Character's Full Name: Winona Erskine
Nickname: Winnie
Reason: none
Name deriative: mother gave her a white yet tribal name
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE:
Age (does she look it?): 18 (appears about 15 until you look into her eyes)
Height: 5’1”
Weight: 98lbs
Eye color: Hazel
Hair (color/length/style): Coppery red that falls in gentle waves to her waist, incredibly thick and soft, often worn in a single braid down the centre of her back
Favourite Color: peach
Education: her mother taught her how to read and write, and indian healing
Religion: no real religious habits, but believes in indian gods as well as the whiteman’s gods
HABITS:
Smokes: No
Drinks: No
Hobbies: loves to ride horses and is an excellent seamstress
BACKGROUND:
Hometown: doesn’t really come from a township, her father, a trader and her mother an indian squaw lived in a three house hold community frequented by trappers year round
Type of Childhood: not happy, but not sad, her mother shielded her from the harsher aspects of their rugged little community
First Memory: meeting her mothers parents and being taken away from them by her father
Most Important Childhood event that still affects her: her father sending her younger brother back to her mothers family
ATTITUDE:
Most at ease when: when alone and at peace with her surroundings
Ill at ease when: under scrutiny by the rest of the town
Priorities: to find a life where she is accepted for who she is
Philosophy: If you are at peace with your soul you are never truly alone
PERSONALITY
Greatest source of Strength: The fact that she is now free of her husband
Greatest Weakness: Fear of the townsfolk who shun her
Soft Spot: love of horses
Biggest Vulnerability: She cannot understand why the townsfolk treat her the way that they do
TRAITS:
Optimist or pessimist: Pessimist Why: She believes that she is somehow dirty because of the towns opionions
Introvert or extrovert: Introvert Why: Has never had the opportunity to mingle with many other people
Drives and Motiviations: She is a survivor and will always look for a way to move ahead with her life.
Talents: skilled horsewoman, talented with a rifle and a fine seamstress and cook
Extremely unskilled at: mixing with people
Biggest Regret: Losing her brother
Minor Regrets: Leaving her mother behind
Biggest Asccomplishment: Surviving the accident that killed her husband
Character’s darkest secret: Her Indian heritage
Does anyone else know: Not yet
BIO
At the age of 17, Winona had been sold by her father to a trapper that had been passing through their tiny community and had focussed his lustful gaze on the only remaining child of the James Erskine.
All in all, it wasn’t such a bad deal for the young girl. In return for being the dutiful wife she was taken from the only home she had ever known and treated like a slave. Which was no different really from how her father had treated her from the time she had been old enough to walk. The only difference now was she was expected to share the bed of the man her father sold her too. She realised now that her mother had spent her early years shielding her from the unwanted attentions of the men that had passed their home.
It had only been a matter of time before her father succeeded in raising the price he demanded for his daughter and tore her from her mothers loving care. The one thing she would always be grateful for was the fact that part of the deal her father had forged was a legally binding wedding. The certificate for which now resided amongst her spare clothing, proof that she wasn’t the brazen harlot the townsfolk accused her of being.
