Reza smiles brightly at Veronica and Ansley, happy that both of them seem so excited by their parts. Her eyes drift around the room, stopping at Isaac Lovelock and Ethan Plyth. "Our handsome men can't be forgotten either. Ethan is playing Adam Aldaine - the used-to-be rockstar boyfriend. He used to be just like Molly, which is why they were so perfect together."
"Yeah, I think during brainstorming this character, we decided that Adam and Molly met during a Reported Failure concert and ended up fucking in a port-a-potty," Astra adds.
"Right, yeah! Well, now Adam isn't that crazy anymore, and his role in the relationship has gone from 'boyfriend' to 'guardian.' Adam's parents died when he was younger, and he's since be using his inheritance from them to pay Molly's rent, her bills, and anything else she could want. He still loves Molly, but doesn't like the dependency she has on him." She nods, finished with her analysis.
"And Mr. Leo Sedgwick," Astra starts, motioning to Isaac. "Leo's father is a big business man who owns a lot of properties around San Jose. To teach Leo some business and life skills, his father puts him in change of one of his properties - one that he thinks is reletively low-risk."
Reza reaches into her bag on the floor and pulls out a couple photographs. She flips through them until she finds the one they took of the outside of the apartment. It's a small building with only four sets of living accommodations inside of it, set in the middle of the city. The building is tall, however, giving each of the living accommodations a second story. The apartment looks like it used to be gorgeous, but time and laziness has whittled away at it, and now all the paint has chipped off and the vines that grew around the side are dead and yellow. One of the windows on the bottom floor is boarded up. The sidewalk is dirty. Reza passes the picture around to show everybody, whispering as she hands it to Veronica to start the passing around, "Welcome to your new home."
"It's easy to see that Leo's father probably didn't look at the place he was assigning his son before giving it to him," Astra continues on as the picture gets passed around. "Anyway, Leo's not completely business-like, like his father is. He's much more of a people person than that - or at least he wants to be. Leo's kind of socially awkward - adorable, but awkward. Probably the most genuinely nice person in the cast of character, but nobody really takes him seriously. In fact, it's an on-going joke that they've shorted him on rent several times, and he's just been too nice to say anything."
"Also," Reza adds. "He has a huge crush on Delilah, who is pretty oblivious to the fact that he likes her at all."
Astra beams. All their characters, all laid out in front of them. "We're so excited."