Alissa Dalgaard considers herself the only Dalgaard who has any sense. She’s practical and stubborn and refuses to give in to the peer pressure of her drug dealing relatives. Not that she cares what her half-sister does, but it’s still annoying to have her reputation hanging over the family like that. Alissa herself is pretty notorious around the UES, but for very different reasons. She doesn’t have the charm or charisma needed to sell people on an idea of their own free will, so she resorts to throwing money or threats around. That, paired with her bad habit of swearing revenge on anyone who pisses her off, have lead the term “Georgina Sparks 2.0″ to be thrown around a lot whenever she’s out of earshot.
She does, however, have a soft spot for one thing: pretty girls. She’s a scary, mean badass who could totally make someone disappear if she needed to, but she gets all tongue-tied whenever she’s around a girl. It’s really inconvenient, and she’d like it to stop, but since that doesn’t seem like it’ll be happening any time soon, she’s resolved to just avoid girls entirely until she gets her shit together. That’s proving to be more difficult than she’d anticipated, mostly because every girl on the UES is unnaturally beautiful.
Thanks to a pretty girl she couldn’t figure out how to say no to, Alissa’s recently been hoodwinked into joining the school play, something she’s not looking forward to at all. She’s read the script, and she knows her character has a kiss scene she’ll need to suffer through near the end--if she doesn’t pull the fire alarm to escape first. Despite all of this, Alissa doesn’t really mind school. It’s nice to have a place to get away from the insanity that is her family, and when she’s busy trying to understand math and SAT prep words, she can’t be worried about her sister.
FACTS:
18 years old
Senior at Constance
Daughter of Damien Dalgaard and Jenny Humphrey
FC:Kathryn Newton
She can and WILL fuck you up, don’t forget it
She’s run away from home 16 times
CONNECTIONS:
Niki Mahdavi: Alissa’s been hardcore crushing on her since she realized she liked girls, and it’s just a teeeeeny bit inconvenient to have to see her at school every day. Also it was totally a mistake to follow her on snapchat, Alissa doesn’t need to see her cute selfies, puppy filter or no.