The Roster

Razz

• Real name: If I wanted ta keep me real name, why would I bother gettin' a nickname?
• Nickname: Razz (NOT Razzberry, got it?)
• The story behind the nickname: Razz just means ta rag on someone, and I do a lot a' dat, lemme tell ya.
• Age: 15
• Looks: Reddish brown hair, blue eyes, 5'5"
• History: I was born. There ya go.
• Living relatives: Probably.
• Significant other: Ain't worth da trouble.
• Anything else: Nope, dat about sums it up.

Freckles

• Real name: Maggie McCrae
• Nickname: Freckles
• The story behind the nickname: I got a ton freckles on me face. Ain't much more to it than that.
• Age: 14
• Looks: I'se got this copper-y color hair that's real curly. I got blue eyes and a ton of freckles. I'm pretty skinny, and tall.
• History: Me and my brother just been runnin from our dad most of our lives. He's an abusive drunk, but he needs me and my brother, Tony, to get money for him so he can buy more alchohal. Every once in a while we'd be able ta make the money honestly, but most a' da time we had ta steal it. We got sick a' dat so we ranaway. From dere, we just been tryin ta live our own lives without having to havin anudda run in with our fadda.
• Living relatives: Me brother, Tony McCrae, also known as Snipeshooter.
• Significant other: Shiner Morales
• Anything else: I spent some time in da refuge for stealin. I guess you shoulds also know bout me personality. I'm loud, I like ta get inta trouble. I'm not exactly the most angelic goil you'll eva meet. I smoke, I drink, I get inta fights. And I'm an amazin poker player, neva lost a game yet!

Brooke

• Real name: Brooke
• Nickname: Whatever
• The story behind the nickname: I got the name from Brooke Shields
• Age: 13 going on 14
• Looks: Brown hair, blue eyes, 5' 3"
• History: I don't think so
• Living relatives: Sure, I got those
• Significant other: Nope
• Anything else: Nope

Cake

• Real name: Nope, don't got one.
• Nickname: Ah'm Cake.
• The story behind the nickname: I don't know where it came from. People have called me Cake since before I can remember.
• Age: 14
• Looks: I'm average, I guess. No kidding...sometimes I'm so average I could scream. 5'3", dirty blond, medium hair, soft brown eyes...not much to tell.
• History: I'd tell it if I knew it...it seems like I just woke up one day, working as a newsie named Cake. That day like any other day before or since. I can't remember how it came about. Of course I've been to every corner of the city, in orphanages and jails and workhouses, or just sleeping in alleys. I know people from all over the city...I've got all kinds of friends and enemies.
• Living relatives: No. Well, I wouldn't know if I did.
• Significant other: Nope
• Anything else: I'm a mean morning person. MEAN. As long as you steer clear of me in the mornings, though, everyone should get along ok.

Damsel

• Real name: Kelly Campbell
• Nickname: Damsel
• The story behind the nickname: I always loved bein the Damsel in Distress when I played games with my cousins when I was little
• Age: 12
• Looks: I'm 5'9", I got red hair, brown eyes, and freckles.
• History: When I was little my parents split up, and later died. My sisters and I were sent to an orphanage, then they were adopted together and I was left behind. Then I went to Manhattan to live with my cousin and the newsies!
• Living relatives: My cousin, Coneflower!!!
• Significant other: None
• Anything else: Nah

Ruby

• Real name: Allie
• Nickname: Ruby
• The story behind the nickname: I got it cuz of my hair
• Age: 14
• Looks: Auburn hair, thin, 5'3, yellowish green eyes. Um...I think that's all
• History: My parents died when i was 3 and my aunt took me in. She died in a fire and Social Services sent me to a foster house where I had to do slave work, so I ran away and became a newsie
• Living relatives: Nope
• Significant other: None
• Anything else: VEGITARIAN!!! Very important. Oh, yeah...I gave a cop the rough side of my tongue and I ended up in the refuge for 2 weeks.

Jam

• Real name: You ain't gotta know it. Ah hell, if ya gotta it's Josephine Kayler. If I heah it... you get ta see what me knuckles taste like.
• Nickname: Ya can cawl me dog breath... whaddaya T'INK I want ya ta cawl me?! Da name's Jam.
• The story behind the nickname: I used ta be in da orphanage, an' steal da jam right outta da cupboard. So it kinda stuck...
• Age: None a yer business. I'se old enough ta stick my foot up ya... 16 if ya gotta know.
• Looks: I'se real normal. Sandy colored hair. Brown eyes. Regulah height. Thin. An' if ya say anyt'ing bout me figyah, we'se gunna have "woids."
• History: It's what ya ahways heah: me mum and dad died. Dey was shot in Yonkahs one day, dats wheah we lived, when dey was takin' a walk. Da guy t'ought dat me dad was his boss er somet'in... so bein da cute little 5 yeah old I was, dey sent me to dis orphanage. I stayed, it was okay I guess. Dey gave me some food an' a bed, how much bettah can you get? Den I ran away.. did some odd jobs. Bla bla bla.
• Living relatives: Nope. An' I like it dat way.
• Significant other: None
• Anything else: I ain't nevah been caught foah anyt'ing, but I guess ya kinda gotta know dat I ain't a peach. Got it? No frilly lace an' crap foah me. Just gimme some papes an' get outta me way.

Sunshine

• Real name: Annie Flynn
• Nickname: Sunshine
• The story behind the nickname: My father used to call me that because no matter how bad things got for our family, I always had a cheery attitude.
• Age: I'm fifteen years old.
• Looks: I have long auburn hair, bright green eyes, and a slender figure due to years of having little to eat.
• History: My life has never been an easy one. I was born in County Mayo, Ireland and I spent the first ten years of my life living there with my parents, Thomas and Kathleen Flynn, and my brother Peter. We were a poor family, but we were always happy, no matter how little there was to eat. I still remember, all too clearly, the night that happiness ceased to be. One night, when I was ten years old, I had just gone to bed when I heard a large commotion outside. I ran to the window and saw a mob of Northern Irish men setting fire to all the cottages in our village. It was then that I detected the smell of our own house burning. Just then, Peter ran in and grabbed me and pulled me out of the house, telling me to stay hidden. He ran back to get our parents out, but it was too late. The burning house had collapsed before mother and father were able to get out. Peter and I stayed hidden until the mob left, trying to comfort each other. The next day, we decided Ireland was getting too dangerous for us to stay any longer, especially without mother and father, so Peter spent the little money he had saved on two third-class tickets to New York. Once we reached New York, Peter took a job at a factory and I started selling newspapers. Because we had almost no money, both of us were forced to stay in lodging houses, so he got a bunk at a house near his factory and I took up residence at the Sugar Hill Lodging House where I am today.
• Living relatives: Peter is the only living relative I have left, but all the girls at the lodging house have become like sisters to me.
• Significant other: No one
• Anything else: No

Pigeon

• Real name: Cait Monroe
• Nickname: Pigeon, Pige for short
• The story behind the nickname: It’s sorta weird, but when I foist came ‘ere, dere was dis little boid next to da window where I slept...I felt kinda bad for da poor little ting, so I fed it. Den one of da newsgoils told me it was a pigeon...cuz I was taking care of da little guy, and I didn’t have a nn yet, they all just started callin' me Pigeon
• Age: 15
• Looks: 5’7”, shoulder length, light brown hair, sorta thin
• History: Me folks and I used ta live and work on a farm back in da ol’ country till me folks got sick and died (but I don’t want no one cryin for me, ya hear?). When I was 10, me brudder went ta woik and got enough money ta send me to the land a plenty, New Yoik...once I got ‘ere, I befriended da newsies, and da rest is 'istory
• Living relatives: Me brudder Jacob, back in da ol’ country, he’d have 'bout 18 years on ‘im by now
• Significant other:
• Anything else: Well, no prison record....but this is sorta what I’m like, k? I’m a little shy, but when I need to, I’ll stick up for me chums. I’m nice, and quiet, but I do still know how ta tawk and say what I t'ink...

Pranks

• Real name: Victoria O'Reily
• Nickname: Prankstah but Pranks fer shoit.
• The story behind the nickname: I tink da name says it all. Spot gave it to me aftah i played a prank on Jacky boy in Manhatten.
• Age: 16
• Looks: Ise got blonde hair and really green eyes. Kinda tall 5"5 or so.
• History: I had rich mean parents. I hated dem dey hated me. So i left. Nutin much else to it cept dat is still lookin fer me brudder dats gone too.
• Living relatives: Tracks in Brooklyn is me cousin
• Significant other: No
• Anything else: I got a pretty mean right hook and I can shoot a slingshot.

Lass

• Real name: Youse call me Maggie O'Callan and I'll soak ya!
• Nickname: Yeah yeah... Dey call me Lass, cuz I'm a Scot-Irish.. get it?
• The story behind the nickname: Da people on Ellis Isle, dey t'ink it's funny.. callin' me Lass cuz I'm Scot-Irish.. 'Ey, but it fits and it's better den me real name
• Age: I'll be 16 this summer
• Looks: I'm 5'4, wit green eyes and reddish-blond hair. Pretty thin, not very strong lookin. Wiry... athletic enough... light freckles across me nose... delicate features...
• History: Me Da died in a pub fight, and me mum died of da fever. I was da middle child of 5. Me younger sister and brother came on a ship to America... I stowed away on other ship not long after... I'm avoidin dem, ya hear? They don't know dat I'm in New Yawk... dey's in Manhattan
• Living relatives: Yeah, me cousin's name is Francis Sullivan... hoihd of 'im? he goes by Jack Kelly nowadays.. also me sistah Meagan's over in Manhattan.. if she made it here
• Significant other: Harlem boy named Reel, cuz he loves da movies...
• Anything else: Nah.. too good to get a prison record (and I mean that I'm to good to get caught)... stowed away on a ship to get here.. got da Irish temper and da Irish luck... 'specially at gamblin'.

Scoop

• Real name: Annabelle Simon
• Nickname: Scoop
• The story behind the nickname: I always wanted ta be a newspaper reportah.
• Age: 15 at last count.
• Looks: Kinda short, medium brown hair, dark brown eyes, a coupla freckles.
• History: I caught da train from upstate NY when me parents died from flu. I don't really tawk about it dat much.
• Living relatives: None dat I know of.
• Significant other: Jumpy.
• Anything else: Well, I ain't got a prison record cuz I can run real fast. I's witty, sarcastic, and got me a real bad temper.