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Sterling Wesley is a main character in the Netflix series, Teenage Bounty Hunters. Her character is portrayed by actress, Maddie Phillips.

Sterling is a 16-year-old girl from Atlanta, Georgia who, along with her sister Blair, secretly works as a bounty hunter with Bowser Simmons.

Biography[]

Early Years[]

Sterling was born to Dana who gave her up sometime after her birth to her sister, which resulted in Sterling growing up in a wealthy household in Atlanta, Georgia with her sister, Blair Wesley (who she believed was her fraternal twin) and people she though were her parents. She goes to Willingham Academy, a private religious high school.

Season One[]

At the beginning of the first season, Sterling decides she is ready to lose her virginity to her longtime boyfriend, Luke Creswell. She excitedly tells her sister and best friend, Blair, right before they get into a car accident. The girls meet Bowser Simmons, a bounty hunter, and this opens up a new world for them. They convince Bowser to let them join him and to mentor them because they need a job and it sounds like fun. Reluctantly, he agrees, and they start their new jobs.

At school, April Stevens finds out that Sterling had intercourse relations and blackmails her into giving up her leadership position in their religious group at school.

Sterling is devastated that her classmates look at her in a negative way, knowing she lost her virginity, and she gets determined to find a new group of friends who won't judge her. Eventually she realizes that she can say the Lord brought her back into the light, and she gets back into the good graces of her classmates.

Sterling and Luke's moms find out they hooked up and ask them to put things on pause. During their time apart, Sterling realizes she wants some alone time and to live her life single for a bit. She breaks up with Luke and tells him she just needs to be alone right now.

During her alone time, Sterling starts to kiss many boys trying to figure out what she likes. She realizes that she is attracted to her enemy, April Stevens, and starts to be nicer to April. She hides this good face saying that is sick, while, in fact, she peeing on the toilet with panties and pants down. They do a school project together and get closer. Sterling kisses her and April kisses her back. They start a secret relationship, but April is hesitant to come out in public and demands they keep it a secret. Sterling holds the secret in until finally telling Blair.

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At the end of the season, at the school's "lock in", April pushes Sterling away out of fear and leads Sterling to run back into the arms of her ex boyfriend, Luke, with whom everything was "easy". They kiss and then Sterling gets into her mom's car. However, she thinks she's in a car with Debbie Wesley but the woman is actually Debbie's twin sister - Dana Culpepper.

Dana kidnaps Sterling and brings her to her boyfriend, Levi's, trailer. Sterling's family comes to rescue her and it's revealed that Dana is actually Sterling's birth mother.

Personality[]

Sterling is known as the "nicer, more innocent" twin. She is very friendly and nice to those around her, although she does have a rivalry with April Stevens which can get heated. She is also shown to be very smart and "one hell of a shot", according to Bowser Simmons. Sterling also has extensive knowledge of the Bible.

She has a loving and caring relationship with her ex boyfriend, Luke, although she seemed to be the one who call the shots in their relationship.

After she and Luke break up, she explores her sexuality, with Blair's encouragement, with multiple boys at a debate tournament and eventually starting a relationship with April Stevens. Sterling has yet to label her sexuality but has described it to Blair as the "blue, pink, and purple part of the color wheel." (Season 1, Episode 10)

Relationships[]

  • Luke Creswell - Luke is Sterling's ex-boyfriend.
  • April Stevens - April and Sterling start a relationship shortly after Luke and Sterling break up. but they broke up shortly after Sterling saw April and Luke are flirting with each other despite April's not ready to come out.

Quotes[]

"I really thought that if you love somebody it would be okay to do it."
— Sterling

Trivia[]

  • SterLuke is Sterling and Luke's couple name, given by Sterling

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