Veronica Sawyer

"***Dear diary, my teenage angst bullshit now has a body count.***"

**Veronica Sawyer** is the main character of *Heathers the Musical*. She is a senior at Westerburg High School and is the best friend of Martha Dunnstock and Heather McNamara.

## History

Veronica Sawyer has been friends with Martha Dunnstock since they were little kids. She is described by Kurt and Ram as "geeky and nerdy" and by H. Chandler as "a greasy little nobody".

Before joining the Heathers, Veronica had hopes of attending Harvard, Duke, or Brown Universities, and to visit Paris.

She sees the good in people and wishes they could return to the kind, happy days of kindergarten.

She likes reading, writing in her diary, playing croquet, and watching movies with Martha, and is skilled at forgery.

## Plot

### Act One

Veronica attends Westerburg High School and laments over the bullying and hatred that goes on there. She is in the girl's bathroom while the Heathers are stopped by Ms. Fleming and given detention for skipping class. She forges an hall pass and gives it to the teacher; Ms. Fleming thinks it's legitimate and leaves them alone. Heather Chandler takes the note from her and notes how accurate of a forgery it is. Veronica then convinces them to let her sit at their table at lunch to get more popular. They agree and she successfully gains the approval of her classmates for becoming a Heather (Beautiful).

3 weeks later, when Chandler learns of Martha Dunnstock's crush on Ram Sweeney, she tells Veronica to forge a love letter/part invitation from Ram and give it to Martha. When Veronica refuses, she threatens to drop her from the inner circle (Candy Store). Veronica complies and gives the fake letter to Martha. She notices another student criticizing her for what she did, but she ignores him. He introduces himself as Jason Dean (or JD).

Later, Ram and Kurt Kelly antagonize JD, causing them to get in a fight. As Veronica watches it, she develops a crush on JD (Fight for Me).

After school, Veronica and the Heathers play croquet. Chandler teases Veronica for her crush.

The Heathers are going to a party and Veronica is dropped off at the gas station to get corn nuts for Heather Chandler. Inside she spots JD again. He offers Veronica a slushie. He introduces himself more formally and reveals more to her about his life and how he constantly moves across the country because of his father's job (Freeze Your Brain). Heather comes inside and tells her to hurry, so she leaves.

At the party, Veronica is trying new drinks & drugs. Ram Sweeney is acting inappropriately with Heather Duke and Veronica stops him. Duke tells her she didn't need her help, and Veronica insults her bulimia disorder. Martha arrives and Veronica seems excited for her but a bit apprehensive about the fake note. The kids at the party dress the paper-mache pig up like Martha and try to get her to hit it. Veronica tries to tear the pig away from Heather Duke and drops it in Ram's pool. Then Veronica tells Martha to leave the party (Big Fun).

Chandler is furious and tells Veronica she's out of the circle. Veronica then responds by vomiting on her shoes.

Veronica leaves the party. She decides that, with her last 30 hours, to break into JD’s house. They then sleep together (Dead Girl Walking).

Veronica has a nightmare afterwards in which Chandler (dressed similar to the Devil) tells her how she'll tell everyone at school how Veronica slept with JD and how she's a "slut." (Veronica's Chandler Nightmare)

In the morning, JD and Veronica go to Chandler's house to apologize. She commands them to make her a hangover cure. JD comes up with the idea of giving Chandler a cup of orange juice with milk, but secretly puts drain cleaner in it, killing Chandler. Veronica is horrified and JD convinces her to write a fake suicide note so they won't be charged for the murder. The version of Chandler that they created is received well by the students of Westerberg and she becomes more worshipped in death than she was in life (The Me Inside of Me).

Later, JD and Veronica are watching Duke on television. Veronica tells him to switch it off. She meets JD's father. Afterwards, Heather McNamara calls her and tells her it's an emergency and to come to the cemetery. Veronica arrives. Duke and McNamara are on a date with Ram and Kurt, and the two jocks are trying to have their way with the Heathers. Duke locks Veronica out of the car and Ram and Kurt try to get Veronica to sleep with them. Veronica manages to get away (Blue, in the Off-Broadway production, and You're Welcome in all other productions).

She is embarrassed about what happened and the ghost of Chandler visits her. At school, Duke and McNamara are cleaning out Chandler's locker, and Chandler's ghost is irritating Veronica. She tells Chandler to shut up, and Duke thinks she's telling that to her. She gets the coveted red scrunchie and deems herself the new lead Heather. (Never Shut Up Again)

Kurt and Ram tell everybody that Veronica did sleep with them, and she is humiliated. (Blue (Reprise)) She runs to JD for comfort, and he tries to fight the jocks, ending up losing. He tells her that they'll get revenge on Ram and Kurt.

Later that night, Veronica calls Kurt and Ram and tells them to meet her in the cemetery at dawn. They write a suicide note that details the two's alleged gay love affair and how they had to commit suicide so they could be together. JD tells Veronica they'll use fake bullets to shoot them and that the bullets will wear off in the morning.

At dawn, the plan goes into action. JD shoots Ram and Veronica misses Kurt. Veronica realizes that Ram is dead and she tells JD to wait, but he's already killed Kurt. JD tells Veronica that they are doing good work and they won't stop until they've killed every student at Westerburg (Our Love is God).

## Relationships

### *Family*

* Mr. Sawyer
* Mrs. Sawyer

### *Friends*

* Martha Dunnstock
* Heather McNamara
* Heather Chandler (Former)
* Heather Duke

## Musical Numbers

### Original Off-Broadway Musical Numbers

* "Fight for Me" – *Veronica & Students*
* "Big Fun" – *Ram, Kurt, Veronica, H. Chandler, H. McNamara, H. Duke, & Students*
* "Dead Girl Walking" – *Veronica & J.D.*
* "Veronica's Chandler Nightmare" † – *H. Chandler & Company*
* "The Me Inside of Me" – *H. Chandler, Veronica, J.D., Cops, Ms. Fleming & Company*
* "Our Love Is God" – *J.D., Veronica, Ram, Kurt, & Company*
* "Seventeen" – *Veronica & J.D.*
* "Dead Girl Walking (Reprise)" – *Veronica, J.D., Ms. Fleming, & Students*
* "I Am Damaged" – *J.D. & Veronica*
* "Seventeen (reprise)" – *Veronica, Martha, H. McNamara, & Company*

### Originals West End Musical Numbers

* "Fight for Me" – *Veronica & Company*
* "Big Fun" – *Ram, Kurt, Veronica, H. Chandler, H. McNamara, H. Duke & Company*
* "Dead Girl Walking" – *Veronica & J.D.*
* "Veronica's Chandler Nightmare" † – *H. Chandler & Company*
* "The Me Inside of Me" – *Veronica, H. Chandler, Cops, Principal, Coach, Ms. Fleming, & Company*
* "You're Welcome" – *Ram, Kurt, & Veronica*
* "Our Love Is God" – *J.D., Veronica & Kurt*
* "Seventeen" – *Veronica & J.D.*
* “I Say No” † – *Veronica*
* "Dead Girl Walking (reprise)" – *Veronica, J.D., Ms. Fleming, & Company*
* "I Am Damaged" – *J.D. & Veronica*
* "Seventeen (reprise)" – *Veronica, Martha, H. McNamara, & Company*

## Trivia

* The musical shows how Veronica got in with the Heathers while in the movie she was already friends with them.
* Barret Wilbert Weed played Veronica Sawyer in the OG Off-Broadway cast.
* Barrett portrayed her for LA and first half of Off-Broadway in 2014. Charissa Hogeland was her understudy, but took over as the lead for Veronica on July 8th, 2014 after Barrett abruptly left the role.
* Veronica has been confirmed to be canonically bisexual.