Heather McGarden

Heather McGarden is a minor supporting character in North Park and mother of Posie.

## Heather McGarden

### Relatives

Posie (daughter)
Martin McGarden (husband)
Myrtle Vandermark (sister)

## Background

Heather is Posie's doting mother who often worries about her getting into trouble and hanging around bad influences. Growing up in a devotedly religious family, Heather had a lot of pressures on her to perform above average in her day to day life. This has carried over to her daughter, who she places similar expectations on. She has very strong opinions, and will often publicly object to things she finds obscene in town.

## Appearance

Heather is a middle aged woman with long brown hair who is usually seen wearing a lavender long sleeve top and long pleated dress.

## Personality

Heather is much more strict, controlling and puritan in her beliefs compared to her husband, leaving her self repressed. She is very open about her disdain for activities she sees as sinful. Despite her hard exterior, he has a soft side for gardening and all the different kinds of flowers there are. She deeply represses her own desires, as she doesn't have a very active sex life with her husband. She has secret fantasies about having sexual relationships with different people, who are both male and female. Heather believes these thoughts are very sinful so tries her best to "turn it off".

## Family

#### Martin McGarden

Martin McGarden is Heather's husband and their relationship is very wholesome and sweet. They met by love of flowers and similar religion, so the sparks were already in the air. Heather secretly wishes that they could have some more passion in their relationship, which Martin doesn't seem very interested in after they had Posie. Nevertheless, they still love each other dearly.

#### Posie

Posie is Heather's daughter and their relationship is kind of tightknit and professional. she puts pressure on Posie to be the best she can be on everything, entering her into clubs, shows and events as to prove how good of a child she is. Despite her controlling nature, Posie still loves and respects her, which Heather uses as bragging rights to her sister.

#### Lydia

Lydia is Heather's niece and with her being the exact opposite of Posie in behavior, they've both gotten into multiple spats over the times where they visited. Heather despises how unruly and edgy Lydia is and Lydia despises how uptight and cuntish Heather is, never leave them in the same room.

#### Linus

Linus is Heather's nephew and she has the same reservations about him similar to Lydia, but she knows he's just doing it for attention and harmless. Respects him more than Lydia, but not by much.

## Relationships

#### Patricia Hansley

Patricia Hansley is Heather's next door neighbor, however she really wishes she wasn't. Heather heavily disproves of Patricia due to how indecent she's dressed and how openly flirtatious she can be with just about everybody, including herself. One of Heather's greatest fears is that Patricia will be a bad influence on her daughter, as Posie has a positive opinion of her and thinks she's a talented dancer. Patricia also sets off Heather's secret lustful feelings, imagining what it would be like if she was as indecent and flirtatious as her neighbor, and even having her mind sometimes wandering to the idea of the two of them having sex.

#### River Iris

River Iris makes Heather internally seethe with rage and confusion. She tries to ignore the UFO's existence for her own wellbeing.

#### Missy Sheffield

Heather is appalled by how indecent Missy can be, and her open relationship with her husband. She secretly fantasises about the idea of herself being in an open relationship where she can also have easy sex with strangers while still being in a loving relationship with her husband, and the fact Missy gives her those thoughts makes her very angry.

#### Danny and Wendy Thompson

Heather takes the lead in generating widespread animosity towards Danny and Wendy within the town. She goes to great lengths, even orchestrating angry mobs to disrupt the duo during their adventures. On the rare occasions when she's proven wrong about her accusations against them, Danny and Wendy force her to publicly atone through performing apology songs and PSAs, which only serves to intensify her resentment toward them.

Heather has an outlandish belief that Danny is a witch, and he occasionally pretends to read her mind, playfully suggesting she's thinking impure thoughts, which, oddly enough, often happens to be true. This mischievous act further solidifies her conviction that Danny is a devil-worshiping witch, stoking her disdain for him and fueling her conspiracies.

#### Galatea and Alita Capek

her other next door neighbors, their tendency to very publicly display their affection towards each other and habit of wearing the scandalous bikinis they model for their swimsuit modeling job outside their house drive Heather into conniptions, and it's *totally not because they make her feel ways!*

#### Maria Gurlukovich

Unlike the Asimoms, who tend to make Heather freak out accidentally, Maria does it very purposefully. Often nettling the woman into a fever pitch by acting lewd and then leaving her with her brain rebooting by giving her a kiss and running away.

## Powers and abilities

#### Mob justice

Heather has the uncanny ability to start a lynch/hate mob every time whenever she wants to protest an act that offends her.

#### More thirsty than a man in a desert.

Heather is incredibly repressed, leading to her having lots of lewd thoughts that she tries to ignore and massively overreacting to sexual things. Not helped at all by her husband's seemingly greater interest in his flowers than her womanly needs.