token straight best friend (side character)

Quill Cardenas usually calls him "El".

Male (he/him, cisgender)

13

Straight

Looks like a kid trying his very best to look as scary as possible--which is what he is. This strategy would probably work better if he wasn't a ninety pound thirteen-year-old, but at least kids his own age find him intimidating.

89 lbs (40 kg)

5'1" (155 cm)

Black

Short and slicked back

Dark brown

Olive

Vietmanese and Jewish

Small and thin, though he has a decent amount of muscle definition in his shoulders and arms from pushing his wheelchair

Very into punk subcultures which comes across in how he dresses. He wears multiple earrings in each ear (they're all clip-ons, but he'd rather die than admit that), a battle jacket that's so covered in pins, patches and spikes you can barely tell what color it is underneath, ripped jeans with even more ripped fishnets underneath, etc. You'll also never see him without fingerless leather gloves that do double duty of allowing him to more easily push his wheelchair AND make him look cool.

Has a smattering of freckles and acne across his face and shoulders.

His default expression is a disproving scowl.
Swears a lot (though never in front of adults).
He doesn't become polite and mild-mannered in front of adults by any means, but his usually sour attitude does mellow a bit.
Calls all his peers except for Quill by their surnames.

Competitiveness. He needs to be the very best that no one ever was

"The man" (authority). Adults in positions of authority tend to like him because of his academic achievements and he hates it.

Listening to music, upcycling clothing to make it more punk, loitering around shopping centers without actually buying anything as teens are wont to do, helping Quill Cardenas explore the weird little corners of the town she finds, collecting trading cards, giving his wheelchair modifications of dubious safety

Likes to pretend he hates everyone. His distaste for people he isn't friends with is real, but he cares deeply about people he knows despite hardly ever acting like it outwardly.
Doesn't start fights but absolutely will finish them and has gotten suspended more than once because of this. Kids who pick fights with him soon learn he has a ton of upper-body strength from pushing his wheelchair all the time. He's well-respected in school for both his impressive grades and intimidating nature. He and his friend Quill Cardenas have this in common; kids are a bit scared of them both not because they're bullies, but because they know they would absolutely kick anyone's asses with no hesitation if the need arised and they don't want to test them on that.
Sort of comes across as snobby with how exclusive he is with his friends and whom he chooses to interact with. Won't give most people the time of day.
Always complaining about something to Quill or anyone else who will listen.
Kind of just a mean little kid what can I say

Has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and uses a wheelchair most of the time, though he occassionally instead walks with a cane for short periods. He's also very near-sighted and wears glasses.

He and Quill Cardenas have been ride-or-die best friends for as long as they can remember. They do NOT have romantic feelings for each other I repeat they are FRIENDS and do not and will never think of each other that way please do not do that to them. Thank you
Finds Felix Fairbanks annoying to the extreme.
Dallas Dame is the only somewhat alt adult Elliot has ever seen in real life and so he thinks Dally's basically the coolest person alive.

Jewish

English

Very into the punk movement and has a lot of far-left and anarchist ideals. No one has told him about Karl Marx yet but he's going to be INSUFFERABLE when he finds out about socialism (THIS IS A JOKE I say this as a fellow comrade).

Middle school student

Black

His battle jacket; his wheelchair which he's customized with painted wheel covers, spikes, all that fun stuff

Middle school student; has been best in his class academically his whole life

Comes from a very unassuming middle-class suburban family. Considering his excellent grades, his parents are more than happy to let him dress the way he does, though they don't quite understand it. He's lived in Helston his whole life.

His immediate family consists of his mother, father, and baby sister.

Chaotic neutral