Name: Lenora Claire Morris, but everyone calls her Lena.
Age: Eighteen
Appearance: One Two Three Four Five Six
Class: Steerage.
Personality: Lena is what you would call a child trapped in an adult's body. She turns everything around her into a joke, and it's rare that you'll ever see her without a bright smile on her face. If Lena isn't playing around with you or smiling, then you know that something is wrong. The only time that she is ever serious, is when she's working. But even then, she still tries to crack a joke to the paying customer every now and again. If he doesn't reply though, she turns straight back into the robot that she is supposed to be, doing everything that the customer asks her to do. When not working, you'll usually find Lena at the nearest pub. chugging down a pint of beer with the rest of the locals. She'll talk to anyone around her - ther'es no point in being picky with who you hang around with when you're in a situation like hers. If someone's there, she'll talk to them - usually about the most pointless of things. She's incredibly confident and bubbly for a girl of her age and profession, but that's just who she is, and always has been. She loves life and tries to live it to the fullest, no matter what it puts her through - she knows that somewhere, there is a light at the end of the long, long, long, long, long dark tunnel, and she's determined to find it.
Reason for travelling to America: Lena has a bad reputation in Belfast. She's moving away to a new town, a new continent, where she can restart her life on a blank slate.
Brief History: Lenora Claire Morris was born in a small house on the coast of Belfast, to a single mother named Marie. She didn't grow up a charmed child, and never became one. Her life was difficult from the word go, having to fight with a bad immune system ever since birth, having inhetrited the trait from her mother. Ever since she could toddle around on two feet, she was helping her mother in what ever way she could. She put dishes away after dinner, washed her own clothes occasiionally, helped her mother collect ingrediants from the vegtable patch, and as soon as she was old enough, she was working. Any way to get money into the house was a God send for the Morris family - however, no-one wanted a young girl with no father working with them, and no-one wanted a divorced woman working for them either. So, whatever job came about, Lena took. She was a newspaper girl at one point, standing in the street, calling out headlines, trying to get someone - anyone - to buy a paper. One day at the age of fifteen, whilst she was helping the grocer sell his vegetbables to customers, she was spoken to by a man. This man offered her a job that paid more than five times what she was earing at the moment, and she instantly took the offer, no matter what it entitled.
So, she took her first customer that night. She really ran away screaming when she found out what he wanted her to do, but their family needed the money. Her mother was everything to her, so she went through with her night's work, and came home with a pocket full of cash that could feed the family for at least two weeks. However, soon her mother became ill, contracting a weakened version of the bubonic plague, and she slowly deterioated, until she was bed ridden. Lena worked harder and harder, trying to earn the funds to pay for an expensive doctor, but she didn't reach her target in time. With her last breaths, Marie took her daughters hand and slipped a piece of paper into it. "My darling, I spent all of my life savings on this ticket for you. Use it, and start a new life. Make me proud."
So now, she's boarding the ship to America. She's leaving behind everything that she knew and loved, and she's leaving behind who she is. She doesn't want to be known as the "best prostitue in Belfast" anymore. In America, she'll just be another name-less face in a sea of people. It's perfect.
Any special possessions?: An old photograph of her mother, grandmother, and her, her mother's favourite bracelet and her comfort teddy bear, Rory.
Relationship Status: Single
Travelling companion(s): No-one.
