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Character Name: Felicity Merriman
Canon: Felicity: An American Girl
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Felicity’s book series takes place during the context of the revolutionary war of the 1770s, in the town of Williamsburg, Virginia. Though the series itself plays fast and loose with dates and certain details to fit the story and age demographic, the events portrayed are fairly true to the spirit of the era, if not always in the details. The series doesn’t shy away from how war affects everyone in town; loyalist families face the threat of harassment and imprisonment simply by association, while patriot families who own plantations run the risk of their homes being raided and burned down by English marines. The series also touches on the subject of animal abuse, limited freedom for women, and slavery. In the latter, while Felicity’s family seems to treat their slaves humanely, it doesn’t shy away from the fact that her family, especially her grandfather and mother, make use enslaved people.
Felicity herself is the eldest of what would become four children, and as such is often expected to help manage her family and assist her mother, however, in truth she would rather spend time in the stables or helping customers in her father’s general store. Several times a week, she attends lessons in embroidery, writing, and etiquette, of which she shares with her friend Elizabeth, who comes from a loyalist family. Though no longer a soldier, her father often spends days at a time sending supplies to the patriot army, and Felicity herself has unwittingly assisted the patriots by alerting a plot to steal the town’s gunpowder, while another time discovering a spy sent to record and report patriot plantations for raiding. The war itself is complicated for her, as she believes her father and what he stands for, but she knows loyalists can also be good people, and it’s a constant balancing act between keeping friendship and peace with loyalists and remaining loyal to her family. At the point she arrives in Asgard, it’s in the autumn after she turns eleven, with her father and his apprentice taking care of the store during a busy season, Felicity finds herself in charge of keeping house while her mother and younger sister are out in the country.
Canon Point: Final chapter of the book ‘Lady Margaret’s Ghost’
Age:11
God Houses: List two to three gods that might suit your character, and provide a sentence or two of justification for each. Please note which one your character will be choosing ICly once they enter the game.
Tyr: Felicity would relate more to this god than the others. Much as she treasures and admires loyalty, in the times she lives in, she admires even more someone with the courage to defend their ties, instead of constantly switching sides. Helping Penny escape carried the risk of hanging, and spying to catch the men stealing the gunpowder carried the risk of being caught and imprisoned as spies themselves. Later in the series, she and her friend Elizabeth try to find the identity of the man who framed Felicity’s father for treason, knowing that if they’re caught, they could face injury or worse. Even in her every day life, it takes a lot of courage for her to own up to her mistakes, especially when making rash judgements about people; she has a temper and will lash out, however, she’ll immediately regret it later on, but it takes her a great deal of courage to admit it, because she knows she’s in the wrong and fears the breaking up of possible friendships.
Heimdall: Not a soldier by any means, Felicity’s sense of loyalty is one of her stronger traits. When she’s forced to help her horse Penny escape an abusive owner, she never gives up hope that she might find her again. Her best friend, Elizabeth, is a loyalist, and yet that doesn’t stop Felicity from being her friend, or imploring her family to help out when Elizabeth’s father is imprisoned. She gave up drinking tea to support her father’s belief, knowing that to do so might be considered rude at her lessons, and when her father’s apprentice, Ben, runs away to join the army, she knows the risks if he’s caught, and scolds him for breaking his agreement with her father, but that doesn’t stop her from giving him food and helping him get on his way to Yorktown.
Personality:
Most modern day people would describe Felicity as a tomboy, preferring the outside and shunning anything ‘girly’, but that label is rather unfair. It’s true that she prefers nature and being outside, but that is because she knows she’s good at outdoor activities such as gardening and riding/taking care of horses. She’s not entirely scattered brained either, but rather she prefers mental stimulation or projects that give her a sense of accomplishment; it’s much easier for her to sit still and read or work on embroidery, than it is to sit and just mend clothing. In contrast, she does admire those skills in other ladies, such as her mother and Miss Manderly, her teacher. She can be very diligent, helping with the household when her mother is stricken with a severe fever, or helping to run her father's general store when he and Ben are taking supplies to the army. She’s also found to have a good ear for music, able to replicate the chords on her grandmother's guitar just after being shown once or twice by her teacher, and then a drum pattern she learned a day earlier.
From her father, Felicity has developed a strong sense of justice and loyalty, especially against those being abused or bullied, regardless of what the law clearly states. When she enables an abused mare to run away under cover of night, she’s well aware that it’s stealing and she could hang for it if caught, but she considered the owner’s abusive treatment of the horse to be an even worse offense. Though her best friend, Elizabeth Cole and her family are loyalists and therefore ‘enemies of the colonists’, Felicity doesn't let that get in the way of her friendship and hates the idea of her leaving for England for their family’s safety. Though she believes in the patriot cause, she hates that things have become so muddled that there are people willing to shift loyalties and accuse others of treason to get what they want, or destroy property in the mix.
This sense of loyalty can also backfire on her, especially when combined with her temper. Though she’s working on improving it, it’s too easy for her to lash out at someone if she feels they’ve betrayed or didn’t stand with her. That someone might be forced against their will to act, or perhaps not as courageous to stand up for themselves, it takes someone to stand and make her understand the situation in order for her to listen to them. Her temper itself isn’t the violent sort, instead, she will lash out verbally and storm off from the problem.
Felicity’s main problem impatience and wanting to do what’s right, and damn the consequences. Some might consider this brave, while others as foolhardy, as she often puts herself and her friends in danger, but she is well aware of the risks. Sneaking out of the house to catch someone in an act, or using her own horse as bait to catch a spy, Felicity knows the dangers involved, but feels that to do nothing would be even worse than being caught. She can’t stand the idea of waiting around doing nothing if her friends or family need help and will often try to think up ways to solve such issues on her own, but while the plans she creates could or do work, they often involve the risk of ‘too many things going wrong.’ When worrying about the state of the militia against the better trained British army, she accidentally forgets about the old guitar she left at her friend’s garden, and retrieves it just as it starts to rain. Her impatience and need to do things quickly, such as when she climbed onto the roof to pick apples, sometimes put her in a ‘less than safe’ situation and usually end with her feeling embarrassed and ashamed, but confessing that ‘it didn’t seem dangerous at the time'. Her deepest fear is something happening to her family, either to imprisonment or losing their home, in both cases, at no point does Felicity consider talking to an adult about her issues, feeling that no one would believe her without proof. By all accounts, Felicity is still a child, and however much she tries to help out and be useful, she has to constantly be reminded that she can’t take on everything at once.
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If there was ever a time Felicity needed courage, this was one such time. True, she always did daydream of traveling to other places, places farther and more exotic than her mother’s plantation, but those dreams were always with her family, or at the very least when she was much older. True, there wasn’t any immediate threat, so she knew shouldn’t feel as scared as she was now, but everything was so strange and she didn’t know anyone. She was so used to having someone to talk to, either her father, mother, Ben or Elizabeth. For the first time in her life, Felicity felt alone.
She’d been hiding in the quarters they assigned her, not a proper chamber, one that she had to herself, but one with shared bunks, like a sailor, She’d drawn the curtains around herself for some privacy, and sat curled up with her eyes closed, as though doing so she’d find herself back in Williamsburg, like she’d found herself here.
Of course, it didn’t work, and inwardly she scolded herself for being such a child. She was eleven years old, nearly a young lady; her parents trusted her to be the lady of the house back home. Hiding here wouldn’t do her any bit of good, however which way she tried to look at it.
She took a few deep breaths, before forcing herself to leave her bunk. The people she met on arrival had provided her clothes, clothes that didn’t involve stays or layers of petticoats. She had seen women in various styles of breeches and no one seemed to look twice at them. Felicity knew, if she could change her clothes to look more like those around her, instead of sticking out, she’d feel better. She’d worn breeches before, but that was always been in secret, and to sneak out. Never had she been allowed to wear breeches in the open.
The chance of clothes, with a length of blue and weight cloth to hold her hair back, Felicity felt marginally better. Stepping out of the house, being able to stretch her legs, she tried to focus on that, tried to focus on what she could do, and not what wasn’t. Her father and grandfather always instructed her to be logical, and right now she needed that as much as her courage.
Taking a deep breath, she made her way towards one of the paths. She’d heard..she’d hoped, there were stables about, and perhaps they might let her borrow one of the horses if she’d asked nicely. Horses she could work with; horses would be the one familiarity in a world full of so many strange things.
.
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Character Name: Felicity Merriman
Canon: Felicity: An American Girl
Canon Information:
Felicity’s book series takes place during the context of the revolutionary war of the 1770s, in the town of Williamsburg, Virginia. Though the series itself plays fast and loose with dates and certain details to fit the story and age demographic, the events portrayed are fairly true to the spirit of the era, if not always in the details. The series doesn’t shy away from how war affects everyone in town; loyalist families face the threat of harassment and imprisonment simply by association, while patriot families who own plantations run the risk of their homes being raided and burned down by English marines. The series also touches on the subject of animal abuse, limited freedom for women, and slavery. In the latter, while Felicity’s family seems to treat their slaves humanely, it doesn’t shy away from the fact that her family, especially her grandfather and mother, make use enslaved people.
Felicity herself is the eldest of what would become four children, and as such is often expected to help manage her family and assist her mother, however, in truth she would rather spend time in the stables or helping customers in her father’s general store. Several times a week, she attends lessons in embroidery, writing, and etiquette, of which she shares with her friend Elizabeth, who comes from a loyalist family. Though no longer a soldier, her father often spends days at a time sending supplies to the patriot army, and Felicity herself has unwittingly assisted the patriots by alerting a plot to steal the town’s gunpowder, while another time discovering a spy sent to record and report patriot plantations for raiding. The war itself is complicated for her, as she believes her father and what he stands for, but she knows loyalists can also be good people, and it’s a constant balancing act between keeping friendship and peace with loyalists and remaining loyal to her family. At the point she arrives in Asgard, it’s in the autumn after she turns eleven, with her father and his apprentice taking care of the store during a busy season, Felicity finds herself in charge of keeping house while her mother and younger sister are out in the country.
Canon Point: Final chapter of the book ‘Lady Margaret’s Ghost’
Age:11
God Houses: List two to three gods that might suit your character, and provide a sentence or two of justification for each. Please note which one your character will be choosing ICly once they enter the game.
Tyr: Felicity would relate more to this god than the others. Much as she treasures and admires loyalty, in the times she lives in, she admires even more someone with the courage to defend their ties, instead of constantly switching sides. Helping Penny escape carried the risk of hanging, and spying to catch the men stealing the gunpowder carried the risk of being caught and imprisoned as spies themselves. Later in the series, she and her friend Elizabeth try to find the identity of the man who framed Felicity’s father for treason, knowing that if they’re caught, they could face injury or worse. Even in her every day life, it takes a lot of courage for her to own up to her mistakes, especially when making rash judgements about people; she has a temper and will lash out, however, she’ll immediately regret it later on, but it takes her a great deal of courage to admit it, because she knows she’s in the wrong and fears the breaking up of possible friendships.
Heimdall: Not a soldier by any means, Felicity’s sense of loyalty is one of her stronger traits. When she’s forced to help her horse Penny escape an abusive owner, she never gives up hope that she might find her again. Her best friend, Elizabeth, is a loyalist, and yet that doesn’t stop Felicity from being her friend, or imploring her family to help out when Elizabeth’s father is imprisoned. She gave up drinking tea to support her father’s belief, knowing that to do so might be considered rude at her lessons, and when her father’s apprentice, Ben, runs away to join the army, she knows the risks if he’s caught, and scolds him for breaking his agreement with her father, but that doesn’t stop her from giving him food and helping him get on his way to Yorktown.
Personality:
Most modern day people would describe Felicity as a tomboy, preferring the outside and shunning anything ‘girly’, but that label is rather unfair. It’s true that she prefers nature and being outside, but that is because she knows she’s good at outdoor activities such as gardening and riding/taking care of horses. She’s not entirely scattered brained either, but rather she prefers mental stimulation or projects that give her a sense of accomplishment; it’s much easier for her to sit still and read or work on embroidery, than it is to sit and just mend clothing. In contrast, she does admire those skills in other ladies, such as her mother and Miss Manderly, her teacher. She can be very diligent, helping with the household when her mother is stricken with a severe fever, or helping to run her father's general store when he and Ben are taking supplies to the army. She’s also found to have a good ear for music, able to replicate the chords on her grandmother's guitar just after being shown once or twice by her teacher, and then a drum pattern she learned a day earlier.
From her father, Felicity has developed a strong sense of justice and loyalty, especially against those being abused or bullied, regardless of what the law clearly states. When she enables an abused mare to run away under cover of night, she’s well aware that it’s stealing and she could hang for it if caught, but she considered the owner’s abusive treatment of the horse to be an even worse offense. Though her best friend, Elizabeth Cole and her family are loyalists and therefore ‘enemies of the colonists’, Felicity doesn't let that get in the way of her friendship and hates the idea of her leaving for England for their family’s safety. Though she believes in the patriot cause, she hates that things have become so muddled that there are people willing to shift loyalties and accuse others of treason to get what they want, or destroy property in the mix.
This sense of loyalty can also backfire on her, especially when combined with her temper. Though she’s working on improving it, it’s too easy for her to lash out at someone if she feels they’ve betrayed or didn’t stand with her. That someone might be forced against their will to act, or perhaps not as courageous to stand up for themselves, it takes someone to stand and make her understand the situation in order for her to listen to them. Her temper itself isn’t the violent sort, instead, she will lash out verbally and storm off from the problem.
Felicity’s main problem impatience and wanting to do what’s right, and damn the consequences. Some might consider this brave, while others as foolhardy, as she often puts herself and her friends in danger, but she is well aware of the risks. Sneaking out of the house to catch someone in an act, or using her own horse as bait to catch a spy, Felicity knows the dangers involved, but feels that to do nothing would be even worse than being caught. She can’t stand the idea of waiting around doing nothing if her friends or family need help and will often try to think up ways to solve such issues on her own, but while the plans she creates could or do work, they often involve the risk of ‘too many things going wrong.’ When worrying about the state of the militia against the better trained British army, she accidentally forgets about the old guitar she left at her friend’s garden, and retrieves it just as it starts to rain. Her impatience and need to do things quickly, such as when she climbed onto the roof to pick apples, sometimes put her in a ‘less than safe’ situation and usually end with her feeling embarrassed and ashamed, but confessing that ‘it didn’t seem dangerous at the time'. Her deepest fear is something happening to her family, either to imprisonment or losing their home, in both cases, at no point does Felicity consider talking to an adult about her issues, feeling that no one would believe her without proof. By all accounts, Felicity is still a child, and however much she tries to help out and be useful, she has to constantly be reminded that she can’t take on everything at once.
Writing Sample: Provide ONE of the required writing samples detailed on the applications page.
If there was ever a time Felicity needed courage, this was one such time. True, she always did daydream of traveling to other places, places farther and more exotic than her mother’s plantation, but those dreams were always with her family, or at the very least when she was much older. True, there wasn’t any immediate threat, so she knew shouldn’t feel as scared as she was now, but everything was so strange and she didn’t know anyone. She was so used to having someone to talk to, either her father, mother, Ben or Elizabeth. For the first time in her life, Felicity felt alone.
She’d been hiding in the quarters they assigned her, not a proper chamber, one that she had to herself, but one with shared bunks, like a sailor, She’d drawn the curtains around herself for some privacy, and sat curled up with her eyes closed, as though doing so she’d find herself back in Williamsburg, like she’d found herself here.
Of course, it didn’t work, and inwardly she scolded herself for being such a child. She was eleven years old, nearly a young lady; her parents trusted her to be the lady of the house back home. Hiding here wouldn’t do her any bit of good, however which way she tried to look at it.
She took a few deep breaths, before forcing herself to leave her bunk. The people she met on arrival had provided her clothes, clothes that didn’t involve stays or layers of petticoats. She had seen women in various styles of breeches and no one seemed to look twice at them. Felicity knew, if she could change her clothes to look more like those around her, instead of sticking out, she’d feel better. She’d worn breeches before, but that was always been in secret, and to sneak out. Never had she been allowed to wear breeches in the open.
The chance of clothes, with a length of blue and weight cloth to hold her hair back, Felicity felt marginally better. Stepping out of the house, being able to stretch her legs, she tried to focus on that, tried to focus on what she could do, and not what wasn’t. Her father and grandfather always instructed her to be logical, and right now she needed that as much as her courage.
Taking a deep breath, she made her way towards one of the paths. She’d heard..she’d hoped, there were stables about, and perhaps they might let her borrow one of the horses if she’d asked nicely. Horses she could work with; horses would be the one familiarity in a world full of so many strange things.
.
