Golden Gays

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## Group Info

### Members

Evie
Mya
Winter
Amira
Daniela

## Media Info

### Founded In

*Warbringer*

"*They were the Golden Gays - and perhaps they were the best group of young girls in Pineshadow's history.*"
—Narrator on the girls, *Warbringer*

The **Golden Gays** are a group led by Evie in *The Adventures of Evie and Mya*. They were founded in the series finale, *Warbringer*, to honor the bond between the five girls.

## History

### Season 1

Evie Ly, along with her best friend, Mya Heartley, are two average middle schoolers living in Pineshadow, a small town located in Washington. On a trip to Pinelake Park one day, they encounter Winterlyn "Winter" McCormick, a young girl just like them with deep trust issues and insecurity stemming from a traumatic past, ridiculed by their school with the name of "Snowblind" and forced to lie to protect herself and her past. Together, they befriend her and slowly get to know her better, though this doesn't stop Winter from hiding a startling secret from them. At the same time, Evie and Mya face challenges from dark-minded and sadistic school bully Daniela Burton Vunquist, who constantly seeks to disrupt them only to pleasure herself and is vicious toward their new friend. Eventually, Winter is unable to keep her secret and reveals that her mysterious ex-girlfriend is none other than Daniela; Daniela soon becomes bent on killing Winter in order to get revenge on her for ruining their relationship. After an accidental kiss she shared with Evie, Mya comes out as bisexual and struggles to tell her, fearing she'll be rejected, but she happily accepts her for who she is - unaware that Mya has a huge crush on her. Daniela's plots to eliminate Winter become more extreme, and she kidnaps her one night, intending to kill her, Evie, and Mya. However, Mya saves Winter's life, and the two start to see each other as sister figures.

When a school party is announced, Winter is excited to finally do something fun, now more extroverted than ever, while Daniela sees it as a divine opportunity to kill Winter once and for all. Despite Evie and Mya's objections, Winter refuses to avoid going. Before the party, Evie finally recognizes her feelings for Mya and reciprocates her affection. During the party, Daniela ambushes Winter, reveals her secrets, and undoes her lies to the crowd, stabbing her in the shoulder upon gaining her pocket knife. Daniela, triumphant, believes she has won, but Evie intervenes and gets in an altercation with her. Mya rescues Winter and convinces her to stop running away from her past, but instead to face it and defeat Daniela permamently. With her strength restored, she stops Daniela from murdering Evie and uses what she has now learned to send her ex-girlfriend flying into a wall. Daniela tries to get back at the girls, only to be arrested and taken to prison. Winter is adopted by Mya's family, becoming her adopted sister. Evie and Mya also confess their feelings for each other and start their relationship, sharing their first kiss.

Following this season, Winter becomes a main character in the series.

### Season 2

Evie, Mya, and Winter return to school following break and meet their new principal, Shetani. While promising a bright school environment that was previously given by Rex, Shetani instead turns out to be a complacent, loveless, manipulative, and power-hungry devil, outlawing same-sex relationships and briefly instating absurd rules in order to make the school obey her above everything else. These rules are soon reversed following an outcry from Evie, Mya, and Winter. In this time, Winter also meets Evie and Mya's friend, Amira Fleckenshire, and grows increasingly close to her. Unbeknownst to the girls, Amira has been neglected by her parents and left in the care of her aunt, revealed to be Shetani. The principal heavily despises her niece and treats her like a dog and slave, dehumanizing her, abusing her daily, and giving her marks and bruises that the girls, especially Winter, grow suspicious of. Amira is forced to hide the truth against her will by Shetani, who soon begins to punish her for hanging out with her friends too often. One day, Mya and Winter notice her running home in tears and find out about her abusive situtation, which only makes Winter's growing feelings for her deepen, and she vows to always be by Amira's side. Amira is touched by the action, brimming with a joyful feeling.

Winter is quick to develop a crush on Amira afterward. On a foggy night, the latter is unable to sleep and sneaks out, heading to Pinelake Park, where she unexpectedly encounters Winter. She realizes that she is in love with her, and upon hearing that Winter wants to stay with her, Amira kisses her. That night, the two's romance blossoms greatly, and they end up falling asleep together. After that day, they sneak out at midnight to see each other, displeasing Shetani - and she aims to have Amira disposed of for her new rebellious nature. Besides her goal to kill her niece, Shetani also aims to have Evie, Mya, and Winter murdered as well. She has a mysterious acquaintance kidnap Mya and hold her prisoner in Winter's old cabin, luring Evie and Winter there. Evie, too desperate to rescue her girlfriend, rushes in blindly, getting herself and Winter captured. The man in question forces her to play Russian roulette to save Mya and Winter, and reluctantly, she goes along with it despite being terrified for her life. By the third round, she realizes that she is going to actually die and accepts her fate for the greater good. However, the bullet misses her head and she survives, relieving Mya and Winter. Around this time, Mya also helps Evie deal with her tiger parent mother, Opal, who frequently criticizes her actions and holds her daughter to high standards.

Shetani soon cooks up another scheme and has another acquaintance hired to kill Amira while she is out with Winter. His attack is nearly successful, but Winter counterattacks him with her pocket knife, forcing him to retreat. At sunrise, she convinces Amira to finally leave Shetani for her own safety, not wanting to lose another girlfriend like she did with Daniela. The two stop seeing each other at midnight following the attack and Amira temporarily stays with Evie's family while the girls work out a way to remove Shetani from her position of power. Evie is quick to devise a plan to gather information on Shetani within the office at school, and the girls get in by publicly expressing their queerness, irritating Shetani, who threatens to punish them before leaving school for a while. With the help of Vice Principal Bluelund, Evie, Mya, and Winter sift through Shetani's personal information and notes, discovering her disdain of children and the extent of how vile her relationship with Amira is. They also find out that Shetani is plotting to kill them. Before they can escape the office unscathed, Shetani stumbles upon them nosing through her records and expels the girls, along with Bluelund, which horrifies Evie. Fearing that her mother is going to reject her for this, she runs to Mya's house and stays there. However, Mya and Winter reassure her that she's a great leader and that her mother won't turn her away, which raises her spirits again.

A day later, the three girls sneak to Shetani's house to gain a confession that she tried to murder Amira. She is swift to discover them and locks them in her dungeon, keen on torturing them. When she tries to whip Winter, the young girl loses her temper and violently breaks her restraints, pinning Shetani and forcing her to confess the truth, which she and Evie record. Despite Shetani destroying Winter's phone, the girls manage to escape her and discover Amira's personal notes and the song she wrote about her life. After escaping, they rally their close allies, along with Amira, and interrupt a demonstration by Shetani in the school cafeteria. Evie, Mya, and Winter expose her as a despotic fraud to the school; Shetani is also shocked by the sight of Amira being alive. Furious, she kidnaps her and Winter and takes them to the Pineshadow Bridge, threatening to drop them to their deaths. A fight breaks out between the four girls, which ends in Amira sacrificing herself to save Winter's life - sending herself flying over a cliff with Shetani. Mortified, Winter runs down the cliff to find Shetani dead with Amira's lifeless body on top of her, believing that she is dead, and she is left in hysterics. However, Amira is revealed to have survived the fall, albeit with a few injuries, much to the relief of the girls. After turning away her parents and accepting her grandmother, Amira finally lives the life she wants, her friends and girlfriend by her side. Evie's relationship with her mother also improves for the better.

After this season, Amira and Daniela would join the main cast despite Daniela not formally appearing in Season 2.

### Season 3

The girls relax and enjoy their summer break, now joined by Daniela, who is working on redeeming herself following the events of *Two-Sided*. Mya accidentally stumbles upon a photo with her parents and two mysterious figures, revealed to be her paternal grandparents, Harlow and Ivanna Parker. Her parents, shocked, are too fearful to tell her of Harlow and Ivanna's greedy, destructive past, allowing her to go on a mission to find out more about them. With Evie's help, she discovers that they received a large sum of money following the deaths of Elloise and Luca, her maternal grandparents. Despite her efforts, she is unable to find out which wealthy family in Pineshadow received the money, unaware that she hasn't ended a call with one - the Parkers. One day later, Mya is walking to the park with Evie when she suddenly runs into Harlow and Ivanna, who reveal themselves to be her grandparents - also revealing that they got the large sum of riches. Immediately, Mya becomes enamored by the Parkers, but Evie is suspicious, believing that something insidious is brewing. When she sees that Mya is acting brainwashed, she warns the other girls of what she has learned, but they don't share her concerns. However, after Mya begins to stray away from home, Winter visits her at the Parkers' mansion and discovers that Harlow and Ivanna are causing her to act monotone - and making her want to stay with them.

After getting into an argument with Winter, Mya apologizes and promises to split her time evenly between her parents and grandparents, but this does not stop her from falling victim to Harlow and Ivanna's grandeur. Evie opens up to her about not liking the Parkers, which unintentionally causes Mya to start holding a grudge against her girlfriend and to begin straying away from home even further. The girls attempt to reason with her and admit their concerns and suspicions, only adding more salt to the wound, as Mya angrily lashes out at them and even slams Daniela into the ground. Harlow also grows a predatory attraction to Daniela, making her extremely uncomfortable around him. In order to get to know the girls better and to ease tensions, Harlow, Ivanna, and Mya invite them all to a dinner party. However, things quickly turn into a disaster when incidents begin to plague the girls, such as Harlow trying to touch Daniela and Amira choking on a meatball (when she specified that she didn't want meatballs). Once dinner is over, Mya forces Evie to dance with her, deeply upsetting her and startling Mya. Daniela goes upstairs to wash her face, only to be ambushed by Harlow, where he reveals that he desires a forbidden relationship between them. He touches Daniela inappropriately, and spurred by trauma, she scratches out his left eye in self-defense and tearfully confesses what happened to Evie, Winter, and Amira.

Horrified, Evie and Amira attempt to warn Mya, but she believes that they're lying and that Daniela is still a villain, firmly siding with a blinded Harlow. This drives her and the girls further apart and puts a wedge in her relationship with Evie. Despite her fury, she retains her feelings for her and longs to see her again. After having a terrifying nightmare, she and Evie agree to meet alone outside her house, but upon noticing that Winter, Amira, and Daniela are there as well, Mya is enraged that she was lied to. She admonishes Daniela and demonizes her, nearly spurring her into having a panic attack, then berates Evie for lying. She declares that she no longer loves her, and warning her to stay out of her way, Mya unofficially breaks up with her to pursue her grandparents' ideas of power and riches. Evie, crushed, falls into a deep depression and refuses to do anything other than lay in bed for two weeks. However, Amira persuades her to have hope and to not give up on getting Mya back, revealing how much she truly means to her. Her leadership qualities restored, Evie thanks her and rallies the girls, planning on a two-sided diversion to get Mya back. At Hollowleaf Mansion, she and Winter speak to Mya directly while Amira and Daniela search for evidence upstairs to prove the Parkers are criminals. Evie and Winter discover that Mya is acting like a spoiled queen, shocking them, even more so when Mya disowns them repeatedly and even tries to sway Evie into joining her with tempting promises. Ultimately, however, she rejects her advances, angering her girlfriend.

In the secret room, Amira and Daniela discover a diary that reveals how greedy and power-hungry Harlow and Ivanna are, but after accidentally creating enough noise, Ivanna finds them and torments the two for illegally trespassing, even forcing Amira to relive her trauma from her time with Shetani. She drags the two girls down to the game room and exposes Evie's plan to Mya, who is livid and slams Evie into the floor, harshly reprimanding her for being dishonest and scheming to ruin her family's reputation. The girls are then exiled from Hollowleaf Mansion. Upon learning of the new Mya, her parents are terrified and inform the girls of what they know about Harlow and Ivanna. Winter, after previously despising her parents for not doing enough to save Mya, starts to slowly make amends with them. Meanwhile, Mya engages in a raid of Old Town Pineshadow that ends in a violent bloodbath. Later that night, with some encouragement from Ivanna, she steals the money belonging to her parents and brutally scars Winter on the side of her head when she threatens to attack her. A few days later, the Heartleys mysteriously disappear, and while Evie and Amira help search for evidence pertaining to their disappearance, Daniela resolves to risk going to Hollowleaf Mansion alone to speak with Mya. She manages to break through to her and inform her of her missing mother and father, and while Mya is stunned, she then betrays Daniela to her grandparents and has her held hostage, deeming her a threat to her plans.

A day afterward, Harlow and Ivanna pressure Mya into killing Evie, promising to kill her themselves if she doesn't do it by midnight tomorrow, leaving her conflicted on where her loyalties lay. Concurrently, Evie, Winter, and Amira worry for Daniela, more so when Rex reveals that she's missing. Amira and Winter, despite the amount of risks, both plan to return to Hollowleaf Mansion to rescue their friend. Evie, reading a letter she has received from her mother, finds out that Mya genuinely wants to see her and agrees to meet in Hollowleaf Forest, even though Opal suspects that she's being lured into a trap. While checking on Daniela in the prison room, Mya learns from her that she is being abused by Harlow, refusing to believe that it's true until she sees the marks on her neck, making her sick. Before she can leave, Daniela stops her and reveals that she knows about the ultimatum and the fact that she's concealing her affection for Evie, which pushes Mya to her breaking point and leaves her troubled throughout the night. However, she finally decides to kill Evie for the greater good of the family. The next day, Winter and Amira head to Hollowleaf Mansion and locate Daniela, but they are captured by Ivanna, tormented, and forced into imprisonment. Evie meets with Mya that night, and while all goes well at first, Mya brandishes Harlow's dagger and ambushes her girlfriend, preparing to take her life.

In the final seconds before her death, however, Evie confesses that she still loves her and always has, having never seen the evil side of her, stopping Mya in her tracks. Rattled, and with guilt flooding her body, Mya realizes that she has gone too far and can't kill the person she loves the most, throwing the dagger aside in tears. Disgusted by her betrayal, Harlow backstabs her, figuratively and literally, with the dagger. Mya, weakened, proves to be no match for her grandparents and is taken back to Hollowleaf Mansion along with Evie, who is knocked out minutes later. When she awakens, she cannot find a way to escape the wine cellar, but luckily for her, Daniela arrives, having escaped from her own prison via seducing Harlow. The two then search the mansion and rescue Winter, Amira, and Mya, but Harlow and Ivanna catch them, bent on killing the five girls. Nonetheless, Daniela distracts the Parkers, allowing them to escape. While on the run, Mya accidentally gets left behind and is captured by her grandparents, who proceed to emotionally torment her and reveal that they killed her maternal grandparents - and were merely using her as a means to gain riches and power. Harlow forces Mya to run away, which causes Evie to declare war, and she leads the girls into battle. Midway through, she sends Daniela away to find Mya. Once she discovers her and persuades her that she is more than her mistakes, Mya returns, and with the help of her friend, defeats the Parkers.

Despite being knocked out, Harlow and Ivanna do not give up, and Harlow points a gun at Mya and Evie, planning to kill them both. Evie, reliving the day she played Russian roulette to save her girlfriend's life, pulls her back in an effort to save her. Shocked, Mya accidentally fires a gun she is holding in her hand, killing Harlow and leaving Ivanna irate and distraught. The Parker tries to avenge her husband by shooting her, Winter, Amira, and Daniela, but Daniela snatches her gun and belittles her before striking her with it, causing her to impact a rock, which instantly kills her. Mya polishes things over with the other girls and reaffirms her relationship with Evie, passionately kissing and feeling her again for the first time in weeks. The girls begin to walk over to Rex's car so they can get home, but on the way there, Mya passes out from her wounds and exhaustion. One week later, she wakes up in the Burton Vunquist house, where Rex reveals that she had the other girls treated for their injuries and paid their medical bills - now, they're here for the time being. Daniela shows Mya her bedroom, and soon, they are joined by Winter, Amira, and Evie. Mya declares that they're more than just friends, but a family, and she names them the Golden Gays, with each gaining titular roles designated to them by Evie. The next morning, Mya and Winter forgive their parents and the girls return home. A week after, Evie and Mya visit the Pond of Ori in Hollowleaf Forest.

### Side-Series

#### *Winter's Tales*

Much of Winter's past is revealed, including how she first met Daniela and became her girlfriend, in addition to the events leading up to Daniela's betrayal and Winter having her life ruined. It is also shown how Winter felt about Evie and Mya when she first met them.

#### *Two-Sided*

In a similar fashion to *Winter's Tales*, *Two-Sided* explores Daniela's dark backstory and how she threw away her relationship with Winter. Daniela's relationship with her rival, Evie, and bullying target, Mya, is also explored. By the end, she makes amends with the girls and Amira, resolving to become a better person and finally living a life not plagued by trauma or dark familiarity.

### Specials

#### *Daniela Wrecks Christmas*

Mya tells Winter of a story from a few months ago - a wild adventure she and Evie had over the holidays. Daniela aims to ruin the Christmas holiday for Evie and Mya after they humiliate her on school grounds. She gains the help of troubled teenager Amira, but after learning that she is being used to further Daniela's own machinations, she disowns her. This causes her to be left to die in the snow, but she is rescued by Evie and Mya. By daybreak, the three show up Daniela and get back at her. Although she tries to escape, Daniela is captured by the Heartley parents and forced to sing carols as a punishment at the mall. Evie and Mya also help Amira get on more level ground with her parents.

#### *Rise of a She-Devil*

Amira meets her aunt, Shetani, after being left home alone by her parents. While she believes she has gained a family member that actually loves her, she soon finds out that her aunt is a violent, abusive, and manipulative she-devil who turns her into a slave, branding her with a collar to define her role. Evie and Mya are mentioned and do not appear in the special.

#### *The Guardian of Angels*

Mya, Winter, Amira, and Daniela tell each other spooky stories for Halloween, but their fun night is derailed when a creepy hooded figure causes Mya's story to come to life, kidnapping her and leading the other girls on a haunting chase. After accidentally making Mya believe that she is going to get fondled, however, the stranger is mortified by their actions and tries to run away, only to get captured by Amira and Daniela. When Mya unmasks the figure, it is revealed to be Evie, who had just wanted to make the night special for her girlfriend. The others, no longer mad, express how fond they are of Evie and crown her the "Guardian of Angels."

### Movie

#### *Little Miss Perfect*

Evie's life is put in the spotlight as she struggles to bear the burden of her mother's tiger parenting. Along the way, she meets her best friend and later girlfriend, Mya, who supports her and speaks up for her, even if she is sometimes in the wrong. Although the two sometimes have their disagreements and arguments, they make up and learn from their mistakes, enabling their relationship to grow even more. While she doesn't appear much in the movie, Winter plays a supporting role and is shown to be close to Evie, enlisting her help in finding the mysterious person who stocks up her cabin with items she needs to survive. When Amira stays with the Lys following Shetani's attempt to have her killed, she becomes a sister figure to Evie, who in turn bonds with her over parental issues and their unique heritage. After being expelled from school, Evie fears telling her mother what happened, but Amira sticks by her side and even confronts Opal herself, which helps her see that tiger parenting Evie caused a lot of damage within her family. Daniela also appears as an antagonist and Evie's rival, though she is defeated after the party brawl by Winter and taken to prison.

## Members

### Evie

**Evie Ophelia Ly** is fourteen and is a student attending Pineshadow Middle School with her friend-for-life, Mya. She is Vietnamese-American, and at times, speaks Vietnamese. She is extremely talented in all her classes, in part due to her mother's overbearing tiger parenting. While unaware that Mya likes her at first, Evie eventually falls for her and becomes her girlfriend by the end of *Winter Storm Arising*. Despite being smart and strong-willed, Evie sometimes falters in her judgment and struggles to overcome the weight of her mother's cruel tiger parenting. However, her mother later apologizes after seeing the damage she has caused, causing Evie to finally live the life she's always wanted. In Season 3, Evie and Mya's relationship withers as the two become enemies due to Harlow and Ivanna's toxic influence on Mya. After Mya brutally parts ways with her, Evie is left in the dark, depressed and unmotivated to do anything until she is persuaded otherwise by Amira. Evie never quits loving Mya and works hard to get her back, eventually breaking through to her girlfriend after she is nearly killed by her. The two reunite after the deaths of the Parkers, their relationship mended and stronger than ever.

She is the sworn leader and most intelligent out of the five girls.

Evie's theme song is *Little Miss Perfect* by Write Out Loud and Taylor Louderman. Her secondary themes are *Normal Girl* by SZA and *Perfect 10* by Unknown Brain.

### Mya

**Mya Elise Heartley** is fourteen, and like Evie, attends her middle school and is her close friend. At times sensitive, Mya also displays pure bravery and wit and has a strong sense of humor. After an accidental kiss made her fall for Evie, she briefly struggled to accept herself as a bisexual person, but with the help of her family and Evie, she grew comfortable in her own skin. Mya is the one to convince Winter to fight Daniela, and later, she and Evie become girlfriends. Despite her sensitivity, Mya boldly confronts Shetani in Season 2 and helps to rescue Amira from her aunt. In Season 3, Mya becomes spellbound when she discovers her long-gone grandparents, Harlow and Ivanna. Despite the obvious danger and warnings from her family and friends, Mya stays loyal to the Parkers and ultimately ends up betraying everybody for them, turning into a villain and ditching Evie for power and control. Although her brutality, ruthless, and murderous nature paint a vicious new side of her, Mya still has lingering affection for Evie and struggles to hide it even after she is given her ultimatum to kill her.

However, she puts this aside and ambushes Evie when she least expects it, preparing to kill her completely; Evie then turns the tables on Mya and reveals that she loves her. The revelation shatters Mya, and realizing that she has gone too far, betrays Harlow and Ivanna. Harlow, infuriated, stabs her in the back and has Ivanna drag her back to Hollowleaf Mansion, supposedly to leave her to die. Evie rescues her, but after running away with the rest of the girls, Mya gets captured by her grandparents and is verbally abused and tortured by them. Harlow forces her to run away, her soul broken and lost. While Mya believes she's a criminal and a traitor that deserves to die, with the unexpected help of Daniela, she comes to realize that she can't abandon the girls and ultimately saves them in a violent battle that leads to her inadvertently killing Harlow. She reunites with Evie, rekindling their relationship, and gains a new shirt after her old one was destroyed in the battle. Mya is currently working to restore her relations with Pineshadow as a city.

She is the most humorous of the five girls.

Mya's main theme is *Pressure* by Draper. Her secondary themes are *She* by Dodie and *Try* by P!nk.

### Winter

**Winterlyn "Winter" Falin McCormick** is a thirteen-year old who meets Evie and Mya while they are at the park. At first wary of them, they help her let her walls down, and she becomes their best friend. She is insecure about her identity and public image, worried that people will invalidate her. She is the former girlfriend of Daniela, who forced her to come out too early to her homophobic father, leading to her being brutally attacked. Winter then ran away from home and has since lived her life alone in a cabin. Winter finds herself in a fight against Daniela's increasing desires to kill her, but thanks to Evie and Mya, she gets the strength she needs and defeats Daniela once and for all. She then becomes the adopted daughter of the Heartley family and Mya's sister. In Season 2, Winter grows a deep hatred of Shetani for invalidating her and becomes Amira's best friend. She and Amira soon fall in love, start dating, and stop Shetani for good.

In the third season, Harlow and Ivanna's uprising strains Winter's relationship with Mya; Winter also develops a deep animosity for her parents because of their efforts to cover up the Parkers, endangering her sister in the process. However, upon realizing that they came from a place of insecurity like she did, she slowly builds her relationship with her parents back up. Despite being heartbroken by Mya's betrayal at first, Winter stops at nothing to get her back, although she and Amira are captured by Ivanna when they try to save Daniela from being imprisoned. After the latter frees them, Winter fights in the final battle, only to be knocked unconscious by the duration of it by Ivanna. Once the Parkers are killed, Winter grows close to Mya again and becomes her sister once more.

She is the bravest of the five girls.

Winter's main theme is *Jumpsuit* by Twenty One Pilots, which has gone on to become a staple in *Evie and Mya* because of how perfectly the song describes her temper. Her secondary themes are *Snowblind* by Au5 and *Just A Dream* by Tut Tut Child.

### Amira

**Amira Amadeo-Alvarez Fleckenshire** is a young and troubled teenage girl with severe familial issues. She is manipulated by Daniela into ruining Christmas for Pineshadow residents, but seeing her deep mistake, she breaks things off. She becomes a friend of Evie, Mya, and eventually Winter, taking a liking to the latter almost immediately. In Season 2, her neglectful parents and grandmother leave on a business trip, and Amira is left in the care of her abusive aunt, later revealed to be Shetani. She is abused, beaten, manipulated, and controlled at every turn, making her feel useless, unwanted, and almost driving her to the point of suicide. She hides this truth from her friends, but it gets out, allowing her to become closer to Winter.

Her relationship with the latter turns into romance, and she begins to rebel against Shetani to see her girlfriend to the point where she temporarily takes up residence with Evie following a brutal attack. She later sacrifices her life to save Winter fron Shetani, seemingly falling to her death, but it is revealed that she survived. Sans her grandmother, Amira rejects her family for their neglect after they arrive on the scene. With her ordeal now over, she begins to live a much happier life. Amira is later made an honorary member of the Lys in *Little Miss Perfect*. In Season 3, Amira consoles Evie and guides her out of her depression following Mya's betrayal and goes to Hollowleaf Mansion twice as part of planning to get Mya back. Once the Parkers face their demise, Mya and Amira get on better terms with each other and promise to hang out more often.

She is the swiftest of the five girls.

Amira's main theme is *Monster* by Dev, which has gone on to become one of the most iconic songs in the series. Her other themes are *Unfaithful* by Rihanna, *Devil in Me* by Halsey, *MAYDAY* by TheFatRat, and *Hold Me Down* by Halsey.

### Daniela

**Daniela "Dani" Burton Vunquist** is a fourteen-year old with a troubling backstory. Originally the girlfriend of Winter, she forced her to come out too early, effectively traumatizing her and leading to her own life falling apart. Daniela was bullied relentlessly and marred with nightmares and voices in her head. Eventually blaming Winter for ruining her life, she became a villain and consistently hurt others, lusting for pain and driving everyone away from her, including her own mother. Besides being a sadist, Daniela also became a masochist and enjoyed inflicting pain on herself for pleasure. Once Winter becomes a main focal point in her life, Daniela makes her miserable and soon tries to kill her. However, her second attempt backfires and she is taken to prison for attempted murder. There, she spirals into insanity and realizes the extent of what she's done, regretting everything and learning that she has bipolar disorder. After she is released, she slowly begins to reform, and with the help of Amira and Winter, finally learns to love herself for who she is.

In Season 3, Daniela strongly supports the girls and stands up to Mya for remaining with the dangerous Harlow and Ivanna. She is also targeted by Harlow due to her fear of adult men, leading to her almost being sexually assaulted, but she escapes him and blinds him in his left eye. Following Mya's betrayal, Daniela and the girls fight to get her back, and although she still faces sexual abuse at the hands of Harlow and deeply fears him, she refuses to stop at nothing to save Mya. Near the end of Season 3, a nearly-successful attempt on her part to have Mya listen to reason backfires when she abruptly betrays her, causing Daniela to be held prisoner by Harlow, who gets closer and closer to taking her innocence. Despite her predicament, Daniela never gives up on her hopes of escape and calls out Mya for secretly loving Evie and failing to conceal it, which rattles her. A day later, Daniela's hope of escaping Harlow diminishes, but upon recalling their first meeting, she decides to trick him into letting her go via seduction.

This works, as Daniela keeps up the act long enough to subdue Harlow to escape and rescue Evie, Winter, and Amira while Evie goes to save Mya. In the final battle, she fights Harlow with Evie, but the latter sends her away to find Mya; she quickly discovers her and convinces her to fight back and atone for her actions, revealing how much she truly cherishes her. In that moment, Mya fully forgives Daniela, and the two share a hug. During the last half of the battle, she and Mya violently attack both Parkers. After Harlow's death, Daniela prevents a deranged Ivanna from murdering Mya, stealing her gun and instead belittling her like she is a child, even explicitly referring to her as a bitch. Furious, Ivanna attempts to kill her, only for Daniela to cause her death by striking her in the head with the gun - the force is enough to send Ivanna careening into a rock, which snaps her neck. Following the battle, Mya affirms that Daniela is her hero and idol, the two closer than ever. Daniela also becomes idolized by the town for her story and gains her own fans.

She is the strongest of the girls and also referred to as a warrior.

Daniela's overall main themes are *Control* by Halsey, *Gasoline*, also by Halsey, and *Disturbia* by Rihanna. An additional theme is *6/10* by Dodie.

As a villainess, her themes are *Rockstar 101* by Rihanna, *S&M*, another song by Rihanna which serves as a joint anthem for her and Shetani, and *Ber Zer Ker* by WATEVA.

Daniela's themes as a protagonist are *My Past is Not Today* by Rebecca Shoichet, *Scars to Your Beautiful* by Alessia Cara, and *Second Nature* by Starz.

## Trivia

* The girls' roles are reminiscent of positions in the Lion Guard from the Disney show of the same name. Notably, Evie, Winter, Amira, and Daniela have similar roles to Kion, Bunga, Fuli, and Beshte, the fiercest, bravest, swiftest, and strongest of the Lion Guard, respectively.