OOC -- "They Call Us Gypsies" (closed)

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OOC
"They Call Us Gypsies"

(closed)​

Our story:

• The year is 1922; the place is west-central Oklahoma.
• Prohibition is in effect; the Great Depression is yet to occur.
• A Family of Romani -- gypsies -- arrive in (fictional) Clark County, a land of rolling hills and scattered small towns.
• They find a place to set up their camp, to shake off the dust of the road, and to do a little business.

Characters -- anyone who matters and some who don't. (Link coming.)

Clark County -- all about our setting. (Link coming.)

Images Page -- a place to quickly find pictures of our characters, locales, and more. (Link coming.)

 

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Characters​

Romani:

• Gregor (Gregorogosivic) Murtorovanni
• Inga Murtorovanni
• Papa Don (Donielle Petrescu): Inga's grandfather and Patriarch (leader) of the Family.
• Constantin Vidraru: Gregor's great-grandfather; Papa Don's oldest and dearest friend.
• Marla (no last name yet): prostitute, exotic dancer, pick pocket, confidence artist; Romani orphan, taken in by this Family at age 6.
• Stella: 6 year old girl who picked Jake and Grace's flowers early in the RP and since has come to really like Miss Gracie.
• Gerta: ~24 years of age; prostitute, dancer, pick pocket, all around thief, jewelry maker.
• Yalla: ~45 years of age; herbalist, healer, snake oil mixer (with her husband Petra pushing the product at the carvavales).

The Townsends:

• Jason: farmer/rancher; owner of land where the Romani set up their camp at the story's beginning; Inga's lover and (sort of) fiancée.
• Jacob (Jake): District Judge (Clark County, Oklahoma); Jason's brother; married to Grace (Evans) Townsend. (Image).
• Grace: Jake's (now estranged) wife; Gregor's love interest.

Other Family Members:

• Walter Evans: Grace's father.
• Elizabeth (Gunner) Evans: (deceased prior to RP's beginning); Walter's first wife; Grace's mother; German immigrant; died during labor delivering her 2nd child, a boy who also died. (For more, see Post #138)

Other Clark County Residents:

• Law Enforcement:
  • Barlow Barker: Clark County Sheriff; not a friend of Jake, despite their career connection, but a profession law officer all the same.
  • Christian Parker: Clark County Sheriff Deputy; sort of a scared bully; likes being a cop so he can wear a gun and push people around.

 

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Gregor (Gregorogosovic Murtorovanni)

Place in the story:

• Romani (gypsy).
• Boxer, gambler, thief, and all around con artist.
• Gigolo.

Physical Description:

• Image
• 6'2", slim with a muscular build.
• Dark wavy brunette hair, thick on top but general kept above his collar.
• Deep, dark brown eyes.
• Dark, nearly flawless skin. (He has scars, listed below.)
• Beard; trimmed neat for aesthetic purposes. (Gotta keep that face pretty.)
• Earrings. (They change at times, as the story will tell.)
• Prefers pants that show off his muscular ass and shirts that show off his equally muscular and slightly furry chest.
• Scars:
  • Above left eye brow, under right eye; each is from bare knuckle fighting and each is only noticeable up close.
  • Two along left jaw line; also from fighting, also noticeable only up close, and each is mostly hidden by his beard.
  • Knife wound: left belly, from an attack.
  • Bullet wound: right thigh, from a lawman.

Personality:

• Confident, bold, courageous.
• Dedicated and loyal to the Family.
• A ladies man: flirtatious, promiscuous, quick to get it on, always eager to satisfy and capable of doing so.
• Ironically, most of his sleeping around is tied directly or indirectly to earning coin for the Family. His escapades are typically meant to distract the women for one reason or another.
• He's never been in love. He probably wouldn't recognize it is he saw it.

History:

• Born Spring of 1895. (He is 27 at the story's start.)
• His mother died of a fever when he was 4; his father died of wounds received during a beating when he was 8.
• His paternal grandmother and grandfather raised him until they both died of natural causes; at the times of their deaths, he was 14 and 22 respectively.
• Although he is related by blood to most of the Family members and by marriage to most of the rest, his maternal grandmother's father -- Gregor's great-grandfather, Constantin "Connie" Vidraru -- is his closest family member. Connie lives and travels in the same vardo with Gregor.
• Gregor learned from a very young age to steal and fight.
• For the years of his youth and still today, that was how he contributed to the Family's income.
• Then, he learned how to attract and please women, and from an age considered far too young by contemporary American standards, this was also added to his list of income earning talents.
• Over the years, he has had many scrapes and scuffles with the men associated to the women he'd bedded, be they husbands, fathers, wanna-be-lovers, or simply concerned citizens who don't like gypsy males fucking their women.

 

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Marla

Place in the story:

• Romani, though not originally of this Family.
• Was orphaned at age 6 and taken in by the Family.
• Exotic dancer, prostitute, pick pocket, and all around skilled thief.

Physical Description:

• Image at her vardo.
• 5'9", 36C-26-38; very leggy.
• Hazel green eyes.
• Bleaches her dark brunette hair blonde; wears it down past her shoulders.
• Shaves her pubic region with a straight edge razor.
• Earrings. (The arrangement changes but always include a diamond stud, explained below.)
• Often seen in long, thin-clothed dresses that show off her legs; other times she's seen in less than that.

Personality:

• Confident and bold, but also suffering from an inferiority complex (as explained further below).
• Quiet generally. She does her work and chores, then spends time alone.
• Dedicated and loyal to the Family; would do anything Gregor asks of her (as also explained further below).
• Flirtatious, promiscuous; she is an exotic dancer and prostitute, after all.
• Was in love once, with Gregor (again, explained below).

History:

• Born winter of 1900 within a separate Romani Family. (She is 22 at the story's start.)
• When her parents died and no one in her current Family wanted to care for her, Gregor's grandparents -- caring for Gregor after his own parents' deaths -- traded a pair of milk goats for her.
• She wasn't treated poorly growing up, but then again she wasn't treated as kindly as a true blood Family member. Some of the other kids called her Goat Girl after her trading price got out. But Gregor, who had a reputation for protecting those younger and smaller than he, put an end to that by breaking one of the bully's nose and another one's arm.
• Marla became infatuated with Gregor, who was 5 years her senior. When it came time to lose her virginity, she gave it to him despite his not asking to be her first.
• She fell in love with Gregor and hoped that they would be mated and married. She opened her thighs -- and her mouth -- to him on several occasions, but soon realized that he wasn't interested in a marriage with a member of the Family.
• The last time they fucked -- she knew it was the last because he told her they had to quit -- she stole from him a diamond stud earring a satisfied customer had given him. Despite Gregor's insistence, Marla refused to give it up, and after taking it back only to lose it to her again -- four times -- Gregor simply stopped trying and let her keep it.
• She tried to forget about Gregor, becoming a seductress, distracting (mostly) men while others picked their pockets or cheated them in their poker games and other such things; then she became an exotic dancer; and finally a prostitute, parting her legs for men who paid her more coin that she'd ever yet seen, while her thoughts were always on her one true love, Gregor.

 

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I just added the following to the Character's page above, FYI:

• Gerta: ~24 years of age; prostitute, dancer, pick pocket, all around thief, jewelry maker.
• Yalla: ~45 years of age; herbalist, healer, snake oil mixer (with her husband Petra pushing the product at the carvavales).