Gincey McCabe character info
Updating this. Mostly for my own referance.
May change as character is developed.
Mother
Name: Beatrix Emery McCabe
Occupation: Maid for a wealthy family until she caused a scandal by giving birth to a child out of wedlock.
Date of birth: March 6th, 1832
Date of death: July 13th, 1868
Cause of death: Tetnus
Father
Name: Antonello Galufrio
Other: Italian immigrant who met Beatrix while traveling to California. He spent a few weeks with her before continuing on. Asprin hound (addict, smoked it).
Basics
Name: Gincey Celia McCabe, later Gincey Knollys McCabe
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Irish/Osage on mother's side, Italian on father's.
Birthdate: June 24th, 1851
Place of birth: Near what is now Silaom Springs, Arkansas
Date of death: February 23rd, 1886
Cause of death: Heart attack
Height: 5' 6" (very tall for time period)
Weight: 146 lbs.
Eye color: Dark green.
Hair color: Dark reddish-brown.
Waist: 20 inches
Distinguishing features: Missing right eye, ruddy complexion and freckles.
Medical conditions: Monocular vision, slight iron deficiency in childhood.
Clothing: ALWAYS wears a simple but oversized black eyepatch. Wears full skirts except when riding. When riding, she wears men's clothing. Does not wear a crinoline, ever! They are too expensive and restrict movement beyond her liking. Wears a corset, though it is less restrictive than most at the time.
Her clothing is usually quite revealing (for the time period); she may wear sleeves that come only to her elbows or barely any sleeves at all, the front of her dresses usually dip low, and this is made more indecent by her habit of not wearing high-collared blouses beneath the dress. The hemline, however, is at the usual length for the time period (though Gincey is not opposed to hiking her skirt up now and then to show a little shin!), and she does not ever go barefoot. The trim on her clothing can be extravagent, as it usually is on whores, using feathers, lace, and other frills. Over-dresses are often velvet or some other showy fabric.
She usually wears bold colors compared to most women- dark greens, red, and rich browns are favorites. She doesn't wear the usual pastels, as they look odd with her skin color.
She prefers boots to women's shoes, even if the buttoning takes forever. She wears fairly plan women's boots, as she can not afford anything beyond functional.
Gincey sometimes wears a bustle.
Religion: Raised Catholic, stopped practicing after her mother's death.
Occupation: One-time prostitute (day job with a dressmaker as a cover), pickpocket, later any jobs avalible.
Drugs: Smokes like a chimney, drinks socially.
Pets: A few horses at times, never well-bred but well cared for. Like everything she owned aside from her clothes, her horses are functional rather than flashy. She also was "adopted" by an over-sized, brutish wolfhound mix she calls "the Judge". The Judge belonged to a man of some wealth who had him shipped from the east coast to be a status symbol, but the Judge is an ornery creature and soon struck off on his own, much to the embarassment of his owner (who was trying to show of the dog's hunting ability at the time). He is a mottled grey, covered with stiff, wirey hair, and wears a thick leather collar (making it easier for Gincey to try and control him, by gripping it) and a permanent sour expression. He is not exactley affectionate, but he follows Gincey constantly, and later acts as a guardian for her son (who he is extremeley patient with, even if he discourages Gincey from showing the same affections towards himself). The Judge lived to a ripe old age of 14 years, and died in his sleep.
Life
Martial status: Never married
Descendants: 5 generations, from her son to Pat McCabe.
Significant relationships: During her travels, Gincey met a young railway worker named Guy Knollys. They went through an extended courtship, with Guy frequently and dramatically declaring that Gincey was breaking his heart. Although Gincey publicly treated this as a joke, in time she could no longer be found in the seedier parts of town. In place of prostitution, Gincey took a job cleaning and cooking at a small local inn. After a year in the town, Gincey moved in with Guy, though she caused him much pain by repeatedly turning him down whenever he proposed marriage. Just as Gincey was overcoming her fears, Guy was killed in a railway accident not far from the town. When his body was brough to town, Gincey was inconsolable. She could not be made to leave the body, instead holding it and weeping, speaking only to say "I would have married you." Soon after Guy's funeral, she left the town, returning only to visit his grave twice. She gave birth to her son roughly 7 months later. Melodrama.
Name change: After Guy's death, Gincey took his last name in place of her middle name.
Major injuries: Lost eye after falling and embedding a nail in it at the age of 16. The eye was removed by a doctor. Significant scarring in that area,which Gincey hides with her oversized eyepatch.
Vision: Due to monocular vision (loss of one eye), Gincey has a 25% decrease in width of her field of vision. She adujusted rather well, however, probably owing to her youth at the time of the loss. Like most people with monocular vision, she experianced very little loss of depth perception.
Race: Gincey's great-grandmother was Osage, and Gincey was careful to hide this due to the racism present in the era. In most states, during this time, if you were "one-fourth" or more "Indian", you were declared to be an Indian, and therefore exempt from white rights. The more white "blood" you had, the more rights you had. Additionally, as a woman with Indian background, Gincey would have been vulnerable to sexual assault had she been open about her heritage.
Prostitution: Gincey was lucky in that she never had to work against her will. Because she traveled to frequently, she did not have to answer to a pimp or madame- but this could be dangerous, as she faced possible retaliation by local pimps for working in their towns. During her time as a prostitute, Gincey was infected with gonorrhea.
Haunting
Place of haunting: Monkshead University Main Library, basement levels.
Appears to: young people who wander by themselves in the mostly forgotten corners of the storage areas.
Usual appearance: Before meeting Mara, Gincey rarely showed herself to anyone, except as a brief and blurry apparation. She prefers other ghostly activities (see below).
Activity: Ghostlights (later revealed to be the light from her spectral cigarettes), slight portelgist activity (re-shelving books, slamming doors, dragging boxes), whistling.
Abilities: Gincey can move various objects without her apparation touching them, but the larger they are or the longer she uses her abilities to lift them, the more effort it takes. She is not a particularly strong ghost, as she is a sorrowful entity rather than angry. She can move about very quickly, and is not limited to "walking" on the ground- she may flit about over shelves and such. She is very aware of other supernatural beings, and later develops a special connection to the Gally-trot. She has no remarkable abilities for a ghost.
Images
Simplified design for Library.
May change as character is developed.
Mother
Name: Beatrix Emery McCabe
Occupation: Maid for a wealthy family until she caused a scandal by giving birth to a child out of wedlock.
Date of birth: March 6th, 1832
Date of death: July 13th, 1868
Cause of death: Tetnus
Father
Name: Antonello Galufrio
Other: Italian immigrant who met Beatrix while traveling to California. He spent a few weeks with her before continuing on. Asprin hound (addict, smoked it).
Basics
Name: Gincey Celia McCabe, later Gincey Knollys McCabe
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Irish/Osage on mother's side, Italian on father's.
Birthdate: June 24th, 1851
Place of birth: Near what is now Silaom Springs, Arkansas
Date of death: February 23rd, 1886
Cause of death: Heart attack
Height: 5' 6" (very tall for time period)
Weight: 146 lbs.
Eye color: Dark green.
Hair color: Dark reddish-brown.
Waist: 20 inches
Distinguishing features: Missing right eye, ruddy complexion and freckles.
Medical conditions: Monocular vision, slight iron deficiency in childhood.
Clothing: ALWAYS wears a simple but oversized black eyepatch. Wears full skirts except when riding. When riding, she wears men's clothing. Does not wear a crinoline, ever! They are too expensive and restrict movement beyond her liking. Wears a corset, though it is less restrictive than most at the time.
Her clothing is usually quite revealing (for the time period); she may wear sleeves that come only to her elbows or barely any sleeves at all, the front of her dresses usually dip low, and this is made more indecent by her habit of not wearing high-collared blouses beneath the dress. The hemline, however, is at the usual length for the time period (though Gincey is not opposed to hiking her skirt up now and then to show a little shin!), and she does not ever go barefoot. The trim on her clothing can be extravagent, as it usually is on whores, using feathers, lace, and other frills. Over-dresses are often velvet or some other showy fabric.
She usually wears bold colors compared to most women- dark greens, red, and rich browns are favorites. She doesn't wear the usual pastels, as they look odd with her skin color.
She prefers boots to women's shoes, even if the buttoning takes forever. She wears fairly plan women's boots, as she can not afford anything beyond functional.
Gincey sometimes wears a bustle.
Religion: Raised Catholic, stopped practicing after her mother's death.
Occupation: One-time prostitute (day job with a dressmaker as a cover), pickpocket, later any jobs avalible.
Drugs: Smokes like a chimney, drinks socially.
Pets: A few horses at times, never well-bred but well cared for. Like everything she owned aside from her clothes, her horses are functional rather than flashy. She also was "adopted" by an over-sized, brutish wolfhound mix she calls "the Judge". The Judge belonged to a man of some wealth who had him shipped from the east coast to be a status symbol, but the Judge is an ornery creature and soon struck off on his own, much to the embarassment of his owner (who was trying to show of the dog's hunting ability at the time). He is a mottled grey, covered with stiff, wirey hair, and wears a thick leather collar (making it easier for Gincey to try and control him, by gripping it) and a permanent sour expression. He is not exactley affectionate, but he follows Gincey constantly, and later acts as a guardian for her son (who he is extremeley patient with, even if he discourages Gincey from showing the same affections towards himself). The Judge lived to a ripe old age of 14 years, and died in his sleep.
Life
Martial status: Never married
Descendants: 5 generations, from her son to Pat McCabe.
Significant relationships: During her travels, Gincey met a young railway worker named Guy Knollys. They went through an extended courtship, with Guy frequently and dramatically declaring that Gincey was breaking his heart. Although Gincey publicly treated this as a joke, in time she could no longer be found in the seedier parts of town. In place of prostitution, Gincey took a job cleaning and cooking at a small local inn. After a year in the town, Gincey moved in with Guy, though she caused him much pain by repeatedly turning him down whenever he proposed marriage. Just as Gincey was overcoming her fears, Guy was killed in a railway accident not far from the town. When his body was brough to town, Gincey was inconsolable. She could not be made to leave the body, instead holding it and weeping, speaking only to say "I would have married you." Soon after Guy's funeral, she left the town, returning only to visit his grave twice. She gave birth to her son roughly 7 months later. Melodrama.
Name change: After Guy's death, Gincey took his last name in place of her middle name.
Major injuries: Lost eye after falling and embedding a nail in it at the age of 16. The eye was removed by a doctor. Significant scarring in that area,which Gincey hides with her oversized eyepatch.
Vision: Due to monocular vision (loss of one eye), Gincey has a 25% decrease in width of her field of vision. She adujusted rather well, however, probably owing to her youth at the time of the loss. Like most people with monocular vision, she experianced very little loss of depth perception.
Race: Gincey's great-grandmother was Osage, and Gincey was careful to hide this due to the racism present in the era. In most states, during this time, if you were "one-fourth" or more "Indian", you were declared to be an Indian, and therefore exempt from white rights. The more white "blood" you had, the more rights you had. Additionally, as a woman with Indian background, Gincey would have been vulnerable to sexual assault had she been open about her heritage.
Prostitution: Gincey was lucky in that she never had to work against her will. Because she traveled to frequently, she did not have to answer to a pimp or madame- but this could be dangerous, as she faced possible retaliation by local pimps for working in their towns. During her time as a prostitute, Gincey was infected with gonorrhea.
Haunting
Place of haunting: Monkshead University Main Library, basement levels.
Appears to: young people who wander by themselves in the mostly forgotten corners of the storage areas.
Usual appearance: Before meeting Mara, Gincey rarely showed herself to anyone, except as a brief and blurry apparation. She prefers other ghostly activities (see below).
Activity: Ghostlights (later revealed to be the light from her spectral cigarettes), slight portelgist activity (re-shelving books, slamming doors, dragging boxes), whistling.
Abilities: Gincey can move various objects without her apparation touching them, but the larger they are or the longer she uses her abilities to lift them, the more effort it takes. She is not a particularly strong ghost, as she is a sorrowful entity rather than angry. She can move about very quickly, and is not limited to "walking" on the ground- she may flit about over shelves and such. She is very aware of other supernatural beings, and later develops a special connection to the Gally-trot. She has no remarkable abilities for a ghost.
Images
Simplified design for Library.