Main Cast
Nia Thompson
Nia Thompson
"Well you won't forget things when I'm around. I'm the master at productivity! Now let's start making a color-coordinated time table so we can plan out your schedule!"
Nia's one of the main characters, and she has time travel powers with her best friend Lexi.
- Badass Bookworm: Nia is shown to be geeky, smart, into reading and writing. But she is not afraid to speak her mind, very capable able to stand up for herself, such as telling off her bully in "An Axe To Grind," or attacking her kidnapper when she is teleported to the future against her will in "Meddle School".
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Nia and Lexi are best friends and across the street neighbors who met in Kindergarten who treat each other like sisters, tell each other everything, and have the special ability of time travel.
- Loners Are Freaks: She is bullied by Jill and Rebecca for being an introvert.
- Nerd Glasses: Nia wears black rectangular glasses and is a smart character.
- Opposites Attract: She is the opposite of Lexi in many ways, and despite their differences, they're still best friends.
- Properly Paranoid: Nia is often overly-cautious and paranoid due to her powers, thinking that if other people know, they will try to get to her. Due to her being taken to the visions where she is kidnapped by a scientist for having powers, she is paranoid that these visions will become true.
- Proud to Be a Geek: She makes it clear that despite being made fun of by bullies for being geeky she isn't ashamed of her interests.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Nia is the tomboy to Lexi's girly girl. For example, she doesn't care for fashion and makeup, doesn't do her hair, and never wears pink. She wears jackets and jeans with converse. She's into superhero comics, video games and sci-fi. However she does get dressed femininely up for events like dances, but she has Lexi do it for her. She was dressed like a princess one year for Halloween.
Lexi Reed
Lexi Reed
Lexi is the second main character, Nia's best friend, and she can time travel with Nia.
- Disappeared Dad: Lexi's mother, Lanaya, is in the picture, but her father doesn't make an appearance.
- Go-Getter Girl: Lexi is known to be a extroverted girl with many friends, who is on the choir, the volleyball team, and theater. She is very active and busy with her education and her extracurricular activities. Despite balancing all of this, she's able to do so effortlessly and go with the flow.
- Genki Girl: She is energetic, positive, and cheerful.
- Girly Girl: She is into fashion and wears makeup, has long, wavy hair, and is very feminine.
- Reckless Sidekick: Lexi tends to jump into things without thinking.
- Straw Vegetarian: Averted. Lexi is vegetarian, but isn't rude to other's about it.
- With Great Power Comes Great Perks: Lexi thinks her powers are great and wants to use them as much as possible, sometimes having to convince Nia. She uses powers to marginally improve her life, or her friends lives, and/or simply do what she feels like.
Mason Jenkins
Mason Jenkins
Mason is the best friend of Lizzie, Nia, Lexi, and Gregory.
- One of the Girls: Mason's main best friends are three girls, at least until he meets Gregory.
- Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids: Mason's parents, Courtney and Brett, are super strict Catholics, and they don't allow him to do anything fun. They make him dress up as an angel to Halloween. Lizzie helps him learn to be sneaky. When his mother finds out he snuck off, she grounds him severely, threatening to move him to a private school and cutting off communication with his friends. Luckily, Nia and Lexi go back in time, and Nia warns him to leave before he is caught.
- The Pastor's Queer Kid: Despite being in a homophobic family, Mason is secretly bisexual.
- Transparent Closet: Gregory suspects that Mason is into another boy, Wyatt, at the party. When Gregory points that out, he vehemently denies it due to his fear of his parents finding out.
Gregory Brandt-Díaz
Gregory Brandt-Díaz
Gregory is the newest member of their friend group, who originally met Nia as her lab partner after he moved to Watersman freshman year, and then met the rest of the friend group.
- Gentle Giant: Gregory is fit, tall, and husky but he'd never hurt a fly. (Although Plotagon does not have different body or height variation so he appears the same size and height as the others.) His Sim version
reflects that better. - Lovable Jock: Gregory is athletic and sporty but he's also very nice.
- New Transfer Student: Gregory moved to Watersman from Albuquerque during freshman year in 2025.
- Nice Guy: Gregory is kind-hearted to everyone.
- Samaritan Syndrome: Gregory feels obligated to help his friends, sometimes too much to the point where they don't want him to.
Lizzie Hernandez
Lizzie Hernandez
"I'm Lizzie, I use she and her, and what I do outside of school hours is none of y'all's business."
Lizzie is Mason's best friend and friends with Nia, Lexi, and Gregory.
- Butch Lesbian: She sort of fits the stereotype in some aspects such as having short hair and being abrasive, dressing up in more masculine clothes sometimes.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: In the past, Lizzie was very hot-headed, especially to Jill to the point where she pushes Jill after Jill outed her to the school. However, she is better in the present, having received anger management counseling. She still gets mad, but isn't violent.
- Important Haircut: In the past Lizzie had very long hair. After she came out as lesbian and after Jill outed her she got her hair cut short.
- Rebellious Spirit: Lizzie doesn't really care for school and doing things she "has to do." It's implied she does rebellious things on her own that she doesn't want other people to know about.
Recurring Characters
Jill Charlotte
Jill Charlotte
"Imagine if I could make Nia and Lexi's lives even more miserable if I had time travelers go back and do the dirty work for me!"
Jill is the mean girl, and Nia's bully and enemy.
- Alpha Bitch: Jill is shown to be the queen bee of Watersman High School. She is rich, the class president, and does what she can to maintain power over other people.
- Attention Whore: Mainly towards her mom, but since her mom doesn't give her much attention, she also enjoys getting attention from her friends and enemies, whether it be positive or negative.
- Bad Influencer: When Jill sees something inexplicable happening, Officer Otto coming through the time portal left behind by Lexi and Nia, the first thing she does is record it and gleefully exclaim she's going to get famous. She ends up on the local news where she promotes her YouTube channel. She later thanks Otto for helping her gain one million subscribers, who, being from the 1970s, doesn't understand what she means.
- Family Theme Naming: Jill's family all have names that start with a "J." Her mom's name is Jacqueline, her father is named Joshua, and her younger sister is named Jade.
- Full-Name Basis: Jill is very often referred to with her full name "Jill Charlene Charlotte."
- Likes Older Men: Makayla mentions Jill thinks Otto is hot and encourages her to hookup with him, even though Jill is 15 and Otto is 23.
- Rich Bitch: Jill is from a rich family, lives in a big house. Her dad is a CEO and her mom is an actress and supermodel.
- Parental Neglect: Jill's famous mom lives in Los Angeles while Jill, her sister, and father live in the small town of Watersman, and according to Jill, hasn't been around for any holidays or birthdays, or big events for six years. Her father lives with her, but is always busy working as the CEO of his company.
- Serial Homewrecker: Jill stole Nia's boyfriend from her freshman year. But also is mentioned to want to hook up with Otto, who has (had?) a girlfriend back in his time.
- Student Council President: Jill has been the class president since sixth grade and often uses her power for bad, and according to Lizzie, people are too afraid to not vote for her.
- Sugary Malice: Anything nice she says to Nia in reality are very passive aggressive comments. When Jill outs Lizzie as a lesbian in seventh grade, she claims to just be congratulating her for coming out and highlighting student diversity.
- The Bully: Jill has been bullying her classmates, mostly Nia, since childhood. She even had her eyes on Ethan, Nia's ex-boyfriend, while Ethan and Nia were dating. She even outed Lizzie as a lesbian in middle school after eavesdropping on her coming out to Mason. She also threatens her friend Makayla.
Makayla Burgundy
Makayla Burgundy
- Beta Bitch: Makayla is one of Jill's friends. Makayla picks on Lexi for having less experience acting than her. However she still isn't on the level of Jill's best friend Rebecca and Jill treats Makayla and treats her more like someone she's using rather than a friend. Especially when its revealed that Jill bullied Makayla freshman year and only became her friend after Makayla starred in a short film.
- Parental Abandonment: Makayla mentions in "New Year, New Nia," that her mom is terrible and has abandoned her family.
Chelsea Burgundy
Chelsea Burgundy
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Chelsea is revealed to be Makayla Burgundy's grandmother in "Best Friends For Never" and seems to really love her granddaughter.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: Chelsea is a science professor and college admissions officer, but she secretly is trying to get the time travel powers that Lexi and Nia have.
- Mad Scientist: Chelsea has invented a shapeshifting machine and has a garage lab full of inventions.
Otto Schumacher
Otto Schumacher
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Officer Otto is a 23 year old man from 1978 who was taken to the future by a wormhole left behind by Nia and Lexi in "A Christmas In Time". He often is confused about Jill's internet usage.
- Foreshadowing: Otto appears in "Meddle School" in one of Nia's future visions. She escaped the padded cell by attacking Chelsea and stealing her ID card. She tries to escape, but Otto stops her. It's unknown who he is, why he is helping Chelsea, and what Nia did to him. The credits refer to him as "Unknown Blonde Man." The following two episodes, it is revealed who he is and how he met Chelsea.
