sonder - noun
the realization that each and every person you encounter is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.The greatest years of your life - high school. It's full of learning, laughter and sometimes even love. But everyone knows it doesn't come without its challenges. Follow Olie, Lake, Hope, and the students of Blackberry Meadow High School as they navigate the last few years of their normal lives.Currently on indefinite hiatus <3

Hello dear visitor! My name is CJ, I am the author and illustrator of Inner Sonder. This is my second published webcomic.
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Class of 2025

Olie Templeton

Name - Oliana "Olie" Alicia Templeton
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 16
Birthday - June 14, 2007
Height - 5'1" (156cm)
Ethnicity - Māori/Australian
Star Sign - Gemini
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - English

Olie is one of the three protagonists of Inner Sonder. She is extroverted, confident and very intelligent. She excells in English and is a skilled writer in almost all genres. She is the communicator of the SRC. She has known most of her classmates since childhood, so she knows a lot about them all and is friends with most of them.

Macy Carter

Name - Macy Emma Carter
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 15
Birthday - March 3, 2008
Height - 6' (185cm)
Ethnicity - Australian
Star Sign - Pisces
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Maths

Macy is Olie's best friend. She is very friendly and likes to organise group hangouts with her classmates. She also has a wide variety of skills, which include sports, fashion, maths and science.

Jamie Perry

Name - James "Jamie" Perry
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 15
Birthday - May 2, 2008
Height - 5'4" (164cm)
Ethnicity - Australian
Star Sign - Taurus
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Visual Arts

Jamie is Olie's best friend, as the two have known each other since kindergarten. He is a very sweet and caring boy, who is the more introverted of his two friends. He is very artistically gifted and specialises in illustration.

Lake McCarthy

Name - Lake Leah McCarthy
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 15
Birthday - March 24, 2008
Height - 5'1" (155cm)
Ethnicity - Australian/Irish
Star Sign - Aries
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - English

Lake is one of the three protagonists of Inner Sonder. She is a deeply jaded and reclusive girl who has a reputation for being quite sour and unpleasant to be around. She doesn't have any friends and has an ongoing feud with Olie - the two despise each other.

Hope Lê

Name - Hoa "Hope" Lê
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 16
Birthday - August 31, 2007
Height - 5'5" (166cm)
Ethnicity - Vietnamese
Star Sign - Virgo
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Legal Studies

Hope is one of the three protagonists of Inner Sonder. She is an extremely timid and introverted girl who prefers to keep to herself. She is under a lot of parental pressure to perform well in school, despite already being very smart and a high achiever. Due to being so quiet, she doesn't have many people she considers friends.

Luca Michaels

Name - Luca Michaels
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 16
Birthday - July 17, 2007
Height - 5'3" (160cm)
Ethnicity - Indigenous Australian
Star Sign - Cancer
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Photography

Luca is a quiet but polite boy who spends most of his time with his head in a camera. He is very intelligent, which led to him getting elected as an SRC member. He has a small group of friends, but he almost always keeps to himself and doesn't speak much.

Simon Addison

Name - Simon Addison
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 16
Birthday - August 18, 2007
Height - 5'7" (172cm)
Ethnicity - Australian
Star Sign - Leo
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Society & Culture

Simon is known by the students as being "the kid whose dad is the principal". He used this to his advantage to get voted into the SRC, but he still does a good job, skilled in data and societal analysis. He used to have a crush on Olie, but claims he is now over her.

Fletcher Cunningham

Name - Fletcher Cunningham
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 16
Birthday - July 22, 2007
Height - 6'1" (186cm)
Ethnicity - Australian
Star Sign - Cancer
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - PDHPE

Fletcher is a bit of an idiot who usually means well. He causes a lot of mischief in class and doesn't take a lot of things seriously, but he has a good heart and wouldn't hurt anyone on purpose. He likes hanging around train stations and messing with people.

Jean Lewis

Name - Jean Mabel Lewis
Pronouns - They/Them
Age - 15
Birthday - April 15, 2008
Height - 5'8" (173cm)
Ethnicity - Australian
Star Sign - Aries
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Visual Arts

Jean is best described as eccentric. They do and say a lot of things that don't make sense to most people, and the things they say are slightly strange. But Jean doesn't really care what anyone thinks. They just do whatever they want.

Seb Martin

Name - Sebastian "Seb" Martin
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 15
Birthday - April 5, 2008
Height - 5'8" (175cm)
Ethnicity - Bengali
Star Sign - Aries
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Visual Arts

Seb is a shy, quiet boy who enjoys spending time drawing in his giant sketchbook, which he carries at all times. He keeps to himself most of the time, but is known for being very sweet and caring, so most people in the student body like him.

Ayah Newman

Name - Ayah Newman
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 16
Birthday - October 25, 2007
Height - 5'4" (164cm)
Ethnicity - Saudi/Australian
Star Sign - Scorpio
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Economics

Ayah is the female head perfect of the SRC. She takes her role pretty seriously and wants the best for her classmates. She is very no-nonsense and excels in all subjects.

Mark Warren

Name - Mark Ryland Warren
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 16
Birthday - December 8, 2007
Height - 6'1" (187cm)
Ethnicity - Australian
Star Sign - Sagittarius
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - PDHPE

Mark is quite laid-back and relaxed, preferring to blend into the background. He is non-verbal and refuses to speak, only ever using AUSLAN (Australian Sign Language) to talk to people. He is very athletic, as the Sport Capitain of the SRC, and enjoys playing soccer. Mark cares about his friends and fellow students a lot and has fun hanging out with them in group settings.

Kate Chen

Name - Kate Chen
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 16
Birthday - January 17, 2008
Height - 5'3" (160cm)
Ethnicity - Chinese/Australian
Star Sign - Capricorn
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Visual Arts

Kate is an outgoing and cheerful girl. She likes to hang out with her group of artistic friends and have fun drawing with them. She is very confident in all she does but still remains quite chilled out and laid back.

Archie Harris

Name - Archie Harris
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 16
Birthday - January 23, 2008
Height - 5'8" (173cm)
Ethnicity - Japanese/Australian
Star Sign - Aquarius
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Environmental Studies

Archie is a reserved, quiet person. He in known to be one of the smartest people in the school, but he remains humble and pleasant to most of his fellow classmates.

Sofia McKenzie

Name - Sofia McKenzie
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 16
Birthday - July 2, 2007
Height - 6' (184cm)
Ethnicity - Greek
Star Sign - Cancer
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Chemistry

Sofia is one of the most popular girls in Year 11. She is very hard working, but she is known to be a bit of a gossip. A lot of rumours that float around the school come from her, but she is not without her own. Alledgely, she strongly dislikes one of the SRC members for beating her in the student election, although she behaves friendly towards them in public.

Bryce Montgomery

Name - Bryce Montgomery
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 15
Birthday - May 1, 2008
Height - 6'2" (188cm)
Ethnicity - Australian
Star Sign - Taurus
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - PDHPE

Bryce is a cheery, athletic boy, who would have been the second choice of Sports Captain if Mark wasn't in the running. His group of friends are all sporty in some sense, and his brother is the Year 12 Sports Captain.

Kai Moore

Name - Kai Moore
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 16
Birthday - July 25, 2007
Height - 5'6" (168cm)
Ethnicity - Italian
Star Sign - Leo
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Music

Kai is a gloomy, reserved kid. He doesn't enjoy a lot of school and would prefer to be working on his own creative endeavours, especially his music work. He is very passionate about it.

Ella Morrison

Name - Ella Morrison
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 16
Birthday - November 10, 2007
Height - 5'2" (157cm)
Ethnicity - New Zealander
Star Sign - Scorpio
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Drama

Ella is one of the more popular girls in the grade. She acts very nice to people, but some students feel she is a bit fake. She has been into acting as a kid, so it could be assumed she is putting on a sort of mask around most people, and her real personality is someone much more reserved.

Hunter Nguyen

Name - Hunter Nguyen
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 15
Birthday - May 24, 2008
Height - 5'6" (170cm)
Ethnicity - Vietnamese/Australian
Star Sign - Gemini
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Modern History

Hunter is one of the art kids. He cannot go a class without drawing in one of his books. He keeps to himself when not with his friends, but some people find him a bit awkward. He always means well, though.

Isla Reid

Name - Isla Reid
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 15
Birthday - March 28, 2008
Height - 5'3" (161cm)
Ethnicity - Sri Lankan
Star Sign - Aries
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Drama

Isla is friends with some of the more popular girls, but she stands out as being a lot more genuine and nicer than them. She is very sweet and caring to anyone who talks to her. She is a very talented actor and performs well in her Drama class.

Leo Robinson

Name - Leo Robinson
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 16
Birthday - December 30, 2007
Height - 6'3" (190cm)
Ethnicity - New Zealander
Star Sign - Capricorn
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Music

Unbeknownst to Leo, he is probably the boy in the grade with the most female admirers. He is utterly clueless about this fact, preferring to keep to himself and only hanging out with his group of friends. He considers himself a music expert and judges people based on their music tastes. He says he doesn't but he's lying.

Lachlan Turner

Name - Lachlan Turner
Pronouns - He/Him
Age - 16
Birthday - August 29, 2007
Height - 5'10" (178cm)
Ethnicity - Indigenous Australian
Star Sign - Virgo
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - PDHPE

Lachlan likes to wreak havoc among his classmates. He and his friends tend to make commotions both in class and out, which yields mixed responses.

Zoë Umar

Name - Zohra "Zoë" Umar
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 16
Birthday - June 18, 2007
Height - 5' (153cm)
Ethnicity - Persian
Star Sign - Gemini
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - Physics

Zoë is a very sweet girl who likes to be alone, daydreaming about future adventures. She is an outdoor person, and has many travel bucket lists. She wishes to explore the whole world and experience every culture.

Imogen White

Name - Imogen White
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 16
Birthday - December 4, 2007
Height - 5'7" (172cm)
Ethnicity - Indigenous Australian
Star Sign - Sagittarius
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - PDHPE

Imogen is a mischevious troublemaker, who helps her friends pull off ridiculous pranks, at school and outside. She is a little clueless sometimes, but she hasn't a malicious bone in her body.

Charlotte Carter

Name - Charlotte Madison Carter
Pronouns - She/They
Age - 16
Birthday - September 28, 2007
Height - 5'2" (159cm)
Ethnicity - American
Star Sign - Libra
School Year - Junior
Favourite Subject - Biology

Charlotte is a transfer student from the Bronx High School of Science. She is Macy's older cousin. She hasn't really told anyone the full reason she came to Australia, but she struggles to reconnect with Macy after so many years.

Tessa Sun

Name - Tessa Lily Sun
Pronouns - She/Her
Age - 16
Birthday - February 29, 2008
Height - 5'9" (176cm)
Ethnicity - Australian
Star Sign - Pisces
School Year - Year 11
Favourite Subject - PDHPE

Tessa is a previously home schooled girl who was finally able to convince her parents to allow her to attend public high school. She is very extroverted and would love to be friends with everyone, but there aren't enough hours in a day. She is childhood friends with Mark, and quickly befriends Hope and Lake.

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