The Freshman Series Miscellaneous Characters

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Officer Halverson
If you choose to go to the airport with Zack so he can say goodbye to Brandon, you are stopped at security by Officer Halverson. Since neither of you have a ticket, he refuses to let you pass. His character model resembles Chaz from Rules of Engagement.

Heather Sinclair
Heather is first mentioned by Sebastian who tells you and your friends that because of an accident involving a ski lift, Heather is currently absent from Hartfeld and that as a result, he has taken Heather's seat as treasurer of the Student Council. You later learn that Heather is also a member of Kappa Phi Sigma when you are told that Heather's room is currently free due to her absence. In The Junior, Heather is back as Kassidy mentions having shortly talked to her in preparation of the prank Beau pulls on Claire.

In Game of Love, a girl named Heather competes together with another girl named Sofia, but it is not clear if it's the same Heather.

Crew
When you visit James in California and go to the set of his movie, you run across the actors starring in his movie as well as a crew member. He mistakes you for Anna-Leanne Harvey, an extra for the latest episode of Crown and the Flame. He asks you if you want to play as an extra, and you have the choice to agree or turn him down. His character model resembles Todd from Most Wanted, Book 1.



Actors
If you decide to play an extra in The Crown and the Flame, you see the actress portraying Kenna Rys and the actor portraying Dominic Hunter. The crew member tells her that her path to the castle has changed because they added more fire pits. The actor playing Dominic hopes it doesn't take long to block the scene because he has hot yoga in half an hour. The actress playing Kenna asks a crew member for a nitro cold brew coffee, no milk, no sugar, with a straw and 2 napkins, while the actor playing Dominic wants one of those organic baby kale salads with endives and lemon-carrot dressing. You ask them for autographs for Tyler and Abbie, and they sign it "The couple that slays together stays together!". Naturally, her character model is of Kenna Rys, and his is of Dominic Hunter.

Ezra
Your Character meets a bright bay horse named Ezra from the stable at James's home. James offered his friends to take the horses for a ride at the countryside.

Spud
He's in charge of the bar Kaitlyn takes you and your friends to.

He has the same character model as Randall Grimes from Most Wanted.



Tater Tot
He is the line dancing caller at the bar Kaitlyn takes you and your friend to.

He has the same character model as one of the bikers from LoveHacks. His name is also used as the default name for the dog you can adopt in The Senior.



Red
He works at the bar Kaitlyn takes you and your friends to. He states that his name comes from a potato.

He has the same character model as Centurion Biker, a character from Most Wanted.

Waitress
After camping, you and your friends head to a restaurant. Unfortunately, the waitress tells you there is a 2-hour wait unless you have reservations. You can choose to lie and say you have a reservation or your group will head to the nearest fast-food chain. Her character model resembles Sabrina from Rules of Engagement, Book 1, and LoveHacks.

Officer
If you do not bring or purchase the car repair kit, when the van breaks down on your way to the Aurora Festival, this officer stops by to give you a hand. She helps patch up your car, but gives Zack a ticket for having no seatbelts in the van. You tell Zack that you'll all help split the cost of the ticket. Her character model resembles Rebecca McKenzie, and is assumed to be her given the fact both series started together when Choices was launched.

Russell Thibbs
He is a professional football player who is an alumni of Hartfeld University. According to Chris, he was the best running back in Hartfeld's history. He invites Chris and a bunch of his football teammates to Los Angeles to watch him in the playoffs, flies them out on a private jet and lets them stay in his mansion. After all is said and done though, he would rather spend time with his wife and daughters than go to a party with famous actors and football fans. He shares the same forename as Russell Mayhew from Hero, Vol. 1.

Announcer
At the charity masquerade ball James invited you to, you watch the announcer on stage auction items. You can bid up to $100 of James' money on an antique picture frame. His character model resembles Daniel, the waiter from the Rules of Engagement and The Royal Romance series.

Bat
While taking a shortcut through a cemetery, Kaitlyn gets bitten by this bat and turns into a vampire shortly afterwards.

Waiter
When you and your love interest go to La Trattoria, the waiter seats you and takes your order.

Waiter
Taking a break from fundraiser ideas to save Professor Vasquez's house, you and Zig venture into an Italian district of Northridge and stop to eat at a restaurant. The waiter takes your order and brings you your food. His character model is the standard waiter/bartender model used in such characters as Flynn, the bartender in Perfect Match, Book 1, and the waiter in the Green Room in Red Carpet Diaries, Book 1.

Woman
If Chris is your love interest and you choose to go on a mini-golf date with him, the woman interrupts your kissing, calling you both high school truants even if you correct her. Later, in Chapter 7, when you visit Becca at Uskea, the woman interrupts your conversation to complain about the store not having the product she wanted in stock after specifically calling to inquire about it earlier that day. Becca tells her about an alternate dining room set on sale that appeases her. Her character model is the same as for Professor Bhatt in It Lives In The Woods.

Collin Harper
Collin is a publisher at Polar Bear Publishing. He talks to you after Professor Vasquez's and your book, The Freshman, debuts. You help support James when they talk as well. In Chapter 7, he invites you and James out to dinner to talk about your writing.

His character model resembles the facial features of Bertrand Beaumont from The Royal Romance and The Royal Heir. His appearance has also been used for Skip Brentwood III in Bachelorette Party. His name is a take on publishing company HarperCollins.

Fan
Self-proclaimed super Fan of Kaitlyn's band, TBD, gives you a hard time when you and your friends go to support her in The Battle of the Bands. When Kaitlyn makes her way over to you, she tells him that anyone who likes and listens to their music is a fan, and puts him in his place. His character model is the Eros guard that Damien punched in Perfect Match, Book 1 and the security guard in America's Most Eligible: Season 10.

Security Guard
You will meet this security guard if you and Reyna decide to get movie posters for James. If you pretend to be Cassandra Leigh's assistant, you show him pictures of you, James, Cassandra, and Ryan Summers together from the time you met them on set in Los Angeles. He will then give you three posters and ask you to tell Cassandra that he is a big fan of her work.



Kerri Hinkle
Kerri is a reporter covering the final round of Battle of Bands. She is seen interviewing Leila and Claire, asking them who should win. Your friends suggest to go to her and hype TBD. You can do that in a premium scene. She reappears in The Senior to interview you on your writing career. She has the same appearance as Ana De Luca and her twin Stacy De Luca.

Councilman Rossi
Councilman Rossi is a councilman that's presiding over a court case involving your character and Dorian Delacroix. He is just and fair, willing to take your character and Dorian's respective testimonies into account before reaching a decision in the former's favor. Pixelberry used the same character model for him as a commercial director in Red Carpet Diaries, Book 1, Chapter 3.

Swamp Monster
The swamp monster is the default villain for Ms. Twombly's manuscript.



Axe Murderer
You can encourage Ms. Twombly to go darker and change her villain to a serial killer. She could explore what would possess someone to want to kill kids.



Werewolf
You can encourage Ms. Twombly to change her villain to a werewolf. The readers' or characters' fears of the monster would be combined with their pity for the human underneath.

Woman
If you decide to help Zack give a group of guests the first official tour of the late Professor Vasquez's home, the woman comments that this better be good. Halfway through the tour, she says she wants her money back because her tax money went to restore an ordinary house. If you suggest the possibility that the house could be haunted, the tour group seems more interested. She is probably the same woman you saw in The Sophomore, Book 2.



Man
Next to the woman, the man comments that you and Zack don't look excited enough to be giving the tour. When the woman interrupts the tour halfway through, he adds that the house is so pedestrian. His character model resembles the Dryve driver in Red Carpet Diaries, Book 1.



Teen
After the man comments, the teen asks if there is a gift shop. If all Enrique Vasquez did was write books, she asks why the house is important. Her character model resembles Shannon from It Lives In The Woods.

Recruiters
Recruiters for the Nightingales, a professional football team, come to watch the Hartfeld football team come play to see if any of the team members are worth recruiting. When they arrive it is to a football field no one can play on, because Beau Han had forked it the night before. They tell Chris that whatever one of his friends played this prank on him has lost the team any chances, but do later come back and check out the team. The first recruiter is also seen in The Senior trying to recruit Chris who turned down the team the first time he was offered. At that time his name is revealed to be Clarence Atkins.

The second recruiter is seen in various places as the face model for miscellaneous characters.

Receptionist
You will meet her if you choose to help Zig to investigate what happened to his GPA. She works at the Office of the Registrar and is seen arguing with her wife Karen on the phone over custody of their hermit crab Baudelaire, even threatening to call her attorney. She also complains about someone having dented her car (which has a fuzzy hermit crab on the window) and uses a whole dispenser of hand sanitizer per day. You need to get her away from her desk so that you and Zig can access the computer and look up the login transcripts.

If you tell her that Edgar Lucas dented her car with musical instruments for his band, she will be surprised to learn he is the "genius" behind Children of Ill Omen, "the most cutting-edge indie one-man band of all time!"

The receptionist's appearance is shared with Mindy Wales, a character in the Perfect Match series.

Mr. Jones
Mr. Jones is the admissions officer at Northbridge University and signed the rejection letter that Becca received. You and Becca try to convince him that the application they received wasn't submitted by Becca herself. He doesn't believe you when you tell him that it must be a mean prank by someone else. He also comments that in his opinion, Hartfeld was a "little silly school".

Mr. Jones has been modeled after Rick Bauman, a character from the Red Carpet Diaries, whose appearance is frequently used in various books.

Dog
When you enter the dog park with Zack and Grant, a collie comes to say hello. Burpy gets to play with him. Its character model resembles Hilda from It Lives In The Woods.



Puppington
After Burpy plays with the collie, you run across Madison and her puppy, Wordsworth Puppington the First. He and Burpy want to fetch the stick you throw.



Raccoon
As you leave the dog park, Burpy notices the raccoon going through the trash cans near the park gates. He is disappointed that you won't let him chase the raccoon.

Guard
In order to get in to confront Nathan, the group has to get past a guard. They can pretend that the MC is Kassidy in order to get all of them to the back or they can cause a distraction so the MC can get in alone. If they choose the latter route, the MC's love interest records the confrontation. His code name is "Flightless Bird" and he is working with another guard whose code name is "Shaggy Dog".



Margaret Renish
Becca told her friends that Judge Margaret Renish was going to preside over Nathan's trial. This meant nothing to the other friends, so Becca explained that she had to "research Northbridge's legal community while perfecting my application". She then proceeded to tell them that Judge Renish had a long reputation for being a real hardliner especially against poor little rich boys. She shares the same forename as Margaret Blake from The Crown & The Flame series and Margaret Sterling from Veil of Secrets.

Arix
If you decide to go with Alice to a restaurant in Northbridge, Arix is your waiter. Different than other restaurants, this one provides no menus and instead you tell Arix what you are seeking and the chef customizes your meal for you. His character model resembles the general waiter model, such as Flynn from Perfect Match, Book 1.

Lizard
When you check on the creepy critters, Zig and Kaitlyn introduce you to a lizard. The animal shelter also has rats, snakes, and tarantulas.



Collie
The Collie is a dog that appears in the animal shelter. You can convince Helen Twombly to adopt her. His animal model resembles Dipper from Perfect Match.



Sylvia Path
The cat appears in the animal shelter. You can convince Joaquin to adopt her. When he complains about her shedding, Becca tells him that she's sloughing away the deepest ennui of her soul in the form of fur. Her animal model resembles the kitten from Rules of Engagement, Book 1.



Houdini
The hamster appears in the animal shelter. You can convince Aaron to adopt him.



Colorful Woman
If you decide to go with James to sample restaurants' food carts, he proposes a game to spark your imagination and creativity. You choose random passer-bys and create wacky backstories for them. The first passer-by is a woman dressed in colorful clothing. Her character model resembles Candy Crenshaw from Red Carpet Diaries, Book 2.



Vendor
The next man up for a creative backstory is one of the food vendors. His character model resembles Daniel, the waiter, from The Royal Romance, Book 1.



Running Man
The last person up for a creative backstory is a man that runs through the crowd. His character model resembles the kayak instructor from America's Most Eligible: Season 10.

Hostess
She appears in a restaurant when Your Character and Kaitlyn want to rent a space for her band's album release party. If Your Character is dating James, she reappears in Chapter 5 when they meet James' parents in the same restaurant. She has the same character design as Sabrina from Lovehacks.



Bartender
He works in the bar where you and Kaitlyn want to rent a space after the restaurant turned out to be too expensive. If you say that you don't work for the police, Kaitlyn will break an expensive bottle to prove it and you both escape. However, if you say that you do work for the police, he is the one who escapes: he thinks you want to arrest him because of illegal swan fights and he doesn't want to go back to prison. He has the same character design as Arnold Northmun.

Crystal
Crystal is a red panda you, Zig, and Aaron meet while at the wildlife preserve.

Billy
Billy acts as prosecutor in the mock trial Becca takes you to.

He has the same appearance as Councilman Rossi from The Sophomore, Book 2, Chapter 15.



Jay
If you decide to attend the Barristers' Ball with Becca, you meet Billy's friends, Jay and Molly. Jay's character model resembles Brad from Perfect Match, Book 2.



Molly
While Jay warms up to you quickly, Molly is more suspicious. She apologizes though, blaming her attitude on her stress. Her character model resembles Anita from Red Carpet Diaries, Book 2.



Gemma
Gemma is a video game character that Abbie and Tyler created and debuted at Northcon booth #1872. Gemma is part of the video game Dragon Jest, which they loosely based around the events of The Junior.



Rude Gamer
He shows up at Abbie and Tyler's booth and makes derogatory remarks about their game Dragon Jest, saying it's not a 'real' game to him since it's not a shooter game. When Abbie answers him, he is also rude to her, saying that he only wants to talk to game developers and not to their girlfriends. When Tyler defends her, the Rude Gamer also devalues the game's artwork by saying "No wonder your game sucks" and makes further remarks on how "Girls can't handle actual gameplay". Your Character is able to challenge him in a premium scene of the same chapter.

He has the same character model as the unnamed Driver from Red Carpet Diaries Book 1, Chapter 3.

Laura
Her character model resembles Theresa Holland from Most Wanted, Book 1.



Myrtle
If Zig is your love interest, you both check out a little shindig at a retirement home. Myrtle approaches you and you have the choice to dance with her or her friend, Horace.



Horace
Horace is the quiet gentleman. You can also encourage them to dance together.

Dustin
Dustin is one of the leads in the play you and James are putting on for the Fringe Festival.



Shelly Dunham
Shelly Dunham is one of the leads in the play you and James are putting on for the Fringe Festival. Her character model was also used for another actress named Kelly in a premium scene of High School Story: Class Act, Book 1, Chapter 6, and for an unnamed barista in The Heist: Monaco, Chapter 2.

Roxie
On your mission to find Burpy with Zack, you encounter Rachel's pet raccoon, Roxie.



Ruth Gunderson
Ruth is first mentioned in Chapter 7 if you are dating James. She is his idol and when you spend some days in Cedar Crest with James, he tells you that she lived there while she wrote Purposeful Syntax. At the Northbridge Fringe festival, you and James (finally) meet her. Ruth is also a playwright with at least 56 plays under her belt. James is star struck by her. She came to the festival to see him, as he has impressed her by his work in the few years that he has been writing. She wants to offer him an 8-week residency in Icebreakers, a playwright colony in Alaska where artists can live and home their craft.

Instructor
If you decide to go white water rafting with Alice, the instructor has you both sit in the front and follow his directions. His character model resembles the waiter who works at the Crimson Veil in Bloodbound, Book 1.

Mr. Wu
Mr. Wu was Enrique Vasquez's boss during his short-lived bookkeeping job. He hired Enrique based on Enrique's father's recommendation, but promptly fired him when he discovered Enrique writing fiction instead of doing his job. He shares the same surname as Jocelyn Wu.

Nasha Burman
She leads Your Character's interview at Quills in London. She has the same character model as the R.A. from The Elementalists, Chapter 1, and the woman from the bonus scene of It Lives in the Woods, Chapter 16.



Bartender
When you take Abbie clubbing in London, he is the bartender at the club. He has the appearance of Carter, one of Party-Girl Sister's love interests in Rules of Engagement.



Heckler
If you decide to try your hand at slam poetry with Alice before your interview at Quills, the heckler disses you and Alice from the audience. By the end, you change his mind and he admits to eating crow. His character model resembles Otis Khouri from Most Wanted, Book 1.



Patron
The patron is the heckler's friend, apologizing for his behavior. Their character model resembles Cameron Levy from High School Story, Book 3.

Tower Raven
When you take your LI (or Zack) on a tour of the Tower of London, you both see then follow one of its ravens. According to legend, if all 6 Tower ravens fly away, the Tower will fall.