Name: Jacqueline Sterling
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Height: 5'7''
Weight: 137
Appearance: Jacqueline has a sophisticated and plain beauty about her. Her hair is thick and wavy hanging slightly below her shoulders in dark brown strands while her eyes are a lighter brown and set in almond-shaped lids. Her mouth is small but her lips are full, turning down at the corners in a small pout.
Jacqueline’s clothes are as simple as she is with a touch of elegance. She often chooses neutral colors, whites, tans, reds and greens, cream colored tunics and leather belts. Although she wears trousers, she always has a long skirt on over them with a slit down the front and back, used especially for riding or for just that extra movement, and she tends to have more of these skirts in her dresser than any other piece of clothing. They’ve become her signature look. Rarely does she adorn herself in jewelry, lace or silk.
Personality: Jacqueline is the type of person who one knows what she’ll be like the moment they meet her without wondering. She’s not manipulative, she doesn’t hold secrets, and her emotions are written all over her face. She’s intelligent, honorable, dutiful, loyal and honest. She’s nurturing and gentle, but also strong and wholly protective. She’s independent and can be distrusting of others, sometimes a little too cautious. All in all, she’s a capable woman whose life has turned to taking care of her family and nothing else, and she does so with pride, bravery and love.
Background: Jacqueline was the only child of a powerful businessman who lived her entire life on her family’s estate among the city of Inland Bay. When she was young, only seventeen, she met and fell in love with a young man named Rafferty. He was daring, risky, exciting, a breath of fresh air compared to her routinely life in the estate, and he came with unbelievable stories of adventures from his travels on the sea.
Jacqueline’s father, however, did not approve, and rightly so. While he might have genuinely cared for Jacqueline, Rafferty also had a questionable character. He was a manipulator, a charmer, a sneak, a liar and a thief. A few times he found himself in trouble, though it never swayed Jacqueline. She believed he was truly a good person underneath, and aimed to prove that to everyone around her by running off with him one night to elope without her father’s knowing.
The man was furious when he found out what his daughter had done, and threatened to disown her and remove her as his inheritor, giving it to one of her distant cousins instead. But he never got the chance. Before he was able to change over the will, his stagecoach was attacked on one of his outings. Both he and his wife were mugged, beaten and left on the side of the road to die. Jacqueline became the sole owner of the estate as well as all the riches, and, through marriage, so did Rafferty.
Those first few years were the blissful times. They had their differences, but most of it was made up of passion and joy. Rafferty promised to put aside his illegal dealings, and settle down to start a peaceful life with his new bride. And he did…for awhile. In the first three years Jacqueline gave birth to two children, a son by the name of Lewis, and a daughter by the name of Katie. Life was good.
Then, because of circumstances unknown to Jacqueline, Rafferty began disappearing and sneaking around. He’d be gone for hours at night, sometimes all night, he’d ignore her and the children, and several times Jacqueline caught him stealing coins and jewels from the family vault though she never found out what he was doing with it. Shortly after that there came danger. Windows were broken in the middle of the night, their stable was set on fire, letters would arrive from mysterious visitors, making threats, and Rafferty came home a time or two bloodied and barely conscious.
Eventually she forced the truth out of Rafferty, that he hadn’t stopped his illegal dealings, and had in fact been involved in certain mercenary and mafia work for years. Fearing for her children’s lives, Jacqueline gathered her father’s riches and used most, if not all, of it to pay off her husband’s debts, rendering them entirely poor aside from the manor they lived in. All the workers and their servants left, unable to be paid, their friends abandoned them for better people, and the two lovers changed into haters. Worse yet were the rumors around town that Rafferty had actually been the one to plot out Jacqueline’s parent’s death years before as a way to keep the inheritance in his wife’s name.
Months later Rafferty disappeared. Jacqueline had grown used to these outings, but while usually he might be gone for days or weeks, months passed without a word from him. There was no letter, no word from anyone, nothing of where he might have gone or what might have become of him. Now, almost ten months later, Jacqueline has accepted being a single mother, and is almost grateful that he’s gone. Life had become no easier for her or her children, but she strives on a daily basis to give them a home full of warmth and love even without their father.
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Height: 5'7''
Weight: 137
Appearance: Jacqueline has a sophisticated and plain beauty about her. Her hair is thick and wavy hanging slightly below her shoulders in dark brown strands while her eyes are a lighter brown and set in almond-shaped lids. Her mouth is small but her lips are full, turning down at the corners in a small pout.
Jacqueline’s clothes are as simple as she is with a touch of elegance. She often chooses neutral colors, whites, tans, reds and greens, cream colored tunics and leather belts. Although she wears trousers, she always has a long skirt on over them with a slit down the front and back, used especially for riding or for just that extra movement, and she tends to have more of these skirts in her dresser than any other piece of clothing. They’ve become her signature look. Rarely does she adorn herself in jewelry, lace or silk.
Personality: Jacqueline is the type of person who one knows what she’ll be like the moment they meet her without wondering. She’s not manipulative, she doesn’t hold secrets, and her emotions are written all over her face. She’s intelligent, honorable, dutiful, loyal and honest. She’s nurturing and gentle, but also strong and wholly protective. She’s independent and can be distrusting of others, sometimes a little too cautious. All in all, she’s a capable woman whose life has turned to taking care of her family and nothing else, and she does so with pride, bravery and love.
Background: Jacqueline was the only child of a powerful businessman who lived her entire life on her family’s estate among the city of Inland Bay. When she was young, only seventeen, she met and fell in love with a young man named Rafferty. He was daring, risky, exciting, a breath of fresh air compared to her routinely life in the estate, and he came with unbelievable stories of adventures from his travels on the sea.
Jacqueline’s father, however, did not approve, and rightly so. While he might have genuinely cared for Jacqueline, Rafferty also had a questionable character. He was a manipulator, a charmer, a sneak, a liar and a thief. A few times he found himself in trouble, though it never swayed Jacqueline. She believed he was truly a good person underneath, and aimed to prove that to everyone around her by running off with him one night to elope without her father’s knowing.
The man was furious when he found out what his daughter had done, and threatened to disown her and remove her as his inheritor, giving it to one of her distant cousins instead. But he never got the chance. Before he was able to change over the will, his stagecoach was attacked on one of his outings. Both he and his wife were mugged, beaten and left on the side of the road to die. Jacqueline became the sole owner of the estate as well as all the riches, and, through marriage, so did Rafferty.
Those first few years were the blissful times. They had their differences, but most of it was made up of passion and joy. Rafferty promised to put aside his illegal dealings, and settle down to start a peaceful life with his new bride. And he did…for awhile. In the first three years Jacqueline gave birth to two children, a son by the name of Lewis, and a daughter by the name of Katie. Life was good.
Then, because of circumstances unknown to Jacqueline, Rafferty began disappearing and sneaking around. He’d be gone for hours at night, sometimes all night, he’d ignore her and the children, and several times Jacqueline caught him stealing coins and jewels from the family vault though she never found out what he was doing with it. Shortly after that there came danger. Windows were broken in the middle of the night, their stable was set on fire, letters would arrive from mysterious visitors, making threats, and Rafferty came home a time or two bloodied and barely conscious.
Eventually she forced the truth out of Rafferty, that he hadn’t stopped his illegal dealings, and had in fact been involved in certain mercenary and mafia work for years. Fearing for her children’s lives, Jacqueline gathered her father’s riches and used most, if not all, of it to pay off her husband’s debts, rendering them entirely poor aside from the manor they lived in. All the workers and their servants left, unable to be paid, their friends abandoned them for better people, and the two lovers changed into haters. Worse yet were the rumors around town that Rafferty had actually been the one to plot out Jacqueline’s parent’s death years before as a way to keep the inheritance in his wife’s name.
Months later Rafferty disappeared. Jacqueline had grown used to these outings, but while usually he might be gone for days or weeks, months passed without a word from him. There was no letter, no word from anyone, nothing of where he might have gone or what might have become of him. Now, almost ten months later, Jacqueline has accepted being a single mother, and is almost grateful that he’s gone. Life had become no easier for her or her children, but she strives on a daily basis to give them a home full of warmth and love even without their father.
