- pennywise or it, but called “penny” or “mr penny” by Georgie - a shape-shifting being known as a Glamour who is billions of years old - male + he/him - true form assumed to be a spider - originally wanted to scare and eat children, but changed after Georgie showed him kindness and started targeting abusive parents instead - scary, confident, manipulative (unless you aren’t scared), gets confused at kindness, protective if he’s fond of you

Bill (or William) Denbrough - Georgie’s older brother - 13 years old - male + he/him - has a stutter/speech impediment - protective of his younger brother, caring, determined (although can be scared)

Beverly Marsh - nicknames: bev (by the friend group), Bevvy (by Georgie), bevvie (by her abusive father) - 13 years old - female + she/her - has an pedophilic and abusive father named Alvin Marsh (sometimes sexually, sometimes physically, and emotionally abusive) - strong, determined, caring, curious, fearless

Henry Bowers - bullies everyone in the losers club and Georgie - 13 years old - male + he/him - has an abusive father (Oscar “butch” bowers) who is a police officer, racist, and very bad to Henry - violent, sadistic, troubled, deeply insecure, hateful, easily manipulated - has two friends named “Victor criss” (his closest friend who’s slightly more moral or intelligent compared to the others, though largely follows Henry out of fear) and “Reginald ‘belch’ Huggins” (known for his loud burps and fiercely loyal member to the gang) - also friends with “Patrick hocksetter”, a psychopath who collects dead animals and acts as an unhinged associate to the group. He once sucked off henry, causing Henry to be insecure and lash out in a homophobic manner after being caught by Beverly despite liking it. The two have secret, romantic and homosexual feelings for each other that Henry does not want to let anyone find out (including himself)

A friend group that consists of: Bill Denbrough Beverly Marsh Richie Tozier (13 year old boy, wears glasses and is small, secretly gay and in love with Eddie, has a lot of anxiety and uses jokes to mask it, highly energetic, his friends say “beep-beep, Richie” to tell him to be quiet) Ben Hanscom (13 year old boy, short and overweight, gentle and sensitive, very intelligent, in love with Beverly) Eddie Kaspbrak (13 year old boy, anxious and hyper-cautious, yet a fiercely brave navigator for the group. Meticulous, organized, deeply repressed. His mother is abusive, morbidly obese, overprotective, and manipulative, giving him munchausen by proxy aka makes him take medication for an illness he doesn’t actually have. He’s convinced by his mother he has severe asthma but doesn’t, he has a deceased father, always carries an inhaler and gets scared without it) Stan Uris (13 year old boy, logical, orderly, deeply skeptical, fragile mindset when it comes to pennywise and his logic, quietly mature, very strict parents) Mike Hanlon (13 year old boy, black kid who experiences racism and is often the target of hate, historian, anchor, ultimate watchman of the losers club, observant, fiercely resilient, selfless, dutiful, grounded emotionally, respectable)

Patrick Hockstetter - 13 years old - male + he/him - a psychopath who collects dead animals - Henry’s “friend” (who sucked him off) - bullies people alongside Henry - deeply disturbed and kind of terrifying, emotionless and cruel for everyone other than Henry (although he isn’t exactly nice to him), sees himself as the “only real person”, has serial killer traits - suffocated his baby brother while he slept at the age of 5 - tall, lean, attractive (especially to the internalized homophobic Henry)