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A GHOST AND HER LOVE LIFE
aka a very messy and badly written essay on how everything is terrible forever and also SPOILERS
So I will start this off by saying that Annie has zero luck with love. Nothing. Nada. Zip. I mean, this seriously dives below just being unlucky and enters HOLY CRAP STOP BEING IN RELATIONSHIPS territory. Let's start off with a quick summary of her (known) relationships with people!
• Her very first boyfriend! While she was sleeping, this boyfriend took naked pictures of her and posted them on the internet.
• Her second boyfriend! He asked to have a threesome with her mother.
• Owen, her third boyfriend, as well as her fiancé. He was angry that she owned a thong, so he murdered her by pushing her down the stairs. ALL FOR A THONG. He then covered up the murder by saying she fell, and then quickly started a relationship with another woman (that Annie didn't like). When Owen found out that she was still around as a ghost, he then began to constantly torment her and was basically a giant dick. After Annie tells his new girlfriend that he murdered her, Owen basically goes NOPE YOU IMAGINED IT, ANNIE WASN'T IMPORTANT AND NEVER WILL BE, COME HERE LET ME MAKE OUT WITH YOU THERE IS CLEARLY NO DEAD PEOPLE WATCHING US NOM NOM. So, yes, very stressful!
• Lee, aka the werewolf who turned George into a werewolf. Annie had a MASSIVE crush on him (this was before they knew he was the... werewolf that bit George) and it was very obvious! And he seemed sweet and romantic and perfect except then he would say Very Uncomfortable things. Like asking Annie if she would be able to feel him having sex with her, etc. and he tried forcing himself on her. BUT LOL GHOST.
• Saul, a guy she met a the pub she temporarily worked at! He was also very charming and nice and stuff. Except he was a bit of a jerk, and he ends up trying to force himself on her too.
• Mitchell. Pretty much love of her life, prince charming, etc. Everything should be perfect. Only at the point where they start a relationship, he is heavily paranoid and sort of. Going crazy with the fear of his friends knowing that he murdered a bunch of people.
A note: The last two happened after the point I took her from! Anyway, there are other guys like Gilbert and Bowser. Who were both, hilariously, really nice guys! But she didn't return either of their feelings.
So, as we can see, things are awful. She is easily swayed by charmers. Smile at her, share a joke or two, give her compliments-- she will fall for it and you very hard. She wants love. She wants the family with two kids and a dog, and a white picket fence, and all of that. She wants a loving husband that she can cook for, and kiss him good night, and be with forever and ever and ever. So when a guy gives her attention, she automatically goes into MARRIAGE MATERIAL mode. It even stretches beyond romance; a ghost asks her to babysit her kid, and Annie gets so attached to the baby that she attempts to kidnap him. Because she wanted a family.
It's also probably why she didn't have romantic feelings toward Gilbert or Bowser. They were both awkward, and didn't know how to ~*~woo~*~ her. She had no idea either of them liked her until Gilbert confessed, and she had to be told about Bowser's feelings, and even then she was like LOL NO HE DOESN'T. You have to be straightforward with her, make it obvious that you're interested, or else she won't know until it's too late. It even applies to Mitchell; she had no romantic interest in him until after he brought he back from purgatory. When he did that, he suddenly became this big brave hero to her. There was probably the inklings of a crush before that, but it was never really brought out enough to go from "Oh, my friend is really cute and kissed me accidentally before kyaaa" to "YOU ARE MY SOULMATE" and stuff.
And it is very obvious what the problem with this mindset is. Anyone can pretend to be a dashing young gentleman, but really be a huge douchebag. But when she falls for someone, she falls hard, and she tends to overlook the warning signs. With Lee, she awkwardly laughed off his first few crude comments as jokes. With Saul, she didn't notice how terribly he treated Bowser. Then there's Owen and Mitchell. She doted on Owen. All of her days were complete because she had Owen. As a ghost, she cooked Owen food and brought it to his house because she missed taking care of him. She would make herself some tea, make him breakfast, and then just. Watch him eat and be happy and SHE WAS SO IN LOVE. But he must have exploded at her before. He was controlling, but she was okay with it, because she loved him. And then, Mitchell. I honestly think that if they started dating in an earlier season, that they really could have gotten a happy ending! The happiest of endings! But, no, they started dating after he went on a murder spree and started believing that everyone ever is out to kill him. He even breaks up with her at some point, claiming that he was just in love with the idea of saving her, and not her. But then he goes JK I WAS ANGRY LET ME LOVE YOU and they patched things up. But even if they are soulmates as Annie put it, it's. Really not that healthy!
McNair: You know what I don't understand? Is what a clean and kind girl like you is doing with a vampire.
Annie: How did you know?!
McNair: I see things. Live the life we do, pays to know who's safe and who's a threat.
Annie: Look. My first boyfriend took naked photos of me while I was asleep and put them on the internet. My second boyfriend got drunk and asked my mum for a threesome. My third boyfriend pushed me down the stairs and killed me. So I think a vampire's pretty much... marriage material, given my track record.
That is terrible reasoning in action, folks. Yes, Mitchell was much better than the others, but it was still an abusive relationship in the end. I mean, all of her relationships were abusive! It's downright sad that the healthiest one, as she put it, was with a man attempted to murder two (or three, I guess) people in their house in a span of two episodes. And again, there's the fact that all these feelings for him came to be because she saw him as this amazing knight in shining armor who rescued her from the afterlife. With relationships (both romantic and not) where one person builds the other to be this fantastic hero, they tend to. Ignore their faults, or at least, easily forgive them. Which we already saw happen with Owen!
Could she have a normal relationship? Before she died, probably, but as a ghost? Doubtful. I believe she could have a relatively happy one, but not normal. Even without the Camp rules, she can't have sex, and apparently people don't feel much when she kisses them. So if the person wants anything more than just cuddling, they're out of luck! Then there's also the other bucket load of drama that comes attached with being dead, and basically, everything is awful.
aka a very messy and badly written essay on how everything is terrible forever and also SPOILERS
So I will start this off by saying that Annie has zero luck with love. Nothing. Nada. Zip. I mean, this seriously dives below just being unlucky and enters HOLY CRAP STOP BEING IN RELATIONSHIPS territory. Let's start off with a quick summary of her (known) relationships with people!
• Her very first boyfriend! While she was sleeping, this boyfriend took naked pictures of her and posted them on the internet.
• Her second boyfriend! He asked to have a threesome with her mother.
• Owen, her third boyfriend, as well as her fiancé. He was angry that she owned a thong, so he murdered her by pushing her down the stairs. ALL FOR A THONG. He then covered up the murder by saying she fell, and then quickly started a relationship with another woman (that Annie didn't like). When Owen found out that she was still around as a ghost, he then began to constantly torment her and was basically a giant dick. After Annie tells his new girlfriend that he murdered her, Owen basically goes NOPE YOU IMAGINED IT, ANNIE WASN'T IMPORTANT AND NEVER WILL BE, COME HERE LET ME MAKE OUT WITH YOU THERE IS CLEARLY NO DEAD PEOPLE WATCHING US NOM NOM. So, yes, very stressful!
• Lee, aka the werewolf who turned George into a werewolf. Annie had a MASSIVE crush on him (this was before they knew he was the... werewolf that bit George) and it was very obvious! And he seemed sweet and romantic and perfect except then he would say Very Uncomfortable things. Like asking Annie if she would be able to feel him having sex with her, etc. and he tried forcing himself on her. BUT LOL GHOST.
• Saul, a guy she met a the pub she temporarily worked at! He was also very charming and nice and stuff. Except he was a bit of a jerk, and he ends up trying to force himself on her too.
• Mitchell. Pretty much love of her life, prince charming, etc. Everything should be perfect. Only at the point where they start a relationship, he is heavily paranoid and sort of. Going crazy with the fear of his friends knowing that he murdered a bunch of people.
A note: The last two happened after the point I took her from! Anyway, there are other guys like Gilbert and Bowser. Who were both, hilariously, really nice guys! But she didn't return either of their feelings.
So, as we can see, things are awful. She is easily swayed by charmers. Smile at her, share a joke or two, give her compliments-- she will fall for it and you very hard. She wants love. She wants the family with two kids and a dog, and a white picket fence, and all of that. She wants a loving husband that she can cook for, and kiss him good night, and be with forever and ever and ever. So when a guy gives her attention, she automatically goes into MARRIAGE MATERIAL mode. It even stretches beyond romance; a ghost asks her to babysit her kid, and Annie gets so attached to the baby that she attempts to kidnap him. Because she wanted a family.
It's also probably why she didn't have romantic feelings toward Gilbert or Bowser. They were both awkward, and didn't know how to ~*~woo~*~ her. She had no idea either of them liked her until Gilbert confessed, and she had to be told about Bowser's feelings, and even then she was like LOL NO HE DOESN'T. You have to be straightforward with her, make it obvious that you're interested, or else she won't know until it's too late. It even applies to Mitchell; she had no romantic interest in him until after he brought he back from purgatory. When he did that, he suddenly became this big brave hero to her. There was probably the inklings of a crush before that, but it was never really brought out enough to go from "Oh, my friend is really cute and kissed me accidentally before kyaaa" to "YOU ARE MY SOULMATE" and stuff.
And it is very obvious what the problem with this mindset is. Anyone can pretend to be a dashing young gentleman, but really be a huge douchebag. But when she falls for someone, she falls hard, and she tends to overlook the warning signs. With Lee, she awkwardly laughed off his first few crude comments as jokes. With Saul, she didn't notice how terribly he treated Bowser. Then there's Owen and Mitchell. She doted on Owen. All of her days were complete because she had Owen. As a ghost, she cooked Owen food and brought it to his house because she missed taking care of him. She would make herself some tea, make him breakfast, and then just. Watch him eat and be happy and SHE WAS SO IN LOVE. But he must have exploded at her before. He was controlling, but she was okay with it, because she loved him. And then, Mitchell. I honestly think that if they started dating in an earlier season, that they really could have gotten a happy ending! The happiest of endings! But, no, they started dating after he went on a murder spree and started believing that everyone ever is out to kill him. He even breaks up with her at some point, claiming that he was just in love with the idea of saving her, and not her. But then he goes JK I WAS ANGRY LET ME LOVE YOU and they patched things up. But even if they are soulmates as Annie put it, it's. Really not that healthy!
McNair: You know what I don't understand? Is what a clean and kind girl like you is doing with a vampire.
Annie: How did you know?!
McNair: I see things. Live the life we do, pays to know who's safe and who's a threat.
Annie: Look. My first boyfriend took naked photos of me while I was asleep and put them on the internet. My second boyfriend got drunk and asked my mum for a threesome. My third boyfriend pushed me down the stairs and killed me. So I think a vampire's pretty much... marriage material, given my track record.
That is terrible reasoning in action, folks. Yes, Mitchell was much better than the others, but it was still an abusive relationship in the end. I mean, all of her relationships were abusive! It's downright sad that the healthiest one, as she put it, was with a man attempted to murder two (or three, I guess) people in their house in a span of two episodes. And again, there's the fact that all these feelings for him came to be because she saw him as this amazing knight in shining armor who rescued her from the afterlife. With relationships (both romantic and not) where one person builds the other to be this fantastic hero, they tend to. Ignore their faults, or at least, easily forgive them. Which we already saw happen with Owen!
Could she have a normal relationship? Before she died, probably, but as a ghost? Doubtful. I believe she could have a relatively happy one, but not normal. Even without the Camp rules, she can't have sex, and apparently people don't feel much when she kisses them. So if the person wants anything more than just cuddling, they're out of luck! Then there's also the other bucket load of drama that comes attached with being dead, and basically, everything is awful.