Ann McDuff

[Stockmon]

ANDROMEDA THISBE MCDUFF

GODSPEED THIS LETTER AWAY FROM HERE
i've sealed it with my tears
and stamped it with my fears

•• nicknames: Ann, sometimes Annie.
•• age: 18
•• birth era: Future
•• date of birth: June
•• as portrayed by:Alexis Bledel

•• your character’s body: Ann is usually described as being beautiful, sometimes stunning, and always innocent. Something about the way she smiles, or the coy look in her eyes, but everyone always thinks Ann is innocent, even naïve. Ann has perfect blue eyes, a soft shade like a mist of blue, practically gray. The shade looks different depending upon what sort of makeup or clothing Ann is wearing, but it never actually changes. Ann has a small nose and very light lips, when one can draw their attention away from her bright eyes. This girl has a radiant smile and it brightens her whole face. Her naturally straight hair is brown, though she has been known to straight it sometimes, or even cut it herself.

Ann stands at only five feet and seven inches, though it’s probably only really six inches and three quarters, no one calls her out on that. Ann has a childlike body, in that she can pass for a boy if she wears the right clothes. Though she is feminine, she didn’t exactly fill out too much. Ann has naturally fair skin, which takes a lot of effort to tan, and so she is usually compared to snow white. She is slender and delicate and her shoulders are speckled with freckles. Both ears are pierced.

Ann got a locket when she was about twelve years old, and she nearly never takes that thing off. The locket is a silver heart that hangs from a silver chain, with flowers engraved into the front. On the inside is an inscription that reads, “My innocent friend, I will always admire you. –TG.” On the other side is a picture, made from a picture of a pink rose, a yellow rose, and a white rose put side by side, symbolizing admiration, innocence, and friendship. Ann also likes to wear earrings, usually of the dangly sort, and light makeup. Ann is known to wear light colored clothes and favors blouses over t-shirts, v-necks to u-necks, jeans to sweats, and dresses and skirts for anything even remotely formal. Though Ann usually doesn’t dress up, sometimes she just needs to feel girly and goes all out.

Ann has a birth mark on the back of her left foot that looks like a scar.

MY WORK HERE IS THROUGH
i’m on my way to better days
and so are you

•• likes: Kittens, Rainbows, Peace, Love, Harmony, Music, Opera, Hand Lotion, Sensual Amber, Skirts, Lace, Bows, Pianos, Friends, Art, Paintings, Lipstick, Crazy Makeup, Corn, Kettle Corn, Rings, Jewelry, and Her Locket.
•• dislikes: Saying the phrase “Sensual Amber” in company, Pain, Scars, Crying, Ghost Stories, Horror Movies, Sad Click Flicks, Slow Moving Trains, Communism, Socialism, Dictators, Continental Dictatorships, and Moving.
•• general personality: Ann’s personality has been heavily influenced by her family. Being the youngest of seven would affect anyone. She is the eternal baby in her family, letting people tell her what to do and ask her whatever they feel like. She gets a lot of grief and doesn’t complain very much, which is why none of her siblings resent her. Since she knows she is always safe at home, Ann is usually happier, but a lot more respectful and responsible because she doesn’t want to let anyone down.

When Ann is with her old friend things can go a variety of ways. She is always smiling and happy with him, and if she goes to him upset, she is happy by the end of things. She knows he is fond of her, so she is never shy about calling him up. He is the only person she is physical with, hugging and pushing him and things like that. Even with family she isn’t usually very physical. She is honest, but tries to be gentle with him.

Ann usually isn’t too girly, but sometimes she likes to go all out. When she is in one of her girly moods she is very social, she laughs a lot, and she compliments almost everything she likes. She loves to skip and sing, hum, dance, and is easily manipulated. She isn’t necessarily a push over, but she lets people decide things for her because she is so lighthearted she just doesn’t care.

Ann is a good student and a good worker. She dedicates her mind to whatever the task is before her and isn’t easily distracted. She can be stubborn about things sometimes, but she doesn’t let her mood get the best of her better judgment. She is loving and caring and sensitive, so don’t break her heart, because it isn’t hard. She is optimist and simple, usually happy, but deep down she worries about a lot of things. She trusts people for the most part, but few are worthy of all the trust she gives them.

Ann fears being moved again, having no friends, losing her locket, losing her “innocence,” forgetting the past, getting lost, being hurt, hurting someone, family illness, being an orphan, flunking out, and guns. Ann hopes for happiness, to get married, to live a long life, for the dictatorships to end, to see Pax Pacis, for Taylor to stay in one place, to graduate college, to have a white picket fence, to fill a room full of Sensual Amber Hand Lotion bottles and invite people over to sit in it. Her hobbies include collecting things, making jewelry, examining art, ballroom dancing, managing basketball, singing karaoke, babysitting, reading, gardening, writing poetry, listening to music, learning the piano.

•• hometown: New York City, United America
•• job(s): Student
•• general history: High school sweethearts Brent McDuff and Susan Lee met during sophomore English class, and they ruled the drama team until graduation, every Shakespearean play imaginable. After graduation Brent went on to college, and Susan stayed home, working on becoming a housewife, and collecting books. Brent and Susan were from a time before dictators fully reigned, before you all had to think the same thing, and before oppression was the name of the game, so it crushed their spirits to watch their world turn into that, but when they were nineteen Susan gave birth to a baby boy, and he became their world.

Dionysus Ares was born in 2126, and for three years he was the most important thing in the McDuff family, as Brent struggled to keep his job with the changing country, and Susan had to start working part time at a library in town. In 2129 Aphrodite Pandora was born, and Dionysus deemed her Dot. The family moved the next year from New York to California in hopes to at least slightly shelter their children. When Dionysus was six he got another younger sister, Circe Demeter, and a year later Nyx Eurydice was born, but everyone quickly started calling her Eury. With four children to take care of Brent decided they needed money more than neighborhood security, and the McDuff family moved back to New York City in 2134. Susan began working full time at the local library, while Dionysus, at only eight, was the only child in school yet. In 2136 Persephone Juno was born, and in 2139 Phaedra Ariadne was also born, leaving then thirteen year old Dionysus the only male child in the McDuff family. In 2141 Andromeda Thisbe was born, and Brent and Susan decided enough was enough, especially as tensions in United America were on the rise.

When Ann was only four years old she could hear sixteen year old Dot and thirteen year old Circe teasing Dionysus, who had recently graduated and was attending the local college. He scoffed at them and Ann didn’t know what was happening, but a year later Dionysus married the girl he’d been given such a hard time about, and Claire Peterson joined the McDuff family. Dionysus got a job in the government and they moved to California. When Ann was seven years old she came in to visit her mother at work, with nine year old Phae and twelve year old Seph running amuck outside. Ann was quickly, and quietly, ushered over to her mother, who introduced her cheerily to a tall high school student. He didn’t say much, just that his name was Taylor, and it was a pleasure to meet miss McDuff. Susan went to the front desk to help with something and Ann spoke to Taylor for about twenty minutes. No one gave her little heart any teasing because they knew Taylor was eighteen, eleven years her elder, and supposed it wouldn’t do any good to make fun of her. But every day after that Ann came into the library, picking up any book she could fill her time with, until Taylor came in, which he did a few times a week, if not more, until the end of his senior year of high school three months later. When Taylor graduated high school he also attended the local college and Ann was extremely pleased, though it caused him to spent less time at the local library. Two years later Dot and Circe married their boyfriends, Chase and Max, within a week of each other. Taylor, as a good family friend, was invited, and Ann monopolized his time, which he didn’t seem to mind.

In 2151 Natalie Watson was born to Dot and Chase, and ten year old Ann couldn’t have been happier for the pair. Two years later twin Alexander and Meg Smeltzer were born to Max and Circe, adding even more to the large family. But other than the birth of the twins one special thing happened to Ann that year. She got a locket. Ann couldn’t have been happier about the small piece of jewelry, from her very own best friend, Taylor. The only problem was that it was a going away present, and not a month later the family moved to California, to avoid the growing government tension and oppression. In 2154 Ruth Watson was born, and a year later Weston Guhr and Eury got married. One more year and Lauren Smeltzer was born. Ann was fifteen, and all she could have asked for was to see her best friend again, but it just wasn’t an option. So Benjamin “Benji” Guhr was born in 2157, and the McDuff family got a letter of relocation. Brent was needed to teach at the local college, and it wasn’t negotiable. So the whole family, with the exception of Dionysus and Claire, moved back to New York. The day they stepped back into New York Seph ran into the arms of her ex-boyfriend Scott, and they began dating again, a year later they were engaged.

Ann continued to hang around Taylor, and since neither had many friends they seemed to think it worked. Ann never admitted to liking Taylor, and as the years had passed she knew nothing would even occur between them, and was thus content with being his best friend, keeping her locket near her heart. In 2157 Blake Guhr was born, and in 2159 Ann started college at the local university, trying to find her place in the new world.

Lyrics by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus