my town was a wasteland

thinking about how nancy steps into the 'third parent' role when holly is born, given that she's 13/14 at the time. from the time she was 4/5, nancy has been just an older sister, but it isn't until holly comes along that that shifts within the wheeler home. karen gives her eldest more responsibility, even without intending to, and nancy not wanting to get into trouble herself, or make her mom feel bad, takes it on. she takes on extra chores, offering to babysit when she starts high school. nancy has always been the responsible one, the cliche oldest daughter, who never gets a chance to be a teenager or to have a normal life, even without the monsters.

nancy has the smallest bit of hearing loss btw. if she asks your muse to repeat something for anything past s4, it's not because she's not paying attention, she genuinely didn't catch it.