The Internationals

**The Internationals** is a group founded by Winter Dewberry when she made friends with some classmates in her theatre class. Since everyone in the group was born in a different country, they agreed to name the group The Internationals. They all know English fluently, which makes group meetings and group chats easier.

## Members

### Sofia Rebane

Hailing from Viljandi, Estonia, Sofia moved to Sharktooth Cove when she was 13, and met Winter on her first day of American school. She joined the Internationals that same day. Sofia is shy but very nice once you get to know her. Sofia gets stagefright, so she would rather work with the tech crew - especially when it comes to art.

Sofia secretly has a huge crush on her classmate and fellow group member Pierre Blanchet. She would commonly dream of her and Pierre raising a family, taking vacations, and spending the rest of their life together. She admits she's a little obsessed with him, but can't get over him, thinking that Pierre is "hot". Sofia has tried multiple times to flirt with him - purposefully sitting next to him, making excuses to see him all the time, and helping him with his homework.

### Pierre Blanchet

Born in Lyon, France, Pierre moved to Sharktooth Cove when he was two years old. Pierre is an extroverted child - quite necessary for theatre. He loves all things theatre, and would love to be the main lead in a play. If he doesn't get a role in a play, he'd happily join the tech crew. He doesn't know of Sofia's huge crush on him, but he does speculate that Sofia thinks *something* of him. Currently, Pierre thinks of Sofia as a friend.

### Lulu Jaziri

Lulu was born in Dubai, UAE, in an extremely rich family. Despite her being the second-richest member of the Internationals (behind Winter), Lulu is humble and doesn't brag about her cash, though she does use it to make jokes about herself. Lulu moved to Sharktooth Cove because of a business opportunity of her father. Lulu is an extroverted techie with an interest in computers, programming, and ethical hacking (trying to find security flaws so she can tell them to companies and get them fixed... though for a profit).

Lulu, coming from a religious family, practices Sunni Islam and wears a hijab. She also prays to her God, in Arabic, multiple times a day. Though most of her friends don't practice the same religion as her, Lulu helps them understand and accept her beliefs. She thinks that people besides those in her religion should be allowed to participate in her religion's traditions if they want to. Lulu has a slight crush on a friend originally from Saudi Arabia, Zafar Othman.

### Iris Franco

Iris was born in Manila, Philippines, and moved to Sharktooth Cove when she was 7 to be closer to family. Technically, Franco is her mom's maiden name. Her real last name is Dela-Cruz, but Iris didn't like the initials of IDC. Like Sofia, Iris is a shy child who is quite nice. Iris' dream is to become a lawyer. Iris is aromantic and asexual, not feeling any romantic attraction at all. Though, she is closeted, since her parents have stated that they want her to marry and have a child.

### Andrew Pacifico

Born in Milan, Italy, Andrew has struggled with his gender identity. Though he currently identifies as male, he identified as female for around eight months. Andrew isn't a member of Winter's theatre class, but was invited to join by Winter in her math class. He has no clue on what he wants to be when he grows up. Andrew is the son of Luna Peterson, a former girlfriend of Ben.

### Bryson Hendrix

Bryson is Winter's boyfriend, born in Greece.

### Winter Dewberry

Winter is the founder of The Internationals, and the only member to be born in America.

### Anastasia Drozdov

Anastasia was permitted into the group soon after she began dating Winter's sister, Autumn.

### Sixten Eriksson

After joining the group, Winter started to get a crush on him, and realized that polyamory might be for her.

### Vlad Ardelean

Vlad is from Romania and is a confident yet easily annoyed individual.

### Sulaf Issawi

She is from West Bank, Palestine, and is Andrew's girlfriend. Sulaf currently lives at Andrew's house after she emancipated herself after her parents tried to shove religion down her throat. Sulaf had recently converted from Islam to Christianity, and her parents threatened to disown her if she didn't change back.

## Trivia

* Of the eight members of The Internationals, 5 are from Europe, 1 is from Asia, 1 is from the Middle East, 1 is from the Pacific Islands and 1 is from America. Winter wishes to add more members from more parts of the globe.
* Winter once discovered Sofia drawing pictures of Pierre in her notebook. She learned that Sofia has a crush on Pierre, but promised to not tell him.
* 4 of the members are LGBTQ - Winter is nonbinary and polyamorous, Anastasia is lesbian, Andrew is bisexual, and Iris is asexual and aromantic (aroace). Winter and Iris are both closeted.