• Name: Rebecca Hooker
• Gender: Female
• Pronouns: She/her
• Age: 18
• Sexuality: bisexual
• Hair Color: light blonde, long, choppy, layered and wild
• Eye color: brown
• Skin color: pale
• Height: 6’0”
• Family: Samuel ( father ), Roberta ( mother ), Robert ( younger twin brother ), Rachel ( younger sister )
• Birthplace: Queens, New York
• Current Residency: Hawkins, Indiana, United States
• Piercings: Silver ear studs, nose stud, naval barbell piercing
• Outfit Style: Casual punk / metalhead ( she does NOT wear her uniform outside of practice )
• Makeup: Eyeliner, mascara, light lip gloss
• High School Hobby: cheerleader ( forced to conform by her parents )

General Outlines:

Rebecca Hooker, a senior transfer student from Queens, New York, she’s got bright blond hair and she’s a shameless casual punk with a nose piercing and ear studs. She moved away from New York to escape severe bullying about her height, last name, and the way she dressed on top of her bisexuality. She used to date a ‘King of School’ type of guy but he broke up with her publicly in a humiliating way because of her sexuality being outed back in Queens.

Her younger twin brother, Robert, defected to the jocks to save his own skin and his betrayal hurts her. He bullies her to save his own status.

Rebecca and Robert have a little sister, Rachel ( black hair, blue eyes ), who’s the same age ( 14 ) as Mike and his gang, who’s not involved in her sibling’s drama in all of this. Rachel has a crush on Dustin. She’s nerdy and rambunctious and has some attitude.

Personality wise, Rebecca is closed off and harsh and cold as a cover to hide her soft, hurt, insecurities. Playing up her rebellious and punk nature, happy to be snarky towards her bullies and the teachers but keeps herself closed off due to the hurt inside. She has a habit of sucking on lollipops and chewing on gum. Habitual weed smoker. She was forced to join cheerleading by her parents to conform, which also provides opportunities for her twin to harass her.

Backstory:

Rebecca and Robert were born to Samuel and Roberta Hooker on December 27th, 1968 in Queens, New York. For the first 4 years of their lives they’d been inseparable, as twins they did most things together and shared a room with one another. They were sweet kids, Robert loving animals and playing sports, while Rebecca happily trailed behind him. The first time they began to show signs of individuality and separation was when their younger sister, Rachel, was born on April 17th, 1972.

Rebecca immediately connected with having a younger sister and the abrupt distancing from him made Robert feel a bit bitter, especially since he had no idea how to connect with having two sisters. So while they were still loving siblings to each other, Robert was the one to begin distancing himself from Rebecca as they grew older and they started sleeping in separate rooms.

It’s when they reached their teenagehood that the rift became more apparent, Robert wanting a place to belong, began to hang around jocks and joined sports teams in high school that had him being influenced by the asshole jocks and often enabled them in order to fit in. All the while Rebecca had been exploring her identity, her queerness, and her newfound love of punk, rock, metal and New York had a massive scene for such things. Her parents didn’t exactly approve of their daughter being the opposite image of what a typical suburban teen was supposed to be, but they didn’t say anything about it either as Rebecca was a lot more subtle and in the closet about it all. The music spoke volumes though.

Rebecca at 15, had figured out she liked both girls and boys but was too scared to have her private life be known in a time where queerness and nonconformity was typically sneered at and worse. So she dressed like a suburban teen girl, dated the high school ‘King’ in Queens, and kept her taste in music to herself for as long as she could. But rumors quickly spread, and Rebecca began to panic. There was no one that could have known about that stuff unless it was someone who had access to her private journal… and it became abundantly clear that Robert, her own twin brother, had something to do with it.

Robert wanted nothing to do with the potential fall out, so he distanced himself, joined the bullies in mocking Rebecca for their family surname ( Hooker was a low hanging fruit after all ) and kept himself distant from the ‘freak’. The bullying and isolation got bad enough to the point where Rebecca’s breakup had been public and messy, the humiliation burning hot enough where she stopped going to school and started dressing more punk, more herself, and had gotten her piercings and began openly listening to her taste in music. Due to her avoiding school attendance, she was pulled out, but the damage had been done. Her parents were furious and so hoping for a fresh start, they decided to move from Queens, to little rural Indiana in hopes that Rebecca would get through her ‘phase’ and go back to being the conforming daughter they’d expected her to be… Good grades, college applications, ect.

So Rebecca Hooker moved to Hawkins, Indiana in late 1985 in her senior year, where she didn’t even bother or pretended to conform, living her life as an open freak who embraced every part of herself while her twin, Robert, was still trying to placate and fit in with the jocks and doubled down even harder on bullying Rebecca in fear of how the jocks in Hawkins would react to their history and reason for moving.

Despite the initial isolation, Rebecca eventually finds her place with the fellow freaks and outcasts, thanks to the King Freak himself, Eddie Munson. They eventually become best friends and she develops feelings for him, though too scared to lose the one person who understands her she decides to withhold her feelings to keep their friendship as is despite desperately wanting more but being afraid of being hurt again.

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