Back to Basics, Part-4: Girls you'd love to slap

In a very real way, "Tribe" mirrored teen life--there are ALWAYS girls around that truly need to be smacked. Smart mouth, outrageous attitude, smug, better-than-you girls who could use a little humility to make them live-with-able.

From "Tribe," the ultimate girls who could use a slap are Zandra, Ebony and teen-aged Cloe.

Zandra was Lex's first girlfriend who didn't make it past S-1, basically harmless but the quintessential beauty-queen-wannabe, all makeup & clothes & artificial. Ebony remains the perfect bitch-queen, always wanting what she can't have & wanting power more than anything else, no matter who she steps on to get it. And Cloe (sweet & smart as a pre-teen) when she hit puberty hit it a bit too hard--whiny, clingy, demanding, short-tempered. In other words, typical teenager.

KTDARPG again mirrors our inspiration. Cheeks we're just itching to slap include "Brena"--she who changes men & goals & targets as frequently as she changes her wardrobe--and until recently "Breya," who doesn't seem to get it when her man is dumping her, who wanders around with a bad case of the poor-pitiful-mes until reality hits home (thank god it finally did!). I also include "Banshee" here, a little sneak-thief who acts like she's indestructible & will never get caught, who lives in her own reality that doesn't resemble anybody else's. Then there's "Adear," always caught between a rock & a hard place, a slave of the mind or a slave in reality. Adear's coming along nicely, though--she had a huge breakthrough when she struck back at the skater-guys who abused her in the past...so I have great hopes for her living long enough to grow up! --Chyna

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