Which teens would you have like to seen as long-term adult characters?

[adam436]

Most teen characters seem to leave a year or so after finishing school, but I am just wondering which teen characters would you have liked to stayed for long and what the writers could have done with them? 

From what I can remember, we only had Bobby, Hayley, Sally and through second stints, Steven and Kirsty stick around for a significant time into adulthood. 

 

• Matt and Evie: we don't really have many likable young couples who get married and then stick around for ages post-wedding. I like both Matt and Evie, but I feel like the wedding would have happened (and perhaps them not even get together!) unless they were leaving. 
• Jett: I was hoping he'd be the next Sally, or at least Sam. 
• Peta and Edward: Edward is one of my favourite characters ever and I feel like him succumbing to Huntington's Disease and Peta coping with that could have been an amazing slowburn storyline told over a few years. 
• Joey Rainbow: just because I liked him, I don't know what direction they could have taken him.

[CaptainHulk]

Chloe. It would have been interesting to see her stick around even with Diana in her face.

Sam would have basically been the Male Sally had he stuck around. But the surf called Ryan and he answered.

 

[Skylover]

JACK!

And Curtis. 

I didn't like Sam much as a kid but I'm sure he'd have been more interesting as he got older too.

Also Shannon and Selina. So pretty much that entire group of characters  

[John]

I was annoyed that Romeo and Indi as a young married couple didn't stay on the show. I can't recall the show ever dealing with the struggles of a young couple struggling with all the normal pressures of life for any extended length of time.  I guess that's not possible these days because the bright lights of Hollywood beckon and all the younger cast seem to leave try their luck. 

[CaptainTed84]

Matt definitely. One of the all-time greatest characters on the show

Lucas Holden- Don't remember him all that well but his character from my knowledge became irrelevant for his last 6 or so months and then had a departure so quiet that he wasn't even last seen leaving the bay, instead waiting for a bus. Would have been interesting to see how he would have reacted to Jack's death and seeing him interact with his extended family when they eventually arrived

Matilda Hunter- Crazily enough, throughout her 4 1/2 years on the show, she was a school student the entire time. Would have loved to have seen her as a young adult who is not in a school uniform in every episode

Jett- Definitely would have loved to have seen him interact with Hunter and Olivia who joined shortly after he left, would have made a pretty cool teen group in my opinion

Oscar Macguire- I was never really a massive fan of him but it would have been nice to see him more as an adult and maybe have a more positive departure

 

[joany208121]

Sasha and Selina could have worked as Sally type characters. 

Casey Braxton could have gone a long way after his family. 

Spencer could have worked as he was a good supporting character that wasnt overused

[j.laur5]

I wish we got to see Kyle in Summer Bay High School uniform. 

[CaptainTed84]

3 hours ago, joany208121 said:

Casey Braxton could have gone a long way after his family. 

The thing with Casey is that because he kept on leaving and going back to school and then eventually doing his HSC a different way, I feel like we saw him mostly as a young adult. However you are right, if he didn't die and the rest of his family left him on his own then he could have definitely gone a long way. He seemed to be a very social character compared to Brax and Kyle

22 hours ago, adam436 said:

• Jett: I was hoping he'd be the next Sally, or at least Sam. 

Jett is one of the reasons why I am a full-on viewer of the show. When he joined it was back when I was more of a casual viewer but it started to change a bit because I would start to watch his episodes only and it was devestating when he left because of that since he is one of the reasons why I chose to watch, however fortunately I grew on most of the cast by then so I was able to get over his departure and continue watching

[hward]

Matt, and by association Evie, because it would have been interesting to see them stay in the Bay as a married couple, and with the added dynamic of Ellie as well.

Jett - He's a character that's grown so much and I'd love it if he'd stuck around.

[Trudy Heine]

I wish Casey and Denny got their happy ending. However I think they did, living together in heaven with Oscar and Hannah