CHARACTER SKETCH

NAME EDITH LOUISE NELSON

NICKNAME FRECKLES NO ONE I KNOW OF USED IT EVER SINCE SHE CAUSED A FUSS ABOUT IT. (SHE WAS ABOUT 11) AND SAID SHE WAS TOO GROWN UP FOR SUCH A CHILDISH NAME.

I’M SURE I NEVER TOLD ANYONE. ONE DAY WHEN SEAVIEW HAD TO ‘PARK’ IN BOSTON HARBOR, SHE INVITED LEE AND I OUT FOR A PICNIC LUNCH. I SUPPSOSE IT WAS THE SUNLIGHT OR PERHAPS SHE WASN’T WEARING APPROPRIATE MAKE UP, BUT LEE CALLED HER ‘FRECKLES’. WELL, TO MY SURPRISE, INSTEAD OF BASHING HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A FRIED DRUMSTICK, SHE GIGGLED AS IF HE’D TOLD HER SHE WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD. I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT. LEE GOT AWAY WITH CALLING HER THE DREADED NICKNAME AND SHE JUST GIGGLED! WOMEN!

APPEARANCE VARIES. SOMETIMES SHE’S THE EPITOME OF A STYLISH SOCIALITE, OTHER TIMES SHE’S WEARING JEANS OR CUTOFFS, AND GOES SHOPPING WITH CURLERS IN HER HAIR.

HAIR –STYLE-COLOR-TYPE-TEXTURE REDDISH BLONDE. WAVY.

EYES –GLASSES-CONTACTS- BLUE, HAS WORN CONTACTS, BUT ONLY FOR HALLOWEEN PARTIES WHEN SHE HAD TO BE A VAMPIRE OR SOME SUCH CREATURE.

WEIGHT I AIN’T ASKING AND I’M SURE SHE AIN’T TELLING. BESIDES SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THIS DAMN ‘THERAPY’.

COLORING FAIR

HEIGHT 5’3” AT LEAST HER PASSPORT SAYS SO.

BUILD PETITE.

FACIAL FEATURES –LIPS, EYEBROWS, LASHES, JAW LINE, NOSE

BLUSHES EASILY

VOICE –ACCENT – WAY OF TALKING BOSTON ACCENT.

FAMILY HAS ONLY HAD ME SINCE OUR PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, AUNTS, UNCLES AND COUSINS WERE KILLED IN A TRAIN WRECK WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD.

CONNECTION TO ME SISTER

BEST FRIENDS/ENEMIES WELL, SHE USED TO REALLY LOOK UP TO ME, HER PROTECTOR. AND I WAS,LEGALLY HER GUARDIAN TILL SHE WAS OF AGE. NOW, HOWEVER, SHE’S DISTANT. LEE’S DEATH SHOOK HER. I THINK SHE, LIKE MOST OF US, HAD BEGUN TO BELIEVE HE WAS INVINCABLE.

THEN WHEN I HAD MY ‘NERVOUS BREAKDOWN’ SHE UP AND SOLD SEAVIEW!

DIDN’T STOP TO ASK ME WHAT I THOUGHT! OH NO, I WAS INCAPABLE OF MAKING SOUND DECISIONS ANY MORE! HAH! BOLDERDASH! IT WASN’T A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, IT WAS , AND IS, MOURNING!

DID SHE STOP TO THINK HOW BADLY I WAS FEELING? I THINK PERHAPS SHE WAS JEALOUS THAT LEE REGARDED ME AS A FATHER, AND THAT MADE HER KIND OF A SISTER. PERHAPS THAT’S NOT THE KIND OF RELATIONSHIP SHE HAD IN MIND REGARDING HIM. I DOUBT HE WAS EVER SERIOUS ABOUT HER. IF HE WAS HE NEVER MENTIONED TO ME OR TO HER.

ETHNIC/CULTURAL BACKGROUND IRISH, ENGLISH, SCOTTISH

SCHOOLING MISS CARMICHEALS FINISHING SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES, SWITZERLAND.

OCUPATIONS PRESENT-PREVIOUS NELSON PHILOTHRANPIC SOCIETY

HOBBIES CROCHET, NEEDLEPOINT, COOKING (AHEM, LET’S JUST SAY SHE LIKES TO WATCH THE COOKING SHOWS. WHEN SHE COOKS, EVERYONE HIDES.)

POLITICAL PREFERENCES PREFERS A WOMAN TO RUN FOR ANY POLITICAL OFFICE OVER A MAN. SAYS THAT UNLIKE WOMEN, A MAN’S BRAIN IS LOCATED IN THE TWO SPHERES THAT ARE NOT ENCLOSED BY HIS SKULL. REALLY, SIS, GRANNY WOULD BE TURNING IN HER GRAVE IF SHE HEARD YOU SAY SOMETHING SO CRASS.

LIKES CATS BUT HAS ALLERGIES, SO THE CLOSEST SHE CAN GET ARE THOSE DAMN ROBOTIC ONES. THEY MEOW, PURR, LICK, KNEAD, BUT THEY’RE FAR MORE ANNOYING THAN ANY REAL CAT.

DISLIKES EGOCENTRICS.

MOVIES/BOOKS/PLAYS AS A CHILD LOVE THE NANCY DREW STORIES. NOW SHE LIKES MARTHA STUART STORIES, ESPECIALLY THE ONES ABOUT MERLIN AND KING ARTHUR.

FOODS TENDS TO USE TV DINNERS AND JUST ADD WATER BOXED MEALS. DOES LIKE WINE AND CHEESE. PERHAPS I SHOULD INTRODUCE HER TO JIGGS.

SPORTS ICE SKATING (TO WATCH) SHE FELL DOWN ONCE TRYING TO LEARN, NEVER PUT THE SKATES ON AGAIN. DOES LIKE TENNIS, BUT SHE’S PRETTY BAD AT IT. I THINK SHE TOOK IT UP SO SHE COULD INVITE LEE AND MORTON OVER FOR A GAME THE NEXT TIME WE WERE IN PORT. ‘SO CUTE IN THOSE TIGHT LITTLE SHORTS’, SHE SAID TO A FRIEND. BIG BROTHER WAS NOT PLEASED THAT HIS SWEET LITTLE SISTER WAS A PREDATORY FEMALE!

FEARS/PHOBIAS COCKROACHES. HARMLESS CREATURES, BUT SHE SCREAMS AND CALLS FOR ANYONE ELSE TO COME STOMP ON THEM. THE BIGGER HER RESCUER THE BETTER.

QUIRKS I WONDER WHAT MY LIFE EXPECTANCY WOULD BE IF SAY ANYTHING. PROVIDED SHE EVER FINDS OUT ABOUT THIS CLASS.

CHARACTER FLAWS I PLEAD THE FIFTH.

FAVORITE EXPRESSIONS/ TYPICAL GESTURES TOSSING HER HAIR OUT OF THE WAY.

CHILDHOOD/TEEN MEMORY TAKING DOWN THE CHRISTMAS TREE WHEN THE FAMILY WAS KILLED IN THE TRAIN WRECK. SHE TRIED SO HARD TO BE BRAVE. SHE STOPPED BEING A CHILD THAT DAY.

ROLE MODEL FOR ORGANIZATIONS THAT SCAM HER, SHE HAS ‘SUCKER’ WRITTEN ON HER FOREHEAD. I CAN’T COUNT HOW MANY TIMES SHE’S BEEN VICTIMIZED.

TEN WORDS TO SUM UP WHAT I THINK OF THIS PERSON

I LOVE MY LITTLE SISTER, SHE’S A JOY TO BE WITH, SOMETIMES. A BULLY OTHER TIMES, VINDICTIVE, WHEN THE MOOD STRIKES, BUT I CAN’T HELP IT, I STILL LOVE HER EVEN WHEN SHE TOOK MY SEAVIEW AWAY.

TEN WORDS HOW THIS PERSON AFFECTED MY LIFE

SHE REMINDED ME WHAT INNOCENCE WAS EVERY TIME I CAME HOME FROM A PATROL WHILE I WAS STILL HER GUARDIAN.I NEEDED TO SEE SOMETIMES WHAT I WAS RISKING MY LIFE TO PROTECT.

WHAT I’D SAY TO THIS PERSON IF WE MET TODAY

WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE SEAVIEW BACK TO ME?

WHAT I WISH I HADN’T SAID /DONE TO THIS PERSON

THOSE CHEESE PUFFS ARE DELICIOUS! ( THEY WEREN’T AND MY WORDS ONLY MADE HER DELIGHTED TO FEED ME HER NEXT CULLINARY CREATIONS-WHENEVER I GO HOME TO BOSTON, I BRING ALONG A PACK OF THE PINK STUFF.)