Annabelle 'Annie' Dyer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ohmyscream) wrote2020-06-02 12:12 pm
ohmyscream) wrote2020-06-02 12:12 pm
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Supernatural elements and trauma ahoy! At first Annie did not suspect that monsters might be involved in the loss of her friends. She thinks she is very grounded in reality. To her the idea was ridiculous. She was pretty sure when her friends started to go missing that it had to be some kind of serial killer.
When Katie went missing Annie noticed within a day. They had been pretty much joined at the hip since they were fairly young so when Katie didn't show up to school that day Annie assumed her best friend was sick and did what she thought she should do. She picked up Katie's favorite brand of soup and went to go take it to her friend's house. After so many years of being friends Katie's parents had gotten used to Annie just showing up.
It got very weird for them when Annie admitted she didn't know where Katie was. That was the start of Annie trying to be helpful with the local police. Answering questions as the best friend of a local missing girl. She had the impression at the time that the cops thought maybe Katie had a secret boyfriend or maybe girlfriend since Katie was an avid supporter of LBGTQ+ rights.
Danielle went missing next. Annie was pretty convinced it wasn't connected at first. She had known Danielle had been talking about going away for years. She never felt like she fit in with the town as far as Annie knew. Annie honestly thought maybe Danielle had been lying about how she was coping with Katie's disappearance. That actually made Annie angry at her friends because she thought after so many years they would know that no matter what she would have their backs.
Didn't they understand that she actually loved them?
Megan was where it all really changed. She tried to tell Annie about her findings about the town. Specifically Megan had started to figure out where the other girls had been last seen. Annie however was starting to lose faith that she could trust her friends. They were obviously shutting her out to whatever problems they were facing.
Annie was basically making it about her. Megan tried calling her out on it and was unable to. It didn't help that Dylan was setting things up so he could separate Megan from Annie as Megan was his next target.
When Megan went missing Annie did end up going to see her school's guidance councilor. It was because the coach of the Varsity Cheerleading team was not going to let Annie just try to cope on her own. The Coach wasn't blind and had observed over a period of months that Annie was getting short tempered with the people around her and was pushing herself way too hard. She also let her dramatic flag fly when she got tired at the end of different practices insisting no one understood her. It was grating on the people around Annie but she couldn't bring herself to care at the time. It was what Annie will admit to being her very selfish phase since it was hard to care about what others thought.
Annie tried to say her attitude was because she wanted to win. That wasn't the truth though as the principal had decided along with the PTA that sending the Cheer Squad to state competitions when so many girls had gone missing that year wasn't really a good idea. This annoyed Annie because she really wanted the distraction of hundreds of people in the stands to keep her mind off how much she was hurting. She took it personally.
Between the cheerleading squad coach and the school guidance councilor running herd on Annie she was roped into a series of appointments. At first, she had been angry at her friends. Didn't they trust her to tell her what was going on? Annie thought they knew she would never hurt them on purpose they're her besties. The councilor got Annie to open up about that.
Annie admitted by the time that Megan went missing that maybe she wasn't such a good friend. The cheer leader admitted sometimes she used how her friends thought of her as a way to feel good about herself. Sometimes she would feel really sad until she thought about how great her friends appeared to think she was. That was why she always tried so hard to be great for them so Annie could feel like she could use that as a way to measure her own self-worth. The guidance councilor was trying to get Annie to see that some of that wasn't necessarily the best thing.
She still thought she could trust her boyfriend so she started to tell him in confidence what was going through her head. Maybe she wasn't as good as she thought she was. He got her to tell him about her private insecurities. Annie just didn't tell him about how angry she had been. That was private as far as she was concerned. No one needed to know about how sometimes she wanted to scream.
When word got out that her friends bodies had been found? That was the first time Annie yelled publically. She was furious because it had been four months since Katie had gone missing. She was lucky that she didn't actually find them or see the bodies as the cops and families of the girls didn't want anyone to see what had happened but there were still rumors.
Claw marks. Parts gone missing. When that actually got back to Annie since small towns and rumor mills are actually a thing it made her wonder. Was it really a possible killer? She had started to question what it might be but wasn't ready to make the leap to monsters of the non-human flavor involved.
The funerals were hell on Annie. She couldn't stop herself from crying. The built-up rage and grief had to come out at some point and this was apparently it. Annie didn't like the fact she wasn't in control of her feelings but what she liked even worse was feeling helpless due to just not knowing or understanding what really happened to her friends. Yes, they were dead but Annie needed to understand why. She thought it was incredibly unfair. Annie just had trouble grasping that the world outside of her friends and parents wasn't always good and sometimes innocent people suffered.
When she was lured out to the pier by her boyfriend the illusion had started to shatter. Annie was fully prepared to go to the rally her principal wanted to throw. Annie was going to use this as one last chance to say goodbye to the friends she lost publically. Privately she was considering asking her Mom to find her a good therapist. Annie was ready to admit she was tired of feeling so wounded at loosing them.
Annie was ready to be strong for them. Some part of her though her friends wouldn't want her to wreck herself for them.
What she did not expect was for Dylan to confess anything to her. When he started with admitting her had something to tell her Annie thought maybe he was telling her he loved her or wanted to break up with her. She did not expect for him to come out and say he had been trying to gain riches and power by feeding her friends to this monster he had discovered had been living in the bay. It blew her mind that all this time that while she had been dealing with her rage and grief her boyfriend had been the one behind it. So hitting him with an oar for a dingy had been a bit unexpected for them. Annie decided it made for some nice stress relief.
"So like. What? You thought you were going to kill me and get everything you wanted." Annie's lips curl back to expose her perfect white teeth. Spit comes out as she hisses her rage at him.
"You turned my life into a horror movie you jackass! But you forgot your goddamn tropes, I'm the Final Girl!" Annie had zero problems swinging again with the boat oar. When she heard to slap against his head and knock him over the edge? Annie didn't really feel bad. She was still angry at him. It would have been much better if he was still up on the pier with her so she could maybe smash his face in.
He killed her best friends. Fuck her boyfriend. With chain saws.
Personality expansion (aka talking about KEYWORDS)
Presence Annie has had to learn how to work a room. Knowing how to have eyes on her is key for both cheer leading and figuring out what people want when they show up at a party her parents are throwing. She is the type that will play up being a bubbly cheerleader if that means it will further her cause.
Genre savvy Annie loves movies. Understanding the themes presented to her or the plot is an important part of consuming them. It is part of what got her through more difficult literature classes in high school because she can take the time to read between the lines to find the gooy core of the situation.
Such as when she called herself the Final Girl before trying to beat her boyfriend to death with an oar.
Gallows Humor She will make cracks in the face of death. Annie is still in recovery mode from her trauma and will latch onto the darker humor she has absorbed from years of watching horror flicks. In fact she did start to show this off to her guidance councilor when she felt forced to fess up to her own attitudes regarding herself and how she was coping with her friends disappearing.
Sheltered Annie is a bit unaware of how dangerous the world is. As the only child of two wealthy and successful people they kept Annie insulated from just how dangerous the world is. Annie has no idea how many people go missing every day. She found herself left unbalanced when the cops said maybe her friends just ran away. It doesn't occur to her that people get hurt in the real world outside of say, a really big city. Bad things don't really happen in her experience prior to Katie going missing.
Dramatic Annie leans into this hard. It's never just a good day. It is the best day ever. On the flip side when things go wrong? She is convinced that the world is out to get her. This is why when she realized her friends were missing Annie leaned hard into trying to demand answers. Annie also tends to try overly hard to be seen as a good girl. It has gotten her in a bit of trouble before.
Entitlement Annie grew up a rich white girl. She also tends to try and make a lot of things about her without really meaning to. Of course everything is actually about her. She's awesome. Doesn't everyone know that? Annie can cope with this being disproven about as well as a house cat discovering they are nbot in fact in charge. Subtel shade will be thrown because "how very dare".
When Katie went missing Annie noticed within a day. They had been pretty much joined at the hip since they were fairly young so when Katie didn't show up to school that day Annie assumed her best friend was sick and did what she thought she should do. She picked up Katie's favorite brand of soup and went to go take it to her friend's house. After so many years of being friends Katie's parents had gotten used to Annie just showing up.
It got very weird for them when Annie admitted she didn't know where Katie was. That was the start of Annie trying to be helpful with the local police. Answering questions as the best friend of a local missing girl. She had the impression at the time that the cops thought maybe Katie had a secret boyfriend or maybe girlfriend since Katie was an avid supporter of LBGTQ+ rights.
Danielle went missing next. Annie was pretty convinced it wasn't connected at first. She had known Danielle had been talking about going away for years. She never felt like she fit in with the town as far as Annie knew. Annie honestly thought maybe Danielle had been lying about how she was coping with Katie's disappearance. That actually made Annie angry at her friends because she thought after so many years they would know that no matter what she would have their backs.
Didn't they understand that she actually loved them?
Megan was where it all really changed. She tried to tell Annie about her findings about the town. Specifically Megan had started to figure out where the other girls had been last seen. Annie however was starting to lose faith that she could trust her friends. They were obviously shutting her out to whatever problems they were facing.
Annie was basically making it about her. Megan tried calling her out on it and was unable to. It didn't help that Dylan was setting things up so he could separate Megan from Annie as Megan was his next target.
When Megan went missing Annie did end up going to see her school's guidance councilor. It was because the coach of the Varsity Cheerleading team was not going to let Annie just try to cope on her own. The Coach wasn't blind and had observed over a period of months that Annie was getting short tempered with the people around her and was pushing herself way too hard. She also let her dramatic flag fly when she got tired at the end of different practices insisting no one understood her. It was grating on the people around Annie but she couldn't bring herself to care at the time. It was what Annie will admit to being her very selfish phase since it was hard to care about what others thought.
Annie tried to say her attitude was because she wanted to win. That wasn't the truth though as the principal had decided along with the PTA that sending the Cheer Squad to state competitions when so many girls had gone missing that year wasn't really a good idea. This annoyed Annie because she really wanted the distraction of hundreds of people in the stands to keep her mind off how much she was hurting. She took it personally.
Between the cheerleading squad coach and the school guidance councilor running herd on Annie she was roped into a series of appointments. At first, she had been angry at her friends. Didn't they trust her to tell her what was going on? Annie thought they knew she would never hurt them on purpose they're her besties. The councilor got Annie to open up about that.
Annie admitted by the time that Megan went missing that maybe she wasn't such a good friend. The cheer leader admitted sometimes she used how her friends thought of her as a way to feel good about herself. Sometimes she would feel really sad until she thought about how great her friends appeared to think she was. That was why she always tried so hard to be great for them so Annie could feel like she could use that as a way to measure her own self-worth. The guidance councilor was trying to get Annie to see that some of that wasn't necessarily the best thing.
She still thought she could trust her boyfriend so she started to tell him in confidence what was going through her head. Maybe she wasn't as good as she thought she was. He got her to tell him about her private insecurities. Annie just didn't tell him about how angry she had been. That was private as far as she was concerned. No one needed to know about how sometimes she wanted to scream.
When word got out that her friends bodies had been found? That was the first time Annie yelled publically. She was furious because it had been four months since Katie had gone missing. She was lucky that she didn't actually find them or see the bodies as the cops and families of the girls didn't want anyone to see what had happened but there were still rumors.
Claw marks. Parts gone missing. When that actually got back to Annie since small towns and rumor mills are actually a thing it made her wonder. Was it really a possible killer? She had started to question what it might be but wasn't ready to make the leap to monsters of the non-human flavor involved.
The funerals were hell on Annie. She couldn't stop herself from crying. The built-up rage and grief had to come out at some point and this was apparently it. Annie didn't like the fact she wasn't in control of her feelings but what she liked even worse was feeling helpless due to just not knowing or understanding what really happened to her friends. Yes, they were dead but Annie needed to understand why. She thought it was incredibly unfair. Annie just had trouble grasping that the world outside of her friends and parents wasn't always good and sometimes innocent people suffered.
When she was lured out to the pier by her boyfriend the illusion had started to shatter. Annie was fully prepared to go to the rally her principal wanted to throw. Annie was going to use this as one last chance to say goodbye to the friends she lost publically. Privately she was considering asking her Mom to find her a good therapist. Annie was ready to admit she was tired of feeling so wounded at loosing them.
Annie was ready to be strong for them. Some part of her though her friends wouldn't want her to wreck herself for them.
What she did not expect was for Dylan to confess anything to her. When he started with admitting her had something to tell her Annie thought maybe he was telling her he loved her or wanted to break up with her. She did not expect for him to come out and say he had been trying to gain riches and power by feeding her friends to this monster he had discovered had been living in the bay. It blew her mind that all this time that while she had been dealing with her rage and grief her boyfriend had been the one behind it. So hitting him with an oar for a dingy had been a bit unexpected for them. Annie decided it made for some nice stress relief.
"So like. What? You thought you were going to kill me and get everything you wanted." Annie's lips curl back to expose her perfect white teeth. Spit comes out as she hisses her rage at him.
"You turned my life into a horror movie you jackass! But you forgot your goddamn tropes, I'm the Final Girl!" Annie had zero problems swinging again with the boat oar. When she heard to slap against his head and knock him over the edge? Annie didn't really feel bad. She was still angry at him. It would have been much better if he was still up on the pier with her so she could maybe smash his face in.
He killed her best friends. Fuck her boyfriend. With chain saws.
Personality expansion (aka talking about KEYWORDS)
Presence Annie has had to learn how to work a room. Knowing how to have eyes on her is key for both cheer leading and figuring out what people want when they show up at a party her parents are throwing. She is the type that will play up being a bubbly cheerleader if that means it will further her cause.
Genre savvy Annie loves movies. Understanding the themes presented to her or the plot is an important part of consuming them. It is part of what got her through more difficult literature classes in high school because she can take the time to read between the lines to find the gooy core of the situation.
Such as when she called herself the Final Girl before trying to beat her boyfriend to death with an oar.
Gallows Humor She will make cracks in the face of death. Annie is still in recovery mode from her trauma and will latch onto the darker humor she has absorbed from years of watching horror flicks. In fact she did start to show this off to her guidance councilor when she felt forced to fess up to her own attitudes regarding herself and how she was coping with her friends disappearing.
Sheltered Annie is a bit unaware of how dangerous the world is. As the only child of two wealthy and successful people they kept Annie insulated from just how dangerous the world is. Annie has no idea how many people go missing every day. She found herself left unbalanced when the cops said maybe her friends just ran away. It doesn't occur to her that people get hurt in the real world outside of say, a really big city. Bad things don't really happen in her experience prior to Katie going missing.
Dramatic Annie leans into this hard. It's never just a good day. It is the best day ever. On the flip side when things go wrong? She is convinced that the world is out to get her. This is why when she realized her friends were missing Annie leaned hard into trying to demand answers. Annie also tends to try overly hard to be seen as a good girl. It has gotten her in a bit of trouble before.
Entitlement Annie grew up a rich white girl. She also tends to try and make a lot of things about her without really meaning to. Of course everything is actually about her. She's awesome. Doesn't everyone know that? Annie can cope with this being disproven about as well as a house cat discovering they are nbot in fact in charge. Subtel shade will be thrown because "how very dare".