Soap Opera of the Slippery Pole: Dance Floor Edition:
Females

Isabella Montgomery AKA Glitterwind

Bella is the creator of the Shadow PRF. She administrates the forum and oversees everything. Though she has no set duties, she's involved in everything from the shadows. An introverted genius, artistic, quiet, and often depressed - no one knows quite what she's thinking. Her father is a half-Japanese high-tech engineer but really a secret agent, and her mother is a Greek rocket scientist. Their eccentric working hours permit her to use her room as the Shadow PRF base, and to take the graveyard radio shift almost every night. As a raver, she pretends to be a lesbian, and loves going to the Slippery Pole with Ivy (and sometimes others).

Ivy Sinclair AKA Piperdoll

Ivy is friendly, cheery, and proudly Scottish. She's the photographer for the paper, as well as a radio personality. She is one of the primary PRF members. Her mother is the vice-principal at her school, which makes utter secrecy crucial. With Bella, she's a raver pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman.

Tori Felton AKA Starmist


Tori's always calm and comforting no matter the situation. She rarely shows anger, but when she does, the situation can only end in tears. She does radio, moderating, and journalism, and is a core member. Whip-smart, sarcastic, and witty, her articles are generally opinion pieces. She's part Korean, part Vietnamese, and part Dutch.

Mary Sheffard AKA Rosewhisper


Mary is shy, bookish, and reserved. She's a journalist, moderator, and the secretary of the PRF. Her pieces are generally related to literature and learning. She later leaps out of the closet as a lesbian and drug addict.


Estelle Rhapsodie AKA Sugarwood


Friendly, athletic, and well-liked, Estelle's a sports journalist and radio personality. She's the little sister of Rowan and a grade below everyone on the PRF. Aron is her on/off boyfriend. She may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but she always means well. She uses the PRF as an escape from her superficial lifestyle.

Crystal Benton AKA Dramakiss


Crystal is fashionable and popular, and writes social articles (beauty + fashion). She also maintains an advice column in the newspaper. She cheats on her long-term boyfriend, Tom, with Niko. Tom breaks up with her, and later learns that she is carrying Nikolaus' child. She now lives with Niko, ALA Will & Grace. However, her roommate doesn't know of her involvement with the PRF...



Males


Rowan Rhapsodie AKA Carbon


Rowan is a bisexual journalist and radio personality, focusing on politics and world issues. Though he sometimes seems dull and predictable, he is anything but. Gentle and smart, he's the quintessential boy-next-door. As a primary member, he's respected by the rest of the PRF.

Ethan Barias AKA Rave


Ethan is a charming computer whiz - he hacks Bella's computer as a way of asking to join the PRF, and soon became one of the 5 core members. As a hobby-hacker, he's also in charge of maintaining the security of Shadow PRF. Like Estelle, he's well-liked by everyone. He does some radio, moderating, and journalism, reporting the latest in entertainment and technology. His family was the foreign transfer student's temporary host family, but they kicked Niko out after learning that he was gay (and impregnated Crystal). Ethan, too, is gay - however, in a family of Christian Republicans, the most he can do is go to the Slippery Pole with Bella, Ivy, and Rowan.


Gabriel Romano AKA Shadowsong


The best and perhaps only word that can describe Romano is "emo". He's a tortured artist, a very accomplished musician, and a rebel without a cause. He writes articles on music and art, and designs the PRF website. Bella has an unfortunate crush on him, but he remains oblivious.

Aron Sambora AKA Kestrel


Aron's family is very wealthy, though also quite dysfunctional. He dates Estelle on and off. In the "real" world, he acts proud, vain, and selfish. However, in the PRF world, he writes thoughtful articles on teen issues (drugs, suicide, violence, etc.). He is a journalist and the manager of the PRF, following every order his former enemy, Bella, gives him.

Christopher Cholmondeley AKA Eclipse

Chris is a slightly eccentric genius of unfathomable intellect, though down-to-earth and big-hearted. He always looks tired, and is asleep for most of the school day, though his grade average is 98%. He works in secret for Section 42 part-time, generally late at night, which explains the unconventional sleeping hours. Along with being a hired brain, he's a journalist, moderator, and radio personality for Shadow PRF. Most of his articles/pieces are about serious things, though he writes humourous ones on occassion.

Ariel O'Connell AKA Garnet


Ariel is devilishly good-looking and Irish, doing radio and moderating for the PRF. Elegant, fun, and friendly, Ivy is ever-so-slightly in love with him. Though he likes her in return, he hides this from her, because he does not want her to find out that his father, Patrick ("Patty") O'Connell, is a hitman. He mostly does opinion pieces, generally posed in contrast to Tori's.

Nathaniel Folesse AKA Jungle


Nate is perfectly average and ordinary in every respect. He loves baseball and basketball, and is very adventurous. He's a journalist and radio personality, and like Ivy and Bella, doesn't focus on any one thing in particular. Whatever current news needs to be covered is done by him. He was abused as a child, by his alcoholic father, and finds it hard to trust anyone - even his confidante, Ivy, whom he has feelings for.


Non-PRF


Nikolaus Florian


Niko is the gay foreign transfer student from Austria. He expresses an early interest in joining the PRF, but he's involved with too many people in the group to be completely trusted. So, he settles for doing public relations: being the human correspondent between authority and Shadow PRF. He has a one-night-stand with Crystal, which leads to an immense complication: an unwanted pregnancy. He has a brief fling with Rowan, and then moves in with Crystal (she's keepin' her baby) after being kicked out of the Barias' household for being gay. Though he strongly suspects that he knows the identities of most of the Shadow PRF members, he keeps his thoughts to himself for fear of putting anyone in danger. Despite the tumult in his life, he remains confident and well-rounded, always "on top of the world".

Thomas Mirko


Thomas is initially completely uninvolved in the PRF. However, this changes when his long-term girlfriend cheats on him with Niko, the PRF's spokesman. He eventually comes to realize that his buddies Rowan and Nate may be involved in the PRF - he also knows most of the other members, but doesn't connect them to Shadow. In the season finale, he discovers the identity of Glitter, who - despite the dangers - decides to broadcast live from Crystal's hospital room.


Elpheziea Pouffoufs AKA Lightspring


Though Elph is not a member of the PRF, one could compare her to a temp worker. She accidentally discovers the identities of every single member of Shadow one day, when she stops by the Montgomery household to pick up a package for Bella's father, a Section 42 agent. The PRF members keep her secret service work and her status as "aspiring murderer" a secret, and she keeps their identities secret. She also guest-stars on the radio every once in a while, and more recently has attempted to help moderate the forum.