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LIZZIE MALONEY

lizzie is an original character based in the stranger things fandom

influences for Lizzie come from stranger things , 80s horror movie tropes , the works of Stephen King , Pink Floyd’s the wall , 80s and 90s cult classics , and personal experiences.

lizzie was born in indianapolis , indiana. she was the second child of her parents josh and hazel maloney , being born two years after her brother daniel maloney. daniel was the golden child , with his straight As and athleticism. he was the apple of their mother's eye and their father's best friend. lizzie , on the other hand , had a rebellious streak and wanted to be everything her parents despised. despite this , lizzie was extremely close to both of her parents , though she was more her daddy's girl.

when lizzie was ten years old , her parents got divorced and her mother quickly remarried. lizzie wanted to live with her father , but the courts wouldn't allow it. instead , she moved into a newer house with her mother , brother , and new step father whose name was richard mullens. she quickly began calling him dick due to their strained relationship. where her parents were understanding and lenient with her acting out , dick was quick to ground her and insult her about her looks and the way she wanted to dress.

three years later , lizzie's father josh was offered an opportunity to work on an oil rig in alaska. he didn't want to leave his kids , but he needed the money so he took the job. this devastated lizzie as she'd been feeling like he was the only person on her side. once he was gone , it became more and more apparent that her mother and step father had been wanting to move away from indianapolis but josh had been standing in their way. with him gone , dick began talking more and more candidly about his work as a scientist and the fact that they were preparing to move to a small town outside of the city.

the family waited for daniel to graduate high school , with honors of course , before packing up and moving to hawkins. daniel planned to attend emerson college and live at home , working part time to try and save up to move out on his own. lizzie was forced to change schools during the summer between her sophomore and junior year.

after the events of season one , sam owens replaced martin brenner as the director of hawkins lab , and richard mullens replaced sam owens as one of the scientists on the project. after this promotion and the move , dick went from being an open book at the dinner table about whatever he was working on to being very secretive. lizzie , obviously , felt like this was a huge red flag but she was the only one in her household that apparently felt that way. she would bring up the fact that he never talked about work anymore and he would snap back with the fact that she never cared before.

because of this , she started snooping through his things and trying to find out what was going on in hawkins.

during season two , lizzie is sort of an outsider at the school. she isn't really interested in fitting in and keeps hoping her dad will move back to indianapolis and let her move back in with him. most of her free time is taken up by her snooping in her step father's things and trying to figure out what's going on with the kid who went missing last year , and the girl that's her age and still missing this year. when at school , she hangs around the same bad news people that eddie munson would hang around with. they don't become friends here , but they do know each other.

lizzie attended barb's funeral , and even cried for her.

during season three , lizzie got a job at the record store inside starcourt mall. she knew of steve harrington and robin buckley , having a couple classes with robin during the previous school year so they were mutual acquaintances. she also met and was friendly with nancy wheeler , and heather holloway was her first real friend in hawkins after the two found out they lived on the same block.

one night after everyone had gone to bed , lizzie was sneaking out of the house when she overheard her step father on a heated phone call in his home office. she heard him complaining about the damn sheriff , saying that he was causing problems and sticking his nose where it didn't belong. later in the conversation , he started talking about magnets and ' ruskies ' and collateral damage. unsure of what to do , she went to talk it out with heather. when she arrived at the holloway house , however , heather was there with billy and both were acting way too out of the ordinary. she refused to come in and talk with them with the door closed.

the next day , after tom holloway fires nancy and jonathan from the post , lizzie decided to reach out to nancy and talk to her about how weird heather had been acting. she wasn't super close with nancy , but she knew that nancy would be able to help her. nancy let her know that she was going up to the hospital to check on mrs. driscoll , and lizzie could meet her there if she wanted.

after telling nancy about the weird way that heather and billy were acting , she goes with them to the wheeler house to discuss with everyone what happened to billy in the sauna. this confirms , based on what lizzie saw , that heather is flayed just like billy and mrs. driscoll.

after leaving the wheeler's house , lizzie went home to try and talk some sense into her step father. she knew that he was involved , and he knew that she suspected him. her mother wasn't home at the time , so she felt comfortable enough to approach dick. she told him that people were getting hurt and she knew he had something to do with it. she told him that she'd made new friends and they knew everything she did and that it was his responsibility to stop it all from happening. his response was to slap her across her face and tell her that she was a child and children knew nothing. he went to grab her by the shoulder , but she backed away just in time. rather than wait around to argue with him , she ran away from the house and goes to hopper's cabin with everyone else. she's there when eleven / jane finds out that dustin is at starcourt mall , and she tags along with everyone for the final act.

after everything , lizzie goes back home to find that her step father had spun a web of lies for her mother. he claimed that he'd come home and caught her smoking and stealing cash from his desk. he said that she'd attacked him , and when he tried to defend himself he'd ' accidentally ' slapped her , and she ran off saying she would tell everyone that he'd slapped her for no reason. because of this , lizzie was grounded for the entire summer. they could do that because , ' as long as she was under their roof , she was still a child to them '.

because of this , lizzie wrote to her father asking for money to move out of dick's house. she knew her father , even though he was so far away , would believe her and help in any way that he could. two weeks later , josh showed up on their doorstep to help lizzie move out of her parents house. the only thing she was sure she could afford was a trailer in forest hills trailer park.

after the starcourt mall had burned down , the owner of the record store she'd been working in relocated to another building in the same part of town. he'd kept her on as one of the clerk's and so she never had a lapse in her salary. it was hard , but she was able to afford the trailer on her own. it was , however , two bedrooms in case she wanted to let a roommate move in.

lizzie is there to witness eddie's freak out after chrissy's attack , and helps hide him until he can run away. she spends half her time trying to protect eddie and the other half of her time helping everyone find out about chrissy's symptoms and how fred then and max now are experiencing the same thing.

later , lizzie stays with eddie and the others while he attempts to distract the demobats and watches alongside dustin as eddie sacrifices himself for them. she is there to comfort dustin during this and help him get to safety afterward.

lizzie has several homemade tattoos and piercings on her body , in places that are easy to hide from her parents.

lizzie is close with her older brother , despite the differing ways in which they were treated. he never let the better treatment go to his head and on several occasions , he stood up to dick for his sister.

short and sweet verses :

main verse , takes place after the events of season 4. lizzie is working full time at the record store in hawkins. she is also attending classes at the local community college , this is all she can afford now that her mother and step father have cut her off completely.

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