Aria Montgomery

"That pink stripe was so ugly!"

- Aria to Noel Kahn Aria Marie Montgomery is one of the main characters in The Pretty Little Liars; Rewrite and starts the story as the artsy girl who moves away to Iceland. She is portrayed by Hailee Steinfeld.

Biography
Aria is the eldest child of Ella Montgomery and Byron Montgomery, and the older sister of Mike Montgomery. Aria was known as the artsy girl who had a pink stripe in her hair because she was expressing herself, but when she returns three years later she has grown up removing the pink stripe and having black hair. During her friendship with Aria, she caught Aria's dad making out with a college student named Meredith Sorenson. Alison automatically took Aria from the situation and automatically comforted her.

During the night Alison went missing, Aria was asleep but nobody knows if she done something that night....

When three years later, Aria returns to Rosewood and she is clearly isn't happy about moving back since she clearly loved Iceland. The relationship between her and her dad is clearly strained to the point of where she ignores him completly. When she drops Mike off to tryouts, she sees Noel Kahn and he gives her the nickname 'Finland' even though Aria protested. Soon she met Ezra Fitz in a bar and they make out in the bathroom before finding out he is her teacher. Soon Aria get's texts about it, linking them to Ezra but also her dad. Ezra and Aria date for a little before -A reveals their secret to the police getting Ezra arrested.

Due to the strain on Aria and Alison's relationship, -A rarely attacked her due to having not a lot of dirt on her but she was still forced to deal with the misfortunes -A brought upon her. -A has ruined her relationship with Ezra and pratically forced Aria to ruin her parents relationship by manipulating her to tell her mother about her fathers affair.

Personality
Aria is the artsy girl of the group due to her being creative and artistic which lead her to being an outcast in Rosewood before becoming friends with Alison. When Alison formed a clique with Aria, Emily, Hanna, James and Spencer, Aria finally got the feeling of being popular which affected her life drastically. After three years, Aria has matured not only in looks but in personality, she has become more brave, artistic and ambitious.

Physical Appearance
Aria is 5ft 8 in the three year jump, she has grown a lot and her face has lost is chubby cheeks and she has matured. She has lost her pink stripe and now has adapted her own style. She has shoulder length black hair and overall has become beautiful which she knew but she never flaunted it unlike others such as Mona or Hanna.

Chapter One
Aria is the first to arrive at Spencer's barn, automatically dropping to the floor and smelling the gras which confuses Emily as she arrives. She waits for the rest of the clique and then heads into Spencer's barn once James arrives. After hours of gossipiing, Alison suggests they drink so she pours whiskey into a cup and hands it to Emily who drinks it without a word. Aria then drinks which causes Spencer to say 'Be careful Aria, drink too much and you'll tell us all your secrets'. Which caused Ali and the gang to laugh, but soon after they all passed out. When they woke up, Alison and Spencer were gone but only Spencer returned. Soon after, Aria moved to Iceland where she lived for three years.

Chapter Two
Aria returns from Iceland after living there for three years but of course a lot has changed for exaple she has lost her pink stripe and has overall matured. Aria clearly isn't happy to be back in Rosewood, by the way she describes it and how overall she just gives off to her parents who notice. Aria's mother asks her to drop her brother off to try outs so she grabbed the car keys and left without saying goodbye to her father whom she saw cheat on her mother three years prior. Aria drops Mike off and sees Noel who automatically takes an attraction to her, giving her the nickname 'Finland' and he starts to flirt with her but Sean calls him over so he leaves, Aria then has a flashback of seeing her dad cheat so she rushes away to a bar where she meets Ezra Fitz, they get to know each other before making out in the bathroom. Aria then returns to school the next day where she sees how Hanna and Mona have taken over but more importantly that none of her old friends talk anymore. Aria then walks into her english classroom and her new teacher walks in, he turns around and Aria sees none other then Ezra, the guy she made out with but suddenly she gets a text, "Aria: Surprise! I wonder what your pig puppet will have to say about this..." which hinted to the pig pippet her father had bought her. That afternoon, Aria headed home and started to read the book 'The Scarlett Letter' before she got a text from Hanna, she rushed off to Alison's house and found out they found a body...they found Alison. Aria attended her funeral and found out she wasn't the only person getting -A texts, all of the group was. After the funeral, all of their phones ring with the same text from the same person. "I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything. -A"

Chapter Three
After the funeral, Aria sat in her room with her headphones in but all she could think about was -A and then she received a text. "Maybe he fools around with students all the time. A lot of teachers do....Just ask your dad! -A P.S. Wonder what your mom would think if she found out about your dad's little, uh, study buddy... and that you knew!" Suddenly Aria rushes downstairs to see her happy parents so she slowly goes upstairs and texts -A, "Don't you dare! I'll kill you!" before she suddenly falls asleep. When she wakes up, she sees Alison which causes her to be shocked but during their conversation black liquid starts to pour out of Alison before Aria's eyes jolted open showing it was a dream. Aria meets with the others and discusses who could be -A, before A reveals that James had a relationship with Eric Kahn which Aria didn't really care about. During English, Aria and Noel paired themselves together and decided to do a scene from Harry Potter and added in a kiss scene which they practiced in class causing Ezra to get jealous which is what Aria wanted. Aria then attended Noel's party and actually flirted with Noel before Ezra calls and Aria goes over to his place and they start to make out. But in the morning, Aria and Ezra wake up to the police banging on the door and Ezra lets them in before he gets arrested. Aria then recieves a text from -A revealing that -A had reported Ezra.

Chapter Four
Three years prior to Alison being found dead, Aria and the group was trying on different clothes even James tried on some on Jason's but then Alison saw something that horrfied her, Toby's face was pressed up against the glass so when the girls saw him he just smirked and jumped away. Alison then rushed outside and was planning to prank him, little did Aria know Alison was going to accidentally blind Jenna Marshall. Three years later, Aria rushes into her room crying after Ezra had just been arrested but her mother followed her screaming at her. After a few snappy scentences, she comforted Aria which caused her to reveal the affair between Meredith and her dad which then caused Ella to go downstairs and for Byron to leave. Her and the rest of 'the liars' call and discuss -A due to getting more texts which causes Spencer to demand they all get to her house. Once they dom Spencer reveals another piece to the Jenna Thing and even said she belives Alison's murder and A is....TOBY! They then changed converstation in hopes they could just dodge A and maybe dodge each other all together but James then asks Aria if he could take Mike to the Foxy which she happily says yes to due to Mike having a huge crush on him, Aria then offers to go with Hanna as friends to which Hanna agrees. Aria then wakes up the next monring to see that Mike had stayed over at James' house but when she opens the door, Noel standing there due to him usually giving Mike a ride to school but due to him not being there he offers one to Aria who accepts. When Aria gets in, she sees yearbooks thrown around in the back, all to the page her face is on. Aria thought Noel was stalking her until she relaised he wanted to see the Aria he knew with the pink stripe which she thought was ugly but she thought Noel was cute. At 10am that morning, Aria and the liars recieved a text that would shock them to their core. "Breaking News Bitches, Ian Thomas has been arrested for my murder!  But now imagine this headline, five teenages arrested for attempting to murder fellow classmate Jenna Cavanaugh! Be careful my Pretty Little Liars, I'm always watching  -A"

Ezra Fitz
Ezra and Aria started of innocent, just a bar make out session but it turned into something extremly illegal when Aria out Ezra was still her teacher, and she still had a relationship with him. Luckily for her, -A tipped off the police to what Ezra was doing and they arrested Ezra and telling Aria what he had been doing to her the whole time, he had been manipulating her.

Noel Kahn
Noel and Aria met in Kindergarten but he never really noticed her until she and the other liars formed a clique with the one and only Alison Dilaurentis who was the most popular girl in school. Even though he knew who she was, he never was romantically interested in her but he did not know that Aria had a huge crush on Noel. After three years, Noel is now the one with the crush and is constantly flirting in hopes to have a date with the girl he is pining for but little does he know she is seeing their english teacher. But at the end of chapter four, a romance seems to be blossoming from the two.

Trivia

 * She is the only liar to have texted -A back.
 * Her fashion style and overall personality is the complete oppisite of a 'typical rosewood' girl such as Spencer Hastings.
 * Aria had a pink stripe before the three year jump!

Comparison to TV show and O.G Book!



 * In the T.V show, Aria is only in Iceland for one year however in both books she is there for three.
 * In the show, Aria is quite small where as in both books she is quite tall. This is due to Lucy being only 5'2" where as Hailee is 5' 8"
 * In the book covers, she is portrayed by Olga Alexandrovskaia.
 * In the show, she is portrayed by Lucy Hale.
 * The show has Ezra marry Aria but in the books she ends up with Noel. The ending for the rewrite hasn't been released yet...
 * in the rewrite the Aria and Ezra relationship ends the quickest whilst the show never ends it completly.