zero new : tu shanshu

[everylittlegirl]

Player Information:
Name: Kate
Age: forever young
Contact: grayace
Game Cast: Billy Costigan (lostundercover) → A/C

Character Information:
Name: Hayley Stark
Canon: Hard Candy
Canon Point: After the end of the film
Age: 14
Reference: Wiki

Setting:
Hard Candy takes place in an undefined area of California (though the commentary identifies it as Los Angeles) in the modern world (a la 2005). It features technology, the handling of crime, locations, etc all appropriate to the time period and shows nothing distinguishing it from the real or modern world, other than the establishment of Jeff Kohlver as a fictitious, marginally successful editorial photographer.

Personality:
Purple colored font indicates things which are not stated in canon, but are inferred. In Hard Candy, Hayley spends the vast majority of the film interacting with Jeff. She briefly interacts face-to-face with a coffee shop clerk (while playing a role) and makes a few calls (one to a friend, one to Jeff's ex, and one to her mother in the deleted scenes). Because of the limitations of her displayed relationships in canon, it is difficult to provide canon evidence of her response to other individuals and is why most of the thoughts dealing with her external interactions are marked as inferred/headcanon.

Hayley seems like a pretty average and intelligent girl. She looks younger than she is and seems a little more mature, but still fairly young and naïve. It’s primarily a façade, however. Hayley is a self-described “cute, vindictive, little bitch.” She is actually extremely cunning and manipulative, intelligent far beyond her years and with a very personal and twisted sense of justice. She’s very black and white in many of her opinions and relationships with almost no gray area.

The girl is afraid of being in a position where she loses control with her victims and thus has become a compulsive liar so that she can always be the one with the truth (as in telling Jeff about what her parents did, etc.); when in doubt, she tries to defer with sarcasm. The girl mainly plays roles. It is difficult to tell if the things she likes are because she likes them or if they are a reaction to a situation (does she hate Goldfrapp because they're bad or because Jeff liked them?), or something she picked up as a lie that she told so often it became true. Not wanting to admit to that confusion (to others or even to herself really), she just keeps on lying.

The girl has a very strict sense of justice which she prefers to enforce herself. She will do anything and live any lie for however long she needs to in order to manipulate the target of her vengeance. She does her research, often working on plans for months before she carries them out. Hayley has been desensitized in almost every way with those she views as predators or the guilty party, feeling no remorse. No sympathy, no mercy. She enjoys control and toying with bad people, making them feel the remorse and guilt that she thinks they should feel. If you do something wrong.. really wrong, she will do everything in her power to destroy you.

Hayley doesn't sweat the small stuff, so to speak. When she's bored, she is fairly nonchalant and relatively social, but this attitude is mainly a flippant use of time rather than sincere interest (she's curious, but would leave an idle chat in a heartbeat for something more interesting). She offers the truth and lies interchangeably, due to not really caring enough about most people to be honest with them.

She is observant and quick to judge behaviors. She is vengeful. The girl operates in black and white thinking once she has made up her mind about something, but is careful to take her time in forming those opinions and confirming them (though it's extremely difficult to talk her out of an opinion even as she's in the process of confirming). A behavior is right or wrong, regardless of why, but a person may be more than that single behavior; for example, Hayley attacks Jeff for being a pedophile in general, not solely what he did to Donna Mauer ("I am every little girl you ever touched, [etc.]").

She doesn't care much for other peoples' feelings when they have done something wrong, which a large factor in her not caring so much why someone does what they do. That's not to say that Hayley doesn't understand why people think and feel the way they do and how to play them. She does understand; she just doesn't really care. That's why it didn't matter why Jeff did what he did, or whether or not he actually killed Donna. He was a part of it, therefore he suffers the same consequences for what he allowed to happen.

Hayley is very idealistic in her own twisted way, mainly as a result of becoming jaded. It's not okay with her that some people are flawed in specific ways (ie pedophilia); she believes that if she can rid the world of the monsters, that maybe it will be the better place that she knows everyone wants. In that sense, she tends to be more interested in what is possible and how to achieve it than in accepting what is. This is why she takes things into her own hands. She also has little respect for authority as an institution (she may respect a police officer, but because of how awesome the officer is as a person and not because they are an officer).

She likes results, but cares very little for statistics. That is, she is motivated by emotion, but feels accomplishment primarily by quantifiable success. Hayley can be extremely patient and determined when the situation calls for it and these skills go a long way in the things that she chooses to do. Though she likes hard results, she does actually tend to just go with the flow and not be too structured in the things she endeavors.

The girl is a bit arrogant and elitist. She believes herself superior in some ways, enough to feel like it's her right to choose who dies according to their behaviors, etc. It's not something she really rubs in peoples' faces, but the belief is there. She does occasionally enjoy lording her control over others when they become the victim of her revenge, but only in the sense of her mocking them and pointing out their own crimes. That said, the girl can be competitive, because she just doesn't like losing. It's this same arrogance (and her desire for control) that makes Hayley hate surprises and have trouble sometimes adapting immediately, as seen in her fumbling slightly with Judy's visit.

Hayley is not afraid of putting herself in danger. She's not stupid, but she enjoys the rush of high-risk behavior (so long as it fits her schema of what is "right"). When in dangerous situations related to revenge, she views herself as devoted to the cause and prides herself on that perceived selflessness.

She loves to tinker with things to come up with new ideas and has an insatiable appetite for knowledge. Hayley is creative and not afraid to think outside the box. She has no desire to be a leader or in any real assigned position of responsibility, but tries to be fun, outgoing, and engaging to those she happens to take a liking to. She'll freely make promises she can't keep and holds little in the ways of loyalty. The girl likes to be independent, but still expects a certain level of being cared for (primarily as a result of her age); she is torn between being an adolescent and an adult. Even with her double life and dishonesty, she had friends whom she got along with and, over time, came to care about (presumably Donna and also Tracy).

Hayley will have few qualms with the deaths of people she views as bad, but will experience a lot of anger if good people are killed (as she responded to Donna's death). Once learning that people come back from the dead, she'll probably be more inclined to engage in risky behavior, because there doesn't seem to be much to lose.

Because she's not completely ridiculous, she will attempt to seek out some people in Tu Vishan to watch her back, though she's unlikely to form much in the way of genuine and deep friendships. Hayley will do her best to blend in as a normal teenager in terms of personality, but will also be enormously curious and try to pry into everyone's business for funsies. If she hears about any sort of offending criminal or the like, she'll freely take matters into her own hands. And then reevaluate when they come back from the dead.

Appearance:
A young Ellen Page. Hayley is only slightly short for her age and scrawny at best. She has short brown hair, a flat chest, and wears generally feminine clothing, even in jeans. She will also nearly always be found wearing her black Converse and red jacket.

Abilities:
Let's just say that she's very.. motivated. She has a diverse base of knowledge about things like medicine, forensic science, etc., but nothing beyond what a good college student might know.

Inventory:
Red jacket, converse, jeans, and other clothes and accessories she was wearing. Hayley will also arrive with her messenger bag of tricks, including: a pair of yellow dish gloves, a pair of blue medical gloves, a female razor, shaving cream, a good amount of blue rope (enough to rig something to nearly hang Jeff), her flip phone, a VHS tape featuring cartoons, a couple ziploc bags, a notebook with lots of miscellaneous notes, a couple pens, and a book on medicine). Lastly, she will come with her simple, handheld stun gun.

Suite: Metal Sector, wherever.

In-Character Samples:
Third Person:
Do you want to go to jail? Someone will find me. Soon. They know I'm here. Just untie me and let me go.

Hayley shrugged with a small pout of her lip and a tilt of her head, chipper in her response to his words. The idea of spending time in jail if she was caught wasn't great, but she didn't see how it could be so terrible if it was anything like being grounded. The only thing she worried about was boredom, but if she had a book or her journal, then she wouldn't really need anything else. She would probably even get some visitors. They might even start a website, convinced that a girl her age could never commit the atrocities that she was being accused of.

“I'm not too worried about that. I mean, we might have a few hours, yeah, but really, we could have a few days. I waited until today specifically, because almost everyone left the turtle. They all want to see what the real land is about.. Including – can you believe it? – all of your neighbors. So.. I'm really not worried about anyone finding you.”

“It's clean,” she remarked about the bottle of water she was offering him. Hayley capped the bottle and tossed it back near her bag, holding the cup up by his mouth. Her other hand lifted with two fingers straightened. "Scout's honor."

And, while she waited, expecting him to refuse again, she replied to his comment with a smile. “I'm not untying you, Jonathan, and we're not leaving anytime soon. It's.. okay, well, I know you think we're friends, right? But we're really not and I'd really like to talk to you for awhile and find out exactly what it is that you've been lying about. So I figure we stay here for a few days and then, when you get hungry and thirsty and tired, you'll be more willing to talk.”

She glanced away and then back again. “Oh. Do you.. Did you want me to leave you alone for awhile? I can go look around again if you want some alone time. Or I can stay with you. Just tell me what you want.”

Third Person #2: (because the first didn't offer much mental insight)
Hayley flicked through the updates to the network with the interest of a child picking at his vegetables. People weren't as entertaining as they used to be. Or, maybe, it was just that they had gotten to used to keeping their secrets here. It was hard, making friends, talking, taking it all in stride. As if it didn't bother her when they talked about taking lives 'for the greater good.' There was nestled the inception of an idea in her mind as to how to deal with one of them in particular, but it was a long way off and she knew it. Until then, patience. She was nothing if not diligent.

Bored with the latest updates of Tu Vishan's non-residents, she picked up her coffee and swung around in her chair at the cafe to go find something else to do. Bruce, in particular, seemed to have taken a liking to her. Maybe she could go bother him. Although the science didn't much interest her, she didn't mind learning some of the more basic information and he always had random knowledge to share. Or maybe Tony, who seemed to like her a little less but whose science was much more interesting when she could even begin to understand what he was talking about – admittedly, it wasn't often.

She sighed and took another sip of her coffee when she spotted her doppelganger walking outside in the distance. Hayley almost resented the girl for the resemblance, as if Ariadne was a possibility of what she could grow up to be. She sure as hell hoped her life would be more exciting than architecture and flirting with a guy in a suit, even if he was attractive.

Jumping up from her seat, Hayley took another small sip of her coffee and then left the remainder on the table there for the waiter to clean up. Her eyes barely left the older girl as she took up her bag and made her way outside of the cafe. While she had no plans yet, following Ariadne was as entertaining as anything else.

Network: [VIDEO]
[A young girl appears on screen, tiny but very noticeable with a bright red jacket hanging from her shoulders and stretching out to her wrists.]

Wow. This is.. I've never really been on my own before. This is all pretty new to me.

[Hayley lifts her thumb to scratch idly along her brow, as if giving a thumbs up to the viewer in an awkward way.]

Does anyone have any information or advice? Oh and maybe why I'm here? I get that I was brought here for a reason, but they won't tell me what it is other than something about some emperor and so that doesn't really answer my question, you know?

Anyway, any advice would be mucho appreciated. Especially if someone could, like, teach me how to cook or tell me where to find some other clothes? I mean, I like the ones I'm wearing and I'm a total teenager when it comes to doing laundry, but.. It seems kind of gross to wear the same thing for more than a day or two.

Yeah, I guess that's it. Uh, thanks. If you can help. Or, you know, just for listening.

[She gives a half-smile, and then reaches forward to end the post.]