
a private writing blog for sidney prescott of the scream franchise. established november 2016. written by selena. inbox: 000 / drafts: 000 #SERIALFAME
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Sidney Was Incredibly Close With Maureen.
sidney was incredibly close with maureen.
since neil’s job places him on business trips semi-frequently, going as far as across the country or even out of the states, and presumably generates a lot of income, maureen was a stay-at-home mom, deciding to devote her time to raising sidney and taking care of the house. as such, sidney’s spent a lot of time with maureen over the years; sitting in the kitchen and doing homework while she cooks dinner, going out to dinner and a movie on friday nights as a kid, spending saturday tending to the plants, going on bike rides, or curling up on the couch with a pizza, a bowl of popcorn, and some old hollywood movies for the night.
in a way, maureen was sidney’s first friend—while sidney always saw maureen as her mother and never just a friend, she was always comfortable going to maureen for advice, or if she just needed to vent about one thing or another. if sidney expressed interest in something, maureen was always supportive, enrolling sidney in dance classes at when she was six years old because sidney had expressed interest in learning.
as such, maureen’s death was nothing short of devastating to sidney. her mother was a perfectly kind and lovely person, in her eyes—she couldn’t fathom why anyone would want to hurt her in such a way, and being the person to discover maureen’s body so soon after she had been killed positively shook sidney to her core. she became more reserved, and she dropped a lot of her hobbies and activities. the one thing she continued to stick with was theater; it provided a safe space where she wasn’t limited to the role of LOCAL SLAIN WOMAN’S DAUGHTER; she could explore her emotions and her trauma in a healthy way.
still, she was also very adamant about everyone knowing the truth, or what she perceived to be the truth: that maureen was wholesome and good, that she was targeted for no reason, that she saw cotton weary leaving the house that night, the events lining up precisely to where he had to be the one behind it all. losing her mother was hard for her, but watching the media (specifically gale weathers) paint maureen as an adulteress and sidney as a liar only fueled her further dedication to defending her mother’s memory.
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` * man of medan, with jed olsen danny johnson: ‘ i don’t know how all this is gonna end, but… i wanna end it together. ’ ( @stalkheir )
this is not the end. not for her; no, sidney prescott has been through this countless times before and always made it out the other side, if not through skill than by sheer stubbornness. she won’t die—not now, not in this hellscape, not under these circumstances, and not by this asshole’s hand.
she remembers his face, attached to a different name up until now, smiling at her during one of her book signings, telling her about how out of darkness was such a gripping read that he couldn’t put down. how he admired her strength to persist. how it helped him realize his own purpose and drive him to achieve his goals. it was a brief interaction, but it stuck with her. it was almost haunting how quickly it slapped her in the face the moment the mask slid off by his own hand, eyes almost soulless except for the spark in them that seemed to come from some sick, twisted joy at the events that had transpired over the last several hours.
the others were gone—hunted like small prey, sacrificed to whatever god oversaw this place—and sidney was back to being the last one standing, subjected to the slow, steady pain of bleeding out from a stab wound to the abdomen, blood pooling slowly around her as she tried in vain to crawl away, the only exit blocked by his body as he crouched down to her level. her skin crawls at his touch, fingertips pressing under her chin, lifting her gaze up to meet his as he speaks in the same awed tone he had what felt like a lifetime ago, same wondrous smile painted across his face. it’s enough to make her want to scream—instead, she’s spitting as hard as she can, fueled at this point entirely by spite, vision hazy as her gaze narrows. ‘ fuck you. ’

sidney used to love the idea of having a family of her own someday. whether she ended up hitting it big in the acting world and living in la or relocating back to woodsboro, she did plan on getting married some day to the right person, settling down, and having children—at least two, probably three, white picket fence, dog, suv—everything that’s part of that cliché picture of the american dream.
her mother’s sudden murder shook her to her core and caused a whole set of intimacy issues in her life, which was only intensified with the woodsboro murders and the realization that her high school sweetheart had orchestrated not only that massacre, but her mother’s murder. as resilient as sidney has proven to be, it takes her a while to completely repair that damage and piece herself back together.
by the time she enters college, she’s back to some semblance of normality; a little more cynical, a little more sarcastic, but still herself. she has a small group of friends, she tends to favor a quiet night in on the weekends as opposed to partying with her peers, and she’s found a guy she can trust well enough to enter an exclusive, serious relationship. she’s worked to put the past behind her so she can move forward and not be tied down by her mother’s sins.
when the windsor college murders happen, she’s thrown back into that special circle of hell that she never asked for; immediately, she starts doubting her trust in derek, remembering everything between her and billy, how he perfectly crafted himself as an innocent suspect-turned-victim, how he got into her head and made her think she was overthinking, paranoid, and stuck on her mother’s death when she should be moving on. she didn’t want to place herself back in that situation of trusting someone so close to her, only to be hurt by them—ultimately, her damaged trust in derek is what leads to his death.
the windsor college murders are, again, a result of someone (debbie salt/mrs. loomis) seeking out revenge against maureen prescott by targeting sidney in an attempt to kill her. with the loss of more friends, the betrayal of someone she trusted, and the loss of derek, sidney chooses to fall off the grid completely with the hopes that, if she distances herself from the rest of society, her friends, her loved ones, people will stop getting hurt.
a life of loneliness, after all, is better than a life of loss.
as we all know, it doesn’t work; the killer attacking the actors of STAB 3 finds her and baits her back into society. she’s thrown into another massacre where the killer is leaving publicity stills of her young mother at the scene of each murder, one with the message: I KILLED HER. randy, in a post-mortem appearance via video, warns sidney, gale, and dewey that they’re part of the concluding chapter of a trilogy—meaning something hidden from the very beginning is about to come to light, and there’s a very real possibility that sidney will die. she’s grappling with a deteriorating psyche, hallucinations of her mother, attempting to figure out what’s real and what’s all in her head, if anything is in her head in the first place—and when the truth comes crashing down, it comes crashing down hard.
the fact that her mother had a child before sidney, that sidney had an older half-brother she never knew about, and that he was behind maureen’s murder and unintentionally triggered the massacres that followed and the physical and psychological trauma sidney’s had to endure over the span of five to six years hits her like a freight train. she makes it out alive, the past is settled, and she doesn’t blame her mother for the bad things that have happened, but it takes some time to come to terms with everything. when she does, even though she’s confident that the past is laid to rest and there’s no more people out for revenge against her mother, parts of her are forever changed. how could they not be? she used to think she had the perfect mom and the perfect family; to come to terms with the whole secret life her mother had and the murderous and unhinged half-brother that she never knew colored her view of families—at least, of her own, and of the one she could potentially have.
the woodsboro massacre reboot in 2011 doesn’t help that colored perspective whatsoever. sidney’s absolutely a strong person. she fights back, she pulls no punches, she doesn’t blame herself for what happened, and she deals with the blows as they come to her. however, at age thirty, unmarried, single and childless, she doesn’t exactly love the idea of having a family any more. it’s not because she’s cynical at the thought of families as a whole; if she met the right person and it felt right to her, she probably would get married.
children, however, is an entirely different matter by this point in her life. at sixteen, her mother died. at seventeen, her boyfriend tried to kill her. at nineteen, she found herself thrown into another murder spree. at twenty, she was dragged out of hiding and hit with the truth that her half-brother was both directly and indirectly responsible for all of the above. at thirty, she almost died at the hand of her own cousin, fame-hungry and desperate to step into the spotlight of victimhood. maureen never saw the trauma coming, but sidney’s lived half her life drowning in it. the idea of bringing a child into such a world is unthinkable to her.
at sixteen, she imagined she’d be well-off and raising a family of her own in her thirties. at thirty, she’s grateful to be alive and still sane.
` * iii. DON’T FEAR THE REAPER‚ BILLY LOOMIS . ` * iii. I THINK I LOVE YOU — ISN’T THAT WHAT LIFE IS MADE OF‚ DEREK FELDMAN . ` * iii. I’D LET THE GEEK GET THE GIRL‚ RANDY MEEKS .