little out of the way you may see see justin hartley? that’s the label of fairview, but you can call them nathan oliver daniels. the fourty year old has been a resident in fairview for three weeks and currently works as an electrical engineer. they were rose’s best friend’s brother. since the news broke their usual rational manner has seemed to been replaced by a combative demeanor cracking under the surface. maybe it’s the fact that a dark cloud in the form of being indirectly responsible for a car accident resulting in someone death is hanging over their head. books neatly organized on a dusted shelf, quiet scoffs at stupid remarks, a chess board missing a pawn. wc: emily ashworth’s older brother
Yes, he is, the emily ashworths brother, he’s a fan of his sister, not so much his extended family. Clarification, the girls are okay.
One thing he does not know how to handle, is crying. Don’t do it, please. He’s never been good with babies because they cry, way, way too much. Maybe just don’t leave him with children in general. He’s awkward with them. They’re cute but that’s about it.
Nathan is very much a trust no one, question everything kind of person and it hasn’t completely led him off so far. Of course he’s messed up but as much as he hates it, he is human and he does make mistakes.
He’s also not great at relationships in general. example a; his family. Pretty much the only example you really need to understand?
Often he’s honest to be honest, but rarely to hurt people (unless it’s because he doesn’t like them then he’s holding nothing back) but people see his bluntness as rude and he’s kind of accepted that.
Enjoys chess. Multiple apps on his phone so he can play multiple variations of the game with multiple people at one time. That or sudoku.
He doesn’t hold grudges but only because he doesn’t value most people enough for them to impact him. He does hold on to situations moreso though, if that makes sense.
He’s been engaged 2 time's, both different women. Still never married. Still no kids. Nothing to show for it. Hallmark movies are a damn lie.
Has a motorcycle, it’s his pride and joy, loves that thing.
Best way to take out your anger, in his opinion, are some boxing gloves, a sparring mate, and a big space. Results differ depending on how angry you are and who your sparring mate is.
a little out of the way you may see see sophia bush ? that’s the pedestal of fairview, but you can call them eleanor “nora” rhodes. the thirty seven year old has been a resident in fairview for six weeks and currently works as an pediatric nurse. they were rose’s neighbor. since the news broke their usual supportive manner has seemed to been replaced by a bossy demeanor cracking under the surface. maybe it’s the fact that a dark cloud in the form of she had an argument with rose a few hours before her death, she’s plotting a way to potentially get her boyfriend fired so that he can move to fairview with her. is hanging over their head. half-used bottles of perfume, answering friends’ calls at 2am, and loud laughter. (jay, 26, cst, they/them.)
eleanor “nora” rhodes is the younger sister to elias rhodes. she’s new in town, so most of her pre-established connections will be either through eli or through her former sister-in-law, piper.
growing up, nora was convinced that she was going to be a neurosurgeon. she loved all of her science classes, loved learning how the brain worked, loved the challenge of it all. she was always a good student in school, got good grades, and some might even have described her as the “teacher’s pet.” she had a core group of friends, but really didn’t branch out too much. but she was on her high school’s academic decathalon team, so she was fine with not going to all the big parties, ya know?
as she got older, she realized that she really didn’t want to be the person doing the surgeries with patients that she couldn’t actually connect with. beyond wanting to work in the medical field, she wanted to work with people. the neurosurgeon route didn’t quite allow for that. so instead of applying for medical school, she applied for nursing school and became a pediatric nurse instead.
even though she’s elias’s younger sister, sometimes she feels like she’s the one who needs to take charge. she loves him dearly, but some of the choices that he’s made simply don’t rub her the right way. even that might not be putting it quite right – the choices he makes are fine, she supposes… but the way he goes about those choices are questionable at best. part of her motivation for moving to fairview was to keep a closer eye on elias, hoping that having family nearby would be a good thing for him.
about five years ago, she met the man of her dreams. he was nerdy, he was sweet, and he prioritized her just as much as she prioritized him. they didn’t start dating right away. instead, it was only after a drunken kiss that they even shared their feelings for each other. the rest? it’s history. they’ve been dating for about two years now.
nora’s move is throwing a wrench in their relationship, since he wasn’t able to move to fairview with her due to his job. this is the first time that either of them have been in a long-distance relationship, and it isn’t as easy as either of them thought it would be. nora desperately wants him to move to be with her. she’s just not certain that’s going to happen any time soon.
— a little out of the way you may see see TIKA SUMPTER ? that’s the MATCHMAKER of fairview but you can call them SLOANE MORRISON-LOCKE. the THIRTY EIGHT year old has been a resident on wisteria lane for NINE YEARS and currently works as an PHYSICAL THERAPIST. they were rose's BEST FRIEND. since the news broke their usual INDEPENDENT manner has seemed to been replaced by a EVASIVE demeanor cracking under the surface. maybe it’s the fact that a dark cloud in the form of SECRETLY GIVING BIRTH TO AN ILLEGITAME CHILD WHEN PRETENDING TO BE “ABROAD” WORKING FOR A YEAR AND A HALF is hanging over their head. weeks old flowers dying in the corner of the house, freshly manicured nails tapping against glass, and piles of shopping bags being stuffed into the trunk. (sarah, 23, cst, she/her.)
GENERAL INFORMATION
FULL NAME: Sloane Alexis Morrison-Locke
NICKNAME(S): Sloane, Lo, Ona(oh-na)
AGE: Thirty-eight
DATE OF BIRTH: April 9
GENDER & PRONOUNS: Female & She/her
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
OCCUPATION: Physical Therapist
APPEARANCE
FACE CLAIM: Tika Sumpter
SCARS: N/A
TATTOOS: One mid back
PIERCING: Ears, belly, and cartilage
LABEL NAME: “The Matchmaker”
ABOUT
Sloane has always craved love, in every way shape or form. It wasn’t like she didn’t get love, she got it but it was never in the ways she wanted it growing up. Maybe that’s where her slight obsession with it came from, though it was more apparent as she reached her college years.
Originally from Minnesota, Stillwater to be exact, she always knew she would leave the state. Though that was more what she said when winter came and she was donning boots and layers on top of layers just to leave the house for school. Snow specifically was never something she enjoyed, she was destined for Hawaii or somewhere warm with a nice beach. Her parents would always respond that Minnesota had beaches as well.
She’s still not sure how she ended up in Illinois as if they don’t also get snow. Maybe that’s why she basically hibernates come snow. She’ll show up to things she deems important but otherwise she stays in her home where it’s warm.
She didn’t come from a rich family, they weren’t rich... but they were fine. It was never a problem for her not until she started going to a private school a realized her family just didn’t compare to the kids around her. She never blamed her parents, but she couldn’t the constant comparison. That’s when she decided to pursue something that would make her money and something faster.
Although she started PT school primarily to make money; being a doctor takes too long and business is far from her thing, she actually enjoyed it. She enjoyed being a travelling PT a few years after graduating. She loves the fact that she essentially has a better schedule than most people and the fact that she can work in multiple places and have different sources of income.
Sloane is loyal to an extent. Loyalty, love and trust are intertwined to her. As long as she loves you, she will be loyal to you and trust you with her heart but if you break either of those things, she will have to take a step back and reevaluate.
Loves gossip but lets things about her best friends fall on deaf ears. Call it peaceful ignorance. Or straight up lying to herself but this is how she’s survived so far.
The first couple Sloane ever paired together didn’t work. Okay the first few couples, but it was middle school and what did they know about what was good for them. They would’ve worked if they tried. One actually did end up getting married later and regardless of what they say, Sloan takes credit.
She tends to involve herself in single people’s business, even if they don’t invite her to.
Her home library is full of books she hasn’t yet read but plans to read but never gets too and she continues to buy more.
(marlo kelly, cis woman, she/her. ) — see 4358 ? that’s the hurricane of wisteria lane, but you can call them Hayden Osborne. the EIGHTEEN year old has been a resident on wisteria lane for five months now. they were rose’s PROJECT. since the news broke their usual CHAOTIC manner has seemed to have been replaced by an SCORNED demeanor cracking under the surface. maybe it’s the fact that a dark cloud in the form of HER PARENTS JOINING A CULT AND ABANDONING HER AND HER BROTHER is hanging over their head. an old blood stain on your volleyball uniform, thick skin, sharp nails and sharper words, a perpetually smashed phone screen.
Meet Hayden.
BASICS.
NAME: Hayden Dean Osborne
AGE: 18
OCCUPATION: Senior at Fairview High School
RESIDENCE: No. 4361 Wisteria Lane
AUNT: Lucy Stewart
OLDER BROTHER: Devon Osborne
POSITIVE TRAITS: Dedicated, driven, resourceful
NEUTRAL TRAITS: Aggressive, secretive
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Cruel, vulgar, antagonistic
FACTS.
Hayden and her older brother were abandoned by their parents when they were ten and twelve respectively.
Their parents left them to commit themselves exclusively to an isolated commune (definitely a cult) that had no place for children.
Their mother’s younger sister, Lucy, took custody of them, despite how little experience she had in child rearing.
Since then the Osborne clan have had a pretty turmutlous time with Hayden regularly getting into trouble in and out of school.
HAYDEN’S PERSONALITY
Hayden suffers from PTSD as a result of her parents abandoning her and her brother and the few days they spent alone in their near empty family home, wondering what was going on.
She doesn’t acknowledge her trauma but it manifests itself in various ways, she often lashes out at people physically and verbally, she is often vulgar and abrasive as if to test people’s capcity to abandon her, she feels very insecure in most of her relationships and even purposefully sabotages them sometimes, she can be very controlling and she struggles with emotional intimacy.
She gets very anxious when Lucy is late to return home or has to travel out of town for work but she would never admit to it.
WANTED CONNECTIONS/PLOTS
Parents of kids she bullies in school
Adults connected to the school volleyball team which she plays on
Adults that see her as troubled and want to help her, rather than see her punished for being awful
Friends from school (or recent Fairview graduates)
Hookups/Exes/Love interests
Anybody from the gym she attends regularly to stay fit for volleyball
Somebody she has had a nasty altercation with
Somebody who is interested in Lucy (Hayden is horrible to anybody she fears might take Lucy’s attention away from her and become more important in Lucy’s life than Hayden).
see 4349 ? that’s the NEW GUY of wisteria lane, but you can call them PARKER HESSMAN. the THIRTY-FIVE year old has been a resident on wisteria lane for TWO MONTHS now. they were rose's NEW FRIEND AND REMODELED HER BATHROOM. since the news broke their usual AFFABLE manner has seemed to been replaced by a SCATTERBRAINED demeanor cracking under the surface. maybe it’s the fact that a dark cloud in the form of DEBT HE IS RUNNING AWAY FROM is hanging over their head. flannel shirts, a rusty toolbox, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with a bite in them.
BASIC INFORMATION
Name: Parker Heath Hessman
Age: 35
Occupation: Handyman
Positive Traits: Affable, Kind, Sincere
Negative Traits: Stubborn, Quixotic, Gullible
ABOUT PARKER
Recently moved to Chicago from Washington DC, never really gets in depth for his reason for moving but he normally just says he wanted a change of scenery.
Used to work at the Smithsonian as part of the Research Staff in the Department of Mineral Sciences. So it’s a bit sus why he’s suddenly a handyman in Illinois? 🤔
Owes some shady people a sizable amount of money back in DC but we don’t talk about it.
Used a majority of his money to move to Chicago and get his place at Wisteria Lane so he’s kinda hmm very broke???
Good thing random neighbors have been giving him food just for being new otherwise his diet for the last two months would have just been ramen and PB&J.
Has no idea what he’s going to do long-term about all of his problems and is not really the type to be good at keeping up lies so we’ll see how long he lasts in good ol’ Wisteria Lane. Probably picked the wrong place to move to.
FUN FACTS
Not on any social media. Doesn’t own a TV. Claims it’s because he’s “trying to be more present” and lead a “healthier lifestyle” but lbr he just deleted all of it and can’t afford a TV tbh.
Probably has a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for every meal. Like it’s one of his favorite foods but also his bank account would be mad at him for trying to eat anything else.
Big rock nerd. Growing up, he was that kid that collected rocks. Absolutely fascinated by them. Has a rock collection. If you’ve ever been in his house, you know he has a custom-made coffee table that shows off part of his rock collection.
Has a giant plastic jar filled with sugar packets from every café he’s ever been to. Started collecting when he was 19.
see 4354 ? that’s the LOTHARIO of wisteria lane, but you can call them CHARLES ASHWORTH. the THIRTY-FIVE year old has been a resident on wisteria lane for ONE YEAR now. they were rose’s LAWYER. since the news broke their usual PRAGMATIC manner has seemed to been replaced by a DISHONEST demeanour cracking under the surface. maybe it’s the fact that a dark cloud in the form of HE’S HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH HIS BROTHER’S WIFE is hanging over their head. red lipstick on collar. waxed mercedes benz. black polished shoes.
HISTORY (TW infidelity, death)
Charles, or Charlie as he’s been known most of his life before attempting to shred the nickname after graduating law school, has lived in the shadow of his older brother for as long as he could remember
He did well at school, he made all the right teams, he joined all the right clubs, was part of the right crowd. He was practically the poser child that hiss parents wanted...except that they already had that poster child. Theodore.
It didn’t matter how much Charlie did right, Ted had always done it first.
The final straw came in high school when, after years of secretly crushing on Emily and working up the courage to finally ask her out, his brother stole his dream girl. He no longer simply disliked the older Ashworth. He resented him. Maybe even hated him.
When Emily and Ted got pregnant...well he finally thought that he had won. He was going to be the success story, on track to graduate in the top ten percent and preparing to attend Yale. He was going to law school and his brother was going to be a teenage father. Surely he would be the golden child now.
Except that his parents doted on their new grandchild. They were proud of him of course, their son was attending an Ivy League, but they made it clear that if there was ever going to be a new golden child, it was Jane.
For early adult years, Charlie juggled law school and partying pretty well. He liked girls, and they liked him, but nothing was going to get in the way of him graduating. He wasn’t going to give anybody any reason to doubt him.
After law school he moved back to Illinois, right back to Chicago, and began making a name for himself. He was hired at a good firm, he proved himself and rose into becoming the firm’s youngest junior partner.
They still expected more.
In his early thirties and at the age that his parents believed he should have been thinking about settling down, they made it clear that it was time to stop showing up to family dinners with a new girlfriend on his arm and instead think about finding a wife.
So, just like always, that’s what he did. He found a nice girl, one anybody would think was too good for him, and made her Mrs Ashworth. He moved to suburbia. Moved to Wisteria Lane. He was happy.
Until he wasn’t. He grew bored, and Charles bored had never been a good thing. And so, despite convincing himself that he loved his wife and their life was on track to being just as perfect as Ted’s had always been, he almost couldn’t stop his eyes from wandering. Couldn’t stop them wandering over to Emily.
Since Rose’s death, Charlie has been conflicted with himself. They were neighbours at best, he’d known her for years as his sister-in-law’s best friend and she’d asked for his legal advice a time or two - he’d joked he was her unofficial lawyer at the fourth of July block party when she was asking about building permits. He shouldn’t have felt personally connected to the grief, they were barely friends. But he does. He does for Emily, but he’s not sure that he should.
PERSONALITY
Ask anybody that grew up with him, Charlie has always a bit of an asshole. He was competitive, he was arrogant, he was manipulative. He’s largely insensitive, doesn’t care if what he says offends you and says it with confidence.
However, underneath all that bravado, he’s deeply insecure. Most of what he’s done with his life is to please others, to live up to expectations. He isn’t sure that he’s ever done a single thing for his own happiness.
He’s also been known to be charming when he needs to be, he can be found laughing at backyard barbeques as he compliments whoever made the fruit salad or throws around a ball with the other men of the neighbourhood that makes him fondly recall his days as his high school pride and joy.
From years of seducing just about anybody he wants to, he’s never been able to shake off his flirty nature. It still creeps up from time to time, sometimes subtly and others not.
that’s the BULLDOG of fairview, but you can call them MATILDA MADISON. the THIRTY-THREE year old has been a resident in fairview for FOUR YEARS and currently works as a COLUMINIST. they were rose’s FRENEMY. since the news broke their usual SOCIABLE manner has seemed to been replaced by a ARROGANT demeanor cracking under the surface. maybe it’s the fact that a dark cloud in the form of SHE HAD AN ABORTION AS A TEENAGER is hanging over their head. crashing waves against the cliffside. perfectly manicured nails. dark eyes narrowed into a glare. the sound of an instagram notification.
HISTORY (TW Abortion, Death)
Matilda’s childhood was the definition of privilege. Growing up in small town Wisconsin, the same small town her family had practically ruled over for five generations, she was the most popular girl in school since Kindergarden. She was on the cheer squad, dated the hottest boy in school and threw the best parties - her big house was almost always empty as her parents travelled across the country.
But she didn’t need them, she had her friends. Her real family, just the four of them bonded together and nothing could tear them apart.
A series of events, starting the summer after her Junior year rocked the foundation of her world.
The first being her breakup with Chase. The school’s power couple, she hadn’t even seen it coming - her boyfriend, who she wasn’t even sure she’d realised that she truly loved until the moment he broke it off with her, had decided that he was no longer emboldened by the shallow popularity. She of course was the human embodiment of such frivolous things.
A few weeks later she found herself on her best friend’s bathroom floor, positive pregnancy test in hand and no idea who the father as - it might have been Chase, she hoped it was, but she couldn’t be sure. She felt as though she had no other choice, she couldn’t be trusted to look after herself most of the time. With only her best friends by her side, she had an abortion.
Senior year was different for many reasons, but the most prominent was probably the bomb that was dropped on her head that January. She wasn’t going to graduate, not unless she took all the extra credit she could get and worked her ass off for the rest of the year. And maybe that was what truly changed her life.
She did eventually graduate, on time and as she would proudly boast all her own doing. That accomplishment, it caused a fundamental shift in her. Sure she was still Queen Bee and she wasn’t getting on the Honour Roll anytime soon, but for the first time in her life she’d worked for something instead of just being handed it. No longer was she satisfied with her father buying her place at college like he’d intended to, and she wasn’t even sure she wanted to go. She wasn’t sure about anything anymore....so when Chase offered her the chance to travel the world with him she jumped on board.
Those years were perhaps the happiest of Matilda’s life; she was seeing gorgeous cities, she had the man she loved at her side, her travel instagram went viral. They got married semi-spontaneously, arriving in Marrakech and simply deciding that they had to fly their nearest and dearest out for the surprise wedding.
She has never regretted one second of her life with Chase.
However, sometimes Fairview feels boring after their adventures. She loves her husband and maybe the mean girl that she will always slightly be loves the high-school-like nature of suburbia, but from time to time she wishes they’d never had to grow up.
Since moving to Illinois four years ago, she’s become quite the staple of the community. She attends every town meeting, she hosts block parties and attends her neighbours’ dinner parties, she writes a column in the town paper (Tilly Talks). She’s somebody that just about everybody in Fairview knows, just the same way she’d grown up, but that isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Matilda and Rose had a complicated friendship, filled with coffee dates and competition, but she was still shocked and disturbed when she heard about her death. She’s never really considered herself a reporter, the only reason she even started writing was a by-product of her popularity on instagram, but since the other woman’s death she can’t deny that she’s gotten a sudden urge to investigate.
PERSONALITY
After a lifetime of being a mean girl, being raised to believe that popularity was the only way to succeed and that other people’s feelings didn’t matter, it’s never been easy for Matilda to completely disregard those beliefs. Sometimes she’s still the same teenage girl she was fifteen years ago.
You get on her bad side and she’s positively vicious. Mean to unreasonable degrees and not afraid to do whatever it takes to make your life hell. She’s the pettiest person you’ll ever meet, there’s no forgive and forget where Matilda is involved.
She’s nosey, likes to be in her neighbours business, but that’s made her pretty guarded about her own life.
However, she’s resourceful. If you need a job done, even if hands need to get a little dirty, you can bet Matilda will find a way. And she’ll do it passionately.
If you need a party hosting, Matilda is your girl. Her sociable nature and a youth spent watching her mother host Junior League parties - not to mention the ragers she threw as a teenager - make for parties her neighbours will be talking about for weeks afterwards.
see 4354 ? that’s the SACCHARINE of wisteria lane, but you can call them SYDNEY ASHWORTH. the THIRTY-THREE year old has been a resident on wisteria lane for ONE YEAR now. they were rose’s VET. since the news broke their usual KIND HEARTED manner has seemed to been replaced by a ANXIOUS demeanour cracking under the surface. maybe it’s the fact that a dark cloud in the form of a previous marriage and selling test answers while in college is hanging over their head. flour smudged cheeks, golden retriever with it’s tongue slinging out the side of a car window, puppy breath.
been a vet longer than she’s been married to charles
loves her husband unconditionally. trusts him. none of her friends really understood how she fell for the guy, and for a while she wasn’t sure either. But she feels as if she sees the man underneath his façade...she feels as if they make each other better. Maybe she’s seeing wrong, but she believes there’s more to charles.
wants to start a family, but is having second thoughts about that with the whole rose thing.
she doesnt talk about her life before college and for good reason. she’s not close to her family. her father did not walk her down the aisle, though her family was present at the wedding. They didn’t approve of the boy, but they rarely approved of anything.
while in college she decided in order to make extra money she would sell answers to tests....something she’s not very proud of now, but it helped pay the bills. SECRET
loves animals. they can’t lie to you. they can’t hurt you. not like people.
does volunteer work at the human society
moved out of her parents house at 18. With her scholarships it made living on campus pretty easy.
loves to bake and cook. you can bet your ass she packs lunches (with little notes tucked in them) for her husband.
Personality
Sydney can be a little anxious thing, especially with the dark things happening.
she;s very friendly to everyone, almost to a fault. She wants to come off as perfect and be on everyone’s good side, but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. She’s a people pleaser.
has a fairytale view of things.
very much like a golden retriever personified xD
head cannons
left handed
bites he nails
twirls her hair
bakes when she’s stressed about things..
actually despises one of the clients that comes into her clinic. not the pet. their mom. Something about them just grates Sydney’s nerves...not that anyone could really tell. but she does talk about this person to her husband xD
