all the ugly things you say

is j really out here doing her third chara intro before ever even starting her second one? yes, yes she is. 

name: hollie isabelle brantwood age: twenty-seven birthdate: august 17, 1994 zodiac: leo gender: cisfemale pronouns: she/her sexuality: bisexual family: laura brantwood (49), stephen brantwood (51), caroline brantwood (25), madison brantwood (21) hometown: rosa, oklahoma

hollie brantwood was born to the town lawyer and his paralegal in the small town of rosa, oklahoma. it was a scandal that rocked the town because stephen had a fiance who was certainly not his paralegal. but when the news spread, he called things off with his fiance and ended up having a shotgun wedding with laura. it definitely was not an ideal situation, but they had two more kids and are still together twenty-seven years later, so apparently something did work out for them. 

hollie and her younger sisters were raised on the pageant scene. if toddlers and tiaras had been a show when she was younger, hollie would have definitely been on it. along with pageants, they were also put in cheerleading the moment they were old enough. her mom was incredibly vain and feminine and passed those traits onto all three of her girls. but she also believed in hardwork and dedication to earn the right to be vain, and those came through as well. 

when hollie got a bit older and really enjoyed cheerleading, her parents started driving her 40 minutes to the closest big city to be a part of a competitive cheer squad. and when she got to high school, she made cheer captain both junior and senior years. it had become such an important part of her life. and she was also very well known throughout the school and dated the hottest football player. everyone in the school knew that they would be together forever. they were voted prom king and queen and even won cutest couple in the yearbook. 

the problem was that hollie had bigger dreams than rosa, oklahoma. but she didn’t dare speak them out loud. so when she was applying for colleges, her boyfriend and parents knew about the local schools, but they didn’t know that she had applied for a few others in different states, her dream school having been clemson. she got accepted to all of the local schools, but was disappointed to find out she was waitlisted at clemson. she accepted one of the schools nearby and even made their cheerleading squad. but then on the day of graduation, she got an email from clemson that she had been taken off of the waiting list and officially was accepted.

she was torn because she hadn’t had any time at all to prepare or even tell anyone. so at her graduation dinner, she told duke the news, hoping that he’d be happy for her. but it turned into a fight. she wanted to tell him that they only had a few more days to spend together before she had to fly out for cheer tryouts and hopefully cheer camp if she made it, but she stormed out before she could. so she flew off without ever getting the chance to tell him goodbye.

at clemson, hollie made the cheer squad and studied health management. but, as usual, her focus was mostly on cheerleading. and rightfully so because her junior year she tried out to be a cheerleader for the nfl team the carolina panthers and actually made it! she dropped out of school to pursue that, instead. 

two years ago, hollie suffered from a career ending injury when she tore her acl. she knew that she would never be able to cheer the same way after that. she had to have surgery and went through over a year of physical therapy. when she was finally cleared, she found a job coaching competitive cheerleaders at a gym in charleston and moved here a few months ago to start that life.

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