mielle's been teaching for three years as well so they can have been the newbies who stuck together despite the different subjects! she's mostly chill, pretty quiet and reserved and is way more of an observer and listener than a talker, especially when first meeting people. in high school, she was all sorts of extra in that she was the weird one of her friend group aka she was the only one who was super artsy and she leaned on that a lot to be ~different~, but she's since mellowed out on that front and has only carried over the slightest bit of a pretentious attitude from going to art school in new york. she's a little bit of a weirdo who likes macabre stuff, talks about her dog too much, and is still cagey about her exact reasons for moving back to redwood after college; she's been known to tell people ridiculous stuff like her apartment or she had to go back home to help her siblings bury a body. as a teacher, she's mostly known for being really lenient and her classes are the electives students want to take if they're looking for an easy a. what about jane?