Dylan Marvil is the 3rd in command in The Pretty Committee. She is popular in OCD for being extremely stylish and very pretty. Her trademark is her red-orange hair and an obsession with diets. Her mother, Merri-Lee Marvil, is a successful journalist, who hosts the famous TV talk show The Daily Grind.
Dylan grew up in Westchester, New York, as the youngest daughter of a wealthy family. Her parents appear to be divorced, and Dylan's has two sisters, Ryan and Jamie. Three years before The Clique when she was 9-10 years old, Dylan became best friends with Massie Block, Alicia Rivera, and Kristen Gregory. The began attending Octavian Country Day together, and became the most popular group at the school. Every Friday, Dylan would have a sleepover with her friends at Massie's house.
At some point growing up, Dylan discovered that her mom's stylist used "skinny" mirrors to alter appearances. This caused Dylan to develop issues around her weight, and constantly do diets to lose weight. Her mother is often a catalyst in this issue and encourages Dylan to do diets.
Appearance
Dylan is described as being a redhead with thick, wild curls, pale skin, and green eyes. She is the only one in her family with red hair. She is two inches taller and wider - at a size 6 - than the rest of the Pretty Committee.
Personality
Dylan is talkative, as well as the funniest of the group; she sometimes burps a lot. She is obsessed with her weight (even though her weight is average) and it is her worst insecurity. She likes to eat more than the rest of the Pretty Committee, and is the only one aside from Claire who is fine with eating hamburgers and carbs. Dylan also has a habit of flat-ironing her thick, curly hair. She often has a big mouth when it comes to keeping secrets.
Dylan Marvil is an official member of The Pretty Committee along with Massie, Alicia and Kristen. As they start 7th grade together, Claire Lyons moves into Massie's guest-house and Massie convinces the PC to hate her. As Dylan is shown to be very submissive towards Massie, she initially ignores Claire. Meanwhile, Dylan is starting a new diet with her mother and sisters to lose fifteen pounds by Halloween.
Dylan does a stake-out with the other girls after school to see Chris Abeley, Massie's crush, leave school. She finds the crush romantic. Dylan also struggles with the diet, and eats cherries (a high-sugar fruit not involved in the program) which causes her mother to threaten canceling the diet deliveries.
At the end of the first school week, the girls have one of their usual sleepovers. Massie's mom forced them to include Claire in their sleepover as well. When Claire tried to tell a scary story, Alicia interrupted and teased her, and Dylan joined in. A week later, Dylan went to Massie's house with her friends to a Glambition meeting for one of Kristen's classes. Since Massie was late to the meeting, Claire encouraged them to swim. Dylan was the first of the girls to join Claire and swim. When Massie joins and tells the girls to bully Claire, Dylan joins in without question.
Claire began to pose as Massie, messaging the girls secretly to become friends with them. Dylan offered Claire an invitation to her birthday in New York. Dylan became angry with Massie when Claire manipulated them, especially by using Dylan's weight insecurities against her. She began to ignore Massie, and be friends with Claire instead. When Massie found out, and told the girls, they became friends again. Dylan helped Kristen with her project, Glambition, and they made lip gloss. Dylan celebrated her 13th birthday in New York with her friends.
During a field trip to Manhatten, the girls sold their lip gloss on the bus, as one of the flavors was called Dylan - only to have several girls in their class get allergic reactions. A few days later, Dylan's mother put birthday photos on her television show, though Mrs. Marvil focused more on Alicia than Dylan, upsetting her, though she tried to hide it. Dylan went to the OCD benefit sale at Massie's house, and flirted with Brairwood boys with the other girls.
During October, Dylan has lost weight. Dylan and the PC throw a "Halloweenie" party to make their popularity rank come higher (after rumors that Massie is "slipping" on the social ladder.) Per Massie's design, the PC wears sexy devil costumes to school; however, Principal Burns catches them and announces that there will be uniforms as a result.
Dylan and Kristen fight over a boy named Derrick Harrington, better known as "Derrington" by the girls, who they met at the charity auction at Massie's. Kristen ends up being grounded during the Halloweenie party, and Dylan attends. She flirts with Derrington, and even flirts with him while on the phone with Kristen. In the end, he ends up chasing Olivia Ryan instead. Dylan ends up making plans to meet up with Derrington and go into the city to attend Tommy Hilfiger's birthday party as a date, which her mother has tickets to, as her sisters are also taking dates. Alicia convinces them to stop fighting when she texts Derrington to make plans with her instead, revealing he is "a dirtbag." Dylan makes up with Kristen and they hug. They also agree to be models for Massie's uniform design for OCD's uniform contest.
Alicia leaves the PC to start her own clique. Massie, Dylan, Kristen and Claire try to make her life as miserable as possible. But later on, Dylan is convinced that Massie is up to no good and considers joining Alicia's clique, The Unbelievably Pretty Committee. When Alicia's clique backfires, Dylan rejoins the PC.
Alicia's cousin Nina comes from Spain to Westchester and steals Alicia's, Claire's, and Massie's crushes. Nina becomes the most popular girl at school, surpassing the PC. Dylan and Kristen like Nina and Kristen and Dylan bet who will kiss their date to the Valentines' Dance first. (Dylan's date is Chris Plovert, who was on crutches from breaking his foot at skate camp.) The winner gets a pair of Nina's fabulous boots. Dylan gains a lot of weight over Christmas break and is more than happy when she gets a bad bout of flu and loses all the weight.
Octavian County Day and Briarwood are going on a week-long field trip to Lake Placid, and the PC sees this as a time to have some alone time with their boyfriends and crushes. Unfortunately, Dylan's mother, who is also the host of a popular talk show in Westchester, is chaperoning and is flirting with Mr. Myner. Dylan still likes Chris Plovert and tries to get him to like her at the trip to Lake Placid, but he likes Olivia Ryan. Dylan later sees her single mom and her geography teacher, Mr. Myner, in the den flirting and cuddling, so she runs off into the woods in shock and disgust. The PC loyally chase after her and they all get expelled. She blames this on her mother.
A new movie, Dial L for Loser is coming out and one of the actresses quits after hearing gossip about her co-star sexting her boyfriend, so the PC go audition for the role. Dylan caused the fight between the actresses (an attendant had her walkie-talkie on in the bathroom, and Dylan was gossiping about this with the Clique in the bathroom so the actresses hear over the microphone system). She caused one of the actresses to quit and is asked not to come to the audition. She stays in Westchester with Kristen, whose parents don't let her go to LA either, and is devastated they have to stay. Dylan is also on an all-bran diet, claiming she's gained weight again, and spends most of the time running to the bathroom.
Dylan and the PC search for the key that Skye Hamilton and the DSL Daters own that leads to "The Room" which was really an unused storm cellar that everyone in the school wanted to have possession of. They finally get it from Layne at the end of the book.
Dylan finds out that Kemp and Plovert think she's "like a dude, but hot" and goes to Skye Hamilton's end of the year party with both of them. They dump her, saying she's disgusting, and Dylan later confesses she pretty much turned into Shrek.
The Clique Summer Collection: Dylan
The Clique Summer Collection: Dylan
Dylan and her mom go to Hawaii and she meets Svetlana Slootskiya, a tennis star, who is very rude to her. Dylan really likes a guy named J.T (John Thomas) that she meets at the hotel she's staying in. She tries playing tennis to impress him, and gets tennis lessons from Svetlana. She isn't very good, and in the end, she gets dumped and J.T goes for Svetlana (who later becomes Ilana when Dylan signs a contract). In the end, Brady Erickson and Dylan end up together.
Dylan is on a new diet and is the only PC member besides Massie who is excited about the boyfast. However, she is tempted by Derrington, who has ditched his shorts for Diesel jeans.
Dylan and Derrington get in trouble and have to wash the bird poop off the teacher's cars together. Dylan and Derrington text, and she finds out he likes the Jonas Brothers and her. He kisses her at a soccer game after she gets jealous of his sister, thinking it is a new girlfriend. They go out behind Massie's back, unil Massie invites Dylan to a pool party where she shows up with Derrington and tells Massie she's dating him, even though Massie already claimed him. Massie pushes Derrington into the pool, breaking the claim, and then she pushes Dylan in because Massie is mad at her.
Dylan and Derrington's relationship is in the open and Dylan is super-happy about it. She is the second-in-command of Alicia's new clique, The Soul M8s. Massie thinks she and Derrington are color-coordinating their outfits. It is said she really loves marshmallows in this book, and in the end, she apologizes to Massie first.
Dylan maxes out with her card, and can't spend any more money. She gets her powder-pink nails sprayed with nail polish remover by Claire's friends, and Kristen helps her find the polish. In the end, Dylan doesn't believe Massie is poor.
Dylan gets her own reality TV show, saying the Kardashians need to make room for the Marvilous Marvils! Her sister, Jamie and Ryan, who weren't characters until the last book, get in a fight over Jamie's crush, and Dylan thinks her mom set it up for the reality TV show. She tries to keep the peace like Bruce Kardashian, but ends up getting accused of using Diarrhea pills, which the producer put in her purse. She is caught saying Massie is poor, and gets worried when the 1st episode is shown at Merri-Lee's Yves Party. Massie tells her not to worry, because reality TV shows are so fake, and she seems way funnier than her sisters. Dylan ends up a star.
Relationships
Friendships
Massie Block- Massie and Dylan are good friends, and remain good friends throughout most of the series. The only major fight they have was when Dylan dates Derrington. Even though Massie turns up her nose at Dylan occasionally, they love each other like sisters.
Massie with Dylan
Dylan with Alicia
Alicia Rivera- Alicia and Dylan haven't had any real fights, except for the formation of the Unbelievably Pretty Committee. In that fight, Dylan took Massie's side, but it wasn't an individual fight. Like Massie, Alicia sometimes thinks that Dylan's burping hobbies are gross, but they are still good friends.
Kristen Gregory- Dylan and Kristen's only fight is when they both like Derrington. Other then that, being the minor characters of the Pretty Committee, they seem to do most things together. They usually take the same side in arguments, run to get Starbucks lattes together, and help eachother when their blowouts stick to their lip gloss. These girls love each other like sisters.
Dylan with Kristen
Dylan with Claire
Claire Lyons- Dylan interacted with Claire the least of the girls during the first few months. She would bully Claire whenever Massie told her to, but otherwise Dylan kept to herself. Later, Dylan and Claire mostly eat gummies together, and Dylan doesn't seem to ever be bothered by Claire's presence.
Love Life
In Best Friends for Never, Dylan and Kristen are arguing over Derrick Harrington, the star goalie of the Briarwood soccer team. However, they both give him up for their friendship, and forget about their mutual crush on him. Dylan attends the Valentines' Day Love Struck Dance with Chris Plovert, a boy on crutches also on the Briarwood soccer team. From then in P.S. I Loathe You, she is dating Derrick Harrington. She sort of breaks up with Derrick in These Boots Are Made for Stalking, but she decides to hang with her friends instead.
Dylan
Trivia
Her birthday is between September 21st - September 28th. This makes Dylan the oldest of the PC, and a Virgo or Libra star sign.
Her designer motto: It only matters if it flatters.
She likes any fast-food restaurants.
She is the PC's source for show biz.
She plans to be a food critic and a plus-size model in the future.
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