Jackie Dupont

The eldest of the two Dupont sisters, Jackie is known to be incredibly intelligent and is a known member of the Westbrook wrestling team.

## Backstory

Jacqueline Marie Dupont was born in Amiens, France on April 12, 2002. Jackie was the first child born to her parents, a stiff stay-at-home mother named Margot-Marie and a French soldier Eric.

Growing up, Jackie was incredibly independent. She took great pride in helping out around the house and spent a great deal of time looking after her younger sister, Isabelle. When not helping out around the house, Jackie spent a lot of time working at her studies, hanging out with her father, or studying martial arts. Jackie began studying taekwondo when she was six and would eventually move on to practice kick boxing, muay thai, and traditional wrestling.

Being in a military meant that the Dupont family moved around a lot. This proved to be rather hard on Jackie since she struggled to create meaningful relationships outside of her immediate family. Over the course of her life from her birth to when she was freshly turned sixteen, the Dupont family moved eleven times to different parts of France with a singular stay of six months in England when Jackie was seven. Jackie felt alone a lot in her childhood, instead turning to martial arts and her academics for comfort. It was during this time that the bond between Jackie and Bella grew a lot into what it is today.

Just after Jackie turned sixteen, her life was turned upside down. While on a deployment to Iraq, her father was killed. Their convoy was attacked and Eric Dupont was found shot dead when help arrived. His death hurt Jackie to no end and only put more tension on the strained relationship she shared with her mother.

They were given six months and some money to get their lives back in order before they were to be kicked off of the base they were living in. Money was tight with two teenage girls and a newly alcoholic mother in the house. Their father had always cared for them financially and their mother hadn't worked in a long while. The Duponts moved into a rough part of town just outside Paris. Her mother got a job at a local corner store and Jackie spent her spare time tutoring kids to help keep income in the house.

Jackie and her family only lived there for a short while until the September after Jackie's seventeenth birthday. Funds ran dry and the only alternative was to move to Westbrook in with her maternal grandmother.

## Season 2

Jackie began the school year angry. She had been close to graduating in France and she missed her home country. Although she had been taught English by her American born mother as a child, brushing up her English during their short stint in England, moving to the USA was a culture shock. More importantly, Jackie was concerned about Bella falling into trouble again as she had before they moved. Her relationship with her mother had only become more strained as Bella continued to turn to her older sister for help over their mother.

On the first Friday after the sisters had begun school, Jackie found herself being roped into staying after school so that Bella could go to a cheer tryout and still get a ride home. Reluctantly, Jackie found herself on the bleachers with juniors Brayden and Morgan. What had been a calm study session for Jackie quickly turned to chaos. A fight broke out on the field between Stu and Ash, though Jackie was not sure over what. The next thing she knew, a crowd had formed and Stu had been punched in the face. Jackie went to make sure he was okay and was not surprised when he refused her help, though she felt okay leaving him once Audra arrived.

Jackie went to let Mason, Stu's friend, know that the younger boy was okay and walked into yet another disaster. Mason and Noah, who had been playing a game with Tom, got into a fight that resulted in Mason falling butt first onto Noah's leg, effectively snapping it and causing a compound fracture. Jackie took over again, keeping Noah calm and direction the two other boys to call an ambulance. After the ambulance arrived, Jackie ended up going with Noah, Mason, and Tom to the hospital.

When Jackie arrived home that evening, a fight broke out between her and her mother. Bella had explained the fight and the broken leg situation and their mother had not taken it well. Margot-Marie blamed Jackie for keeping Bella late, for getting involved in fights, for getting into trouble within their first week of being in school. Despite Jackie's explanations, they were useless and the fight ended with her mother saying that she was a disgrace and that her father would be ashamed of her. Jackie had had enough, packed up her stuff, and took the car that she had bought with money she had saved up from years of tutoring and left.

The Fall Festival rolled around and although Jackie really hadn't had a desire to go, she decided to on a whim. She watched the homecoming court get announced before wandering through the fair, stopping at a booth advertising the wrestling team. Wanting something to do with her spare time besides sit in her car by herself and to reignite her passion for martial arts, Jackie decided to ask if she could join. It was there that she met Greyson who had been running the booth. He made an attempt to get her to sign up with the promise of free cotton candy. Jackie didn't need the incentive and joined, though Greyson ended up getting her cotton candy anyways. The two stood under an umbrella to shelter them from the rain that had begun and chatted until the cotton candy was finished and Jackie had to leave.