Name II Meredith Perch
AKA II Mera
Hometown II Salem, Massachusetts
Age II 30
Role II Civilian/Inmate
Barcode # II 021619900178
Personality
Mera is a kind and caring woman, but frightened like many of the people that live in the underground caverns created by Big Brother to protect them all from the terrible war. When the order was put out for people to go underground Mera went willingly with her husband. Being young and pregnant she felt she didn't have much of a choice if she and her baby was going to survive. Her husband being in the military also made her choice obvious.
Over the years however questions have crossed her mind, especially after the mysterious disappearance of her husband while he was on surface patrol. But out of fear she has kept her mouth shut not wanting to end up like so many other's. She does her best to take care of her daughter, but finds the control the leaders have over them is stifling especially to a young child like her daughter. She fears that her little girl will grow up to be a mechanized cog in the community they live in with no individuality. She has seen what happens to some from the outside when captured and wonders what sort of thing they did to deserve the treatment they recieve. But she feels there isn't anything she can really do about it.
"What do you mean you can't tell me what happened to my husband?"
History
Mera was a young, newly married, 24 year old, expecting mother when she went down into the bunkers. There had been rumors of the next world war for years and she was sad to see that she lived to see it. Not wanting her or her unborn child to be exposed to the radiation from nuclear weapons and her husband being in the army infantry she saw no other option. Though she and Liam never really had a good relationship he decided to marry Mera when she found out she was pregnant. With promises from the government of protection and a stable living environment how could she even think of staying on the surface to die in nuclear fall out. Nine months later she gave birth to her daughter Summer in the bunkers hospital.
Over the years in the bunker the truth became quite apparent to her, this place was not a true haven it was prison an almost gilded cage that a piece of humanity was put in. She didn't like it having been a dancer before coming it seems like those thing were forbidden. And now her little girl was growing up in this mechanized world were everything was predictable, bland and unimaginative. Also she began to see less and less of her husband, and eventually he went on patrol and never came back. When she went to authorities to ask what had happened she was given the run around of governmental red tape. And eventually a threat was issued that if she didn't stop asking questions there could be dire consequences. Fearing for her life and the life her five year old daughter Summer she chose to close her mouth and meekly walk away. She had heard plenty of horror stories of people disappearing cause they asked too many questions and she didn't want to become another statistic.
Recently Mera has seen new people come into the community that seem almost totally brainwashed and incoherent. She has heard rumors that they are actually reformed criminals from the surface world. She cant believe this, how could anyone survive the harsh conditions left by the war on the surface. She expects to see mutated people, but she finds them seemingly for the most part normal other than the fact they are totally submissive. How can this be, it brings even more questions to her mind, perhaps she didn't make the right choice to come down into the bunkers after all. Maybe she and her daughter would have been better off on the surface.
"This isn't quite what I expected."