#lardohc

OH MAN FOR SURE. 

SO. Our favourite fat babe Lardo.

Her family was definitely the home-cooked meal kind of family, no junk food in the house, etc. Probably strict in other aspects too

Didn’t stop her from being chubby growing up. Sometimes you just are. Also she’s short, there isn’t many places for the fat to go

Anyway once she got to SW, you can imagine that: (meal plan + excessive drinking) - lack of parental guidance = weight gain

and my girl. my girl is a stress eater. because listen -- her sleep schedule got fucked. artists will stay up all night in their studio space to finish something for a deadline, she was manager of a hockey team her FIRST year and, i’m pretty sure canonically, goes to a lot of their practices and ALL of their games. you don’t eat well on the road, you don’t eat well when you don’t have the time. she was stressed out, anyway. stress and lack of sleep affects everyone differently -- for some, they lose weight. not for larissa “danger” duan. she DEFINITELY gained the freshman fifteen. 

(more like freshman 20, let’s be real. someone who plays that much beerpong? yeah)

yeah danger is her middle name, WHAT OF IT

i’d say when she probably lost a little when she went to kenya? less processed foods, the heat made her like sweat it all out idk. i dont know where she was living so i assume there was public transit but ?? who knows. if she lived in the city there was probably more walking around than in samwell where everything is slightly far, right

but she came back to SW and there were PIES. EVERYWHERE. Bitty probably baked her like 10 welcome pies. just so she could figure out her favourite. 

and booze. she probably got iced like once a day for a month. you KNOW holster is all about icing people. he probably keeps a case of 12 smirnoffs just on standby for such occasions. and he probably made her play pong against everyone again just so they could make sure she was still the best

and weed. she’s around shitty again ?? the munchies. imagine the munchies

ANYWAY. so by the end of her fourth year she’s gained a lot of weight. like, 30-ish pounds difference from her first year. obvs she struggles with it, being around all these fit hot people all the time

but they still love her and shitty loves her (you can replace shitty’s name with camilla’s if you want, i’m just in a shardo mood today) and she’s realized she’s very talented at art and good at what she does and has her shit together and has a future so she decides it doesn’t matter if she’s fat. her body/she can still do amazing things.

she’s learning to deal with stress in a better way than “bottling it up, acting chill then eating/drinking her feelings” but it’s a process. it’ll take a while. 

she has a good life. 

thank u anon

 (because why the fuck not)

her chill bro persona (”””brosona”””) is a coping mechanism: it’s easier to treat them all as just friends then to crush on one of them and be disappointed when they reject her

sometimes she’d like to not have to try so hard at being like that. she likes her art friends because she feels less pressure (canonically she hangs out w/ them just as much as the SMH)

being around bros all the time can be hard too because idk about you but i’ve heard a version of “omg he was so drunk, he hooked up with this fat chick, it was so funny” a million times from my friends and from randoms, but obvs lardo puts them in their place

at the same time she really loves the boys because she feels like one of them, she feels validated and happy everytime holster picks her up or shitty says she looks good today

obvs no one knows about how she feels (except for jack, but we’ll get to that) and she doesnt want to tell shitty because sometimes well-meaning people are annoying and she just wants to complain without having to listen to advice

at the same time she makes a lot of jokes about her fatness, fake-it-til-you-make-it style, and doesnt let them forget that shes fat and not everyone can be jacked like they are

R&H are always trying to convince her to go to the gym. she only ever goes with bitty 

she mostly sleeps with women because she thinks it’s easier with them

she got her nickname bc once a LAX douche called her Fatso and when Ransom was trying to retell the story he got it confused with Lardo and they thought it was so funny they kept it

the fatness adds another dimension to her and jack’s friendship, because he, unlike the rest of them, gets it. she noticed his stretch marks once and was like i will protect this boy. we will join forces. silently. they don’t talk about it but if he notices her lagging behind when they’re walking somewhere he’ll stay back a bit, stuff like that

she got her hair cut when she was in kenya because it was fucking hot over there jesus but she was really worried about coming back to the states with it... in the end she said fuck it and really she shouldnt have worried bc it’s cute af and shitty loves running his hands through it

when they play beer pong, if someone gets the ball between her cleavage, she has to finish her drink

shitty tries..... really hard..... but he doesnt really get it. she constantly has to tell him that it’s okay that she’s fat and he can say it, he doesnt have to say “chubby” or “curvy” (anyway she’s not that curvy she’s got lil b-cups and not very wide hips, even if she’s like a size 18/20)

on the other hand he’s like “i don’t want to fetishize you!! but you’re fucking hot!!!” and it’s annoying but eventually they get over it and have great sex duh

she and shitty decide to take the crop top plunge together. they both love it

idk i just feel like lardo being fat would add so much to her character, bc you hardly ever see fat characters treated like love interests, especially not by hot athletes, or treated as anything other than a fat character, where their whole story and personality revolves around being fat. it’s a shame she isn’t canonically. lardo is a cool artist/manager/friend and it would be awesome if she was all that PLUS fat

of course, all these HCs do revolve around her being fat so i guess i’m kind of hypocritical, but at the same time when you’re fat it takes up a big part of your life (no pun intended). what i’m really trying to say is she can be all the things she is in canon (and fanon) AND be fat -- it’s not contradictory, she’s still awesome.