gmw squad aesthetics: auggie’s crew (x)
august “auggie” matthews
in his life, auggie has been called august a total of six times. since he was little, everyone’s known him as auggie matthews, the boy who liked talking in class and never seemed to know when to stop. it wasn’t that auggie disrespected authority, but in the environment he grew up in, he learned that he could talk whenever he wanted. it was just a fact, and he’s been conditioned to do so his entire life. often when he was younger, he’d break out into stories about his sister’s latest antics and what his dad said at dinner and this book his mom had just read to him and his personal life was commonly known knowledge because he talked about it so much. as he got older, auggie tones down, instead of focusing his efforts on another form of story telling: acting. in middle school, the boy fell in love with the stage. it’s hard to see him without a play in his hand, pouting off a monologue to dewey or pointing out a line to ava for her to analyze and explain. his biggest ambition is to end up on broadway one day, and he’s not actually a half bad actor. he started as the main villain in every theater production he was in until tenth grade, when he got casted as the lead. his friends by tickets to every single one of his shows, and can always be counted on to over dramatically clap at the end of all of his plays.
auggie is portrayed by ansel elgort.
ava morgenstern
a year older an everyone else, ava’s always taken a motherly route towards her friends. from classes to drama, ava goes through almost everything before her friends do. jenny’s boyfriend dumped her? ava’s there with ice cream and advice on how she got over victor. dewey’s really struggling with algebra? it’s fine, she’s already done it and felt the exact same way about it too. she’ll help him out, and promises not to tell anyone. ava’s incredibly ambitious, the grade representative on student council every year since grade six. she makes her friend’s campaign for her every year, and they all have matching light pink “vote ava” t shirts. she’s always studying, writing a blog about tips and tricks on how to properly use the pomodoro method and why admission to princeton may not be everything you expect it to be. she’s been raised on money though, and don’t you forget it. she constantly has the most expensive and luxurious items any of her friends have seen, from dresses to pens. (”who the hell spends twenty dollars on a pen?” “the lead is german, dewey.”) she loves fashion, good grades, and feeling in control. one day, ava hopes to be a successful wall street business woman.
ava is portrayed by annasophia robb.
louis “dewey” “doy” wu
if you ask anyone his name, they’ll easily reply louis. however, a select few people will laugh and say doy. it’s a reference back to a time he can barely remember, when he apparently refused to be called anything but the three lettered non-name. dewey goes by three different names, which confuses even himself sometimes. dewey, unlike his younger years when he couldn’t even pronounce his own name, is very smart. like, smarter than ava smart. (even she’ll admit it, in the dead of the night when it’s just them and he promises to never tell anyone that she admitted it.) here’s the thing: his smarts are almost exclusively book-wise. his practical knowledge is extremely lacking, from how to operate a washing machine to the subway route to auggie’s place. dewey knows none of it, which is why he compensates academically. in her senior year, ava had three of her classes with dewey. the boy is also known for one other thing among their friend group: he’s the foodie. he runs an instagram account where he exclusively posts pictures of food with reviews. he’s a well known yelper, often getting invited to events and restaurants so he can write reviews. his friends often fight over who he takes as his plus one, though 90% of the time, ava wins.
ava’s longtime boyfriend, victor, always threatened by how close the two were, ava never got around to telling victor how completely and utterly gay dewey is. when he’s older, dewey wants to go into some form of theoretical physics. if he’s going to be book smart, he’s going to choose the hardest books.
dewey is portrayed by ryan potter.
jenny lewis
“jenny lewis loves me” was a line once said by auggie. as it ends up, she loves a lot of boys. a lot of them. (and, more than a few girls.) jenny is the serial dater, but not on purpose. jenny falls easily, hard and fast and in a mad whirlwind. but she falls out at just the same rate. she feels unbelievably guilty when she thinks about the broken hearts she’s left behind, but those thoughts always seem to vanish when she meets someone new. other people fall for her easily, too. auggie has admitted to spending most of ninth grade praying she’d look a little to the left and kiss him, forget every boy before. it’s easy to understand why people love jenny so much. she’s truly one with the city, her veins like maps of the new york subway. she knows the ins and outs, where to be and how to get there and she sees the magic in all of it. that wall of graffiti in harlem isn’t a sign of poverty, it’s art that tells a story. the run down pizza place down the street isn’t greasy and shady, it’s the underbelly of a beast that she wants to conquer. jenny doesn’t know what she wants to do when she grows up, but she knows where she wants to be.
jenny is portrayed by hailee steinfeld.
emma weathersbee
emma was the latest addition to their group, only officially becoming friends with them in eleventh grade. she had always shared classes with them and knew who they were, but it wasn’t until the grade ten spring play did she truly become friends with them. introduced as auggie’s girlfriend, emma quite quickly proved that she wasn’t just an accessory on his arm. from her halsey ringtone to discussions with ava on what exactly the patriarchy was, she became known as the angry feminist of their group. emma regularly spent the weekends at protests and rallies, organizing some of them. to her, there was no point aspiring to be something in the world if the world wasn’t a good place. she wants to work on the un and help with issues in as many departments as possible. the most important thing to her is helping people and she’s extremely passionate about it. jenny used to be in her other group of friend’s before she transitioned to auggie’s crew during middle school and so they’re extremely close friends now. she was always a little hesitant with ava because auggie and ava were the thing when they were younger but now emma’s with him. secretly she’s worried that she’s just some side character in their story and she’ll be that girl auggie dated for awhile in high school and she doesn’t want to be some girl in the augava story she wants to be some part in just his and even if they break up she’ll be heartbroken but not as heartbroken as she would be if he got with ava again.
emma is portrayed by jessica sula.
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