EFFY STONEM

'Elizabeth "Effy" Stonem' is a fictional character in the television series ''Skins''. She is played by Kaya Scodelario.

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Characterisation

Character history

References

Characterisation

She is Tony's tearaway sister and the only person he truly cares about. The official website characterises her by placing the primary cast as "sugar and spice and all things nice compared to Tony's little sister and her shadowy ways."^[1] She enjoys to go out at night and party. She has a deep obsession with her lighter and candles, and stares into flames, rarely if ever saying a word. In "Effy", she describes how she feels towards the ones she loves and hates - how she hates the people she should love, which she laments.
Tony had previously commented that she is participating in a sponsored silence,^[2] although this could have been sarcastic. When asked by Michelle why she never speaks, she simply doesn't answer.

Character history

In "Effy", Tony is forced to care about someone other than himself for once when the one person he cares about, disappears. When Effy and Tony are having a meal with their parents, they are both grinning at each other whilst their father tells them a story they've heard many times before. Later on, we see Effy sneak out the house and Tony, seeing her go, climbs into her bed wearing her red and black striped socks and hiding under the cover, only socks exposed, so that when their parents come in, they think they see Effy fast asleep and leave her be. We see Effy, and her rather talkative friend, meet up with some boys who know Effy. One of the boys is called Spencer, and him and Effy end up kissing and taking pills together. Effy ends up being taken to a sports hall where she takes drugs through a needle and passes out, speaking her first line in the whole series before passing out.
Josh Stock had been the one to orchestrate the event, so he could get revenge on Tony. Having Spencer break Tony's phone, he promises she will only get to a hospital for her apparent OD if Tony has sex with his unconscious sister, relating to Tony's scheming last week. Eventually, Tony is in tears in just his boxers, begging, and Josh lets him take Effy to hospital where her parents, Tony and Sid are told she has taken clean pharmaceuticals and will be fine.
In the series finale, we learn her parents have moved her to the public school which Josh and Abigail attend in the aftermath of her drug episode. More layers to her character appear as she derides Tony verbally as a wanker for his treatment of Michelle, who had come to her previously in an attempt to understand Tony. She witnesses as Tony is hit by a bus, and screams in horror.

References

1. Channel 4 - Entertainment - Skins - Us
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