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IC Information
Name: Frances "Fanny" Walters

Avatar: Sophia Myles

Occupation: Maid at the Townsend Boarding House

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Appearance: Fanny has a heart shaped face with ah high forehead and round, doll like eyes. She is curvacious, very agile and pale. She wears her hair long and curly in private, though she pins it back in a bun during work or sometimes lets it sort of hang loose. She has honey blonde hair and blueish gray eyes. She wears plain colors like browns, beiges, blues, and some muddy greens. She isn't one on fashion since she is only a maid. The uniform is black linsey-woolsey dress with a white pocketed linen apron and ruffled cap.

Personality: Fanny is a quiet, pensive person. She may come off sometimes as naive and a little young, though she is extremely mature and understands people and their character. She is easily made happy, but she sees the faults in society that make her either angry or sad. Injustice and immoralness also upsets her sometimes, though she is not a saint herself.

Fanny is shy around strangers at first. It takes her awhile to get use to them. With friends, it's another story. Fanny likes to be funny, though in a sarcastic way. She is a motherly like figure with her friends and with strangers who appear helpless. She is always helping with the younger childern. She is good at cleaning and can enjoy it. When she is cleaning, she will sometimes hum or sing, and her singing voice is quite pretty.

History: Frances grew up in Lindebo. Her mother was a maid and her father some nobleman who took off before she was born, or so she was told, and the mother's husband died two years after she was born. Fanny grew up in a household with three young girls about her age. At a young age she thought she was the girls' equal and had even shared a governess, though she was never treated the same. When she turned 13, the mistress of the household thought she was old enough to start doing her job around the house, cleaning because she had been partivularly kind hearted and liked the mother very much. A little shocked at the change of her mistress, Fanny began to assume her job as a maid, though she was allowed to still join the girls when they had their lessons.

When Fanny was 16, her mother took ill and died. This is when Fanny learned the true nature of the master of the house. He had been absent for most of her little life, but he came back and saw she was of no use to him since he didn't find her attractive and sent her away. In reality, he was her father and it was her mother he had an affair with. Fanny never found that out and he had felt too guilty to see her face everyday.

He did secure a job for her at the Townsend Boarding House where she had worked ever since. Fanny does odd little jobs sometimes for the mistress, but mainly she is just a maid who cleans the rooms and serves the guests dinner. She also keeps track of everything and writes it down in a secret journal.

Strengths: She is level headed most of the time and can mediate fights and find her way out of sticky situations. She is intelligent and quick (mentally). She is pretty, though could be much pretty if she was dressed in silks and pearls. Being a maid, most people don't see her so she hears a lot. Her education.

Weaknesses: She is stubborn sometimes and very willfull, though the thought of being thrown out on the streets scares her enough to obey. Fanny is afraid of being out on the streets at night or being left alone with no home to go to. She is also afraid of being a spinster.

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Hello there! Welcome to A&A, and Oooo, fun, we need a maid for the boarding house, yay!

I don't see many problems with this app. Just a few things:

She'd mostly have to keep it pinned up and covered up whenever in public, or she'll be thought to be a "loose woman." ;) But don't worry; as long as Olivia's not home, I don't think Katherine will kill her if she leaves her bonnet off once in a while.

I find it a bit odd that this didn't happen earlier. It was not unusual for children to work; she could have been asked to do chores from the age of ten or even before that. But of course it's up to you. Perhaps the mistress was a particularly kind-hearted person?

I would like at least one more weakness, please. Since she's not wealthy your weaknesses don't have to be "all that," but she is fairly educated, smart and pretty, so one or two more wouldn't hurt. Something psychological, perhaps? Is she afraid of something - does anything make her very uncomfortable? Feel free to take a look at a few other charries for ideas.

You'll be approved in no time.

Hiya and welcome to A&A! Glad to have you, especially since it’s obvious that you bothered to look around the site before applying. :)

I agree with what Kris said. I would add about the weakness that she is a maid; that means that she’ll be expected to work fairly constantly at the Townsend boarding-house and will not have all that much free time. If she wanted to go out and about during the day she would either have to be sent out to get something by the housekeeper or it would have to be during the small amount of time per day that she would have free for her own use. This might make a good weakness.

Then, her history in regards to the education and stuff is a bit irregular but not impossible. However, I do find it odd that her mother was not thrown out for having a child out of wedlock, especially if the father was the master of the house. The only way I could possibly excuse that is if the nobleman fellow was not married… however it seems he had three little girls and there was a mistress, presumably his wife. Therefore it would be really quite impossible that her mother would stay on in the same household.

Oh, except, if the maid was married, and people thought that Frances was her mother’s husband’s daughter, then it would also be fine. But you didn’t mention a husband for her mother so I figured she didn’t have one.

Hmm. And you should probably get with Katherine Townsend’s player, to find out what the livery at the boarding-house is, since that’s what you’d be wearing most of the time. It probably is just a black or dark grey dress with an apron over it, but you’d need to talk with her about it. :)

That’s all I have to add. Lukkin’ forward to playing with her (I have a charry at the boarding-house, too :) ).

EDIT: Uuups, I forgot to ask if you'd PMed your contact email to Kris?

Ok, I fixed somethings and made some changes.

GAH, sorry for my lateness here, I completely forgot you. >.<
Weaknesses are fine now and I see you specified about the mistress and the uniform. :) Good.

add "in private" and that's fine.

He took off? Didn't she live with his family? Another thing is; we're currently having restrictions on characters related to nobility. It's fine that he was a nobleman if you're not planning to have him show up in rp though. If you are, I'd like you to change his status to upper-class.

And the contact-info... The email you registered with, is that the one you regularly check?

Fix those things and you'll have my approval. Again, I'm sorry for the lateness. Feel free to join in the OOC games and suchlike. :)

Edit: Oh, and nice siggy.

Ok, I made all the changes, and no I am not planning on having her discover she has noble blood or something like that. Her mother died before she found out so no RPing her with her father. :)

And thank you. :D

Is your e-mail the one you registered with? Do you check it regularly?

Other than that: :banana: Approved. Now you only have to wait for Liz (mjinga).

I check my e-mail daily.

:mjinga: Approved. You're good to go, any thread that you can reasonably fit into. :)

It's suggested that you join one rather than starting a new one, since many other people are already involved in threads.