Board Thread:Bully Fanon Writing Club/@comment-5385060-20160322020755/@comment-2173402-20160605005653

Sure, haha!

So, for the most part I gotta say Sarah is a really well rounded character. I love that you included her obsession with romance novels because I think it makes a lot of sense that she, on some level, reads about something she'd like to have, in this case a story in which the heroine always gets the guy no matter what her flaws are.

Going really in depth to her, only one thing really sticks out to me, and that's her relationship with her father and mother (but mostly Lyle). You say she was the child her parents never wanted and explain that Lyle always wanted a son, not a daughter, which leads me to believe he treated Sarah as such, yes? And then I'd imagine that when the Taylors rejected her for being little, he acted as if it were her fault.

My guess is that Sarah grew up hearing less than pleasing words from her parents. Though I'm sure her mother had an impact, I'm guessing that the biggest influence came from her father who seems to wear the pants in the marriage.

I think that being treated poorly by first Lyle and then followed by Bif's father would've led to Sarah becoming extremely distrusting of men, especially when it came to romance. Reading romance novels might have reinforced this belief as she may start thinking good men only exist in novels. I think the trust issues would really deepen her character as a whole and can be explored both within her relationship with Pete, and also her relationship with everyone else that she interacts with. The abuse from her mother would come into play, too, as she'd develop a generalized distrust of people (though a little centered on men).