I downloaded multiples of some dresses because the front and side/back angles were so picturesque. How could I resist this photo of, say, Carolina Valdez Taylor Bingham Taylor, bride of two brothers and in the middle, their cousin, who is also the world's foremost environmental scientist? (On a nighttime soap, everyone is the best at everything in their field. Even the cops on Passions had plaques saying they were the best at it. I know because I went to the set sale after it was cancelled.)
This character clearly hosts a 24-Hour Sustainability Gala where everyone comes dressed as their favorite plant leaf and then has to really make it last.
Next, meet Calliope Hunt, First Lady of Forest Cliffs, the most important city in a vaguely northwestern or maybe northeastern part of a country that is probably this one. Strangely, her husband is named Cliff Forest.
She also runs a magazine.
Nell Cavendish is a soap opera actress on an incredibly successful and popular show called The Hot and the Cold. She once tested cosmetics from her sister's company that left her with a scar the size of a pinprick on her cheek -- so of course she refuses to be seen in public anymore due to the enormity of her disfigurement.
Her twin sister, Bella, is going to take over her role on the soap opera while Nell undergoes extensive plastic surgery to fix the microscopic mark, and though she is Forest Cliffs' foremost entrepreneur in the cosmetics industry, she is also going to NAIL that scene where she must confront her presumed-dead lover and she may end up stealing her sister's job AND boyfriend.
These are, after all, conniving sleeves.
And also LOVE SCENE sleeves.
"Whoops, I am half naked, Taylor Patrick Taylor, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?"
Lucy Locarno is Forest Cliffs' preeminent Pulitzer winning journalist, known for her sensitive but unflinching coverage of the time a tsunami washed out the 24-Hour Sustainability Gala during hour 16, causing at least four cases of amnesia and one accidental pregnancy.
Jane X was Amnesiac No. 1, and has become the nation's foremost expert on amnesia.
Bart Sylvester is the renowned photographer who captured the crisis as it unfolded, but then became Amnesiac #2, who forgot where he left his camera. He is now the country's top expert in adding GPS tracking to lots of objects.
Bronwyn von Ludwig caused the tsumani and we all know it.
Unfortunately her sister, Letitia, is Amnesiac No. 3 AND also the accidental pregnancy, which has created a lot of problems. She is now the world's foremost expert on Bluetooth DNA testing.
What she also doesn't remember is that this was her girlfriend, Bonnet Sanchez, one of the world's most famous handbag designers.
Jacqueline Trucco is Forest Cliffs' top surgeon, who invented a world-altering technique for brain transplants.
Genevieve St. Alban disappeared last season and came back the night of the 24-Hour Sustainability Gala with an entirely new face -- obtained after a surprise envelope fire -- and spent the first 11 hours of it hiding behind corners eavesdropping even though nobody would recognize her yet.
No one, that is, except for crack detective Hildy Halloran, who may also be in the running to be police chief, due to the department being decimated by a serial killer.
The serial killer, Dr. Darla Devane, wore this to her trial. She was once the leading oil baron in all of the specific region of this nation, but power corroded her.
Forest Cliffs' top influencer, Madison Moran, is Amnesiac No. 4. Her career ended because she forgot her Instagram password.
Chase Fallon runs a fashion line that gets a great deal of attention from newspapers near all the major metropolitan areas that abut Forest Cliffs, of which there are many that you would definitely know.
She needs a chiropractor.
Twins Bobby and Bailey Brixton are the nation's top illusionists, and also sometimes aren't sure which of them was named what.
Lingerie model and national-adjacent sensation Lauralee Laroux just wants you to let her join a convent in peace.
The Mother Superior, Sister Mary Penelope, leads a double life as the star of gritty indie flicks that require her to do things that land her in the confessional a lot. Fortunately, the new priest is a great listener, and his commitment to the cloth is as loose as his belt.
Alex Morgan is the first and best international soccer star ever to have the same name as another international soccer star. She has won several medals at the Parthenon Games, which was a miracle considering she also nearly lost her ankle to a hair-dryer accident.
Ric and Regina Jeffrey are the reigning king and queen of the Forest Cliffs drug scene -- by which I mean they are the world's top pharmacologists and are currently developing a vaccine for toe cancer.
And who could forget Forest Cliffs' favorite child, Hortense Diamante, who fell down a hole when she was ten and became one with the land, emerging two years later at age 23 and with an incredible understanding of what aphids really want in life. She was being honored at the 24-Hour Sustainability Gala but she developed a rare nose aneurysm in hour three and was rushed to the hospital for experimental surgery. Thoughts and prayers, please.