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IC; nation: Scotland
name: Rory Kirkland-Stewart
nickname(s): Beth (Peter only...unless you have some sort of death wish)
age: 27
date of birth: 31st of December 1982 (a minute to midnight if you wish to be exact)
hometown: Glasgow, Scotland
occupation: Engineering Lecturer in Liberty University
residence: A condo in Tailles D'or Condos with Erin
family: Father (decease), Mother, Anne, and all the half siblings that make up the Kirkland family...which is getting far too long to list as well as several cousins scattered across the Scottish isles as well as Peter and Arthur...fuck this family is messed up.
first impression: Excuse me si- I mean ma'am!
TEN ELVEN TRUE FACTS AND A SECRET.
1: The eldest of the Kirkland...well...brood and possibly the only one not to hold any real grudge against their dad despite being the one longest aware to the man's philandering ways. Maybe it was because, unlike the rest of the family, he wasn't (or didn't seem to at least) cheating on her mother prior to the divorce. Even the fact that the man ended up marrying her mother's cousin (which makes the exact relation between herself and Arthur and Peter far more complicated than she'd like to think about) didn't phase her. He was still dad to her and spent every Summer holiday down there. This doesn't mean she welcomes all new Kirklands with open arms and bars of tablet though, in fact, outside of 'the British' ones, John-Paul is the only one she has actually meet...and she wasn't exactly sober whenever that has happened. She's terrified that they might actually expect her to play her alleged big sister role as she's never been that good at the first time round.
2: You see, as much as she loved her father, the number of children he had after her (even if he had divorced her mum when she was still a babe) left her a bit paranoid. While she had been able to stamp her authority over her first three siblings in various manners, it wasn't until Arthur came along that there was a proper threat to her role as the apple of daddy's eyes.
To say that Rory was upset at this is an understatement.
Poor Arthur really did get it in from her, going from childish remarks about eyebrows to prods and bites. By the time their father had pulled her to one side and told her how much he loved her, the damage was already done even when Arthur and Peter moved in with Rory and her mother little changed. It's only been recently that has really started to recover...well kinda...
3: What would a British Kirkland be without their beliefs in the mystical? Nothing I tell you and Rory is no exception and even helped to fill her siblings mind with such nonsense wonder. With her own mother telling her a varity of Celtic myths and cousins up in Orkney and Shetland reciting ones based off Viking lore, she has often mix-matched to come up with whatever sort of of tale her siblings were after and even placed them in roles with Dewi often protesting whenever she tried to make him the damsel. The being she believes in personally is the kelpie, saying it's more believable than a dinosaur living in Loch Ness and cites any case of people who have been last seen on horse back before disappearing as proof of a kelpie at work. This hasn't made her afraid of horses mind you. No it's made her more determined to find one, almost drowning on various occasions in several different lochs when underwater currents or just sheer exhaustion has threaten to drag her under.
She also has a thing for casting hexes (especially towards siblings)...whether they actually work is another question but if a spell asks for blood she will do so...
4: For a few years, during her first job, she lived in France. It was there that she meet a man who would have her in emotional confusion ever since.
Francis Bonnefoy
It started off with the frog teaching her French before becoming flirting and then, somehow, a romance with them living together. All was going well until, after a trip to London to help seal a contract, Rory came home to Francis trying to shove some poor sod out of a window. Grabbing a few of her belongings before storming out, she didn't even let Francis try and explain himself, punching and breaking his nose instead. She transferred back to Glasgow not long after that, cutting all contact with the frog. There's still UST between them, no matter how much she tries to deny it.
Arthur might of not been pushed out the window by Francis that day but if Rory realized it was him...
5: Like most teens, Rory went through a phase. For her, it was dressing in boys clothing...and cutting her hair into a boyish look her mother practically had a funeral for ten odd inches she had hacked off and generally acting...like a boy. She was still a good daug- er son and continued to do well in school, even if some of the teachers gave her wary looks after she insisted on being called Macbeth. It definitely made it easier for her to go out with her girlfriend...but also messed with little Peter's head as the poor thing really thought that she was a boy at the time. He couldn't quite pronounce Mac at the time so it became just Beth...a name that has stuck despite since learning what her real name is and usually used when he really wants her attention. How he discovered the truth is something that Rory won't say (and she has sworn Peter to do the same).
6: There's possibly only one person that has had a tighter hold of her heart than Francis and that's a half French girl by the name of Marie Stuart. Having first meet when they were both in hospital (Rory had a concussion from a rolling pin to the head while Marie had a broken leg from being whacked there with a shanty bat from a deranged classmate), the pair quickly discovered that they had a lot in common and even lived close to one another with Marie going to the private Catholic school in the area.
They kept in touch even after they had both left hospital and their relationship quickly evolved from just friends to something more and with Rory into her crossdressing, they were able to spend time together with little trouble. Things never evolved beyond heavy petting since they were still teens at the time. Things suddenly changed when Marie was sent down south to live with her older cousin Eliza. For a while they exchanged letters but then they stopped coming and Rory's were being returned.
She did go down in an attempt to find her but what exactly happened to her love, Rory still doesn't know.
7: Ahhh, Anne Stewart, a proud woman that never let Rory see how deeply her divorce affected her, despite her ex marrying her cousin, Victoria and even willing took in Arthur and Peter after their parents' untimely death. Due to how young she was when she married and had Rory, Anne was determined that all three took full advantage of their education like she never got to, especially the private one that the brothers were having and she wasn't about to pull them out of that if it had already been paid for. As such, whatever path was mentioned to her, the children would get her full support (although Rory did get an earful after dropping out of Uni to go into an apprenticeship). Not one to go down without a fight, Anne had dealt with several would be trouble makers in the tenement close with her trusted marble rolling pin...as well as her own daughter after mistaking her for a thief due to be sent back up from England early one year. Rory came away from the incident with a concussion and a fear of rolling pins that she still hasn't gotten over.
She isn't invincible as Rory had always liked to image though. Not to long ago, Anne was stabbed by a NED trying to steal money from her so he could buy more Buckie. The injuries she gained were serious enough to force Rory to rush home to be by her mother's bedside until she was not only fit to leave the hospital but could cope on her own again.
8: If you ever want a good mystery then simply look Rory and then look at the sort of things she likes to eat or, to be more exact, likes to cook. Okay some of it isn't so bad like steak pies, scotch broth, clootie dumplings (and yes she does have a cloth she keeps just for making them), caramel shortcake, puff candy, shortbread and tablet. But then you hit stuff like haggis (which she will wait until after you've eaten it to reveal it's ingredients), cock-a-leekie soup (laugh at the name all you want but she makes it the traditional way which means there's prunes in it and she expects you to eat them) and then anything that is flung into the deep fat fryer.
Anything
Yes the usual things like potatoes for chips and all that goes in there but there's also the bars of chocolate like Mars bars that Rory insists is gorgeous deep fried after being covered in batter. Quite how she hasn't collapsed from a heart attack or stays a healthy weight no one knows.
9: As a child Rory was asked what kind of pet she would like. Because a kelpie doesn't even exist to begin with would be to big and dangerous, she ended up with a goldfish instead and called it Kenneth. And so Rory's strange love affair with fish began with very few making it beyond a year but many dying in weird and wonderful ways. From flushing it down teh toilet by mistake when cleaning the bowl, burn in a house fire, starved to death due to a rolling pin sitting to close to the bowl or having an eejit of a brother who forgot when you're out of town if it sounds insane then it's probably how one of her fish have died.
10: When she was in school, Rory planned on going into something to do with economics but once she actually got on to the course realized it wasn't for her (though it has made her bloody good at watching and investing her money) and dropped out in favour of an apprenticeship in architecture. She might of gotten her ear bitten off by her mum for that one but at least it had job security and was well paid. She even managed to impress the folk at Le Masion De Perfection and moved over to Liberty last year to work for them. That all changed, however after she had to rush home to care for her mum. After having several disagreements with her boss over why she needed the time off. In the end she got so mad that she just quit on the spot, consequences be damned. It was only a few days later when she calmed down and her mum was discharged from the hospital that she realized she'd have to find a new job.
Luckily Liberty University was looking for a new member of staff for it's small engineering department and Rory was more than qualified for what she'd be teaching. As long as they don't make her main classroom too near where Dewi is though pestering the Welshman through sheep is always fun....
11: The glasses that Rory wears are fake. That's to say, while the frames themselves may be Gucci or the likes are genuine, the glass is simply that, glass. It was part of reinventing herself after she ended her crossdressing days and figured that a set of glasses would to her general quirkiness. The problem is, after spending most of her adult life sitting in front of computes, Rory has became long sighted and has troubled reading most things unless she either presses her nose against them or holds them almost beyond arms length. The thing is, however, to get her eyes tested would mean admitting that her glasses were fake and despite it being obvious to everyone what's wrong and what it means about her glasses...she still won't go out of embarrassment.
Secret
Their relationship might be improving but there's still problems between her and Arthur...and most of it come from her side. S-she can't explain it. Should you leave the two of them near each other for too long then Rory will start biting and clawing at him, only stopping when someone else at her. It hasn't been entirely unheard of for her to stare at somebody, clearly not realizing or even believing what they're telling her she's done, while still having her teeth sunk into Arthur.
She really does care for Arthur like the little brother he is to her and she has been trying to be alert to when she does it but she genuinely just. can't. help. herself. And despite all that she refuses to go to a psychiatrist because she's afraid on what it would reveal about herself.
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IC; nation: Scotland
name: Rory Kirkland-Stewart
nickname(s): Beth (Peter only...unless you have some sort of death wish)
age: 27
date of birth: 31st of December 1982 (a minute to midnight if you wish to be exact)
hometown: Glasgow, Scotland
occupation: Engineering Lecturer in Liberty University
residence: A condo in Tailles D'or Condos with Erin
family: Father (decease), Mother, Anne, and all the half siblings that make up the Kirkland family...which is getting far too long to list as well as several cousins scattered across the Scottish isles as well as Peter and Arthur...fuck this family is messed up.
first impression: Excuse me si- I mean ma'am!
TEN ELVEN TRUE FACTS AND A SECRET.
1: The eldest of the Kirkland...well...brood and possibly the only one not to hold any real grudge against their dad despite being the one longest aware to the man's philandering ways. Maybe it was because, unlike the rest of the family, he wasn't (or didn't seem to at least) cheating on her mother prior to the divorce. Even the fact that the man ended up marrying her mother's cousin (which makes the exact relation between herself and Arthur and Peter far more complicated than she'd like to think about) didn't phase her. He was still dad to her and spent every Summer holiday down there. This doesn't mean she welcomes all new Kirklands with open arms and bars of tablet though, in fact, outside of 'the British' ones, John-Paul is the only one she has actually meet...and she wasn't exactly sober whenever that has happened. She's terrified that they might actually expect her to play her alleged big sister role as she's never been that good at the first time round.
2: You see, as much as she loved her father, the number of children he had after her (even if he had divorced her mum when she was still a babe) left her a bit paranoid. While she had been able to stamp her authority over her first three siblings in various manners, it wasn't until Arthur came along that there was a proper threat to her role as the apple of daddy's eyes.
To say that Rory was upset at this is an understatement.
Poor Arthur really did get it in from her, going from childish remarks about eyebrows to prods and bites. By the time their father had pulled her to one side and told her how much he loved her, the damage was already done even when Arthur and Peter moved in with Rory and her mother little changed. It's only been recently that has really started to recover...well kinda...
3: What would a British Kirkland be without their beliefs in the mystical? Nothing I tell you and Rory is no exception and even helped to fill her siblings mind with such nonsense wonder. With her own mother telling her a varity of Celtic myths and cousins up in Orkney and Shetland reciting ones based off Viking lore, she has often mix-matched to come up with whatever sort of of tale her siblings were after and even placed them in roles with Dewi often protesting whenever she tried to make him the damsel. The being she believes in personally is the kelpie, saying it's more believable than a dinosaur living in Loch Ness and cites any case of people who have been last seen on horse back before disappearing as proof of a kelpie at work. This hasn't made her afraid of horses mind you. No it's made her more determined to find one, almost drowning on various occasions in several different lochs when underwater currents or just sheer exhaustion has threaten to drag her under.
She also has a thing for casting hexes (especially towards siblings)...whether they actually work is another question but if a spell asks for blood she will do so...
4: For a few years, during her first job, she lived in France. It was there that she meet a man who would have her in emotional confusion ever since.
Francis Bonnefoy
It started off with the frog teaching her French before becoming flirting and then, somehow, a romance with them living together. All was going well until, after a trip to London to help seal a contract, Rory came home to Francis trying to shove some poor sod out of a window. Grabbing a few of her belongings before storming out, she didn't even let Francis try and explain himself, punching and breaking his nose instead. She transferred back to Glasgow not long after that, cutting all contact with the frog. There's still UST between them, no matter how much she tries to deny it.
Arthur might of not been pushed out the window by Francis that day but if Rory realized it was him...
5: Like most teens, Rory went through a phase. For her, it was dressing in boys clothing...and cutting her hair into a boyish look her mother practically had a funeral for ten odd inches she had hacked off and generally acting...like a boy. She was still a good daug- er son and continued to do well in school, even if some of the teachers gave her wary looks after she insisted on being called Macbeth. It definitely made it easier for her to go out with her girlfriend...but also messed with little Peter's head as the poor thing really thought that she was a boy at the time. He couldn't quite pronounce Mac at the time so it became just Beth...a name that has stuck despite since learning what her real name is and usually used when he really wants her attention. How he discovered the truth is something that Rory won't say (and she has sworn Peter to do the same).
6: There's possibly only one person that has had a tighter hold of her heart than Francis and that's a half French girl by the name of Marie Stuart. Having first meet when they were both in hospital (Rory had a concussion from a rolling pin to the head while Marie had a broken leg from being whacked there with a shanty bat from a deranged classmate), the pair quickly discovered that they had a lot in common and even lived close to one another with Marie going to the private Catholic school in the area.
They kept in touch even after they had both left hospital and their relationship quickly evolved from just friends to something more and with Rory into her crossdressing, they were able to spend time together with little trouble. Things never evolved beyond heavy petting since they were still teens at the time. Things suddenly changed when Marie was sent down south to live with her older cousin Eliza. For a while they exchanged letters but then they stopped coming and Rory's were being returned.
She did go down in an attempt to find her but what exactly happened to her love, Rory still doesn't know.
7: Ahhh, Anne Stewart, a proud woman that never let Rory see how deeply her divorce affected her, despite her ex marrying her cousin, Victoria and even willing took in Arthur and Peter after their parents' untimely death. Due to how young she was when she married and had Rory, Anne was determined that all three took full advantage of their education like she never got to, especially the private one that the brothers were having and she wasn't about to pull them out of that if it had already been paid for. As such, whatever path was mentioned to her, the children would get her full support (although Rory did get an earful after dropping out of Uni to go into an apprenticeship). Not one to go down without a fight, Anne had dealt with several would be trouble makers in the tenement close with her trusted marble rolling pin...as well as her own daughter after mistaking her for a thief due to be sent back up from England early one year. Rory came away from the incident with a concussion and a fear of rolling pins that she still hasn't gotten over.
She isn't invincible as Rory had always liked to image though. Not to long ago, Anne was stabbed by a NED trying to steal money from her so he could buy more Buckie. The injuries she gained were serious enough to force Rory to rush home to be by her mother's bedside until she was not only fit to leave the hospital but could cope on her own again.
8: If you ever want a good mystery then simply look Rory and then look at the sort of things she likes to eat or, to be more exact, likes to cook. Okay some of it isn't so bad like steak pies, scotch broth, clootie dumplings (and yes she does have a cloth she keeps just for making them), caramel shortcake, puff candy, shortbread and tablet. But then you hit stuff like haggis (which she will wait until after you've eaten it to reveal it's ingredients), cock-a-leekie soup (laugh at the name all you want but she makes it the traditional way which means there's prunes in it and she expects you to eat them) and then anything that is flung into the deep fat fryer.
Anything
Yes the usual things like potatoes for chips and all that goes in there but there's also the bars of chocolate like Mars bars that Rory insists is gorgeous deep fried after being covered in batter. Quite how she hasn't collapsed from a heart attack or stays a healthy weight no one knows.
9: As a child Rory was asked what kind of pet she would like. Because a kelpie doesn't even exist to begin with would be to big and dangerous, she ended up with a goldfish instead and called it Kenneth. And so Rory's strange love affair with fish began with very few making it beyond a year but many dying in weird and wonderful ways. From flushing it down teh toilet by mistake when cleaning the bowl, burn in a house fire, starved to death due to a rolling pin sitting to close to the bowl or having an eejit of a brother who forgot when you're out of town if it sounds insane then it's probably how one of her fish have died.
10: When she was in school, Rory planned on going into something to do with economics but once she actually got on to the course realized it wasn't for her (though it has made her bloody good at watching and investing her money) and dropped out in favour of an apprenticeship in architecture. She might of gotten her ear bitten off by her mum for that one but at least it had job security and was well paid. She even managed to impress the folk at Le Masion De Perfection and moved over to Liberty last year to work for them. That all changed, however after she had to rush home to care for her mum. After having several disagreements with her boss over why she needed the time off. In the end she got so mad that she just quit on the spot, consequences be damned. It was only a few days later when she calmed down and her mum was discharged from the hospital that she realized she'd have to find a new job.
Luckily Liberty University was looking for a new member of staff for it's small engineering department and Rory was more than qualified for what she'd be teaching. As long as they don't make her main classroom too near where Dewi is though pestering the Welshman through sheep is always fun....
11: The glasses that Rory wears are fake. That's to say, while the frames themselves may be Gucci or the likes are genuine, the glass is simply that, glass. It was part of reinventing herself after she ended her crossdressing days and figured that a set of glasses would to her general quirkiness. The problem is, after spending most of her adult life sitting in front of computes, Rory has became long sighted and has troubled reading most things unless she either presses her nose against them or holds them almost beyond arms length. The thing is, however, to get her eyes tested would mean admitting that her glasses were fake and despite it being obvious to everyone what's wrong and what it means about her glasses...she still won't go out of embarrassment.
Secret
Their relationship might be improving but there's still problems between her and Arthur...and most of it come from her side. S-she can't explain it. Should you leave the two of them near each other for too long then Rory will start biting and clawing at him, only stopping when someone else at her. It hasn't been entirely unheard of for her to stare at somebody, clearly not realizing or even believing what they're telling her she's done, while still having her teeth sunk into Arthur.
She really does care for Arthur like the little brother he is to her and she has been trying to be alert to when she does it but she genuinely just. can't. help. herself. And despite all that she refuses to go to a psychiatrist because she's afraid on what it would reveal about herself.