Dr. Estelle Havener, Sc.D

Estelle’s mom, and a forthcoming figure in the field of alternate/solar energy. She comes from New Orleans, and stepped back from her career and became a consultant in her thirties, to settle down and raise a child. She’s energetic, excitable, and incredibly supportive of her child. She has no other family aside from Selene’s family and her wife/child.

Estelle’s mama, and a forthcoming figure in the field of commercial spacecraft engineering. She comes from Massachusetts, and stepped back from her career and became a consultant in her thirties, to settle down and raise a child. She’s calm, refined, and incredibly supportive of her child. She has a notable extended family.

Estelle’s grandmother, a wise but often stubborn old woman with very strict morals. She doesn’t get along well with Estelle, as they’re both very stubborn but with very different outlooks on life - Estelle bases respect mostly on intelligence, while Osupa works primarily from age. Estelle had regular arguments with her when the two of them lived together.

Estelle’s aunt, on her mother Selene’s side. Cynthia doesn’t think very highly of Estelle, seeing her as pretentious and abrasive, and looks down on her sister’s way of parenting her child. She’s a major part of why Estelle obscures her own intelligence around others, in an attempt to make her aunt less critical towards her.

Estelle’s uncle by marriage, on her mother Selene’s side. He’s less openly critical towards Estelle than his wife, but he has the same issues with how Estelle has been raised, and how that shaped her personality growing up. He’s part of the reason Estelle obscures her own intelligence around others, in an attempt to make him less critical towards her.

Estelle’s cousin, on her mother Selene’s side, and Ceph’s twin. A confident and rough-and-tumble woman, with a love for the natural world and especially gardening. She doesn’t share any interests with Estelle, and is already very close to Ceph, so she and Estelle aren’t very close.

Estelle’s cousin, on her mother Selene’s side, and Cassie’s twin. A wistful and delicate young man, deeply spiritual, with a passion for fortune telling and all things fantastical. He doesn’t share any interests with Estelle, and is already very close to Cassie, so he and Estelle aren’t very close.

Estelle’s cousin, on her mother Selene’s side, and the youngest of Cynthia’s kids. A friendly, social boygirl who loves skating, her friend group and vintage emo clothing. A real goofy silly, whose nickname was mainly given as a joke. He isn’t too close to Estelle, preferring to spend his time with his own friends. Besides, she thinks Estelle’s a little weird.

One of Estelle’s executive producers on Essie Explains, inheriting Buncat Entertainment from their father along with their brother. Estelle and Kichirō are relatively close during the production process, as Kichirō has a shared interest in robotics and child entertainment with her, so they get along well in meetings. Estelle wants to consider them a friend, but their relationship is more professional than platonic.

One of Estelle’s executive producers on Essie Explains, inheriting Buncat Entertainment from his father along with his sibling. Estelle makes Buncat a lot of money, and thus Katsurō is pretty fond of her, especially as she funds her own show. Even with her taking a small cut, Katsurō has a lot of faith in her to bring in money, and Estelle is allowed a lot of freedom with her show because of that trust.

The closest thing Estelle has ever had to a friend, one of her classmates from MIT. The two were robotics rivals, and Estelle and Eike both gave each other complex critiques on their robotics work, with Eike assisting on her prosthesis development work. He won Season 2 of Drones: In The Zone, in the same year that Estelle won RoboKill Fighters. She works in drone ambulance development now, and the two keep relative contact in between their busy lives.

Estelle’s tenth grade chemistry teacher, and a rather incompetent one at that. A dispassionate scientist and a dismissive teacher, Mr. Scott had been teaching for twenty years before teaching Estelle, and part of her had assumed that he had simply lost his sparkle over time, but she no longer affords him such a luxury. After his dismissal of her caused the explosion that permanently disabled Estelle, he lost his teaching licence and was charged with criminal negligence. Estelle hopes that he spends the rest of his life feeling guilt for what he did.

A professor at MIT, who led Estelle’s education for her years at the university. He’s a bit of a crazy old man, at this stage in his life - he was a renowned face in the development of more recent drone technology, but he’s primarily retired from developing new technology, instead teaching a new generation of roboticists. He’s still passionate about drones, making them in his spare time to fight in the university’s robot fighting games (his favourite is his flamethrower drone, Doctor Airstrike). Estelle looks up to him a lot, both as a teacher and challenger.