Izzie, Stella, Ophelia

"Izzie is thoughtful but ignorant, angelically kind but traitorously cruel, mysterious and cryptic but wears her heart on her sleeve, idiotically slow but deliciously quick-witted, popular but never fitting in, adventurous but a homebody, immature but sexy, feminine but boyish, she is the epitome of a human being, all of her mistakes are perfection, everything perfect about her is a mistake, I don't need her but I crave her, I can watch her leave me but when she returns I can't bear to let her go. She's perfect." - Stella

Izzie

She/they. 17. Cancer Sun and Scorpio Venus. Moon trines Mars.

Izzie is an optimistic and endearingly quirky girl with ADHD who enjoys changing her appearance every chance she gets: "customising her character". She will piss herself laughing at the word "balls", genuinely attempt to change her pad in the middle of a basketball court during P.E., and enjoy taunting her friends about ants crawling into their vaginas and making them pregnant while they're at the beach in their bikinis, and has a real gift for unifying people. Stella believes this is just because she's so beautiful.

Izzie was bullied physically in primary school by mainly other girls, which has made her slightly wary of female friendships, but she knows who it is safe to let her walls down with and is very willing to bite right back, hard, when someone tries to nip at her. She loves physical touch and her hair is basically everyone else's property at this point because she loves having it played with.

Izzie loves birds. She knows every type. Her ankle was broken as a child and has been messed up ever since. She has no mother, but always had a comfortable, loving and secure father to come home to. She knows how to be herself and loves it.

She is also the first and only person to call Stella pretty. She untucked Stella's hair and said "you're pretty" while looking right into her face like she really meant it.

"Whenever she's around, I feel like everyone should just be quiet. So we do." - a classmate

Stella

She/they. 17. Aries Rising and Mars. Saturn conjunct Sun and square Mars.

Short-tempered and free-spirited, Stella is a product of rape and likes to think of herself as a rat. She works at a kitchen in an aged care home and takes almost every shift she can around school, mainly spending this money on clothes, self-care items (ranging from self-harm aftercare to pleasantly scented shampoo), and strange devices for strange and unnatural uses such as glasses with cameras in them, or beautiful handcuffs that she then coats in mud and spits on until their fluffy comfortable interiors are clumpy, dry and spiky. These sorts of damaged goods are gifted to the bitch Ophelia.

Stella is generally a kind and helpful person in her day-to-day, but isn't afraid of confrontation or pushing to get what she wants. In fact, when she has an opportunity to freely do things her way, she will not hesitate to take it, often pushing the boundaries of what's allowed just to ensure her own comfort. Her main issue is her infatuation with power and how fucking good it feels in her chest, like a dam that craves to burst but can only manage to leak through the saliva she adds to Ophelia's gifts, the tears she spills after she cums, the drool that coats her lips when she imagines gripping Izzie's flesh hard with a blade in one hand and carving Stella's there forever. Because Stella is a good person and she deserves to own the most beautiful things in the world, she deserves it.

Her biggest guilt in life, and the reason she needs to fill an empty void in her heart with things like paraphilias and shopping trips, is when her mother gave birth to her rapist's second baby and 5-year-old Stella, while her parents were sleeping, put him on the doorstep of someone else's house. He was never seen again.

"'Ophelia, Ophelia, I love you! I miss you! I hope she'll be home soon!' Said no one ever." - Stella

Ophelia

She/her. 16. Virgo Moon. Sun 12th house.

Socially awkward and prone to going beet-red the second someone speaks to her, Ophelia is a bully's dream victim. Her goody-two-shoes nature is something a lot of people dislike her for—if the teacher says he'll only let everyone go if they finish their absolutely consequence-less work, and Ophelia knows somebody hasn't completed it, she'll tell on them and make the entire class stay back, meaning some may miss their buses or transport. This isn't necessarily a bad thing... but she doesn't quite understand changing things to suit other people.

She walks in an awkward manner, her arms always hanging loosely by her sides, and has heavy lids that give her an uncanny, absent expression as if she is not even using her eyes to look at things. She works at the same care home as Stella, but in cleaning, and doesn't know how to stop the bullying. Stella always threatens her if she tells. Ophelia is beginning to realise that if she says anything out of turn or tells on anyone ever again, she'll get abused, so she's started going quiet. Her lockers, both at school and work, are filled with soiled objects like handcuffs, rope, sticks, tweezers, metal springs, and other things that she knows not to tell anyone about because otherwise they will be used to hurt her.

She has a nuclear family - dad, mum, brother, cat, dog - and has lived very comfortably her whole life, facing minimal obstacles or struggle despite her rigid mindset and probable autism. This is how someone deserves to grow up. But Stella, who just feels envy and never had any of that comfort, finds this the perfect reason to hate Ophelia's guts.