Yush, different dynamics inside a group is the best~
For what it's worth, I'm planning for my gymnast to be somewhere in the popular athlete side because she's been doing gymnastics and competing in it since she was a kid but in turn, she's an average student all in all.
Probably that one friend who has a pretty tight schedule but somehow still goes to hang outs regularly. Maybe the group has even watched her compete before.
My guy's one of the "cool kids" who skateboards and does cool kid things. But he's also black and takes all the crap that that entails.
He skips classes, hangs out at ice cream parlours, probably owns a switchblade, actually knows how to use his baseball bat. Likes to wear his high school varsity jacket as a symbol of his rebellion against the system.
I'm thinking his tragic backstory should be that he had a sibling who was gunned down by accident as accidental collateral damage in a gang related shooting.