This is the guidelines for each of my characters I can refer back to check each character is consistent.
The Ashby's are a poor family, from a long line of tanners, this makes the
whole family smell unpleasant even the son who hasn’t lived with his family
for months still smell of horrible.
Father: Mr Ashby trades is a tanner. broad, quiet (turns animal hides in
to leather.)
Mother: Margaret- is a cautious parent always busy with
house work or errands. enjoys singing and humming around the house she can be
heard from houses away but it is like
Son: Ruben is the apothecary apprentice and becomes the
physician’s assistant in some instances. An athletic child making him very
useful for running from place-to-place.
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An eager learner
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curious (like many child his age)
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personal courage
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Is very
quiet, only asking questions when he truly doesn’t understand this makes him a
very observant, noticing things that other might miss.
Daughter: Joyce 9 months old is a happy, smiling baby. We
first meet her is when her mother suspects Joyce of having the plague but it
turns out to be a fever. With her bone rattle a gift passed down through the
family.
Mr. Eccles the baker lives a few house down with his wife
who assists in his shop and his three boys (Isaac, David and John).
Thick as thieves, the bakers children are friends of Ruben
and are always trying to influence him to stay play all day instead of
concentrating on his apprenticeship.
S. Pepys an observant but socially active and extrovert man.
But is frequently disloyal to his wife by having several affairs. There is
reason to believe that Pepys suffered from OCD
The Plague Doctor a money grabbing, con man who manipulates
the opinions of the community against Edmund (leading to mistrust of him) and
to persuade them to buy his useless concoctions.
