Appearance notes:
- 26-year-old white(?) cis woman
- 5’3”, curvy build
- Long wavy blonde hair and green eyes
- Often seen in low-cut housewife-style dresses
Rosie Everett, when we first meet her, is one of the town’s ‘Stepford Wives’, a term coined by Kim Eberhart to refer to the impossibly beautiful, subservient wives of the Men’s Association members. At first she appears perpetually cheerful and unsettlingly devoted to her husband William Everett, by whom she has two young sons, but we soon learn that she has been conditioned to act this way, and is constantly fighting a psychological battle for freedom beneath her seemingly flawless and vacant exterior.
RACHEL MARTINEZ
Appearance notes:
- 26-year-old (white-passing?) Latina lesbian cis woman
- 5’3”, curvy build
- Short red Kool-Aid dyed hair and green eyes
- Has several tattoos which were airbrushed over
- Grabbed whatever clothes she could
Rachel Martinez was born in Brooklyn in 1998 to Tony and Elena Martinez. Prior to the events of the film, Rachel was the guitarist and lead songwriter of the Brooklyn-based queercore band Disaffectress, going by the stage name Roxxi Riot, and was in a committed relationship with the band’s lead singer, Hannah Lopez. During the band’s tour of the East Coast, after a show in Connecticut, she was abducted from their touring van outside a Denny’s by William Everett, who brought her to Stepford and, with his fellow Men’s Association members, worked on having her psychologically reconditioned into becoming Rosie Everett, his ideal housewife. Disaffectress have since been on an indefinite hiatus for the past five years, waiting for Rachel to return.
Like most of the other present day Stepford Wives, Rachel has often broken conditioning in times of extreme stress or after unexpected reminders of her former life, such as during the birth of her first son or while being interviewed by Zach Taylor. She eventually breaks conditioning for good upon being played a song from her band by Zach, and immediately kills William Everett by ramming a heeled shoe into his eye and brain, then rallies the other Stepford Wives to freedom while escaping with her two children.
Upon returning to New York, Rachel reunites with her bandmates, including her girlfriend Hannah. After the events of the film, Disaffectress end their five-year hiatus with the release of the Stepford Wife single, written and sung by Rachel about her experiences in Stepford, and Rachel and Hannah move into an apartment overlooking Prospect Park, raising Rachel’s two sons together.
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