so i'm making a kim, and she's going to be 29 - 31, and an established pr publicist, and she's inspired by michaela pratt, which means i need her connor walsh, wes gibbins, and laurel castillo! (also annalise keating bc god what a woman)
(keep reading even if you don't watch how to get away with murder, it's super straight forward)
connor walsh >> twenty-five to thirty. cocky, sexual/flirtatious, bordering on reckless and self destructive. a former child star whose public image just about went up in flames when he was trying to ""prove"" himself to the big shots. has had a lot of scandals. is homoromantic and bisexual, so he only dates guys, but he's been sleeping with "michaela" (sorry i don't have a name for her yet forgive me) since even before she became his publicist. now she has to manage his shit and she feels like she's going to set him on fire. there's not a chance of romantic feelings between them, even though they've been sleeping together for almost two years now, and regularly.
wes gibbins >> twenty-two to twenty-five. insecure, brilliant, secretly gray moral code, determined. currently "michaela's" assisant, shadowing her to understand how the business works. he's extremely awkward and stutters a lot, especially when he's under pressure from the agency's ceo (the annalise). he's really bad with anyone he finds attractive. i imagine him as pansexual, just bc god adorable wes being flustered by connor. i'd really really really really really REALLY prefer he was still portrayed as black, but another minority is fine.
laurel castillo >> twenty-eight to thirty-one. reserved, moral, judgmental, at times outspoken. laurel and "michaela" are unlikely friends, more because they're the only two at their agency that have gotten any real guidance from the ceo. laurel is brilliant, but "michaela" thinks that she's dragged down by her morality; laurel won't take any client that she thinks is a "bad person," which makes her options considerably slim in the business. she's also sleeping with one of her superiors, and you know that "michaela" is giving her crap for it. (in my head laurel is foreign or the daughter of immigrants. preferably spanish. i don't really care about her face though, tbh.)
annalise keating >> thirty-six and up. ambitious, cold, cutthroat, manipulative, brilliant. annalise is the founder, owner, and boss of all bosses at the agency. as a general rule she doesn't take anyone's shit, like anyone's at all. she was her own publicist when her marriage went up in flames. she doesn't take shit from anyone that thinks women are at all inferior. she pushes "michaela" and laurel to be better, and is almost maternal to wes, but also with some weird sexual undertones. no one's exactly sure what's going on there. i'd prefer she's black, but again, i'm okay if you use like lucy liu instead or something. (i mean it's lucy liu i can't not be okay with it.)
