Mary-Ann Davis {South Carolina}

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Character Information

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Full Name: Mary-Ann "Mary" Charlotte Davis
State: South Carolina
Capital: Columbia
Country: The New Confederate States of America
Affiliation: Secessionist
Date of Birth: May 23, 1788

Appearance:
Standing at 5’3” and weighing around 120lbs, Mary-Ann is about the average height and weight for someone in her area with a relatively average and muscular build (which is probably a result from all of the activities that she’s had to and opted to take a part of in order to keep her economy alive). She has a rather smooth and pale complexion; the only note worthy mark on her body is a fairly large scar on her back that she bares from the battles during the Civil War. Her hair, a shade of brown, falls to about her collarbones and is somewhat straight, she normally styles it with bangs that hang to her eyes and are somewhat messy. Her eyes are a shade of blue that’s been described as a baby blue, but really they aren’t that light. Her face is somewhat rounded.

Likes: (Give us details please~!)

• Socializing – In various shapes and forms, she loves getting out and mingling among people rather it’s by shopping or just going to a big get together or just a simply barbeque in someone’s backyard. When Mary-Ann is out among people that she can relate too, she feels more like herself than she does when she’s with people that she dislikes. Socializing is only one of her many escapes and comes in many different shades from elaborate parties to carnivals to barbeques in the backyard and even camping and picnicking.
  
• Music – From classical to country, Mary-Ann loves music in all of its different shades which ties into one of her more shining passions. Even with social panic, Mary-Ann has kept the tradition of symphony alive and visits the symphony hall at least once a month, if that.
  
• Dancing – Tying in with socializing and music, Mary-Ann adores dancing. It’s her favorite way to escape even though some of the people that are her neighbors aren’t exactly very good at it. She loves to dance and laugh with the people that she cares about and when she dances, her younger and more carefree self comes out and it’s out for the rest of the night.
  
• Nature – She adores nature and all the things that come with it as well as all the hobbies that come with it. She loves to be outside and around animals and plants because it makes her feel calm if anything. She also loves to be outdoors with the people she cares about and has come to adore camping and picnicking and even hunting with others.
  
• The Beach – She loves the beach and the water and swimming in the water and fishing and all the things that come with the beach. All the things accept lying in the sand and tanning and those stupid ‘romantic’ walks on the beach (though she used to love walking on the beach).
  
• Movies & Theatre – Pretty much anything involved with movies and plays are alright in Mary-Ann’s book. Movies in particular have been extremely popular with her since the 1920s and there isn’t a town in South Carolina that can consider itself a town if it doesn’t have a movie theatre.
  
• ‘Good’ Food – Who doesn’t love that wonderful southern taste! Mary-Ann loves to cook food, to eat food, to smell food, and even to talk about food. It indeed makes her world go round and she loves food more than even her own siblings sometimes. She likes to cook most and can be found cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner by hand almost every day.
  
• Being Creative – And just about everything else that goes with that idea, she loves making things with her hands and doing things with her hands much more than just sitting around.
  
• Independence – Self determination, Freedom, and all that jazz. She is a big fan of being independent to make her own choices about things that involve her and her life, which is why she’s an avid supporter of the state’s rights movements throughout the years.
  
• Religion – Mary-Ann is a well behaved religious woman (of the Protestant kind) who loves God and the Church and the Bible a great deal, even in this hectic time and age.
  

Dislikes: (Same as likes)

• Federalism – Yes, she is still going on and on and on about that fact and the fact that she hates anyone who supports Federalism and the Federalists with a passion. Even the fact that she agreed to help join the Union again pisses her off sometimes and she tends to go on long rants about her hate of this.
  
• Losing – She greatly dislikes the ideas of losing even though she’s lost a lot of things in her lifetime from various wars to friends to even lovers, she’s done a lot of losing and that’s probably why she hates it so much. Anyway, the idea of losing anything to anyone these days really gets her going on and on and on about past failures and how they will never happen again.
  
• Betrayal – Mary-Ann greatly hates being betrayed and takes any sort of even minor betrayal very personally, to the point that she will probably scorn the person who has done the betraying for a very long time. She’s prone to holding grudges, so it’s best to watch out because she’ll hate people and things forever unless someone else convinces her otherwise, which rarely happens.
  
• Stress – Mary-Ann has quite an extreme anxiety problem and doesn’t take well to stress often doing whatever she can to avoid it. When she can’t avoid it, she tends to shut herself down and has a hard time controlling her anxiety problems. Under extreme stress, she’s prone to panic attacks and horribly emotional breakdowns that are unrivaled by any of her other emotional displays.
  
• New York – Don’t ask questions about it.
  

Strengths:

• Stubborn – Once Mary-Ann has an opinion on something, she won’t listen to anyone else around her, which is great when she’s striving towards a goal that’s good for everyone else. She doesn’t like other people’s opinions of her really affect how she works and what she does, because in her mind, their opinions don’t really matter. The only one that does is, in fact, hers.
  
• Strong – Mostly in a physical sense. South Carolina possesses a strength that most others don’t really expect, especially when they’re on the receiving end of her violence. It is a strength that probably comes from the fact that she’s a farm girl and has always had to stay in shape in order to get anything done. And I do mean anything, especially after the loss of slaves when she had to start doing a lot of the planting and harvesting herself.
  
• Good With Nature – Mary-Ann is a real outdoors girl and the general picture of the “farmer’s daughter”. She can hunt, fish, swim, work with farm animals, and grow things whenever she’s in a pinch, which means that she doesn’t really need to rely on outside help for resources, though she often does collaborate with others in order to get exactly what she needs. She’s also not afraid to get her hands dirty.
  
• Intelligent – Though she sometimes doesn’t display this fact because she acts on her emotions, she is extremely well taught in the ways of just about everything from arithmetic to politics to war strategies, but again this strength is often outweighed by the fact that she acts on her emotions. Never-the-less, she is very smart.
  
• Cunning – At least that’s the word she uses, the right word might actually be manipulative. She knows how to bat her eyes and generally get what she wants from the others that are around her and if that doesn’t work, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get her way, which is both good and bad and sometimes doesn’t work quite the way she planned.
  

Weaknesses:

• Stubborn – A strength and a weakness, Mary-Ann is so headstrong that she refuses to listen to what anyone else says or things about just about anything that she’s already developed an opinion on. There is almost nothing that can sway here, which is often what gets her into trouble if only because she refuses to look at it from someone else’s point of view unless she really respects them, but even then she won’t accept their views as true. EVER.
  
• Hypocritical – To an almost detrimental point, she refuses to admit when she’s done something wrong but is very quick to point out that someone else has done or is doing the exact same thing that she’s doing or done. This is something that she’s come to realize and has been trying extremely hard to accept, but hasn’t been able to do so yet. Her work on this habit is on hold.
  
• Bitter – Yes, she’s a very bitter woman and isn’t quick to let anyone in or trust anyone at all because of this fact. It also leads to her being a bit cruel to those who are in happy relationships or really happy anything, at least when she’s in one of her down days.
  
• Emotional – Mary-Ann tends to do everything based on the emotion of the moment, which often gets her into a great deal of trouble because, as stated above, she’s very bitter and strives for revenge. Her emotions don’t swing as much as they used too and she has them mostly in control, but they still get control of her more often than not.
  
• Poor Economy – Pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Her economy sucks horribly.
  

Personality:
Mary-Ann is a rather colorful person, but very few get the chance to really see the different sides of her personality perhaps because when you first meet her she seems rather one-sided with that one side being a side full of bitter hate and resentment possibly towards the entire world. This really isn’t true, but it’s what almost everyone will tell you about her: That she’s a bitter woman who is out to destroy everyone if only to further her own interests. She holds strong grudges, has a flaming temper, and has no problems with shooting someone’s head off if they so much as think of bothering her when she doesn’t want the company. It’s because of this sharp and domineering impression that most people try to avoid her, but those who know her well enough know that it’s not all there is too her.

Under the outer layer of uber-bitch is a very headstrong woman who is willing to do whatever it takes to reach her goals. Mary-Ann has very deeply set views and opinions that are not easily swayed by other people which tends to make her seem like she’s rather hard to speak with when in reality she’s very open to talking to other people but not agreeing with them. She doesn’t mean to drive other people away, despite her habit of doing so; rather she doesn’t think that anyone else’s opinion should override her own. This wasn’t the way she always was but has grown after many abandonments and betrayals. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. It’s something that she’s come to live by accompanied with an idea that people just shouldn’t be trusted until they earn it.

Under this layer is her true self, a very kind and carefree person who really just loves to be with her friends. She loves to socialize and have a good time, just like anyone else and is willing to die to protect the people who have earned her trust (which is limited these days to those who earned it a very long time ago). She really only wants to be with the people she cares about and would rather forget about her troubles, but has a hard time doing this because she’s nervous that she’ll be stabbed in the back again. Once someone gets pass all of her fears and insecurities, it’s very easy to see why some people actually enjoy being around Mary-Ann. She’s just looking for a good time.

Relationships:
The New Confederate States of America – South Carolina leads the New CSA and acts as a sort of director of them, at least when it comes to the war efforts though she otherwise lets them do their own sort of thing as long as they (mostly) get along with each other. She views any member of the New CSA as a family member and is willing to do anything that she can to help them out, so long as it doesn’t interfere with her desires.
North Carolina – North Carolina is perhaps one of the only other states that South Carolina trusts with her life, if only because they’re related. North Carolina is often on the receiving end of Mary-Ann’s most vicious rants about her life and unlike anyone else; North Carolina doesn’t have much of a choice in the matter.
Virginia – South Carolina views Virginia as a sort of partner in crime, especially when it comes to leading the CSA in the war effort. Unfortunately, there’s also a bit of rivalry there (on Mary-Ann’s part at least) and it’s almost as if it’s a love/hate friendship half the time.
Florida – There is a deep hate that runs in South Carolina’s heart for the Sunshine state, if only because of the fact that Florida didn’t join the new CSA and is one of those horrible Unionists now. Florida is one of the examples of what happens when you betray South Carolina’s trust, or at least the horrible hate is.
The Pro-Union States – Those terrible Northerners, South Carolina thinks that each and every one of them is stupid and lacks the brain to do anything properly (even though it’s not true). She extremely bitter about the fact that they beat her in the first Civil War.
New York – A lot has happened between these two and it’s a complicated sort of relationships that they have. New York is perhaps the only Unionists that South Carolina won’t shoot on sight, but she seems to hold a bitter resentment towards him that runs deeper than anything else.

History:
There have been many attempts to tame the wild woman that is Mary-Ann but very few of these attempts have succeeded and the only two people who can say that they have done so are Arthur Kirkland and Alfred Jones, though really only Alfred. Arthur was the first European country to settle in Mary-Ann's land, at least successfully and at first they both got along wonderfully. She looked up to Arthur as a father figure of sorts and loved him a great deal at least until he started placing taxes and acting all father-ish. After that point, their relationship started to go downhill. The Revolutionary War, however, was hard for her to fight and she was extremely torn between fighting for her freedom with the others and staying under the support and protection of her father. Eventually, however, the need for freedom overcame her and she broke away from Arthur, forming her own government before even the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

After the Revolutionary War, Mary-Ann's hot temper didn't calm down at all. She was a major slave state and depended on her slave population to keep her economy stable, because her white population alone wasn't nearly large enough to grow and harvest all her crops. Right away she was signed the Articles of Confederate, possibly before any of them, and was eager to be able to determine how her state would be run on her own. When the Constitution came into being, she wasn't all to eager but accepted it. The Nullification Crisis that followed was one of the first times that Mary-Ann told Alfred she would leave the Union if he didn't protect her rights. The result of this crisis was a rather sharp punch to the fact by Mr. Andrew Jackson that Mary-Ann has to this day never forgiven. The events that followed were full of a huge amount of controversy that Mary-Ann doesn't like to talk about.

She well, however, talk about the war that followed and can rant and rave for hours about how there was nothing 'civil' about the Civil War. She was the first out of any states to secede from the Union and is very proud about this fact, expressing a deep and somewhat bitter dislike of President Lincoln as well as most of the Northern states. She did, however, rejoin the union with the end of the war despite how bitter she was. The war had left her economy in ruin and like many other Southern States, she began to take out her anger on the African-American population. She remained in a very 'Democratic' (it was the Democratic party at the time) and rebellious state for a rather long time. Surprisingly, however, desegregation in her state went rather smoothly as by the 60s she had widely calmed down at least in a racist sense.

Recently, things have gotten more troublesome with Mary-Ann, especially with the resurrection of the anti-federalism movements among the conservative states. Aside from Texas, she was once again the first state to secede from the Union in early 2013 and took a good deal of the Southern United states with her in order to from what is known by the rest of the country as the Neo-CSA, the New Confederate States of America, which she heads. She currently holds a belief that the rebels are kidnapping and torturing their victims until they beg for death and has begun to threaten people that this will indeed happen if they cross her even though she knows that this isn't true. She greatly hates any unionists with a passion and opening accepts any neutral states that need her help because hey, you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

RP Sample:
There are things in the world that are better left forgotten. Heartbreak, moments of pain, times of fear, failures. They are all things that were simply better left alone, things that are best forgotten if only for each individual own good. Some things were better to forget even if it meant forgetting all the good times too, all the smiles and the laughs and all the joy that was shared. These too, were often things that were best to be forgotten for the well being of personal sanity and personal stability. Yet sometimes they were the hardest things to forget. The tears, those were easy to let go, to release, but a smile is something that stays with you forever, especially when it’s been worked so hard for.

Mary-Ann liked to consider herself the master of forgetting things, but there had never been a lie bigger than that. She never forgot anything in her life, ever and it wasn’t because she couldn’t. It was simply because she wouldn’t let herself. Every smile and betrayal stuck out in her mind like they had all happened only hours previous to remembering them when they’d happened decades ago. It was one of her talents though, to forget things, even though her real talent was found in pretending to forget. That, she was the master of.

But some things cannot be forgotten and one of those things was the Civil War and the reasons behind it and the things it caused for her. She would never forget those things and she would never pretend like she’d forgotten. No. She would remember the betrayal forever and this time, she wouldn’t make the mistake of losing.

The victory of the New Confederate States of America was something that would be remembered throughout the rest of history.

That was for certain.

OOC Information

Name: Dawn or any variation of the name!
Time Zone: Mountain Standard Time
Other Characters: Arizona
Chantango: DixieDancer
Codewords: United Forever

[Eric Buellib Moss]

OKAY DAWN.

YOU HAVE DENIED FOR THREE REASONS.
1. New York is in her dislikes.
2. You are much too angsty.
3. Chillyadmin is a bitch.

Okay okay, I'm lying. You know you are accepted. <3

And although I'm tired and I really don't feel like it, you do deserve a rant and rave about your app, cause it was amazing okay? <3

I'm going to start off by saying, that I love, LOVE, LOVE South Carolina. And by loving South Carolina, I mean the state itself, and I sincerely feel like you did justice to the beautiful state with this character. She seems very real and I can imagine her personality with intense clarity. Like, almost as if she is just a little girl who wants to be loved but has been betrayed so much that she has forgotten how. I love it. >u<

The likes are such a good insight into that hidden personality of hers. They almost seem like an eleboration on it. Especially the love of dancing. Since dancing is such a carefree and happy thing generally, this definitely shows that South Carolina has a side she can't show to others. ;u;

And stubbornness is definitely a very Southern woman thing. <3 She is very obviously Southern... and the Protestant thing. And even though you aren't from the deep South, you did a great job of giving us the image that you are. (Especially cause you didn't automatically jump into making her an annoying hick like so many people do with the Southern states. >C MySouthmusedieseverytime. ;__;)

The appearance is lacking a teeny tiny bit, when compared to the extremely well-rounded personality, but thats okay, and it definitely wasn't enough to take anything away from the app itself.

This is overall an amazing app, nice and too the point, and I really enjoyed the entire thing.<3

I hope you enjoy roleplaying her and I can't wait to thread with you! <333

-AdminwaifuChilly<3