Post by Elizabeth on Dec 6, 2009 17:03:43 GMT -5
Player's Name: Elizabeth
Model Used: Anne Hathaway
Name: Elizabeth Sedgwick
Age: 32
Appearance: Dark brown hair with very pale skin and bright blue eyes. She is hauntingly beautiful, but offputting to men because of her sense of self-possession and tendency to argue for what is right.
Family: She is a distant relative of the Robert Sedgwick who came down from New England to conquer Jamaica for England during Cromwell's Western Design. Although she was raised among the dour Puritans of Massachusetts, she never quite fit in there, and, when rumors began to fly that she may be a witch, her family quickly schemed to move her away from Boston. She was betrothed to marry an Englishman who was shipping out from London to take up ownership of a huge plantation in Jamaica. It was with a heavy heart that she embarked from Boston to marry some plantation owner that she had never met. She did not agree with the practice of slavery. She felt sorry for the poor Africans, and also for Indians, whom she had seen slaughtered for no reason. She has experienced nothing but intolerance throughout her entire life, and expects the Caribbean to be a place of even greater cruelty and barbarity.
Residence: She is on a small barque bound from Boston to Kingston at the start of roleplay.
Occupation: Soon to be wife of an English plantation owner who will, upon reaching Jamaica, gain a reputation as one of the wealthiest and cruelest of sugar growers.
Personality in Brief: She questions most of what she has been taught about religion, but the indoctrination of her Puritan upbringing left her very idealistic, and unsuited to the rigors of this world. She speaks out when she shouldn't if it involves trying to help those who are helpless. She is extremely mismatched to her husband, who is nearing fifty and who will treat her with a firm hand once she arrives. It is in his nature to go so far as to strike anyone who defies his authority. She wishes to find some way to escape from a life that has been foisted upon her, and dreams of another sort of society based on fellowship, equality and civility.
Ship (if applicable):
History: She should have been married much earlier in life, and already started having children, but the men were intimidated by her personality and education, her gentle father, now deceased, having made sure that she received the same sort of education as a young man. Her stepmother, who contracted this marriage, had fed the rumors of her being a witch because she had made friends with one of the Indian shamans who had taught her about herbs for healing and relieving pain. The stepmother wanted to enjoy the wealth that Elizabeth's father, a wealthy merchant, had left behind, and to deprive Elizabeth of the portion that had been left to her. Being highly intelligent but unworldly, Elizabeth did not fight for the money that would have brought her independence, and is now bound for a marriage that will bring her nothing but unhappiness, especially because her stepmother has written to her husband to be telling him that his godly duty is to break Elizabeth's will because it is a product of sinful pride.
Model Used: Anne Hathaway
Name: Elizabeth Sedgwick
Age: 32
Appearance: Dark brown hair with very pale skin and bright blue eyes. She is hauntingly beautiful, but offputting to men because of her sense of self-possession and tendency to argue for what is right.
Family: She is a distant relative of the Robert Sedgwick who came down from New England to conquer Jamaica for England during Cromwell's Western Design. Although she was raised among the dour Puritans of Massachusetts, she never quite fit in there, and, when rumors began to fly that she may be a witch, her family quickly schemed to move her away from Boston. She was betrothed to marry an Englishman who was shipping out from London to take up ownership of a huge plantation in Jamaica. It was with a heavy heart that she embarked from Boston to marry some plantation owner that she had never met. She did not agree with the practice of slavery. She felt sorry for the poor Africans, and also for Indians, whom she had seen slaughtered for no reason. She has experienced nothing but intolerance throughout her entire life, and expects the Caribbean to be a place of even greater cruelty and barbarity.
Residence: She is on a small barque bound from Boston to Kingston at the start of roleplay.
Occupation: Soon to be wife of an English plantation owner who will, upon reaching Jamaica, gain a reputation as one of the wealthiest and cruelest of sugar growers.
Personality in Brief: She questions most of what she has been taught about religion, but the indoctrination of her Puritan upbringing left her very idealistic, and unsuited to the rigors of this world. She speaks out when she shouldn't if it involves trying to help those who are helpless. She is extremely mismatched to her husband, who is nearing fifty and who will treat her with a firm hand once she arrives. It is in his nature to go so far as to strike anyone who defies his authority. She wishes to find some way to escape from a life that has been foisted upon her, and dreams of another sort of society based on fellowship, equality and civility.
Ship (if applicable):
History: She should have been married much earlier in life, and already started having children, but the men were intimidated by her personality and education, her gentle father, now deceased, having made sure that she received the same sort of education as a young man. Her stepmother, who contracted this marriage, had fed the rumors of her being a witch because she had made friends with one of the Indian shamans who had taught her about herbs for healing and relieving pain. The stepmother wanted to enjoy the wealth that Elizabeth's father, a wealthy merchant, had left behind, and to deprive Elizabeth of the portion that had been left to her. Being highly intelligent but unworldly, Elizabeth did not fight for the money that would have brought her independence, and is now bound for a marriage that will bring her nothing but unhappiness, especially because her stepmother has written to her husband to be telling him that his godly duty is to break Elizabeth's will because it is a product of sinful pride.
