Characters / Jock Meets Nerd

Main Characters

Tommy Wheeler

Thomas Owen Wheeler

• All of the Other Reindeer: He's been treated like crap in school and everyone seems to look down at him and is a outcast at school, and it was this at Chase's pool party, whenever Tommy was cleaning his pool, all of the people started to laugh at him and calling him "pool boy."
• Betty and Veronica: He is a Betty (openly gay outcast) for Emma is Veronica (pretty popular cheerleader) of Chase's Archie.
  • It all changes when, He is a Veronica (openly gay outcast) for Emma is Betty (pretty popular cheerleader) of Chase's Archie.
• Break the Cutie: This poor guy couldn't catch a break, he lost his father at the young age, his mother constantly ignoring him and being bullied at school.
• Closet Key: To Chase
• Disappeared Dad: His dad died when Tommy was 10 years old.
• Gay Guy Seeks Popular Jock: His crush on Chase, they are really meant to be together.
• Inter Class Friendship: He's a working class boy to rich jock Chase.
• It's All My Fault: He feels guilty about destroying a friendship between Chase and Shane, although Shane is not a good friend to everyone.
  • He also felt horrible about splitting Emma and Chase up as well.
• Nice Guy: He's naturally good and a kind guy.
• Starving Student: Tommy seem like an only student who is in the working class background.
• Straight Gay: He's an ordinary student who is gay, and has no camp or girly traits in him.

Chase Lewis

Chase Archie Lewis

• All Guys Want Cheerleaders: He dated his popular girlfriend, Emma. But, they eventually broke up.
• Amicable Exes: With Emma, near the end.
• Big Man on Campus: He's in the Greenview Basketball team, he's very popular, kind, rich, has his group of friends and dating his popular girlfriend who is a cheerleader.
• The Beard: He was this for Emma although he did loved her, regarding his bisexuality. He was even pressured to date her just so his friends won't shut up.
• Betty and Veronica: He is the Archie for Tommy's Betty (openly gay outcast) and Emma's Veronica (pretty popular cheerleader).
  • It all changes when, He is the Archie for Tommy's Veronica (openly gay outcast) and Emma's Betty (pretty popular cheerleader).
• Celeb Crush: He once has two crushes on Lana Del Rey and Rider Strong.
• Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: With outcast Tommy to begin with, until they became a couple.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Not only Tommy, he had some hookups and attractions with River and Cash.
• Inter Class Friendship: He's a rich student to Tommy's working class guy.
• Lonely Rich Kid: He's popular at school, but in his home life, his father was always working and almost had zero interest in his personal life.
• Lovable Jock: Is in the basketball team, he is very benevolent, sweet, and is very genuine to his girlfriend. Also, he doesn't do any harm to Tommy and is very nice to him.
• Missing Mom: His parents were divorced, so he only lived with his father.
• Nice Guy: Unlike his friends, He's also compassionate, is even shown to be sweet, sympathetic, friendly and a overall good guy who cares about Tommy's suffering.
• Spoiled Sweet: He's a rich jock who is really decent and a welcoming person.
• Token Good Teammate: Poor Chase is in the basketball team with unkind teens. Also, He's the only guy who is good in his friend group with Shane and Andrew.
• Understanding Boyfriend: Both. To his girlfriend, Emma and later to his boyfriend Tommy.
• Uptown Boy: He is this to his working class love interest Tommy.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Shane and Andrew. Well Averted with Andrew since he's on Chase's side after all.

Greenview High School

Teddy Valdez

Timothee "Teddy" Valdez

• Butt-Monkey: Not much like Tommy, but he's gets injured and getting picked on sometimes.

Georgina Strand

Georgina Josephine Strand

Georgina in Gacha form

• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has dark hair, snarky and an aloof ordinary student than being a perky girl.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her mom was an drug addict, and her father was in prison so she's currently living with her grandparents.
• Not Like Other Girls: She doesn't act and dress like what Emma, Rebecca and Lexi does. She's just different from them.
• Parental Abandonment: Her father was in prison, her drug addict mother ran away from her and moved to her grandparents house at ten years old.
• Stepford Snarker: From her home life, just she won't let anyone how vulnerable she is.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She doesn't like other people including the popular kids and distant from everyone else, but her heart right is in the right place for her friends and her new love interest.
• Tomboy: She only has a love of comic books, soccer, video games, and not dressing not too girly.

Emma Belson-Park

Emaline "Emma" Belson-Park

Emma in Gacha form

• All Guys Want Cheerleaders: And that's why Chase falls for her because she's a beautiful and desirable cheerleader. Even after they broke up, most of the guys were falling for her.
• Amicable Exes: With Chase, near the end.
• Asian Airhead: Zig-zagged. She was just a ditzy popular girl who is half Filipina at the beginning, but as the series progresses, she appears to be intelligent when it comes to school and her dumbness is all an act just make herself look cute.
• Attempted Rape: She was almost raped by Shane at the Halloween Party in junior year. She hasn't told Chase about it ever since it almost happened to her.
• Betty and Veronica: She's a Veronica for Tommy's Betty (openly gay outcast) of Chase's Archie (closeted bisexual jock).
  • It all changes, She's a Betty for Tommy's Veronica (openy gay outcast of Chase's Archie (closeted bisexual jock).
• Brainy Brunette: Has dark brown hair, is a pretty smart girl and has the best grades.
• Broken Ace: It's turns out, she is not a perfect daughter and a student. She going through so much, her near rape experience, her defunct pregnancy, her break up with chase, also has anxiety problems, so it's implied that she was pressured to be perfect a School Idol of the school.
• Childhood Friends: With Rebecca, since they were in first grade together.
• Class Princess: Below her Lovable Alpha Bitch, despite of that, she's still beautiful, and a cheerleader popular girl who is clearly nice to everyone that she knows, admired by most of the guys, is in the popular clique with her female friends and was a girlfriend of a popular and handsome athlete, her boyfriend Chase Lewis.
• Good Bad Girl: She enjoys drinking, having sex and partying a lot, but she's a friendly person who likes to get upbeat a lot.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted. Emma had an abortion because she had a unplanned pregnancy and she had a pretty good reason to abort it.
• Go-Getter Girl: She's studious, has good grades, was part of cheerleading squad , student council and all around a star student.
• Did Not Get The Guy: After her relationships with Chase and Ethan, she ends up neither of them.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Like Rebecca, she's one of the most prettiest girls among with the others in cheer squad.
• I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Once Emma found out that Chase has a thing for Tommy, she ends up having an abortion so she wouldn't ruin his life and let him live.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: She's popular, promiscuous, beautiful, charming, confident female student at school. Although she has an aversion of a Class Princess, but otherwise she is a good person and is a really kind girlfriend to Chase. However in season two, she could be quite dismissive and cold to Tommy, but she later apologizes to him.
• Love Hurts: When Chase dumped her.
• Nice Girl: Despite her overall popularity, she seems to be sweet, kind, friendly, and a such good girlfriend to Chase.
• Pom-Pom Girl: She's the head cheerleader of Greenview High cheerleading squad, and is genuinely a good person.
• Spoiled Sweet: Emma had came from a upper-middle class family, thanks to her parents because they're really rich. Also, she planned her 18th birthday party and is very kind to people.
• Teen Pregnancy: Unfortunately, she had abortion and was almost 4 weeks long.

Rebecca Middleton

Rebecca Allyson Middleton

Rebecca in Gacha form

• Alpha Bitch: She's the most popular girl in Greenview High with her bff Emma, is a part of the cheer squad, being around with her circle of friends even her girl posse, she's definitely the meanest of the clique but has her nice moments and she wasn't too bitchy. It's implied that she has nothing against Tommy and his friends.
• Best Friend: To Emma, they're very popular together.
• Childhood Friends: With Emma, since they were in first grade together.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: And How.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Well for the most part though.
• Head-Turning Beauty: She's prettiest girl in school along with Emma.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Although she has every right to be pissed at Chase, but she is right when she said "If you really love Emma, then you would not kept a secret from her." And you know, this is the only time she's not wrong.
• Pink Is Feminine: Her outfits are mainly pink especially her shirt and sweaters.
• Token White: She is the only white girl to her popular girls group, while her best friend Emma is half asian, Clary is hispanic and Flora is black.

Shane Levinstein

• Asshole Victim: After the entire time of tormenting and throwing homophobic insults at both Tommy and Chase, nobody is going to feel sorry for him when he gets expelled days before prom and graduation.
• Hate Sink: He is the worst person to be around with, he's homophobic with no redeeming qualities who controls Chase and everyone else around him. Even Teddy saying that he's the menace of the society.
• Jerk Jock: He's a member of the basketball team with a nasty streak, he bullies Tommy and his friends along with Andrew, sexually harassing Emma, also he pressuring his friend Chase so much, he had a hard time standing up for him.
• Jerkass: Shane is revolting, insufferable and nasty human being, and he is even mean-spirited to Tommy and controlling Chase.
• Lack of Empathy: He doesn't care how life horrible is it to Tommy, he still thinks it's too much fun. Shane doesn't gives a rat ass about Chase breaking up with Emma, hoping they still be back together.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After the bullying that Tommy went through, he gets expelled from Greenview High and had to repeat senior year in there again.
• Toxic Friend Influence: People like him likes to control everyone's life especially Chase, so he has no qualms about making him to do all of those things such as being the boyfriend of Emma's.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He's prone to be deeply homophobic, especially to Tommy. Even after Chase came out, he really doesn't want to be around him.
• Teens Are Monsters: Good god, is he ever?
• With Friends Like These...: To Chase and Andrew.

Andrew Singleton

• Everyone Has Standards: Despite being a Jerk Jock, he was mostly hesitant and disturbed by Shane's actions.
• Heel–Face Turn: He becomes this after stop being friends with Shane and becomes more respectful to Tommy and Chase.
• Jerk Jock: Like Shane, he's in the basketball team and is not a nice person.
• Jerkass: Almost certainly like Shane, he's an asshole.
• Token Black Friend: He's a black friend to white boy Shane.

Lexi Hale

Courtney Fields

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She was appeared as a innocent and faithful friend, near the end of the chapter, it was revealed for what she really is, stealing Emma's thunder and a backstabber.

Clary and Flora

• The Ditz: They're really not that bright.
• Pom-Pom Girl: Is part of the cheerleading team of Greenview High, they're pretty decent than being cruel.
• Satellite Character: To Emma, although they apart of her friend group of popular girls.
• Those Two Girls: They never separated each other, but when they did, it's for the sake of time.

Marisol Hale

Tegan Macgregor

Nicky Dane

Bessie Jackson

Miss Bowman

Jade "Miss Bowman" Bowman

Other Characters

Jared Lewis

• Closet Gay: He only married Veronica in order to be away from his homophobic family.
• Good Parents: He seems to be pretty well with his son Chase, despite of him not being there at times.
• No Bisexuals: Jared is still gay despite marrying Chase's mom.

Larissa Wheeler

• Alcoholic Parent: She is the mother, and she drinks most of the time to make her pain go away.
• Parental Neglect: After her husband's death, for the past like 5 years, she completely forgot about Tommy's existence and she didn't even attend any important events that he recommended.

Veronica Lewis

• Good Reason For Parental Abandonment: The reason why she left the family, when her husband came out gay, she may have took it well, she ends up leaving the family and wanted Jared to be happy.
• Missing Mom: To Chase for when he was eleven. They reconcile afterwards and wanted to make things right.
• Open-Minded Parent: Veronica has no problem with Chase being bisexual.