Template:Amanda Willis - Biography

Early life and family

Mandy Willis was born Amanda Ava Willis on October 11, 2006 at Craven Gifts in Quillsville, Indiana (at 12:15 pm, measuring 15 in and weighing 6.25 lbs) to Margaret Harriet "Peggy" Harvey (née Zinn and formerly Willis, b. 1933 d. 2012) and Charlie Harvey (b. 1952) in the episode "Peggy's Eminent Domain Pain". Her birthdate is 29 years after her older brother, Albert Willis (as well as the real-life brother of Ava Zinn). Mandy is the fourth child of Peggy Willis after her Russian half-transgendered brother named Vladamir (born Veronica, "To Russia: With an F2M Brother" b. 1969 d. 2017), half-sister Ava (b. Frank 01-04-1973) and half-brother Albert (b. 10-11-1977).

Mandy's mother, Peggy was also revealed in "To Russia: With an F2M Brother" to have slept with many men before and after that (148 as Peggy once stated), meaning Ava, Albert, and Mandy likely has several other illegitimate brothers and sisters, although none of these other relatives have been confirmed throughout the series. Not much is known about Mandy due to being so young in the original series.

Mandy was born when Peggy held two of Ava's co-workers hostage at Craven Gifts and Peggy went into labor forcing Ava to intervene. Tina Craven's depression led to deep tension in the Willis family, leaving no one truly willing or capable of taking care of Mandy, except for Deanna. Eventually, however, the family issues were resolved. Angie's effort seemed to influence the others to put aside their own problems for Mandy's sake.

Due to being a baby during the initial run of the show, Mandy's importance is more measurable in how she affects others than in her own actions. Peggy is perhaps the one who has grown the most because of Mandy. Peggy eventually dies ("Death Picks Peggy") while Mandy is still a baby. Mandy was last alluded to in "Serves Me Right for Giving Plasma to Frank O'Bannon" when Charlie brought Ava some of Peggy's stuff and dropped Mandy (now a teenager), but quickly drove off again. Charlie now lives with another woman closer to her own age and has lost custody of Mandy.

In "Something About Loose Ava", Ava's father, Harry brought up the fact that Mandy sounds very similar to her mother when she speaks. As a response, Ava tells Harry that Mandy is her half-sister and that there are only so many voices in the world; some are bound to be similar and that only Ava, Harry, and Carter Willis noticed because they do not talk all that much despite the fact that Peggy Willis is in fact the mother of Vladimir, Ava, Albert, and Mandy. This was brought up to turn the scenario that Ava Zinn voices both Peggy and Mandy into a comical situation. In the same episode, Harry and Ava's step-mother, Finola Atkinson, adopt Mandy.

Personal life

Mandy also suffers from the same enlarged clitoris/penis as her half-siblings transgendered brother Vladamir, transgendered sister Ava, and brother Albert.

Appearance

As of "Serves Me Right For Donating Plasma to Frank O'Bannon", Mandy is tall and slightly overweight. She has dark gery hair (due to hereditary and Peggy being 75 when Mandy was born). Her physical appearance changes throughout the rebooted series, according to her license, she is 5 ft. 8 in. and her weight is shown to be anywhere from 115 to 150 pounds in different episodes. There have been several episodes that featured Mandy with a drastically different hairstyle, often (and humorously) due to Bianca's poor hairstyling skills. In one episode, Ava reveals that she goes for a haircut every two weeks, an example of how uptight her sister can be. Only two occurances that Mandy changed her hairstyle because of someone other than Bianca was because she refused to get a hair cut in the season 10 episode "Hypermarket Sweep".

Outfits

Mandy is generally seen wearing a light yellow blouse and black plazzo pants. In the original series and the first three seasons of the revived series, Mandy is very similar to Ava's transgendered daughter/Mandy's niece, Deanna, but unlike Deanna, Mandy is able to get pregnant and carry a baby to full-term. At Lee Kelso High School beginning in season 10, she is generally seen either wearing a purple turtleneck and a black skirt or a white blouse and blue pants. Since the seventh season, other episodes that fatured Mandy in drastically different outfits such as a skit suit, a pant suit, etc. In various episodes, like Ava, Mandy is seen wearing a black pantsuit and a white blouse.