Line #61 Characters/TheFosterGirl


1	[[foldercontrol]]
2	! The Holmes Family
3	[[folder:Laurel Blaine]]
4	!! Laurel Samantha Blaine-Holmes
5	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/laurel_7.png]]
6	[[caption-width-right:350:"Okay, just because I'm a foster girl from the wrong side of the tracks who has no family, doesn't mean it makes less than a human."]]
7	* AbusiveParents: Her birth father is emotionally abusive and neglectful to her, and he constantly blames her for his problems. And it's coming from her fifth foster father who wasn't kind to Laurel, he's physically, sexually, and emotionally abused her, also it's implied that he raped her multiple times.
8	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: In her background when she was in elementary school, all of the kids with upper and middle class income made fun of her for living a poor environment at her house and doesn't know who her mother is, and her teachers scolded her for wearing the same clothes everyday. Even when she attends Lake Hills High, which is a affluent school in her first day of sophomore year, people knew who Laurel is, so everyone looked down on her, made fun of her for being different and living in the different foster homes, and she was ignored and bullied by the student body, even [[AlphaBitch Rebecca.]]
9	* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Averted. She's a NiceGirl, but has some occasional traits on her with dark brown hair.
10	* BrainyBrunette: Even when she has dyslexia, has dark brown hair and has good grades at her school.
11	* ButchLesbian: Wears grunge, aloof, punk and dark clothing, and pretty much a lesbian.
12	* CoolBigSis: She has no conflict with Genova and her younger foster siblings at all.
13	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her mother died, and her father is criminal and a neglectful father. Social services took Laurel away into a foster care system, she was swap into several foster homes and some foster parents are too difficult to be with. She was raped multiple times by her fifth foster father after she was accused of throwing his liqour away, and she was sent to juvenile hall for the attempted murder of her foster father.
14	* ExtracurricularEnthusiast: In the later episodes, she joins the LGBQT Alliance club, Student Council and has determined to be in a feminist club.
15	* FosterKid: Has been one her whole life
16	* GoGetterGirl: Has good grades, always keep up the work, tutors them and tries to keep up with the effort in student council and to be class president.
17	* HappilyAdopted: Unlike any other fosters families, she's in good hands with the Holmes.
18	* HollywoodAtheist: Has shown to have a no faith in god, and she would rather dig in instead of saying grace at dinner time.
19	* JunkieParent: Has one of these, which is her mother.
20	* LongLostRelative: She doesn't know Genova too, until she came into the Holmes family and realized Genova is her younger half sister.
21	* MissingMom: Her mother died of childbirth, so Laurel blamed herself for her death.
22	* NiceGirl: From what we seen of her, she has a aloof attitude, despite her sad background, she's pretty friendly, oftenly kind, a sweetheart and the definitely the most nicest girls in the holmes family and on the book.
23	* ParentalAbandonment: Her father had committed any crimes and left her in house for 24/7. But this time, he got arrested and sent to the prison for life, and he had never see Laurel Again.
24	* MissingMom: Her mother died when Laurel was born.
25	* RapeAsDrama: She was sexually assaulted by her foster father at 12.
26	* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: Subverted. At first, she seems to take a liking of him, but when Mike tries to make a move on her, she didn't reciprocate his feelings and told him she's a lesbian.
27	[[/folder]]
28
29	[[folder:Nessa Holmes]]
30	!! Vanessa Diane Holmes
31	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ace2e55f_1d24_43b8_87ba_430ae687ba6b.jpg]]
32	* CoolTeacher: Is respectful, kind and clever to her students as a English Teacher.
33	* {{Expy}}: Just like Kim. She's like Lena Adams Fosters from ''Series/TheFosters, she's a mixed race, fully lesbian, a part time lawyer, full time as a staff member at Lake Hills High school, and loves her foster kids so much.
34	* LipstickLesbian: Is pretty feminine, stylish, and a beautiful lesbian lawyer.
35	* SassyBlackWomen: Has her sassy and badass moments, but [[BewareTheNiceOnes don't piss her off.]]
36	[[/folder]]
37
38	[[folder: Kim Holmes]]
39	!! Kimberly Holmes
40	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3af78c76_b806_4810_94bf_d48ebaae63c6.jpg]]
41	* DumbBlonde: Inverted. She's not dumb as everyone think she is, she's way too level-headed and mentioned that she has a soccer scholarship back in college.
42	* {{Expy}}: Played with. She's like a younger verison of Stef Adams Fosters from ''Series/TheFosters'' , she has blonde hair, loving her foster kids, used to have ex-husband and she's pretty bisexual.
43	* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She's obsessed with makeup and fashion, but she enjoys soccer and other sports too.
44	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has blonde hair and a sweet young women who cares about her foster kids.
45	* LesbianJock: Is a bisexual soccer and lacrosse coach.
46	* LipstickLesbian: Kim is a girly-girl, loves fashion, wears lipstick and is bisexual.
47	[[/folder]]
48	-----
49	! Friends and Recurring Cast
50	[[folder: Christin Delace]]
51	!! Christin Delace
52	[[/folder]]
53
54	[[folder: Calypso Maxwell]]
55	!!Calypso Aspen Maxwell
56	[[/folder]]
57
58	[[folder: Karen Nelson]]
59	!!Karen Ophelia Nelson
60	* EmoTeen: Wears dark clothing, always has a piercing her nose and wears grungy clothes.
61	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Not as much as Karolina, she's also aloof, disdain and cynical all the time, but deep down she cares about Laurel, her family, friends and Karolina the most.
62	* PerkyGoth: Has her moments.
63	* SiblingYinYang: She's a social cynical outcast contrast to her popular genki twin sister, Karolina.
64	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Is a goth softball player to Karolina's sexy fashionista female.
65	[[/folder]]
66
67	[[folder: Karolina Nelson]]
68	!!Karolina Leigton Nelson
69	* CoolBigSis: Despite her selfish moments to Karen, she's really shows effort and kindness to her younger twin sister.
70	* TheFashionista: She loves shopping, makeup, modeling, clothes, shoes, and working on most of the designs. And This is why she's a president of the fashion club for a reason.
71	* GenkiGirl: She's always cheerful for most of the scenes.
72	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: She wanted to fit into a popular crowd and really wants to get over the fact she's adopted.
73	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She could be mean, bossy, rude and blunt at times, but she's still a good person who cares about her friends, family and her twin sister.
74	* LovableAlphaBitch: Karolina is the most popular girl in Lake Hills High School, and a president of the fashion club. She's also in the dance team, and dated some of the guys in school. She could be judgmental, rude, self-absorbed and plain shallow, but she's actually fun, considerate, kind and always welcoming to everyone in school, including to Laurel.
75	* ReallyGetsAround: Has been sleeping around with guys, and Karen was grossed out by this.
76	* SiblingYinYang: She's a popular fun girl contrast to her twin sister, Karen.
77	[[/folder]]
78
79	[[folder: Alanna Sanchez]]
80	!! Alanna Molly Sanchez
81	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Alanna is a good person, she does this to both Maddy and Rebecca when they're bullying Laurel and Eve.
82	* BrainyBrunette: Is a smart girl with dark brown hair, and is a stereotypical GoGetterGirl.
83	* GoGetterGirl: She excels of all of her studies, she engages in school plays, the debate team, feminist club, was part of the student council, and was quite popular.
84	* NiceGirl: She's good, sweet, kind and loyal girls in the friend group.
85	* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the friend group, who has a heart.
86	* TwoferTokenMinority: Alanna is hispanic and she's a trans-female.
87	[[/folder]]
88
89	! Lake Hills High School
90	[[folder:In General]]
91	* PopularIsEvil: Rebecca and Madeline, they're two nasty [[AlphaBitch Alpha Bitches]] who took a control of this school and makes the unpopular kids miserable.
92	* SchoolIdol: The most popular kids are referred to and see them as this.
93	* TeensAreMonsters: Except for [[TokenGoodTeammate Mike]], most of the popular kids are getting their ways of making the unpopular kids a living hell.
94	[[/folder]]
95
96	[[folder:Rebecca Hitchens]]
97	!! Rebecca Michelle Hitchens
98	* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: This girl took over the school, it's no wonder most of the student body finds her controlling.
99	* AlphaBitch: Rebecca Hitchens is beautiful, mean, wealthy, vain and the most popular girls in Lake Hills High School. She's the cheer captain of the Lake Hills, a member of the student council, class president, has her GirlPosse follow her around and order things for her. Yup, she's the antagonist popular student who depicted on bullying poor people and other students especially Eve and Laurel, and rules the school with her iron fist. Even Nessa states, "Most people love her because she's rich and all that, and most people hate her because she's a bully and likes to abuse the school's power."
100	* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Oh yeah, numerous male students had a crush on her because she is described as a gorgeous and desirable cheerleader at Lake Hills High.
101	* BrainyBrunette: Averted. She's a brunette, she is just plain dumb and has several moments to share her brain.
102	* TheBully: Occasionally to the outcasts, and to Eve. Rebecca is to Laurel, she is the first target of the queen bee.
103	* ChildhoodFriend: with Madeline
104	* ControlFreak: Bosses people around in her cheer squad, make her friends order things for her and takes a control of the school.
105	* CruelCheerleader: She's the cheer captain of the Lake Hills, she nasty, vapid and bosses people around in her own cheerleading squad. It all starts from episode one, when she rejected two girls at the cheer tryouts and said they were too bland and has no spirit.
106	* DaddysGirl: Her and her friend had a great relationship.
107	* TheDitz: Oh God, she's the stupidest side character of the show.
108	* EvenEvilHasStandards: She claims that Madeline is even worse than her.
109	** Despite being a bully to Laurel, she wouldn't want to make fun of her father for being in jail and her dead mother, so she thinks it's not funny anymore. And she wouldn't want to make fun of her rape backstory, like Madeline Does.
110	* {{Expy}}: She's a mixed of Paige Michalchuk from ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', Sadie Saxton from ''{{Series/Awkward}}'', and Cheryl Blossom from ''{{Series/Riverdale}}''. She's a popular girl who is wealthy, spoiled, snobby, is head cheerleader, has a GirlPosse and but she's not much of a bad person.
111	* GirlPosse: Has three girls in her popular clique, they called themselves the "The Beckys."
112	* FreudianExcuse: was raised by an nasty, cold-hearted and snobby mother who raised her to be classist and perfect.
113	* HateSink: She's a classist, manipulative and privileged bitch who think she's owns the world, she's the only antagonist who picks on Laurel for her poor social status and has no redeeming qualities at all. Despite her PetTheDog Moments, she's still a bitch. Subverted in the fourth season.
114	* {{Hypocrite}}: Rebecca [[SlutShaming slut shames]] Laurel for having sex with a man and accuses her for flirting with her boyfriend, she does a lot promiscuity.
115	** She being totally homophobic to Laurel, when she shows some support to gay men.
116	* {{Jerkass}}: She's mean, vain, vapid, manipulative, nasty, and a selfish fuck who makes Laurel's life miserable and demeans her every single time.
117	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rebecca is such a bitch and a bullying AlphaBitch, but she does care about her boyfriend and her friends as well, Unlike Madeline, she could be moral and does have soft moments to people. Well in Season four, she grew kind of better and starts becoming a little kinder to Rebecca.
118	* LackOfEmpathy: She doesn't care if Rebecca has a shitty background and life, she's enjoys making her suffer. Although it died down after three seasons.
119	* MinorMajorCharacter: Her role is just a high school mean popular girl, but has an action to make lower income students and the outcasts feel like crap. So yeah.
120	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not only she's a classist, she's also homophobic to lesbians. [[{{Hypocrite}} But she does have support for gay men.]]
121	* PrivilegedRival: Yup, she's a classist AlphaBitch who is the worst rival to Laurel.
122	* PutOnABus: Leaves at the end of season four, and her final appearance when she shows up on graduation.
123	* ReallyGetsAround: Before she met Vincent, she hooks up with a lot guys even [[LikesOlderMen even college guys.]]
124	* RichBitch: She's pretty wealthy and looks down people who are poor and has jobs, well thanks to her father that he is a mayor of the town of Lake Hills.
125	* SchoolIdol: And God knows what, she's the most popular of all students in Lake Hills High.
126	* SpoiledBrat: Oh my god, this is what she do all the time.
127	* StudentCouncilPresident: Damn right, [[ControlFreak people thinks she's controlling the school.]]
128	* TookALevelInKindness: In season 4, While being an Resident's AlphaBitch, she became less spoiled, classist and bitchy.
129	* TokenEvilTeammate: To the Lake Hills Cheerleaders, and the student council that she took a lead in.
130	[[/folder]]
131
132	[[folder:Madeline Lopez]]
133	* AlphaBitch: Madeline is waaay worse than Rebecca, she's popular, stupid, nasty, hateful and was spoiled by her rich parents. Bullying other students and put all of them down, she makes fun of Laurel of her dead mother, her rape backstory and her father being in prison. She's also bribed her teachers to raise a grade, and she's a co captain of the Lake Hills Cheer Squad. Even she ruthlessly calls Laurel "charity case" because she thinks the foster parents only used her for money.
134	* ArchEnemy: To Laurel, she treats her like a loser.
135	* TheBully: Along with Rebecca, she joins make Laurel's life so miserable, so cruel.
136	* ChildhoodFriends: with Rebecca.
137	* CruelCheerleader: Is Co-Captain of the Lake Hills Cheer squuad, and is very bitchy.
138	* TheDitz: Just like her friend, Rebecca.
139	* DumbBlonde: Has platinum blonde, and is a stupid human being.
140	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Madeline is to the popular clique, [[EveryoneHasStandards Rebecca]] finds her horrible, and the whole girl posse secretly disliked her.
141	* GirlPosse: She hangs out with Rebecca and her friends.
142	* GreenEyedMonster: She is jealous of Ximena when she has more votes than her on election day, and also jealous of her because she's dating Damon.
143	* HateSink: Even worse than Rebecca, she's nothing spoiled rotten teenager who think she's better than anyone else in this school, and likes making Rebecca feel like she's nothing.
144	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: There's nothing reliable about her, she's still an awful human being with no redeeming qualities and has bad traits of herself.
145	* LackOfEmpathy: She's unremorse and shows no sympathy to Laurel at all, and makes her life a living hell.
146	* KickTheDog: Sends nude photos of Ximena to the whole school and publicly humiliates her.
147	* PopularIsDumb: She's popular, but does poorly in her schoolwork and also bribed her teachers to raise a grade. And the worst part is, she even bought her grades.
148	* RichBitch: Along with Rebecca, she's wealthy, ruthless and classist.
149	* SpicyLatina: Is very badass, cold-blodded and pretty to boot.
150	* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Blonde and very a nasty human.
151	* ValleyGirl: It wouldn't have this character without it, so she's blonde, stupid and rich.
152	[[/folder]]
153
154	[[folder: Sadie, Olivia and Paige ]]
155	They're part of Rebecca's GirlPosse
156	* BetaBitch: Mostly Sadie and Olivia, although they back it up with Rebecca and Madeline.
157	* EveryoneHasStandards: They wouldn't make fun of Laurel's dead mom and her father being a criminal, they were disturbed by Madeline's antics.
158	* GirlPosse: They were part of Rebecca's mean girl group, and followed her command.
159	* PomPomGirl: Sadie and Olivia, they have some bitchy traits but they seem to be good in the cheer squad.
160	* TheQuietOne: Paige, she turns out to be the InnocentBetaBitch at all.
161	* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Three Girls]]: They almost never separated from each other most of the scenes with Rebecca.
162	[[/folder]]
163
164	[[folder: Anthony Sinclair]]
165	* BigManOnCampus: Mike is an athlete, is in the football team along with his mates, he's the most popular guy in school, dating the most popular girl in Lake Hills High, he seems to be respected by everyone in school, he's quite honest and a benevolent person
166	* LovableJock: He's in the football team, and he's absolute sweetheart.
167	* NiceGuy: Unlike his girlfriend and his friends from the popular clique, he's pretty kind, mature, polite and he evens averts with JerkJock type when him and his friends were bullying someone. Although, even Laurel doesn't reciprocate his feelings, he still wishes her the best.
168	* TokenGoodTeammate: In his friend group.
169	[[/folder]]
170
171	[[folder: Francesa Lakefield]]
172	* AcademicAlphaBitch: Francesa is the smartest girl in school and excels all of her classes, is part of a student council member and in a debate team, she's also sneaky, mean and competitive towards Laurel. She has some AlphaBitch traits when it comes to her rival, Laurel. But it's also revealed that isn't popular at all.
173	* EvilRedhead: Is a ginger girl, and she's really mean.
174	* GoGetterGirl: Is hard-working girl, likes to create stuff for the campaign, running for class president as her mother encourage her to be, making her parents proud and loves decorating stuff for school events.
175	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She could be pretty competitive, rude and selfish, but she tries to do right thing for everything and wants everyone for the best, although she loses some things, but still accepts her defeat.
176	* NoSocialSkills: She doesn't have many friends, and she's caught up of her studies because of it.
177	* ObsessedWithPerfectAttendance: Can't this girl miss one school day already!
178	[[/folder]]
179
180	[[folder: Ximena Rojas]]
181	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: A year before a prior of the book, the whole school seems to dislike Ximena only after her nude photo was leaked by the entire school, all thanks to [[AlphaBitch Madeline]]. After her nude photos were leaked during her student council speech, she lost her friends, the parents started to resent her, and everyone in school were laughing, shunning and looking down at her.
182	* ClassPrincess: before her popularity ended, she was beautiful, popular, very sweet person who is helpful, caring, and everyone respected her.
183	* FallenPrincess: She used to have everything, her popularity, being in a relationship with [[JerkJock Damon]], is respected by everyone in the dance team and having her hopes up to become president. Until Madeline sent her nude photos to the entire, she lost her friends, the parents hated her, gotten kicked off the dance team, and became a depressed social pariah.
184	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She could be aloof, cold, disdain and blunt. At times, she could be friendly, kind and warm to others around, especially with Laurel.
185	* LonersAreFreaks: She was considered a loser in school because of it.
186	* GoGetterGirl: She was this before the events had happened to her.
187	* UsedToBeASweetKid: She went from lovely, fun popular GenkiGirl before the nudes were sent to the school, she became sad, depressed introverted loner.
188	[[/folder]]
189
190	!Family Members and Other Relatives
191	[[folder:Harper and Steven Swenson]]
192	* OldMoney: And that's what the lovely Swensons came from.
193	[[/folder]]
194
195
196	[[folder:Melodie Swenson]]
197	* AlphaBitch: She's always act like this to her friends and her family, and quite popular at her prep school.
198	* BigSisterBully: Teases and bullies Genova, treats her like a loser and gives racist remarks to her.
199	* DumbBlonde: Nope, she isn't the smartest with that blonde hair of hers.
200	* ItsAllAboutMe: Is this girl obsessed with herself, jesus!
201	* {{Jerkass}}: Is rude and a snobby person. Also, She puts Genova down a lot.
202	* ParentalFavoritism: Her parents chooses her over Genova, because she's optimstic and she knows it.
203	* RichBitch: Just like her parents, she's a total debutante bitch.
204	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Melodie is portrayed as a basic rich spoiled white teenager, but has a big impact when it comes to Genova and couldn't give a shit about her pain.
205	* UpperClassTwit: Wealthy and pretty much ditzy.
206	* ValleyGirl: She is a spoiled wealthy white girl in the Swensons's House, but she's not very smart.
207	[[/folder]]
208
209	[[folder:Genova Swenson]]
210	!! Genova-Castillo Swenson
211	* AdoptiveNameChange: Has changed to Swenson once she moved into the family, but her name has eventually changed into Holmes after that.
212	* BlackSheep: Hates the Swenson family, she's more into poverty and saving lives than being in a beautiful elite, also she's doesn't fit in here and even her sister treats her differently.
213	* LongLostRelative: She doesn't know Laurel until she came into Holmes family and realizes that Laurel is her half older sister.
214	* TheUnfavorite: Harper and Steven were this to Genova, they couldn't stand her gloominess and being unmotivated, so that's why they chose their daughter, Melodie.
215	[[/folder]]
216
217	[[folder:Otis Blaine]]
218	* AbusiveParents: Is emotionally abusive and neglectful to his daughter Laurel, and blames it on Laurel for everything.
219	* AlcoholicParent: Yeah well this man drinks a lot.
220	* FreudianExcuse: His wife died because of childbirth and blamed Laurel for her death, so he starting doing bad things to make his pain go away.
221	* HateSink: Blaming your daughter for your wife's death? Committing crimes? Abandoned your younger daughter? There's nothing sympathetic about him when he gets arrested, so he's unlikable ass.
222	* LowerClassLout: He's poor and a entitled asshole.
223	* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Yup, he's only doing this out of a rage.
224	* ParentalNeglect: He spends too much time committing crimes, does a lot drinking and did drugs than looking out for his daughter and spending a lot time with her.
225	* UsedToBeASweetKid: He used to be a good guy and a good husband until his wife's death.
226	[[/folder]]
227
228	[[folder:Julie Blaine]]
229	* DeathByChildBirth: She died after giving birth to her baby daughter Laurel.
230	* MissingMom: To Laurel.
231	* PosthumousCharacter: Julie had died of childbirth when Laurel was born right before the series starts.
232	[[/folder]]
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