Gloria Flowers is a character first introduced in first season of Stranger Things as an unnamed character in a photograph. The tie-in novel Suspicious Minds came to reveal her name and shed light upon her backstory. She participated in the MKUltra experiments along with Terry Ives, Ken, and Alice Johnson.
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Gloria is the heir of a well known flowers shop owned by her family called Flowers & Gifts, located in Bloomington, Indiana. Gloria is extremely intelligent and attended college to study Biology, but was denied because of her gender and race. As an alternative, the University offered to substitute her credits if she participated in the Hawkins Laboratory experiment.
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Gloria agreed to take part in the experiment, but quickly became weary of their legitimacy even before her peers. None of the procedures or methods fell in line with how science should be conducted.
Her suspicions compounded when Terry approached her at work and revealed Dr. Brenner had told Terry to plant a bug in her phone, while he thought she was under hypnosis. Her suspicions grew to concern when she was informed by the University that her future academic future is completely tied into her participation in the Hawkins Lab study, which made leaving the experiment nearly impossible.
Unlike Alice or Terry, Gloria did not present any special abilities or talents. Her experiments focused heavily on interrogation and borderline psychological torture. Because of this, Gloria wanted to test the boundaries of their freedom and see if the lab was really intent on keeping them around.
One day while working with her mother, Gloria spoke loudly about her interest in leaving Hawkins to attend a university in California where she would be able to study Biology like she originally wanted. In response, Brenner set up a dinner with her parents without her knowledge and showed up at her home. Despite her seemingly lacking any psychic abilities, she was as trapped as her friends.
Relationships[]
- Terry Ives - Friend,
- Andrew Rich - Friend
- Ken - Friend
- Alice Johnson - Friend
- Martin Brenner - Enemy, experimented on her
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Holly, Jolly* | |||
*Gloria's picture appears in a newspaper article in Holly, Jolly.
Trivia[]
- Despite the studious front she puts on, Gloria loves comic books, specifically X-Men.
- It is mentioned multiple times that Gloria is very fashionable and well put together.
References[]
- ↑ In America, college students are roughly between the ages of 18 and 24, being in college in 1969 would make him born between 1944 and 1951.
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