facts, canonical or otherwise.
[Madeline]
• Madeline Grace Costley.
• Perfectly, entirely comfortable with herself.
• Though when she did have a sense of humor, it was mostly at her own expense.
• Actually very structured in life.
• Though very prone to desperation.
• The pregnancy had been unplanned; she knew who the father was, but never told him.
• Only 22 when Katie was born.
• Never married and rarely dated after Katie.
• Katie, who’d been Katherine Maura on the papers, was a ginger like her father, but Madeline through and through in every other way.
• An architect.
• Took time off starting when Katie got sick; it turned into an extended leave of absence, and then into just quitting for a while.
• Not an L.A. native, though San Francisco wasn’t too far away.
• Had moved to L.A. to be close to Katie in hospital and couldn’t stand to leave.
• The Dollhouse was supposed to be the big fix, the convenient deus ex machina.
• And for a little while, it was.
[November]
• The second November through the house.
• (And by D.C., the third Hestia.)
• Bluest eyes in the house, ever.
• Also one of the curviest Dolls.
• Liked art class best, or as best as she could.
• And was happiest at meals if there was something fruit-like.
• Usually chose swimming over yoga.
• Often had repeat engagements.
o Ginny Chevalier was a computer genius and (mature) socialite.
o Beth Walker was a lawyer and comic book fetishist.
o Jenny Starr was a British neo-hippie.
• And then there was Mellie.
[Mellie]
• Melanie “Mellie” Sophia Jameson.
• Yes, named for Gone With The Wind.
• Opted for the nickname to avoid that 80’s valley girl feeling.
• Always appreciated the irony of being, like her namesake, “that one,” the sorta pretty, amiable one, the other one always.
• Should really just have gotten a cat or something.
• Knew stress baking was such a chubby girl cliché, but couldn’t help herself.
• After so long in L.A., did see herself in that way.
• Graduated UCLA in 2001, a degree in history.
• Was the gosh darn most historically knowledgeable secretary ever.
• Got her current apartment and sort of aimless lifestyle when she came into money after her father’s death.
• Was sort of glad to have so much time to devote to her neighbor. In a not creepy way, she swears.
• Had a habit of dating assholes, largely born of her own self-loathing.
• In addition to body image issues, always felt uninteresting and unadventurous.
• Probably should have seen a therapist.
• Had honestly considered suicide, usually over a man, but never had the nerve to go through with it.
• Madeline Grace Costley.
• Perfectly, entirely comfortable with herself.
• Though when she did have a sense of humor, it was mostly at her own expense.
• Actually very structured in life.
• Though very prone to desperation.
• The pregnancy had been unplanned; she knew who the father was, but never told him.
• Only 22 when Katie was born.
• Never married and rarely dated after Katie.
• Katie, who’d been Katherine Maura on the papers, was a ginger like her father, but Madeline through and through in every other way.
• An architect.
• Took time off starting when Katie got sick; it turned into an extended leave of absence, and then into just quitting for a while.
• Not an L.A. native, though San Francisco wasn’t too far away.
• Had moved to L.A. to be close to Katie in hospital and couldn’t stand to leave.
• The Dollhouse was supposed to be the big fix, the convenient deus ex machina.
• And for a little while, it was.
[November]
• The second November through the house.
• (And by D.C., the third Hestia.)
• Bluest eyes in the house, ever.
• Also one of the curviest Dolls.
• Liked art class best, or as best as she could.
• And was happiest at meals if there was something fruit-like.
• Usually chose swimming over yoga.
• Often had repeat engagements.
o Ginny Chevalier was a computer genius and (mature) socialite.
o Beth Walker was a lawyer and comic book fetishist.
o Jenny Starr was a British neo-hippie.
• And then there was Mellie.
[Mellie]
• Melanie “Mellie” Sophia Jameson.
• Yes, named for Gone With The Wind.
• Opted for the nickname to avoid that 80’s valley girl feeling.
• Always appreciated the irony of being, like her namesake, “that one,” the sorta pretty, amiable one, the other one always.
• Should really just have gotten a cat or something.
• Knew stress baking was such a chubby girl cliché, but couldn’t help herself.
• After so long in L.A., did see herself in that way.
• Graduated UCLA in 2001, a degree in history.
• Was the gosh darn most historically knowledgeable secretary ever.
• Got her current apartment and sort of aimless lifestyle when she came into money after her father’s death.
• Was sort of glad to have so much time to devote to her neighbor. In a not creepy way, she swears.
• Had a habit of dating assholes, largely born of her own self-loathing.
• In addition to body image issues, always felt uninteresting and unadventurous.
• Probably should have seen a therapist.
• Had honestly considered suicide, usually over a man, but never had the nerve to go through with it.