𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬. 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. '𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.
ARDEN BENNETT. 29. CIS WOMAN. SHE/HER is here! They’ve lived in Cascade for 29 YEARS and currently reside in DOWNTOWN. ARDY is a RADIO HOST at SASQUATCH 94.9 and frequently hears that they look a lot like GRACE VAN PATTEN. Funny, huh? If ever caught by Letterboxd, they’d say MAN OF THE HOUSE (2005) is in their Top 4 and the theme song to their life’s soundtrack would be WHAT SHE WANTS by A R I Z O N A . /
— 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝚰𝐂𝐒.
full name. arden reece bennett. nicknames. ardy, the other bennett by high school school peers. date of birth & age. february 21st 1997 / twenty-nine. zodiac. pisces. gender & pronouns. cis woman & she/her. orientation. bisexual/biromantic though she has a strong preference for women. relationship status. single. place of birth. cascade, ca. occupation. radio host at sasquatch 94.9 & podcaster.
— 𝐇𝚰𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘.
they say parents don't have a favorite child. and if you were to ask mike and jennifer bennett, they would agree. though arden surprised them a little sooner than they would have preferred, they had no problem sharing the immense amount of love fairly between the two. proud of both of their daughters, just in different ways. but not amount of love could stop arden from constantly feeling like second best to her older sister. through no one's fault, really, because who was really to blame if briar had more accolades to commemorate and sporting events to attend. perhaps it was other aspects bleeding into home life.
everyone at *insert cascade high school name here* knew the bennett sisters. briar bennett, older by 2 years, was impossible to ignore. captain of the cheer squad, honor roll student, front and center at any fundraiser and just as funny as she was gorgeous. teachers loved her, and students either wanted to be her or be with her. it was easy for arden to live in briar's shadow. not unpopular per say, she did have her close-knit friend group.. but to the general public, she was just the other bennett. (cue john tucker must die; "i'll let you in on a little secret, though. my mom says i'm special on the inside").
arden can't really recall a time in her life where she competed with her sister. there was never really a point in competing. the two were complete opposites, she always preferred not being the center of attention. if anything, she avoided any attention at all (still does). nose buried in a book or headphones blasting the oldies or the newest true crime podcast she'd stumbled upon. saturday nights spent binge watching movies rather than being at pep rallies.
fast forward to university, and things were a little different. bigger pool of people rather than just cascade locals, and arden was finally able to be her own person. with briar gone to pursue studies and dreams states away, conversations no longer started with "no way, that's your sister?". though she missed her deeply and was somewhat envious she'd left their dead end town, she'd be lying if she said she didn't enjoy being seen for once.
arden joined the campus radio station on a whim. something she could tack onto a resume to embellish it. she didn't expect to love it so much. crowds had never been a thing, neither had public speaking. but behind a mic and an alias? that was different. after graduation, she landed a job at sasquatch 94.9, cascade's local station which just so happened to be right up her alley. mixing music with community stories, the kind of dry humor she excelled at, and late-night paranormal segments about haunted sites around town. it wasn't glamorous, and it certainly wasn't famous, but arden couldn't imagine doing anything else.
with years of practice of being in her sister's shadow, she loved the anonymity that came with radio. listeners could recognized her laugh before they'd recognize her face. she loved the emails they'd send thanking her for keeping them company during long commutes or overnight shifts. for the first time in her life, it felt like people truly liked her because of who she was and what she had to offer. not because of who she was related to.
the thought of leaving cascade, moving to a bigger city and working at a bigger radio station crossed her mind daily. but as the years passed by and her parents got older, guilt of who would be there to take care of them settled in. so she stayed and has making the most of what cascade has to offer.
TBA VERY SOON !!
— 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒.
her sister pretty pretty please !! will also be posting a w/c on the main (and obviously most of the details will be UTP) but in my mind her sister has just returned to cascade after being away for years. i'm truly picturing a retired dallas cowboys cheerleader who came back home to figure out what to do next with her life !!
sandbox besties. both born and raised in cascade and inseparable from the get. the weirdo artsy kids who didn't really fit in with the jocks, not that they wanted to. true ride or dies. (can be multiple)
unrequited love. though she'll never say it, arden loves love. as much as she enjoys being alone, she craaaves that intimacy. this could have been the one time she opened up about her feelings and your muse was just like "awww, i love you too. but not like that." maybe they stayed friends afterwards but it was never the same? or maybe they had a slow falling out?
podcast co-host. mostly true-crime and local haunts related. but i'm totally open to them having a separate podcast where they just talk about anything. personal lives, unfiltered drama.
next door neighbour !! arden moved out of out her parents house and into a cute & cozy apartment downtown a few years ago. would love a friends-type scenario.
TBA just know that arden and i want alllll the plots, we are very greedy !
