An Exhaustive and Ongoing List of My Echo Valley OCs
CONTENT WARNING: This list contains mentions of mature and potentially upsetting and disturbing topics such as abuse and neglect (including child abuse and neglect), DV, mental health issues, s*ic*dal ideations, substance abuse, overdose, drug trafficking, exploitation, extreme poverty, and animal cruelty.
Face Claim Actress: Hunter Schafer
First Appearance: Coldwell (Upcoming)
Other Appearances: Bad Decisions, The Lawson-Logan Family Portrait (Upcoming)
Full Name: Hailey Marlene Lucas
Date and Time of Birth: February 8, 1999, 6:42 PM EST
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Philadelphia, PA
Family: Jackie Lawson (Maternal half-brother), Ashleigh Randall (Maternal half-sister), Joy Randall (Mother), Ray Lucas (Father), Bud Randall (Ex-stepfather), Marlene Charles (Maternal aunt), Sarah Daniels (Maternal grandmother), Jack Daniels (Maternal grandfather, deceased), Henry Charles (Maternal uncle, by marriage, deceased), Dylan Charles (Cousin), Jenna (Cousin), Errol Daniels (Maternal uncle), Bobby Daniels (Maternal uncle), other cousins, Charlie Lawson (Niece, some fanfictions)
Sexuality: Bisexual/Pansexual, but sapphic-leaning
Astrological Big 6: Aquarius Sun, Scorpio Moon, Virgo Rising, Aquarius Mercury, Pisces Venus, Scorpio Mars
MBTI / Enneagram: ISFP 6w7/6w5 sx/sp 649/648
One of Jackie's two younger half-sisters; Hailey Marlene Lucas was born to his mother, Joy and Joy's second husband, Ray Lucas, at 6:42 PM on February 8, 1999, in Philadelphia, PA.
During Hailey's first five years, Joy began to become increasingly erratic and unstable, abusing substances and mistreating Hailey. She and Ray then divorced, and Ray successfully got custody of Hailey.
Ray was very stern, cruel, and physically and verbally abusive towards Hailey and his subsequent partners after Joy. He was eventually arrested and convicted for drug possession, DV, and child abuse in 2009, after which, Hailey was placed in the custody of Joy and her third husband, Bud. She quickly connected with her three-year-old half-sister, Ashleigh, and became her main confidant and protector.
Hailey is a trans woman, having transitioned in her early teens. She is close to her sister, Ashleigh, and, in early 2019, at twenty, begins to seek custody of twelve-year-old Ashleigh from their abusive and neglectful mother. Sometime between 2014 and 2019 (depending on the fanfiction), she and Ashleigh get to know their older half-brother, Jackie, soon forming a close sibling trio.
Face Claim Actress: Mckenna Grace
First Appearance: Coldwell (Upcoming)
Other Appearances: Bad Decisions, The Lawson-Logan Family Portrait (Upcoming)
Full Name: Ashleigh Caroline Randall
Date and Time of Birth: October 13, 2006, 2:38 AM EDT
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Philadelphia, PA
Family: Jackie Lawson (Older maternal half-brother), Hailey Lucas (Older maternal half-sister), Joy Randall (Mother), Bud Randall (Father), unknown number of paternal half-siblings, Marlene Charles (Maternal aunt), Sarah Daniels (Maternal grandmother), Jack Daniels (Maternal grandfather, deceased), Henry Charles (Maternal uncle by marriage, deceased), Dylan Charles (Cousin), Jenna (Cousin), Errol Daniels (Maternal uncle), Bobby Daniels (Maternal uncle), other cousins, Charlie Lawson (Niece, some fanfictions)
Astrological Big 6: Libra Sun, Cancer Moon, Leo Rising, Scorpio Mercury, Libra Venus, Libra Mars
MBTI / Enneagram: ESFP 7w6 sp/so 728/729
One of Jackie's two younger half-sisters; Ashleigh Caroline Randall was born to Joy and her third husband, Bud Randall, at 2:38 AM on October 13, 2006, in Philadelphia, PA. When she was three, her older half-sister, Hailey, moved into her parents' trailer. Bonding over common interests and their desire to move away from their house in the fictional neighborhood of Coldwell, they quickly became each other's confidantes. Ashleigh immediately accepted Hailey's identity early and was later her strongest supporter during Hailey's transition in her teens.
When Ashleigh was six, her parents divorced, and her father moved out of the house, devastating her. Over the years, Bud was in and out of her life, with her divorced parents having a revolving-door, on-and-off relationship. This was hard for Ashleigh emotionally, as she felt like her doting, fun father was more interested in being her occasional friend than her father. She also found that when Bud was gone, Joy was even crueler than usual.
In 2019, growing tired of Joy's abuse and neglect, she supported Hailey's decision to seek custody of her. Sometime between 2014 and 2019 (depending on the fanfiction), she and Hailey get to know their older half-brother, Jackie, soon forming a close sibling trio.
Face Claim Actress: Lin Shaye
First Appearance: The Ballad of Jackie and Clyde
Other Appearances: Timeless Meadows (Upcoming), The Lawson-Logan Family Portrait (Upcoming)
Full Name: Sarah Elizabeth Daniels (née Enoch)
Date and Time of Birth: August 30, 1944, 10:54 AM EDT
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Philadelphia, PA
Family: Jackie Lawson (Grandson), Jack Daniels (Husband, deceased), Joy Randall (Daughter), Marlene Charles (Daughter), Errol Daniels (Son), Bobby Daniels (Son), Henry Charles (Son-in-law, deceased), Hailey Lucas (Granddaughter), Ashleigh Randall (Granddaughter), Dylan Charles (Grandson), Jenna (Granddaughter), other grandchildren, unnamed parents (deceased), multiple unnamed siblings (most of them now deceased), Charlie Lawson (Great-granddaughter, some fanfictions)
Astrological Big 6: Virgo Sun, Capricorn Moon, Libra Rising, Virgo Mercury Rx, Virgo Venus, Libra Mars
MBTI / Enneagram: ESTJ 1w2 sx/so 136
Jackie's hyper-religious, estranged maternal grandmother; Sarah Elizabeth Enoch was born at 10:54 AM on August 30, 1944, in Philadelphia, PA. It is believed that her parents were either from a neighborhood on the outskirts of Philadelphia, Bensalem, or from some town in the Pennsyltucky region. She grew up in a large, impoverished family, with her father having gone off to fight in the Second World War before her birth. After her father returned home, he suffered from untreated shellshock, leading him to drink heavily and become angry and cold with his family. Young Sarah found escape in her mother's devout evangelicalism, beginning to write religious poetry and hymns and internalizing her passive mother's lessons about presenting herself and her family in as Godly and pristine of a manner as possible.
In the late 1950s, she met a classmate, Jack Daniels. They married in 1961, when she was seventeen, and he was eighteen. Together, they had four children: Errol, Marlene, Joy, and Bobby. According to her grandson, Jackie, Sarah had confided in him that she had an affair with another man while Jack was in Vietnam shortly after his death. In 1982, her then-eighteen-year-old daughter, Marlene, married her high school sweetheart, Henry Charles, a bad boy of whom Sarah and Jack disapproved, to get out of the house. In 1984, her other daughter, Joy became pregnant at fifteen by her high school boyfriend, Duane Lawson. She pressured Duane and Joy to marry to preserve Joy's honor and ensure their child would be legitimate. She then taught Joy about her duties as a wife and mother, and how God would bless her for devoting herself to her family. She helped Joy take care of Jackie, though Duane soon stopped caring for Jackie and eventually left the family, and Joy neglected and verbally abused Jackie, leaving most of his care to Sarah.
Joy ended up losing custody of Jackie to Marlene in 1991, until Sarah was able to use her reputation as a godly, Christian woman and Henry's downward spiral into addiction to gain custody of Jackie in 1994. She sought to teach Jackie how to obey God and to allow his will to be broken so he would be purified. However, Jackie resented the cruelty and rigidity Sarah used in this, soon renouncing any faith in the divine. After Jackie turned eighteen and left the house and Coldwell for good, Sarah was involved in the childhoods of her two grandchildren through Joy: Hailey and Ashleigh, who were also traumatized by her and their mother's approach to child-rearing.
She collects faceless angel and people figurines (like the Willow Tree figurines), and uses the hall closet in her house as a prayer closet (for herself, though she did use it for her children and grandchildren when she felt they needed to be punished).
Face Claim Actress: Maria Bello
First Appearance: The Ballad of Jackie and Clyde
Other Appearances: Timeless Meadows (Upcoming), The Lawson-Logan Family Portrait (Upcoming)
Full Name: Joy Sarah Randall (née Daniels, formerly Lawson, and Lucas)
Date and Time of Birth: June 12, 1967, 1:00 AM EDT
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Philadelphia, PA
Family: Jackie Lawson (Son), Sarah Daniels (Mother), Jack Daniels (Father, deceased), Hailey Lucas (Daughter), Ashleigh Randall (Daughter), Duane Lawson (Ex-husband), Ray Lucas (Ex-husband), Bud Randall (Ex-husband), Marlene Charles (Sister), Henry Charles (Brother-in-law, deceased), Errol Daniels (Brother), Bobby Daniels (Brother), Dylan Charles (Nephew), Jenna (Niece), other nieces and nephews, Charlie Lawson (Granddaughter, some fanfictions)
Astrological Big 6: Gemini Sun, Leo Moon, Pisces Rising, Cancer Mercury, Leo Venus, Libra Mars
MBTI / Enneagram: ESFP 2w3 sx/sp 287
Jackie's abusive, estranged mother; Joy was born at 12:00 PM on November 12, 1968, in Philadelphia, PA. She grew up in the poor fictional neighborhood, Coldwell, with her parents and three siblings, Errol, Marlene, and Bobby. Though they were also treated poorly, Joy and her brother Errol were the two golden children in the family. She grew up dreaming of living a fairytale life with a husband and children who would take care of her. In school, she was unambitious, only focused on finding a boy to marry and devote herself to.
In her freshman year of high school, she met sophomore Duane Lawson and started dating him, drawn to his charisma and motorcycle. In August 1984, right as she was about to start her sophomore year, she found out she was pregnant. Though she and Duane partly considered abortion, they knew they would not be able to afford it and their parents would not give them the money for it. Joy also loved the idea of marrying Duane and having his baby as the cherry on top of their relationship. At Sarah and Jack's behest, Joy and Duane married a few days after Joy's sixteenth birthday. They also dropped out of school. Duane moved in with her in their parents' house, and Duane got his GED and started working at a warehouse. Duane soon started to take his frustrations out on her and leave late at night. Joy still held onto hope of Duane bonding with their baby and regaining his interest in her as the mother of his child, but began to quietly resent him and, as a consequence, her baby.
On April 7, 1985, at 4:17 AM, she gave birth to her and Duane's son, Jackie Duane Lawson, whom she named after her father, Jack, and her husband, Duane. After the birth, Jackie suffered from colic, which made her and Duane resentful of him and of each other. Duane started drinking heavily, leaving the house at night, and coming home later and later. Sensing her domestic dream turning into a nightmare, Joy began to hate both Duane and Jackie. She would leave Jackie to cry alone in his crib for hours, not wanting to devote herself to a child whose father was such a disappointment. Her and Duane's relationship soon became vitriolic, hateful, and violent, and Duane eventually left the family in 1989, only coming back occasionally to ask for money from Jack, and then from Sarah, after Jack died in 1991. As Duane wanted her less and Jackie wanted and needed her more, Joy found it hard to love Jackie. Throughout the years, she was verbally abusive and neglectful towards Jackie, causing her to eventually lose custody of him in 1991.
After Sarah gained custody of Jackie in 1994, Sarah steadily allowed Joy to return to the house, as she had been mostly living with boyfriends since her divorce from Duane in 1990. Besides the emotional abuse and neglect, she would also sometimes slap Jackie. Once Jackie grew taller than her at eleven, he threatened to kill her if she ever hit him or let her boyfriends hit him again. She never hit him again after that point. Joy was at the house less and less over the years.
In 1998, she became pregnant with her then-boyfriend, Ray Lucas's, child, and devoted herself more to him, marrying him that November. At 6:42 PM on February 8, 1999, she gave birth to Hailey Lucas. She soon became erratic and abusive towards Hailey and Ray, with Ray occasionally kicking her out and letting her back into his and Hailey's life. While she would be on the outs with Ray, she would stay at Sarah's house, where she would verbally take out her frustrations and inconveniences on Jackie, who despised her more and more. She started abusing alcohol and drugs more, leading to Ray divorcing her and kicking her out in 2004.
She soon started a relationship with forty-year-old Iowa-born drifter and musician, Bud Randall. They married in 2005, and at 2:38 AM on October 13, 2006, she gave birth to her and Bud's daughter, Ashleigh Randall. After Ray's arrest in 2009, she and Bud took in Hailey, who bonded with Ashleigh over the years. She was verbally abusive to Bud, Hailey, and Ashleigh, her behavior getting worse when Bud would cheat on her and when he left her, Hailey, and Ashleigh in 2012. She and Bud divorced soon after, but dated each other again on-and-off throughout the years.
Shortly after, Hailey came out as trans, which Joy took somewhat poorly but later begrudgingly accepted. In 2013, Joy lost custody of Hailey after Hailey had Marlene sue for custody so Hailey could medically transition under Marlene's care. In 2019, Hailey sued her for custody of Ashleigh. Jackie has been very low contact with Joy since 2003.
Face Claim Actress: Helen Hunt
First Appearance: The Ballad of Jackie and Clyde
Other Appearances: Bad Decisions, Timeless Meadows (Upcoming), The Lawson-Logan Family Portrait (Upcoming)
Full Name: Marlene Rebecca Charles (née Daniels)
Date and Time of Birth: September 26, 1963, 6:34 AM EDT
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Somerton, Philadelphia, PA
Family: Jackie Lawson (Nephew), Henry Charles (Husband, deceased), Dylan Charles (Son), Jenna (Daughter), Cole (Son-in-law), two other children, Hailey Lucas (Niece), Ashleigh Randall (Niece), other nieces and nephews, Sarah Daniels (Mother), Jack Daniels (Father, deceased), Joy Randall (Sister), Errol Daniels (Brother), Bobby Daniels (Brother), Charlie Lawson (Great-niece, some fanfictions)
Astrological Big 6: Libra Sun, Capricorn Moon, Virgo Rising, Virgo Mercury Rx, Libra Venus, Scorpio Mars
MBTI / Enneagram: ISTJ 6w5 sp/so 694/692
Jackie's maternal aunt; Marlene was born to Sarah and Jack Daniels at 6:34 AM on September 26, 1963, in Philadelphia, PA. She has three siblings, Errol, Joy, and Bobby. Growing up, she and Bobby were the scapegoats in the family, but especially Marlene, dealing with the strict discipline of her parents, the religious abuse and harsh criticism and coldness of her mother, and the physical and verbal abuse of her shellshocked father after his return from Vietnam. To escape her bleak homelife in her parents' house, she married her high school sweetheart, Henry Charles, at eighteen, in 1982.
Together, they had four children, including Dylan and Jenna. She and Henry had a mostly loving marriage, but not without its hardships, including their poverty and Henry's tendency to get involved in high-risk, and sometimes even criminal behavior. She and Henry chose not to repeat their parents' abuse and neglect, focusing on raising their children to be independent and fun-loving, but also kind. They both sympathized with and cared deeply about their nephew, Jackie, Joy's abused and neglected son, and filed for custody of him after he was taken out of his mother's custody, and his father was arrested for domestic violence and child abuse. They did their best to give Jackie a happier life. However, when Henry's casual alcohol and drug use descended into full-blown heroin addiction, Sarah filed for custody. Though Marlene fought the suit, Sarah won by presenting herself as a saintly, Christian grandmother and attacking Henry's addiction in 1994. Shortly after the end of the custody battle, Henry was found dead in the bathroom of their trailer from a heroin overdose. Despite her crushing grief and guilt for not being able to save him and Jackie, she started working another job and saved up enough money to get herself and her four children out of Coldwell.
In 1995, she got another, better job. She focused on keeping her children away from drug and crime culture, and saving up money for the future. All four of her children graduated from high school with decent to good grades. Sometime in the 2000s, she went to college and got a degree in communications. She attended Jackie's graduation with Sarah in 2003. In 2012, she filed for custody of Joy's daughter, Hailey, so that Hailey could medically transition, winning the case in 2013.
In the Coldwell universe, she, Hailey, and Ashleigh all help Jackie raise his daughter, Charlie, having started watching her when she was a baby in 2014.
First Appearance: The Ballad of Jackie and Clyde
Other Appearances: Timeless Meadows (Upcoming), Bad Decisions, The Lawson-Logan Family Portrait (Upcoming)
Date and Time of Birth: October 11, 1984, 1:15 PM EDT
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Spruce Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Family: Teresa Jansen (Mother), Mr. Jansen (Father), Renée Jansen (Wife), Tessa Jansen (Daughter), Derek Jansen (Son), Nicholas Jansen (Son)
Astrological Big 6: Libra Sun, Taurus Moon, Capricorn Rising, Libra Mercury, Scorpio Venus, Capricorn Mars
MBTI / Enneagram: ISFJ 9w8 sp/sx 962
Jackie's best friend since childhood; Paul Jansen was born to Teresa and Mr. Jansen at 1:15 PM on October 11, 1984. He grew up in the impoverished neighborhood of Coldwell, living in a small rowhouse with his parents. His father was physically abusive towards his mother and cast a dark shadow over Paul's home until he was arrested and convicted for killing a little girl in a drunk-driving accident when Paul was nine. After Mr. Jansen was convicted, Teresa filed for divorce. A year after his father's arrest, Paul met a neighbor boy his age named Jackie Lawson. They soon bonded over their poverty, troubled home lives, and love for weed, liquor, and rap music. The two friends attended middle school and high school together. Paul's mother Teresa begun to suffer from chronic illness following an abusive childhood and her abusive marriage to Paul's father and, thus, no longer being able to work full-time. And Jackie found his family's poverty worsened due to his granny's health issues and his mother's volatility, fiscal irresponsibility, and financial and physical neglect of him and his granny. To support their families, Paul and Jackie soon started selling weed and ecstasy in their neighborhood and outside their school.
At eighteen, shortly before graduation, Paul decided to give up dealing to start working in construction after school. Though he disapproved of Jackie's decision to continue drug-dealing, he cared too much about him to let go of their friendship, still seeing him as a young boy who was being abused and neglected by his mother and granny. Using drug-dealing money he had saved up, Paul made a down payment on a house in Spruce Hill and moved himself and his mother out of their old house in June 2003. In 2006, Paul married his fiancée, Renée, with Jackie attending the wedding as his Best Man. On November 8, 2009, his daughter, Tessa Jansen, whom he named after his mother, Teresa, was born. His son, Derek, was born in 2013, and his son, Nicholas, was born in 2016.