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|bio=Johanna Carolina Back grew up with music in her home from her father and mother, who were both composers and performers. She was happy with her life, that is, until she was turned. Irony would have it that her freedom ended the same day her future home was declared independent. To add insult to injury, she was embraced by her own mother, Anna Magdalena Bach 16 years after their supposed death. This is a cruelty Jemma would prefer to pay back in kind, by killing the bitch. In 1801, Jemma was able to escape her mother and fled to New York. Revenge in her heart, but relief on her side, she begins to make music in the US. After a series of public deaths and reincarnations, she left the East coast with Germanic immigrants to settle on a farm in unamusing Iowa. After over 30 years as a faculty member of Simpson College, fearing for her safety, she became a recluse on her farm. When she returns to Simpson College in 1973, she stands 5'6", known she her flowy style of clothing and blue hair. You could almost see the freckles, except the glasses and makeup she wore to fake the appearance of aging. There is a air of energy about her, sometimes delightful or energetic, other times sad or angry. When she enters a room, everyone looks at her, even if they continue speaking. Jemma has spent her time slowly changing her appearance to become the next big musical star. Some of her more recent identities have been the voice talents of Adele and Madonna. The last few years have appeared to have aged more.
 
|bio=Johanna Carolina Back grew up with music in her home from her father and mother, who were both composers and performers. She was happy with her life, that is, until she was turned. Irony would have it that her freedom ended the same day her future home was declared independent. To add insult to injury, she was embraced by her own mother, Anna Magdalena Bach 16 years after their supposed death. This is a cruelty Jemma would prefer to pay back in kind, by killing the bitch. In 1801, Jemma was able to escape her mother and fled to New York. Revenge in her heart, but relief on her side, she begins to make music in the US. After a series of public deaths and reincarnations, she left the East coast with Germanic immigrants to settle on a farm in unamusing Iowa. After over 30 years as a faculty member of Simpson College, fearing for her safety, she became a recluse on her farm. When she returns to Simpson College in 1973, she stands 5'6", known she her flowy style of clothing and blue hair. You could almost see the freckles, except the glasses and makeup she wore to fake the appearance of aging. There is a air of energy about her, sometimes delightful or energetic, other times sad or angry. When she enters a room, everyone looks at her, even if they continue speaking. Jemma has spent her time slowly changing her appearance to become the next big musical star. Some of her more recent identities have been the voice talents of Adele and Madonna. The last few years have appeared to have aged more.
|rumors=It is rumored that Jemma knew poor Mildred well in her youth. The Mildred who died by falling from the third story of college hall. Some think it wasn't an accident.
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* It is rumored that Jemma knew poor Mildred well in her youth. The Mildred who died by falling from the third story of college hall. Some think it wasn't an accident.
 
Someone spotted a woman who they thought to be Anna Magdalena, of course under a different name by now, in the US.
 
Someone spotted a woman who they thought to be Anna Magdalena, of course under a different name by now, in the US.
Some of her siblings may have also been embraced by her mother Anna Magdalena, but she hasn't come across them in the last 200 years.
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* Some of her siblings may have also been embraced by her mother Anna Magdalena, but she hasn't come across them in the last 200 years.
She has begun calling Joshua the Anarch a boo weasel, for the crime of agreeing to and then refuting a boon owed after a show of utter disrespect at the unaligned Caitiff camp she had a hand in bringing to the Des Moines area.  
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* She has begun calling Joshua the Anarch a boo weasel, for the crime of agreeing to and then refuting a boon owed after a show of utter disrespect at the unaligned Caitiff camp she had a hand in bringing to the Des Moines area.  
  
 
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Revision as of 04:58, 18 September 2022

Jemma Collins
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Pronouns She/Her
Clan Choir of Eris
Sect Anarch
Social Class Neonate
Morality Humanity

Further Information

Jemma Collins Headshot.jpeg
Description

Currently living her best life, Jemma is one of the premiere vocal artists and faculty at the Prestigious Simpson College, the only school in the Midwest with an Undergraduate Opera program. She pushes her ducklings to share their lives through patronage to her and the arts.

Timeline

1737 - September 17th Johanna Carolina Bach was born to parent Johann Sebastian and Anna Magdalena Bach.

1750 - July 28 Johann Sebastian Bach dies of strange circumstances.

1760 - February 22nd Anna Magdalena disapeared, and people assume she had also died.

1776 - August 2nd Johanna was embraced by Anna Magdalena and the Declaration of Independence was signed.

1801 - Johanna flees from her mother to New York and takes the name Jemma Collins, where she starts working as a copyist and evening performer, when allowed.

1885 - After a number of failed strikes in New York, Jemma moves with German settlers to Iowa. She purchases a small farm and does performances in the dance halls in the evenings the eastern edge of what would later become Indianola, IA

1887 - Jemma joins faculty at Simpson College, where she works in art and teaching copyist music theory

1920 - Fearing the fights breaking out between the Daughters of Cacophony and the Sons of Discord and a rumor that Anna Magdalena has been spotted in the US, Jemma becomes a recluse of her farm, writing musical scores for the new picture films.

1973 - Jemma sells the farm and moves into town. With a new look, she once again joins the Simpson College faculty and meets a young Robert Larsen, who was established himself among the faculty and helps develop the music, theatre and arts programs.

1985 - Jemma establishes the Cult of Performance, drawing in students who perform.

2000 - The appearance of Alexis de la Rue unites the Daughters of Cacophony and Sons of Discord, but Jemma now battles to keep arts programs in schools.

2018 - The clan is renamed to the Choir of Eris

2017 - After a round of budget and faculty cuts, the music and theatre programs are forced to combine into Simpson Performance, which draws in even more students to the Cult.

2021 - Gave the final death stroke with sorrow to Dominic Moraturi, a forsaken Salubri Elder, gaining the title triumphant and the infamy of a bad deed.

Bio

Johanna Carolina Back grew up with music in her home from her father and mother, who were both composers and performers. She was happy with her life, that is, until she was turned. Irony would have it that her freedom ended the same day her future home was declared independent. To add insult to injury, she was embraced by her own mother, Anna Magdalena Bach 16 years after their supposed death. This is a cruelty Jemma would prefer to pay back in kind, by killing the bitch. In 1801, Jemma was able to escape her mother and fled to New York. Revenge in her heart, but relief on her side, she begins to make music in the US. After a series of public deaths and reincarnations, she left the East coast with Germanic immigrants to settle on a farm in unamusing Iowa. After over 30 years as a faculty member of Simpson College, fearing for her safety, she became a recluse on her farm. When she returns to Simpson College in 1973, she stands 5'6", known she her flowy style of clothing and blue hair. You could almost see the freckles, except the glasses and makeup she wore to fake the appearance of aging. There is a air of energy about her, sometimes delightful or energetic, other times sad or angry. When she enters a room, everyone looks at her, even if they continue speaking. Jemma has spent her time slowly changing her appearance to become the next big musical star. Some of her more recent identities have been the voice talents of Adele and Madonna. The last few years have appeared to have aged more.

Rumors
  • It is rumored that Jemma knew poor Mildred well in her youth. The Mildred who died by falling from the third story of college hall. Some think it wasn't an accident.

Someone spotted a woman who they thought to be Anna Magdalena, of course under a different name by now, in the US.

  • Some of her siblings may have also been embraced by her mother Anna Magdalena, but she hasn't come across them in the last 200 years.
  • She has begun calling Joshua the Anarch a boo weasel, for the crime of agreeing to and then refuting a boon owed after a show of utter disrespect at the unaligned Caitiff camp she had a hand in bringing to the Des Moines area.

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Quotes

"Practice makes Permanent."
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OOC Information
Player Sabrina Fox
Pronouns She/Her
MES # US2019110019
Domain Des Moines, IA
Storyteller Jeremy Por El