Post by Maggie Parker on Jan 20, 2008 21:45:30 GMT -5
Name: Margaret Anne Parker
Nicknames: Maggie. Or Miss Parker.
Age: Twenty-One.
Sex: Female.
Sexuality: Straight.
Personality: Maggie is a young woman who absolutely hates undue confrontation and will do anything to avoid it. She’s rather quiet and reserved, part of it from where she was brought up being told that her place was to be a quiet, if anything, subservient one. However, she finds it hard to keep her mouth shut about something if she feels passionately on a subject. Maggie has always been one to choose what’s best for the greater good and as much as she hates confrontation, she‘ll step in if she senses in an unfairness in something going on around her. She’s very giving and she can’t stand to see someone in a position where they’re hurting, so she’ll do anything she can to help. Being kind and helpful have always seemed to just be in her nature. It’s easy for her to get attached to a person or a place so it’s twice as easy for her to get hurt when there’s separation, and she’s probably one of the most loyal people you’ll ever meet. Maggie is stubborn, almost to a fault, and she won’t back down for something for the life of her, if only out of spite sometimes.
Apperance:
Occupation: School Teacher
Family:
Andrew Parker - Father
Eleanor Parker - Mother
Virginia Hughes - Younger Sister, married to Lawrence Hughes
Short History: Born in New York City to a notoriously rich business tycoon and his wife, it always seemed like Maggie would have the charmed life that most weren’t blessed with. She grew up with the best of everything; clothes, friends, education, anything that you could think of. As the oldest child in her family, there was a plan, a map, for what her life would be like as she grew up. Maggie spent her time in Etiquette classes, learning to play the piano, how to embroider and the like. She spent most of her free time reading, something that she loved to do. It was never a question as to how her future would wind up, it was a statement; she would marry into another wealthy family (‘love’ had no hand in the matter - socioeconomic status did), eventually she would be a mother, and then she’d live happily ever after. The thing is, no one ever asked her if that was what she wanted simply because it was just what was to be expected. Maggie, however, wasn’t entirely sure that the life being handed to her was the one she wanted and she decided to resist. She refused the marry the man that her parents had chosen for her when she was eighteen, simply because she was determined not to be pushed into the role that her family had chosen for her. She knew what she wanted and it wasn’t what everyone around wanted for her but she tried not to pay it much mind. When Maggie was twenty, her younger sister was married, something that only shamed Maggie’s parents. Her younger sister had beaten her to the alter; something that was, to put it lightly, highly frowned upon by Andrew and Eleanor. The thought of going out west, the promise of being apart of the exciting things that were to happen there, what with the building of the railroad that would supposedly run across the whole country, was very tempting to Maggie. And when she heard word from a friend that a developing town in Arizona Territory was looking for someone who’d be willing to teach at the new school there, Maggie jumped at the chance to go. She packed her bags without a backwards glance and headed West.
Sample RP: *BATS EYELASHES.*
Nicknames: Maggie. Or Miss Parker.
Age: Twenty-One.
Sex: Female.
Sexuality: Straight.
Personality: Maggie is a young woman who absolutely hates undue confrontation and will do anything to avoid it. She’s rather quiet and reserved, part of it from where she was brought up being told that her place was to be a quiet, if anything, subservient one. However, she finds it hard to keep her mouth shut about something if she feels passionately on a subject. Maggie has always been one to choose what’s best for the greater good and as much as she hates confrontation, she‘ll step in if she senses in an unfairness in something going on around her. She’s very giving and she can’t stand to see someone in a position where they’re hurting, so she’ll do anything she can to help. Being kind and helpful have always seemed to just be in her nature. It’s easy for her to get attached to a person or a place so it’s twice as easy for her to get hurt when there’s separation, and she’s probably one of the most loyal people you’ll ever meet. Maggie is stubborn, almost to a fault, and she won’t back down for something for the life of her, if only out of spite sometimes.
Apperance:
Occupation: School Teacher
Family:
Andrew Parker - Father
Eleanor Parker - Mother
Virginia Hughes - Younger Sister, married to Lawrence Hughes
Short History: Born in New York City to a notoriously rich business tycoon and his wife, it always seemed like Maggie would have the charmed life that most weren’t blessed with. She grew up with the best of everything; clothes, friends, education, anything that you could think of. As the oldest child in her family, there was a plan, a map, for what her life would be like as she grew up. Maggie spent her time in Etiquette classes, learning to play the piano, how to embroider and the like. She spent most of her free time reading, something that she loved to do. It was never a question as to how her future would wind up, it was a statement; she would marry into another wealthy family (‘love’ had no hand in the matter - socioeconomic status did), eventually she would be a mother, and then she’d live happily ever after. The thing is, no one ever asked her if that was what she wanted simply because it was just what was to be expected. Maggie, however, wasn’t entirely sure that the life being handed to her was the one she wanted and she decided to resist. She refused the marry the man that her parents had chosen for her when she was eighteen, simply because she was determined not to be pushed into the role that her family had chosen for her. She knew what she wanted and it wasn’t what everyone around wanted for her but she tried not to pay it much mind. When Maggie was twenty, her younger sister was married, something that only shamed Maggie’s parents. Her younger sister had beaten her to the alter; something that was, to put it lightly, highly frowned upon by Andrew and Eleanor. The thought of going out west, the promise of being apart of the exciting things that were to happen there, what with the building of the railroad that would supposedly run across the whole country, was very tempting to Maggie. And when she heard word from a friend that a developing town in Arizona Territory was looking for someone who’d be willing to teach at the new school there, Maggie jumped at the chance to go. She packed her bags without a backwards glance and headed West.
Sample RP: *BATS EYELASHES.*