Rooney Bach

**SPOILER WARNING: Plot details for *Loveless* follow. *Caution is advised!***

**Rooney Bach** is one of the main characters in ***Loveless***. She is roommate friends with Georgia Warr, and is the girlfriend of Pip Quintana.

## Personality

Rooney is very extroverted and outgoing. She absolutely loves Shakespeare and is determined to set up the Shakespeare society at Durham. Rooney is a talented and hardworking actress. She has a lot of surface-level friendships and is scared to truly open up to others, due to past trauma. Despite her difficulties, Rooney is optimistic, naturally charming, and playful. She commits whole-heartedly to the things and the people she's passionate about.

## Relationships

**Georgia Warr**

Georgia is Rooney's friend and roommate, and are quick to become good friends. Rooney tries to help Georgia with her "can’t fall in love" problem. She unsuccessfully tries to set Rooney up with a man at freshers week and multiple times after that. Rooney also suggests Georgia dates Jason. Despite Rooney's party girl attitude and surface level relationships, she makes a deep personal connection with Georgia. Their friendship is really important to Rooney’s character development throughout the novel. Even though they are social opposites, Rooney and Georgia have an unbreakable friendship.

**Pip Quintana**

Pip and Rooney are girlfriends and co-directors of the Shakespeare society. The two co-directors banter a lot and at first seem to extremely dislike each other. While Pip seems to have a fear that Rooney will replace her as Georgia's best friend, she develops a massive crush on Rooney. Their relationship is very enemies-to-lovers-esque and they playfully argue throughout the novel, genuinely believing that their love is unrequited. Both Rooney and Pip are scared of true commitment after past failed romances and grow to navigate their fears together.

**Jason Farley-Shaw**

Jason is part of Rooney’s Shakespeare society and actually the first one to join in, mostly to support Georgia. There is not much interaction between Rooney and Jason, but they are good friends.

**Beth**

Rooney has one photograph in her college dorm, it’s a picture of thirteen year old Rooney and a friend with dark red Ariel mermaid hair, Beth. We don’t know a lot about Beth, but one night when Rooney just got home drunk and is sleeping. Her phone gets a call from someone, its mermaid hair Beth. Georgia takes the phone, and Beth says she and Rooney haven’t talked in 5 years. Rooney later on tells Georgia how Beth was her closest friend before moving schools. Beth symbolizes the personal closeness that not many people seem to get with Rooney and her life before she was with her ex-boyfriend.

**Sunil Jha**

Sunil is Georgia and Rooney’s college parent. We don’t get a lot of Rooney and Sunil interacting with each other. Sunil teaches Rooney and the other freshmen about college marriage and more things about college. However, Sunil is overall very supportive as a person and will always be there to support Rooney if she needs it.

**Roderick**

Rooney has a houseplant named Roderick. She waters him everyday however as the book gets more complex, Rooney keeps forgetting more often to water Roderick.

## Trivia

* Her MBTI type is ENTJ/The Commander.
* Her Hogwarts house is Slytherin.

## References

1. ↑ Loveless 2020 Q&A
2. ↑ Loveless 2020 Q&A