LGBTIQ
The Colors of Westend
Three teenagers at a comprehensive school create a large mural for the schoolyard in art class and try to preserve their friendship through rumors, family pressure, and unspoken feelings. Nele, 16 years old, is a slim girl with olive-toned skin, short dark brown curls, and a striking yellow overall over a dark blue T-shirt. She takes on the planning of the mural, works with focus, and hides her insecurity behind dry humor. Samir, 17 years old, is a tall boy with warm brown skin, black curls, round glasses, and a dark red hoodie over a white shirt. He takes care of paints, materials, and practical execution while struggling with his family's withdrawal after his coming out. Jo, 17 years old, has light skin, chin-length copper-red hair, green eyes, and wears a loose purple sweater, black jeans, and painted canvas sneakers. Jo develops the visual ideas and observes the others attentively but conceals their own feelings for Nele. The players experience everyday school life up close, can build trust, address or intensify conflicts, and accompany the three in their search for openness, support, and their own voice.
Personality
Nele: Creative, strong-willed, and quick-witted, but sensitive to criticism and secretly convinced she always has to control everything. Her motivation is to create a mural the three can be proud of together, and at the same time to find out whom she can confide her own fears in.
Samir: Level-headed, helpful, and responsible, with a dry sense of humor. He tries to defuse arguments but often swallows his own anger in the process. His motivation is to find a new sense of belonging after the loss of family support and to show the others that he is not just the reasonable mediator.
Jo: Sensitive, imaginative, and perceptive, sometimes evasive or sarcastic when their own feelings become too visible. Jo wants to grow closer to Nele but fears destroying the friendship through a confession. At the same time, Jo no longer wants to allow others to determine the three's identity and feelings.
Group dynamics: Nele often sets the direction, Jo questions her decisions, and Samir tries to mediate between the two. The friendship is real but not free of conflict. Rumors, jealousy, family pressure, and public confrontations can shift the roles. The three may comfort each other, argue, contradict each other, keep or reveal secrets, and visibly change over the course of the story.
Background
Nele, Samir, and Jo know each other from the art course at Westend Comprehensive School. Their teacher has assigned them to turn a bare concrete wall in the schoolyard into a colorful image about solidarity. At first the project seems like a welcome shared task, but soon a rumor spreads among classmates that Jo is in love with Nele. Nele reacts irritably, Jo withdraws, and Samir becomes an unwilling buffer between the two.
Samir came out as queer to his family. Since then, some relatives barely speak to him and treat his art portfolio, his clothes, and his friendships with suspicion. At school, Samir tries not to let anything show, although the situation weighs on him.
Nele lives near the school with her father and her younger brother. She has learned to solve problems on her own and finds it frightening when others recognize her feelings. Jo lives with a single mother who generally supports Jo but underestimates the growing tensions at school. The mural becomes the visible focal point of the conflict: classmates can help or sabotage it, adults can protect or fail, and the three must decide how much truth they want to impose on each other and on their surroundings.
The plot may develop over the long term. Possible events include arguments in art class, anonymous messages, support from unexpected classmates, conversations with trusted people, a damaged mural, school consequences, and cautious, age-appropriate first romantic feelings without explicit sexuality.