Character AppName: Judith “(Ms.) Judy” Tan Long
Age: 72
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual, happily married to Wade Long, though he was not brought along.
Bio: As some might guess from her name, Judy is from the Deep South, hailing from a certain group known as the Mississippi Chinese from the Mississippi Delta. More specifically, she hails from Natchez, Mississippi. It was there she spent much of her youth. Despite segregation at the time, she was able to get a serviceable education, enough to allow her to be among the lucky members of her family to attend college.
Upon returning home, she managed to secure work in the pharmaceutical industry, then meeting a second-generation Vietnamese shipyard worker from New Orleans, Wade Long, during vacation down in New Orleans. The two hit it off, and it wasn’t long after that that the two ended up married, and Judy moved in with her new husband’s family on the outskirts of New Orleans. Time passed, children were born, and all seemed to fall into place. Up through the civil rights era, just like many Mississippi Chinese, Judy made use of her position between white and coloured to her advantage, serving both with the only regard being who paid in cash on the spot and who didn’t.
As the years went by, the kids left, and the older relatives began to pass away, one by one. Left alone with the large house that had hosted what was left of the Long family, the couple stayed until Hurricane Katrina, having bought out the rest of the relatives. But what seemed to be a travesty turned out to be an opportunity, as what insurance money they got, combined with the low property values in the wake of the storm, let them acquire a pleasantly-sized apartment in the French Quarter, free for them to remake in their mental image of what they desired in a house. And so it seemed that from humble beginnings, these two would go on to live their golden years to the fullest...until Judy disappeared to find herself in the distant future.
Appearance:
Starting Items: Alongside what one would expect a 72 year old woman to carry in her purse, Judy has an iPhone and charge which she uses fairly competently.
Power: Spirit of the Past: Judy can summon and control a version any one historical earthly entity from before her birth in 1946, interchanging them with each new summon. For example, if she were to summon the 1st United Field Artillery Regiment of 1914(A regiment is the largest division she is able to summon), and then later summon some other entity, such, for example, a dinosaur, the regiment previously summoned would transform into the dinosaur, rather than remaining around. Furthermore, being that she carries within her the essence of great historical power, her resilience is abnormally high for someone of her age, being on par with younger individuals, although she still can’t move like she used to.
Skills: Judy is proficient in English, Hainanese, and Vietnamese, as well as having some knowledge in Mandarin Chinese, French, and Japanese. She is able to handle a shotgun, and remains intelligent and relatively adaptive.
RP Sample: I believe you know me.
Did you read the Rules? Indeed I did
What about number 9? What number 9?
Optional Stuff:Personality: Judy was well known in her church community as one of the “nice old church ladies who always had some sort of candy for the little kids.” This statement remains relatively true, although she does have a more snippy side that can flare up here and there. Furthermore, she possesses a sharp wit, and a sense of empathy developed over years of watching the world burn down and rebuild itself time and time again. Although her years on earth have forged a stubbornness in her, she still does her best to adapt, as she tries to remind herself of what stubbornness caused back during the civil rights era, when she was among the youth “causing trouble.”
Likes: Conversation, learning of new things, her family, her community, her heritage, her home, and civility
Dislikes: Excessive conflict, obvious prejudices, Russia, Japan, and “Fedora Atheists”
Alignment: Lawful Good, although drifts towards a more neutral stance as the connection to individuals or causes becomes less.
Theme Song: “I was born in Natchez, raised my kids in New Orleans, an’ I want to be buried between the two when I pass.”