Hartley

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**Hartley** is a main character on ***The Villains of Valley View***. She is a regular teenage girl, who befriends the Maddens after figuring out their secret. She lives with her grandmother, who is renting the house next door to the Maddens.
Hartley is portrayed by **Kayden Muller-Janssen.**

## Biography

Not much is known about Hartley's childhood, but she does live with her grandmother. Her parents have yet to be mentioned on the show, but she, along with her grandmother, resides in Valley View, Texas, next to the Maddens.

# Personality

**Hartley** is the friendly next-door neighbor of the Madden family. She is very happy and cheerful, a personality that is diametrically opposed to her best friend Amy. She is often quirky and talkative while also seeing the best in people. Upon learning of the Maddens' real identities, Hartley chooses to give them a chance to change and keeps their super-villain secret to protect them. Despite her strong moral compass and cheerful nature, Hartley can be quite devious when she chooses to be, using this side of her to beat the Maddens when they were attempting to blackmail her into keeping their secret before learning to trust her. She often states her mind before thinking and can act before considering the potential consequences. Hartley is also very brave and just as protective of those she cares about as Amy is, fearlessly taking on Oculon to rescue the Maddens from the villain's escape room trap.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Celia

Celia is Hartley's grandmother, who lives with her.

### Friends

#### Amy

*Main article: Amy and Hartley*
Amy is Hartley's best friend. At first, Amy is very reluctant to become friends with Hartley, due to her lively spirit. When Hartley went to visit Amy at her house, Amy slams the door in her face before Jake lets her in the house. Once inside, Hartley tells Amy that she is an honorary member of the *Sunshine Club*, since they're friends. After an argument about her secret identity, Amy inadvertently causes Jake to send Hartley into another dimension. Amy eventually decides to go into the dimension and save Hartley and when a rock comes hurtling toward them, Amy uses her sonic blast to break the rock into pieces. She realizes what she's done and tries to explain, but Hartley tells her that she knew she looked familiar. Hartley asks Amy how she could betray and lie to her as she thought they were friends, to which Amy tells her that she's a villain and even though she's "Amy" on the outside, she's still Havoc on the inside and she's only ever cared about herself and her family.

#### Jake

Jake is a friend of Hartley's who often protects her from his sister's malicious ways.

### Declan

Hartley had a crush on Declan, they first met in Unleash the Chaos. In No Escape Declan reveals his persona as Oculon, who had secretly seen sent on a mission to reveal the Madden’s Family’s secrets.

## Powers and Abilities

Unamed powers: TBA

**Temporary Powers**
* **Super Speed:** In  **Power Hungry,** Colby used his Transference power to give her the ability to super speed, which she used to sped around to place the decorations for the Sunshine Club.

**Side effect/Weakness :**
* **Mortality/Uncontrollable Speeding:** Due to her not naturally having any powers of her own before taking on Colby's Super Speed power, she was unable to control her speed after having the power for a certain amount of time.

## Trivia

* Starling is her favorite superhero.
	+ She apparently secretly got Starling's number from Jake's phone.
* She is the only "civilian" as yet, that learns of the Maddens' true identities.
* She has shown a proclivity for baking.
* She has attended six consecutive Valley View ColossaCons.
* Hartley attends ColossaCon as Havoc because she claims it was the cheapest outfit available.
* She is a practitioner of some form of yoga.
* She maintains an unkempt room, not dirty, but unorganized.
* Stress from keeping secrets, increases her natural hair loss.
* She double checks the neighborhood garbage to ensure proper recycling is being observed.
* She does not like seeing the dentist and has been known to make up excuses to avoid going.
* It is likely the "incident" (involving the deaths of people next door) occurred before Hartley started living with Celia, as she is too honest not to have mentioned it to the Maddens after meeting them.
* She states Halloween is her favorite holiday.
* Hartley and Gem have had a long rivalry, with Gem generally winning.
* She and Amy formed a singing duo called *Happiness of Death.*
	+ They later renamed themselves as *Mad Hart.*
* She has a crush on Declan but doesn’t know he is using her to find Havoc and her family, until "No Escape".
* Celia gave Hartley a "Troll in a Bowl" doll for Christmas when she was four.
* Hartley lives with her grandmother Celia, although not confirmed, it hints Hartley's parents are possibly deceased.
* She is the only main character whose last name is unknown.
* Her ancestor was royalty and 3rd great uncle invented the turtleneck.
* Starting with the episode Guitar Hero, she started wearing her hair in box braids.