I used to think that Rebecca tore it up in New York and that might be kinda responsible for her new more confident personality. But other times I wonder if Rebecca really didn't date any women after Miriam/didn't date much in New York and instead just burried herself in work. Like that maybe in actuality she's not that much more experienced than Marlene.
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For whatever reason, the character may feel like she has to hide her softer side from other people. I may be off base because I haven't seen any of Marlene's story prior to Rebecca's character coming back. I think there are so many ways the writers can develop the characters' personalities going forward.
I feel the same way about Marlene and I have seen her pretty much since her beginning on VL. I don't really know why she is that way, but I think she was always a ball of interesting contradictions pretty much ever since she arrived. A lot of it was kinda told through the filter of the eyes of her younger sister Dana. I watched some videos from the old days and there is this video about Marlene and Jasmine's Rebecca where there it is a huge thread in the episode about how Marlene just gets people to do stuff for her and Dana feels that that is kinda manipulative. Or the episode where Dana and Tristan broke up a side thing was Dana yelling at Marlene for not working hard enough and Marlene just totally fell apart so Hagen had to come to Dana and beg her to be nicer to Marlene and then they both talked about how Marlene puts up a strong, bossy front, but falls apart on smallest of criticisms. I think that has kinda gotten away though, she has become stronger in that regard because of all the stuff that happened to her, but I think there is still a lot she hides inside.
Like, she can be so free and open, and we all know she loves to get into everybody's business, but she can also be so extremely secretive. That's why I wish somebody would translate the first few weeks of Rebecca/Marlene, before Rebecca fell in love, because I think it shows that aspect of Marlene's personality a lot, the way she was obsessed with Tristan not finding out anything from pretty much the start without there ever being a really good reason for it.
I used to think maybe it's part of being the oldest child, that you had to be strong for the others, but it doesn't really fit that she is actually most open with her parents and her younger sister Dana. Marlene definitely is a fascinating bundled ball of ISSUES
And it's noteworthy that she had those issues from her first day on the show on, so it wasn't something that happened because of anything that happened to her afterwards.