Rachel Shepard [District 10]

Rachel stands at five feet. She is ninety-five pounds giving a few pounds here and there demanding on how much food her family can manage. She has milky white skin that never seems to tan only turn into lobster red. She has wavy dirty blond hair that reaches just past her shoulders. She is rather lean due to all the farm work she has to do. She has a scare on her left arm when an injured sheep got her with a hoof. Her hands dry most of the time due to all the farm work. She is typically dirty since she is always working and she can only bath twice a week to converse water.

She wears overalls with a light blue plaid shirt under the overalls. She wears knee high sheep skin boats and a straw sunhat. To school she’ll wear either a jean dress or a blue plaid shirt with torn overused jeans. She typically wears moccasin shoes unless it’s cold out then she’ll wear moccasin boots.

Rachel is very shy and sweet. She often charms the people she delivers chicken eggs, wool and milk too. She is a very happy child and is always smiling no matter what. She is a very hard worker despite her age. Once she makes a friend she sticks to their side no matter what. She is very intelligent and knows how to haggle with it.

Despite her sweet good nature she is rather cunning and sassy. She knows how to get what she needs to get and can haggle a great price for what she needs; she’ll use her sweet, innocent appearance and poor background to get better prices. She is too smart for her own good at times; it often gets her into trouble when she questions why things are. She’s also very stubborn and hates sympathy.

She is forced to be much older then she is so she can make sure her family survives week to week. She is also forced to push pass even broken bones to work and has to be courageous enough to fight off any wild creatures that happen to wonder into the district to protect the sheep. She hates having sheep die but isn’t afraid to put the out of their misery or kill any animal that attacks her.

Rachel Shepard was born to Edward Shepard and April Shepard. Her family had been shepherds since it could be remembered; caring, breeding, milking and getting wool from their sheep. April was warm, outgoing, strong women in her peak of life but now is just a shadow of the women she once was, plagued by her many miscarriages and loss of all but one of her children. Edward appears to be a bitter, vulgar man who has an extreme liking for Whisky but has a soft side toward his daughter, his only child. Edward never once raised a hand to his wife or daughter; he’d mostly ended up hurting himself while drunk by punching walls or stumbling around herding sheep.

April had three miscarriages before the birth of Rachel and had lost one son. After Rachel’s birth she had two more miscarriages before the gave birth to twin boys, unfortunately both twins died before the age of nine. The first at age five from the measles and the second at age eight when he got caught by a neighbor’s bull, whom had gotten loose and was roaming around the Shepard’s land. It was around that time Edward started to drink. April and Edward gave up trying for more kids.

Since April was incapable of going into town without having mental breakdown Rachel had to take on a lot of chores. She had sell chicken eggs, they had a few chickens they had received at the funerals of her little brothers, wool, sheep milk and sheep meat. Rachel was a well-known seller.

Rachel bought a puppy of some breed to help her father with herding at age eight after saving months of chicken egg money and selling a few lambs to other shepherds. The dog that once was that puppy often comes with her when she has to tend to the sheep when her father is sick or caring for her mother. She has no fear of doing this alone though she knows the dangers of falling into a creek or getting attacked by a hunger person or possible a stray animal.

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