Name: Holly Manning Age: 26 Sexuality: Heterosexual Gender: Female Portrayed By: Samara Weaving Availability: Closed
“This place is not what it was when I was growing up.”
Holly Manning lived in Baberton until she was sixteen. She grew up in a pretty tumultuous household. Her parents weren’t cruel but it was clear they weren’t in love each other anymore. This meant that there were plenty of arguments around Holly’s house while she was growing up. Her big sister was pretty frustrated by the whole thing and moved out as quick as she could, not understanding why their parents didn’t just divorce… but they believed in marriage and were planning to stick it out. Holly held her sister’s views too but she loved her parents and she could understand to an extent. Holly went out a lot with her friends, using fake ID’s and sneaking into clubs, crashing high school house parties, and generally just getting into all sorts of normal teenage trouble around town. She and her friends had fun and Holly loved growing up.
At the age of sixteen she met this guy in a bar. His name was William Darcy and she felt so drawn to him. He was very attractive and he seemed intelligent and funny. She spent a little time with him, drank one or two (or five) beers with him and thought that he was really someone she could spend her life with. Falling in love was very new to Holly and she did it way too easily. She didn’t even notice that he didn’t seem to care about her the way she did him, and just wanted to have some fun. One thing led to another, they hooked up a few times, and a couple of months later she was pregnant with his child. But once his parents found out, she simply wasn’t allowed to talk to him. They offered her a large amount of money to disappear. Said they would try to take care of the child and send money monthly. This ripped her heart out because the family told her that this was what Will wanted too.
So she took the money, because her mother suddenly became terribly sick and the Manning’s really needed it… and she got the hell out of that town. Abortion was not an option for her. Holly moved to a small town near Chelsea where she had some cousins, using the excuse she wanted to be closer to them and to study there, and carried on her life a teen mum. She lived off the money the Darcy’s sent her every month, sending some back to her own parents to help them, and raised her daughter alone. When Alison Manning was born Holly’s attention was all on that girl and she tried to ignore all the hatred she had now towards Alison’s father. Holly wanted to be better than he was… she wanted to be a role model to her child.
Holly has only been back in town for a couple of months or so. She wanted to see her parents and her sister again and is on the lookout for a job… since she knows when the Darcy’s find out about her being back, they would cut off the money, or try to get rid of her again again. Her little girl is eight now and Holly figures that that’s enough time for Will to have forgotten her completely. She’s sure she can avoid seeing him around. Holly is still very torn up about the fact that his family said he wanted them gone too. She had naively fallen in love with Will when she was sixteen and Holly never got over the betrayal and the rejection. She had all these stupid childish dreams of raising her child with a man who loved her, unlike her parents, and she was devastated.
Holly had no idea really how dangerous her home town had gotten over the years and that the friends she’d left behind were now living in daily fear for their lives. Her sister did tell her some things but Holly honestly just thought that it was all a bit of a dramatisation and that it would all be sorted soon by the police… but it’s worse than she thought and has been going on for years. Still, she isn’t one to back out and she’s determined to keep with her decision of coming home. They don’t know how much time her own mother has left now and Holly wants to be close to her family and she wants Alison to be too. The fighting between her parents has now ended and Holly and her sister just want to get through it all.
When she found out she was pregnant, Holly was more than a little lost. She wound up sitting in the park and just crying her heart out. Angry about the fact that she thought Will didn’t want to have that child and that she was alone and they were both unwanted. Annie Pierce showed up and Holly was so upset that she just told the girl the whole story. Annie rubbed it in her face that Will was dating Kelly Sharpe, one of Annie’s best friends. Holly was even more upset then, not understanding why he’d want to seriously date someone now all of a sudden but not her… she wasn’t good enough? Holly was devastated honestly and all the while Annie was just playing with and laughing at her.
Has an ugly habit of exhausting herself. She tends to go to the gym multiple times a week when she has someone to look after Alison and trains as long as she can, often ending up fainting in the gym or out on the street. But this seems like the only way to control all the anger that has grown in her all these years, for the guy who never loved her or their daughter.
In Chelsea, walking home from work one day, Holly came upon a situation she should never have witnessed. Three men robbing a store and beating a man to death as he tried to stop them. She was frozen in fear before she finally made herself move. They all saw her and she took off running down an alleyway and had to sit for an hour behind a recycling bin until she was sure they’d left the area. Sobbing, she made her way to the nearest police station but they weren’t much help. Eventually, she had to be called in to identify these guys but she fled to Baberton before she was able, just overcome with fear that there would be retaliation. She’s still terrified but Holly just hopes they’ll forget about her.
Holly has bipolar disorder, which she found out when she was twenty. It was a hard time for her as Alison was four and she was in and out of psychosis and she simply believed her postnatal depression simply hadn’t cleared up. When the doctors realised it had been years, they did some investigating and she was nearly hospitalized after a manic episode but luckily she was able to be treated at home and still be able to look after Alison. She’s terrified she’s going to become one of those horrible, stereotypical, unhinged bipolar mothers you see portrayed in the media who will do nothing but cause her daughter stress and anxiety and pain. She puts a lot of pressure on herself to be ‘perfect’ and anything less than can make her break down in tears. She doesn’t want to be the reason her little girl ends up in therapy herself some day, whether that be because her mother was a freak or because her mother passed on her freakiness.
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