university is kicking my lily - white ass and i’ve only just now finished this and i’m actually that ashamed --- --- but hello !! i’m sasha, i’m nineteen and my space bar hasn’t known peace since ‘99. i’m from australia, which puts me in the aest timezone / shithole of the internet, and i can’t wait to get writing with y’all !!
COLETTE JOANNA ROSE. twenty - one. bisexual cisfemale. currently plays violet simmons on jinx.
the thing about colette is, she’s never really meant to fall into acting. she’s meant to follow her father’s footsteps, join the military, fight for her country, obtain an injury, be honourably discharged and then come home to praise and admiration for the next fifteen years. the thing is, she has no desire to do that.
the day that colette starts taking theatre classes after school, her dad practically breaks down in tears. he just wants his little girl to be secure, and she can’t have that when she’s working in the film industry --- but when he sees the way she performs at her first show, his attitude spins around. from that day on, james rose drives his only daughter round to all of her classes and buys front - row tickets to every single one of her performances. he’s never been more proud of his little girl.
the film industry is hard. colette learns that very quickly, and it almost crushes her. no one wants to hire the tall, lanky, soft - spoken girl, and she cries on her dad in the car after almost every audition. i dropped out of college for this, she thinks, and it’s not going to pay off.
it pays off. she gets her first big break in a shitty little sitcom, but it’s something and halfway through the airing of the first season, she’s called in for an audition for jinx and god, she’s never been happier than when she gets the call that she’s hired. she and her dad throw a fucking party, and it’s just the two of them ( like it’s always been ) but it’s the best she’s felt in years.
she’s soft - spoken, and she’s a bit of a wallflower tbh. she prefers a quiet night in with takeaway, a book and a two - hour call to her dad to going out partying. i love her so much ????
DANTE EPSTEIN HIRSCH. twenty - six. pansexual demiboy. currently head director of sheltered.
it was inevitable that dante epstein hirsch was going to fall into showbiz. with two of hollywood’s most influential independent directors for parents, there was no doubt that he’d end up following in their footsteps. adopted by deanna and rosaline hirsch from a small orphanage in queens, new york, he was given all the love a child could ask for. growing up, he was often taken to see his birth mother ; they don’t have much of a relationship, but at least he understands why. his moms raised him jewish, and taught him heaps about their religion and culture and he’s incredibly attached to it now. he still heads home every friday for shabbat, and seeing his moms’ delight is worth the entire world to him.
not only does dante grow up jewish, he also grows up as bisexual and unclear about his gender identity. he’s semi - comfortable identifying as male, but there’s something else that identifies as something else and after a whole lot of research and 2 am cups of tea with his moms, he stumbles across the term demi - boy and it fits, it works to describe what he’s feeling.
somewhere along the line, he comes to a rather shocking realisation that the representation for the lgbtq+ in film and television is appalling, which it is. his mothers are big on promoting diversity in film, and encourage him in any way they possibly can --- at eighteen, dante enrols at nyu and studies film and media. it’s about this time that he starts making shitty short films with his friends, and something clicks.
the minute he graduates from nyu, he’s writing and directing short films, and it’s a whirlwind and a fucking half but he loves it. for his 22nd birthday, his moms buy him a loft in manhattan and things just start getting better and better. when he’s contacted by angeltale, after seeing a collection of his films centering around the lives of lgbtq+ youth in new york, he’s hired as a director and the first thing he does is, naturally, to call his moms and just about cry on them.
sheltered is his fucking baby. it’s an adaptation of an early idea he’s had, and he loves it with every ounce of his being because it’s good representation. no one dies, it’s accurate and yet it’s uplifting and joyful and heartbreaking and wonderful. he still cries at certain episode when he’s drunk.
personality - wise ??? he’s almost too laidback. he’s incredibly intelligent, progressive and thoughtful and the thing is, when he’s not joking around and being a fucking weirdo, he’s insanely clever and comes out with these pearls of wisdom. he does have a habit of falling back on his sense of humour, though, and likes making people laugh and have a good time. he’s a fucking idiot and i love him.
