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The characters appearing on My Family and Me.

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    Main Characters 

Melina "Midge" Amelia Mayhan, the protagonist

  • A Friend in Need: To almost any of her friends, she's willing to be there for her friends no matter what.
  • Alliterative Name: Her name and surname both start with M: Melina Mayhan, and she goes by "Midge".
  • Author Appeal: She writes her very first book call Living in My Sister's Shadow, which becomes a huge success.
  • Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Beauty.
  • Big Sister Instinct: Towards her younger siblings and of course her younger cousin Eliza.
  • Big Sister Worship: She has a lot of admiration for Davina and always looks up to her as her role model.
  • Boyish Short Hair: While not actually a tomboy, she sported a shorter hairstyle in the first season only. Then it grew a lot longer as the show went on.
    • In contrast in the TV movie My Sister and Me, her hair was shoulder length.
  • Character Development: In the early seasons, she was this young teenage girl who had low self-esteem and lacked any confidence in herself, longing to branch out of her sister's shadow and finding her place in the world. Came the later seasons, she became a lot more confident and ambitious.
  • Cool Big Sister: To Bailey, Garrett and sometimes Chauncey.
  • Cool Car: She owns a bright, yellow sportscar compared to her sister's red one.
  • The Cutie: In her earlier seasons, mainly the first season. She was this young, innocent 13-year-old Girl Next Door who lived in her sister's shadow. She sort of stepped out of that cuteness stage once she reached her early 20's.
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Her main goal. She tries to step out of her sister's shadow by finding something that she can accomplish something great in her life so she won't live it down forever.
  • Hidden Depths: Surprisingly, she didn't even knew that she could play a piano that well. She's also a good volleyball player and was recruited in the volleyball team.
  • I Just Want to Be Special: More so, she just wants to be great as her older sister and is desperate to make everyone proud of her accomplishments.
  • Massive Numbered Siblings: She's the second oldest daughter of five siblings.
  • Meaningful Name: Her birth name, Melina, technically means "bright yellow" in Greek. Her parents kind of expected their daughter to have beautiful blonde hair when she was born and that her name would represent her being a natural blonde.
  • Middle Child Syndrome: Averted.
  • Oblivious to Love: In the first two seasons, she clearly had no idea that Anson was in love with her.
  • Official Couple: With Anson in the final season.
  • Only Friend: For her cousin, Eliza. She implies that Midge is her only real friend because she doesn't have any real friends back at home in New York.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Midge is her nickname, which is what her family and friends all call her. It was implied that she took the nickname from an old Barbie doll named Midge.
  • Only Sane Woman: If it's going to a New Kids on the Block concert or meeting them in person, she doesn't act all crazy or hysterical like Farrah does.
    • Whenever Davina isn't around, she's the sanest one in the household when there's chaos going on.
  • Parental Favoritism: Is her mother's favorite, according to her grandmother.

Farrah Luanne Nightingale, Midge's best friend

  • Hidden Depths: Despite her sunny disposition, Farrah can sometimes be very emotional and sensitive. She's also not afraid to open up about how much she misses her father from time to time.
  • In with the In Crowd: Although she only sticks with her real friends, she would sometimes be seen hanging out with her cheerleading pals.
  • Loony Fan: Of the New Kids on the Block. She sort of takes this to the extreme when she's thinking about them, meeting them in person or going to one of their concerts.
  • Ms. Fanservice
  • New Transfer Student: In the first season, she was only known as the new girl in town.
  • Nice Girl
  • Oblivious to Love: No matter how many times Chauncey has flirted with her, she could never take a hint that she was the object of his affections. Midge was so frustrated over Farrah's oliviousness of Chauncey's crush on her, she blatantly told her about Chauncey's crush on her. Farrah thought it was cute that he has a crush on her, much to Midge's dismay.
  • One Head Taller: She's an inch taller than Midge. Ironically, her mom is much taller than she is.
  • Only-Child Syndrome: She's always had a problem with being an only child and always wishes she had siblings of her own.
  • Passionate Sports Girl: She likes baseball and is an avid fan of the Boston Red Socks.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: She has a great sense of humor and would make funny jokes and remarks about things without being sarcastic.
  • Plucky Girl: She describes herself as being a risk-taker and is never afraid of trying new things or going on big adventures.
  • Poster-Gallery Bedroom: She has a bunch of New Kids on the Block posters lined up in her bedroom.
  • Puppy-Dog Eyes
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: She's the upbeat, energetic one to Levi's calm, pragmatic and level-headed.
  • Second Episode Introduction: She doesn't appear in the pilot episode.
  • She's All Grown Up: In the later seasons.
  • The Sixth Ranger
  • The Spock
  • Smitten Teenage Girl: The way she feels about her crushes on Levi Resnick and Jordan Knight, along with her reaction to her best friend's older sister.
  • Squee: She would always do this whenever she thinks about or ever meeting the New Kids on the Block.
  • Stepford Smiler: She would display a smile everyday while trying to hide her pain over the loss of her father.
  • Sweet Tooth: Has a craving for anything sweet.
  • What Beautiful Eyes!: By Chauncey, who would always compliment on her beautiful blue eyes everytime she's in the room.
  • When She Smiles: Again, by Chauncey. He would always compliment her smile by saying she lights up his life with her shiny white teeth.

Anson Virgil Howerton, Midge's childhood best friend and later boyfriend

Davina Penelope Mayhan-Van Buren, Midge's oldest sister

  • Academic Alpha Bitch: She was an A + student back in high school and a dean's list student in college, but wasn't outright mean.
  • The Ace: She was very athlectic in school. When she was in elementary school, she played on the girls' softball team, in middle school, on the swim team and in high school, she was on track & field, lacrosse, played basketball for a while and was on the cheer squad.
  • Action Girl: For a girl, she definitely knows how to kick some serious ass.
  • Big Sister Instinct: She ultimately showed shades of this by almost destroying Cynthia when she kept on bullying Midge at her party.
  • Celebrity Crush: Has a huge crush on Joey Lawrence and Kirk Cameron.
  • Cool Big Sister: To her younger siblings, but mainly to Midge.
  • Cool Car: She drives a shiny, red sports car that's very expensive, compared to Midge's yellow one.
  • Control Freak: Whenever her parents would put her in charge of taking care of her younger siblings while they're away, she would ultimately turn into a vicious dictator by giving orders and bossing them around.
  • Custom Uniform of Sexy: During the earlier seasons, her wardrobe choices consisted of provocative, skimpier outfits that bared a bit too much of her midriff, but in her defense, it was the style trend of the late '90s/early '00s that catched on to teenage girls and young women.
  • Dude Magnet: She's known to attract a lot of men wherever she goes, including guys who are young or old. Midge even states that back when Davina was in high school, all the boys wanted to date her.
  • Embarrassing Middle Name: Penelope, which she hates so much.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: With Farrah respectively.
  • Girly Bruiser: She's not afraid to pull punches with anyone (even with guys), especially when she almost tried to beat the crap out of Cynthia and pummeling her onto the ground at her sister's party.
  • The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Subverted with. Her and Midge have a great relationship and rarely fight, but when trying to find out who's the better sister, it would sometimes bring out the worst in each other.
  • Meaningful Name: The name Davina means "beloved" or "cherished" in English, which would symbolize her popularity and as being very well-liked by her peers in school.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: She ditched her provocative clothing choices and switched into a more suitable, working attire in the later seasons.

Chauncey Everett Mayhan, Midge's younger brother

  • Annoying Younger Sibling: Towards Midge and Davina only.
  • Anti-Hero: Type II or Type IV.
  • Big Eater: Is initally shown to having a big appetite.
  • The Big Guy
  • Big Man on Campus: His popularity grew in his sophomore year of high school when he becomes the star quarterback of the football team at Cloverdale High.
  • Book Dumb: Subverted.
  • Brains and Brawn: The Brawn to Garrett's Brains.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: According to his final exams results, he actually scored higher than Garrett did, much to his surprise.
  • Can't Get Away with Nuthin': He's a trouble maker and is prone to getting in trouble and caught by his parents and teachers. He doesn't always get a free ride whenever he tries to sabotage any relationships that Farrah maintains because of his undying love for her.
  • Yandere: He doesn't want to be with any girl other than Farrah, though that goes away once he starts dating Nori.

Garrett Leonard Mayhan, Midge's second younger brother

  • Always Save the Girl: Anything that would involve Bailey being in any type of danger.
  • Berserk Button: He hates being called a "momma's boy".
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Garrett appears as a nice guy by default, but push him around too much, you'll definitely gonna regret it. Chauncey learned that the hard way when he made him snap in front of his friends.
  • Big Brother Instinct: He shows a lot of protectiveness towards Bailey.
  • Big Brother Worship: Despite Chauncey's poor treatment of him at times, Garrett still looks up to him alot.
  • Blue Oni: To Chauncey's red.
  • Brains and Brawn: The Brains to Chauncey's Brawn.
  • Butt-Monkey: Only in Chauncey's schemes and pranks.
  • Character Development: He stopped being the Butt-Monkey in Chauncey's schemes and pranks and going through life as a tagalong with his brother's friends in the later seasons and evolved into having his own set of friends and becoming one of the most smartest kids in school with a bright future.
  • Cool Big Bro: To Bailey mostly.
  • The Everyman

Bailey Millicent Mayhan, Midge's youngest sister

  • Girlish Pigtails: In the early seasons.
  • Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has a bunch of stuffed animals laying around in her bedroom.
  • Happily Adopted: Averted. Despite not actually being adopted, Bailey thought that she was adopted and went on this bogus journey to find her "real father".
  • The Hecate Sisters: The Crone.
  • Held Back in School: Almost played with and thankfully averted. Her grades were very bad and was told that she would have to repeat the 8th grade another year. She got a tutor to help her in all of her classes and with tremendous progress, she finally passed the 8th grade completely.
  • Hidden Depths: She has a number of hidden talents: she can hula-hoop, do a hand-stand and is great at sign language.
  • Hollywood Tone-Deaf: She knows the lyrics to the songs, but just can't really hit the notes that well.
  • The Ingenue: She has a innocent, child-like disposition, but still tries to maintain her maturity as a teenager.
  • In-Series Nickname: Everyone in her family calls her "Little Red". Other alternate nicknames she's been rarely called by are "Red Riding Hood", "Red Robin Hood", "Ginger", "Ginger Snaps", "Ginger Spice", "Freckles", "Freckle Face" and "Pippi Longstocking".
    • She was even called "Strawberry Shortcake" once, even foreshadowing the possibility that her hair would become a strawberry blonde in the later seasons.
  • Kiddie Kid: Even as a teenager, she still acts like a 7-year-old, but tries to act more mature for her age.
  • Literal-Minded
  • Long Hair Is Feminine
  • Malaproper: She's always mispronouncing certain words wrong, forcing her family to correct her all the time for her to saying it right this time.
  • Naïve Everygirl: She's naive at everything that goes on around her, but still tries to catch up with everyone else.

Irma Harriet Mayhan (nee Wallace), Midge's mom

  • Broken Bird: After having a miscarriage in Season 6. She gets better though.
  • Housewife: Though she works as a financial adviser.

Conrad Rupert Mayhan, Midge's dad

    Recurring Characters 

Cynthia Ryerson, the antagonist

  • Alpha Bitch
  • The Antagonist: She was Midge's worst enemy in Season 1, as trying to make her life a living hell every chance she gets.
  • Daddy's Girl: She has her daddy wrapped around her finger whenever she wants something.
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • Drama Queen
  • The Fashionista
  • Freudian Excuse: The nasty divorce between her parents, her father's remarriage to a younger woman (whom she doesn't get along well with at home) and her mother's long absence in her life has made her bitter and cruel towards her peers at school.
  • Hair Flip: She would generally flip her long, beautiful hair at times unless if she's trying to get a guy's attention or making herself look good.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite having a close relationship with her father, she painfully misses her mother.
  • It's All About Me: Very conceited and self-centered, she doesn't really care about anyone but herself.
  • Make Way for the Princess
  • Missing Mom: Due to not having full custody, her mother has always been completely absent in her life.
  • Pet the Dog: She would sometimes lend some of her clothes to her friends.
    • She even gives out gifts to her classmates during Christmas time.
  • The Prima Donna
  • Put on a Bus to Hell: She gets sent to a boarding school in England in Season 2.
  • Spoiled Brat: Since her dad is the chief executive of an advertising agency, one of the highest paying jobs in California, she's had everything handed down to her without ever lifting a finger. She would normally take things for granted when she doesn't always get what she wants.
  • Upper-Class Twit
  • Ungrateful Bitch

Carlene Gibson, Anson's admirer and short-term girlfriend

Levi Resnick, Farrah's love interest and boyfriend

Rustin Landfield, Midge's love interest

Marianne Eloise Hildenburg, Midge's third best friend

  • Shrinking Violet: Has always been incredibly shy and introverted before her makeover.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Anson. She became a replacement best friend for Midge and Farrah in the fourth season.
  • Teen Genius: She's one of the smartest kids at Cloverdale High and is also valedictorian of her senior class.

Roxanne and Lacey, the popular head cheerleaders of the Cheer! Squad

Wanda Nightingale, Farrah's mom

  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Her sadness, depression and grief over her deceased husband made her withdrawn and distant from her daughter Farrah, which caused their relationship to be strained.
  • Broken Bird: Around Seasons 3-4, she was still grieving over the loss of her husband, even to the show's prior.
  • Character Development: During the later seasons, she went from depressed and withdrawn to more happy and spirited once she got back in the dating scene and approving her relationship with her daughter a lot more.
  • Glamorous Single Mother
  • Parent with New Paramour: She starts going on a few dates in the later seasons, much to her daughter's dismay.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
  • Statuesque Stunner: She stands about 5'9", making Farrah much shorter than her. Ironically, Farrah is actually an inch taller than Midge.
  • Workaholic: She constantly works long hours as a real estate agent and is never at home when her daughter is.

Isaac Van Buren, Davina's old boyfriend and now husband

Norielle "Nori" Scanlon, Chauncey's girlfriend

  • Defrosting Ice Queen: When we first meet her, she was a bit snobbish and bothered by Chauncey's cocky attitude, but once Chauncey started treating her with lots of respect and dating her, she quickly warms up to him.
  • The Fashionista: She would always wear the most expensive and trendiest outfits to school.

Tegan Westbrook, Garrett's girlfriend

  • Emo Teen: Though not the depressive type.

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