Many thanks to Josielynn for her input and ideas.
1. Veronica Mars
If he'd heard the name before he met her, Wallace would have imagined some crusty old librarian with red, frizzy hair, bad breath, and long, ankle-length skirts. After he catches a glimpse of her in the halls, those thoughts are banished to wherever those things go, and now he can't remember a time when "Veronica" didn't mean his blonde, kickass best friend.
2. Marshmallow
When they're not fighting or bickering or trying to save each other, sometimes Veronica and Logan have the chance to actually act like a regular couple. It's during these times that Veronica realizes that her jaded, cynical boyfriend can actually be quite the romantic.
(It's also during times like these that she figures that there's some truth to Wallace's claim of her "marshmallowness," because how else would she explain the way her insides go all soft when Logan opens the door for her, brings her hand-picked flowers, or takes her on a picnic on the beach?)
3. Quietness
People think that being on stakeouts all the time must be as glorious and exciting as Hollywood portrays it to be—but Veronica knows the truth.
Stakeouts are boring.
She often brings a Calculus book and tries to study, but the fact that she needs to be on alert for the money shot means that she rarely gets any work done. Still—despite the long hours of sitting silently in her car with her camera in her hand and no one around, she learns to enjoy the peace.
When Weevil and his gang bother that peace for the first time, she's a bit annoyed but lets it go. The second night, she spots a dark figure in leather parked just a couple blocks too close to be a coincidence. The third night, she stalks over and demands why Weevil is following her, but he's gone before she arrives.
Eventually, she learns to live with the fact that, for some reason, the leader of the PCHers likes to follow her around on stakeouts, and eventually, Weevil's bike gets parked closer and closer to her car, until it's a habit for them to comfortably wait together for whatever shot will get the Mars family another paycheck.
And, Veronica thinks, glancing at Weevil out of the corner of her eye, maybe having someone else to share the quietness isn't so bad after all.
3. Girly
Even after they've both graduated from Hearst—she's gone on to become a full-fledged FBI Agent and he's made his mark in the world of millionaires getting richer through the stock market—Logan can make Veronica feel like a pre-teen getting ready for her first date.
After she catches herself fussing over which black, soft skirt to wear—the knee-length or the calf-length one—Veronica finally decides that there's just something about Logan Echolls that brings out the worst in her. (She doesn't admit that the look on his face when she arrives is worth the hours she took to prepare.)
4. Pink
Duncan sees the pink girl and sometimes Veronica likes that. It isn't often that she goes back to the pre-Lilly Veronica—the one with the long blonde hair and innocent eyes. The one who depended on Duncan for guidance and leadership.
Today's Veronica's all too comfortable taking leadership on her own—but sometimes, when she just wants to relax, she sits back and lets Duncan take the lead. It's not often that this pink-clothed, sweetheart Veronica comes out, and as of now she's never let anyone see that side of her but Duncan.
She thinks that it's because he's the only one who loved her before and after Lilly's death—the only one who's seen pink Veronica and leather-wearing, snarky Veronica, but loved them both.
5. Superhero
Piz sees Veronica as a superhero. He has no illusions—no matter how hard he works, radio-broadcasting will never be as heroic as saving lives or solving mysteries, and Veronica has done both before most teens realize what they want to do with their lives.
Still—if he can't be the hero in their relationship, Piz knows he'd be perfectly content to be her sidekick, because what superhero doesn't need someone to hold them after they're done saving the world and remind them why it's all worth it?
6. Pictures
His grandma injures her hip one day and Weevil takes over cleaning duties at the Echolls household until she gets better—under the radar, of course, he couldn't have word leaking out that he was playing maid to an 09er. He does enjoy snooping around in Logan's room, however, and one day while he's cleaning under the bed, he stumbles upon a box labeled BEFORE LILLY in big, bolded letters.
Of course he opens it, and to his surprise the first picture that falls out isn't that of his dead ex-girlfriend, but of a different blonde with a pink sweater on and MARS printed on the back of her soccer uniform. As he shoves the box back under the bed and leaves the room, there's only one question on Weevil's mind.
Why does Echolls have a picture of twelve-year old V in a box under his bed?
7. Justice
She may say that the only reason she helps others is for the cash, but everyone who knows anything about her knows that Veronica never turns away anyone who really needs help—and she never actually asks for money until the job is done and the case is closed.
Just ask Mandy. And Justin. Both will swear on everything they hold dear that Veronica Mars fights for justice with everything she has—and they wouldn't be far off. Veronica Mars fights for justice with everything she has—and even things that she doesn't have.
When Wallace, Weevil, and her other friends understand that, suddenly doing her favors don't seem like such a big deal.
8. Father/Daughter
Veronica used to hate the fact that her father wasn't normal. She used to wish that Keith was an accountant, or a pharmacist—something boring and normal that wouldn't require so much sacrifice. Something that wouldn't have put Veronica in the position of choosing between him and her friends.
Something that wouldn't have led to her mother leaving.
But then, she would never have met Wallace—she can't imagine her pre-Lilly self doing anything more than asking Duncan to cut Wallace down for her—or found Mandy's dog, or learned how strong she could really be. And that's why, at the end of the day, Veronica realizes that she'd never give up the father she has now.
9. Cherished
To be perfectly honest—Duncan was a gentleman and Logan could be romantic, but Leo's the only one who ever made her feel like the only girl in the about his barely-there accent and magnetic smile—perhaps the saying about Italians being the best lovers was true after all.
10. Smart
She may be a 5.0 student who manages to fight crime on the side and still lead a decently well-balanced life—but when it comes to realizing just how much her friends love her, Veronica can be incredibly dense. But that's ok, because they're all too willing to remind her.