores.
** Ethan Prescott
** Ethan Prescott
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* {{Adorkable}}: Jake seems to get like this around Julie, in particular.
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* BiTheWay: Jane Orsini casually identifies as being "flexible", though it's not really something that she thinks is worth hiding, or drawing attention to.
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** FridayNightLights, Series/DawsonsCreek and Series/TheOC have all gotten referenced at various points as well.
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** FridayNightLights, Series/FridayNightLights, Series/DawsonsCreek and Series/TheOC have all gotten referenced at various points as well.
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* HandsomeDevil: Ivan Romanov.
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As of now, Stay Gold focuses primarily on the lives of a gang of lower and lower-middle class teenagers, ranging from class warfare to romantic drama and harebrained schemes. Despite the name being a ShoutOut to TheOutsiders , ''Literature/TheOutsiders'', the two aren't connected in any way, shape or form. You can currently find the story [[http://www.wattpad.com/story/11098158-stay-gold on Wattpad.com]]
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** FridayNightLights, DawsonsCreek and TheOC have all gotten referenced at various points as well.
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** FridayNightLights, DawsonsCreek Series/DawsonsCreek and TheOC Series/TheOC have all gotten referenced at various points as well.
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* LowerClassLout: Jake was formerly one of these, a past that he's noticeably ashamed of and is trying to move away.
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** Of course, by the same standards, Morgan is arguably just as straight an example as Van is- SOmewhat fitting, since her major draw for him is that she's very much his equal.
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** Of course, by the same standards, Morgan is arguably just as straight an example as Van is- SOmewhat Somewhat fitting, since her major draw for him is that she's very much his equal.
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* BettyAndVeronica: The straightest example, Morgan is the Archie to Hunter's Betty and Van's Veronica.
** Jake is obviously the Archie in his own triangle, though it's somewhat ambiguous as to which is the Betty or the Veronica between Jane and Elizabeth.
** Jake is obviously the Archie in his own triangle, though it's somewhat ambiguous as to which is the Betty or the Veronica between Jane and Elizabeth.
* ByronicHero: Van either qualifies as this, or a TragicVillain depending on your opinion of him. [[PrettyBoy Attractive]]? Check. [[HighSchoolHustler Intelligent and cunning]]? Check. Hot-headed and passionate? Check. Self-centred? Big check.
** Of course, by the same standards, Morgan is arguably just as straight an example as Van is- SOmewhat fitting, since her major draw for him is that she's very much his equal.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Somewhat rare for a book without pictures, but if the cast on the right-hand side of the story is anything to go by, Stay Gold definitely qualifies, from PrettyBoy HighSchoolHustler Van to the more conventionally [[{{Hunk}} hunky]] Jake or Logan; Even HollywoodNerd Andy isn't too hard on the eyes.
** Not that the girls are exactly slouches in the looks department, either. It's essentially a ''world'' of pretty.
** Of course, by the same standards, Morgan is arguably just as straight an example as Van is- SOmewhat fitting, since her major draw for him is that she's very much his equal.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Somewhat rare for a book without pictures, but if the cast on the right-hand side of the story is anything to go by, Stay Gold definitely qualifies, from PrettyBoy HighSchoolHustler Van to the more conventionally [[{{Hunk}} hunky]] Jake or Logan; Even HollywoodNerd Andy isn't too hard on the eyes.
** Not that the girls are exactly slouches in the looks department, either. It's essentially a ''world'' of pretty.
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* FanPreferredCouple: Van and Ale are probably the most popular ship right now, in spite of [[IncompatibleOrientation the minor issue of Ale being very, very gay]].
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* FanPreferredCouple: Van and Ale are probably the most popular ship right now, in spite of [[IncompatibleOrientation the minor issue of Ale being very, EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Jake has now assaulted two very gay]].important people in Elizabeth's life, and yet she doesn't seem to hold him accountable for any of it beyond the occasional half-hearted suggestion that he apologize.]]
* TheGadfly: Kaitlyn Richardson seems to be shaping up as one. If her first couple appearances are anything to go by, most of what she does is purely for the sake of cheap laughs, but no real malice.
* JustFriends: Elizabeth explains her relationship with Jake as this to Peyton, word for word.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Van's entire selling point for [[spoiler: fight club]] is pretty much that the rich kids are getting a chance to tee off on Jake [[spoiler: after what he did to Ethan at Morgan's party]]. Jake's not having it.
* LowerClassLout: Jake was formerly one of these, a past that he's noticeably ashamed of and is trying to move away.
** Van is a much straighter, albeit more intelligent than average example.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Van's entire selling point for [[spoiler: fight club]] is pretty much that the rich kids are getting a chance to tee off on Jake [[spoiler: after what he did to Ethan at Morgan's party]]. Jake's not having it.
* LowerClassLout: Jake was formerly one of these, a past that he's noticeably ashamed of and is trying to move away.
** Van is a much straighter, albeit more intelligent than average example.
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* MixedAncestry: Jake and Jane are Caucasian on their mother's side, but Hispanic on their father's.
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* MixedAncestry: Jake and Jane are Caucasian on their mother's side, but Hispanic Mexican-American on their father's.
** More recently, I_rauhlyou's [[http://www.wattpad.com/24273038-i-don%27t-need-you-on-hold-1-prologue "I Don't Need You"]] has gotten one, appearing as a TV show that Ale has recently gotten into.
** FridayNightLights, DawsonsCreek and TheOC have all gotten referenced at various points as well.
** Chapter titles are occasionally based off of the titles of songs.
** FridayNightLights, DawsonsCreek and TheOC have all gotten referenced at various points as well.
** Chapter titles are occasionally based off of the titles of songs.
* SlobsVersusSnobs: The poor kids could all definitely come across as slobs, while the rich and popular kids are almost definitely snobs. Of course, there are subversions from each group and part of what makes it interesting is seeing the lines grow increasingly blurred.
** Elizabeth is a much straighter Type A.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ale is the tough, chain-smoking, always-up-for-a-fight tomboy to Sarah's more traditionally feminine girly girl.
* UpperClassTwit: Hunter Branson and Logan Richardson are both painfully straight examples.
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* TheWoobie: Both Orsini siblings to an extent, but especially Jane. No dad, her mother is a drunk who openly regrets ever having had children, she considers the people she hangs around with to be more like her brother's friends than her's, and [[spoiler: she's managed to get herself into a situation where her [[{{Sadist}} ex-boyfriend]] is responsible for collecting the money she owes for drugs that she takes to more easily cope with all of this.]]
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* PintsizedPowerhouse: Jake is a slightly curious example, seeing as he's of average height and fairly stocky build, but Van and Logan absolutely tower over him. He also just so happens to be an extremely vicious CombatPragmatist with plenty of well-concealed anger to unleash.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Van's choice of language isn't exactly what you would call... progressive, but it's more based in ignorance than any actual prejudices. Of course, YourMileageMayVary as to whether he's this or a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
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* PintsizedPowerhouse: Jake is a slightly curious example, seeing as he's of average height and fairly stocky build, but Van and Logan absolutely tower over him. He also just so happens to be an extremely vicious CombatPragmatist with plenty of well-concealed anger to unleash.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Van's choice of language isn't exactly what you would call... progressive, but it's more based in ignorance than any actual prejudices. Of course, YourMileageMayVary as to whether he's this or a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Van's choice of language isn't exactly what you would call... progressive, but it's more based in ignorance than any actual prejudices.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Logan attempts to deliver one to Jake at Morgan's party, though it's not overly eloquent.
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->"Not for the first time, Jake thought about how terrible he had been so far at cleaning his life up..."
As it is, High School is difficult to survive. At Aviston High School, it's a minefield. If you're not being shaken down by one of the many bullies, you're probably falling victim to Morgan Bellamy's scheming. Still, the kids try to get by as best they can, navigating their way through life's crazy schemes, rousing triumphs and sobering tribulations over the course of a Wattpad-based slice-of-life [[TelevisionSerial serial]] that draws inspiration from everything from sitcoms to soap operas to webcomics.
As of now, Stay Gold focuses primarily on the lives of a gang of lower and lower-middle class teenagers, ranging from class warfare to romantic drama and harebrained schemes. Despite the name being a ShoutOut to TheOutsiders , the two aren't connected in any way, shape or form. You can currently find the story [[http://www.wattpad.com/story/11098158-stay-gold on Wattpad.com]]
!Tropes include:
* ActionGirl: Ale qualifies, being Van's right-hand woman. She's trusted just as often with physically difficult tasks as [[TheBigGuy Logan]] or [[LovableJock Jake]].
* {{Adorkable}}: Jake seems to get like this around Julie, in particular.
* AlphaBitch: Morgan, who makes a point of being in charge of as many different things as she can possibly manage to be and is easily the bitchiest character in the whole book.
* AnythingThatMoves: Court doesn't have particularly discriminating taste when it comes to her sexual exploits, to put it simply.
* BadassGay: Alejandra Flores.
** Ethan Prescott
* BelligerentSexualTension: Morgan and Van have a lot of this.
* BerserkButton: Jake REALLY doesn't like being touched. [[spoiler: Shove him, and he's likely to come out swinging.]]
* BiTheWay: Jane Orsini casually identifies as being "flexible", though it's not really something that she thinks is worth hiding, or drawing attention to.
* BreakoutCharacter: So far, Ale definitely qualifies as this among the readers.
** Julie as well, to a smaller extent.
** Jane got a perspective chapter because of a couple different people mentioning her being their favorite character.
* BrokenAce: Morgan Bellamy. She's rich, a great student, in charge of almost every club and team she's a member of, one of the most popular girls in school, hasn't had a dateless weekend since middle school... as well as pathologically manipulative, obsessed with "winning", and seemingly incapable of forming healthy relationships.
* BromanticFoil: Jake and Van. One is a brooding, snarky introvert. The other is a boisterous, uninhibited extrovert. They've continued to be friends even after Jake deciding to try and get clean.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Jake is a magnet for this kind of dynamic, both with love interests and friends.
* ClusterFBomb: Several characters, but Van most obviously makes a habit of it.
* DisappearedDad: Jake and Jane have never met their father, because he left town a few months before they were born.
* {{Dramedy}}
* DumbJock: Logan Richardson. He's been the butt of several jokes in regards to his intelligence, and it's been suggested that he's functionally illiterate. He's also the quarterback of the football team.
* FanPreferredCouple: Van and Ale are probably the most popular ship right now, in spite of [[IncompatibleOrientation the minor issue of Ale being very, very gay]].
* FiveManBand:
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||TheLancer||Jake||
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||[[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]||Jane||
||TheChick||Ale||
* HandsomeDevil: Ivan Romanov.
* HighSchoolHustler: Being a drug dealer and habitual schemer, Van definitely qualifies.
* HollywoodNerd: Both Sarah and Andy are pretty straight examples.
* TheIngenue: Julie could currently be described as one.
* InterruptedIntimacy: [[spoiler: Hunter and Morgan]] are interrupted when Van and Jake are attempting to deliver pot the the janitor in his office.
* MaleGaze: [[spoiler: While Elizabeth is stretching for their dance lesson, Jake's eyes wind up drifting very briefly... downward.]]
* MixedAncestry: Jake and Jane are Caucasian on their mother's side, but Hispanic on their father's.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Logan very firmly believes this. [[spoiler: Jake]] having previously betrayed his trust in this regard is a source of ongoing tension between them.
* NerdsAreSexy: Well, Ale certainly seems to think that Sarah qualifies.
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: Elizabeth. Jake [[spoiler: beats the living shit out of her brother]] the night they met? No problem, she still sits and listens to his problems, and ultimately agrees to [[spoiler: teach him how to dance for Julie]]. Morgan constantly ignores and talks over her? No matter, she's constantly on hand to help out.
* PrettyBoy: Van is referred to as this by Ale, almost word for word.
-> Ale: "I mean, as the chicos go, he's a pretty one. Slap a pair of tetas on him and rearrange some downstairs stuff, I'd jump all over that."
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Jake is a slightly curious example, seeing as he's of average height and fairly stocky build, but Van and Logan absolutely tower over him. He also just so happens to be an extremely vicious CombatPragmatist with plenty of well-concealed anger to unleash.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Van's choice of language isn't exactly what you would call... progressive, but it's more based in ignorance than any actual prejudices. Of course, YourMileageMayVary as to whether he's this or a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* ProperLady: Elizabeth has been raised to be one of these.
* RantInducingSlight: [[spoiler: Elizabeth's attempt to get to know Jake during their dancing lesson winds up causing this. He admits that he only told her all of this to shut her up, after the fact.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Van has been mentioned to be pretty successful with the opposite sex, and not too huge on commitment.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Logan attempts to deliver one to Jake at Morgan's party, though it's not overly eloquent.
* RomanticFalseLead: Hunter Branson. [[spoiler: Eventually invoked when Morgan begins to date him just to spite Van]]. Even Hunter suspects it, [[LoveMakesYouDumb but he's too infatuated with Morgan to care]].
* RotatingProtagonist: Rarely do back-to-back chapters focus on the same character.
* ShipTease: Jake and Elizabeth have gotten some as of late, though it's not likely to go anywhere considering that she's engaged and he appears to be heading toward a relationship with Julie.
* ShoutOut: To a Wattpad story called [[http://www.wattpad.com/story/9045569-end-of-the-road "End of the Road"]] by NatalieChic, which Elizabeth references to reading on her kindle at one point.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Jake is the first, and so far only, person that Julie has ever been sexually interested in, [[SmittenTeenageGirl an attraction that she doesn't exactly do much to hide]].
* SnarkKnight: To varying degrees, both Jake and Morgan.
* StepfordSmiler: Played with. Though Jake rarely actually 'smiles', much of his near-constant rage is always stuffed down below the surface and he's generally at least moderately sociable and polite, unless he's around someone he knows well enough to snark at or he's been put on the defensive.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Jake and Jane Orsini.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Although she's been engaged for most of her life and has no actual romantic experience to draw from, Elizabeth is a massive fan of romance novels and tends to draw from them when offering up romantic advice.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Hunter Branson.
* TransparentCloset: Sarah and Ethan both identify as straight in public, though almost nobody seems to be buying it. Ethan has come out to his sister prior to the beginning of the story, but Sarah is still in denial about it.
-> Ale: [[spoiler: "I mean, she grabs me and kisses me- and I mean, I'm not the smartest unless I'm getting compared to you two or whatever- but I think that's pretty fucking... 'gay' of her, isn't it?"]]
** Considering that Peyton had never even considered that Ethan might be gay [[spoiler: until Courtney essentially screamed it at her]], his closet is more translucent than transparent.
* TroubledButCute: Neither Orsini sibling seems to be hurting for romantic interests, and they're both struggling with a DarkAndTroubledPast .
* TrueCompanions: The gang. They might have their differences, and squabble a lot, but they're more like family to each other than a lot of their respective actual relatives are.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: The gang plays this straight- Of the five of them, Jane and Ale are the only girls.
* ValleyGirl: Peyton tends to talk like one.
* TheWoobie: Both Orsini siblings to an extent, but especially Jane. No dad, her mother is a drunk who openly regrets ever having had children, she considers the people she hangs around with to be more like her brother's friends than her's, and [[spoiler: she's managed to get herself into a situation where her [[{{Sadist}} ex-boyfriend]] is responsible for collecting the money she owes for drugs that she takes to more easily cope with all of this.]]
* WorldOfSnark: It's actually more difficult to pick out a character who doesn't have at least occasional DeadpanSnarker tendencies.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Julie is convinced that Jake is a "player" who just happens to act differently around her, purely because he's attractive and good at sports. There is absolutely nothing about that assumption that's based in reality.
* {{Yandere}}: Court acts like this toward Van.
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"When I throw the first balloon, we open fire, da?"
As it is, High School is difficult to survive. At Aviston High School, it's a minefield. If you're not being shaken down by one of the many bullies, you're probably falling victim to Morgan Bellamy's scheming. Still, the kids try to get by as best they can, navigating their way through life's crazy schemes, rousing triumphs and sobering tribulations over the course of a Wattpad-based slice-of-life [[TelevisionSerial serial]] that draws inspiration from everything from sitcoms to soap operas to webcomics.
As of now, Stay Gold focuses primarily on the lives of a gang of lower and lower-middle class teenagers, ranging from class warfare to romantic drama and harebrained schemes. Despite the name being a ShoutOut to TheOutsiders , the two aren't connected in any way, shape or form. You can currently find the story [[http://www.wattpad.com/story/11098158-stay-gold on Wattpad.com]]
!Tropes include:
* ActionGirl: Ale qualifies, being Van's right-hand woman. She's trusted just as often with physically difficult tasks as [[TheBigGuy Logan]] or [[LovableJock Jake]].
* {{Adorkable}}: Jake seems to get like this around Julie, in particular.
* AlphaBitch: Morgan, who makes a point of being in charge of as many different things as she can possibly manage to be and is easily the bitchiest character in the whole book.
* AnythingThatMoves: Court doesn't have particularly discriminating taste when it comes to her sexual exploits, to put it simply.
* BadassGay: Alejandra Flores.
** Ethan Prescott
* BelligerentSexualTension: Morgan and Van have a lot of this.
* BerserkButton: Jake REALLY doesn't like being touched. [[spoiler: Shove him, and he's likely to come out swinging.]]
* BiTheWay: Jane Orsini casually identifies as being "flexible", though it's not really something that she thinks is worth hiding, or drawing attention to.
* BreakoutCharacter: So far, Ale definitely qualifies as this among the readers.
** Julie as well, to a smaller extent.
** Jane got a perspective chapter because of a couple different people mentioning her being their favorite character.
* BrokenAce: Morgan Bellamy. She's rich, a great student, in charge of almost every club and team she's a member of, one of the most popular girls in school, hasn't had a dateless weekend since middle school... as well as pathologically manipulative, obsessed with "winning", and seemingly incapable of forming healthy relationships.
* BromanticFoil: Jake and Van. One is a brooding, snarky introvert. The other is a boisterous, uninhibited extrovert. They've continued to be friends even after Jake deciding to try and get clean.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Jake is a magnet for this kind of dynamic, both with love interests and friends.
* ClusterFBomb: Several characters, but Van most obviously makes a habit of it.
* DisappearedDad: Jake and Jane have never met their father, because he left town a few months before they were born.
* {{Dramedy}}
* DumbJock: Logan Richardson. He's been the butt of several jokes in regards to his intelligence, and it's been suggested that he's functionally illiterate. He's also the quarterback of the football team.
* FanPreferredCouple: Van and Ale are probably the most popular ship right now, in spite of [[IncompatibleOrientation the minor issue of Ale being very, very gay]].
* FiveManBand:
||TheLeader||Van||
||TheLancer||Jake||
||TheBigGuy||Logan||
||[[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]||Jane||
||TheChick||Ale||
* HandsomeDevil: Ivan Romanov.
* HighSchoolHustler: Being a drug dealer and habitual schemer, Van definitely qualifies.
* HollywoodNerd: Both Sarah and Andy are pretty straight examples.
* TheIngenue: Julie could currently be described as one.
* InterruptedIntimacy: [[spoiler: Hunter and Morgan]] are interrupted when Van and Jake are attempting to deliver pot the the janitor in his office.
* MaleGaze: [[spoiler: While Elizabeth is stretching for their dance lesson, Jake's eyes wind up drifting very briefly... downward.]]
* MixedAncestry: Jake and Jane are Caucasian on their mother's side, but Hispanic on their father's.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Logan very firmly believes this. [[spoiler: Jake]] having previously betrayed his trust in this regard is a source of ongoing tension between them.
* NerdsAreSexy: Well, Ale certainly seems to think that Sarah qualifies.
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: Elizabeth. Jake [[spoiler: beats the living shit out of her brother]] the night they met? No problem, she still sits and listens to his problems, and ultimately agrees to [[spoiler: teach him how to dance for Julie]]. Morgan constantly ignores and talks over her? No matter, she's constantly on hand to help out.
* PrettyBoy: Van is referred to as this by Ale, almost word for word.
-> Ale: "I mean, as the chicos go, he's a pretty one. Slap a pair of tetas on him and rearrange some downstairs stuff, I'd jump all over that."
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Jake is a slightly curious example, seeing as he's of average height and fairly stocky build, but Van and Logan absolutely tower over him. He also just so happens to be an extremely vicious CombatPragmatist with plenty of well-concealed anger to unleash.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Van's choice of language isn't exactly what you would call... progressive, but it's more based in ignorance than any actual prejudices. Of course, YourMileageMayVary as to whether he's this or a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* ProperLady: Elizabeth has been raised to be one of these.
* RantInducingSlight: [[spoiler: Elizabeth's attempt to get to know Jake during their dancing lesson winds up causing this. He admits that he only told her all of this to shut her up, after the fact.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Van has been mentioned to be pretty successful with the opposite sex, and not too huge on commitment.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Logan attempts to deliver one to Jake at Morgan's party, though it's not overly eloquent.
* RomanticFalseLead: Hunter Branson. [[spoiler: Eventually invoked when Morgan begins to date him just to spite Van]]. Even Hunter suspects it, [[LoveMakesYouDumb but he's too infatuated with Morgan to care]].
* RotatingProtagonist: Rarely do back-to-back chapters focus on the same character.
* ShipTease: Jake and Elizabeth have gotten some as of late, though it's not likely to go anywhere considering that she's engaged and he appears to be heading toward a relationship with Julie.
* ShoutOut: To a Wattpad story called [[http://www.wattpad.com/story/9045569-end-of-the-road "End of the Road"]] by NatalieChic, which Elizabeth references to reading on her kindle at one point.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Jake is the first, and so far only, person that Julie has ever been sexually interested in, [[SmittenTeenageGirl an attraction that she doesn't exactly do much to hide]].
* SnarkKnight: To varying degrees, both Jake and Morgan.
* StepfordSmiler: Played with. Though Jake rarely actually 'smiles', much of his near-constant rage is always stuffed down below the surface and he's generally at least moderately sociable and polite, unless he's around someone he knows well enough to snark at or he's been put on the defensive.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Jake and Jane Orsini.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Although she's been engaged for most of her life and has no actual romantic experience to draw from, Elizabeth is a massive fan of romance novels and tends to draw from them when offering up romantic advice.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Hunter Branson.
* TransparentCloset: Sarah and Ethan both identify as straight in public, though almost nobody seems to be buying it. Ethan has come out to his sister prior to the beginning of the story, but Sarah is still in denial about it.
-> Ale: [[spoiler: "I mean, she grabs me and kisses me- and I mean, I'm not the smartest unless I'm getting compared to you two or whatever- but I think that's pretty fucking... 'gay' of her, isn't it?"]]
** Considering that Peyton had never even considered that Ethan might be gay [[spoiler: until Courtney essentially screamed it at her]], his closet is more translucent than transparent.
* TroubledButCute: Neither Orsini sibling seems to be hurting for romantic interests, and they're both struggling with a DarkAndTroubledPast .
* TrueCompanions: The gang. They might have their differences, and squabble a lot, but they're more like family to each other than a lot of their respective actual relatives are.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: The gang plays this straight- Of the five of them, Jane and Ale are the only girls.
* ValleyGirl: Peyton tends to talk like one.
* TheWoobie: Both Orsini siblings to an extent, but especially Jane. No dad, her mother is a drunk who openly regrets ever having had children, she considers the people she hangs around with to be more like her brother's friends than her's, and [[spoiler: she's managed to get herself into a situation where her [[{{Sadist}} ex-boyfriend]] is responsible for collecting the money she owes for drugs that she takes to more easily cope with all of this.]]
* WorldOfSnark: It's actually more difficult to pick out a character who doesn't have at least occasional DeadpanSnarker tendencies.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Julie is convinced that Jake is a "player" who just happens to act differently around her, purely because he's attractive and good at sports. There is absolutely nothing about that assumption that's based in reality.
* {{Yandere}}: Court acts like this toward Van.
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"When I throw the first balloon, we open fire, da?"
