Characters
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Caroline Woods Pritchard
- Gender:
- Female
- Orientation:
- Straight
Lead singer for rock band, The Sinners...once dated Tre Cool, but broke up because she and Mike had fallen in love. The two eventually married and had two kids together. After his sudden, tragic death, and then the death of her sister, Caroline officially quit her band and left Oakland where she found herself pregnant with twins and a life that would only continue to get more complicated as the years passed...
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Crystal Banach
- Gender:
- Female
- Orientation:
- Straight
Joey Armstrong's girlfriend on the side, who he knocked up and won't take responsibilty for.
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Dave Jozwiak
- Gender:
- Male
- Orientation:
- Straight
Dave is the guitarist of The Sinners, and one-time boyfriend of Caroline Woods Pritchard. Though she is no longer a part of the band, he is still always there for her.
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Ellis Helmes
- Gender:
- Female
- Orientation:
- Straight
She is the biological older sister of Giselle Woods Wright. The two were separated when their parents died in a car accident when Giselle was just a few days old, coming home from the hospital, and Ellis was five. Both girls were adopted, but by different parents. Ellis was adopted by a wealthy couple from Manhattan, and she was raised an only child, who always searched for her baby sister's whereabouts and got lucky nearly 30 years later. When Giselle died after giving birth to her daughter Avarielle, Ellis stepped up to the plate to help Tre with his daughter as he grieved.
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Estelle Pritchard
- Gender:
- Female
- Orientation:
- Straight
The oldest child of Mike Pritchard, from his first marriage.
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Frankito Wright
- Gender:
- Male
- Orientation:
- Straight
The second child of Tre Cool [Frank Edwin Wright III] from his second marriage.
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Giselle Woods Wright
- Gender:
- Female
- Orientation:
- Straight
Adopted sister of Caroline Woods Pritchard, biological sister of Ellis Helmes. She went to med school to be a psychiatrist and after graduating, she moved from Raleigh to Oakland to practice psychiatry at a hospital in San Francisco, while living with her sister and Mike. She eventually started to date Tre, Caroline's ex and, and she would eventually marry Tre. After several miscarriages, she was able to maintain a pregnancy, giving birth to a daughter Avarielle, but dying of a brain aneurysm shortly afterward. She was only 31.
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Joey Armstrong - young adult
- Gender:
- Male
- Orientation:
- Straight
The eldest son of Billie Joe and Adrienne Armstrong. While dating his high school sweetheart Nicole, he was also seeing sweethearted Crystal Banach who he knocked up and when she pleaded with him to acknowledge the baby was his, he denied it and threatened her. She backed off, though still had the child, a daughter named Tatum. After about a year or so, his girlfriend Nicole became pregnant and they had a daughter together named Dominique, who was the apple of her grandfather Billie Joe's eye. However, after a few years more, Nicole broke up with Joey. All the while he still would not acknowledge Tatum as being his.