#winnie barrett. / intro

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(Emily Rudd) THE MINX. Please welcome WINIFRED "WINNIE" BARRETT (SHE/HER) to Huntsville, WV. They are a 27-year-old VISITOR who lives in the COMMUNE. You may see them around working as a BARTENDER at SAMMIE'S PLACE. Poor unfortunate soul. We’ll see if they survive.

( *tw - child abuse, grooming, underage teacher/student relationship, poison reference, religious abuse, murder, death, sexual abuse )

GENERAL

FULL NAME: Winifred Elizabeth Barrett NICKNAMES: Winnie, Wicked Winnie, Freddie AGE: 27 years old DATE OF BIRTH: November 13th SEXUALITY: Pansexual STATUS: Hunter

APPEARANCE

HEIGHT: 5′ 5″ HAIR: Brunette EYE COLOR: Blue

BACKGROUND

HOMETOWN: Toronto, Canada INCOME STATUS: Middle Class FATHER:  Eric Barrett (deceased) MOTHER: Fiona Barrett (deceased) SIBLINGS: Marjorie "Mary" Barrett (deceased) FAMILY: Uncle SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A HOBBIES: Photography, Painting, Dance, Gaming, Acting, Singing

TRAITS

[+] Charismatic, Clever, Protective [-] Dishonest, Reckless, Cynical

STORY POINTS

If you had asked Winnie how she got where she is today when she was a kid, she'd be horribly confused.

She had a normal childhood. Her parents often worked but when everyone was home, they would play board games, eat dinner together, and watch movies like a regular family.

As Winnie grew, however, a teacher she was seeing after school started giving her a lot of unhealthy attention. When it turned into a relationship, she was told to tell no one and she would tell no one.

However, it led to her getting into trouble at school. It started with talking too much in class and then getting into fights with bullies... Her parents were growing concerned. They didn't know what could've caused such a change in her behavior.

Bad behavior at school expanded to home. She stopped wanting to watch and play with her little sister and instead chose to get lost in her own imaginary worlds and with her own doll adventures.

Her parents didn't know what to do. They were overreacting out of fear. So much so that her mother hired doctors and therapists and her father got in touch with the local priest because of her drastic change. She went along with it but kept her secrets. She was in love.

When money was running low from treatments, that was when a reality TV crew from the US stepped in. They promised funds for her treatment if they could film Winnie during her "journey".

It was an effort to help her, but now, it only made her behavior worse. If they wanted possessed and crazy, she would give them possessed and crazy. Especially since the teacher stopped their relationship when the attention was getting too much. She wanted revenge now.

She played pranks on her sister and scared her, spoke in tongues when the priests were around, and told the doctors constant lies.

Maybe her behavior was an overreaction to it all, but the way that all her family was treating her made her feel like a monster. She felt lost. Violated. No one to trust. Especially when they gave her an exorcism and broadcast it to the public.

She just had no idea how much her little sister was hurting from it all. Winnie was young, it was just easy to mess with her sister to get to her parents. She never meant to actually hurt her and tried telling her so. It was just hard for someone even younger than her to understand.

Marjorie just wanted it all to stop... So she did the only thing she knew. She made Winnie's bowl of soup one night and poured rat poison in when no one was looking.

What she didn't know was that Winnie poured her own soup back into the pot, deciding to starve in her usual protest rather than eat her mother's cooking that night.

Everyone ate the soup. She watched as all of them foamed and died in front of her. Two days later, the TV Crew found her. The police were called.

...It really did not help the possession rumors.

She was sent to a group home where she met Lizzie. By that time, she was known to the world as Wicked Winnie. No one believed her story. No one believed a word she said.

Lizzie stayed by her side and was as fed up as she was with the treatment... They ran off together and have been on the run for 13+ years.

She lied, cheated, stole, and slept with who she had to during that time. Anything to keep her new sister safe. She learned not to trust anyone or anything but her.

Her Uncle has been trying to find her and take her in for years, but she's evaded him in favor of Lizzie every time.

Eventually, they stumbled upon Huntsville... It looked like they would be staying somewhere indefinitely for the first time in a long time.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

1. Her Uncle

2. Hookups, FWBs, Fake Relationships

3. Bad Influences / Good Influences

4. Drinking / Party Buddies

5. Coworkers, Friendships, Enemies

…More to come, I’m sure!