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* ♤ ⧽ — welcome back to gallagher academy, chantal royer! according to their records, they’re a second year, specializing in advanced encryption; and they did not go to a spy prep high school. when i see them walking around in the halls, i usually see a flash of chipped nail polish and a sucker stuck between teeth, waves that can never seem to be contained, the click of keys on a laptop, the feeling you get when you step too close to a fire. when it’s the aries’ birthday on 03/30/1999, they always request their lobster bisque from the school’s chefs. looks like they’re well on their way to graduation.

* ♤ ⧽ — google doc / pinterest / wc .

chan really said i wanna hack into the pentagon just to see if i can

so, sparknotes version of her doc —

- born in sunny los angeles as lana stephens . she had two siblings, her mother was a police detective for the lapd, and her dad was a science teacher . perfectly normal and happy family, until rachel stephens’ work followed her home . she had been investigating a case surrounding an organized crime group in the area, and they caught on . to keep rachel and her partner quiet, they started the house fire that would consume almost all of the stephens family . lana was the only survivor .

- she was eight when this happened, and her brain wasn’t ready to cope with what she had seen . so it just wiped nearly the entire night clean . but she had seen a man outside the house, and was insistent on this fact -- he had looked right at her . but the word of a grieving child wouldn’t hold up in court . the police department believed her, and due to this, they were concerned for her safety if she were to stay in la . so the u.s. marshal got involved and put her into witness protection, which is when her mother’s sister melanie, who was living in paris at the time, agreed to take her in . lana’s name was changed to chantal royer, her appearance was modified, and, for all intents and purposes, she was now melanie’s daughter .

- after it’s decided that the case holds no ground and is thrown out before getting far in court, chan’s no longer technically under the protection of the u.s. marshal . they helped her establish the new identity and comped her plane ticket, but otherwise they’ve washed their hands of all direct involvement of her well - being . such is the nature of the american government . however, if the case were to be reopened and they find more evidence against the group, then she could be called back to testify at any time and would be reinstated under witness protection . yadda yadda yadda .

- spent eight years in france before moving back to the u.s. to finish high school . graduated from a new rochelle public school where she picked up an interest in computers, started attending nyu just after . she was the poster child of ~directionless youth~ during the time she met a girl named mal . mal took chan under her wing and, just maybe, she found herself falling for this girl . mal proceeds to introduce chan to her boyfriend, and the two of them then lead to her involvement with their local hacktivism group . as you can guess, this ends p badly . whoops !

- so they get caught trying to expose corruption within the city government and nypd . chan gets slammed with allegations of hacking into classified state personnel files ( which........she did, but she wasn’t gonna say so ), and was threatened jail time . howeveeeer her involvement in this caught the attention of someone with ties to gallagher, who managed to get her an alternative choice . avoid having a record, and go to gallagher academy . safe to say she chose gallagher .

- she gets to the campus, has a chip on her shoulder for a sec before mellowing out and finding that she loves the curriculum . flies through her first year advanced encryption classes and her curiosity is fully sparked by everything the school has to offer . why go to nyu and study bullshit when she can actually be taught something useful with her skills ?

misc --

- aries poster child . act first think later . when she applies herself to something she’s so ? determined ? VERY straightforward . impulsive but also the first to turn around and call someone out for making a brash mistake . . . dumbass

- oui oui baguette

- buy my silence permanently . for $8000 a month i will stop

- bisexual but like . at what cost ? prefers all women and attracted exclusively to men that are fuckin idiots

- her aunt is still vibing in new york, doing fashion stuff, and is who chan goes home to on breaks . their neighbor’s a new rochelle police officer and chan’s an ABSOLUTE pain in his ass, nancy drew style .

- can blend in somewhere just as easily as she can ensure she sticks out .

- childhood trauma out the wazoo but at least at gallagher it’s not fuckin weird

- her existence just . . . radiates the aesthetic of an 80s or 90s film

- long winded pop culture debates take up half of her brain

- i’m just here for a laff xx

- she just likes . knowing things . she’s not a gossip and she stays in her lane but she be knowing

- she can’t fight for shit but she’s working on it

- kinda morally ambiguous ? like she’s good at heart and has a propensity for goodness but also ? if given the right opportunity she would DEFINITELY take herself off the grid to do whatever she wanted w the skills she’s picking up at gallagher . could easily end up fulfilling the ‘ hacker in a heist film ’ trope . she won’t bc she’s ultimately prepared to Do Good as seen by her having a penchant for hacktivism but . . . she rlly could

- character influences : nancy drew, birkoff ( nikita ), alec hardison ( leverage ), amy bendix ( punisher......shocker ), mike ross ( suits ), ginny weasley, a touch ? of jesper fahey and nina zenik ( six of crows ) .

- this is really all i’ve got rn just know i love her and i’ve been conceptualizing her for over a week now