Atwood Ripley
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ATWOOD RIPLEY
Introduction · · ·
Atwood is a calm, easygoing man who works as a fur trader around the Missouri and northern Mississippi rivers. He enjoys his time alone, although he appreciates company he finds as he travels. He often spends his time out on what's considered the frontier, but he can also be found in St. Louis, his base along the Mississippi.
- Drawing
- Independence
- Boating
- Hunting
- Reliance
- Being ignored
- Dealing with emotion
- Daytime sleeping
Personality · · ·
Atwood is a relatively relaxed and calm-seeming person with an often sarcastic sense of humor. He enjoys his time alone and is an introvert, but he isn't shy and he appreciates company and is willing to get along with most people—he just tires easily. He's rarely outright mean. He values independence and doesn't like relying on others. He is friendly and expressive yet private, secretly hoping that people see him as kind of the aloof frontiersman. He bottles things up and doesn't like people to know that he really struggles with his emotions.
Easygoing
Atwood is a person who seems very outwardly relaxed or calm. He's willing to entertain most things or people and it may seem that he easily brushes things off. However, part of this has to do with him bottling up his emotions.
Private
Atwood is rather nervous and not a very happy person, spending a lot of his time alone partly because of this. He struggles to talk about anything and bottles it all up. He is good at hiding it behind a façade of confidence and coolness. If he does talk about it, it's often in a sarcastic manner.
Independent
Atwood is self-reliant, able to support himself and preferring to work alone and for himself. This can lead him to isolate himself and almost be unwilling to ask for help.
Neutral
Atwood doesn't have many big opinions, making him generally unbiased but somewhat wishy-washy. He doesn't take many hard stances, and they may be in jest if he does.
Info · · ·
I took a little journey to the unknown, and I've come back changed I can feel it in my bones.
Trivia · · ·
Backstory · · ·
Atwood was born to a farmer and his wife near Augusta, Georgia shortly after the American Revolutionary War. His father, Elijah Ripley, primarily grew tobacco as it rose in popularity among Georgia merchants. As a boy, Atwood often played outside. His father taught him many outdoor skills such as shooting in his free time, and he would often take Atwood with him when he took his crop to sell in Augusta. Young Atwood was fascinated with what he saw in the city, especially the occasional trader or trader-turned-farmer. He was enamoured with the stories of Augusta being a trading post and the surrounding cultures.
Atwood grew more distant from his parents as he got older. He had little interest in farming and felt restless, always dreaming of the next time he could go into town. He made friends with former traders and local Muscogee people, soon spending as much of his time with them as he did with his family. He was convinced that trading was what he wanted to do, despite his parents' wishes for him to stay and manage the farm. As his father made more and more money and planned to plant cotton, Atwood grew wary of the implications. He didn't agree and wasn't going to stand by his father. His parents had no choice but to let him set off for the west when he was seventeen. To hell with it, he told himself. He was almost eighteen, and he knew what he wanted to do.
Moving West · · ·
At age seventeen, Atwood set off to become a trader. He was directed west, away from his home in Georgia. Full of ideas but having little means to achieve them, he became an engagé/indentured servant to the nearest traders. As he worked, he heard of the Louisana Territory, of a new land and a lucrative trading economy. He set his sights there, his contract ending as he wound up in the town of St. Louis around 1806.
Intent on becoming a trader, he searched the town for work. He found the St. Louis Fur Company, a new company that was hiring its first employees. Despite his inexperience, he was hired, as the owners, Émile and [NAME] Laurent, knew that young blood was important, too. Atwood apprenticed under older traders and boatmen. He learned to navigate, pilot and sail a boat, and how to trade, improving on the skills from his indentured servitude. He had a passion and a natural aptitude for the work.
When he was twenty-two, Atwood finally had the skill and sway to have his own boat. He was paired with Des Caillebotte, a fellow trader in the St. Louis Fur Company, as no one person could manage the Missouri River themself. They quickly became friends, the two introverts working together quite well in the territory.
Setting the Story · · ·
By 1816, Atwood was one of Émile's best employees. He had been there from the start and had proven himself more than capable. Thus, when Émile received a lucrative request to take New York Senator Bailey's son upriver, Atwood and Des were selected to do so.
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Atwood and Des are close friends. They often work together and can have practically unspoken conversations. They definitely share a brain cell. He appreciates the fact that they are both capable and don't have to rely on each other. His more outgoing nature compliments her quieter one. When they talk together, they bounce between French and English.
Atwood is initially wary of such a spoiled high society person like Emmett, but he soon finds that he isn't all that bad aside from his naiveté. They get along surprisingly well and become close friends. Atwood may (jokingly) make fun of Emmett from time to time.
Atwood hates the soldier's narcissism and the fact that he is constantly vying for Atwood's position as leader of the 'mission.' They're a bit hot and cold—sometimes they fight, while other times they manage to joke around. They get along some days much better than others.
