Riley's stories 🪽

Cory Matthews
Riley and Auggie's father and Topanga's husband. He was the main character in the original Boy Meets World and now works as a history and math teacher at his daughter's high school. He's a wise, caring, and slightly overprotective father. Initially, he disliked Farkle (due to an old feud with his father) and Lucas (because his daughter had a crush on him), but over time, he comes to appreciate each person close to him.

Joshua (Josh) Matthews
Cory's brother and Riley and Auggie's uncle. He appears in the series as Maya's love interest. In the second season, he enrolls in university. In the third season, he confesses to Maya that he also has feelings for her, but asks her to wait until she grows up. He's very rebellious, and everyone is crazy about him, but he's very smart and kind.

Ava
Auggie's "wife" of six years. She enjoys manipulating people and convinces Auggie to do whatever she says because she's older. Topanga dislikes Ava very much. In season three, her parents divorce, and she finds solace in the main characters.

Katie Hart
Maya's mother, who works as a waitress, has a complicated relationship with her daughter: she often fails in her attempts to show Maya how important she is to her, seeing herself as a hindrance in her life. However, their relationship improves over the course of the series, and in the third season, she marries Shawn Hunter.

Topanga Matthews
Riley and Auggie's mother and Cory's wife. She was Cory's childhood friend and later his high school sweetheart. Topanga is a successful lawyer and a caring but strict mother of two.

Auggie Matthews
Riley's younger brother, Cory and Topanga's son. When he grows up, he wants to be like his father. He has a "wife," Ava, a six-year-old girl who enjoys manipulating him.

Farkle Minkus
A classmate and close friend of Riley, Maya, and Lucas. He is very smart, eccentric, and precocious, and knows all the girls in the neighborhood. Farkle is the son of Stuart Minkus, an old acquaintance of Cory and Topanga, whom he greatly resembles. He is infatuated with both Riley and Maya, but truly cares for them both. In the second season, after a career test, he is suspected of having autism, which makes him question their friendship, but his friends support him. This is later revealed to be untrue, and he begins a romantic relationship with Smackle.

Lucas Freyer
Riley's best friend and primary love interest. Born in Austin, Texas, he's a bit of a "cowboy" with good manners and common sense. One episode mentions that he was expelled from his Austin school for fighting, forcing him to repeat seventh grade. His best friend is Farkle. Throughout the series, he torn between Riley and Maya, but ultimately chooses Riley.

Maya Hart
Riley's best friend, a complete opposite in personality. She's willful, rebellious, and self-assured, often showing this at school. Maya isn't the best student and has a complicated relationship with her mother. Cory Matthews often acts as the father figure she never had. In the first season, she falls in love with Josh (Cory's brother), and in the second, she realizes her feelings for Lucas and briefly begins dating him.