Amalia True.

Amalia True

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Amalia True.

(c) 1869.A homely woman, rather shy and plain, Amalia True once worked the counter of a baked goods shop. A woman far past marrying age, she had little choice but to accept Thomas True's hand in marriage despite captivation with Varnum Dale.Amalia and Thomas were married when Amalia was 27 years old. She continued to deliver breads part time for the baked goods shop while acting as a wife to Thomas and a caretaker for his sick mother. He left her childless, having suffered two miscarriages, when he unexpectedly died in 1895, leaving her with his outstanding debt.By the time Varnum Dale has returned to London, he had married and his wife was with child. With her late husband's debt still piling up and his mother still so sick and in need of so much care, Amalia made her final delivery and along with it, a decision. Instead of heading home to continue caring for Thomas' mother, she walked in the opposite direction toward the Thames river. With one last despairing look, Amalia surrendered her life to the river.At that same time, an unknown figure, or creature, flew over London, releasing what looked to be little spheres of light. Some of these spheres, truthfully known as spores, fell into the Thames, touching Amalia's lifeless body.A few moments later, and she was reanimated. Fighting to get back to the surface when seconds ago, all she wanted was to be lost in the waves.And so life began anew for Amalia True. Though, she was never the same...A Touched woman, now gifted (or cursed?) with a turn, or supernatural ability, to see glimpses into the future.Having crawled her way back onto the wooden dock, soaked to the bone and breathless, Amalia was rescued and brought to Strohman's Asylum. It's there she met one of her first friends in this world, Sarah, who provided Amalia her first sliver of comfort after waking up in this world, the truth of this new reality settling in.Making peace with what her life is now, Amalia took speech and etiquette lessons while in the asylum and was, what some people might say, the model ward. Though, just as she was up for review to be released, a cache of weapons were discovered beneath her bed. Locked in a padded room, it's here she met wealthy benefactor Lavinia Bidlow. Recognizing her wit, intelligence, and capability, it is Lavinia who freed her from the asylum and charged her with a position at the orphanage for the Touched.(c) 1899.

STRIPE.

Known mainly by her rank, Stripe is a soldier from the future who takes over the body of Amalia True after having drowned in the River Thames in 1896.Prior to inhabiting the body of Amalia True, Stripe worked for the Planetary Defense Coalition as the Stripe of the Forty-First Ground, which was out of Edinburgh. Although it was a popular belief that nobody survived Edinburgh, Stripe was one of three who did. She is the only surviving member of the three.The last leg of her journey takes place in a Galanthi project station, where the last of the alien species has been contained. Years earlier, twenty Galanthi aliens entered the Earth through portals. Opposing ideas regarding the Galanthi resulted in two military factions: FreeLife, who were largely against the aliens continuing to inhabit the planet, and the Planetary Defense Coalition, who believed that the Galanthi could save the humans from a crumbling planet no longer fit for human life.All hope was lost at the Galanthi project station. Her comrades murdered, Stripe drank two cans of hazardous waste, deciding (much like one Amalia True) to die by suicide. In her very last moments, the Galanthi somehow managed to not only capture, but transport her spirit to the past.She awoke in the year 1869, lungs filled with water, trapped in a time and a body unfamiliar, with nobody and nothing to call home and a mission she'd never asked for.