Denise (Titan Academy)

Denise Taylor is the main female protagonist/overall tritagonist in the Titan Academy series. She is a student of Class T1-T5. 
Denise is widely recognized for being very intelligent in her studies, as she is labelled "the smartest girl" in Class T1-T5. Throughout the series, she can be seen enjoying doing her homework and persistently studying for her exams every chance she gets despite being in a class where most students commonly receive disappointing grades, she is one of the only few students who actually score well on the annual examinations, even going as far as being the top student of the school (though this was caused by her mother threatening to send her to boarding school if she does not achieve full marks).
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Denise is a tall girl with wide black eyes. She has a slim frame and long, loosehair. Currently, her hair is black with bronze-brown highlights and right side bangs that is loose or kept in a loose, low side ponytail. She currently wears the new Titan Academy uniform: a blue blazer and tie with her name tag on it.
=== Personality ===
Denise’s most defining trait is her intelligence, having scored some of the highest marks and being well recognized throughout the Academy because of it. She enjoys receiving as much homework to do as possible and always seems to be early to class a lot (sometimes weirding out her teachers). She is also an obsessive perfectionist, being unable to get any mark lower than 100 and sometimes ripping up her seemingly perfect projects to create newer and better ones. However in hindsight, this is due to her mother’s extreme strictness and family expectations, forcing Denise to achieve top marks under the threat of being sent to boarding school if she does not.
A ‘mini-arc’ in the series that reflected this is Denise during her drunk persona. After drinking a small amount of alcohol during JianHao’s party in Season 2, Denise suddenly became rebellious and ‘crazy’. And this didn’t last for the duration of the party, it lasted all the way up until the photo episode. During her drunk ‘arc’, she would unleash her inner rebel and ‘non-studious’ personality by standing up to Madam Soot Beng when she declared more homework, leading her to be kicked out of the class and threatened with expulsion if Denise were to continue. JianHao realizing this later decides to talk some sense into Denise, turning her back into the studious girl she normally is.
Due to her being a ‘nerdy’ student, she was originally very reclusive and anti-social (though not to the extent of Cleverly), with the two closest to her being JianHao and Vincent. Other students would only see her as a tool for them to pass their exams. Denise and JianHao were best friends at first and would later develop into romance in the island episode in Season 5 up to Season 6. But due to her mother wanting Denise to only focus on her studies and finding her friends as ‘distractions’. This is one of the reasons why Denise later broke up with JianHao in Season 7, the other due to having trust issues with him about the school heist.
Another defining trait of Denise is her kind-heartedness. Most of the time, she doesn’t seem to care about the fact that most of Class T1-T5 use her only for their grades, and is even willing to helping them and later even became one of the leaders of a group known as the Study Buddies (alongside JianHao) in Season 7. An example of her caring for her friends is during the fire episode, when Teverly tries to have her friends expelled by recording evidence of Hao and Vince being responsible for the school fire (even Terry was the one who actually started it). She confronts him and prevents their expulsions by threatening to expose Teverly for looting during the fire. Even better, one of the final kind acts Denise would do before her an JianHao's break up was stand up to him when the Organisation was about to shave his head and expel him. Knowing that her intelligence would save both her and JianHao, the Organisation spared them both and this ultimately showed that Denise is truly a pure-of-heart person. 
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