Manipulated Living
Cherita Chen
Played by Jolene Purdy
A bullied classmate with a crush on Donnie ('Chut up!'). Her notebook of Donnie drawings and her talent-show dance are among the film's most tender details.
Cherita is the Manipulated Living at its gentlest. Donnie's promise to her - "I promise that one day everything's going to be better for you" - is one of the few moments of the Tangent Universe that reads as pure kindness, and it has no mechanical function at all.
What happens to this character.