Vanessa Blackwood

Vanessa, a character in the Mother of the Year book, is a member of the PTA and the mother of Augustus and Ajax. She is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Vanessa has long brown hair and blue eyes. She wears emerald earrings, an emerald necklace and a gray blouse.

Personality
In Chapter 2, Thomas describes Vanessa as intense but good deep down; he also calls her unscrupulous when it comes to her career. In Chapters 12 and 13, she is shown to be homophobic as she and most of the PTA want to get Eiko fired because of her sexuality.

Mother of the Year

 * Chapter 1: New Beginnings
 * Chapter 2: Get to Work
 * Chapter 3: Tough Cookie
 * Chapter 4: Out of the Blue (Off-Screen)
 * Chapter 6: Elephant in the Room
 * Chapter 7: Trouble Brewing
 * Chapter 8: Behind the Mask
 * Chapter 9: Empty Nest
 * Chapter 10: Failure to Launch
 * Chapter 11: Trial and Error
 * Chapter 12: When It Rains...
 * Chapter 13: Candles in the Wind (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 14: Face the Music
 * Chapter 15: Trial by Fire
 * Chapter 16: The Aftermath
 * Chapter 17: Liftoff

Your Character
She is hostile towards your character the moment they meet, which involves Vanessa sarcastically asking her to volunteer for the bake sale.

In Chapter 14, you confront her about her having helped Guy and Tallulah set you up. In a premium scene, you also have a chance to tear her down about everything else which will leave her speechless when you leave.

Augustus Blackwood
August is one of her twin sons who constantly bullies your daughter while she turns a blind eye and blames your daughter instead. In a premium scene in Chapter 12, you tell her that August's bullying is "straight out of the Vanessa playbook".

Thomas Mendez
Thomas and Vanessa went to the same college and used to date. However, during the game of Betcha Never in Chapter 8, it is implied that she cheated on him with her college professor, Professor Simms.

Tallulah Copeland
Tallulah Copeland is one of Vanessa's friends and fellow members of the PTA. Vanessa is the unofficial leader of the group, as seen in Chapter 1 where Vanessa shoots down Hugo's ideas and assigns tasks to Tallulah.

Trivia

 * She shares the same forename as Vanessa Kingsley from The Freshman series.
 * In Chapter 2, Thomas mentioned that she is a lawyer.
 * In Chapter 8, it is revealed her surname is Blackwood.
 * In Chapter 12, it is revealed she is the PTA president.
 * In Chapter 17, it is revealed that she was married a couple of times and wasn't rich to begin with until the divorce of one of her husbands that she was able to gain custody of her children and the house.
 * She also mentions smoking cigarettes and smokes during the premium scene.