Grace River Hudson nee' Kowalski
“An animal knows what it is and accepts it. A man may know what he is but he questions. He dreams, he strives, changes and grows.”
Physical Description
Grace is a very beautiful woman of 40 years (though she usually answers 37 when asked) with blonde hair and blue eyes. She's a very voluptuous woman and can turn heads of most men without trying, she has a stern look on her face by default and rarely smiles. Life, loss and stress has wilted her rose so to speak with the younger crowd (at least that's what she claims) but waking up to her face usually brings people a smile whether it's due to her beauty or the way she makes people feel safe.
Psyche
Grace is a mother of four kids still alive (two others died, one was a miscarriage the other from Kawasaki's disease) and it shows. She's a mother to everybody, watches out for them craves to help them and is quite the domestic goddess. She is empathetic, kind and tries to do the best and inspire the best from people. When people fail her, she internalizes it and she takes the blame in her mind. Grace seems incapable of hating anybody but herself and she can easily crack when bad things keep happening especially if she's in charge.
Motivation
Grace needs to find her children who now live in The Other Seattle. She's afraid of what might happen to them without her, espcially now that her husband is dead and she just wants to know if they're ok.
Relations
Justin Hudson (husband, deceased): Justin is Grace's late husband and one true love. She dearly misses him but knows she must move on.
Cosima Hudson (oldest daughter): Cosima is Grace's apple to her eye and is 20. Cosima was the closest to Grace and her husband. Last time Grace heard from her she's getting married and pregnant. The far more feminine of her twins and somewhat of a princess in attitude.
Peg Hudson (second oldest daughter): Peg is Cosima's younger twin by literally a minute. Peg is the more tomboyish of the twins and likes to fight, hunt and camp. She has said she was drafted into the elite bodyguards but Peg is known for spinning tales like her dad so Grace is skeptical about that.
Prudence Hudson (middle child): A punk rocker girl that was never close to her parents. Typical rebel of the children. Grace wishes to meet Prudence and make up with her and hopes she's still alive. An attitude like hers can make her dead.
Randy Hudson (youngest only son): Randy was one of the first of his birthyear drafted and his fate is unknown. He's 15 years old and was coddled, so Grace is VERY nervous about him.
Personal History
Born in 2010 in Meridian, Mississippi Grace was one of those girls who wanted kids almost right away. This led to a teen pregnancy at age 17 with her then boyfriend and future husband Justin Hudson. The child was a miscarriage, something that haunted Grace for years. She was pregnant again 2 years later and the child died at the age of two due to Kawasaki's disease. A year she was pregnant with her twin daughters, Cosima and Peg. Her other two children Prudence and Randy came 2 and 5 years afterwards respectively.
Life for her family were good. She knew how to cook, clean and was a natural Martha Stewart. Over the years she learned how to be more minimalist in her work. She even decided to work on having EMT training (or at least worked on it if this future wouldn't be capable of training her). She was happy with her life. That was until Justin died from a brain tumor and then things went from bad to worse.
Her children one by one were drafted to go to New Seattle. Grace lost everything she was good at and she took up some outdoors activities as hobbies and started some groups with her friends such as knitting circles. She also learned some first aid and realized she can win some people over. Realizing she had some skills outside of hearth and home, Grace decided to join a group to travel to New Seattle.
Equipment
Knitting needles
First aid kit
Small Tent
Anything else?
Nothing at the moment
If my history is too short please tell me.