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�� CECILIA “CECE” ROTH – FINAL UPDATED PROFILE

Face Claim: Lili Reinhart
Major: Hospitality Leadership & Nonprofit Event Strategy
Sorority: Kappa Omega Nu (KΩN)
Legacy Line: A third-generation Roth. Her family owns Roth & Wilder, a luxury events and resort empire with deep ties to NBU. Her grandmother helped found the KΩN alumnae board and designed the ballroom used for every major gala. There’s a legacy wall — and the Roths are on it twice.

�� PUBLIC IMAGE

Cece is the kind of girl who never forgets a name. She color-codes RSVP lists, designs centerpieces, and floats through donor dinners with a practiced warmth that makes everyone feel seen — even if she’s quietly unraveling.

People describe her as “poised,” “graceful,” “the heart of the chapter.”
She’s the safe one. The one who doesn’t cause drama.
The one who never misses a meeting.
The one who always sends thank-you notes.

��️ PRIVATE REALITY

Cece has curated her life to the letter. The sorority events. The legacy pressure. The future she’s been groomed to inherit.

And then there’s him —
A boy who’s just as legacy-bound, just as public-facing, just as practiced… but nowhere near safe.

He’s exactly the kind of guy she’s supposed to date —
NBU royalty. Golden resume. Picture-perfect charm.

But he’s reckless. Entitled. Brilliant in that exhausting way. And worst of all? Everyone thinks they’d make the perfect couple.

Which is exactly why she kept her distance.
Until she didn’t.

�� ROMANTIC INTEREST CONCEPT:

Name: TBD — want to co-develop?
Type: NBU legacy golden boy with too many secrets
Vibe: Charismatic, deeply charming, and slowly self-destructing beneath the surface
Reputation: He's the son of a major NBU donor, on every board, voted “Most Likely to Run for Office” — and has a thousand eyes on him at all times.
Conflict: He knows how to say the right things — but Cece sees who he really is when no one else is looking. He challenges her perfection, not because he doesn’t respect it — but because he knows what it costs.

�� Why It’s Different:
This isn’t about crossing class lines. It’s about falling for the boy who embodies everything she’s supposed to want — and realizing he’s just as trapped by legacy as she is.
It’s enemies-to-co-conspirators, not princess and peasant.

�� SIGNATURE TRAITS

Expert at emotional triage

Keeps a “panic bag” in her closet with backup flats, safety pins, and Advil

Cries in silence. Then fixes her mascara.

Never asks for help, but always offers it

Believes in traditions, but secretly fears they’re hollow

Has considered disappearing after graduation more than once

�� CORE CONFLICT

Cece knows how to take care of everyone.
What she doesn’t know is:
What happens when someone wants to take care of her — but might break her in the process?
And what if she's starting to want that?

�� BESTIE BOND: LOTTIE PEMBROKE

Lottie is the only one who gets it — the pressure, the expectations, the curated grief of being the daughter of donors.
Cece and Lottie aren’t confessional. They don’t cry together.
They just sit on dorm balconies at 2am, wrapped in matching blankets, saying nothing… and that’s enough.

Lottie is the one person Cece would go to war for.
And the one person she might actually tell the truth.

✨ STATUS SYMBOL

A pale blush leather day planner, engraved with her initials in gold. Inside? Color-coded events, delicate to-do lists — and a quote from Jane Austen she copied down three years ago and still rereads every week.

��️ GRAYSON JAMES LOCKE

Face Claim: Ideal options: Nicholas Galitzine, Jacob Elordi, or Louis Partridge — clean-cut, sharp-suited, with something haunted behind the eyes.
Major: Pre-Law & Political Theory
Minor: Strategic Ethics
Legacy Line: Locke. The name speaks for itself.
His father is Ohio’s junior senator. His grandfather was a federal judge. His mother was a founding member of Beta Chi Tau. Their family has an entire Northbridge courtyard named after them — and an endowment fund no one dares question.


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�� Public Image

Grayson is the golden boy.
Student government VP. Legacy Law Society standout. First-name basis with faculty. Speaks at banquets like he was born on a podium. A face made for campaign ads. A transcript made for Yale Law.

He’s everything a Locke should be — polished, well-spoken, impossible to rattle.

And absolutely, dangerously good at pretending.


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��️ Private Reality

Grayson plays the part so well he sometimes forgets where the part ends.

The Locke family brand is image above all — clean, composed, scandal-proof. So when things nearly fell apart freshman year — when a hazing incident got out of control — Grayson’s father swept it under the rug, buried the paper trail, and told him two things:

“You’re lucky I fixed it.”
“It can never happen again.”

Grayson tries to believe he’s still a good person. That he didn’t mean for anyone to get hurt. But the guilt wakes him up at night.

And now, with every speech he gives and every headline he lands, all he can think is:
They don’t know the truth.
But she might.


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�� Core Conflict

Grayson knows how to win. How to lead.
What he doesn’t know is:
What does it look like to be loved — not for the role he plays, but for the parts of him he’s never let anyone see?


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�� Relationship with Lottie Pembroke

Status: Publicly perfect. Privately… something else.
They grew up orbiting each other — charity galas, prep school mixers, whispered “someday”s from their parents. The world has been imagining them together for years.

But the truth is more complicated.

Lottie is the only person who sees when Grayson’s voice shakes.

Grayson is the only one who knows what Lottie had to give up to be this composed.

They don’t talk about feelings — they talk in glances, shared silences, and hallway stops that last a little too long.

He doesn’t ask her to fall in love. She already is — with the parts of him no one else is allowed to touch.


They could burn each other down.
Or build the only world where they both survive.


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�� Signature Traits

Always knows what to say, but rarely says what he feels

Keeps a copy of The Federalist Papers on his nightstand — and unread apology letters in his drawer

Can command a crowd or disappear into a corner — depending on who he needs to be

Never panics in public. Always panics alone.



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✨ Status Symbol

A sleek silver pen passed down from his grandfather — used for signing court orders and campaign checks. Grayson uses it to write speeches. And sometimes to underline the names of people he’s afraid to forget.


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�� Emotional Themes

Legacy as a gilded cage

Shame vs silence

Love as risk — not reward

Perfection that unravels under softness