I finally made an IT OC!! π‘π’ππ
β’Born October Eigth 1976, making her star sign Libra
β’She's lived in Derry Maine her entire life, and in the time frame she's become well aquinted with how weird everything is
β’Norma is autistic and she's legally blind, which is why she wears those big thick glasses
β’Her special interest is Universal horror monsters and old horror movies, she lives and breathes monsters. She is CRAZY about them.
β’She loves to make minatures and little models of sets and creatures from her favorite movies, sew costumes for herself, do SFX makeup, make stop motion films using her miniatures, read horror comics/books, and draw- even tho her art style looks like rejected yaoi art.
β’Really Norma is in love with all of he technical elements of making horror movies
β’She's the kind of girl who would happily dress as a vampire every day of her life if she could
β’She dresses like monsters so much people forget that she's a girl half the time. If you asked Norma tho she'd probably say something like "I'm not a girl i'm a dracula".
β’She has a pet tarantula named Corncob who she loves dearly. She loves all types of spiders, she thinks they're misunderstood, like her!
β’Norma gets picked on at school a lot for her interests, people call her the R word sometimes and Henry Bowers has been known to steal her notebook and laugh at her crappy drawings. People also tend to slam things around her on purpose because she hates loud noises. Sometimes Victor criss will steal her action figures out of her hands or rip a page out of her creepshow comics on the walk home. She hates them, and she wishes frankenstein would toss them all into a pond.
β’Her personal fashion sense leaves much to be desired tbh, she's so girlfail
β’I was a teenage werewolf is her favorite movie
β’Although Norma is generally a sweet girl, she's sometimes very blunt and apathetic due to her autism and the fact most people around don't seem to understand her.
β’She can also be a real snob when it comes to movies. She thinks most new horror movies are bad and cant hold a candle to the classics. She'd rather watch a movie in black and white over a block buster any day.
β’She also has little patience for monster jokes that shes heard a million times, and if you say something wildly incorrect about monster lore she will go off on you in a nerd filled rage. Afterwards she'd shrink back down and apologize for her temper, but she's just heated because she's passionate.
β’Her favorite colors are green and orange
β’Her favorite person ever is Mary Shelley, if you bring her up she'd probably go "The creator of science fiction Mary Shelley? The mother of Frankenstein Mary Shelley? The daughter of the founder of feminism Mary Shelley? That Mary Shelley?" And scream. She loves her.
β’Norma also loves amusement park rides and theme parks, she just thinks it's so awesome seeing all of the magic and planning that goes into making a world feel themed.
β’When she was young she used to say her dream career was an imagineer at disneyland
β’Her favorite place in the world is actually Canal Days festival at Derry, solely because she has many happy memories there of riding rides and eating the food and enjoying the band.
β’If you looked in her bedroom you'd see a big model of Derry Township she built herself, horror movie posters, collectibles, a film projector, cosplays, a vanity for her to do her SFX makeup at, a comic collection, a bookshelf filled with horror novels, and many more.
β’She doesn't have a voice claim yet but i think she'd have a huskier voice like Emma Stone.
β’She snorts when she laughs, something she's embarrassed of.
β’she's also very lanky for a girl, another thing she's embarrassed of.
β’Her home life is a little rocky.
β’Her mother, Mary Lianne Dresden works at a department store doing alterations, and she's as supportive as she can be of her daughter. She's very deadpan and sarcastic though, and she's painfully aware of how much of a loser her daughter is. Frankly, she does not have the time or energy to reel her in anymore, so she just lets her live in her little movie monster world.
β’She has a step dad that she hates named Paul Keyes, Paul is not physically abusive like Alvin Marsh but he is a bully who often makes Norma feel bad for her interests. He calls her a freak and threatens to throw out all her stuff all the time, trying to force her to have some kind of normal interests. He bounces from job to job a lot, which makes Norma see him as a total bum, and he spends most of his time yelling at the TV because his football team is losing. One time Norma asked him why he kept watching sports if they just made him angry and he said that he was just used to it, to which Norma replied "being used to something doessn't mean you like it. You're used to me and you hate me.", which got her a talking to over her "smart mouth".
β’She has a step sister named Becca Keyes, who, although they can sometimes be seen together in public, doesn't like her much. Its not exactly evil step sister territory, but Becca sneers at Norma's interest and often makes her feel like she's not girly enough to fit in anywhere. Norma hates most feminine things, but Becca does pageants and has all the typical girl interests. She's also friends with Gretta Keene which makes Norma pissed cause that means Gretta is at her house all the time.
β’Her father, Archibald (Archie) Dresden is the member of her family she's closest to, which is unfortunate because he's been dead for years. He passed away when Norma was only six, and the way he passed away burned itself in her brain. He used to work at the Derry paper mill until he fell into the machine and met his maker. When he came out he looked like fucking hamburger meat, and they had to bury one of his watches since they didn't have a body. Ever since then Norma has been oddly intrigued by all the weird ways someone could die, and she thinks that all death should be as explosive and memorable as her dads. She thinks its sad when someone wastes away into an old husk and ends up just dying in a hospital bed, if it were up to her, she'd die by getting decapitated on a rollercoaster in her 50's. Life is one big party, might as well make a memorable exit- right? With all that being said, she does miss her father a lot. She makes it a point to go visit his grave once a week and tell him about what's going on in her life. Of course he cant hear her, but norma just talking to herself anyways.
β’Another interesting thing about Norma is thar she is asexual, mostly due to the fact she doesnt understand why people bother with that stuff since watching movies is more fun, but she gets crushes insanely hard.
β’She had a very intense crush on Bill Denbrough for a few days because he was handsome and wrote cool horror stories, and this led to such confusing teen awkwardness she's lucky they only spoke more than a few times. She used to have dreams about him sneaking through her window at night as a hot vampire and whisking her away to the woods, which then inspired some truly terrible artwork in her notebook. Then went on for a while until he saw her flirt wirh Bev and her little heart broke. Norma can be a little overdramatic sometimes, and this was her first heartbreak, so she got really depressed afterwards like bill had somehow hurt her on purpose. She got over it though, and to prove it she burnt all her drawings of bill in her backyard.
β’She's into Mike Hanlon now, who she feels she can be much more of a normal person around. They both like researching old and disturbing things about Derry, and when she showed him her model of Derry Township he thought it was the coolest thing ever. They helped each other on a history project where she made a scale model and he made a collage, it was so much fun. They also bonded over having lost a parent in a really graphic and horrible way, but Norma managed to change Mikes perspective on death by saying at least he will always remember his parents, even if they died when he was really young. For halloween Mike asked if she'd be willing to make him a costume since he had no money and she went so hard, he made him a gender swapped bride of frankenstein costume and even did his makeup. Their ideal date would be either the library to research derry more or the movies to see an old black and white film. In short, she likes Mike a lot and the only thing that could make her like him more is if he had fangs.
β’As an adult she opens up a horror theme park named Hellville Park that combines all of her interest into making the best immersive experience horror fans could ever want. She went very hard on planning it all out, and it's made her filthy rich in the process. She also makes stop motion movies as side projects, so she's kind of like a combination of Walt Disney and Tim Burton.
β’Her greatest fear is the headless horseman, even tough she knows it's very ridiculous. Ever since she first saw an adaptation of it on tv as a small child she's been terrified of him. If Pennywise attacked her it'd transform into the headless horseman and chase her on her walk home alone at night right over the Derry town bridge, only to toss it's flaming pumpkin head at her and nearly kill her. If you want a deeper meaning as to why Norma is terrified of him, i think its because to her- the headless horseman feels like a lose of identity. He doesn't even have a face or a name, but he used to be a person at some point. Norma doesn't wanna lose parts of herself as she grows up, she likes herself as is, but everyone around her treats her interests like theyre just a phase and soon she'll be a normal girl again. She'd rather die than let that happen.
β’Norma always loves "the other" and "the outcast", which is partially why she loves horror movies like frankenstein and the creature from the black lagoon so much. Her favorite childhood fairytale was beauty and the beast for a reason lol. Maybe it's because she's been the ugly duckling her whole life and she's always eager to look beyond the surface and rethink who deserves sympathy and who doesn't.
β’All in all, Norma is a pretty interesting girl who's just going through the worst years of her life. She'll find her way through it tho im sure. ;)
R.I.P Norma, you would have loved The Shape Of Water.
