The Handmaiden

[SugarDeSpice]

ooc-

I've seen the movie, "The Handmaiden's Tale" a couple of times and the concept intrigued me. Thought it would make for a good SRP.

I will of course play a handmaiden, but the SRP is pretty much open to anyone, I'm okay with different scenens going on in the same thread.

IC-
Bella Franco
5 feet 9 inches tall
nice svelte body
light brown/dark blond hair
hazel eyes

Bella looked down at the red attire she wore, this ment she had been chosen, she would become a couples handmaiden. She shuddered with revulsion and excitement. Waiting anxiously to see what would happen to her

 

[Dark Warrior]

OOC: I have never seen, nor heard of "The Handmaiden's Tale", but I would love to take the role of the husband of the couple whose handmaiden Bella is. Just so I can get a picture, what sort of time frame are we looking at? And where is it set? And anything else I'll need to know?

Once those questions are answered, I'll post my character. Thanx.

 

[SugarDeSpice]

"The Handmaiden's Tale" takes place in the future, though it's not so different from the present day, some sort of sickness has left half the female population unable to have children, so (usually against their will) the half that can have children (who are the lower classes in society) are made to be handmaids to those that can't.

 

[Little_BIG_Guy]

I'll join

I'll play the son of the couple, age 20, back from college, and trying to find a job.

6'3" muscular, brown hair, blue eyes, broad shoulders

 

[ARaynes]

I'll join if it is ok.

OOC: I will play the wife if it is alright.
5'3" fiery red hair, light blue eyes, and a very nice body.....

IC:
Lyndie looked at the new handmaiden through eyes of a woman mourning her womb. "So this will be the woman who will give my husband children." She thought to herself. "At least the children will be very pretty. With her looks and my husband's they will be the envy of our friends and neighbors." She smirked.

 

[SugarDeSpice]

Bella

Bella could feel a pair of eyes on her but she could not see anything. She knew the set of eyes belonged to someone on the otherside of the mirror in the small room she waited in. She bit her lip thinking about what this all meant, what she was to do...bear some one a child, and then have to relinquish that child to another woman.

 

[Little_BIG_Guy]

Ooops

Don't I feel dumb. I read that one message wrong and didn't realize that the wife couldn't have children. So of course she couldn't have a child!

If you guys can excuse my prior stupidity, I'll be the son of real good friends of the couple. Born the same way they are considering, through a handmaiden. My parents died in a boating accident and i came to live with the couple when I was 13.

now I am 20
6'3" muscular, brown hair, blue eyes, broad shoulders

 

[ARaynes]

Lyndie

"Well, I guess it is time to indroduvce myself." She walked around to the room that held the woman that would make her so happy in the future. "I wonder what she is like," she thought as she walked. "I know my husband will love making her pregnant but will she be happy doing his bidding as I have so many times before"

She knocks softly at first, not used to having someone there other than her husband and her adopted son. Again she knocks more forceful. "After all I am the lady of the house."

 

[SugarDeSpice]

Bella

Bella was shocked to hear knocking, she had figured she was locked in at the very least, handmaidens were treated rather shabbily at the center in which they stay until they are chosen or assigned to a couple, "Um Come in if it's open" she called out, in her soft mezzosoprano voice.

 

[ARaynes]

Lyndie

"Hello, uh, I believe your name is Bella. My name is Lyndie. I am the lady of the house. I was just checking to see that your room was to meet your standards. I hear the center that you come from is not very nice, but you are in my home now and no one will go without proper room and board."

I look Bella up and down thinking that her body would make that of a fine daughter.

"If there is anything you need," again I look at her up and down "Please let me know. And I do mean anything."

 

[SugarDeSpice]

Bella

"Yes my name is Bella" Bella affirmed looking at this woman with her hazel eyes. She was grateful for her kindness but she felt something else in the room she was a little less comfy with.

 

[ARaynes]

Lyndie

"Well, If there is nothing I could help you with I shall be on my way. Will you be dining in tonight or shall I get you set at a seat to join us?"

 

[SugarDeSpice]

Bella

Bella was taken aback, "I...I was not aware I had a choice, most handmaidens eat with and sleep in the servants quaters do they not?"

 

[SugarDeSpice]

Bella

Bella was taken aback, "I...I was not aware I had a choice, most handmaidens eat with and sleep in the servants quaters do they not?"

 

[SugarDeSpice]

Bella

Bella was taken aback, "I...I was not aware I had a choice, most handmaidens eat with and sleep in the servants quaters do they not?"

 

[SugarDeSpice]

sorry about that my computer was acting wierd

 

[peterpan]

OOC: I hope this isn't an intrusion

OOC:
I hope this is not too much of an intrusion (I will remove it if it is a pain)

I think that if many of the players have not read the book or watched the movie, then more background should be added here.

I do not know how close the movie was to the book, but the handmaids tale was sort of a feminist's '1984'. It was a horrible world portrayed as possible, if we allow it to happen. Something like an america run by a bible-belt version of the taleban.

Love was practically disallowed. The only permitted purpose of sex was procreation. I do not think it was actually permitted for the men to regard it as other than a chore either.

Handmaids lived on cots in segregated areas. (a converted ymca hall in one case, I think. Something like that anyway) Hugely mysoginistic.

You probably want to play it differently, but still, background! (there are probably summaries of the plot on the web somewhere)

 

[Dark Warrior]

OOC: Well, not letting me enjoy it is a bit rough, I reckon. Hehehehe.
But, if you want to keep it true to the book/movie, I will roleplay that.

So, here's the guy's info:

Name: Josef
Age: 34
Height: 6'
Build: Muscular
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green

IC: Work had seemed particularly long and tiring today, and every bone and muscle in my body ached. The walk home from work was not that long, and normally I liked to get outdoors every now and then - but today all I felt like doing was getting home and relaxing. The handmaiden was due today, I remembered. I hoped that she would be up to my standards...

 

[ARaynes]

Lyndie

"Well, I know it is not customary for your type to join outside your quarters but I thought that since you had not yet met my husband that you would dine with us. He may be particulary tired after work and will not want to come to greet you as I have. So the choice is yours. Now, I must go. If you decide to join us, please do, but if you do not, we will feed you. We aren't barbarians."

She walks to the door and as if having a thought, turns to look at the handmaiden again, "I shall insist that you meet my husband at dinner, so you will join us after all. Do wear the best you have. After all, you would want to look like good breeding stock to him"

 

[SugarDeSpice]

Bella

Bella nodded and turned back to unpack her small bag, the best she had being the red uniform she was to wear always when not asleep.

She looked about the room, somewhat disconcerted by the mirror on the far wall she knew to be a two way.

She sighed and waited to be called, or instructed by one of the toher house servants or the lady herself

 

[ARaynes]

Lyndie

She walks into the kitchen to make sure the cook is doing as she should. Once before the old hag had tried to fix meatloaf knowing full well that the master of the house couldn't stand it and that would put him in a foul mood the rest of the evening. She may not be the best wife, at least not one that could bear children, but she did like to keep him happy.


"I wonder what that girls story is." She thought as she checked the oven. "Why is she so standoffish? She has nothing to worry about. WE need her for a child. She should feel so lucky."

Looking at the cook, approved of the baked salmon that would be served for dinner, "When shall we dine?"

"Soon Mrs. The dinner will be done in less than thirty."

"Then set a place for a fourth. The handmaiden shall eat with us to introduce herself to my husband." She said with distaste dripping off her tongue.

It wasn't that she didn't like the new handmaiden. She was jealous. She wanted what Bella was here for. She wanted to bear children.

She soon goes to check to see what the haidmaiden has chosen to wear. "I figure it should only be some sort of rags. Might grab something from the bag to be given to the goodwill to find something he would approve of. "

She finds a silver dress. "I probably only wore this once. The spagetti string straps should make her neck look lovely and her breast will show enough to show how much of a milk supply the child will have."

Carrying around the dress she instead of knocking just walks in. "Is that what you plan to wear to dinner?" she says sorta frowning.

 

[SugarDeSpice]

bella

Bella jumps when as Lyndie entered the room, she looked down at her uniform, "It is all I have mam" she answered her. She looked at the woman. She's pretty, Bella thought, but of course she is she's one of the privledged, she has money, a home, friends, a husband and soon she would have a child...her child.

 

[Peg]

Chief Servant: Juan

Hope nobody minds if I join in just tell me if you do and I leave.
Here is my information:
Name: Juan
Age: 26
Height: 5'11
Build: Average
Hair: Dark and slightly scriffy, with me only being in the back
Eyes: Deep blue
I am the Head servan but only in there part of the house I never enter the nice side o fthe house.
I was brought up here my mother and father where servants also, I am no longer allowed in the good side of the house after I was discovered to be having a fling with Lyndie's sister, until she was sent away becuase of it (leaves it open for someone).

I knew there was a handmaiden so with him being the the head servant he had decided it was only right he introduced himself.
Walking down to her room allsorts of thoughts bgan to wonder through his head like: What does she look like? Where is she from? Just basic questions really, but he felt himself getting a little nervous. Until re arrived at the door he took a deep breathe and knocked on the door.

"Hello, it is Juan the head servant. I am here to introduce myself and maybe take you on a tour of the servants side of the house. If you would like, if you need rest though I apologise and will leave."

I stand there waiting for a reply, and to get my first sound of her voice.

 

[SugarDeSpice]

Bella

Bella looked from Lydie to Juan back to Lyndie again, raised her eyebrows then said nothing.

 

[ARaynes]

"My goodness. You want to make him think you are good to breed with. Here. Put this on." She says as she walks forward holding the dress up to Bella. "Yes, you will look better in it. It is just something I had around."

The knock on the door startles her enough to step back away from Bella. She does not want people to think she is getting to cozy with her.

"Come in Jaun. You may show her around, if she wishes, but," turning back to face Bella "please be ready for dinner then. Wash your face and try to do something with that hair."

With that she turns and walks out of the door. She needs to get ready herself.