The Girls of Moorhaven

[Quaddy]

Well, yeah I put you with me. If you would prefer Henry, I'll of course switch you.

And, not particularly on the name. When I picked it, there were a couple of things I was thinking: his father was in the military, and stationed in Ireland, or was even perhaps a regional governor or something. Perhaps a bit of an eccentric, and Cillian got the short end of that stick with the funny name. Which is how I justified it. It would also play into why Gertrude was perhaps not so keen for Danielle to marry him; she might not like her third daughter very much, but she certainly doesn't want her besmirching the family name or anything.

If you want to change the name, I'm all for it. That's just how I thought about it when I created the names and whatnot.

[Aldersmaine]

When saying that Marian is dignified... Is it a sweet demure type of dignified or a pompous entitled type of dignified?

[Quaddy]

Have you ever read Little Women? She's a lot like Meg. Dignified as in polite and proper and...calming, I suppose. The king of person who keeps their head in chaos and makes people feel better about themselves.

She's also very conscious of the rules. She comports herself well, and would never be the one to run off and do something wild or...well, undignified.

[Quaddy]

Also, Tileira...the basics for the bio.

Name
Age
Appearance
Personality

Stuff like that. The only different sort of thing is a bit about their relationship with the family, as well as their relationship (so to speak) with the rest of the town. For example, Danielle is much closer with Mortimer than she is with Gertrude; she is also an illegitimate child, though Gertrude keeps this secret. This really affects her relationships within the household. And she's rather liked in the town except among the old, stodgy types. Stuff like that.

If you had something else to add, like specific characters you needed to make up for your character's personal story, you can include them in your bio, as well. So...altogether...

Name
Age
Appearance
Personality
Relationship with Family
Relationship with Townsfolk
Other (if necessary)

For the sisters: keep in mind that we have to look somewhat similar...just a slight thread that makes it obvious they're related. Genetics and whatnot. Obviously, your random recessive allele making an appearance will account for differences, but to have three very different sisters tends to detract from the notion that they are related. Even if it's only one thing...perhaps two sisters have the same bone structure, and then the third sister is tall and willowy like another, etc. They can look different, especially as Danielle is not Mortimer's daughter, but Gertrude has managed to hide that all these years, so...obviously she's not that different from the others.

Anyway, I'm sure you guys already knew that, but I wanted to remind the two writing for the other sisters that...you know, they're related.

[Quaddy]

Aaaaaand Matt, you're last on the list to add. Instead of going me into you as always, we're going to make you last and me first so we're still back-to-back, it's just the opposite of everyone else. So, you know, you're not second in every single one of my campfires.

[Matt]

Nah mate, I'm always happy to be your beau =P

I will have a think and get back to you on the name. I was more concerned that you knew and/or if you had a particular thought in mind because of the name. But I'll have some more musings.

[Quaddy]

I had an idea, as you saw. It was more to give someone a chance to play around with a character's background and whatnot. Lemme know what you think. Like I said, you've got time as you're up sixth. This is provided that Zeph gets back to me...

[Matt]

And how did you read my mind? I was literally about to suggest that I go last. hahahahaaha. Great minds =P

[kat1147]

So when it comes to deciding how each of the sisters look would you like to give us an idea of what you were thinking or would you like to just describe the parents and we can kinda go from there?

[Quaddy]

I just listen...well, read. You mentioned it's a bit difficult to always be up after me, so it only made sense to make you last in this one. But yes...we are great.

[Quaddy]

Well, Danni has auburn hair with perhaps a little more red in it than usual and hazel eyes. Gertrude is fair, with dark blonde hair and green eyes. Mortimer had dark brown hair and blue eyes. Gertrude is perhaps 5'3, with generous curves; she is a handsome woman, in her mid-forties, with fine features (fine as in delicate, not OK) and fair skin. Mortimer is a tall man, perhaps 6', and well-built with strong bone structure and whatnot.

Danielle is a bit taller than her sisters, with skin a little browner than is fashionable, and strong features that are perhaps a touch too...unrefined to be considered pretty. She did inherit her mother's curves, however, and luminous eyes (though hers are hazel and Gertrude's green). She would be considered to have an athletic sort of attractiveness by our standards, but her features aren't light or delicate enough to be considered fashionable for the time.

Both of her sisters are probably far more conventionally pretty, I'd say. Fair-featured, delicate, and whatnot.

[kat1147]

Sounds good =)

[Aldersmaine]

Then I'd say Marian would be a bit shorter, of dark brown hair and pale blue eyes. How about that?

Also I haven't read little women, I have read Pride and Prejudice however.

[tileira]

Ok *salute* I'll see if I can get this bio done today. Do you want me to sling it in here first, or just put it straight in the campfire?

[Matt]

To be honest, I've never successfully read Little Women. Started a gazillion times though haha.

[Quaddy]

Beast: Imagine Jane, but more down-to-earth and less...delicate. She's the one who keeps the household together. In fact, she's a lot like Lizzie, only without Elizabeth's archness, propensity for walking, etc. A rules-following Lizzie. And yeah, that appearance is totally fine.

Tileira: You can just post it directly into the campfire when it's you're turn/

Matt: I got about halfway through, read the synopsis on the interwebz, and watched the movie. I didn't have time to finish it for class.

[Matt]

Snap. Pretty much what I did. I think a good book to have read for this might be Middlemarch btw. It's long but it's got a lot of the dynamics of a village that you miss out on a bit in other 19th 'social romances'.

[Quaddy]

Never got there. I always kinda stuck with Austen as her writing didn't drive me up a wall. I got through Wuthering Heights for similar reasons, but I never need to read it again. Jane Eyre is more fun as a movie for me than as a book. Clearly, I don't much care for the Brontë sisters. I did rather enjoy Hardy...but not while I was actually READING Hardy. Only after...

[Quaddy]

Just for reference for everyone, the average height of a female at the time was 5'2 and the for a man was 5'8. Thus Mortimer, at 6', was quite tall for his time, as was Danielle's father at a similar height (a little shorter). For further reference, Queen Victoria (who will begin ruling approximately 25 years after the events of this story) was only 4'11 or something like that. So Danielle is quite a bit taller than the average and Lily is a little taller. It makes sense, given their Father's great height; their Mother, however, was only 5'3.

Also, we're in the Regency period. This means that George III isn't quite dead, but he's already gone completely crazy and so the Prince of Wales (who will become George IV) is effectively ruling the nation. George III will die in 1820, which is almost 10 years after our story, actually. Woo, history.

[Aldersmaine]

I kind of want to make Marian a little bored and sad in her own head, but afraid of being improper so she rarely expresses it?

[Quaddy]

Sure. Works for me.

[Aldersmaine]

Cool, It's just being the "together" and "dignified" sister seems a rather disappointingly boring life. she has to have some conflict going on. Else she'd be a background character rather then one of the mains.

[Quaddy]

Actually, I always wished I was the together and dignified person.

[Aldersmaine]

Perhaps on the outside. But I've never wished to be so within. I want to forever be internally dramatic and child-like. lol

[Aldersmaine]

Besides. Being the together and dignified person is like being the end of the story. Very little room for character development.