Pretty Little Liars: Ten Theories on the Mannequin Family
1. Vivian Darkbloom’s family.
Vivian Darkbloom is Alison's alter-ego, her fantasy self when she’s living another life: “Don’t you wish you could just be someone else?” Charlotte later takes on her identity, fleeing to Paris.
She’s supposed to be what Alison and Charlotte then want to be, and that includes the perfect “model” family, sharing “cherished memories” and “warmth and laughter” that Charlotte didn’t get.
2. Alex Drake’s wealthy family.
Alex Drake was sold from Mary Drake and Dr Cochrane to a wealthy British family that abandoned her at an orphanage when she was four.
Her adoptive parents along with adoptive siblings that were kept and loved, unlike her. The handprints on the wall are the mark of Alex who was abandoned by her adoptive family and lived a terrible life, even if they’re still living in their perfect model family.
3. Sara Harvey’s family.
Parents and a little brother, the blonde little girl can be either Sara or her sister instead (similar to number two where Alex is missing from the family dolls).
We learn Sara came from an abusive home in early S6. This could be related to the handprints on the wall.
4. More standard - Charlotte’s family.
Of course there could be a more standard answer to this question: simply Jason, Charlotte, Jessica, Kenneth. This is when Charlotte was still with her family. Jessica is pregnant with Alison.
After Alison came into the world Charlotte’s life changed not only by the bathtub incident but the boundless love she’d always have for her sister.
5. Bethany’s family.
Related to Charlotte giving (via Black Widow) condolence flowers to Bethany Young’s parents? Maybe or maybe not. The handprints on the wall are in three different colours. Three different Dilaurentis’s (the family of puppet masters) had its hand in affecting that family, and not for the better.
First - Jessica having an affair with Mr Young.
Second - Charlotte either trying to hit Bethany the night she died or digging up her grave, maybe there’s more we don’t know on Radley…
Third - Alison was supposed to be the target, but the hit ended up being made on Bethany. A fatal mistake…
6. Archer Dunhill’s family.
The reasoning for why Charlotte would have a mannequin family of Archer’s family (presumably casting him as the young boy) is dubious. However since he was her love it’s not implausible to assume she’d commemorate him in some way - and what better way to do that other than the other thing she loves the most; dolls?
7. Wren Kingston’s family.
Same with Archer especially since he was a major part of Charlotte meeting her sister and he seemed to know about the Dilaurentis-Drake-Hastings family drama back in *season 5* according to 7x20. Is it really a stretch to suspect a bigger role from him?
8. Charlotte and Archer’s future family.
With how much Charlotte cares about family it isn’t out of the picture that she’d want one with her true love Archer. The black haired mother Charlotte could be the Vivian Darkbloom disguise she continues donning after she runs away with Archer after being in Welby.
9. Not loved ones but lost ones.
The woman is Marion Cavanaugh, the man is Darren Wilden, the little girl is Bethany Young, and the little boy is “Charles” Dilaurentis.
It’s not a family, it’s the ones Charlotte has lost along the way, for better or worse, by outside forces or by choice (Side note: The handprints represent who they are survived by, one person with each colour. Maybe Marion is red or Wilden is or Bethany is green, could go either way. Either way none of them are for “Charles”).
10. Alice’s family.
No deeper meaning, but could this be the third reference to the mysterious, almost ghost-like, little blonde girl?
(In my view, this seems the most likely theory.)
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on s3 of pll rewatch and im having SUCH feelings about hanna coping with mona being A like wow. im kinda picking up on the dynmic with other characters that theyre trying to set up i.e. the girls and caleb are seeing mona locked away as a good thing cus shes gone and out of their lives. Theyve identified her entirely as a threat while hanna is still stuck between A mona and her best friend mona, and dont get why asking her to interogate mona/making comments about her would hurt hanna. They didnt even notice that it would. And i always got that was the point but i originally felt that the way they showed them dealing with it was shitty bc no one but wren helped her but now im seeing it was to give us insight on how the girls/caleb feel vs hanna bc of their diff relationships to mona. So i have more appreciation for the writing and the point they were making instead of being annoyed that the liars and caleb offered her no sympathy.
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