Name: Maria Smith
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Description: Maria’s light brown naturally straight hair reaches her waist. Her grey eye-colour is hard to determine because it may look either blue or green depending on the light. Her skin is olive, face a bit long and expression tends to be slightly intimidating. She is longer than an average woman of her age, but not by much. Maria always wears either skirt or dress and doesn’t feel comfortable in either tight or revealing clothes.
Occupation: Does random jobs, mostly in restaurants
Personality: Maria acts cheerful and laughs a lot, but she is mostly faking and a person with fair capability to read people can see through it. She is mostly a mess inside, not knowing what she really wants or feels. Maria is extremely cynical towards the world in general. She divides people into good and bad people, counting herself and majority of people into the latter. Maria fears many things, including darkness, bugs and especially ghosts, but never lets anyone notice it.
History: Maria’s parents were part of an isolated religious cult called Jesus’ Will. The cult had very strict rules. Maria was home-schooled and the only people she was allowed to hang with, apart from her nine siblings, were other girls of the cult. When Maria turned 18 she was married to 25-years-old man of the same cult, which was the way of the cult. They didn’t know each other beforehand and even after they got married they stayed pretty distant. Their first child, a boy who was named Peter was born a year later. He got a little sister, Eva, a bit after his first birthday.
Maria was a really peaceful person who adapted easily to almost anything. She never worried too much about things which were forbidden from her. She was easy to brainwash, believing almost anything that authorities told to her.
It wasn’t too long after Eva was born when the leader of the cult decided that the world had drifter too far from the God and no soul could happily live there. He announced that the cult would move to where God was, in other words everyone would kill themselves. Marie believed the leader and really thought that everything would be better for the whole cult, including her family, if they were gone. She poisoned her children but when was her time to take the poison, she just couldn’t do it. Something woke in her, an uncontrollable instinct to live, and she run away. She was tried to kill, but somehow she managed to escape. She was the only one.
After that, Maria was really lost. She moved around the country, doing random jobs and trying to somehow merge into society. Her earlier capability to adapt seemed completely lost. Guilt and uncertainty were constantly within her. Still, the instinct to live didn’t fade. That didn’t change even when Maria realised she was pregnant.
The girl which was born was beautiful and adorable, but Maria couldn’t even look her without remembering what she did to Peter and Eva. She feared herself so much that she left the child to orphanage with a letter where she said that the name of the girl should be Lily and that she was maybe the prettiest creature she had ever seen.
After that, Maria continued to travel around the country and doing random jobs just like before. She constantly tried to lose the longing after her children by working, but with only moderate results.
Reason for arriving in Saint-Vienne: Maria was driving (with a leased car) to a town about twenty miles from Saint-Vienne and got lost along the way. The fuel was running out, so she stopped to the first town she happened to see, which was Saint-Vienne. She parked to car a bit too close to river and forget the handbrake. The car and everything which was there fell to the river while Maria was looking around a bit.
Start off items: a bottle of cola, half packet of saltine crackers, pictures of her children, hairbrush, scissors