PRETTY LITTLE LIARS… THE MANIPULATORS (A)
Written by Michael Emmanuel.
Mona was the antagonist in season one, she was bullied by Alison Dilaurentis, Mona decided to punish her for her wickedness, she started sending Alison scary text messages which she suddenly innovated to punish her. Alison got scared with all the threats Mona pulled after she almost got murdered.
Alison left with a new identity to avoid getting killed and also to find out who A is, Mona stopped her threats and became popular, she even became best friends with Alison’s former posse member, Hanna Marin. After Aria came back to town, the four best friends got back together. Hanna started spending quality time with them more than she spent with Mona. In Mona’s defense, she felt that the girls stole Hanna away from her, which drove her back to her game.
She began to punish them one by one, including Hanna, she blackmailed the four of them and tortured them too, after a while of all their investigations to find A and who killed Alison Dilaurentis, Mona was exposed as A and sent to Radley for mental help. Mona started the A team with Lucas and Melissa, whom she blackmailed into helping her. While Mona was in Radley, someone with an ingenious idea took up the game, and Mona, not knowing who this new A is, decided to follow up and began to help her new puppet master.
Charlotte Dilaurentis also known as Cece Drake, took up the game, after she met Mona in Radley, Mona told her everything and how the liars felt when Alison died. Charlotte got angry with them and decided to play the game, she took all of them to be her dolls.
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Charlotte felt so impelled to this game, that made her manipulate the liars into doing what they never wanted to do. After Alison was revealed to be alive, Charlotte was happy, but of the fact that A is still on the move, Alison didn’t feel safe, so she tried to escape, but Charlotte didn’t want her to leave so she threatened her, by trying to kill her. Mona began the A team, with the help of two people, but Charlotte had a lot of help; like Toby, Spencer, Mona, Jenna, Noel, and Sarah who was her double agent.
Charlotte framed Alison for Mona’s death with ended up being fake, and kidnapped the four girls and took them to her dollhouse, where they were tortured continuously, they later figured a way out of the hell hole they were in, with the help of their boyfriends, alongside with Mona and Sarah, who fooled all. After they figured out who Charles was, they got close to figuring out it was Charlotte. In the episode “Game Over Charles", Charlotte was revealed to be A(big A). She planned to take her life after her confession but was implored not to, by the liars. She was taken to a hospital for a check-up and got released couple of years later. The game was so incalculable for her that she wanted to start all over again but was murdered before she could get the chance to. Her death sparked the rise of the third, final, and deadliest, A.
Alex Drake, the insufferable bitch, is the twin sister to Spencer Hastings and the daughter of Mary Drake and Charlotte’s secret half sister. She took her as her blood, told her everything, her secrets, the way she manipulated the liars into doing what she wants. After the death of Charlotte, Alex traveled to the United States to find Charlotte’s killer and she mistakenly believed that the liars knew who the killer was, or maybe one of them did it. She used violence and blackmail to convince them how intense she was.
She used emojis to differentiate her from other A team and her predecessors. Alex hid in plain sight by using a mask and other stuff. After Hanna confessed to killing Charlotte which she thought was the right thing to do, Alex signed her initials. A.D like her predecessors. She built a board game to play with the liars, the same way Charlotte did.
After it was identified to be Mona who killed Charlotte, Alex ended the game and drove back to London. The liars thought everything was over and they were living their happy ending.
The moment Alex went back, she wanted to move on, but she couldn’t stop thinking about Spencer and how she has everything like a family, friends that will risk their lives for one another, and Toby, it drove her insane. Alex became jealous and wanted all that she had. The week of Aria’s wedding, Spencer was kidnapped by Mona, and on the day before Aria’s wedding, Ezra got kidnapped by A.D. Alex impersonated Spencer, but not for long, Mona figured out her lair and told others. Alex tried to kill Spencer so she can be with Toby but was stopped by Spencer with the help of Toby and her friends, she and Mary were taken into custody and later kidnapped and taken to France, where they lived in an underground dollhouse belonging to Mona Vanderwaal.
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