Lydia

Lydia Vandermark is a supporting character in North Park. She is a 4th grade student at North Park Elementary.

## Lydia Vandermark

### Relatives

Myrtle Vandermark (mother)
Ernest Vandermark (father)
Linus (brother)
Posie (Cousin)

## Background

Lydia is North Park Elementary's biggest bully, a gang leader who does everything she can to disrupt social order and mess with the "perfect" system her cousin and rival, Posie has built up. Lydia has a strong hatred of Posie, always being compared to her cousin by her parents growing up caused Lydia to grow resentful of hearing about Posie's successes and popularity. Lydia is a social outcast, her general abrasive punk nature made her intimidating and off-putting to many, and she'd often threaten others to get her way. When Posie moved to North Park, Lydia was made further an outcast from her clashes of personality with her cousin. Posie being the leader of the girls, made sure to not include Lydia in the council, or let her have any say in how things go due to her antagonistic nature. Lydia countered this ostracization by rounding up three other girls she saw to be outcasts, Addison, Penny and Savannah, and formed her own gang of delinquents to terrorise the school and get back at everyone, especially Posie. It is also believed that Lydia was, or might still be in love with one of the other students, but he rejected her, or went out with someone else which broke her heart. This may have contributed to her developing her initial anger issues.

## Appearance

Lydia has long dark red hair parted in the middle, and tied in a high ponytail that spikes up at the back. She has blue lipstick and wears a grey studded jacket over a black top with a red and blue broken heart on it, and red shorts with black stripes on the side. In the past, she wore an eyepatch but no longer wears it as it just made it annoying to look at things without depth perception.

## Personality

Lydia is spiteful, abrasive, cruel, but absolutely confident. She knows she's the bad bitch at school and revels in it. She gladly picks on other students like Melville and Charles, and targets a lot of her meddling towards things she will believe piss off Posie the most. When not being the terror of North Park Elementary, she actually tends to take a laid back approach to life, relaxing in her spare time with her gang members, cracking jokes and listening to music. However she is quick to anger, interrupt or annoy her and expect to suffer the extents of her wrath.

Lydia's family is Mormon, and despite her harsh and rebellious nature, she is actually quite fond of her faith and adheres to it, albeit not entirely in a traditional manner. In her mind, society and it's "rules" be damned, only the world of god matters, and god is a pretty cool fella.

## Family

#### Lydia's Parents

Lydia's parents are a fairly normal couple, who find Lydia's personality to be concerning and at times too much to handle, to the point they often let her do her own thing as trying to stop her from misbehaving is more hassle for them than just letting her do it. When Lydia was younger, they tended to compare Lydia to her cousin further up in the mountains. This served to damage Lydia's relationship with her parents further as she grew resentful of their praise of Posie.

#### Posie

Posie is Lydia's cousin and main rival. After having everything she did and didn't do compared to Posie from a young age, she became increasingly spiteful towards her cousin's successes. After finally meeting Posie when she moved to North Park, Lydia's hatred of her cousin was only strengthened. Lydia now works to unravel and disrupt all social order that Posie tries to impose on the school, regularly butting heads with the leader of the girls. If a plan involves taking Posie down a few pegs, you know that Lydia is going to want to be in on it, and she'll bring the gang as well.

#### Linus

Linus is Lydia's younger brother. Linus keeps trying to prop himself up as some rebel nonconformist like his sister, but no one ever takes him seriously, Lydia included. While she does care about him as a brother and will sometimes bail him out of bad situations he kinds himself in, she doesn't hesitate to push him around and put him in his place when he's being a little shit. She also thinks less of him for denouncing his faith in an attempt to seem more rebellious than her.

## Relationships

#### Addison

Addison is a member of Lydia's gang. Lydia recruited her after seeing how the social order had chewed her up and spit her out, and that she had now grown bitter and resentful of other girls in the school, especially the more popular ones like Posie. Lydia knew she could channel this bitterness into something useful for her, and took Addison under her wing. Addison tends to suck up a lot to Lydia, a fact Lydia is very well aware of but ultimately tolerates. She has limited patience when Addison is constantly complaining about things, but ultimately would look out for her and stick by her side when the going gets tough.

#### Penny

Penny is a member of Lydia's gang. Lydia found her to be a social outcast and target of bulling, so taught Penny how to use her own gross and off-putting nature to become a bully herself, which turned her from the victim of bulling into the perpetrator of bulling. Lydia now uses Penny as the muscle of her gang, a source of easy humiliation for her victims, especially the male ones. Lydia believes that by fostering Penny's new bullying tendencies, she is only strengthening her, because she would never be treated fairly if she tried to play by the rules.

#### Savannah

Savannah is a member of Lydia's gang. Lydia knew she was the poor, rude and disruptive girl who struggled to make friends with her annoying and disrespectful personality. Lydia decided to take her in so she could channel her personality into something she'd fit right in doing, causing mayhem around the school. Savannah is now the quick witted insult machine of the gang, and full of her own confidence and energy that makes her very enthusiastic to participate in Lydia's bulling and schemes.

#### Rulf Brükmalleg

Rulf and Lydia have worked together before in order to get back at Posie as they both dislike her. Lydia however finds Rulf to be an annoying, prideful dork and wanted to push him to the ground the whole time they were working together. She also on the other hand found herself enjoying her time with Rulf, especially when she was teasing and getting angry reactions out of him.

#### Melville

Lydia really hates Melville, almost as much as she hates Posie. He is a very easy targeting for mocking and ridicule, so Lydia will often use him as bulling practice. She also knows Melville gets incredibly embarrassed by being pushed around by a girl, which makes it all the more enjoyable for her.

#### Charles

Lydia has her own racist streak towards Canadians, although the reason for this is unknown. This means she tends to target the awkward and shy Canadian with her bullying.

#### Drew

Despite not being apart of her gang, Lydia doesn't seem to mind the company of Drew. She might invite her to hang around her house on occasion, although she tends to keep out of any conflict she and her gang gets herself into. It may be simply that Drew doesn't really care about the social hierarchy at school, and will just hang out with whoever.

## Powers and abilities

#### Intimidation

Lydia makes use of her intimidation skills to push around and extort other students. She has gained infamy as a bully in North Park Elementary, so most people try to avoid dealing with her as they know it likely won't end well for them.

#### Tough

Lydia is fully capable of holding her own in a fight, being no pushover. If her words don't do enough, she doesn't hesitate to get physical.

#### Kickboxing

Lydia has been practicing kickboxing since she was 5 years old.

## Gallery

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