>>17787

NEET. But not because she was once normal and got Diddy'd or something.

I think Lori would be an overbearing, but well intentioned Mom.

But this is the same girl who went full authoritarian every chance she got on her siblings. Add in the obvious teen mom thing on top of her control-freak and vain tendencies that she hadn't grown out of yet, and I tend to think of her as having started out as an ambitious tiger-mom who pushed Loan too hard when she was young.

She does love Loan, but between all the pressure and her own drive to succeed I think that Lori would try to do it all and end up making a wreck. She'll try to be both the ultra-ambitious businesswoman she imagined herself being when she was younger, and a ultra-successful 'single mom'.

This means the snapshot for Loan's developmental years would be a lonely girl who has to move around and lose her friends whenever her Mom's career demands it. At the same time though she's under pressure from Mom to be great at school/extra-curriculars/whatever, and Mom isn't paying enough attention to realize Loan is cracking under the pressure. Lincoln and the rest of the family probably do their best, but Loan's time is usually taken up and they can't always get out to see her when she's half way across the country.

Puberty comes in, things comes to a boil and when Loan can't take it anymore she just breaks down entirely and goes full NEET. A girl who was once apparently perfect from the outside fails to graduate high school, and can't even talk to people because of a combination of missing social development and assorted complexes.

It's just so much easier for her to exist in her safe room, and live through the internet than going outside...