Zoë Carter
The main character of Venus Envy. A 16-year-old transgender girl whose family has recently moved to the opposite side of her home state.
- Badass Adorable: Her Tai Chi has saved her life.
- Big Damn Heroes: Saving Larson from Nuke, after Larson saved her.
- Chekhov's Skill: Her Tai Chi.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She was raped when she was in middle school.
- Fiery Redhead: Whenever she's angry.
- Heroic BSoD: Zoë occasionally has panic attacks whenever she's stressed out. The two biggest examples were 1. When she visited her old school and 2. After nearly being run over by an SUV.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Lisa's Tomboy.
- Transgender: A transgender girl.
Larson Degado
A young trans man whom Zoë first meets at group therapy.
- Berserk Button: Larson is not Marie or a lesbian.
- Big Damn Heroes: Punching Nuke in the face, stopping his attempt on Zoë's life.
- Followed up by Zoë pulling a Big Damn Heroes, saving Larson.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Early on, but now less so.
- Hidden Buxom: He binds his breasts with bandages, leading to a hilarious moment with Lisa.
- Mixed Ancestry: Larson's father is Puerto Rican and his mother is French
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's relatively short, but strong.
- Tiny Schoolboy: Only 5'4 due to being a transgender boy, but he makes up for it in feist. The first time he meets Zoë and her date, he tries to get into a fight with them before noticing the girls are 5'10 and 5'6 respectively.
- Transgender: A transgender man.
Lisa VanGough
A lesbian who goes on a date with Zoë and discovers her secret.
- Armoured Closet Gay: Prior to the beginning of the series, leading to a humiliating video outing her being spread.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Does Not Like Men: She refuses to associate with men, aside from Chris.
- Lesbian Jock
- Passionate Sports Girl: Plays soccer.
- Really Gets Around: And famous for it.
- The Smart Girl
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Zoë's Girly Girl.
- Tomboyish Ponytail
- True Companions: With Zoë and, eventually, Larson.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Larson and Eric.
Eric Smith
A Casanova who intends for Zoë to be another conquest, but develops more complicated feelings.
- Above the Influence: He rejects a drugged Zoë at the prom.
- Abusive Parents
- The Atoner: For his old womanizing ways.
- Becoming the Mask: He originally wanted to seduce Zoë, but then he fell for her.
- The Casanova
- Dark and Troubled Past: His sister's dead, he has a strained relationship with his father and his mother's gone.
- The Dragon: To Grace, initially.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Love Redeems
- Stepford Smiler
Nina dell'Abade
A stage hand for the school play.
- Ax-Crazy
- Cute and Psycho
- Evil Former Friend
- Face–Heel Turn: As part of a twisted game by Grace.]]
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul
- Hero Killer: She killed Zoë's dog, Bergie.
- Knife Nut
- Knight of Cerebus: Nina almost kills Zoë in a paranoid rage.
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: To Lisa.
- Unwitting Pawn: To Grace
Grace Allen
- Bad Boss: She threatens to eviscerate Nuke over a minor comment.
- Big Bad: Seems to be shaping up to be this, being the head of the Casanova Society and the one who outed Lisa.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
- The Chessmaster
- The Corrupter
- Evil Mentor
- Evil Plan: Psychologically destroy both Zoë and Eric, to break Eric's spirit completely and send him crawling back to her side.
- Faux Affably Evil: Grace likes to play the caring friend, when she's really a heartless monster.
- Femme Fatale
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul
- It's Personal: She sees Eric's change of heart as a personal insult and wants to destroy him.
- Knight of Cerebus: A chillingly realistic depiction of a sociopath in a quirky coming of age story?
- Manipulative Bitch
- Nightmare Fetishist: How else would you describe someone who's prized possession is a pair of human teeth?
- Scary Shiny Glasses
- The Sociopath
- The Vamp
