[ her parents immigrated while her mother was pregnant, and apparently after a whole lot of hustle and bustle in the air force, all herc hansen wants to do is build his wife a chicken coup, a tree house for his kid, and a couple single flyer planes for himself. angela gets her coup, herc gets a rented unit on the nearby airstrip full of working glider planes and a shed full of small remote control models, and chuck gets a tree house that she and jazmine becket practically live in the first summer that raleigh and yancy decide boys and girls need to play different games. they play (decapitate) barbie dolls, and play with their mothers' pearls and lipstick. later in life they make snow angels and christmas cookies in their family kitchens, and play dates evolve into hanging out, and they study together and carpool and chuck tries to drag jazmine into the soccer scene, but the other girl is more of an observer so they settle for her just coming to all of chuck's matches. it's a pretty good friendship, albeit tested when her mother dies when chuck's ten, and she does a complete personality 180.
it's been a couple years since that; there's no species war to distract her father, and his hefty military pension means he can take the summer off and they can go back to australia after the funeral, and all in all, chuck hansen is a lot more well adjusted than she would be if she'd climbed into a robot and gone to war.
jazmine has two older brothers that used to be nice. now they're not mean, but they're very detached and uninvolved with their sister's life, and by proxy, their neighbors, but that's fine. chuck's an only child anyway, and wasn't expecting anything too special from befriending them or worming her way into their family. but it also means she doesn't have much context for the way raleigh becket is staring at her right now (which she catches over the top of a postcard) and can't tell if he'd mean mugging, or if she's got something on her face. they're about fifteen feet apart, so she reasons she has to talk loudly. but it still comes out a little louder and more defensive than she means to. ]
wait oh my goodness this makes her A M E R I C A N :3
it's been a couple years since that; there's no species war to distract her father, and his hefty military pension means he can take the summer off and they can go back to australia after the funeral, and all in all, chuck hansen is a lot more well adjusted than she would be if she'd climbed into a robot and gone to war.
jazmine has two older brothers that used to be nice. now they're not mean, but they're very detached and uninvolved with their sister's life, and by proxy, their neighbors, but that's fine. chuck's an only child anyway, and wasn't expecting anything too special from befriending them or worming her way into their family. but it also means she doesn't have much context for the way raleigh becket is staring at her right now (which she catches over the top of a postcard) and can't tell if he'd mean mugging, or if she's got something on her face. they're about fifteen feet apart, so she reasons she has to talk loudly. but it still comes out a little louder and more defensive than she means to. ]
What?