Characters / Teenage Bounty Hunters

Here we find the characters of Teenage Bounty Hunters. BEWARE: SPOILERS AHEAD

Main Characters

Blair

Blair Wesley

Portrayed by: Anjelica Bette Fellini

• Action Girl: Is the more physically active of the twins and it shows when they're going after skips. A notable example of this occurs in the first episode when she jumps onto the hood of a moving car like she is Vin Diesel.
  Blair: What am I doing?! I am not Vin Diesel!
• Bounty Hunter: She and Sterling pretend to be bounty hunters after their involvement in a car accident with a skip. They continue the ruse so that they can earn enough money to pay for repairs to their dad's truck, but they turn out to be such naturals at bounty hunting that they keep doing it long after they paid for the work.
• Brutal Honesty: Blair has no filter. Like, at all. Why else would she tell a total stranger that her sister just had sex?
• Cloudcuckoolander: Miles plainly tells her she's weird, but that's one of the reasons he likes her so much.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Becomes convinced her mother is hiding something, which is initially doubted by Sterling and Miles, and though none of her specific theories are correct at first, she was Properly Paranoid.
• Deadpan Snarker: Is one of, if not the biggest one of these in the series; it's like she opens her mouth and sarcasm pours out.
  Ellen: (after complimenting Blair's boots, which presumably aren't a part of the school uniform) Y'know, Jesus was a rebel too!
  Blair: Yeah, I heard that he saw Nine Inch Nails twenty times on the Downward Spiral tour.
• Innocent Bigot: Shows to be this here and there throughout the series. For example, she assumes that a black woman cutting the heads off of Confederate statues pleases Luke and his friends because they're black too, when in fact their feelings on the vandalism are quite the opposite.
• Parental Favoritism: Both twins acknowledge that Sterling is their mother's favorite... which might partly be Debbie overcompensating, since Sterling is not her biological daughter. That is not to say that Blair is The Unfavorite, since she is clearly well-loved.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Blair is an extrovert who really enjoys having fun and acting out, whereas Sterling is reserved and quite pious to the point of unable to curse. Ultimately subverted, after it's revealed that the two girls aren't even sisters, let alone twins.
• Soapbox Sadie: By the standards of her social circle (that being conservative rich white Republicans), Blair is extremely liberal and she will not shut up about it, even when Debbie flat out tells her not to discuss politics. Big Daddy actually seems to dread being around her because of this, but Blair claims she can't help it. It's apparently like a sneeze to her.
  • That said, she puts aside her hatred of hunting to go with her dad on a hunting trip so she can try to probe him for information about their mom when she gets suspicious that Debbie is hiding something.
  Blair: (to Big Daddy, immediately after her defense of the right to bear arms) Also, the NRA is in with Big Oil and they are eating up the American wilderness, so there won't be anywhere to hunt anyway. (smiles)

Sterling

Sterling Wesley

Portrayed by: Maddie Phillips

• The Ace: Functions as this in the sisters' Christian school, chosen for Fellowship Leader and adored by her peers as opposed to the more fear-based popularity April has until she has her fall from grace, but even then ends up recovering stronger than ever as she's perceived to have fallen and been guided back to the light by God
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With April, though by the time Sterling realizes she's attracted to April, it's no longer belligerent on Sterling's end
• Bounty Hunter: She and Blair pretend to be bounty hunters after their involvement in a car accident with a skip. They continue the ruse so that they can earn enough money to pay for repairs to their dad's truck, but they turn out to be such naturals at bounty hunting that they keep doing it long after they paid for the work.
• Childhood Friends: With April and Luke, they were all in elementary school together.
• First Kiss: Implied to be this for April.
• Geeky Turn-On: Considering her first and only boyfriend, while sweet, is about as smart as a bag of bricks, this is Implied to be on of the reasons of her attraction to April.
• Gender-Blender Name: Sterling, which, while not a very common name, is usually associated with males.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Sterling can't seem to be able to utter a proper curse, no matter how much the situation calls for it. Pays off in the season finale when she tells her parents "Cut the crap," shocking them (and Blair).
• Good Bad Girl: Sterling is the more religious of the twins, but she is also the more sexually active of the two. In fact, the very first scene of the series is her initiating sex with her boyfriend Luke.
• Gun Nut: When Sterling threatens a skip with a shotgun, Bowser mockingly asks her if daddy bought that for her. She then launches into a spiel about shotguns and Glocks that shows that she knows her way around firearms. But, yes, daddy got it for her.
  Uncle Deacon: [Stirling] loves a gun!
• Hairof Gold Heartof Gold: She's very sweet and has golden blonde hair
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: After she masturbates for the first time thinking of April, anything the other girl does is enough to send her mind straight to the gutter. For example, April barking orders at Ezekiel and simply placing her arm in front of Sterling leaves her breathing heavily.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Bowser calls her a "freakishly good shot," which is fair since he'd seen her shoot out several tires on a moving car (that her sister is clinging onto for dear life) with a shotgun. In a later episode, Sterling manages to shoot out several hanging lights to stop a (naked) skip from escaping.
• Loophole Abuse: Likes to use some rather...imaginative interpretations of the Bible in order to convince Luke into having sex with her.
• Parental Favoritism: Both twins acknowledge that Sterling is their mother's favorite... which might partly be Debbie overcompensating, since Sterling is not her biological daughter. That is not to say that Blair is The Unfavorite, since she is clearly well-loved.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Sterling is reserved and quite pious to the point of unable to curse, whereas Blair is an extrovert who really enjoys having fun and acting out. Ultimately subverted, after it's revealed that the two girls aren't even sisters, let alone twins.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: She's bisexual and played by the bisexual Maddie Phillips.
• We Used to Be Friends: She and April were childhood friends until the fifth grade. Their friendship ended when April, according to Sterling, abandoned her for another classmate.

Bowser

Bowser Jenkins

Portrayed by: Kadeem Hardison

• Bounty Hunter: The only true bounty hunter between himself and the twins, since they are both unlicensed and underage, and they had to come up with a cover story to explain why the girls looked so young.
• Catchphrase: "Well, as the old saying goes: bye."
• Dark and Troubled Past: Was kicked out of the police force in Florida for shooting a fellow cop. The said cop was actually a horse and the horse survived, but still, he acknowledges that it was not exactly his proudest moment. Even the police all the way in Georgia give him a little grief over the incident.
  Blair: So you shot a horse on the force?
  Bowser: A horse on the force is a cop.
  Yolanda: Of course.
• Grumpy Old Man: He's more middle-aged than elderly, but if the shoe fits... Most of the interactions between him and the Wesleys more often than not involve him being annoyed at something one or both of them says or does. This changes in later episodes when Bowser finally warms up to the girls...but not by much.
  Stirling: (on being told about a skip being the bane of Bowser's existence) What? I thought we were.
• The Mentor: Starts off as just using Blair and Sterling to access places that otherwise would have been unavailable to him (because he's a black man and they're from a rich Republican family), but he grows into becoming this for the girls.
• The Rival: Terrance Coin is this to Bowser, as a bounty hunter and also as a romantic rival competing for Yolanda's affections.

The Wesley Family

Debbie

Debbie Wesley

Portrayed by: Virginia Williams

• Always Identical Twins: With her sister Dana, unlike fraternal twins (who are actually cousins) Blair and Stirling. It actually serves as Foreshadowing when 'Debbie' catches the twins outside Yolanda's office and the real Debbie doesn't know what they're talking about when they try to explain why they were hanging out at a bail bondswoman's office.
• Hidden Depths: She is the prim and proper wealthy Republican housewife who hates guns...and is also an award-winning sharpshooter who once taught her brother-in-law how to sex grunt like a deer. Justified, since she grew up in what is apparently the most stereotypically Deep South town in Georgia.
• Hypocrite: Spends much of the series in judgement over her daughters (especially Stirling) and others while acting pious when she is wanted for burning down an abortion clinic. Ultimately subverted, as it wasn't really Debbie who torched the clinic but her twin sister, Dana.
• Mama Bear: Do not go after her girls in any way, shape or form, as Luke's mom and Dana can both attest to.
• Secret-Keeper: Has a secret twin sister with a bounty on her head, but she and Anderson work very hard to keep Dana's existence a secret from their girls.
  • There is also the secret that she is keeping from Sterling in regards to her true parentage.
• Twin Telepathy: As revealed in Something Sour Patch, when she and Dana start communicating in the same way as Blair and Stirling.

Anderson

Anderson Wesley

Portrayed by: Mackenzie Astin

• Cannot Tell a Lie: As Blair discovers in Cleave or Whatever, giving her the idea to grill him about Debbie's sneaking around.
• Good Parents: It becomes clear very early in the series how much he loves his daughters. Blair is clearly his favourite, as acknowledged by the twins themselves (not that Sterling isn't as well-loved, on the contrary), but that is because Blair is his actual biological child.
• Secret-Keeper: Knows everything about his wife and her twin sister but he and Debbie work very hard to keep Dana's existence a secret from their girls.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Anderson doesn't get much in the way of respect from Big Daddy (or his brother, for that matter), even when he stands up to him.

Big Daddy

Big Daddy Wesley

Portrayed by: Frank Roberts

• Racist Grandpa: To the point where he dreads being in the same room as his own granddaughter, Blair. In fact, the only thing that they can both agree on is their views on the Second Amendment, but then Blair had to ruin it by going on a spiel about how the NRA are a bunch of bad people.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Doesn't hold much in the way of respect for Anderson if the disdain he shows his son's inability to chop wood and implied preference for his other son, Deacon, over him are anything to go by.

Willingham Academy

April

April Stevens

Portrayed by: Devon Hales

• Alpha Bitch: Combined with Rich Bitch and Academic Alpha Bitch. April appears to be a spoiled brat from a wealthy family and a nasty piece of work who masks her general bitchiness behind a veneer of Christian piety. She also has been the academic rival of Sterling for a long time before the story starts. Ultimately subverted, however, since April is actually pretending to be a mean girl to hide the fact that she is gay. She actually turns out to be really nice once Sterling finds out.
• Armored Closet Gay: Played with. She doesn't have any self-loathing or denial about her sexuality; she specifically says that she doesn't believe being gay is wrong. That being said, April is afraid of coming out as a lesbian, due to being a student at a conservative Christian school as well as having homophobic parents. Sterling nearly convinces her to come out, but her father returning from prison drives April back into the closet.
• Attention Whore: It's telling that her first scene involves her bragging about how she and her clique flew to a lake house in a helicopter where they knitted sweaters for "the sick dirty babies with tiny heads." She even came prepared with a slideshow of her hanging out by the pool.
  • There is also a part in Death is Bad where she makes a substitute teacher's memorial service all about her.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Sterling, big time.
• Childhood Friends: With Luke and Sterling, dating back to elementary school.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Her relationship with Sterling improves greatly over the course of the series after the two end up having to spend time with each other for various school functions. Then, after she and Sterling admit their feelings to each other, April has a hard time keeping up the Alpha Bitch facade whenever Sterling is around.
• First Kiss: The first kiss she shared with Stirling is implied to be hers.
• Geeky Turn-On: Sterling is as much of a good student as she is and they basically do the same extracurricular activities. April's had feelings for her since they were in elementary school.
• Hidden Depths: April might be a falsely pious and manipulative bitch but even she is disgusted that her father beat up a prostitute.
  April: I'm not a fan of sex workers but they deserve to be safe. Just not allowed to vote.
  • As it turns out, she can be just as lovably dorky as Sterling as she learns to navigate her feelings, and is a massive Star Wars fan because she and her dad would watch them together as some sort of tradition.
• Precocious Crush: April has apparently been crushing hard on other girls — and only girls — since the second grade, however, April's actress states that April did not develop feelings for Sterling until later once they started spending time together again during the series, not in the fifth grade as many viewers assume.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Goes into this while she is making out with Sterling in her car.
  April: I have this intense urge to ravage you.^NoteTranslation: I so want to jump your bones in this car right now.
• Straight Gay: Is a lesbian who shows neither any Butch Lesbian nor Lipstick Lesbian traits. Justified, since she is in a conservative environment and is part of a homophobic family and she probably doesn't want to indicate that she is anything other than straight.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Implied. April drives herself to be a perfectionist in everything she does because, in her words (and her dad's): "Team Stevens wins, no matter what. Team Stevens is perfect."
• We Used to Be Friends: She and Sterling were childhood friends. Their friendship ended when Sterling, according to April, abandoned her to another classmate and started a relationship with Luke.

Luke

Luke Creswell

Portrayed by: Spencer House

• The Ditz: Luke is a sweet and sensitive guy, but boy, is he dumber than a bag of hammers.
• Dreadful Musician: Takes up the guitar after he is kicked off the golf team due to his indiscretions with Sterling. It's all well and good, but there's only one problem: he is actually a really terrible musician.
• Last Het Romance: Is this for Sterling before she realizes that she likes girls and enters into a relationship with April.

Hannah B

Hannah B

Portrayed by: Charity Cervantes

• The Ditz: Is arguably the biggest ditz in the series. For example:
  • She seems to have a little trouble reading situations for what they really are, such as thinking that the Passive-Aggressive Kombat between April and the Wesleys is just a chat between friends.
  Sterling: Have a blessed night.
  Hannah B: (waving and smiling happily) Oh, you too, sweetie!
  Ezekiel: (with an 'are you really that dumb?' look on his face) Read the room, Hannah B. For the love of God, read the room.
  • She doesn't know the meaning of the term, "personal business:"
  Hannah B: (after Ezekiel just said that April is going through some personal business) It's her dad. His trial starts today.
  Ezekiel: It's personal.
  Hannah B: (with an 'are you really that dumb?' look on her face) Right. And her dad's a person, Ezekiel.
  • And she apparently doesn't know what a condom looks like, according to a text message in the second episode.
• Full-Name Basis: Kind of. She is always referred to as "Hannah B," but there is no indication of what the "B" stands for. Nor is there anyone else in the show named Hannah to make use of the initial really necessary.
• Nice Girl: She is the only person in April's clique who is unfailingly nice to Blair and Sterling and she even takes the snark that comes from April and Ezekiel in stride.

Ezekiel

Ezekiel

Portrayed by: Eric Graise

• Artificial Limbs: Both of his legs are artificial.
• Beta Bitch: Is this for April. He can be catty toward most people, including April at one point, but it's usually Hannah B who receives the brunt of his snark.
• Camp Gay: Has camp speech patterns and mannerisms, and he considers a condom wrapper "beautiful." Would be a Transparent Closet, but everyone around him seems to be oblivious.

Horny Lorna

Horny Lorna

Portrayed by: Given Sharp

• Extreme Omnisexual: Appears to have this reputation, given that her name is Horny Lorna. Sex seems to be constantly on her mind, case in point: it was apparently her idea to have the animals in her and Luke's model of Noah's ark arranged...ahem...mid-coitus.^NoteAnd this is including two giraffes who appear to be 69ing.

Other Characters

Miles

Miles

Portrayed by: Myles Evans

• Hypocrite: After he dumps Blair for lying, it turns out he was keeping her a secret from his family.
• Secretly Wealthy: Miles attends a public school, his mother works two jobs and he works as a valet in a country club frequented by rich white folks. His family is also an order of magnitude wealthier than Blair's and Sterling's. His father owns a bank, and as for his mother? She's a lawyer and a state senator.

Terrance Coin

Terrance Coin

Portrayed by: Method Man

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Outside of the Scary Black Man persona he puts up for his YouTube channel, Terrance is a nice guy who is really friendly and welcoming to everyone, even his rival Bowser. That said, when he is hunting down a skip he is shown treating his cameraman unkindly, and then he edits his latest video to humiliate Bowser and downplay his involvement in tracking down said skip.
• Catchphrase: "Night, night!"
• I Work Alone: Is reluctant to work with Bowser in apprehending a skip, claiming to be a "lone wolf." Then he edits one of his videos to downplay Bowser's involvement, although to be fair, Bowser was too concerned about Blair to be of any help to him anyway (Bowser did come up with the idea to smoke the skip out, which Coin took credit for).
• Pet the Dog: After Stirling is kidnapped by Dana, Terrence helps Boswer and Blair track down her boyfriend despite being their (well, mostly Bowser's) rival.
• The Rival: Is this to Bowser, as a bounty hunter and also as a romantic rival competing for Yolanda's affections.
• Scary Black Man: Takes up this persona while filming himself taking down skips for his YouTube channel.

Yolanda

Yolanda Carrion

Portrayed by: Shirley Rumierk

• The Gadfly: It is revealed that she continually assigns a habitual bail jumper to Bowser (much to his dismay) because watching his repeated failed attempts at capturing the skip is basically her favourite TV show.
• Will They or Won't They?: Pretty much every interaction between her and Bowser that has nothing to do with bounty hunting. It is clear that Bowser still has feelings for her, even when she is involved with Terrance Coin.
• Working with the Ex: Yolanda is Bowser's Old Flame, and he was with her before he married her crazy sister.

Ellen

Ellen Johnson

Portrayed by: Wynn Everett

• Cloudcuckoolander: Ellen is...kooky, to say the least.
• Cool Teacher: She’s incredibly friendly and encouraging to her students, accepting them as they are and embracing their more rebellious qualities even when the challenge fundamentalist beliefs.
• Nice Gal: She is probably the friendliest member of the cast.
• Shipper on Deck: Implied. Ellen is always attempting to partner April and Stirling together for assignments and other activities. This may just be an attempt to give two former friends a chance to rekindle their friendship, or she sees something special between them.

SPOILER CHARACTER

Dana

Portrayed by: Virginia Williams

• Always Identical Twins: With her sister Debbie, unlike fraternal twins (who are actually cousins) Blair and Stirling. It actually serves as Foreshadowing when 'Debbie' catches the twins outside Yolanda's office and the real Debbie doesn't know what they're talking about when they try to explain why they were hanging out at a bail bondswoman's office.
• Evil Twin: It's probably harsh to say that she was the evil twin, per se, but she clearly went down a much darker path than her sister, starting with the abortion clinic that she torched.
• The Fundamentalist: Why else would she have torched an abortion clinic?
• Luke, I Am Your Father: A heartbreaking example where Stirling learns that it is actually Dana, not Debbie, who is her real mother.
• Twin Telepathy: As revealed in Something Sour Patch, when she and Debbie start to communicate in the same way as Blair and Stirling.

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