Intrenched Characters
Jeremiah "Mac" MacDonnell "If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England"- Rupert Brooke
Full Name - Jeremiah Blain MacDonnell
Story
Jeremiah MacDonnell was born on a farm about 15 miles outside of the city of Bristol. Ever since he was old enough, he, his father, and his older brother, Jonathan, had tended the farm. Because he had to help out the family’s income at a very early age, Jeremiah never really had a chance to get himself a proper education. Growing up, he mostly tended to the livestock around his farm and because of this he has a natural talent for animal husbandry and is particularly skilled with horses. Jeremiah’s early life was, for the most part, uneventful. His sister, Victoria, being born was probably one of the first large events that happened in his mundane life.
One day, when Jeremiah was eleven years old, he got himself in a situation that almost left his entire right arm crippled. When he was working with his brother Jonathon out in the field, MacDonnell somehow managed to catch his hand underneath the tiller of the family’s new plow head. In complete and utter shock, the young Jeremiah’s first instinctive move was to get himself loose from the machine. He did manage to free himself, but in the process lacerated his entire right arm. His brother quickly escorted him to the Bristol doctor. The Doctor said that MacDonnell was lucky that he had not been killed, but he was not sure that Jeremiah would ever be able to use his arm again because he had severed the nerve. Lucky for MacDonnell, he was able to use his right arm again, but he would forever have pains in his wrist and fingers.
When the Great War broke out, Jonathan immediately signed up with the wave of patriotic support for his country along with thousand of other young men. But the war was not all that it seemed and within the span of seven months, the letter appeared on their doorstep. Jeremiah’s brother had gone missing in action; this dealt a scarring blow on his family. After that, when the draft trucks passed by their fields, MacDonnell was forced to run and hide. His father feared that he might loose his remaining son to the claws of war.
Despite the fear of his father, Jeremiah felt an obligation to avenge his brother. When he got news that some of the local farm boys were running away to go sign up, he instantaneously put his name in that he was going with them. He stole away one night with the gang unbeknownst to his Father and Mother. However, in 1916, MacDonnell was still too young, but that did not stop him from enlisting under aged. He was put into the 144th infantry, because the cavalry was no longer taking replacements at that time.
Arts
[link] -- Mac (By Sketchysquirrel)
Friedrich Chaucer "The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion." - Kevin Patterson
Story
The Third son of a well-to-do Baron, Chaucer grew up in a very wealthy family and had a very privileged childhood. Under the watchful eye of his father, Friedrich was given all the best education and was admitted to the best schools on the British Isles. His mother, a Bavarian night-club singer, was the second wife of the Baron after his first wife passed away unexpectedly by reasons that were never confirmed. Although the autopsy showed high levels of arsenic, the family refused to believe that she had been poisoned. Being the third son, Friedrich was the farthest heir to the family fortunes behind his two step-brothers, William and Daniel. Because of this distance, Chaucer rarely, if ever, acted like the nobility he was born into. He was a demon of a child.
The second youngest in the family, after his sister Louisa, his parents were very protective of him and his well being. He hated this overbearing presence of his parents and often longed for the day that he could go out and be free of their shielding grasp. When Chaucer was about 12 years of age, his parents started traveling around world leaving him in his two older brother’s care for months at a time. They, if possible, were even worse than his parents, and when Chaucer got into Oxford at 18 years old, he embraced the chance of getting away from his home. His father was skeptical about his son’s attendance, but he finally gave in and Chaucer left home for the first time.
At first Friedrich was average in his classes, but, sadly, he got himself involved with the wrong group of people. He found himself entangled in a long confusing line of the black-market that ran itself in secret on the campus. Because he was much protected as a child, he had a naturally rebellious spirit cultivated within him and involvement in illegal doings gave him a sense of adventure. It, however, did not last; the group was discovered one night and was charged with criminal activity. His father had to bail him out of spending the next ten years of his life in prison. Furious with his son, Chaucer was nearly disowned but his brother William stepped in and saved him.
The year 1914 came around and Friedrich made up his mind to enlist himself as a reserve soldier. He left no record of his lineage so that he could serve as just an average enlisted man. He had separated himself so from his family that it took his father almost an entire year to find out that his son was in the army, but by the time he did find out; Chaucer was called to serve as a replacement. Being able to speak German, Friedrich was put in the 144th as a translator for the POWs that would be captured.
Arts
[link] -- Finger Guns (By ReggieTuesday)
Corporal André Bordeaux "Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Story
Born in the port city of Bordeaux France, from which he gets his last name. He was born André Delacroix to Yves and Adèle Delacroix. He grew up in a middle class family; his father worked at the dock, his mother fixed the sailors clothing. However when André was four years of age his parents became ill with a severe form of influenza and with in the month, the young André was left alone. Since his parents left no records of family relations, André was sent to an orphanage and thus became plain and simple André. He never remembered his last name or Delacroix partly because he never again used it.
When he was twelve years old he was adopted by a British business man that went by the name of Cardinal Remington. When he was brought to Britain, though, he spoke not a single word of English. It was then and there that Remington set out to teach André his second language. Remington christened André with the last name Bordeaux after the port city from which he came. Whenever Remington was away André would teach himself with the help of the house maid Faye. Although he never rid himself of an accent, he learned to speak English very well. At the age of seventeen he took up a job in the local news printing bureau and when he was 23 he met Virginia Blummenthal, one of the reporters for the newspaper.
Virginia and he started seeing each other on a daily basis for she was the one that had to run the first full copy to the head editor each morning. André eventually asked her to join him for dinner one evening and she readily agreed to do so. The two became close friends, though often André would have to repeat himself because of his accent or would have to try to find ways around English words he did not know. Virginia was always there
The two eventually came to be engaged, and the wedding would have gone through had a war not broke out in Europe. André never enlisted like other young men of his age, partly because he was a foreigner and would have had to gone through a lot more trouble to enlist than a citizen, but most of it was because he was scared. The media had taken the war and twisted it to look like it would be over as soon as it started.
André finally was forced to enlist by pressure from the people around him who worked at the news printing bureau. He was soon shipped off to the training camp; there he met Friedrich Chaucer and Jeremiah MacDonnell. Within the month he was promoted to corporal because he showed good conduct and presence. When Andre actually saw combat for the first time, the calm and quiet persona came undone and he proved to have a straight shot. He, however, never saw the beauty in the fight like the posters portrayed it. It was then and there he decided that he couldn’t wait for the war to be over so that he could get back to His Fiancée back home.
Arts
[link] - "Farewell, My Love"
[link] - "Christmas With You"
Sergeant Percival Maude Flea Virginia Blumenthal "A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea." - Honore de Balzac
Story
Born in South Carolina, Virginia’s Childhood was a strange one. She grew up in South Carolina, but one day her father got ideas of moving to Oklahoma for the new opportunities of the fledgling state. In 1899, the family packed up and moved west, hoping for the thrill of adventure, but getting nothing but a few almost unusable acres of land. Things only got worse from there; When Virginia was sixteen her father succumbed to a strange illness. Soon Virginia and her mother were left alone and without a man running the house, they had trouble getting by.
When she was nineteen she met a man by the name of Mike Belford, and in two years time the two were happily wedded. Both looked for a chance to get out of the Oklahoma territory, so they packed up and headed for Kansas City, Missouri. The city only looked welcoming, but a few weeks in, with neither of the new couple able to find work, the truth and hardship that marked the cities black underside started to engulf them. Mike, try as he might, was never able to find work and Virginia could only ask so much fro her sewing and washing services.
One day Virginia made the decision to go down to the local bar and Brothel and sign herself over as a dancer. There she met Stephanie and Melanie, who were to be her fellow can-can dancers. She never told Mike about this choice but when he found out he was furious. Sadly, the problems only got worse, but never once did Virginia allow herself to be bedded, despite the wants of some of the patrons. This was her way of staying loyal to Mike. However, one day she came back to their small house to find him gone and single note expressing his love for her, but how they could never be together. The note also continued to say about how they were too young when they made the decision to wed and how they should have stayed at home. Virginia, broken and in disarray, took up the last of her money and set out across the ocean for England, looking to start anew.
Start anew she did, She went form Virginia Belford the bar dancer to Virginia Blummenthal the reporter. Though she was never given anything good to report on because of her gender she took what she could get and ran with it. She was well liked around the news office. While she was in England she met a man by the name of André Bordeaux, whom she took a shine to. However, she never told him about her past; for fear that he would not accept her and leave her just like Mike had done. With the out break of the First World War, Andre Enlisted. Not wanting to be the lonely Fiancée at home she instantly signed up for the Red Cross. She took a crash medical course and instantly started serving the soldiers on and off the battlefield. André was delighted the first time he found out that she was now part of the medics.
With the war’s end no where in sight, Virginia can only hope that her husband-to-be’s safe return home from the front; safe and unharmed.
Arts
[link] - "Farewell, My Love"
[link] - "Take me in Your Arms"
[link] - "Christmas With You"
Corporal Basil "Stiff" Monroe IO Alois Hipple Shane McKinley POW Wolfgang Schreiber POW Ludwig Maas Squadron Leader Joseph "Shorty" McLain Judithe Sable Remi O' Toole Major William Brown Hauptmann Gottlieb von Alpenheimer
Artistic
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