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LUX RADIO THEATRE presents FANCY PANTS

September 10, 1950

Lux Radio Theatre (1935-55) was a radio anthology series that adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films (”Lux Presents Hollywood”). These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences in Los Angeles. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. The primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux Soap brand.

Fancy Pants was broadcast live from Hollywood on CBS Radio in front of a live audience.

Produced and Hosted by William Keighley

Written by Edmund Hartman, who also wrote the screenplay

Libby Collins is billed as a "Hollywood Reporter" during the Act One commecial break and Joan Taylor is guest for the Act Two commerical break.

THE CAST

Lucille Ball (Agatha Floud, American Debutante) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in April 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon, which was not a success and was canceled after just 13 episodes. She died on April 26, 1989 at the age of 77.

Bob Hope (Mr. Arthur Tyler / ‘Humphrey’ aka ‘Oliver Grimes’ aka ‘Fancy Pants’) was born Lesley Townes Hope in England in 1903. During his extensive career in virtually all forms of media he received five honorary Academy Awards. In 1945, Desi Arnaz was the orchestra leader on Bob Hope’s radio show. Ball and Hope did three other films together. He appeared as himself on the season 6 opener of “I Love Lucy.” He did a brief cameo in a 1964 episode of “The Lucy Show.” He died in 2003 at age 100.

Norma Varden (Gwendolyn Fairmore / ‘Lady Maude Brinstead’) is probably best known for playing Frau Schmidt, the somewhat circumspect housekeeper at the Von Trapp mansion in 1965′s The Sound Of Music. Lucy fans will remember her as weepy Mrs. Benson, who Lucy Ricardo convinces to swap apartments in “The Ricardos Change Apartments” (ILL S2;E26) in 1953. The London-born actress turned up on an episode of “The Lucy Show”.

Gail Bonney was seen in two 1950 films featuring Lucille Ball. In March 1950, she played an uncredited bicyclist in A Woman of Distinction in which Lucille Ball had a cameo as herself. In September 1950, Bonney was seen in the Lucille Ball film The Fuller Brush Girl. Two years later, Gail Bonney played Mrs. Hudson in "The Amateur Hour," (ILL S1;E14) hiring Lucy Ricardo to babysit her twin boys. She returned to do a 1965 episode of "The Lucy Show” titled “Lucy and The Ceramic Cat” (TLS S3;E16). Bonney’s final appearance on a Lucy sitcom was in a 1968 episode of "Here’s Lucy” titled “Lucy and Eva Gabor” (HL S1;E7).

Also featuring: Constance Cavendish (Effie Floud), Charlie Lung, Edwin Max, Robert O, and Dan O'Herlihy.

Fancy Pants is a 1950 American romantic comedy western film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. It is a musical adaptation of Ruggles of Red Gap. The Paramount film premiered on July 19, 1950.

Synopsis: In 1905, an American actor (Arthur Tyler) impersonating an English butler named Humphry is hired by a nouveau riche woman (Effie Floud) from New Mexico to refine her husband and her headstrong daughter (Aggie). Complications ensue when the town believes Arthur to be an Earl, and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.

Music: The Fancy Pants theme by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans is used at the broadcast's act openings. Although in the film Lucille Ball's vocals were dubbed by Annette Warren, here Ball does her own singing of the title tune.

As in the film, Bob Hope sings "Home Cookin'" by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.

Exit music is from "Round-up on the Prairie" by Aaron Kenny.

FANCY TRIVIA

Bob Hope tended to ad-lib dialogue, sometimes based on current events or his whim. These 'mentions' by Hope may have been unscripted. It is often difficult to determine if it is Bob Hope, Humphrey the butler, or actor Arthur Tyler speaking. Most of the references are anachronistic as the action takes place in 1905.

THEODORE 'TEDDY' ROOSEVELT ~ was the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. The youngest man ever to be elected President at age 42, he was a statesman, conservationist, and soldier. The action of “Lucy Wins A Racehorse” (1958) is set at the now defunct Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island. The raceway is named after the village of Roosevelt, which was named for him.

Bob Hope mentions Stopette, an underarm deodorant sold from 1941 until 1956. It was a longtime sponsor of the CBS game show "What's My Line?". Lucille Ball made six appearances on the show, one alongside Bob Hope. Time Magazine called Stopette "the best-selling deodorant of the early 1950s"

After a joke about being pelted with tomatoes, Bob Hope mentions Red Skelton, a comic actor who appeared with him in 17 film and television projects, six of which also included Lucille Ball. Skelton appeared as himself on "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" in 1959.

Hope mentions Jergens Lotion, a product marketed by the Andrew Jergens Company, founded in 1882 in Cincinatti, Ohio.

Bing Crosby is winkingly mentioned by Bob Hope. Hope and Crosby were screen partners, filming seven 'Road' pictures between 1940 and 1962.

The Act One commercial for bath size Lux Soap refers to the RKO film His Kind of Woman, starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, who is said to be a Lux girl. The film is set in Mexico and produced by Howard Hughtes. The film wouldn't be released for 11 months after the broadcast.

Telling a dramatic story, Bob Hope mentions Lipton Tea ("They cut off our Liptons!"). During the story, Hope starts to laugh and momentarily pauses before getting back on script. Historically, Thomas Lipton started selling tea in Scotland in 1871, his name eventually becoming synonymous with the product.

Talking about poor western hospitality, Hope mentions Spade Cooley, a musician and actor from Oklahoma who found success in Hollywood. Cooley was part Cherokee Indian. His biggest hit was "Shame On You". Ten years after this broadcast, he was convicted of murdering his wife.

CART BELKNAP: "What happened to that big elephant you were riding?" HUMPHREY: "He'd gone to Washington to get ready for '52." (Hope ad libs after audience laughs) "I never dreamed of that!"

Hope is referring to the elephant that is the symbol of the Republican party. In 1950, it was expected that Democratic President Harry S. Truman would seek a third term. Truman had become President after the death of Franklin Roosevelt and then went on to win his first full term in 1948. In 1952, America would have had a Republican in the White House since 1933. As it turned out, Truman decided not to run in 1952, despite being exempt from term limit legistlation he himself signed into law. The winner was indeed a Republican, Dwight Eisenhower.

HUMPHREY: "Water! Water! Anything that'll save my life! A packet of Chesterfields!" Hope was a spokesperson for the cigarette. The brand was manufactured by a subsidiary of Philip-Morris, the tobacco company that sponsored "I Love Lucy" in 1951. The studio audience laughs at this ad-lib.

HUMPHREY: "I'm no Earl. I'm not even Humphrey. I'm an Arthur Tyler, an actor: AFTRA, AGVA, and SAG. And paid up!"

Hope's ad-lib refers to the performers unions American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). At the time of broadcast, Ronald Reagan was president of SAG. Recently, SAG and AFTRA merged to create SAG-ATRA. Needless to say, these labor unions did not exist in 1905.

During the second act commercial break, Joan Taylor and William Keighley mention Paramount's Here Comes the Groom starring Jane Wyman and Alexis Smith, both said to be "Lux Lovely". The Frank Capra film was released September 20, 1951 and won a 1952 Oscar for Best Song: "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening." Coincidentally, Gail Bonney, who is heard in this radiocast, appears uncredited as a telephone operator in the film.

After singing "Home Cookin'" with Ball, Hope quickly quips "Thank you, Margaret." In June 1950, Hope had joined songstress Margaret Whiting and the Starlighters to release a single of the song - sans Lucy. The mention of Margaret causes the studio audience to erupt in laughter, and the actress playing Effie has to say: "Listen! I'm talkin' to you!"

HUMPHREY: "I've been practicing the royal sneer all morning. I'll soon be getting fan mail from Basil Rathbone."

Basil Rathbone was an actor best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in a series of films. In 1954, Hope and Rathbone starred together in the light comedy Casanova's Big Night. Rathbone had previously guest starred on Hope's 1941 radio show.

HUMPHREY: "The whole day on horseback! I may find a new place to put my Dr. Scholl's foot pads!"

Dr. William Mathias Scholl was born on June 22, 1882 in La Porte, Indiana. He learned about foot care and shoes thanks to his grandfather, who was a shoemaker in Germany. He founded the Dr. Scholl’s company in 1906.

HUMPHREY: "Listen Aggie, I can't ride a horse. I can't even ride a jack ass. Even after all those road pictures we did together."

Hope is making a snide joke about Bing Crosby, who (at that point) starred with him in five "Road To..." films, most with Dorothy Lamour. Two more would follow in 1952 and 1962.

After Act Three, Libby Collins and Mr. Keighley announce a contest to identify a mystery Hollywood Lux girl. They say that her first name is June. [It was later revealed to be June Allyson.]

At the conclusion of the story, Bob Hope and Lucille Ball are briefly interviewed by Mr. Keighley. Hope mentions a contest to win a world premiere of his next film, My Favorite Spy, in the listener's hometown. The film premiered on Christmas Day 1952.

Keighley promotes next week's Lux Radio Theatre, Sunset Boulevard, starring the original film stars Gloria Swanson and William Holden, and featuring Nancy Gates.

A final commercial suggests washing stockings in Lux.

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NICKNAMES: Sonny, Captain Logan (self-anointed since kindergarten). BIRTHDAY: ♋︎ July 3rd, 1979. ♋︎ LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: tba! OCCUPATION: Cafe Worker at Blossom Records. EDUCATION: Freshman at CCU, majoring in Maritime Engineering. HOBBIES/HABITS: Skateboarding. Wandering, exploring secluded areas (finding a hidden cove at the farthest end of the beach or a creek in the woods, sneaking into abandoned buildings, getting mugged in a dark alleyway). Doodling dumb little cartoons. Music festivals & raves. Embellishing stories about wild things that happened at the aforementioned music festivals and raves. Superstitious rituals. Camping. Picking an awful lot of fights for a kid who weighs about 150 lbs. LIKES: Tony Hawk. Boats. Post-rock, neo-psychedelic, hardcore, ska punk, and any alternative or experimental rock music of the ’90s. Skateparks. Treating places he certainly should not skate in like skateparks. 25¢ vending machine knick-knacks. Seagulls (feeding, imitating, chasing, having full one-sided conversations with). Mentos-diet coke rockets. Anchovies. Bonfires, s’mores, ghost stories. Newspaper comics. Play Station. Souvenir culture. Making the Teller sisters smile. :) DISLIKES: Shutting the fuck up about San Francisco. Quietly sitting still, not drumming on any surfaces or disruptively shaking his leg. Staring at a screen for longer than thirty minutes. Clothes that fit less than two sizes too large. Cops. Class. Coffee. Dave Matthews Band. That condescending fake laugh Elaine does when she’s making fun of someone.

SECRET. When Sonny knew he needed cash if he was going to go through with his plan to run away, he stole an envelope of money that the Freese family had spent years saving up to pay for recent renovations to the ice cream shop. He knew he would’ve had a clearer conscience if he tried to steal some funds from richer families like the Archers, and he knew the Freeses would spend years paying it back and recovering from the bad PR around town — and it seems like they’re still trying to bounce back to this day. But, he also knew the softhearted Scott would be the easiest to take advantage of— the most likely man in town to trust his daughter’s friends around his money, not suspect Sonny, not pursue the burglar, and lay down and take it when he lost his money. He stole the cash with enough buffer time for the heat to die down before he finally left Cherry, and gave the bulk of it to Odessa to cover the expenses of moving him into her home.

BIOGRAPHY.

Class clown. Ne’er-do-well. No-good loud-mouthed hyper-active smartass who needs to wear his helmet with that damn skateboard. Sonny was always the court jester of the school. He would thumb his nose at figures of authority — including the more popular and powerful members of his own friend group. Though it was much more playful and harmless in the case of someone like Harvey, he showed a pretty open disdain toward people like Lux or Elaine, for one reason: he mostly liked or disliked people based on how they treated his high-strung and haunted twin sister, Libby Logan.

No one needs to be reminded that things were always tense in the Logan household, but Sonny never made it easier for anyone. He didn’t have the complacency to watch the mistreatment of his sisters. An early childhood friendship with a spitfire like Zahra Jackson inspired him to stand up for himself, and he had a lifelong habit of talking back and keeping Glenda in a wrathful mood.

His relationship with Sabrina was always volatile, his feelings towards her fluctuating between aggrievement and compassion depending on how cruel or doting Glenda was towards her on that given day, but it was ultimately loving. He would just never be as close to her, or anyone else, as he was with Libby.

He took his role as the older twin, only brother, and bravest, most wicked-gnarly and badass rebel in the family to play the hero for his sisters, jumping in front of bullets whenever he could, using his own brazenness for good. If Libby got a bad grade on an art project, he would skateboard through the house and break a lava lamp to make sure his mom’s rage was focused on him more than her. He would try to take the fall for Libby setting off the smoke alarm, and reason that he was going to get in trouble for something bad he did that day anyway, so there was no reason for both of them to suffer.

At school, he embellished stories or outright made some up to make his mother’s treatment of him sound more funny than tragic. Pushing real facts into the absurdity, going from “my mom makes me wear a leash when she brings me to the grocery store??” in 1st grade to “my mom makes me sleep in a doghouse when I’m bad” in 4th grade, to “my mom slipped dog tranquilizers into my oatmeal because I’m too hyperactive” by middle school. It was impossible to tell how much was made up, or if there were any crumbs of truth to his stories, but they seemed too crazy to be real. By all accounts, he seemed to have a good sense of humor about his mom’s strict parenting and convinced himself and almost everyone else (barring Libby, probably) that he wasn’t genuinely hurt by his home life.

Unexpectedly, the one person who seemed to immediately notice the toxicity of Sonny and Glenda’s relationship was his mysterious estranged Aunt Odessa, who made a rare, standoffish appearance at a family function when he was in 7th grade, and could tell after witnessing a small blow-up in the corner of the room that this kid was NOT going to survive in Glenda’s house with his stubborn, feisty, tactless spirit. Before making her Irish goodbye, she pulled him to the side and gave him her contact information if he ever needed to talk. She never extended the courtesy to Sabrina or Sabrina’s mini-me, Libby, almost as if it was too painful to even look at them.

For the next year, Sonny would make offhanded jokes to his friend group about running away someday (it runs in his family!), but it never seemed like he was seriously working out logistics of an escape route.

Deep down, even he didn’t realize that he was sincerely considering it, but that may have been out of a fear and denial of how conniving some of his plans were to disappear, and a refusal to believe he actually had it in him to do what he had to do to get away with it.

Sonny knew that it was a stretch for a 14-year-old to expect a modest, aloof woman to spontaneously adopt him and take on all of the expenses that come with making space for a rambunctious teenage boy in her house, and he also knew that he would need some kind of insurance if he was going to survive on the streets for long enough to make his next move if she didn’t let him in. To soften the blow in either outcome, he needed money. And, tragically, he knew where to get it if he wanted to pull his escape plan off without a hitch.

In the Spring before their freshman year of high school, the Freeses had finally saved up the huge funds they needed to get much-needed renovations done on the ice cream shop, and they left an envelop of money behind the counter in the shop overnight to pay the contractors that would be there in the morning - a shop that that infamously had a busted lock they didn’t rush to replace because they had enough trust in their neighbors.

Sonny’s moral compass knew if he was going to do what he was thinking to do, he could’ve taken from the pockets of a richer family, like the Archers or the Hargroves. But the realistic and frantically desperate side of him knew that the Freeses were the least likely to actually track him down and persecute him. The plan felt like an intrusive thought he wanted to swat away, but on an evening that he came home twenty minutes past curfew to find that Glenda had locked the doors and windows for the night, allegedly assuming he was sleeping over a friend’s, he impulsively skated to Frost-ee’s notoriously unreliably-locked doors and swiped the envelop of cold cash, and spent the rest of the restless, paranoid night sleeping over Cristiano’s.

Over the course of the springtime and into the Summer, he watched as the Freeses not only went into debt with the renovation team, but also had their local reputation damaged in a way that would impact business in the long term, because so many townies would know them as the scumbag scammers who tried to get free service and lied about the money going missing.

Sonny stayed in town for the rest of the Summer after it happened, waiting for the scandal to die down a bit before he took off, so people wouldn’t immediately realize it was him.

The longer he stayed, too scared to say anything about what he did out of fear of the consequences, the more he realized he was completely locked into this plan and there was no turning back. His relationship with the gang would be unsalvageable if they ever found out what he did, (to the Freeses, of all families!) and then he would lose the only reason he had to stay in Cherry. If he managed to hide that he did it, he would be too wracked with guilt to act normal. So, as far as he was concerned, one impulsive move messed up everything he had to live for in Cherry, and his only option was starting a new life somewhere else.

The one person he let in on his scheme to run away was Libby, though he never said a word about the envelope. He only pitched it to her because he wanted her to skip town with him, because she was the one person he thought he could never leave behind.

She didn’t take it well. She said she would hate him forever if he left, and never talk to him again if he really did it. He convinced himself it was typical Libby Lou dramatics and thought that she would eventually follow him once she realized he was serious about leaving.

On a muggy August night, he made his move.

He left instructions for Libby on how to find him, and contact information so he could guide her along the way, but it turned out that she was making good on her promise to never speak to him again. The longer he waited for her to call or show up, the more he started to resent her for, in his mind, choosing Glendzilla over her twin brother.

He pushed forward with making a life in San Francisco, and it became a bastion of freedom for him. He had a surprisingly smooth proposition and move-in with Odessa and her longtime partner, Levi.

Granted, Odessa was distant — more like a wise older roommate than a caretaker. Though she did everything she could to materially help Sonny, and felt like helping him would make up for abandoning Sabrina, she’ll always be haunted by what happened to her in Cherry, and it was hard to let her walls down around someone who had the same big green eyes as her daughter. She was hands-off in parenting him, since he was already clearly a pretty scrappy and independent kid by the time he got to her, and she never really got a chance to mentally prepare for raising a child, much less one who already came with such a strong personality.

He spent a lot of time at Bay Area punk shows and music festivals, and stayed out late on school nights. Odessa could tell that he reveled in freedom after a childhood under Glenda’s roof, so she didn’t really have the heart to give him a curfew, and would just do her best to advise him on avoiding hangovers, addictions, and STDs.

He felt happy with his new life in San Fransisco. He miraculously finished high school and got a job he loved working on the local docks. He thought he made peace with never returning to his hometown, until he got a letter in the mail straight from Cherry, California. And it wasn’t Libby finally reaching out to him. It was Lux, dead and more menacing than ever.

(Christ alive this is getting so stupidly long. You get the gist. He’s back in town in the interest of clearing Libby’s name. He knows there’s hard feelings and he feels awkward for the first time in his life. He enrolled in CCU to have an excuse to stay in town long enough to solve the mystery in the event that his old friends and sisters make it clear that he isn’t welcome. He got a job at the Blossom Records cafe to get closer to Mac. I’ll see you all on the dash.)

PERSONALITY.

Before his houdini act, he was known as the loudmouthed comic relief type of kid who, by all accounts, really seemed to have a heart of gold. He was always quick to reach out to people when they were going through something, but not at all in a Francesca Freese way. He wasn’t qualified to give advice or react seriously to people’s problems. His specialty was, fittingly, escapism. He lived in a house where there was no leveling with his parents or fixing any his family’s problems, so the only way to survive them was to just walk away every once in a while and look outside of his house to find some kind of solace in life. He went into other people’s problems with that same strategy.

Growing up by the coast, in a restrictive household, he always romanticized sailors and pirates, and dreamed of being the captain of his own ship, far away from society’s dumb rules and stressors. Everyone knew he was planning to travel the seven seas when he grew up, but nobody guessed that he would make his maiden voyage at the age of 14.

He has a lifelong habit of wandering off without telling anyone, and is a survivor of child leashing, which only ended when Glenda got tired of him trying to escape and opted to let him roam free and simply never tell him she loved him ever again. On more than one occasion, Sonny almost caused traffic pileups from crossing the road without looking both ways as a child. He kept every lifeguard in Cherry in the early ’90s busy. He could not be trusted around a “Keep off the Grass” or “No Trespassing” sign.

Sonny has always loved the idea of exploring, travelling, and going on adventures. He’s a devotee of souvenir culture, even on extremely small scales. If he went to the beach without Cristiano, he would bring back the coolest seashell he found that day. If he went to the grocery store without his sisters, he would stop at the 25¢ vending machines and get a glittery little bouncy ball for Libby and a plastic butterfly ring for Sabrina. (I have a list of worthless little presents he’s given every member of the gang + some lifelong townies that I’ll probably post soon!!)

100% Sonny was the kid who hid these little trinkets in your coat pockets for you to find the next time you wore it, and he would also just mess with stuff in your room, so you would be getting ready for bed the night after he visited and see he positioned your G.I. Joes to be 69ing. He’d leave secret messages in the last few pages of your notebooks that you wouldn’t find until you got to that page in the last month of school. More than one of the gang members absolutely ended their freshman year of high school finding a crude doodle in the back of their math notebook of a duck in a pirate hat smoking a cigarette, with a caption that said ‘CAPTAIN LOGAN WUZ X.’

He’s hugely sentimental. Even in his skeleton’s connections, it’s loud and clear that he’s still impacted by the end of his friendships with Zahra and Cristiano. It’s fair to say that he never stopped thinking about the gang while he was in San Francisco. He still seems to remember the tiniest, dumbest details and anecdotes about everyone and can’t help the big bittersweet smile on his face when he’s reminiscing about them.

He picked up some bohemian lifestyle choices from spending time with hippie layabouts back in San Fransisco. He’s allegedly tried a wide array of psychedelic drugs, reads Adbusters, plays the bongos, likes the idea of liking the Beat poets and Hunter S. Thompson, and suddenly understands Astrid Van Allen’s lectures better than ever after dating an archetypal 90′s Wicca girl in high school. At his core, he’s still an unserious chucklefuck who loves Adam Sandler movies, but he’ll supportively nod along to Casey’s rants about the government and interpretations of Camus.

HEADCANONS.

Did not like Lux Lewis, mostly out of loyalty to Libby. His relationships with the other popular girl side of the group (Alice, Elaine, Kitty, Virginia, Zahra) fluctuated, but I think he really chalked up most of their worst personality traits to Lux rubbing off on them. (Elaine stayed on thin ice at all times though.) He got along best with the group members who were the right mix of weird/offbeat/alternative and outgoing (Cristiano, Casey, Rocky, Frankie). He still tried to dick around with the quieter friends like Noah, Rory, Mac, and Zev, but as much as he admired them, I think his loud personality might have been overwhelming to them and he might have felt like he was pulling teeth trying to drag them out of their shells. (I don’t think Mac fits neatly into the latter group but their connection requires that they weren’t that close in their childhood so I’m lumping him in there.) His relationship with Harvey was it’s own bag of mixed but generally positive feelings; he definitely had more good will toward Harvey than the cheerleaders thanks to his friendship with Libby, but a part of Sonny did resent him, unfairly, solely for the fact that Glenda always tried to morph him into Harvey’s clone.)

Sonny was the skatepark rapscallion who taught Libby how to shred!!!!! (as mentioned in the Sports section of her bio.)

He left Cherry before everybody’s shit hit the fan after middle school, so he doesn’t know anything about things like Rocky or Virginia moving to the Southside, or Alice falling from grace.

I’ve fully decided he had a big fat crush on Maddie when he was little. She was an aspirational figure to him, as someone who traveled across the country every year and had this worldly adventurer’s mystique in Sonny’s eyes, but more importantly, she was very nice, and pretty, and matched his goofy energy, and he thought that her being kind of tomboyish made her the coolest girl he’d ever met. I don’t think she had the ability to make him shy, per se, but I’ll bet that any time she said something vaguely approving toward him he got tongue-tied and suddenly couldn’t keep eye contact.

You may have noticed that he’s listed as 21 and Libby is listed as 20 on the skeletons page... 👀 Hmmm............... ...................Anyway.

TW: DIS0RDERED EATING ! He has some hang-ups and weird habits with regards to eating, from a childhood of Glenda denying or tampering with his food for punishments. He used to survive mostly on sealed 7-Eleven snacks, and to this day he still avoids eat homemade meals or restaurant food. You’ll mostly catch him eating tinned sardines, crackers, beans, and bagged spinach. He also has a deeply-ingrained habit of starving himself when he feels really guilty and is compelled to punish himself to ease his conscience. 😔 He doesn’t know how much a victim he is to the Catholic mentality Glenda injected into his brain that Suffering = Virtuous.

UH OH!! I accidentally decided it would be really angsty and fun if he convinced everybody to participate in a time capsule and he invited everyone to bury it in his favorite piece of beach to celebrate their middle school graduation. Perhaps we... could all pitch ideas for what our characters threw in there.

WANTED CONNECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want to say that he made sure to have one last one-on-one hangout with every member of the gang in the month before he blew this pop stand. I like the drama of him having one unforgettable day with each of his friends, even though there would be a tension hanging over his head the whole time, because they would think that they were going to continue this great friendship with him in high school, while he knew it was supposed to be the last time he would ever see them. I would love to plot these out with everybody pleeeeease. :) (Don’t actually feel pressured though. I’m gonna say he reached out to make plans with everyone - even Elaine the Pain - but they didn’t have to actually indulge him.)

Roommate(s)?? His living arrangements are up in the air right now!! Not sure if he’d be dorming through loans or if he would want to save as much money as possible by living off-campus. If anyone has a character or family that would’ve posted a tenant wanted listing over the Summer, or needs a dorm-buddy, lmk! <3 He could be on the Southside or Cherry Proper, but it would probably have to be a very humble apartment if he’s in the mainland.

There are some wanted connections mentioned in the interview section on his app! The friend he had his first drink with, the girl whose hand he held (could be upgrade to a very awkward smooch or honestly might’ve been completely chaste and just him trying to cheer her up when she was sad as opposed to it being a romantic thing if that doesn’t fit!, the older kid who gave Sonny dirty magazines in exchange for letting him into Sabrina’s underwear drawer wait not that one), or any other first-time memories. I had some muses in mind when writing those anecdotes, but I didn’t mention any names because I wanted to leave them open to anyone or make the characters inconsequential NPCs. (EDIT: i just revisited the app and realized I actually cut out all but two of those anecdotes from my original draft because otherwise Sonny would’ve been rambling for like twenty minutes, but the other ideas that involved other muses were: first time someone actually got him to focus and study for a test without any distractions, first time seeing a shooting star while looking at the sky with someone, first time he threw a punch, first time playing spin the bottle or truth or dare, first bicurious confession or homoerotic experience. :0 )

I just want to secure a childhood Play Station buddy. You know Glenda would never let him play Mortal Kombat under her roof but I feel like he needs to have that essential 90s tweenage boy experience. Who did he have Red Bull-fueled all-nighter sleepovers with. Who is he gonna have a Twisted Metal rematch with? Maybe they would listen to CDs with Parental Advisory Stickers on them or would go to the Blockbuster and rent R-rated movies together (even though Sonny can’t make it five minutes into a movie before he starts yapping or gets restless and suggests they take a 3am walk to 7-Eleven to get snacks and draw dicks on stopsigns).

When I mentioned in the Logan Fam plotting session that, between being the only son in the family, and having an absentee father and a much-too-present mother, Sonny has some hangups on masculinity and didn’t really have a father/older brother figure in his life, I realize that B was probably joking when she said that “any time sonny had some sort of boy problem, sabrina would drag west to him by the ear like “FIX IT!!”” But. T. Hear me out—

#tw for dis0rdered eating!!!! it's isolated to one bullet point in his Personality section that's marked with bold print.#cusaintro #no graphic atm because i'm still struggling to find an fc for him that has the right vibe and i dont wanna set this in stone 🗿

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caseyfm · 2 years

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𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐠 // 1999.

Featuring: Lux Lewis, Libby Logan, Kitty Maddox, Mackenzie Walsh, Harvard Hargrove iii, Zev King, Rory Collins, Cristiano Van Allen, Zahra Jackson, Savannah Logan, Casey Russell, Noah Russell, Frankie Freese, Madeline Wilson, Audrina Archer and Alice Alder.

#// edits.#the way the only other thing in my edits tag is the bloody ace attorney thing #anyway i just think they're neat!

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cherryusa · 2 years

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SEASON 2, EPISODE 5: LUX DAY SCENE 2: THE LAKE HOUSE

When you're a kid growing up in Cherry, the Witches always warn you to stay out of the Redwoods. The old ladies would spin tales of urban legends, and trapped souls - 'careful!' They would warn, 'The Witch of the Woods might keep you!'

The truth was that children running around in the expanse of towering trees was enough to make any older Cherriot just a little nervous. Who knew just how easy it would be to get lost within the labyrinth of redwood? Who was to say what creatures might lie out in the uninhabited border of their beloved town? Better safe than sorry, no?

Harvard Hargrove II, however, had never exactly succumb to the same worries when it came to his son, and his friends.

The Hargrove Lakehouse lay only half an hour outside of Cherry, but it might as well be hours away for just how secluded it felt. The house was big, boasting seven bedrooms, and just as many bathrooms to match; it’s view of Hargrove lake - the only private lake in Cherry Township - was obviously unmatched. It was the furthest you could get without crossing over town borders, and for just as long as Harvey the Third could accompany himself through the woods, the Gang had been coming to the lake house to get away.

It was their first time here since the older bunch had graduated High School, but the familiarity still hit each of them like a brick wall... Like Lux should have come bounding down from the steps of the expansive home to greet them, just like she usually did when Harvey invited the Gang to relax for a few days before school was back in session. The realization - the reminder that she was gone - hurt... But that was why they were here, wasn't it?

To celebrate their friend - to mourn the loss of good days, and to try and make some more of them. Let's just hope that nobody has in anything in store for them on their few days in the woods.

COMING SOON...

“SCENE 2: THE LAKEHOUSE” WILL BEGIN ON DISCORD WITH A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE HOUSE. THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, THE GANG WILL GET SETTLED IN THEIR ROOMS, MAKE LUNCH ON THE LAKE, AND GATHER FIREWOOD.

SATURDAY NIGHT WILL BE OUR PLOT EVENT - AND THE END OF THE GANG’S FIRST NIGHT AT THE LAKEHOUSE! BE READY FOR FUN AND GAMES... AND MAYBE A LITTLE DRAMA.

AFTER OUR PLOT EVENT, YOU WILL BE FREE TO BEGIN LAKEHOUSE THREADS ON THE DASH, BEGINNING ON THE GANG’S SECOND DAY ON THE LAKE! UNTIL THEN, THE DASH WILL BE DEDICATED TO WRAPPING UP DRIVE-IN THREADS. PLEASE PRIORITIZE FINISHING THEM, AS YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE THEM ONCE THE GANG IS AT THE LAKEHOUSE. (THOUGH, YOU MAY ALWAYS FEEL FREE TO CONTINUE IN THE DISCORD SERVER!)

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE THOSE AT THE LAKEHOUSE ARE MAIN CHARACTERS ONLY. ALL TOWNIES WILL BE GIVEN FREE REIGN OF CHERRY WHILE THE GANG IS AT THE LAKEHOUSE!

ROOM ASSIGNMENTS:

ROOM 1, THE MASTER BEDROOM - 1 KING BED: ZAHRA & RORY

ROOM 2, HARVEY’S BEDROOM - 1 KING BED: HARVEY

ROOM 3, THE FAMILY GUEST - 1 QUEEN BED, 1 BUNK BED: ELAINE, CRISTIANO & KITTY

ROOM 4, THE KID’S ROOM - 2 BUNK BEDS: CASEY, FRANKIE & MAC

ROOM 5, THE GAME ROOM - 1 LOFT, 1 TWIN BED: LIBBY & SAVANNAH

ROOM 6, GRANDPA’S ROOM - 1 QUEEN BED: ALICE

ROOM 7, THE ATTIC ROOM ZEV’S ROOM - 2 TWIN BEDS: ZEV & NOAH

ROOM 8, THE DEN - 1 PULL OUT COUCH, THE FLOOR: MADDIE & ROCKY

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harveyiii · 2 years

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𝐖𝐇𝐎: harvey hargrove the third & open

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓: harvey doesn’t know why he’s here so he’s drinking beer and trying to pretend like it’s not weird

𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄: the arcade @ the drive in!

Harvey doesn’t know why the fuck he’s here, so he’s been drinking beer and trying to pretend it’s not weird. Nobody said it was working - it’s not - but the saving grace of having the Southsiders play nice for the night? At least it means that every dirty look he’s been at the receiving end of will probably result in no more than a sneer, instead of thrown fists... At least it means that his Dad will probably nod, and say ‘Good job,’ when he got home from the gathering he was forced into on the Southside instead of continuing the fickle game of sighing and cold shouldering his only son. That’s how it had been since they had all found Lux’s car. Silence, unless he was being lectured; tension, unless Harvard had enough energy to sigh and point at whatever he needed from Harvey. It was understandable. He knew that his son was hiding something, and Harvey knew he knew... at least he thought it was probably something to do with the broken window on the ‘77 Beetle instead of the gun that was hidden beneath Harvey’s -

The panic probably would have crashed over him if the sound of the movie starting to his left hadn’t done it first. His eyes flickered toward his car that was parked in a row - the Camaro tonight, with Libby Logan as it’s unmovable front-seat accessory - but he knew he’d just get antsy if he went to try and watch the movie with her. There was too much to look out... Too much to think about. Too many Southsiders to silently piss off with nothing more than the presence of him and his family’s history.

So, instead, Harvey ventured his way into the arcade. He felt like a little kid again as he swept his eyes over game cabinets, and felt the sparkle of their sounds in his ears. When was the last time he had even carried a quarter? He didn’t know, but after shoving a $20 into the change machine, he wasn’t sure his pockets ever felt so full.

“I got next game --” Harvey kept his words simple as he slipped one of his coins on top of the machine - his eyes focused on the other’s game... Just as they totally ate it, and ‘GAME OVER!’ danced across the screen.

“Damn, dude. I was kind of expecting you to last longer than that,” What was he supposed to do but laugh? “Maybe you should just take my quarter. Practice a little before a Hargrove totally kicks your ass at Pac Man.”

#cusastart #episode 4: the southside

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damndannyholly · 2 years

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Meet: Danny Holly

But a wolf in sheep's clothing is more than a warning

Full name: Daniel Thomas Holly Nicknames: Danny, D Money, HAH Prince, Holiday Age: 20 Sign: Aries City of birth: Cherry The current place for living: Cherry Siblings: Donny Holly Pets: tbd. Birthday: April 4th, 1966 Major: Business Job: college student / junior board member at HAH

BACKGROUND

- Nothing could have ever prepared little Danny Holly for what it was going to be like growing up in Royalty. To have everything he could have ever wanted handed to him on a silver platter, save perhaps the actual honest love and affection of his parents. From that perspective pressure was all he’d ever known. The pressure to be perfect. To sit, stand, talk, eat, perform to the best of his ability in every possible way. They were raising him to be an heir and anything less than perfect was punished. Even in childhood play, when he’d find himself in a tussle with Harvey, his father would come back with but you showed him who’s boss right? Didn’t matter that they were 4 and arguing over who’s truck belonged to who, or who Elaine Archer would decide to pay attention to. As far as David Holly was concerned, there had to be a clear winner, and in his mind that had to be Danny. Which wasn’t a responsibility he was totally unfamiliar with considering he’d been informed at an even younger age that with the coming of Donny came his first run in with responsibility. As soon as he was old enough to understand speech he was being reminded of his responsibility to look after his brother. A task that many years later he would find himself coming to resent as he started coming into his own as his fathers son. - Because of his upbringing, Danny has consistently struggled with showing face. With letting others see who he really is. Often times he’s more likely to put up a front than be honest about what he’s thinking or feeling. Always calculating his next move. Unfortunately this didn’t always win him points with the locals. Throughout high school Danny found a way to rub Freyja the wrong way, made a point of continuously trying to win the heart of one Elaine Archer, loathed both the Russell boys with everything fiber of his being, made nice with the Jackson girls, had a full blown incident with Alice & Lux, further developed his hatred for Zev and Harvey, dismissed Mac like he was a scuff on his shoe, tolerated and maybe even liked Libby and Maddie, and on the rare occasion was a little more than your typical kind of friendly with Kitty Maddox. But to describe any of those interactions as real? It couldn’t be done. -But the reality of his other options were way worse. As much as Danny disliked the majority of the gang, he couldn’t be someone who was considered a loner. His father would never allow it. So he faked it. He forced his way into their group, dangled his brother in front of them like a bonus prize, while constantly managing to treat the younger boy as less than all the way up through the end of high school. When the time finally came for him to be an adult and leave the world of childish bullshit behind, he wasn’t sure he’d be able to do it, but it’s been a conscious effort. Danny wants to try and turn over a new leaf, but he feels he’s gotten so good at being the perfect son his fathers always wanted that he no longer knows how to be anything else.

#bio #cusaintro

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romxnticss · 2 years

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who: closed starter for @libbylogan what: *max from sharkboy and lava girl vc* SHE RUINED MY DREAM JOURNAL! where: somewhere on campus idk you tell me

Everyone leaves. Everyone leaves. Everyone leaves. He can hear the words reverberating around his head with every beat of his heart, with every footstep hitting the sidewalk on his way through campus. He was taking Kitty and Frankie’s absences harder than he was willing to show, especially with the guilt of his then-impending breakup with Kitty weighing him down. It didn’t mean he cared about her less, it didn’t mean he didn’t want closure, it didn’t make the rejection of her leaving without so much as a goodbye sting any less. And Frankie? He always thought she’d at least offer to take him with her when she escaped Cherry. He thought he meant more to her than a shitty drum kit forgotten in Leo’s garage- just as beat up as he felt.

He’s too wrapped up in his thoughts to pay much attention to his surroundings and soon enough he feels himself crashing against something, or rather somebody. Libby Logan. Just another person who had taken what they wanted from him and left. His romantic feelings are now directed elsewhere, they have been for some time now, but seeing her pinches his heart just the same. It reminds him of an empty bed and deafening silence, broken by the sound of all of her belongings spilling out of her backpack on impact. “Shit, sorry,” he reaches down to help her collect her things, but one in particular catches his eye. He knew that book, it was his. And it wasn’t any childhood relic that she’d claimed, but rather one of the many journals that he’d forgotten were stuffed in various places in his old bedroom. It looks dog-eared and well read, two qualities that he hadn’t remembered it possessing the last time he’d looked at it. Probably sometime in the middle of high school.

The contents are what he remembers the best, feelings that he couldn’t seem to fit into songs pouring from him onto the pages. Questions that would always be left unanswered. Like why his mom had left, why his dad had never tried to find him, why Leo was wasting his life on some broken kid who didn’t belong. A (thankfully PG rated) description of his only romantic encounter with Lux, and the confusing feelings that followed soon after. And, of course, pages and pages about Libby herself, ranging from silly anecdotes to pining thoughts, wondering why he couldn’t seem to get her to just... see him.

It’s embarrassment that fills him first, evident in the blood that had rushed to his face, frantic fingers scooping the book up before Libby could even try to deny it. The pages flip open and his own handwriting stares up at him. ‘Why does everyone always leave?’ A question he wasn’t sure he’d ever find the answer to.

“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me, right?”

#feat. Libby

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alicealder-arc · 2 years

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💍: lux, harvey, libby

💍: fmk: lux, [blank], [blank]

Well damn, they really went for some of the worst options. Complication, the embodiment of privileged white boy ( see: douchebag ), and school-teacher-turned-queen-of-angst. She didn't want to kill them all... but far be it from her to want to marry a single one of them. "I guess... marry Lux -- so I could fulfill the literary trope of the tragic spinster since Lux’s, y’know... dead --, fuck Libby, and kill Harvey."

#hh !#my deepest condolences to em's characters FGHOSUBLIFJANSD

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punkass-diogenes · 2 years

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I want to sit at the weird girl table with them in the cafeteria.

#anja plaschg #tanya tagaq #mirel wagner #psyche corporation #libby lux #ciscandra nostalghia #soap&skin #bridge city sinners #nostalghia #singer-songwriter #gothic #alternative music #dream blunt rotation

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libbylogan · 2 years

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ELIZABETH LOU LOGAN.

aol: libbyloud.

NICKNAMES: libby, libby lou, libs AGE: 21 DOB: july 3rd, 1979 GENDER: female PRONOUNS: she/her JOB: Lifeguard @ Orchard Shore Beach, and Sometimes-Cashier @ Blossom Records

PERSONALITY:

+TRAITS: clever, loyal, curious, captivating

-TRAITS: jealous, immature, dramatic, short-tempered, picky, panicky, cynical, a little abrasive, chronically upset

MOOD: Libby is honestly usually in a pretty touchy mood. She can usually be found sighing the woes of her discontent, and it’s pretty hard not to catch her rolling her eyes if she’s not particularly enjoying the conversation. Libby is so done, it hurts.

FEARS: glenda logan, being left behind, never knowing what love feels like, songs from music boxes and toy pianos, being replaced, going down for Lux’s murder, being hated by her sisters, being honest, touching dirty dishes that have been sitting in the sink, losing her temper

HOBBIES: skateboarding, surfing, stealing from her friends, eavesdropping, creating new personalities, finding something to complain about, jumping to conclusions

HABITS: lying, arguing, crossing her arms over her chest, pouting, playing with her ponytail, reclusivity, overthinking, pushing people away so they can’t hurt her

ZODIAC SIGN: Libby Logan is fully a cancer. She’s hyper-emotion, temperamental, and a little spiteful. She likes to hide from people who care, and from her own feelings… but despite that she’s devoted, and extremely protective of the people that she does let in - sometimes to an unhealthy degree! But what can Libby say? Once she decides to love someone she’d do anything for them - it doesn’t matter the price.

MBTI: ISTP

ORIENTATION: Libby is repressed. Like - repressed, repressed. Does she like women? Yeah. Does she know that? No. But it really makes all of the various female enemies make sense, doesn’t it? RELIGION: The Logan girls were all raised in a compulsory Catholic household - but it was always more for show than a sign of faith. Libby has never believed in god, but worship music is basically all that she grew up listening to, and she can quote bible verses in her sleep - not that she would. Ew. But still. Escaped and Recovering Catholic is probably a good way to describe it. LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Libby felt trapped in the Logan house all her life until Glenda Logan finally kicked her to the curb. She now lives in Mackenzie Walsh's childhood bedroom Leo Walsh’s guest room… and though she’s bitter as can be, her soft spot is definitely still there when it comes to being at her new home. She's never really had a parent who cared about her - or a father who paid attention to her, like at all - but Leo Walsh is showing her what family looks like, one step at a time. She doesn’t know it yet? But he’s basically going to save her life.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

CLOTHING STYLE: Libby had always been dressed by Glenda Logan. She and Sabrina were always more like dolls than daughters, and thus, tennis skirts - knee length, obviously! - sweater sets, and white sundresses were a norm for Libby… but summer was kind of always the exception. Maddie Wilson had a huge impact on Libby Lou, and over the summers when Glenda would hardly see her - Wilco Wilson’s house was her safe haven - she could basically only be found in shorts and t-shirts, and overalls: anything that Maddie would toss her way.

She built up quite the wardrobe ( of Maddie’s clothes ) over the years that only saw the light of day during the summer, but once Glenda kicked her out - with only a backpack full of the found shorts, overalls, and etc - they basically became Libby’s every day fits… along with choice selections of Mackenzie Walsh’s T-Shirts from Middle School. Nobody tell him, though - she usually hides those under sweatshirts when she can.

USUAL EXPRESSION: Libby, no joke, is usually frowning unless given a reason not to. She hasn’t really always had resting bitch face, but a bitter bitch isn’t complete with a bitter little frown on her face… and she’s been through some shit, you know?

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS: Glenda and Sabrina always did Libby’s hair, and make-up - and since neither of them even want to look at her anymore - or just for right now in Sabrina’s case - her hair is very much always in a messy bun or a ponytail. It’s not polished, and she hates it… but she’s not exactly going to ask Leo Walsh to help her, and she doesn’t really know who else to turn to in her time of need.

Libby is also Mad Anxious… it used to manifest itself in an unending sort of sadness, but after a year of being scared and angry? Libby is sort of just acting like a total brat lately. The exception to the rule only seems to be with Leo Walsh - being short with him just seems wrong to her.

Above all, the most distinguishing characteristic for Libby Logan is that she’s never really had a clear sense of self, and it’s starting to spill out over every aspect of her life. If you look back over the years, she’s been so many people; she’s gone through so many different stages, just trying to hang on. Libby doesn’t really know who she is, and nobody else really does either.

HEALTH

TW: eating habits, addictions

SLEEPING HABITS: Just like the rest of the Gang, Libby hasn’t exactly been getting very many nights of good sleep lately. It was bad enough trying to sleep in Mackenzie Walsh’s bedroom after totally breaking both of their hearts - but once she got past that? She realized that the nightmares of being threatened, and watching Sabrina getting stabbed, and… every other fucked up thing she had been through in the last year, were way too frequent to count on anything consistent.

She spends most of the night watching TV on the couch instead - something she never got to do back at the Logan house - and is usually found asleep in the early mornings to the tune of QVC shows. She’ll usually move herself back to her room before sunrise… if she manages to get up in time. But her hours on the couch is the only consistent rest she really gets.

EATING HABITS: Libby be snackin’. She never really got to eat freely at home - Glenda Logan loved pre-portioned meals - but now that she lives at Leo’s house… she’s truly discovered the joy of Doritos, Dunkaroos, and Oreos. Favorite drinks? Strawberry Milkshakes, Strawberry Milk, Shirley Temples, and Vodka, vodka, vodka.

EXERCISE HABITS: Libby’s default is being in a constant state of motion. She’s got serious ADD ( it’s the 90’s so we’re rolling with it ), and has been on a constant prescription of Adderall since she was, like, 12 years old… During the summers, she was on a skateboard nearly constantly - a skateboard that became her right hand man over the last year - and she’s always one of the first out on the beach when she hears the surf is going to be good.

Libby doesn’t really exercise to exercise - she does it because sitting still for too long makes her feel like she’s going to run wild.

EMOTIONAL STABILITY: It’s not good! Libby Lou grew up feeling unwanted; she was an afterthought unless Glenda saw something wrong… and then Libby was the focus of her whole world as the woman picked her apart from the seams. She got locked in her bedroom on more than one occasion. She got screamed at for even the slightest of infractions - laughing too loud, pulling her skirt up a little too high on her waist. She was dressed like a doll - unallowed to choose her own clothes, or hairstyles, or make up.

She found reprieve in her twin - they at least could fight against the chaos together… when Libby was strong enough to fight, at least. But after losing Savannah? Libby gave up the fight altogether, and gave into her mother’s every whim. Why shouldn’t she try to be everything her mother ever wanted? Glenda always called her a Classic Beauty unless she was telling her that nobody could ever love someone like her. She always told her that she envied the likes of Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn - then in the same breath would lash out on her daughter like a jealous child. It all boiled up in Libby’s psyche. It all turned into a girl who didn’t know who she was; who didn’t know how to be herself if she tried. Libby knew she had the looks to get what she wanted - but she never felt beautiful. Libby knew men would fall for her - but Glenda’s voice always crept into her head to remind her of just how undeserving she was of love before she let herself get too far, or feel too much.

Growing up, Libby always took cues from Classic Stars - or at least what she thought they might be like… It’s not like Glenda let them watch very many movies or TV shows. But, she’d flash coy smiles when someone held the door open for her; she used to bat her eyelashes when she asked for favors. Touch someone’s elbow, and whisper in their ears when she needed a ride home. Everyone knew that she wasn’t interested in anything more than some light flirting - she wasn’t a bombshell or anything. She was the girl next door. Stuff like that always took so much out of her: made her feel like an imposter in her own body… But it’s the only way she knew how to be liked. Acting like someone she didn’t know was the only way she knew how to keep her head above water… It obviously, also, left a lot of pent up rage that Libby didn’t exactly know what to do with. Lux Lewis was the first person that Libby actually let loose on, and she ended up breaking her own hand on the other girl’s face - go figure that it all happened because Lux was calling Libby out on her own imposter syndrome.

Breaking Lux’s face was the start of it all, and Candy’s first reign only led to a total spiral. It all left Libby looking like a total nutjob as she struggled to hold onto her Classic personality while going through the trauma of a lifetime. The cracks started to show as she traded her usual Glenda-Chosen uniform for sweatshirts and messy ponytails. She started to become sad instead of sweet: reclusive instead of the helpful party planner that she usually was.

Now that Libby has been kicked out of her house, she doesn’t feel like pretending anymore. She doesn’t feel like being the Classic Beauty - and she doesn’t feel like being the girl next door anymore. Libby wants to push the whole world away… She wants to know who the hell she is inside, but she doesn’t know how to do it around a town who knew her as the sweet girl, then the failure, then the total nutcase, and now… the recluse? The QVC addict? The Bitter Brat Who Lives In Leo Walsh’s House? Whatever. She has time to figure it out. Long story short: Libby’s done spiraling, and she’s done with her addiction to her imposter syndrome - she thinks - but she’s leveled out on a plateau of being mad at the world, and mad at herself for feeling so much now that she can’t seem to push it all down anymore.

SOCIABILITY: Libby used to be the girl who planned birthday parties and social gatherings - everyone knew her, because she was always skipping through Harvey’s house refilling drinks with a smile on her face. High School was Classic Libby Prime Time. She was nice, and sweet, and bubbly ( fake, fake, fake, of course! ) - but it’s been a while since Libby actually smiled… or willingly went to a party. Nowadays, it’s usually Harvey Hargrove himself who is dragging her to social events, and having to convince her to leave the confines of Leo Walsh’s home - and she usually finds a place to hide from the general public. Her friends never really knew her anyway, right? The person that they all knew in High School was someone Libby didn’t know anymore - the girl they had known for the last year was spiraling, and breaking down. Useless.

What is there to miss?

ADDICTIONS: Libby loves her Adderall, but it’s sort of an open secret that she can’t function without it. She’s been taking it since she was 12! She has a prescription! And nobody sees her pop and extra one in the bathroom halfway through the day anyway, so it’s no big deal. She wouldn’t, like, kill anyone to keep the secret – the Candy Girl probably doesn’t even think it’s important enough to hold over her head - but she’s definitely embarrassed whenever the subject comes up.

FAVORITES

WEATHER: Libby loves the summer. It was always when Maddie came to town, and when Harvey was relaxed enough to spend the day on the boardwalk with her when she begged hard enough. There were always Mystic Cherry shows to linger at - god, would she miss the magic of hearing Mackenzie Walsh’s songs written just for her - and bonfires on the beach. It was always the season of changing up her style with Maddie’s wardrobe - a reprieve from the beiges and browns that Glenda always wrapped her in - and best of all? The sand was warm. Summer is everything to Libby, and it always has been... she’s someone different when the sun comes out overhead. This summer seems to be the exception though. Unfortunately.

COLOR: Cue back to the years of beiges and browns, and you have a girl who doesn’t really know what her favorite color is. Libby thinks she might love yellow, or pink - but sometimes she thinks she loves the way that green makes her skin look, and decides that’s her favorite. Sometimes she spends hours in the dead of night looking at the blue hue of Mackenzie Walsh’s walls, and it reminds her of the sky, and she decides ‘that’s it, that’s my favorite color now,’ but then some pretty shade of red rolls along, and she changes her mind again. Long story short… Libby sort of likes it all? When someone finally lets her loose in a mall she's going to come out looking like a carpet in a roller rink.

MUSIC: Libby grew up listening to worship music - you know, with the occasional reprieve of rap and hip-hop at Harvey’s house, and pop music galore at Maddie’s. Now she basically listens to 70’s rock all day with Leo Walsh…? But Libby isn’t sure that she’d call any of those her favorite. Spending time at Blossom Records has, at least, given her the option to start listening to new things: so far? 80’s Pop Ballads are her favorite. Pat Benetar is basically always on repeat at Blossom when Libby is behind the counter - and she’ll deny turning it on! But it’s totally growing on her.

MOVIES: Libby only really got to watch movies made before 1963 when she lived with her parents. Maddie and her always spent more time outside and dancing in the living room to worry about watching things on repeat - and Harvey basically hated movies! Living with Leo Walsh, though, has led to Libby being exposed to a multitude of new films, and the one thing they’ve discovered? She hates most of them! Dirty Dancing, though…? Heathers? Pretty in Pink? They’re not Mac and Leo’s favorite thing to watch when they could be watching, like, Ninja Turtles or Blade Runner, but Libby seems to like them despite the fact that she’s basically, like, always looking at the screen like it personally wronged her.

SPORT: Libby picked up a skateboard for the first time in elementary school. Sabrina and Savannah were both at home sick - Libby had tried to fake a cough too, but she had never been a very good liar. As expected, Glenda was late picking her up from school that day. Usually, Libby would have stayed put on the grass near the pick up line, waiting until Glenda bothered to remember her, but she decided to explore for once. She wandered her way toward the black top where the older kids were always skateboarding; watched for a while on the black top, admiring from afar with her knees pressed against her chest. Some fifth grader in a helmet took pity on Lonely Little Libby Logan and offered her his knee and elbow pads, ‘do you want to try?’ She did. It felt like flying. Glenda was vehemently against Libby skateboarding, but the one good thing Lou Logan ever did for her - not that he ever did anything bad. He usually just… existed - was purchase her first skateboard. ‘At least it’s something to do after school,’ He said in front of Little Libby! ‘At least it’ll get her out of your hair,’ She heard when she pressed her ear against the door that night.

Whatever. It was everything to Libby. She didn’t care if she was in a skirt, or not - she didn’t care about the bruises and scrapes, even if it always led to Glenda throwing a fit and threatening to snap her board in half. She just started keeping it at Harvey’s place instead, and getting used to the idea of being locked in her bedroom for a while. As long as she got to keep flying across the blacktop, she would be alright.

Libby, now, spends most of her time at the skatepark, actually - like a safe haven when she wants to get out of Leo and Mac’s hair. She doesn’t talk to many people - her ‘skate friends’ don’t really make her talk - they just tap their boards for her, and praise her when it’s necessary. It’s peaceful. It’s what Libby needs. She loves it.

FAMILY

LOU LOGAN, FATHER, 47, FINANCIAL ADVISOR TO HARVARD HARGROVE II: Libby and Lou have never really had much of a relationship with each other, despite her being named after him. Glenda always kept a wall up between them - forced the unattachment that she felt with her own husband on her daughter too. She could count the times he’s stood up for her on one hand - she isn’t sure that he’s ever going to speak to her again now that she’s been kicked out - but she also isn’t sure it’s going to hurt him as bad as it might hurt if it were Sabrina. Does she love her father? She isn’t sure. Does he love her? Yes. Libby would probably answer, ‘Maybe,’ if someone asked her opinion on the matter though.

GLENDA LOGAN, MOTHER, 46, LIBRARIAN: Glenda Logan always felt more like playing god than being a mother. She liked her pretty little doll children, and she liked them seen, and not heard… Libby tried to be what Glenda wanted, but maybe that was always why she was her mother’s least favorite. Maybe Glenda liked the fight in Sabrina. Glenda hated everything Savannah wanted to be, but at least she paid attention to her. Libby grew up pretending, and being broken down by her mother, and now that Glenda has tossed her out of her grip… Libby almost feels lost, in a way. She doesn’t really know how to dress herself. She doesn’t really know what she likes. She doesn’t know how to cook, or do her own hair, and Libby knows it’s all Glenda’s doing. Since Glenda kicked her out, their few interactions have been contentious. Glenda drives past the Walsh house to honk in the middle of the night, and Libby has been breaking into the Logan house in the dead of night to steal back her belongings. Glenda has begun to notice - their first screaming match over the theft happened in town square - and it’s only getting worse. Who knows where it’ll all end?

SABRINA LOGAN, SISTER, 23: Glenda always neglected Libby, but Sabrina was always there to fill in the holes in her sister’s hearts as best as she could. When Libby came home with bruises and scrapes, Sabrina was always the one ready with bandaids while Glenda screamed. When Libby had nightmares, or panic attacks - or was sent home without dinner - she could always count on Sabrina to pull her into her bedroom and take care of her, whether that was holding her through the night, or feeding her snacks that were stolen from the kitchen. Libby depended on Sabrina her entire life like a child would depend on a mother, and Sabrina let her… But now that they’re both grown and have gone through the worst? Now that they’re working through the trauma that Glenda sewed into their Doll Children seams? Things are… fractured. Libby is scared of putting her sister through even more disappointment, even if that in itself is disappointing. She doesn’t know how to take care of her sister the way that Sabrina has always taken care of her, and it makes her feel awful, so. For now, Libby has gone down the road of ‘avoid, avoid, avoid!’

SAVANNAH LOGAN, TWIN, 21: Speaking of, ‘avoid, avoid, avoid!’ that’s kind of how LIbby had been treating all feelings of her twin since Savannah escaped Cherry. It was Glenda who erased all traces of Savannah from her life - punished her for feeling incomplete, and locked her away when she dared to utter her twin’s name - but it was Libby who gave into the urge to forget… or at least to try to. It’s not like it ever worked. Libby always felt like part of her was missing: she always felt lonely, no matter who was at her side. Now that Savannah is back, Libby thinks she should be feeling something like relief, but instead she’s afraid of falling apart. It’s been so long since she’s had Savannah by her side, but the dependence that’s already dancing in her chest is threatening to smash her heart open again - and Libby doesn’t know if she can handle letting Sav back in just to see her walk away again.

LEO WALSH, FATHER-FIGURE, 46: Leo and Libby never interacted that much before Libby and Mackenzie’s Summer of ‘98 - they didn’t interact very much during past the days Libby would hang out in Blossom waiting on Mac, or short little ‘heys!’ in the Mystic Cherry crowds - but when he found her on the curb the night that her mother threw her out? Too distraught to even breathe? He knew he couldn’t leave the kid on the street. She’s been living at his house since February, and though things are still insanely awkward between Mac and Libby - Leo and Libby have settled into a some semblance of a routine. Libby still feels out of place when she eats dinner with him on the couch - sometimes she still feels like she has to ask him to use the washing machine, or if she can turn her music up a little loud ( Leo has obviously never said no to either request ) - but there’s this feeling in her chest that she wouldn’t rather be anywhere else. Leo Walsh put a roof over her head, and clothes on her back: he asks her how her day is going, and wants to help her plan for her future. He hugs her when the pink rim around her eyes gives away the silent tears that she had been shedding in her bedroom. It’s everything that Libby ever wanted in a parent - someone who actually cares and pays attention to her. She’s afraid it might mean never making up with Mac or Sabrina... But for right now? Libby isn’t sure she can give it up for anything.

PET(S): Libby has literally never had a pet seeing as Glenda Logan was vehemently against affection. But she thinks she would probably be a cat person. A dog would show her way too much affection, and she’d basically lose her mind if anything happened to it. Better to stick to things with claws and teeth.

FAMILY’S FINANCIAL STATUS: The Logan’s aren’t as rich as the Archer’s or the Hargrove’s but they’re still certainly part of the flaky upper crust of the Cherry pie. Glenda Logan is a librarian, but Lou Logan has been the financial advisor to Harvard Hargrove II since the mid 80s. They live in a big house - the girls’ wouldn’t have had to want for anything if their mother wasn’t such a psychopath - they’re a brand name family! Of course, there’s always been risk, what with Lou advising money for a drug king pin… but the man is quiet enough that his nagging wife, nor his daughters, have ever suspected much of anything from the man. Who would expect that Lou Logan was meeting with gang members and drug dealers during his business lunches, after all?

If you’ve made it this far, thank you for reading, and also I just want to say that Libby is going to be a little bit different... I think she’s always been like JUST out of reach of everyone. She’s a friend, but nobody really hangs out with her 1-on-1 on purpose except those she’s VERY close to - but even they sometimes struggle to say that they completely know her, though. She’s a little elusive. The girl-next-door enigma who has been through hell, and came out the other side bitter and abrasive. Libby is going to be kind of a brat from now on! She’s going to be very ready to roll her eyes, and run away from pain, and call people out - I know it’s sort of a weird transition from where Libby WAS, but I hope that like we can all sort of plan new connections for Libby 2.0 because I really do see this as a reboot for me and for this character. okay love youuuuu

#cusaintro #about libby #only a year late but considering the changes probably a good thing

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