#mhintro

✧*･ﾟ𝒃𝒊𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚

in the gated community of mercer hollow, born and raised, ren mercer spent most of her days running around her parent’s estate, avoiding etiquette lessons and her french tutor underneath the overgrown willow tree next to their tennis courts, and reading her battered copy of anne of green gables.

her parents are loaded thanks to the mercer legacy. they own a shit-ton of property after her great-great-great-grandfather "settled" ( aka stole ) the land for his own colony. now, they really don’t do much other than sit on the town council and collect checks from their renters.

her family appears perfect, and in some ways it was. ren never wanted for anything or had to struggle the way most people do, but the mercer's are definitely only close on camera and in public. at home, they spend their time apart. the kids' wing was on the opposite side of the house, next to their nanny's room, so that they didn't disturb their parents.

they're very traditional christians. they expect marriage and grandkids to carry on the family name. hope was always willing to play the part, but ren wasn't.

it was very clear who the favorite was.

ren grew up in her sister's shadow, but she liked it there. she was the introverted science nerd with one or two friends, so people didn't scrutinize her the way they did with her hope.

she wasn't close with hope. they were just too different. they hardly saw each other once they got their driver's licenses.

ren got into liberty, but it wasn't as big of deal because, like always, hope did it first. she got a bachelor's degree in chemistry, and is now working on her masters so that she can get into a doctorate program. really, she's just going to as much school as possible to put off making a choice about what to do with her life.

now that hope's dead, her life is on pause, but sometimes she feels like she's grieving a stranger.

✧*･ﾟ𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕

so i know you aren’t technically Supposed to open with a disclaimer, but disclaimer, ren is annoying as fuck for a variety of reasons: 

1) she's can be an asshole. she doesn't like interacting with people, and she's not good at faking being nice. she's not actively mean, but she's definitely not friendly and gets overstimulated easily. she's got a lot of bitterness inside her that she doesn't want to address because we don't talk about childhood trauma here. prickly is probably the best way to describe her.

2) she’s incapable of admitting she’s wrong. it will never ever happen. you know that scene in malcom in the middle where they show lois the tape of her pulling out in front of the car when the cop pulled her over, and she was like the tape is wrong. that’s lottie–and she’d like to point out that lois was proven to be right, thank you very much.

3) she's such a cynic. she is completely disillusioned with the world, especially now that her sister was killed. tbh she's clinically depressed, but her good christian family wasn't about to admit their kid needed medication to be happy. but she knows why she got into an ivy, and it has very little to do with being smart. she's like okay follow your dreams, good luck with that without a trust fund. sorry babe.

now some less depressing things lmao. 

ren a giant nerd. she’s obsessed with quantum theory, organic chemistry, and biology, specifically, but also, y’know, ridiculous superheroes and anime. she will always have a hyper-fixation of the month that will be the only topic of conversation.

she has some symptoms of unmedicated adhd for sure ( not that her parents would ever admit that ). she's able to mask pretty well, and she did really well in school, so it just wasn't discussed and slipped under her teachers' radar.  

she’s also a classic music nerd; music is v, v important to her. she plays the cello, viola, and piano. she thought about going into composing, but you know how she is about unrealistic dreams.

she doesn’t believe in relationships bc she’s like that’s so much effort for so little reward, but she also doesn't want to have sex with someone she doesn't know, so. she might die a virgin.

✧*･ﾟ𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅

best friend: ( m, f, nb ), nerd herd ( m, f, nb), childhood friends: ( m, f, nb ), roommates: ( m, f, nb ), academic rival ( m, f, nb), unrequited crush: ( m, f, nb)

basics  full name: veronica joyce mercer nee calhoun  sexuality: bisexual, biromantic  hometown: atlantic city, nj  nicknames: ronnie, v  birthday: june 1, 1971   zodiac: gemini sun, virgo moon, aries rising   traits: independent, intelligent, adaptable, intuitive, meticulous, frigid, manipulative, secretive, vain, & greedy 

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background  - born to two grifters/con artists in atlantic city, veronica learned how to manipulate and lie at a young age <3  - they ran so many cons when she was a kid that she’s not even sure her real maiden name is calhoun, it was just her favorite that her parents used  - her parents were largely neglectful and so she split from them the second she could drive; she spent most of her teen years and early twenties striking out on her own and running cons the way she was raised to  - this lifestyle all changed when she moved to mercer hollow! she came to scheme and lie and leave much richer, but she accidentally fell in love with james mercer and fell RIGHT into the role of Woman of High Society (she loves it, she loves being rich and having status)  - she’s a natural at playing the dutiful wife and perfect mother even if she’s not necessarily like that behind closed doors  - she works as an interior designer, but she is not very good at it and charges an absurd amount, doesn’t help her degree from ucla is a forgery (though that’s a secret she’ll never tell xoxo)  - she hasn't seen or spoken to her parents in over a decade now and they have never met their grandkids- as far as the mercers kids know? veronica’s parents are deceased 

𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕡𝕠 !!

schmidt ( new girl ), pimento ( b99 ), donkey ( shrek ), lumière ( beauty and the beast ), flynn rider ( tangled ), sokka ( atla ), jamie tartt ( ted lasso )

𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕘𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 !!

so first things first, i guess we should start back at the beginning in a galaxy far, far away, except not really that far away because noah was born and raised in a shitty little trailer in the 'bad part of town' section of mercer hollow.

his parents were hippies who fell in love for one summer in mexico à la what a girl wants with icon amanda bynes. 

*sighs wistfully* but summer couldn’t last forever. his dad went back to california to take over the family wine grove, and his mom went crawling back to live with in with her parents in the town she so desperately wanted to escape from. eventually, she left to travel the world and send some post cards along the way. 

he talked to his dad sparesly growing up, but honestly he was happy with the expensive gifts he sent him for his birthday and christmas. 

mostly, he spent his time with his grandma. she is ,,, a nut, but so much fun. she’s a little-known sculptor, and she always let noah throw wet clay at the walls of her studio. 

he spent his entire educational career fucking around. he skipped class all the time to hook up or dick around with his friends. he managed to hide a lot of it bc his grandma isn’t exactly the type of parental figure to check his grades, but she did take his car away when he almost didn’t graduate lmao. 

he played soccer on a comp team bc they don’t have a gpa requirement. he didn’t really take it seriously, but he was pretty good at the state level. 

he had to go to summer school basically every summer, but the teachers usually didn’t mind bc he brought donuts and pizza all the time. 

he started at liberty university with a soccer scholarship ( literally the only reason he got in was bc of test scores, pretty white boy privilege, and his athleticism ), but he showed up hungover to practice too many times, so they cut him sophomore year. thankfully, lil bby boy had his estranged, guilty dad to pay his tuition. 

this is where he met hope mercer. he knew her from high school, but they traveled in very different circles. she was the good girl who got good grades, and he was really hardly ever in class.

when he started hooking up with hope, he was with someone else. oops. eventually, his girlfriend found out and broke it off, and he dated hope for real until that ended just as messily as the relationship he ruined with her.

he graduated ( barely, but he did it ) and got a gig selling software, so he travels a lot and works from home.

sometimes he’s like maybe i should do something with my life and make my grandma proud, but mostly he’s like...or i can just keep visiting her and doing absolutely nothing with my life. 

𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪 !!

he’s uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh a big ho because hard work ?? relationships ?? rejection ?? we don’t know her here in this house.

a chronic flirt. hate him.  

but !! he’s v upfront about his intentions after he saw how much cheating on his first girlfriend fucked her up ( or actually i guess his lack of intentions ). his grandma would kick his ass if he played a girl just to get in her pants.

he’s really chill. it takes a lot to get under his skin bc he doesn’t give a shit about literally anything. it’s his biggest problem, honestly. 

his life motto is you can’t fail if you don’t try lmao. the apathy is strong in this one. 

he is always down to get into shenanigans of any kind, especially during work hours. 

he grew up with nothing, so now that he's making a lot of money he wastes it on all the things he wanted as a kid.

𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 !!

best friends: ( m, f, nb ), childhood friends: ( m, f, nb ), messy ex: ( f, nb ), fwb: ( f, nb), casual hookup ( f, nb), enemies: ( m, f, nb )

more detailed list: here.

bio

the reyes family is old money, lines of doctors, lawyers, and business owners with close ties to the mercer family. they're stern people with strict rules. theo is perfectly happy to put on the face and play along for about two hours then he gets bored and wants to go somewhere else, do his own thing, follow flights of fancy and not be bored.

rather than going to school for a higher degree, he did a bachelor in vet tech because he wanted to 'hang out with cool dogs'. he wanted to go out with his friends and be the center of attention and hit on girls and never text them back because they probably only really liked him for his face and the money anyway, they didn't actually know him. he wanted to be young and dumb and fun.

hope was supposed to be different. she was going to be a doctor. he was going to tie the reyes family to the mercers and create an old money political and business alliance through marriage while securing himself a position as a house husband. he just had this problem where he liked hope, but he didn't love her.

his father has already texted him that this is the perfect opportunity to clean up his reputation, apply to medical school, say hope inspired him. as though hope wasn't bitching about class all the time. sure he was prone to big dramatic outbursts, but he never got violent. he has no idea why the cops would insist that. a few bad soccer games in high school hardly count, that's different. he's a good guy. really.

wanted connections

𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒

full name: clara elise zhao nicknames: if you can come up with a good one they'll take it lol age: twenty five  birthday: april 13th chart: aries sun / pisces moon / scorpio rising gender: non-binary pronouns: she/her & they/them (no preference) sexuality: bisexual & biromantic  faceclaim: chase sui wonders height: 5′5 hair: brown eyes: brown tattoos: a few small ones in patchwork style piercings: three earlobe piercings on each ear clothing style: lacy shirts paired with ripped jeans, torn fishnets, oversized t shirts and maxi skirts, doc martens duct-taped together, aged silver jewelry painted over with nail polish, platform converse, leather jackets, graphic t shirts (often with graphic sayings lol) with a polo collar peeking out occupation: barista at black ridge coffee and college student (biology major, final year of undergrad)

𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃

uhhhh right out of the bat let's get into her EVIDENCE 😍 this is private knowledge to muses and nobody knows but clara but ... us muns can know as a little treat. clara was the result of a one night stand between bridget zhao and an unnamed mercer man (hope's uncle). not wanting a kid at all for many reasons (like he maybe was cheating on his wife lol), he disowned the zhao's quickly and after his name was forcibly put on clara's birth certificate (bridget is petty as fuck), he actually paid them a fair amount of hush money in order not to tell anyone else. as soon as clara was old enough to understand though, her mother told her who her father was, and since then she's had a strong distaste for the mercer family - some concoction of longing, jealousy, and hatred.

growing up was pretty lonely for clara, yktv when besides your mom you have 0 other family and you don't really make friends until mid elementary school because until then you just kind of like to stick your hands in the mud and chase your classmates around with worms? besides that, life was pretty decent. although they weren’t well off, clara's mom always made sure there was a pack of ice cream sandwiches in the freezer and clearance rack flowers on the kitchen table which was aided by the pay from her long hours as a dentist.

truthfully, nothing else notable happened during their childhood-high school. this is partially because it's true and also i am leaving it open in hopes of big plots with other muses who were in mercer hollow at the time 🧍‍♂️ if you have any ideas ... do lmk. in high school though, clara was nearly expelled for picking a fight during lunch of her junior year. having no other record, she made a deal with the principal to get it taken off her record if she got a 4.0 that semester, and thankfully was able to.

post high school graduation is about the time when the mercer hate train started to kick in. seeing hope get straight into college and continue to just be lil miss perfect with all the time in the world to improve her image, clara started to get jealous. they weren't able to go straight into college due to not having the money, and their mother didn't want to take out any loans. they also spent most of their time working, rather than just getting to do what they wanted like her.

however, upon getting accepted to the biology program at 22, clara and hope started to run in the same circles with classes/friends. instead of ... being an absolute dick to hope, clara decided to fake it until they made it because hope was still ... family 🫤 whether she liked the mercer's or not and thankfully hope seemed to be on the same page that she really didn't like clara below the surface, but unbeknownst to their connection.

anyways, they're going into the last year of their degree, making 40,000 lattes a day, celebrating and crying about hope's death, yktv or not i'll save you from reading more.

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘

clara? a good time ... mostly. i'd say they're pretty easy to get along with, most always kind and they'll do everything in their power to hold a conversation. they're a great storyteller and they like to see how people think :P

they also love a good laugh. unless they really have to, they don't tend to take a lot of things seriously. for instance, if you're the right company, she'll probably make some jokes about hope's death/disappearance too, half as her way of coping.

never having anyone super close to them growing up, they crave interaction with others and just really any relationship they can get. it doesn't matter if it's healthy, toxic, or just the most simple thing as them seeing you as a regular even if you've only come to get coffee from them once. while there may be a some exceptions (see: hope), just being around people is enough to satiate them. like small talk and holding the door open for people and smiling at people when they walk by them? right up their alley.

on the more negative side ... clara is a supreme grudge holder. mainly self proclaimed. if you wrong her to a certain point, it's basically over. it will be extremely difficult to get back on her good side. also, due to their people loving nature they also tend to be quite naive sometimes. even though they swear revenge is in their nature, it's not a rare occurrence for them to get walked all over while doing nothing about it. if they see the light, then the hatred will kick in, but you've got like 5-10 strikes usually.

additionally, they really just could not care less about what people think about them either. maybe being exposed for her evidence later will push her limit with this, but they sadly give me the vibes of the person that will just film absolutely wild tik toks in the middle of a supermarket check out lane even though everyone is looking at them like they want them dead.

in short: positive traits: personable, soft-hearted, analytical, intuitive, humorous, intelligent, a good listener, mostly open-minded, caring, logical, affable, animated

negative traits: inarticulate about feelings, unforgiving, vengeful, shameless, sometimes quick tempered, impatient, sometimes critical, vulgar, sometimes naive

𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒

friends from college/mutual friends with hope. i say "friends" loosely because clara wasn't really friends with hope either. just people that were in the same circle, got invited to the same things.

friends in general! they like people!!!

regulars at black ridge coffee. could be good or bad. maybe she uses the foam to put menacing things on their cup as a threat.

an idiotic pair of friends/bad influences for the other. tbt to the high school fight, clara sometimes likes to get in #dangerous behavior. borderline crimes ... shoplifting from chains ... drugs ... other things of the sort but never caught! yet

found family i beg of thee. sibling like friendships ... a father figure

a pair where they're equally as convinced that the other had a hand in hope's death or disappearance. with the knowledge of her lineage being private, the other muse would have to theorize about some other dirt for clara

a roommate! clara moved out at 22 once she got into college. this could either be on campus roommates or off. with clara's funds tho ... keep in mind they might not be living in the best place ever

similarly, neighbors! they could be neighbors now or from clara's childhood home

gut wrenching hate plots of where they really love each other but things just can’t work out for one way or another. love that shit

gentle romance <3 slow burn. someone who won’t hurt her. we can always plan for this and try for chem and just see where the wind takes us.

or unrequited love idk!!! could go either way.

people who treat clara like shit! but she likes being around them anyways because she doesn't feel that alone. could be hookups, friends, anyone. could be juicy if your muse knows they can basically do anything to clara and takes advantage of her.

the person that clara fought in high school LMAO?

other people that clara seeks revenge from??

as i mentioned in the background portion, i am very much open to clara taking any wcs/big plots that they could fit at any point, esp in their past. if you have something you're looking for, even if you're not sure if it'll work, ask me anyways bc most often i will be happy to make it work lol

licharally i am open to anything

𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒

name: cillian benedict mcneal

nicknames: ian

dob: september 3rd, 1989

age: thirty-three 

gender: cis male

pronouns: he/him 

orientation: heterosexual heteroromantic 

occupation: security guard & bouncer

family: siobhan mcneal (mother), robert lund (father), billie dimaggio (half-sister)

𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘

ON THE RAINY september day when ian was born robert lund demanded a paternity test, a chronic bastard he had barely waited for his girlfriend at the time-a whip-smart, irish immigrant named siobhan mcneal to stop laboring before declaring that the baby didn’t look like him at all and he wasn’t paying any goddamn money for someone else’s kid. though he was an ass it was at least easy to leave him for siobhan. a newly minted citizen she was happy to raise her son without anyone’s help. she work nights at the gas station and mornings at the diner just to scrape by, but gave her son the best life she could, called him cillian to give him a good strong name that would serve him will in life. 

cillian, or ian as he preferred, learned from a young age how to take care of himself and his mother. he was a trailer park rat through and through with summers playing in someone’s hose and knocking each other’s teeth out rolling around in the dirt. he never let anyone talk down at him-learned quick not to pull his punches because nobody else would. he was a natural-born protector always trailing behind his mother in case anyone had the bad luck to try. life was peaceful mostly, robert would swoop in from time to time and fuck up his psyche but that was given. he saw some of worse habits reflected in his father, his anger, his paranoia. he’d always felt like the world was out to get him and his mother. 

in high school ian grew into his own, he started playing football and besides having been 6′3″ since he was 14 with shoulders as big as a door frame he had a natural aptitude for the sport. his star quickly rose and for the first time in his life he was someone people wanted to be around. that kind of popularity was addicting to someone who’d never had a taste of it. he was on the road to a d1 scholarship and a possible career in the pros when he blew out his knee senior year. just like that all of his hopes of giving his mom a better life were dashed, he sunk into depression and cut off any friends he’d made in his short time in the in-crowd. 

in the following years the crowd he fell in with was a less than desirable young. he was constantly getting in trouble, dragged into the police station for public intoxication or starting bar fights. he had a lot of pent-up anger from having his future stripped away and channeled into every bad choice he could make. when he was 23 some serious shit went down and he took the fall for all of it, his so-called friends leaving him to deal with the consequences of their actions alone. the prosecution’s star witness was none other than hope mercer, pushed by outside forces to edit her story into confirming that ian was solely responsible for the crime. and just like that his freedom was gone, sentenced to fourteen years he got out last year on good behavior and overcrowding need on parole. 

as small towns are like to do the tragic tale of ian mcneal was spun and twisted in his absence. when got back the story had turned into a tale of murder and mystery around the football star that went crazy after losing his shot. he was a social pariah, squirreled away as the town’s black sheep. his mother had grown sick, contracting lymphoma. there was no hope of leaving mercer hollow any time soon and very few job opportunities for an excon. he got a security job at the bank in the day and worked weekends at a strip joint in liberty. even with his mother’s medical bills bankrupting it was still nearly impossible for him to accept help. 

with hope mercer dead and his tire tracks in the dirt where her body was dumped all eyes are turned back onto ian as one of the main suspects. he finds himself the subject of a witch hunt lead by the more judgemental residents of mercer hollow who couldn’t possibly believe that one of the distinguished, wealthy residents of the town could be responsible for such a tragedy. 

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘

ian’s always been a natural protector and defender. his entire life he’s been the first one to throw a punch or stick up for the little guy. he had quietly hoped for a better life than the one he’s been handed but now he knows that it just won’t come. he’s a lowkey sweetheart who just wants the people in his life to be safe and happy. his overprotective streak can sometimes spiral into control issues and the one thing he fears more than anything in life is ending up like his father. he’s a serious, responsible kind of man who still doesn’t take shit from anyone. he can seem hard on the surface but once you get to know him he’s got a soft heart.

𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒

the one that got away: this muse would have known ian in high school. where everything else was real they were real. ian, a romantic at heart was over the moon to have someone. they seemed to fit together perfectly but ian broke up with them when he blew out his knee. there were a few letters sent to ian in prison but he never responded. now that he’s back in town what will happen?

friend for life: this is ian’s bro, someone who’s stuck by him through thick and thin and one of the few real friends he still has who hasn’t ducked and run after he’s become the town pariah. 

STATS !

FULL NAME: violet marshal chang AGE: twenty one BIRTH CHART: libra sun / cancer moon / sagittarius rising SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual / biromantic HEIGHT: 5′7″ OCCUPATION: full-time undergrad student at liberty university CLUBS/ORGANIZATIONS: violet is currently co-captain of the liberty university swim team and she is heavily involved with several clubs on campus (gay-straight alliance, schools newspaper, etc.) FAMILY MEMBERS: she has a father, a mother, an older brother named grayson, and a younger brother named fletcher CLOTHING STYLE: it’s rare to see violet wearing anything other than athleisure or something with the school’s logo printed on it like she is always in between swim team practices or working out so what is the point in changing clothes?? her actual sense of style isn’t great, though. everything she owns is just stuff she has borrowed/stolen from people over the years, all mixed together into a nonsensical collage of pieces that aren’t really hers. so, really, her style could change day-by-day, but it will NEVER look good. that’s a promise.  LIFESTYLE: violet is a vegetarian and a women’s, gender, and sexuality studies major. she is an early bird and a night owl. she is extroverted and a very fast talker. she’s also a kleptomaniac so make sure you keep an eye on your belongings whenever she’s around.

BACKSTORY !

TW: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTION OF CHRONIC ILLNESS 

violet was lucky enough to be born into a family who didn’t have to worry about their next meal or if they were going to be able to keep the lights on. they were upper middle class and proud of it.

this meant that violet and her brothers had a pretty idyllic childhood. they had all the toys they wanted, their family went on fun vacations, and their house was a hotspot for sleepovers... it was perfect, really. 

but when her younger brother started having seizures, it definitely put a dent in that perfection. his epilepsy diagnosis was scary and new and unlike anything they had encountered before, but they knew that they would be able to tackle it as a family. 

and that worked for a while. they figured out a good schedule for taking him to doctor’s appointments, taking violet to swim practice, and making sure there was dinner on the table when everyone got home.

however, when her older brother got to high school, he almost immediately got mixed in with the wrong crowd. he was home less and less and was getting in trouble all the time - both when he was at home and when he was at school

this added yet another dent in the perfection

unfortunately, the dent became a deep, twisted crack when her older brother got arrested for vandalizing one of his teacher’s cars after hours at school. thankfully, he teacher chose not to press charges, but this news was all the rage in mercer hollow for a week until something new happened and everyone forgot about grayson’s encounter with the law

despite their parents hounding him, grayson’s behavior still hadn’t improved by the time he got to college. instead, it got so much worse. he started to heavily rely on drug use just to get through the day, whether it was for getting homework done or for falling asleep at night.

eventually, he stopped even attending classes and got kicked out in the middle of his sophomore year. 

violet’s parents sent him to some treatment center in montana, hoping that their son’s failure wouldn’t blow back on them in their small town’s social circuit. 

other than the occasional, strangely-worded letter, violet hasn’t seen or heard from him in years. her parents say that he settled down out in the midwest, but violet isn’t totally sure if she believes that. 

through all of this turmoil with her brothers, violet found that it was all too easy to fade into the background of her family. between her one brother’s chronic illness and the other’s behavioral issues, she didn’t want to give her parents another thing to worry about. so, violet decided that she would just dedicate her life to becoming the perfect poster child!

she spent every second of every day doing stuff to beef up her college application, wanting to make sure that she would get into liberty university and graduate - something her brother hadn’t been able to do. 

although, none of her excellence has ever stood out to her parents. it’s kind of like they forgot she existed during that rough patch in their family history and have been unable to see her since. i mean, they will smile and nod when she’s telling them about her latest swim team victory, but it’s never enough for them. 

CONNECTION TO HOPE !

the changs lived next to the mercers when violet was growing up. as far as violet knew, they weren’t just perfect on the surface like her family. they were like gods in her mind, so iconic that their town was even named after them. 

hope, specifically though, was at the center of violet’s affections. she was a few years older and so much cooler. i mean, prom queen, student body president, and captain of the soccer team? she did it all! and she actually got recognized for all of her accomplishments. 

so, violet began to model herself after her. she joined clubs hope had been in, tried out for the soccer team (and failed), and even tried to copy hope’s style... all the way down to the part in her hair. 

violet figured this was a foolproof plan to get the attention she so desperately craved. and it worked... kind of. let’s just say the attention wasn’t necessarily positive. nobody likes a copycat. 

so, it’s pretty safe to say that violet is totally lost now that hope is gone. the sole person who defined her life’s decisions was found face down in a lake... so violet is really starting to question her existence at this point tbh

PERSONALITY !

okay, after that XXL biography... i will try to be brief here i promise

on the surface, violet is very bubbly and optimistic. she is always trying to be helpful and kind to everyone she meets and i’ll be honest, i don’t think violet’s ever met a stranger. she is extremely naive and probably a little too trusting of everyone. 

she works extremely hard, though. to the point of overexertion, really. hence the 5 AM jogs and 2 hours of sleep. 

but really at the core of her personality, she is extremely competitive and willing to do anything to get what she wants. she is attention-seeking and so, so unhappy with herself and her circumstances. she has many personal identity issues that will become obvious the longer you know her.