This is an in character blog for my OC - historical and character context under the cut
First things first, this blog is like 70% shitpost by weight.
Anyways…
So, who is George?
George is a seventeen year old home child who lives in the fictional town of Calf, Newfoundland (on an island situated where the real island of Calf, Nova Scotia is located IRL) in the 1910s, around 1915.
George’s employers/guardians are a family of Quakers, the Westons. They treat him like a son, and he considers them to be his family. The Westons are George (Sr), Carol and Mary. George thinks of Mary like a sister, and occasionally visits her and her husband Ezikiel in St. John’s.
George is dating a young woman named Annie, and plans to marry her should he ever have go to war
George’s home child contract stipulated that he had to attend school, but in practice rarely went, due to lax enforcement and it being way more important that he works on the farm. He makes some spelling mistakes because of this.
“How does he have a tumblr blog in ww1” idfk. Suspension of disbelief. Whimsy. Magic. The power of friendship. Have you considered because it brings him joy?
Historical Context that may be important:
Home children are british orphans sent from England to the colonies to work on farms. I took a large handfuls of historical liberties with this. George will technically be expected to go start his own farm when he turns eighteen, but the Westons are very much attatched to him, and he’s already got a job lined up as their “farmhand” (son)
Newfoundland is a British colony at this point, despite pretty much all of the rest of Canada having become independent. It will stay this way until 1949
The Newfoundland Regiment (or “Blue Puttees”) is a regiment. That comes from Newfoundland. They’re called the Blue Puttees because the first 500 soldiers wore blue puttees (leg wraps) with their standard British uniforms due to a shortage of khaki fabric
Asks are completely open!