Character Guide
Since Moose River is a “fly on the wall” sort of story, the point of the story is to just play witness to the social dynamics of these people’s lives; to see their ups and downs and how they affect one another. With that in mind, there really isn’t a single main character that the story revolves around. Everyone in the story is not unlike the characters within your own life story; some people will take an active interest in everyone else while others will come in and out as they please. This page lists all the more interesting characters within the story, or at least the ones who pop up more often than the rest. I’ll get to some more interesting bits later on.
| Anne Amoureux (Ah-more-roo) Anne, for the most part, come off as considerably naive about people and things. Though it’s not exactly known if she’s REALLY naive, or just putting it on for some ulterior motive. People also say she’s pretty bitter, but maybe it’s only because she gets it from her mom, Betty Wilson. She also doesn’t have a boyfriend, can you believe that? She’s really not looking though… just like her mom. Anne’s was born with her dad’s last name, Amoureux, as opposed to her mother’s last name, Wilson (although she was given Wilson as her middle name, thus making Anne’s full name “Anne Wilson Amoureux”). Technically Betty was “Betty Amoureux” at the time Anne was born, but Betty changed her name back to her maiden name after divorcing her third husband. Anne decided not to change her name with Betty; part of it is because Anne was “Anne Amoureux” for her whole life and being “Anne Wilson” just didn’t feel right, but also because I guess she wanted a small part of her dad to keep with her. Fun Fact: Anyone familiar with my work will recognize Anne… she’s the Everywoman character in most of my random pictures. |
| Avery Mann Fun Fact: Anyone familiar with my work will recognize Avery… he’s the Everyman character in most of my random pictures. In fact, his name is a play off the term “everyman”. Yeah it’s not a terribly original name, but I chose it for a purpose which has since been deemed unnecessary. However I’ve used it for so long that there’s no point in changing it now. |
| Shea Marerra (pronounced She-uh, not Shay) Shea also loves to play online massive multiplayer role-playing games. Among the many games she plays, Skyhowl Legacy is one of her favorite. In it she’s known as xxxgothgrrl666xxx. She mostly plays with other local Moose River players- The Wiz, Kendra, Steve, Bossch, Nick and Jean Paul. Shea also plays another online game, Mystic Revolution (check the site out to see her adventures in that game). Shea’s ex-boyfriend Jeff makes some awkward reappearances. Maybe. |
| Emo Kim |
| Betty Wilson Betty really doesn’t get along well with Anne… although it’s to be seen if this can be amended. Currently not looking for another man (working a lot keeps her mind off the loneliness), but things could change. In fact, a boy Betty used to torment in high school, Jorge Wilkins, recently reentered into her life. In the fourty years since graduation, Jorge became a billionaire and CEO of a powerful corporation. Jorge also seems to have forgotten all the bullshit Betty put him through because now he’s taken an active interest in courting her. Now I wonder where THIS will go? Betty favorite hobby is pining about her more glorious years: high school. She was class president of the student council every year, got stright A’s, was valedictorian of her senior class as well as homecoming AND Senior prom queen. Betty’s first husband, Greg Lance, was the homecoming and Senior prom king alongside Betty, as well as captain of the high school varsity football team. Betty was part of the high school elite, she even continues to have regular dinners with four of her closest high school friends. But because of her elite status, it almost seems fitting and fair to see her fail so many times since graduating high school. … Or is it fair? I dunno. Betty’s legal name is “Betty Wilson”, she changed it back to her birth name divorcing her third husband. After her first marriage, she became Betty Wilson-Lance; she appended her last name because “Betty Wilson” still had some power in her time, but she also wanted to show off that she was married to Greg Lance. Greg had some apprehension with the idea (he wanted her to be “Betty Lance”), and so that was just one more thing which lead to their eventual divorce. After marrying her second husband, Michel Amoureux, she was so enthralled by him that she decided to rename herself “Betty Amoureux”. But after having her heart so thoroughly shattered once she found out that Michel was having an affair with another gay man, she almost immediately remarried to her third husband, Jeffrey Pavlin, and renamed herself “Betty Pavlin” just as quickly, all in an effort to distance herself from the hurt than the memory of Michel brings to her. Unfortunately she immediately realized that that marriage was a mistake, and changed her name back to “Betty Wilson” right after her divorce. At this point, technically she would be “Betty Wilson Lance Amoureux Pavlin”; this idea pretty much convinced her to go back to her old name. That, and it’s also one of the last things of her former glory that she can keep in her life. |
| Navy Chang |
| Thaddeus Guyy |
| Claire Brady |
| Brian |
| Mog and Lars |
| Brett & Jason |
| Dan |
| Evelyn |
| Jean |
| Michel & Marshall |
| Takashi |
As I mentioned, this story really doesn’t have a main character. But it’s obvious that this story focuses on some more than others. If I had to say who would be the main character(s), it would have to be Anne, Avery, Shea, Emo and Betty. That is to say, everything in the story happens to those five. If something happens somewhere but not to them or affect them in any significant way, then it’s not shown in the story; a hamburger that Emo eats is more important to the story than news about the cure for cancer. We also see a lot of Navy, but she’s more of the main supporting character if anything.
To put it more mathematically, the total number of pages that these five main characters appear in is equal to the number of pages of the entire story. If you switch out any of the main characters with a secondary character, the total number of pages that those four main characters and one secondary character are in will be less than the total number of pages in the entire story. Just look in the sidebar under “Categories” for what I mean: the number of Main Character and Moose River pages are equal, while there are less pages of all the Minor Characters combined.
Hopefully this clears some stuff up for you.