Personality: Verdande is a bit of a walking contradiction. She’s shy and
rather sweet to strangers, but has a foul mouth and is extremely open when
she’s with her friends. She was raised to believe in the principle of free
love, and her mother was high priestess in a pagan sect, something which has
rubbed off on Verdande. She has a quick temper, but would cry like a baby if
someone mowed down a forest. She believes strongly in the God and the Goddess,
and has no trouble with being a werewolf. She’s pretty much in tune with her
beast and she’s very comfortable with nudity. Verdande is lesbian, a fact she
is not ashamed of, and has no trouble with at all. She claims to have known
about her sexual preferences ever since sixth grade, when she had a crush on
their teacher, Miss Porter.
Verdande is very fond of reading, writing poetry, writing on her novel,
painting, being with her friends, dancing naked to the beat of nature, and
running with the pack.
However, she can’t stand rude men, the President, child labour, or being left
hanging by some bitchy one night stand as that’s just cruel. She aspires to be
a successful author, but has yet to complete a novel. However, she’s confident
that it’ll be ground-breaking. In the meantime she writes smaller romance
stories for slightly crappy magazines. Of all things, Verdande fears being
raped as it would mean losing control and being dominated in a way she’s not
comfortable with. She can be a bit of a control-freak at times. Her other big
fear is nuclear war, and has a box of stuff she’ll need ‘just in case’ stashed
under her bed.
Family: Douglas Cartwright (father, alive), Sunshine Moonflower Cartwright
(mother, alive), Skuld Cartwright (sister, alive)
History: Verdande got her name from Norse mythology, named so by her Irish hippie mum
when she was seven years old. She had an unusual childhood, coloured by love
for humans and for nature. The belief in the God and Goddess is ingrained in
her. When she, as a 16 year old got infected by her lover, she considered it a
blessing rather than a curse since her beast got her closer to nature than she
had ever been before. Verdande has never had a lasting relationship, being too
fickle and flighty in love. She’s not very gracious when she’s doing the
breaking up, in fact sometimes she just moves on without telling her girlfriend
about it. She moved to London when she was 18 to get a life of her own, and
managed to live pretty well on the earnings she gets from waitressing in Nine
Lives.
However, after a year or so, Verdande got the travel-itch again, and used all
her savings to go to the promised land. Once in Boston, she soon settled in the
local pack and after being a temp at different places, she landed a job as a
waitress at the Harvest Moon. She loves being a waitress, and the pay is enough
to let her pay the rent on her little two-room flat.
Strengths: she’s ruthless when needed, and has a very strong personality. She’d
follow all orders from her Ulfric blindly and without ever questioning her. She
knows much about wicca and paganism, having grown up in a sect. She never gets
down about being a shifter, and refuses to let anyone make her feel like a
second-class citizen because of it.
Weaknesses: She’s very in tune with her beast, which at times shows when she
can’t control her eyes bleeding into yellow. She can’t have silver close to her
skin, being very sensitive to it, almost more than usual shifter sensitivity.
Her skin will start burning if the silver is an inch away. She doesn’t always
think things through, and has a tendency to think the best of people. She’s not
very good at fighting at all, and it’s only when her beast takes control that
she manage to get anywhere fighting-wise.
Other: Verdande abhors cars and doesn’t have a driver’s license.
Played by: Bethy
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