Gabbie Navarro

Gabbie Navarro, a character from the Murder at Homecoming book, was the most popular girl in school whose murder you're investigating. She is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance

Gabbie had brown eyes, tanned skin, and long wavy brown hair. At the time of her death, she wore a silver long dress, with a silver necklace and a silver bracelet.

Personality

Gabbie had the reputation of being a straight-A student, and a perfect "goody-goody". You note her perfect penmanship and her eye for details in her essays. You believe she cared about people whether they were her friends or not. According to her brother, she was compassionate, dedicated, and everybody's best friend. You add that she made people feel special.

As you dig into her past, you discover that there was another side of her that was secretive. She blackmailed Tyler and used her influence to help him avoid being expelled by making April, the victim of a failed initiation, an untrustworthy source in his trial. You have the option to call her manipulative to which Tyler agrees.

According to Joanna, Gabbie said she was tired of being the perfectionist overachiever that everyone expected of her, and wanted to be free to be whoever she wanted to be.

It is also shown that she was an advocate for cancer research, anti-bullying and LGBTQ rights.^[1]

Chapters

Murder at Homecoming

Chapter 1: Blood in the Water
Chapter 2: Keep Your Enemies Close (Ghost)
Chapter 3: Not Alone (Mentioned)
Chapter 4: You've Changed (Mentioned)
Chapter 5: Bad Boys (Mentioned)
Chapter 6: Behind Closed Doors (Mentioned)
Chapter 7: Party Crasher (Mentioned)
Chapter 8: I Don't Want to Believe (Mentioned)
Chapter 9: Case Closed? (Mentioned)
Chapter 10: Prisoner's Dilemma (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
Chapter 11: Run, Rabbit, Run (Mentioned)
Chapter 12: To Tug at Tangled Threads (Mentioned)
Chapter 13: Pick Your Poisoner (Mentioned)
Chapter 14: Dance with Death (Mentioned)
Chapter 15: Prey For Me
Chapter 16: Surviving High School (Mentioned)

Relationships

Donovan Navarro

Gabbie is Donovan's twin sister. When you see him at the Homecoming Dance, he tells you that Gabbie guilt-tripped him into taking pictures for the yearbook. Donovan was upset about his sister's death when you see him at her funeral. In Chapter 3, you learn that he loved his sister very much and considered her his best friend. Donovan says he would do anything for her, and when you discover various clues that don't portray Gabbie in the best light, he usually defends her.

In Chapter 5, he can open up to you over your shared experience of having lost a sister. He tells you he keeps thinking about their last conversations and wonders what would have happened if he had stayed at Homecoming. When you tell him about her fake relationship with Tyler and her illegal activity with Stevie, Donovan says it doesn't sound like anything the Gabbie he knew would do and he becomes determined to solve her murder. In a premium scene later in the chapter, he and his band perform a song in her honor and it's revealed that Gabbie used to regularly attend their gigs.

If you romance him, you learn more about their complex twin relationship. While they wanted to do things together, they also didn't want to compete with each other. So when it came to such decisions, they divided activities among them. He went for music and she for everything else. While he didn't want to be involved with some of her activities, he saw how she gained many more friends because of them. He occasionally feels guilty for having fun, for example at the Harvest Festival, when she is dead or for wondering if you may have ended up in a relationship with her instead of with him. You can tell him that it's normal during grief to have conflicted feelings and even to sometimes be mad at her.

During your confrontation with April, when she asks if anyone actually liked Gabbie, you can bring up Donovan. If you do, April will say that he cared more about Gabbie than she cared about him.

Your Character

She hired you to investigate the votes for homecoming court, to make sure it doesn't get rigged to Tyler's disadvantage. You can have her confide in you when you see her at the dance, where she looks upset. This makes you two become friends and you wish you could have known her more.

Later, when Gabbie is announced Homecoming Queen, she is found missing and you go searching for her, only to find her floating in the school pool. You attempt to save her but she's already dead. As you are found with her body, you end up being questioned by the police. You are haunted by Gabbie's murder and when the police announce they closed the case, believing her death to be an accident, you become determined to find out who killed her. At Winter Formal, when Claudia is announced Snowflake Queen at Winter Formal but is found missing, you are thrown back to the exact same situation from Homecoming and become paralyzed. Your friends need a few moments to get through to you.

Tyler Woods

Tyler was Gabbie's boyfriend at the time of her death. In Chapter 1, if you spare a few minutes to talk to her before counting the ballots, she tells you that Tyler is also her best friend. However, in Chapter 2, if Claudia Rhodes trusts you enough, she tells you the two of them were having problems as Tyler believed Gabbie was cheating on him. They pretended to be okay during Homecoming. In Chapter 3, it's revealed that Tyler was only pretending to be her boyfriend, and was fed up that she would dodge his questions if he wondered something was wrong. He has assumed she would eventually tell him what she was hiding and was worried it may have been something illegal. They were in a fake relationship for over five months and she initially intended to keep the act up until graduation and promised him to then tell him the truth. When he asked what they should do should he want to date someone else before that, she answered he could date someone but would have to keep it secret. He eventually asked her if she was dating you and said that it would be fine if that was her secret. She initially lashed out at him for asking so many questions but later apologized for having taken him as granted. They regularly teased each other by saying they were not each other's types which was a translation for them loving each other, but only platonically.

Gabbie was deeply involved in having Tyler escape being expelled from the school due to a Freshman initiation prank on April Morris gone wrong. She deleted evidence from the servers and helped make April an untrustworthy source in his trial. Gabbie also hired you to prevent a ballot fraud to his disadvantage.

Joshua Lewis

Mr. Lewis was her chemistry teacher before her death. When you find out he was the one who bought the custom-made necklace she owned, you start to suspect that they were having an affair and search for further evidence. When you find a letter from Gabbie to him in his desk in which she thanks him for the necklace and mentions her plans to elope, you read it as a love letter to him. You hand the letter over to the principal to have him investigated more thoroughly and the police arrest him. When he convinces you of his innocence but cannot tell you the while truth because of having promised not to, you investigate again to find proof of who killed her. You then finally figure out the code to open her diary and find out that she was in a relationship with Joanna Morgan. Joanna reveals to you that the letter was not about Gabbie and Mr. Lewis but about her and Joanna. Joanna and Gabbie got engaged and she wanted Gabbie to have a necklace but couldn't have gotten it without her parents noticing it. When she asked Mr. Lewis for help, he figured out what was going on and then became a confidant for Gabbie and Joanna. He was helping them with their plans to elope to New York, arranging for them to live with his cousin until they could afford a place of their own. However, this made him look guilty when Gabbie was murdered. During his trial, Joanna proves his innocence and he is acquitted and later reinstated as teacher at Beachwood High.

Joanna Morgan

Joanna and Gabbie were secretly engaged as revealed in Chapter 10. They first fell in love while working as partners on an English class project discussing Wuthering Heights. They bonded over the book and Gabbie drew Joanna out of her shell by openly talking about being unsure of her own sexuality. Joanna asked if they could hang out together some time and Gabbie replied that she'd like that. On their third friend date, Gabbie told Joanna that she found her wonderful and that she enjoyed being able to just be herself when she was with Joanna. This was when Joanna first told Gabbie about how deeply her conversion therapy affected her being able to love Gabbie. Gabbie suggested they could kiss as a test and could then pretend it never happened if Joanna didn't like it, but Joanna did like it.

After months of being together, Joanna decided to end their relationship because she was scared, knowing that her parents would eventually find out about them and send her to therapy again if they kept going. Joanna told her that she would run away to New York City after her eighteenth birthday to find a place where she belong. Gabbie convinced her that they could be together if they eloped and that they could be whoever they wanted to be. Gabbie then proposed to Joanna with a Tiffany charm, and Joanna accepted. The plan was to leave on prom night, to use fake IDs to change their last names, and stay with Mr. Lewis's cousin for a few months until they could afford their own place. In the meantime, to avoid suspicion, they both found fake boyfriends.

The last time Joanna talked to Gabbie was the actual Homecoming game when they announced the court nominees and it's up to the player to determine what her last words to Gabbie were.

April Morris

April hated Gabbie for sending Brett to juvie and essentially “ruining” her life. She is revealed to be Gabbie’s killer. April initially only wanted to humiliate her, not kill her. April made sure that Gabbie would win Homecoming Queen by messing with the votes. She knew you would be so concentrated on sorting out fake names that you wouldn't notice some extra Gabbie votes. April then left Gabbie a note with a razor blade to lure her to the pool. When Gabbie fell into the water, unable to save herself because of the drug April injected her, April watched her drown, feeling relieved of a burden. It is unknown if April was aware that Gabbie had also tampered with Tyler's trial in which April was the victim but made an unreliable source by Gabbie's actions.

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Trivia

Her character model resembles Esme Ortega from the Open Heart series and Stephanie Dupont from The Princess Swap.
She shares the same forename as Gabriela Vasquez from The Freshman series and female Gabe Adalhard, from the Immortal Desires series.
Her brother and she share the same surname as Rosanna Navarro from The Royal Romance, Book 2, Julia/Julian Navarro from Slow Burn, and Gemma Navarro from Guarded.
- In Chapter 6, it is revealed they are Hispanic, as she celebrated her quinceañera when she turned fifteen.
In Chapter 3, it is revealed that she was CPR certified and had a fake I.D.
- She set the record for junior girls' backstroke.
In Chapter 4, it is revealed that she and Stevie Sun were creating and selling fake I.D.s, making her guilty of forgery.
Her crimes include blackmail, forgery, and destroying evidence.
In Chapter 6, it is revealed that she had photos of Claudia posing in lingerie on her computer, along with articles regarding the dangers of underage Sexting.
In Chapter 10, the principal mentions Gabbie was president of the SCA and the NHS. In high school, SCA usually refers to Student Council Association, and NHS refers to National Honor Society.
- In the same chapter, Gabbie initially calls herself bisexual, but then proceeds to say that the term doesn't quite feel right so she prefers to not use a label and to say "I don't know" instead which feels more comfortable for her.

References

↑ Murder at Homecoming, Chapter 10

[1] Murder at Homecoming, Chapter 10

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