Sandra Murdoch
Mar 21, 2016 10:36:24 GMT -5
Post by Sandra Murdoch on Mar 21, 2016 10:36:24 GMT -5
The Basics
Name: Sandra Joyce Murdoch
Nicknames: Sandy (only close friends or her husband)
Age: 69
Orientation: Heterosexual
Desired Rank/Job: Entrepreneur/PUSE backer
Powers: None
Play By: Blythe Danner
The Details
Hair Color: Grey
Eye Color: Blue
Any Piercings? Earlobes
Any Tattoos? None
Any Scars? From an appendectomy when she was a girl
General Appearance: At 5’6” Sandra is only slightly above average height, although her impeccable posture makes her seem taller than she really is. She’s very conscious about her appearance, such that even when she doesn’t plan on leaving the house she applies makeup. However, she isn’t a fashionista. Her clothing is nice, but she wears L.L. Bean rather than Gucci.
She has wavy, shoulder-length hair that she usually allows to stay down, although she uses hairsprays to keep it from getting too out of control. She has her hair trimmed once a month, and then she also has an appointment at the salon for ManiPedis and waxings once a week.
Her accessories tend to be very understated: earrings are typically studs and her necklaces are likely to be a string or two of pearls. She might wear a scarf of a lightweight material for a fashion statement if she’s feeling particularly fashionable.
She keeps a pair of thin-framed reading glasses in her purse, as well, because she’s near sighted.
Personality:
Sandra considers herself to be a Good, Moral person. She donates to charities, particularly those that involve meddling in how the recipients conduct their affairs or which force people to rely upon the charity rather than building infrastructure. She thinks this is Doing Good Works, because of course people who need charity couldn’t possibly know how to behave without help. She’s only been married once and has never had an affair, she doesn’t smoke, she doesn’t drink excessively, she doesn’t swear, she doesn’t have tattoos or socially undesirable piercings.
That said, she absolutely cheats on her taxes. She doesn’t consider this a moral failing, however, because she considers taxes to be a form of theft by the government. As such, her actions are simply protecting herself and her assets.
She’s also quite certain that large swaths of humanity aren’t as good as she is, because her idea of good means like her. Immoral failure groups include most racial and ethnic minorities, LGBT people, and meta humans. Of course, she balks at being described as a bigot. She is, in fact, perfectly pleasant and friendly to the people she interacts with even when they’re in an out group, and she even likes many of them as individuals, which in her mind means she can’t be bigoted. Further, she also loves ethnic foods and she likes blues music and East Asian influenced design and fashion, which she also considers evidence of her high mindedness. That she likes articles of other cultures rather than the actual people in them is lost on her.
She’s generally polite towards other people, even those she disagrees with. However, although she’s not the sort of person to yell at people in service positions she does tend to hold them responsible for things beyond their control, such as being out of the meal she wanted, or their place of employment being understaffed. As someone who has run several businesses perhaps one would expect her to be more familiar with the need to have enough employees, but like many human beings she’s able to ignore a great deal of cognitive dissonance.
If she knows you personally she’ll go out of her way to do nice things for you. She’ll bring you soup when you’re sick, or help you pay a bill you’re late for. She’ll then turn around and complain to you later about people who can’t pay their bills being lazy, but that isn’t a personal attack on you; she doesn’t even realize why this might be offensive. You’re obviously an exception to this rule because she knows you.
She regularly attends church and is very active and involved. She teaches Sunday School to the second graders, she sings in the choir, and she donates huge sums of money to fund mission trips and the church’s charitable donations. Her church has its own food pantry, and she probably donates about fifty percent of the food that’s in it at any given time.
Your Vices
Likes:
Low wages
Business regulations (that apply to her competitors)
Creme Brulee
Small children
Pearls
Blues music
Mexican food
Chewing gum
Singing (she had a lovely Soprano voice as a younger woman)
Crotcheting
Order catalogs
Fresh vegetables
Tennis
Dislikes:
Anyone who doesn’t share her privilege
Seeing signs in Spanish hello we are AMERICA thank you VERY MUCH
Deer eating her garden
Taxes
Sushi
Celebrity gossip
Leaving the house without makeup
Slow drivers
Wasps (she’s allergic)
Journalists
Strengths:
Organized
Good at juggling multiple projects
Math
Patient
In fairly decent shape due to her tennis playing
Cooking
Weaknesses:
Judgmental
Endless cognitive dissonance
Red wine
Mistrustful of legitimate news and fact sources (prefers places like Breitbart)
Generous when it comes to charity but not when it comes to actually paying employees or taxes
Fears: Meta humans, poor people rising up against her or existing near her and bringing down her property values, losing her privilege
Secret:she commits tax fraud
Family Ties
Father: Norman Johnson (deceased; was a postal worker)
Mother: Mildred Johnson nee Carter (deceased; was a school teacher)
Siblings: Charles(71), Marvin(75), Alvin(76)
Any Other Important People: Arthur Murdoch (Husband - 64), Lisa Wright (daughter - 42), Chad Murdoch (son - 40), Melanie Murdoch (daughter in law - 38), Clifford Wright (son in law - 46), June Murdoch (granddaughter - age 8), Emily Wright (granddaughter - age 13), Ethan Wright (grandson - age 14)
History
Sandra was born in early March, 1947, the youngest child and only daughter of a postal worker and a school teacher. Norman’s job was steady and secure if not especially high-paid. Their family might not have been wealthy, but they were close knit, and they were active in the local church. Her mother helped out at church luncheons, and her father taught a Wednesday night Bible Study group.
She and her brothers all participated in school sports (Sandra played tennis and basketball) and pursued leadership positions on the student council. Charles was editor of their high school newspaper his senior year, and he shone a continuous spotlight on his sister’s activities to the annoyance of some of her political rivals.
1965 she graduated from high school and applied to The University of Tennessee. She worked at a department store over the summer and then again on the weekends to pay her way through school, with occasional help from her parents. She had a laser focus on her studies, graduating in four years with a degree in business management and an engagement with a freshman she had met only that year.
In 1970 her father joined other postal workers around the nation in a strike for higher wages. That same year Charles was drafted into the Vietnam war. He returned alive but deeply troubled, and so the increase in salary her father had secured due to the strike was spent caring for her brother.
After graduation Sandra worked as management in the medical sector. After Arthur graduated they married, and Sandra quickly ended up pregnant with her daughter, Lisa and she dropped out of the workforce. Two years later little Chad came along, as well. However, once both children were old enough for Kindergarten Sandra made her way back into management.
She was 35 when she first founded her own business, a temp agency for healthcare companies. She founded the company with Arthur’s help, because venture capital was difficult to come by when one was a woman. But she soon proved that she was more than capable, as she founded several more startups, selling them off for hefty sums.
When she turned sixty she sold off the remainder of her companies and moved to Vermont, hoping not for retirement but to capitalize on the inexpensive land there. She knew there were regulations there, but she was certain she would be able to start something up. She founded a company in Pilot Ridge that worked on medical equipment for horses, which seemed like a necessity for many of the farms thereabouts.
She quickly burrowed into the community, not knowing that it was a hub of meta human activity. When she met Joe Honnick his concerns over meta humans spoke to her own prejudices, and she was more than happy to fund his group. Need money to help people take off work to go door to door or spend time calling people? She'd be happy to. Need money to push towards politicians who shared their views? She's ready to write that check. If she has her way, PUSE is going to become much more prominent on the local playing field.
Roleplay Example
See Josh, Sunar, Kiko, Jeff, Sasha, Cera, or Chuck ;3
What About You?
Name: Dryope
Age: Thirties
Experience: Too long
How Did You Find Us? Sean
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