Maria

Maria is the sister of Rudy Strongwell. Maria is very protective of her brother and stands up for him even when he refuses to stand up for himself.

Sexuality
Due to her Catholic upbringing, Maria is very conflicted about her sexuality and dates Gavin to hide the fact she is a lesbian, using Gavin as a Beard.

Initial reaction to Rain
Maria at first didn't believe Rudy when he said Rain was a 'guy '. But after finding out that Rain is in fact trans she has become protective of Rain. She also quickly developed a crush on Rain (not that Rain ever knew).

Her reaction to Rain and Rudy's relationship
After Rain and Rudy got together Maria tested whether she could ever be straight with Gavin. After finding out that yes, she did not like boys that way, she broke up with Gavin. Following that, she announced to the whole school that she was a lesbian using a homophobic slur.

It was soon after this she started dating Chanel.

Expulsion
When Chanel rejected Todd Bittner as prom date, Todd got violent against Chanel, even bruising her arm. Maria tried to protect her and raised her fist, telling Todd to leave them alone. Unfortunately, Father Quenton and Brother Arthur walked in on that exact moment, and only saw Maria 'attacking' another student.

Father Quenton did not accept any kind of violence in his school, and directly expelled her. Also forcing brother Arthur to call her parents.

Maria knew that her father was looking into conversion camps already, and was afraid that when he came to school she would be sent to one immediately. With the help of Emily Caston, she managed to escape the school building, and run away from home.

She is now staying with Blair Carver and his boyfriend Isaac, as her parents would not look for her there, since Blair and Maria never had much contact.

After a couple days, the expulsion was reversed due to Brother Arthur making a case against Father Quenton, using the testimonies of 22 students feeling agitated and violated when they rejected Todd as prom date, plus a sizable stack of testimonies from Rudy Strongwell regarding two years of bullying, including medical records of black eyes, and once even a broken rib. Father Quenton retired. It is also heavily implied that Father Quenton received large sums of money from Todd's parents to look away when he did something bad.

Even though Maria was no longer expelled, she decided to not go back and is now going to Centerville High School.