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redheadedbrunette · 11 months

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Any headcannons on the hale sisters? Or any of the spy school characters?

they're both incredibly jealous each other for the upbringing they got. trixie is jealous that erica got to be a part of the family legacy and be a hale in a way that, even if she were allowed to start training as a spy, she would never get to be. erica is jealous of trixie because she gets to forge her own identity outside of the spy business. because even though she's good at espionage and doesn't want that sense of identity taken away, she wishes that it could have been a choice, and more and more she's realizing the toll that it takes on her personal relationships and is wondering if it's really worth it.

erica was homeschooled for the entirety of her time leading up to her entrance at the academy, aside from the two weeks she attended second grade when trixie started kindergarten. it was around the time catherine and alexander's marriage was starting to fray at the edges, and they were hoping that if both girls were going to school, then catherine could spend more time working around the world because she felt obliged to stay at home with them when they were young. it went kind of horribly, and while erica herself didn't get into any fights (because she had been warned explicitly not to hurt any of her classmates), it was going pretty bad for her socially speaking and trixie had received no such warnings and was completely willing to release all of her feral energy and bite seven year olds who were being mean to her big sister. erica was pulled out almost right away and went back to homeschooling, and after her suspension was over, trixie went back and finished the year and started going to boarding school the next year. meanwhile, erica was just taken around with catherine most of the time and dropped back with alexander when catherine went on more involved missions and just did her schoolwork there.

#anyway if you have any more specific questions please send them!#you are an absolute dream and i was giddy to get this in my inbox #or anything about more specific characters #i know i'm probably the go to for hale sister stuff and i very much appreciate your pandering to me #anyway trixie is very protective of erica and erica is very protective of trixie and those things should both be focused on #because it creates a fascinating dynamic #and then mr. gibbs just went and ignored it in sspx #that's not even the most egregious thing he ignored or (more likely) hadn't even realized was a thing in the first place #but that book just makes me mad for all of the reasons #but anyway thank you again sweet anon #ginger answers #spy school #erica hale #trixie hale #also unrelated but i'm personally of the opinion that the cathlex divorce was almost more of a formality #and that they'd been functionally divorced for a lot longer #mostly because that works better with what i imagine happened between joshua and erica but also how erica seems to function #because on the one hand it's kind of hard to imagine this divorce being a *very* fresh wound #because it doesn't seem to affect her very much on a day to day basis #but at the same time if there was a reason that it came up again and forced her to recon with it #close to the beginning of her time at the academy #then it would have her in an emotionally vulnerable state and dying to talk to someone that she could trust with the truth #and unfortunately that couldn't be trixie because so much of her feelings were centered around the espionage angle #and obviously she can't tell trixie about that #and if there's a cute guy that she keeps getting closer to #maybe that's just what she's needing #anywho you get an extra bonus tags essay i hope you enjoyed it

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