Pet

A fifteen-year-old Black trans girl who is selectively nonverbal and mostly communicates in sign language; she calls Pet out of her mother's painting.

Jam's best friend, a boxer whose household includes three parents, one of whom is non-binary.

A creature of horns, colors and claws that emerges from one of Bitter's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, and has come to hunt a monster.

Jam's mother, a painter who took part in the revolution that rid Lucille of its monsters.

Jam's father, a paramedic whose anxiety about the past makes him fiercely protective.