Scarlet Reed {Finished!}

SCARLET (KENTUCKY) REED

{in the deep dark hills of eastern kentucky, that is where I can trace my blood line}

I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil

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Nickname/Alias: Red, Bluegrass, Catawba
Gender: Female
Character Type: State
Country or Country of Origin: United States of America
Canon or Original: Original
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When I look into all of your stupid faces

I think how fun it will be to pound them into dust

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Hair: Bright Red
Height and Weight: 5’5” & 117 lbs
Other Distinguishing Features: Other than her dressing style and her hair, there isn’t that much about her that is amazingly interesting. She does have a few scars in places and freckles, but that’s not very much.

Overall Appearance:

Scarlet might be nice to look at if she cleaned herself up more often. Most men just don't find worn work outfits and dirt attractive on a woman. So, yeah, when you see Miss Kentucky there's a good chance she won't look the cleanest in the world. But hard, dirty work does that to a person; someone has to keep the horse stables clean and work the garden! This has other effects that just dirt. The hard work day in and day out has made Scarlet very fit, with very little real 'fat' on her body. She's lean and a little underweight, given the exception of her 'Appalachian Mountains'. Her upper arms are thick with muscle from years of hard work, though not in a bulgy, mannish way. It's not very pronounced anyway, since the clothes she tends to wear are long sleeved, tough, work fair. She likes browns and oranges, but wears white when she has to go out somewhere. Faded jeans and some type of work boot on her feet, she really isn't one who puts a lot of stock into physical appearance.

But maybe she should. As stated earlier, Scarlet would be pretty if she tried once in a while. Bright swathes of red hair pinned back by a nice bow, a little make- up to both hide her blemishes and make her eyes pop, a nice dress- she can be a stunner when she wants to be. To bad she just doesn't have the self worth to realize this. That means that normally she just looks kind of plain. Hair pinned back in a ponytail, freckles out for the world to see.. One thing she does like to keep under wraps is her back. While a few small, thin scars litter her body, her back is the worst of any, and she's very self- conscious about it. It's not really a scar on her back either, it's a wound. It sits just to the middle of her back, to the left of her spine. A few gaping red places that look like someone just scooped the flesh out. She keeps it bandaged up and it hurts her a lot, but she grins and bears it as if they're not there. These wounds are her coal fields, and while she's proud to help power her country, it takes it's tole on her body.

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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!

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• nature
  
• horses
  
• animals
  
• hunting
  
• basketball
  
• bourbon
  
• getting dirty
  
• a good days work
  
• root vegetables
  

Dislikes:

• those damn deers overpopulating...... again
  
• her trees getting cut down and land ruined
  
• forever being ignorant
  
• drugs
  
• Tennessee (sometimes)
  
• Virginia (most of the time)
  
• being alone all the time
  
• her own feelings
  
• fucking stereotypes
  

Strengths:

• Scarlet has impeccable aim. Granted it’s with a bow and arrow and not a gun, but still.
  
• She’s pretty easygoing. It takes a lot to get under her skin- having a poor reputation does that to a person.
  
• Scarlet has this way with animals. She can calm them down and makes friends with them easier than others can.
  
• Her skills with horse taming and riding are almost unmatched.
  
• The same goes for her hunting abilities. She can track an animal for miles in the right conditions.
  

Weaknesses:

• Scarlet has a bit of an addictive personality. It’s ruined her in the past, but she’s trying to overcome it.
  
• She’s kind of set in her ways. While she might be a little more open- minded than others she knows, she still has a hard time accepting or making changes- especially if she doesn’t believe in them.
  
• Not the most social of people, she has a hard time speaking up or getting to know people.
  
• She bottles up a lot of her feelings. She’ll probably regret this sometime in the future, but she just can’t help it.
  
• That fucking deer population….
  

Fears:

• She’s not ashamed of it as much now, but Scarlet used to have a very bad drug problem. She’s managed to get past it, but sometimes, when it’s the most unexpected, the thought slips in her mind of ‘just one more time won’t hurt’. She’s ignored that thought when it does come up so far, because she knows that if she ever lost willpower she might not ever be able to quit again.
  
• While she would gladly go and fight for her country, she never wants to be involved in any type of civil war again. It was hard enough to have to choose sides and fight both her own siblings and people once, and she just doesn’t think she could ever do it again.
  
• Scarlet tends to keep to herself, but it’s not because she’s rude or thinks she is better. She’s afraid of saying something others would deem ‘ignorant’ and further bringing shame on the people who live within her borders.
  

Secrets:

• She can play both the Banjo and the Fiddle very well. She doesn’t like people to know, though.
  
• She doesn’t like fried chicken as much as everyone thinks she does.
  
• She’s a lot older than people tend to think.
  
• Over time Scarlet has noticed that she has managed to develop feelings for a few of the more northern states. This wouldn’t really bother her that much if not for the fact that one of those people is female. Which goes against her morals.
  
• She’s so far back in the closet even she doesn’t know it
  
• When she lived with the Native Americans, her name was Catawba, or ‘Meadow Land’. She still likes the name very much, but at the same time doesn’t want anyone to call her by it anymore. It’s because it’s from an era she can’t relive as much as she want to, so it’s better to let it be forgotten.
  
• She was very much in love with Daniel Boone.
  
• She borrows her newest first ‘name’ from the main character of ‘Gone With the Wind’. (It’s not much of a secret, though)
  
• She sometimes wishes she was treated as a lady more often. Just because she’s more ‘rough and tumble’ than other some women doesn’t mean she likes being treated like one of the guys all the time.
  

Any Quirks/Habits:

• Scarlet tends to make up words from time to time. She doesn’t do it as often now as she used too, but she does still do it from time to time. Why she does it varies, mostly it’s if she doesn’t know the proper name for something, but also just if she doesn’t like the proper name. You ever heard of a jackyjum or a doololly? Most people outside of Kentucky haven’t. (And some inside haven’t, but screw them. <3)
  
• Even though she’s not very good at it herself, she loves going to basketball games. It’s her favorite of all the sports.
  
• She’s become so good at horseback riding that she’s gotten bored of it in recent years. Because of this, she now keeps a fully grown male elk in with her horses. She’s trying to master riding him.
  
• Scarlet appreciates and loves things that are hand made. If you were to buy her something fancy and make her something with your own hands, she would like the second better.
  
• She has a lot of Native American memorabilia around her house; mostly from the Cherokee and Iroquois origins.
  
• While normally pretty calm, Tennessee and Virginia can work under her skin a little easier than most....
  
• Be warned if you set foot into her house- she has a pet Wildcat. His name is Scruffy and he acts just like a regular cat with her, but he doesn't like other people so much.
  
• While not as rich as Texas's or thick as Georgia's, Miss Kentucky does have a pretty obvious accent.
  

Overall Personality:

Scarlet is one of those people who is a mixed bag of tricks. Her personality contradicts itself sometimes, but it's just because the way she acts might differ from the way she feels. She likes to keep to herself, more worried with not bothering anyone else than her own loneliness. When she is confronted with socialization she usually keeps her words brief, but always ends with a 'Yes'm' or 'No sir' or some variant when speaking with her betters or the elderly. This can make her come off as a bit cold at times, but she really isn't. She's just afraid that she might slip up and say something that would further condemn her to the label of 'stupid'. But it is true that Scarlet isn't the smartest of people, at least book wise. She makes up what she lacks with hard work, patience, and kindness, and few could say they've ever seen the girl angry. This is mostly because she bottles up her feelings, since she doesn't like others to know they've gotten under her skin.

Scarlet has her low points too. When she's made up her mind on something, she can be as stubborn as an old mule about changing it. She's very set in her ways, and hates being told that what she does is 'wrong' or 'strange', especially by people who have no idea where she's coming from. After all, what works for her might not work for everyone else, but it's just how she likes doing things. While she herself isn't an overly religious person herself, she is a part of the 'bible belt'. A lot of her strongest beliefs and morals are influenced by the religion of the people who live within her borders, and she won't stand for anyone to contradict them. That means people might not see eye to eye with her on some matters. The biggest one would be homosexuality. While she doesn't mind who are gay, she just doesn't think it is right. This has caused some identity issues for her in the last few years because she very secretly and very quietly thinks she might be attracted to women.

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I'm the hero!

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What is now the state was inhabited by varying cultures of Native Americans from at least 1000 BC to about 1650 AD, particularly along the waterways and in areas of game. Bison roamed in the region. By the time that European and colonial explorers and settlers began entering Kentucky in greater number in the mid-18th century, there were no major Native American settlements in the region. The Iroquois had controlled much of the Ohio River valley for hunting from their bases in what is now New York. The Shawnee from the northwest and Cherokee from the south also sent parties into the area regularly for hunting. As more settlers entered the area, warfare broke out because the American Indians considered the settlers to be encroaching on their traditional hunting grounds. Today the Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky is a state-recognized tribe.

According to a 1790 U.S. government report, 1,500 Kentucky settlers had been killed in Indian raids since the end of the Revolutionary War. In an attempt to end such raids into the state, Clark led an expedition of 1,200 drafted men against Shawnee towns on the Wabash River in 1786, one of the first actions of the Northwest Indian War.

After the American Revolution, the counties of Virginia beyond the Appalachian Mountains became known as Kentucky County. Eventually, the residents of Kentucky County petitioned for a separation from Virginia. Ten constitutional conventions were held in the Constitution Square Courthouse in Danville between 1784 and 1792. In 1790, Kentucky's delegates accepted Virginia's terms of separation, and a state constitution was drafted at the final convention in April 1792. On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state to be admitted to the union. Isaac Shelby, a military veteran from Virginia, was elected the first Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Central Kentucky, the Bluegrass region, was the center of the greatest slaveholding, as planters cultivated tobacco and hemp, and also were noted for their quality livestock. During the nineteenth century, Kentucky slaveholders began to sell surplus slaves to the Deep South, with Louisville becoming a major slave market and departure port for slaves being transported downriver.

It was one of the border states during the American Civil War. Although frequently described as never having seceded, representatives from several counties met at Russellville calling themselves the "Convention of the People of Kentucky" and passed an Ordinance of Secession on November 20, 1861. They established a Confederate government of Kentucky with its capital in Bowling Green. Though Kentucky was represented by the central star on the Confederate battle flag, the Russellville Convention did not represent the majority of residents. Kentucky officially remained "neutral" throughout the war due to Union sympathies of many of the Commonwealth's citizens.

In a revival of the "Lost Cause" that has exceeded the support it gained during the war, some contemporary people observe Confederate Memorial Day on Confederate President Jefferson Davis' birthday, June 3 and participate in Confederate re-enactments.

The Black Patch Tobacco Wars, a vigilante action, occurred in the area in the early 20th century. As result of the tobacco industry monopoly, tobacco farmers in the area were forced to sell their tobacco at low prices. Many local farmers and activists united to refuse to sell tobacco to the tobacco industry. A vigilante wing, the "Night Riders", terrorized farmers who sold their tobacco at the low prices demanded by the tobacco corporations. They burned several tobacco warehouses, notably in Hopkinsville and Princeton. In the later period of their operation, they were known to physically assault farmers who broke the boycott. The Governor declared martial law and deployed the Kentucky Militia to end the Black Patch Tobacco Wars.

On January 30, 1900, Governor William Goebel, flanked by two bodyguards and walking to the State Capitol in downtown Frankfort, was mortally wounded by an assassin. Goebel was contesting the election of 1899, which William S. Taylor was initially believed to have won. For several months, J. C. W. Beckham, Goebel's running mate, and Taylor fought over who was the legal governor, until the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in May in favor of Beckham. After fleeing to Indiana, Taylor was indicted as a co-conspirator in Goebel's assassination. Goebel is the only governor of a U.S. state to have been assassinated while in office.

Like the rest of the country, Kentucky experienced dramatic inflation during the world war 1 years. Much infrastructure was created; the state built many roads to accommodate the increasing popularity of the automobile. The war also led to the clear cutting of thousands of acres of Kentucky timber.

The tobacco and whiskey industries had boom years during the teens, although Prohibition seriously harmed the economy when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect. Prohibition led to widespread bootlegging, which continued into the middle of the century.

Congressman Alben W. Barkley gained statewide stature by leading a crusade against the coal and gambling special interests during his 1923 campaign for Governor of Kentucky. Barkley narrowly lost the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. That sole electoral defeat helped propel him into the U.S. Senate in 1926. Barkley became US Senate leader for the Democrats in 1937 and vice president with Harry S. Truman in 1948.

In the 1920s the progressives focused their attacks on gambling. The anti-gambling crusade sprang from the religious attack on machine politics led by Helm Bruce and the Louisville Churchmen's Federation. The reformers had their greatest support in rural Kentucky, with support from the Ku Klux Klan and Fundamentalist Protestant clergymen. Barkley became the political spokesman of the anti-gambling group and nearly secured the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1923; four years later, former governor J. C. W. Beckham won the party's nomination as the anti-gambling candidate. Urban Democrats deserted Beckham, however, and Republican Flem Sampson was elected. Beckham's defeat marked the end of the Progressive movement in Kentucky.

For Kentucky, World War II signified the increased importance of industry and decreased importance of agriculture for the state's economy. The war led to expansion of Fort Knox as well as the creation of an ordinance plant in Louisville. Louisville became the world's largest source of artificial rubber. Shipyards at Jeffersonville and elsewhere generated numerous skilled jobs. Louisville's Ford manufacturing center produced almost 100,000 Jeeps during the war. The war also lead to a greater demand for higher education, as technical skills were more in demand both during the war and afterwards.

In the years afterward, the Interstate Highway System helped connect even the most remote areas of Kentucky to one another.

Progressive, solid, and unspectacular, Democrat Lawrence W. Wetherby served as governor during 1950–55. As lieutenant governor under Earle Clements, was out of the limelight. After Clements moved on to the US Senate, Wetherby took over and was elected to his own term in 1951, emphasizing the themes of roads, tourism, and economic development. One of the few Southern governors who worked to carry out desegregation after the Brown Decision in 1954, Wetherby's administration ran into a string of bad luck and its candidate for governor, Bert Combs, was defeated by Happy Chandler in 1955.

Agriculture, though still important, was supplanted in many areas by industry. By 1970, Kentucky had more urban residents than rural residents. Although decreasing in overall importance, tobacco production remains an important part of the state economy, bolstered by New Deal legacy that gives financial advantages to holders of tobacco allotments.

Martha Layne Collins served as Kentucky's first woman governor from 1983 to 1987 and cochaired the Democratic National Convention in 1984. Prior to that, Collins had been a schoolteacher and party worker for the state's Democrats at all levels and served as lieutenant governor from 1979 to 1983. In 1983, she defeated Jim Bunning for the governorship. Throughout her public life she emphasized education and economic development; a feminist, she viewed all issues as "women's issues." She took special pride in having procured the Toyota plant for Georgetown. Nevertheless in 2000, the state ranked 49th in the percentage of females serving in state or national political offices. The traditional system has favored "old boys" thanks to political elites, incumbency, and long-entrenched political networks.

Paul E. Patton, a Democrat, served as governor from 1995 to 2003. Winning a close race in 1995, he benefited from economic good times and succeeded with most of his initiatives and priorities. After winning reelection by a large margin in 1999, Patton suffered from the state's economic reversal and also from public exposure of an extramarital affair. Near the end of his second term, Patton was also accused of abusing his patronage powers and incurred further criticism when he pardoned four of his former supporters who had been convicted of violating the state's campaign finance laws

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You've got it backwards! Backwards!

Hurry up and throw it! If you don't hurry up and throw it, you'll go "boom"!

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:3

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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!

You called?

[/color]:[/b] Princess again!
Timezone: That one with the numbers.

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