Board Thread:Pitches/@comment-25375217-20150629195541/@comment-25375217-20150711190618

I actually already have the "meeting in college" thing.

My theory is she's been friends with Nixon basically since birth. She met and befriended Lila in high school. Now that they're in college, the three of them decide to start a band, but they realize that they're missing something. They overhear Lila's roommate, Alena, playing drums and realize that they need a drummer and beg her to join.

They each kind of fill each other in personality-wise. Jamie is calm and funny, Lila is loud and hyper, Nixon is wise and clever, and Alena is quiet and thoughtful. Removing one of them just seems to mess up the dynamic.

I currently have six main characters, which is about the standard (James, Marianne, Thomas, Rebecca, Mr. & Mrs. Birchwood; Casey, Frankie, Shannon, Greg, Kendra, Joey; Cori, Donny, Dionna, Tanner, Tommy, Johanna). The larger Jamie's friend group is, the more people Jackie can embarrass her in front of.

The band is really a sideplot, with the friendships filling in the main plot (I have one plot where Jackie and Lila start getting close and Jamie gets jealous, for example). The band will only actually come up majorly a couple of times (the first or second episode, when it's first formed, and a later episode when Jackie wants to join against Jamie's will). The rest of the time it's just kind of offhand comments.