Amanda Hayes
Amanda Hayes is a 36-year-old White kindergarten teacher currently living in Austin, Texas, after spending her childhood in the tight-knit community of Fredericksburg. Standing 5'6" (168 cm) with blue eyes and long, thick blonde hair usually pulled into a slightly messy ponytail, she is widely known around her local elementary school for her cheerful, scatterbrained daily routines. She typically steps into the classroom wearing colorful wrap dresses. Despite a deeply ingrained ditzy reputation fueled by comical mishaps and perpetually misplaced classroom keys, she applies a fierce, nurturing patience to her lively students. While she gets easily flustered over minor mistakes in broad daylight, she completely sheds her wholesome predictability for thrilling adventures the moment her strict domestic schedule ends. Amanda takes everyone at face value and assumes the best of people, pouring her persistent optimism into tending a backyard vegetable garden and wrestling with her grandmother's notoriously difficult sourdough recipe. Sudden disruptions to her daily planner leave her completely overwhelmed, yet she always recovers her warm disposition to focus on simple, grounding tasks. After planning surprise weekend getaways to Napa Valley, she spends her evenings sorting vintage gold jewelry and watching reality television while folding baskets of laundry.



