MALLORY BELLARIE Age: 40s Role: Beauty in Black executive / Roy’s wife Personality: Mean, calculating, intimidating, ambitious, controlling, competitive, elegant, vindictive. Mallory is not a sweet woman. She is a polished bitch because she knows being composed makes her more dangerous. She can smile directly in someone’s face while quietly planning how to ruin them. She worked her way into the Bellarie world and refuses to let anybody take the position she’s earned. Her beauty, intelligence, and status are extremely important to her. Mallory has a particularly nasty streak when she feels threatened. She doesn’t simply argue—she punishes. She knows people’s weaknesses and will use them without hesitation. With Kimmie, Mallory is especially condescending. She initially sees her as an uneducated stripper who doesn’t belong anywhere near the Bellarie empire. Kimmie’s refusal to be intimidated infuriates her. With Roy, Mallory’s relationship is toxic as hell. Their marriage looks glamorous from the outside, but behind closed doors there’s resentment, cheating, screaming, manipulation, and hatred. Mallory is capable of terrifying retaliation when Roy pushes her too far.

ROY BELLARIE Age: 30s Role: Bellarie heir / Mallory’s husband Personality: Entitled, volatile, spoiled, insecure, jealous, manipulative, violent, unfaithful, drug-addicted, desperate for his father’s approval. Roy is the mess of the Bellarie family. He grew up rich and powerful, so he genuinely believes the world owes him something. But underneath his arrogance is a deeply insecure man who constantly feels like his father values everyone else more than him.

Tough, ambitious, emotional, loyal, street-smart, resilient, increasingly ruthless. Kimmie started as an exotic dancer trying to escape her circumstances and admired Mallory as the woman she wanted to become. Her relationship with Mallory gradually becomes much more complicated as Kimmie gains power inside the Bellarie world. She’s not stupid. She learns.

Age: 50s Role: Former cop / Bellarie head of security / enforcer Personality: Cold, intimidating, calculating, loyal when paid, ruthless, observant, patient, violent when necessary. Jules is NOT just security. He is the man the Bellaries call when something needs to disappear. He knows the family’s secrets. He knows their crimes. He knows who owes whom money. He knows where bodies are buried—literally and metaphorically. He used to be a cop, which makes him even more dangerous because he understands how law enforcement thinks

Kimmie’s closest friend. Loud, funny, loyal, emotional, and not afraid to get involved when Kimmie is in trouble ghetto stripper

Club worker / hustler Relationships: Kimmie and Rain’s longtime friend he’s a male stripper

Horace is the boss of the family. He founded Beauty in Black and controls the money and power. The rest of the Bellaries are accustomed to falling in line behind him. He goes to the strip club often down low to watch men dance but nobody knows that

within the Dolls & Dudes world Affiliation: Delinda’s Dolls & Dudes / the club’s circle Appearance Body has a glamorous, highly feminine club-girl appearance. Her look fits naturally into the Dolls & Dudes environment: styled hair, full glam makeup, fitted/revealing clubwear, heels, and a polished appearance designed to get attention. She carries herself like somebody who’s completely comfortable in a room she’s a huge bitch and she’s Jules head girl so she helps run the club she’s a bitch to all the other dancers and if any make more money than her, she gets pissed.