GENDER: Female
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 5'9, slender build, light brown
hair that falls to just beneath her jawline, hazel
eyes, slim and plainly attractive features, dresses in
comfortable clothing according to the seasons (lighter
shades for warm weather, darker shades for cold
weather), tends to move along demurely and rarely
makes any grandiose gestures, speaks in a light and
graceful tone that belies her laid-back attire
OCCUPATION: Curator, St. Petersburg Museum of Natural
History
SKILLS: Anthropology (equivalent to a few
undergraduate classes, early man, comparative
studies), history (American, early civilizations,
equivalent to undergraduate classes), antiquities
appraisal (museum management experience), photography
(video, stills, artistic, record-keeping), computer
usage (average PC operation, Internet surfing, simple
programming), firearms operation (handguns)
ITEMS: Laptop computer with detachable printer and
DVD, video camera and tapes (the small kind, don't
know what make or model), 35mm camera and film (with
telefoto lens)
WEAPONS: 9mm Beretta (kept in a holster in a
nightstand drawer)
HOBBIES: Photography (wildlife, people, unusual
things seen in life), listening to music (classical,
new age, a little country now and then), reading
(fantasy, romance, biographies, natural history
texts), hiking (wilderness treks), swimming, making
home movies of interesting things that occur to her
from day to day, yoga, worrying about the future
(believe it or not, she may not enjoy it, but she does
it a hell of a lot)
Player: Cecelia Carey
conservative family in Chicago as the youngest of
three daughters. Throughout her youth, she took up a
love of natural history and pursued a more wholesome
lifestyle of a naturalist. She attended a private
school throughout her high school years and graduated
an average student. Originally intending to enter
college and get her degree in biology, possibly going
on to veterinary medicine, her life took a different
path at the age of twenty-three. Having been sexually
assaulted by her supposed boyfriend at the time, she
discovered that she was pregnant with his child. But
instead of abiding by her family's wishes, she aborted
the child in defense of her right to a better life for
herself and moved out on her own. Having lost enough
time in school and seeing the decline of her grades,
she opted to enter the workforce in hopes of making a
way for herself to suffice for the time being. Times were hard and she often considered bowing her head to
her family in shame of her mistakes. Yet there was a
much older man who knew her through her family, a
rather well-established man who was willing to support
her and provide her with a life she never expected.
The only condition was that she marry him. Two years
later, she became Mrs. Winthorpe and followed the
museum curator from the city of Chicago on down to St.
Petersburg, where he'd accepted the position as head
curator of the newly opened natural history museum
there. He signed on his young wife to learn the trade
and found that her love of nature helped greatly with
her duties. She educated others on what she'd learned
in her time in school and was given the position of
tour guide through the prehistoric exhibits. Three years later, Mr. Charles Winthorpe died from a heart
attack and left everything to Mara. With his fortune
at her fingertips and a museum to look after, her only
chance for survival and a possible return to her
education was to maintain the museum in his place.
While she holds the position as the curator and has
earned herself a marketable income, she chooses to
remain humble, often gifting the various exhibits with
charitable donations in the name of her husband whom
she'd come to love and admire in their short time
together. She also found, through her traumatic
experience from her earlier college years, that she
was unable to bear healthy children again.