Pretty Little Info Post
Aug. 23rd, 2011 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
new_it_girlExcept the post is kind of long. This show has so many cracky plot twists, but it's always entertaining!
Hanna is from the teen/mystery drama Pretty Little Liars, which is based on the novel series of the same name. It's about a group of friends (Hanna, Spencer, Emily, Aria) whose friendship crumbles when their clique leader (Alison) disappears. A year later, they all individually start to receive creepy text messages, emails, and written notes from someone called 'A' threatening to expose their secrets. Because she's the only one who knew these secrets, they suspect Alison...until her remains are found on the grounds of her family's former home. As a result of these traumatic events, the girls reconnect and grow closer again.
Through a series of flashbacks, viewers learn about their lives prior to Alison's murder. Alison was not exactly a good friend. In fact, she was downright nasty and manipulative. There are probably a lot of people who'd want her dead. In the present, the girls try to figure out who her killer is, while solving the mystery of 'A.' They may even be the same person. I think 'A' and Gossip Girl might be the same person, too. They are everywhere!
Hanna, once over-weight and insecure, is now much more slender and popular. In the year after Alison's disappearance, Hanna transformed herself and took Alison's place as the "it girl" at school. Though her appearance has changed, she still has the same insecurities and low self-esteem. She even shoplifts to get her dad's attention, despite her family's wealth. Through the renewed friendship with the other girls and being close to her mom, she is no longer a mean girl. That was just an act, anyway.
Though she is nicer, she is snarky and blunt and has the best one-liners. She sometimes doesn't think before she speaks, often with humorous consequences. She can be dense at times as well as shallow, but she means well.
Hanna, like most Fandomites, has abandonment and daddy issues. Though her dad is trying to make amends, he is still getting remarried and may favor Hanna's soon-to-be-semi-evil-stepsister Kate. Also, Hanna's boyfriend just left for California for personal reasons. Consider them on a break for awhile. Her mom sending her away is probably not going to make her feel less abandoned.
She'll be sent to Fandom because, after a series of scares, her mom wants her somewhere safe. This is actual canon worry. Hanna was hit by a car earlier (by 'A' but her mom doesn't know that), a fashion show in Alison's name was sabotaged, and the office of a therapist the girls had been seeing to deal with their trauma has been trashed. Hanna's mom will think this is all related and will worry enough to send her away.
I am going to incorporate most of the 'A' related stuff into game, or at least what is feasible. This means that anything happening on screen will occur for Hanna in Fandom and set in real time. All of the events of season one and the first half of season two happened in only a few months, so it is still fall 2010 in canon time. I honestly do not want to deal with that cracky and nonsensical timeline, so I am setting everything at present for game purposes.
There is one more thing I need to mention because it deals with a very delicate and potentially triggery topic.
On the show, it is very clear Hanna once had an eating disorder. She had very low self-esteem and Alison preyed on that by constantly saying mean comments about her weight, even cruelly manipulating Hanna into developing the disorder. At the moment, she has it under control, though the show sometimes subtly hints that she struggles at times to keep it that way. As long as it is under control as the show portrays, it will be in game as well. I know it's a serious and difficult issue, and I do not want to make anyone uncomfortable. So consider this a warning in case it does come up in narrative.
Please feel free to contact me if you think I am not handling this properly or it makes you feel uncomfortable.
Any other questions or comments are welcome as well. I am very much open for OOC communication.
Hanna is from the teen/mystery drama Pretty Little Liars, which is based on the novel series of the same name. It's about a group of friends (Hanna, Spencer, Emily, Aria) whose friendship crumbles when their clique leader (Alison) disappears. A year later, they all individually start to receive creepy text messages, emails, and written notes from someone called 'A' threatening to expose their secrets. Because she's the only one who knew these secrets, they suspect Alison...until her remains are found on the grounds of her family's former home. As a result of these traumatic events, the girls reconnect and grow closer again.
Through a series of flashbacks, viewers learn about their lives prior to Alison's murder. Alison was not exactly a good friend. In fact, she was downright nasty and manipulative. There are probably a lot of people who'd want her dead. In the present, the girls try to figure out who her killer is, while solving the mystery of 'A.' They may even be the same person. I think 'A' and Gossip Girl might be the same person, too. They are everywhere!
Hanna, once over-weight and insecure, is now much more slender and popular. In the year after Alison's disappearance, Hanna transformed herself and took Alison's place as the "it girl" at school. Though her appearance has changed, she still has the same insecurities and low self-esteem. She even shoplifts to get her dad's attention, despite her family's wealth. Through the renewed friendship with the other girls and being close to her mom, she is no longer a mean girl. That was just an act, anyway.
Though she is nicer, she is snarky and blunt and has the best one-liners. She sometimes doesn't think before she speaks, often with humorous consequences. She can be dense at times as well as shallow, but she means well.
Hanna, like most Fandomites, has abandonment and daddy issues. Though her dad is trying to make amends, he is still getting remarried and may favor Hanna's soon-to-be-semi-evil-stepsister Kate. Also, Hanna's boyfriend just left for California for personal reasons. Consider them on a break for awhile. Her mom sending her away is probably not going to make her feel less abandoned.
She'll be sent to Fandom because, after a series of scares, her mom wants her somewhere safe. This is actual canon worry. Hanna was hit by a car earlier (by 'A' but her mom doesn't know that), a fashion show in Alison's name was sabotaged, and the office of a therapist the girls had been seeing to deal with their trauma has been trashed. Hanna's mom will think this is all related and will worry enough to send her away.
I am going to incorporate most of the 'A' related stuff into game, or at least what is feasible. This means that anything happening on screen will occur for Hanna in Fandom and set in real time. All of the events of season one and the first half of season two happened in only a few months, so it is still fall 2010 in canon time. I honestly do not want to deal with that cracky and nonsensical timeline, so I am setting everything at present for game purposes.
There is one more thing I need to mention because it deals with a very delicate and potentially triggery topic.
On the show, it is very clear Hanna once had an eating disorder. She had very low self-esteem and Alison preyed on that by constantly saying mean comments about her weight, even cruelly manipulating Hanna into developing the disorder. At the moment, she has it under control, though the show sometimes subtly hints that she struggles at times to keep it that way. As long as it is under control as the show portrays, it will be in game as well. I know it's a serious and difficult issue, and I do not want to make anyone uncomfortable. So consider this a warning in case it does come up in narrative.
Please feel free to contact me if you think I am not handling this properly or it makes you feel uncomfortable.
Any other questions or comments are welcome as well. I am very much open for OOC communication.
