Silly little Marjorie collages the left is before Rhonda’s death the right is mid-late 60s
And some headcanons to go along!!
•Deeply in love with Rhonda but never told her how she felt
•She isn’t always the nicest person, she doesn’t like most people but she was always very kind and sweet to Rhonda. (After her death, Rhonda started acting more like Marjorie both as a way to try to protect herself and because she missed her)
•She’s from a large family and had to parent several of her younger siblings, her parents were also very strict and controlling. They did not like Rhonda.
•She and Rhonda bonded over their not so great parents
•She vaguely knew Janet from church when she was still alive.
•She loves classical literature and is a music nerd.
•Marjorie is a huge fan of Lesley Gore
•Understandably she did not handle Rhonda’s death well, she was both her best friend and first love
•she was very depressed throughout the rest of the decade, she made a lot of bad decisions during this like getting married
•In the early 70s she makes her album, several songs where mostly written by Rhonda and nearly the rest are written about her. It’s dedicated to her and is Marjorie’s love letter to Rhonda. Foolish Girl just became by far the most popular (and the only one Rhonda heard at the time)
•She gets divorced in the mid 70s, for a couple of reasons but the mains ones being that she’s a lesbian and was accepting that fact about herself, she generally didn’t even like the was married to as a person, and he was jealous of Rhonda.
•She never really gets over Rhonda, her death was very traumatic for her. She thinks about about her all the time and who she would’ve been if she got to grow up.
•She names her daughters after her, Rose (coming from Rosen) and Rhonny (her nickname for Rhonda)
•While her music is mostly forgotten in the 2020s a lot of younger lesbians find her music and it becomes somewhat popular in the queer community, especially with a lot of the folksy/artsy side of it
•In the late 80s she gets into a relationship with a women named Carol and they stay together for the rest of their lives. They get married as soon as it’s legalized.
•While Rhonda was mostly forgotten Marjorie did everything she could to make sure she wasn’t completely forgotten with her music and telling her story every chance she got