Nancy D.

Personality + Background:

+ Focused, Individualistic, Selfless
= Determined, Private, Artsy
- Asocial, Crass, Reactionary

At first glance, Nancy appears to be the perfect small-town girl. She is quiet, polite, and intelligent. Most of her private time is spent reading or painting, and she has a strong aversion to parties and excitement. While this may leave the good Christian boys around her swooning, none of them really know Nancy outside of her outward persona. When she’s away from the pressures of social obligation and the fear of being caught out of line, she’s a completely different person. She is blunt and unafraid to offend. She’s confident in her own abilities and knows for a fact that she’s smarter than any man that’s ever tried to give her flowers. Nancy has come to adopt a “one of the boys” mentality in the last couple of years. She has left any idea of being lady-like behind her. She gets her hands dirty just as fast as she’ll try to get into fights. Maybe it’s the thrill of danger that pushes her outwards, towards places that she shouldn't go. What’s one thrown punch after almost dying? Or it might be an insatiable hunger for knowledge that causes her to seek out things she shouldn’t. You don’t just learn that monsters are real and then walk back to a normal life, she says. She’s good at pretending she isn’t scared. Her confidence is sometimes blinding. She sees her goals and then none of the world around her. There’s a sureness to all of her actions, some sort of assurance that it’s impossible for her to die. This is more of a way to hide her own fear than anything genuine. Nancy has made herself into a survivor, and it’s a title she won’t soon let go of.

Nancy’s grandparents met in France during WWII, a French soldier and an American nurse who was more in love with the adventure of marrying a soldier than the man himself. He moved to America after the war to marry her, where they had many daughters but only one son - John Dupont. He was an intelligent young man, a devout Roman Catholic and an American patriot. He had dreams of being a big city lawyer, and when he finished school he promptly moved out to the northeast to go to college. It was at church that he met Maria Almeida, who was also a newcomer to the area, having moved from Portugal with her family. She never quite fell for John’s big promises and talk about fame, but Maria’s family loved him, so their eventual marriage came as no surprise. They only had one child, little Nancy, who was her father’s greatest joy and greatest disappointment. Growing up, Nancy spent little time with her father’s family (who were disappointed that their only son had no sons to carry on his name) and instead was the object of affection on her mother’s side of the family, who all seemed to adore the bright little girl. Nancy spent most of her time with her aunts and grandmother, and was always more comfortable talking to adults than she was with other kids her age. While her family loved her, Nancy’s mother always felt like she was a million miles away. Her parents fought often and loudly, and Maria looked at Nancy like she was the cause of it all. She was never outwardly cruel to her daughter, but the distance between them only grew larger when Nancy grew up to be more and more like her father. She was intelligent and sardonic like he was, with the same sun kissed freckles on her cheeks and mousy hair. When she started high school, Nancy started to get into theater. This thrilled her father, who insisted that she would become a great Hollywood actress, or a Broadway star. Nancy’s own dreams were closer to home. This was how she met Matt Powers, who had unfortunately scored the role of Romeo in their school’s production of Romeo and Juliet, in which Nancy had worked very hard for the role of Juliet and was beginning to regret. Matt padded after her like a dog for a bone after that, and Nancy was both painfully aware of this and very hopeful that he would give up. She felt bad for his various girlfriends, none of which lasted more than a couple months. After finishing her junior year, Nancy found a job at a small summer camp up north. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to get away from her parents and her small-town opportunity. For the two months that she was there, Camp Fenton was great - aside from the fact that Matt had somehow also ended up there. On the day they were meant to leave, a huge storm hit, blocking off the road. Nancy and the other counselors meant to stay there for another night, but a strange wild animal attack led to them all fearing for their lives. Nancy was the first one to realize that the hulking wolves and full moon meant that, in all likelihood, the camp was being attacked by *werewolves*. During the course of the night, the fight to survive was a blur - the camp director, Heather, and Billie were all dead, Tucker and Brian had disappeared, and Matt had been swept away by floodwaters in a fight with one of the wolves. Nancy was the only one to get to the radio tower. A huge, scarred werewolf had followed her, and she was forced to either find a way to kill it or die herself. It was a shard of silver-backed mirror that Nancy had found that she used to kill him. When it was all over, she was finally able to use the radio to call someone to save her and anyone else who might still be alive. In the end, it was only her and Matt that made it home. Matt dropped out of school, but Nancy forced herself through her last year. When she was done, the two of them ran away together, united by their shared experience and Matt’s final acceptance that the two of them could only ever be friends. They spent a year looking for any evidence of supernatural occurrences they could find, desperate for some kind of validation in the worst night of their lives. It was in this search that Nancy heard rumors of strange happenings in Dawngrove, a college town not far away. Applying to the college was a longshot, and Nancy was shocked that she was accepted. Now starting her first semester, just two years past the anniversary of her encounter with the werewolves, Nancy has little to care about in regards to education - the answers she’s looking for aren’t going to be in any textbook.

Nancy joined the coven because... She is desperately in search of any kind of answers about the supernatural that might validate her own experiences. The coven gives her an opportunity to get inside of a group that might have something to do with it, and rub elbows with people who might know more than her.