mckenna hastings
full namemckenna rose hastings age + birthdate20 + february 21, 1998 hometownlos angeles, ca religionchristianity statussingle
current residencesavannah, ga address1 longbridge rd educationislands high school 2016 occupationmusician + waitress nicknameskenna, mack daddy
• the child of californian high school sweethearts michael and ashley hastings, mckenna rose hastings was born in los angeles at 2:19am on february 21, 1998. michael was the son of a wealthy real estate mogul and his socialite wife, the quarterback of the football team, and the homecoming king. ashley was the daughter of a hard-working labourer at the docks and his high school teacher wife, the head cheerleader, and the homecoming queen. it was like something out of a fairytale, and their first child was quite literally a princess in every sense of the word. she wasn't too much of a hassle, and the hastings' thought that they had it quite easy. until they had their second child, a boy, mackenzie, who was just a nightmare, but aren't all boys?

• growing up in a very nice part of los angeles, mckenna was afforded every opportunity, from sports which she almost immediately turned her nose up at, to art and photography, which she enjoyed, and music and dance which she fell in love with almost instantly. eternally frustrated with the piano, she turned to the guitar and immediately picked it up, developing a love that would continue for the rest of her life. although she loved performing, singing in front of her parents whenever she could, mckenna was never a natural with her feet and eventually gave up dance for more intensive vocal lessons.

• never particularly gifted academically, mckenna breezed through elementary school without ever failing, but without ever being the top of her class in anything either, except music. she spent almost all of time with her best friend, k'andre miller, a talented dancer who shared many of the same interests as mckenna. at the end of elementary school, michael decided to follow his passion and dream of becoming a professional football coach. offered an assistant coaching job at a school that had offered him a scholarship out of high school, savannah state university in georgia, the hastings' packed up their lavish los angeles lifestyle and moved to the east coast city, despite mckenna's insistence that she would never leave and running away to k'andre's house the night before they were supposed to leave.

• although georgia seemed like hell on earth to mckenna, it seemed to improve with every passing day, starting with her first day of middle school when she made friends with the girl at the locker next to hers, daisy walters. almost inseparable from the drama-obsessed girl, the two never failed to make each other laugh, even when it was ridiculously inappropriate to do so. despite going to different high schools, the two stayed the best of friends. at high school, mckenna found herself drawn to the older crowd and found what was almost a big sister in skye nichols, two years her senior, a boyfriend in hudson walsh, one year older, and a whole new friend group that was a mix of years and filled with athletes.

• crushed to pieces when skye graduated at the end of her sophomore year, she was overwhelmingly relieved when she found out she was attending armstrong state (now georgia southern) university, not too far away at all. finding herself falling incredibly in love with the academically gifted hudson, the two spent almost every day together that they could, and mckenna found it incredibly hard to say goodbye when he graduated and moved to new hampshire to attend dartmouth to study medicine. despite mckenna's insistence that long distance could work, the two broke up just two weeks into his first semester.

• at a loss of best friends and boyfriends an arms reach away, mckenna's senior year all but passed her by, spending the majority of it trashed out of her mind at parties, and hooking up with random boys in the hopes that one of them would magically turn into another hudson. still lost after graduation, her parents had to physically push her out of the house, and paid for a vacation getaway to cancun for mckenna, skye, & daisy. in the space of a week, it was like the old mckenna was back, with a bubbly livelyhood about her, and her passion for music returning. starting out busking on the streets of savannah, mckenna eventually put herself out there and started performing at bars and restaurants.

• mckenna was content with her life until her parents moved to atlanta at the end of mackenzie's schooling, her dad getting a job with the university of georgia football team. with mackenzie attending savannah state to study commerce and play basketball, mckenna would be the only one living in the family home, and was allowed to stay there by her parents on the condition that she got a real job that wasn't playing music at a different bar every weekend. finding a job as a waitress at a local sports bar under the watchful eye of alice griffiths, mckenna found herself really enjoying life, spending more and more time with skye and her georgia southern classmates, including dallas kirkland, who was part of her friendship group in high school, but not someone she was super close with. apparently they had a lot more in common than they realised.


favorites
tv 30 rock, the bachelor(ette), friday night lights, friends, glee, grey's anatomy, hart of dixie, how to get away with murder, nashville, the office, pretty little liars, scandal, will & grace

movies this will literally take forever?

music a r i z o n a, alan walker, alt-j, amy shark, avicii, blackbear, blake shelton, carrie under- wood, the chainsmokers, dan + shay, drake, ed sheeran, florida georgia line, harry styles, jon bellion, kacey musgraves, keith urban, kenny chesney, logic, luke bryan, luke combs, mike posner, morgan evans, niall horan, old dominion, one direction, post malone, sam hunt, sam smith, scotty mccreery, swedish house mafia, tame impala, the temper trap, thomas rhett, tim mcgraw
personality

musically obsessed, she's always the first person in her group of friends to listen to a new song or album no matter the genre. mckenna is flexible, feeling at home at a raging party surrounded by her friends but also enjoying a quiet relaxing night, sharing a bottle of wine around the television. bubbly and excitable, mckenna is an extrovert with an appetite for life and diving in headfirst to any new challenge as long as she has the ones she cares about by her side. a loyal follower, mckenna is a giver not a taker, and extremely caring for those who she trusts will do the same in return.


loves






friends
family
michael hastings jr.father, 45 (b. may 22, 1972). assistant football coach uga. hs quarterback. teddy bear.
ashley hastingsmother, 45 (b. october 13, 1972). ex-cheerleader. housewife and socialite in atlanta. loving.
mackenzie hastingsbig little brother, 18 (b. january 4, 2000). sav state bulldogs bball pg. protective.

michael hastings sr.paternal grandfather, 67 (b. march 16, 1951). former real estate mogul. spoils mckenna & mackenzie. resides with katherine in los angeles.

katherine hastingspaternal grandmother, 66 (b. april 29, 1952). queen of hollywood dinner parties. parents were original la kings season ticket holders.

jack stokesmaternal grandfather, 70 (b. september 22, 1948). recently retired longshoreman at the port of los angeles. a true working class american.

amelia stokesmaternal grandmother, 65 (b. november 2, 1953). high school economics teacher, probably the most caring person of all time.