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| Lucy Temby | Jul 4 2018, 08:41 PM Post #1 |
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Lucy Temby Character Basics Played By: Daisy Ridley Gender: Female Age: 99 (Vampire Years) (was 23 when turned) Race: Vampire Maker: Niklas Corte del Leon Fledgling(s): None yet Relationship Status: - Sexual Orientation: Pansexual (used to identify as heterosexual during mortal years) Appearances Are Everything ![]() General Appearance: Small, with dark hair and fashion of an older time, and skin ranging from icy pale when she starves herself, rather than feed, to more flushed and full of life when she sates her hunger. Height: 5'7" Hair colour: Brown Eye colour: Hazel Build: Average Special Features: Her eyes have grown more striking like those of her maker. Significant Other: Relatives:
Character Mini-Biography Lucy Temby spent the ealierst years of her life in a London orphanage before being taken in by a lonely man of middle-class means, a widower already into his early fifties, who had never had a child with his late wife, and needed something new to continue living for. His name was Corneilius "Neil" Tabiner, and he raised her, but most importantly (after some initial trouble) grew to become Lucy's friend. Their relationship was thus, and less of a father-daughter connection. But he took care of her, fought for her, encouraged her, right until the day he passed away. A well respected man, Corneilius was able to convince his employer to recommend Lucy, now an educated young woman, to a mutual acquaintance in the upper echelons of high-society, where she would serve as a Governess to their family. Neil saw it as a future for Lucy for when he was gone, already growing terminally ill by that time. Though he hid it for a time from Lucy, so as not to discourage her from her studies, it soon became impossible. In the Summer of 1907 she entered into a serious relationship with a young man she met through a friend at Finishing School (also an opportunity granted from Neil's good relations with his employer), and the two of them remained together for well over a year before drifting apart, due to resentment caused by her doctor's discovery that she would never be able to bear children. Wanting to marry and raise a family, Lucy's suitor left her to seek better prospects. It was a crushing blow to Lucy, leaving scars that remain today, after all these decades.... Hearing from Neil of this great opportunity for her, she was both excited and reluctant to go... she didn't want to leave him, as the position would entail moving into the country to live with the Brockett family. And though Neil could afford decent doctors, it was clear that his health was rapidly declining, and he insisted she go and not wait for him. Even though Neil suggested her taking this position might be the breath of fresh air she needed after a broken heart, Lucy refused to go, but a week later the choice was made for her... He died, Mon, April 15th, 1909, just after sunrise. After Corneilius' funeral had passed, Lucy made arrangements with the Brockett family and was soon driven by carriage to Brockett Manor. Residing there was Lord John Northway Brockett and his wife Lady Georgia Hopewell Brockett, along with their three children, two boys (Randal, 13, and Roger, 10) and a little girl (Juniper "June," 6). Over the next three years, Lucy grew close to the children, teaching and tending to the boys first, and then, before long it seemed, little June. Such was the closeness of their bond that it almost felt at times to Lucy, though she would never dare voice it to their parents, that she WAS a mum... in her own way, and it helped her to heal some of those aforementioned scars... for a time. Indeed for a time, it seemed like, as Neil had predicted, her new life at Brockett Manor was the 'breath of fresh air' that he had mentioned. But then, Lord Brockett, entering into some valuable real-estate in New Hampshire, decided that the time had come for the Brockett family to relocate their clan to America, for an indefinite amount of time, to a new manor house that had belonged once to a friend of his father. At first, understanding this decision purely as one of Lord Brockett's many business endeavourers, Lucy thought she and the children might remain in England, more for their sake, for the children protested, June most of all, for she had a great fear of drowning, and did not wish to undergo such a long voyage at sea, no matter how exiting the prospect of seeing the Statue of Liberty in New York seemed. And so, the decision made that they were ALL going, Lady Brockett insisting most of all, the Brockett family, along with Lucy, booked passage on a ship to America. Naturally, Lord and Lady Brockett, being concerned with all facets of the era's upper-class society, didn't choose just any ship, but the newest and most luxurious, and also the largest vessel ever built, the RMS Titanic, and they would be sailing on her maiden voyage under the esteemed captain Edward J. Smith, whom the Brocketts had sailed with aboard the RMS Majestic some years before, where they befriended him personally. And indeed it would be first class again that Lord and Lady Brockett sailed on the White Star Line's crowning achievement, socializing with some of the wealthiest and most influential people of the time, Lucy would be removed from all that, traveling instead with the children on Titanic's second class. The four of them shared two adjacent cabins with double berths, the boys in one, Lucy and June (who affectionately called Lucy 'big sister') in the other. And while the frivolous way Lord and Lady Brockett enjoyed the truest wonders the "Ship of Dreams" had to offer, while they left their children below, kept almost in a world apart from their parents, bothered Lucy, as it had on similar, but smaller trips in the past, she never voiced these concerns. But it would be on an historically ill-fated, moonless night, April 14th 1912 (by some cruel or ironic stroke of fate, the eve of the 3rd anniversary of Neil's death), that Titanic would sink, nearly three hours after hitting an iceberg that delivered the ship's mortal wounds below the sea. Of the approximate 2,200 souls on board, only around 1,500 survived. - More to come.... ![]() - Lucy Temby, March 1912 - (Taken on her 23rd birthday) |
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