Megan Bates

*"Irregardless, ex-boyfriends are off-limits to friends. That’s just, like, the rules of feminism." - Megan Bates*

**Megan Bates** is a native of Ashford Falls, New York and a student from Ashford Falls High School. She is the daughter of Jack and Tricia Bates, the daughter of former mayor Lionel Creekmore.

Born in April 1997, Megan was considered a lively, precocious and exuberant child growing up, splitting her time between the family home on Regal Street and her father's lakeside cabin at Winchester Lake. Although she strived to be a role model to her younger sister, Hillary, she developed a materialistic personality and an inflated view of her self-worth due to the influences she made in high school, becoming popular, vain, boy-crazy, short-tempered and somewhat scatter-brained at times. Although she was friends with two girls, Olive Pavel and Janis Irwin, she carried on popularity feuds with Regina Gregory and Libby Roberts, two members of the upper high school clique. She was also often at odds with Marianne Bathory, the daughter of a local Lutheran pastor, who used her exteme religous beliefs to convert classmates from violating her personal beliefs, and intimidated by Penny Burnett, who had persistently antagonized her in grade school and continued to intimidate her through high school. Her extended friends included Katy Herron, Rhiannon Taylor, Mandy Booth and Sabrina Stillman, whose interest in all things paranormal led her classmates to believe she was a witch.

At sixteen years old, Megan began to bond with her aunt, Lisa Creekmore, who had lost her business after a client refused to pay her for an exorbitant gala she had over-funded. Both Lisa and Tricia along with their sister Cathy Creekmore used to have the same strong social partying lifestyle that Megan preferred and hearing about their exploits and legal shenanigans not only helped to form a bond with Lisa but also discover a repressed side of her mother she never knew had existed. Lisa also ended up contributing to some of Megan's bad choices as well as covering up a few of her infractions and interactions with the local police. These incidents, including a wild party of over five hundred kids in the Bates House, both frustrated and annoyed Jack, and he tried several times to throw Lisa of his house. On one occasion, Lisa did move out, but unable to live with her parents, Megan went with her. Unfortunately, Megan's preferred lifestyle started to annoy Lisa, and she took her back home. Lisa soon returned to the Bates Home as well after losing another in a series of jobs.

Despite her hard-partying heavy-shopping lifestyle, Megan essentially did have one positive personality trait. Deep down, she still considered herself her father's favorite daughter. She wasn't promiscuous, but she had a string of boyfriends, such as Jason Cartwright, Richie Tozier, Sal Romero and Aaron Samuels, who eventually started dating Katy. She eventually met Todd Plute, a new student from Baltimore, Maryland. Todd seemed to worship Megan and was willing to go anywhere with her. He was constantly comparing her to an actress named Lucy Hale with whom she was unfamiliar, but she loved the fact that Todd treated her exactly how she wanted to be treated. After a week of dating, Todd gave her a movie prop necklace from one of Hale's movies to wear, but shortly after she started wearing it, Megan started acting agressive to her parents and classmates. At first, these personality shifts were brief and cursory, but eventually, the black-outs started happening when she went to sleep at night. On one night, she terrorized Marianne and put her in the hospital, and on another night, she taunted and almost killed Regina and her friend, Gretchen Williams. On other nights, she sexually tempted her male classmates Harvey Kirkland, Jason Cartwright, Brandon Hodge and Evan Mortimer. During the attacks, Megan remembered nothing of the events, but she still retained some unsconscious link with Brandon and Evan, who both mysteriously disappeared under unknown circumstances along with thre other classmates. Megan was unaware she was behind these nocturnal activities, but the other personality continued to try to assert control over her. Eventually, Todd realized the activities mirrored the events in the movie from which the necklace prop originated and with the help of his protector, Quentin Woods, and Hannah Valesic, an antique dealer, he retook the necklace from her. However, it was Sabrina who actually broke the necklace's spell on her, and Megan regained her true personality afterward.

Although she struggled to explain the previous events, Megan continued with her life. She and Todd dated just a few days later, but their relationship started getting awkward for reasons they couldn't explain and they had a mutual break-up.

Following her high school graduation, Megan took a job at the Ashford Falls Movie House with Janis Irwin and Dameon Edwards, another classmate, but her old high school feuds continued to fester as she once dumped old popcorn on Regina Gregory from a balcony and spit into a drink handed to Marianne Bathory.