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=== The betrayal (Summer 2022) === | === The betrayal (Summer 2022) === | ||
In | In early May 2022, three weeks before Allie's freshman year finals, Patrick agreed to date her for the summer. During flirty exchanges Allie hinted at her BDSM interests. He seemed receptive. She sent him revealing photos. | ||
In Week 4 he shared her private interests with a mutual friend, who mocked her publicly: "So, Patrick tells me you like to be tied up. What's next, whips and chains?" Patrick dismissed it as harmless. | |||
In Week 5 his ex-girlfriend returned. He admitted he was still in love with her. His final words to Allie: "She isn't a pervert like you." | |||
That line is the sentence Allie has never been able to unhear. It is the engine beneath her DareGrid behavior, her neutral answers on Taylor's sexuality assessment, and her inability to apply the word "slutification" to herself publicly even though she rates the concept a ten. | |||
== The wound == | |||
The betrayal had two phases: the public mockery by the mutual friend and the final line at the breakup. When Allie's mother [[Peggy Branigan]] walked in on her during an online session that August and said "No wonder Patrick dumped you," the two wounds were fused together. Patrick's cruelty and her mother's cruelty became a single statement about what her desires meant about her. | |||
[[DareGrid]] was the structural solution: anonymous strangers who see only what she chooses to show them, in an environment she controls, with no face to look at afterward. [[Professor William Taylor]] will be the first person since Patrick who sees her clearly and stays in the room. Whether she can trust that without waiting for the betrayal is what [[Making the Grades: Allie's Descent]] is actually about. | |||
== Canon notes == | |||
* Surname not established | |||
* Physical description not established | |||
* Whether he appears in the novel on-page or only in backstory has not been confirmed | |||
* His current status and whereabouts are unknown | |||
== Related articles == | |||
* [[Allison Branigan]] | |||
* [[Peggy Branigan]] | |||
* [[Making the Grades: Allie's Descent]] | |||
* [[DareGrid]] | |||
* [[Professor William Taylor]] | |||
[[Category:Characters]] | |||
Latest revision as of 22:22, 24 April 2026
| Patrick | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Patrick |
| Affiliation | None |
| Status | Unknown |
| Occupation | Unknown |
| First appearance | Referenced in Making the Grades: Allie's Descent |
| Canon status | Confirmed |
About
Patrick is Allison Branigan's high school ex-boyfriend and the source of her deepest wound. His surname has not been established in canon. He is the structural reason DareGrid exists for Allie and the emotional architecture beneath everything she does across Making the Grades: Allie's Descent. He was the first person she trusted with the real version of herself. He used that trust against her, publicly, and then left.
Background
Summer 2021
Patrick and Allie became sexually intimate for the first time in the summer before her freshman year at Eastern Tsuga College. He framed it as special and meaningful. One week before she left for college he broke up with her, claiming he did not want her to feel tied down. The real reason was a secret girlfriend.
Winter break 2021-22
During Allie's freshman year winter break, Patrick contacted her while his girlfriend was out of town. They hooked up casually. He did not disclose that he was still with the girlfriend.
Spring 2022
His secret relationship ended. He began texting Allie again.
The betrayal (Summer 2022)
In early May 2022, three weeks before Allie's freshman year finals, Patrick agreed to date her for the summer. During flirty exchanges Allie hinted at her BDSM interests. He seemed receptive. She sent him revealing photos.
In Week 4 he shared her private interests with a mutual friend, who mocked her publicly: "So, Patrick tells me you like to be tied up. What's next, whips and chains?" Patrick dismissed it as harmless.
In Week 5 his ex-girlfriend returned. He admitted he was still in love with her. His final words to Allie: "She isn't a pervert like you."
That line is the sentence Allie has never been able to unhear. It is the engine beneath her DareGrid behavior, her neutral answers on Taylor's sexuality assessment, and her inability to apply the word "slutification" to herself publicly even though she rates the concept a ten.
The wound
The betrayal had two phases: the public mockery by the mutual friend and the final line at the breakup. When Allie's mother Peggy Branigan walked in on her during an online session that August and said "No wonder Patrick dumped you," the two wounds were fused together. Patrick's cruelty and her mother's cruelty became a single statement about what her desires meant about her.
DareGrid was the structural solution: anonymous strangers who see only what she chooses to show them, in an environment she controls, with no face to look at afterward. Professor William Taylor will be the first person since Patrick who sees her clearly and stays in the room. Whether she can trust that without waiting for the betrayal is what Making the Grades: Allie's Descent is actually about.
Canon notes
- Surname not established
- Physical description not established
- Whether he appears in the novel on-page or only in backstory has not been confirmed
- His current status and whereabouts are unknown