After work, Carole heads to the bridge with her keyboard to play a song she composed. The song isn’t quite finished as she doesn’t have the words to go with her keyboard-playing; however, she has the melody and it’s in this moment that Tuesday sees Carole for the first time. The performance, despite its brevity and incompleteness, drives Tuesday to tears. When it comes to singing and working the keys, Carole is a virtuoso and this fact stays relevant throughout the series, especially after meeting Tuesday.

Carole has a flashback of her time living in an orphanage; specifically, a time when she was being bullied by a bigger kid. This other child was harassing Carole and being disrespectful about her hair, which was styled into two adorable buns on top of her little head. She beat up her bully and even threw in a flying kick. We don’t condone violence but… vengeance is a golden blade! Later in the series, after the semi-final of the Mars’ Brightest competition, Tuesday is basically kidnapped by her family and sent home – Carole ran after the car and actually caught up, jumping onto the back of a fast-moving vehicle! The Simmons’ kidnappers shake Carole off, causing her to sustain some minor injuries but in that moment, we see how far she’d go for a friend.

After Tuesday is abducted by her family at the end of the Mars’ Brightest Talent Show semi-finals, she explains what happened to Gus and Roddy. Gus treats her to a meal at a nearby restaurant as he asks her what the next step is. Carole takes a huge bite of her burger and indignantly mouths something in response to Gus. It was cute, okay?! Well, the indignation was Carole’s resolve hardening – they will be performing at the final! Right after, they decide to bust Tuesday out of her family’s house so they can jet off to the finals and arrive in time to perform! They are unfortunately disqualified for not being present at the start of the day as per the talent show’s regulations for the final.

Throughout the series, we are shown flashes of both Carole and Tuesday’s pasts, although we’ve seen more of Carole thus far. On their first audition for the Mars’ Brightest talent show, the judges made a little bit of conversation with Carole, prompting her to explain her Earthly origins, her lack of a family or parental figure, and her childhood in the system. Now standing before those judges aged 17, Carole’s desire to become a musician is unmistakable in that moment. Carole has never lost her drive to become something and this is how she has managed to build the resilience and ambition it takes to survive on your own and still remain in hot pursuit of your dreams. Inspiring.

The only reason why Carole and Tuesday were able to become a duo in the first place is because of the fact that Carole was willing to house someone she had just met simply because they both had the same dream. It speaks to an inherent benevolence within Carole that you can easily see would go greatly misunderstood or even unnoticed by the other characters. She’s really just good people. What’s not to like?