@yourstrulyy_maddiee I literally never know anymore if stuff is on my message board, I need WP to bring back dms. Same, I literally remember watching PLL for Lucy after the Cinderella film!!
That makes sense, my perspective from Alison and Emily was Alison knew of Emily’s crush and used her to “practice” to have a secret over Emily, with Alison not developing feelings until much later. I think when you’re so young and so full of emotions, things can get conflicting and sometimes you become obsessed so maybe that’s what I would say about Halison. From how I wrote it, Alison was Halle’s first friend. Alison wasn’t always as nasty and mean, but has streaks of it. Halle would learn to go with it and even pick up those things herself, becoming a bully too. It gets worse the year prior to the liars joining them, which then pulls Halle away from Alison because she a) has to protect these girls from Alison and b) they show her real friendship after dealing with Alison for the last year especially. I still love writing their dynamic and loved writing how complex their relationship was in the flashbacks because Halle, too, loved Alison enough to figure out who “killed” her, endangering herself at point to get the truth to honour her friend. As for Shana, you’re totally right! It’s written so that Halle has the least amount of interactions with Shana in fear that Halle would place her, I think at one point Halle even says she looks familiar. Ahhh thank you so much, that’s honestly so sweet of you!!! ❤️❤️❤️