Cindy Mackenzie When Mac was introduced, her class issues dominated her character: she was the perpetrator of an elaborate con in an attempt to get back at the rich kids and to get money for a new car which she desperately needed. Then the show itself went on to seriously drop the ball on these issues, never bringing up money in regard to Mac again, focusing only on her solidly-coded-middle-class computer skills, having her date an 09er, and show up at college without a word as to how she was paying for it. Mac gets a decent amount of fic, being involved in several popular het and femslash pairings.
Veronica Mars Everything above for Mac goes double for Veronica. Veronica was never meaningfully coded as lower-class, as she spent her childhood as a honorary 02er. As the eponymous character, she features in a large share of VMars fic.
The only one of the recurring characters in VM that struck me as working class was Weevil. Veronica is definitely middle class, seeing as her dad is a P.I. and the same goes for Wallace whose dad is a cop. We never find much out about Mac's parents (that I remember anyway), but as you say, she seems pretty middle class in how she's written throughout the show, and even though her first episodes have many class issues, that's easy to dismiss given that the kids she (and Veronica for that matter) compare themselves to, are filthy rich upper class kids. Their families can easily be middle class and still not have a very high income.
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Cindy Mackenzie
When Mac was introduced, her class issues dominated her character: she was the perpetrator of an elaborate con in an attempt to get back at the rich kids and to get money for a new car which she desperately needed. Then the show itself went on to seriously drop the ball on these issues, never bringing up money in regard to Mac again, focusing only on her solidly-coded-middle-class computer skills, having her date an 09er, and show up at college without a word as to how she was paying for it. Mac gets a decent amount of fic, being involved in several popular het and femslash pairings.
Veronica Mars
Everything above for Mac goes double for Veronica. Veronica was never meaningfully coded as lower-class, as she spent her childhood as a honorary 02er. As the eponymous character, she features in a large share of VMars fic.
The only one of the recurring characters in VM that struck me as working class was Weevil. Veronica is definitely middle class, seeing as her dad is a P.I. and the same goes for Wallace whose dad is a cop. We never find much out about Mac's parents (that I remember anyway), but as you say, she seems pretty middle class in how she's written throughout the show, and even though her first episodes have many class issues, that's easy to dismiss given that the kids she (and Veronica for that matter) compare themselves to, are filthy rich upper class kids. Their families can easily be middle class and still not have a very high income.