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face claims:

patrick verona - dylan o'brien

bianca stratford - kiernan shipka

mandella stone - chappell roan

cameron james - justice smith

walter stratford - donald faison

vivienne stratford - kelly rutherford

michael - joseph quinn

chastity - ryan anthony

joey donner - darren bennett

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michael - the loving, hardworking boyfriend of mandella, and cameron's best friend. has known kat since their first year of school together at age 5, but only became close when he and mandella began dating at age 18. while they aren't the best of friends, she knows he's someone he can turn to in a time of crisis, and she admires how good he is to mandella. chastity - bianca's former best friend, turned enemy, turned best friend again. she now works as bianca's assistant and the two are virtually inseparable. kat has no time for her, knowing the shit she has pulled on bianca before, and she highly suspects chastity would do the same all over again if an opportunity arose. she still hooks up with joey, from time to time. joey donner - kat's ex, the man she lost her virginity to, and the very man who inspired her to turn to feminism in the first place. while he doesn't orbit her too often, sometimes she ends up in the same room as him thanks to chastity, and the fact he also lives in los angeles. she still gets a kick telling everyone about the time a teenage girl broke his nose. he insists on being referred to by his full name, like a reverse cher.

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walter is kat's father who primarily raised her and her sister bianca on his own after his wife, vivienne, left the family. kat was rebellious as a teen, often rallying against her father despite his best intentions. regarding him as somewhat overbearing, their relationship has settled as she has gotten older. a renowned neo-natal surgeon, he often visits his daughter in los angeles, long distance dating a nurse who lives not too far from her apartment building that he met at a work conference. he did plan to move to los angeles, as he's closer to kat than he is to her sister, but she convinced him to stay where his career is steady and well regarded. and for her own personal space. kat doesnt let him know when her mother tries to get in touch, her father requesting to be 'kept out of it'.

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kat's estranged mother, vivienne, is her greatest opp, even a solid 22 years after abandoning their family. once kat's father found out that vivienne was cheating - and had been for the majority of their marriage - rather than face any consequences, she opted to simply abandon the family in the middle of the night. despite repeated attempts to reconcile with kat, she refuses to let vivienne back into her life. she saw her mother for the first time in over a decade some years ago, and hasn't seen her since. this isn't for lack of vivienne trying. kat's sister, bianca, is close now with their mother, and keeps vivienne updated on kat's life despite her chagrin. that being said, bianca also keeps her sister up to date on her mother's latest escapades, including her determination to run a successful mlm, funded by her latest victim rich boyfriend.

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cameron is bianca's husband, and father to kat's niece and nephew. he works as a french translator and tour guide in the centre of seattle, but also picks up shifts working with patrick at his garage when he needs the help. having settled down in washington post high school after a lifetime of moving around thanks to his father's position in the army, cameron feels a need to be kept busy at all times. hence his 2.5 jobs, the raising of 2 kids, and helping bianca shoot content when needed. on the outside, everyone knows that cameron has been loyal to bianca since day dot, and the pair were always destined to be happily married. one day, whilst having a deep heart to heart with kat, he confided in his sister in law that he may not have been entirely straight, and may not have been entirely faithful to bianca whilst she was away for work. kat confided in him about their mother's indiscretions, and both of them plagued with their secrets that they still hide from bianca to this day. cameron and kat remain close still, tied together by the secrets they keep. and their shared love of music, but mostly the secrets.

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bianca is the younger half sister of kat, and her polar opposite. always the popular girl in school, bianca seemingly had her shit together from a very early age. something that kat admired and envied in equal parts. she married her high school sweetheart cameron as soon as they graduated college, having two children in quick succession. a stay at home mom in washington, she turned to running a cooking blog that became an overnight success - anything bianca turned her hand to turned to gold, it always had. within months she was offered her own cooking show on the food network, becoming the nation's culinary sweetheart with a line of cookware in walmart, book deals and more. she's currently working on opening her first restaurant in their hometown of seattle, naming it 'stratford's'. she wasn't old enough to remember her mom's indiscretions, not holding quite the same resentment as her older sister. bianca still doesn't know to this day that she ultimately the reason that her and kat's mother left; her existence the product of an extra marital affair. kat tries not to hold it over her, opting to protect her from the truth even 28 years later. kat and bianca's relationship like a ticking timebomb for when bianca may one day learn the truth.

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kat's best friend, and someone she considers a second sister. they've known each other since the first day of high school and have been virtually inseparable ever since. mandella moved to new york with kat, opting to work in the city over going to college, wanting to throw herself entirely into their band and her own theatre career; aching to be on broadway. she has been with her boyfriend, michael, since high school also; he moved alongside her and kat to the city to pursue a career in finance, ever the devoted partner. mandella has worked in different aspects of the theatre ever since they made it to new york, but the second kat mentioned wanting to move to la, she jumped at the chance. she felt a level of imposter syndrome in new york, and felt it'd be easier to get ahead in the world of the stage out west. still alongside kat in completely wretched as the band's guitarist and backing vocalist, she also works sound at the pantages theatre in between auditions, partially kept afloat by michael's illustrious finance career - not that she'd ever admit that to anyone. not even kat.

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kat's high school sweetheart and ex-boyfriend. he was her first love, but also the first person to betray her deeply. more than once. from the day they made things official in senior year, they were close to inseparable until kat left for new york. patrick opted to stay in seattle, working as a mechanic's apprentice before going on to take over the shop once the owner passed. they opted to maintain a long-distance relationship, and while it was difficult, kat naively believed they loved each other enough to make it work. and they did, for a number of years, through regular communication and frequent visits. they had their ups and downs like any couple, but it wasn't until he flew her estranged mother out to new york against her wishes that she realised just how little he knew her; how her increasing fear that he'd seen her as an ideal of what he wanted rather than a person who was growing came to reality. when that realisation hit her, she flew home to confront her ex, breaking up with him in the same high school parking lot that they first solidified their relationship in. she has seen patrick once or twice in the years since, mostly when she's home in seattle visiting her father and sister, filled with a deep rooted rage each and every time. recently, he's been making more of an effort to reach out, despite very publicly having 'moved on' - though kat wonders if, like her, if he ever actually has.