Dark Minds Chapter 1: The Klan (RP/OOC/OPEN)

[KingFerdinand1]

Welcome to Dark Minds, NS's hottest new RP series. In this tantalizing series, we're going to be exploring the motivations, passions, causes, plans, and goals of history's most notorious and sickminded groups. Chapter by chapter, a look into the dark minds of people will develop.

Chapter 1: The Klan

Year: 1920

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Age:
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Gender:
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Why they joined the Klan:

List of RPers:
Cuprum - William Rutherford

[Cuprum]

App:
Name: William Rutherford
Age: 25
Appearance:

Gender: Male
Race: White Anglo - Saxon
Biography: His father was a wealthy landowner of English descent, and Baptist minister. As a young man, Rutherford, inherited a large number of slaves and property from his first wife's father, while not an abolitionist, did not want to own slaves himself. At one point he was offered US $100,000 for his slaves, but he declined the offer, worried that their new owner might mistreat them.

In his adolescence Rutherford helped out on the family farms, an experience that he hated, but that he later would say helped him to relate to the plight of the working man. His family suffered during Reconstruction following the Civil War. The government confiscation of farm land, the corruption of local politicians, and particularly the vengefulness of Federal troops coupled with the general lawlessness of the time all helped to shape young Rutherford into a staunch opponent of what he called one of history's greatest tragedies.

Rutherford's mother commented to him that "The Klan are our people—they're guarding us from harm." It was a moment that etched itself into Rutherford's memory; he felt that the Klan's actions were justified, and that desperate times called for desperate measures.

Why they joined the Klan: Nationalism, Byronic romanticism.

[KingFerdinand1]

App:
Name: William Rutherford
Age: 25
Appearance:

(Image)

Gender: Male
Race: White Anglo - Saxon
Biography: His father was a wealthy landowner of English descent, and Baptist minister. As a young man, Rutherford, inherited a large number of slaves and property from his first wife's father, while not an abolitionist, did not want to own slaves himself. At one point he was offered US $100,000 for his slaves, but he declined the offer, worried that their new owner might mistreat them.

In his adolescence Rutherford helped out on the family farms, an experience that he hated, but that he later would say helped him to relate to the plight of the working man. His family suffered during Reconstruction following the Civil War. The government confiscation of farm land, the corruption of local politicians, and particularly the vengefulness of Federal troops coupled with the general lawlessness of the time all helped to shape young Rutherford into a staunch opponent of what he called one of history's greatest tragedies.

Rutherford's mother commented to him that "The Klan are our people—they're guarding us from harm." It was a moment that etched itself into Rutherford's memory; he felt that the Klan's actions were justified, and that desperate times called for desperate measures.

Why they joined the Klan: Nationalism, Byronic romanticism.

Accepted! Welcome to the Klan brother.

[Cuprum]

What's the purpose of the RP? To make a clan member president of the U.S?

[KingFerdinand1]

What's the purpose of the RP? To make a clan member president of the U.S?

It's up to the players to forge their destiny. It could be something as simple as burning black people, to something as complex as becoming President.

[Frisbeeteria]

It could be something as simple as burning black people

Yeah, no. We're not going there, not even as "role play".