Goff Family

The **Goff Family** is one of the founding families of Red Lieu. They are one of the oldest families the town of Red Lieu with some of the biggest secrets. Originally coming from somewhere within the United Kingdom, they discovered Red Lieu with the Foxx Family and the Sorabella family who had also settled in Pennsylvania upon landing here from their destinations. The three families helped build this town to what it is today.

Disgusted with his family, Ronnie could not escape it but had a daughter who could.

## History

Over a hundred years ago, the Goff Family founded Red Lieu with the two other founding families. Zain Goff and Lexie Goff, a pair of siblings, who were originally from the United Kingdom decided to come to America to discover a place where they could start anew with their own goals for a family. They opened up the Diamond Goff Stables which presented with the specialty of breeding and selling horses. Zain and Lexie were set on the purest form of creatures had to stay close knit to continue to be pure. This was where their parents seemed to disagree with them which had motivated them to leave and start a family.

For future generations, they created a list of rules that were not to be broken and followed by all generations. The rules were as follows:

1. Look out for your family, first and foremost.
2. Love your family intimately and intensely.
3. Father's word is law; the oldest living male in that moment should always be listened to. Do not let him down.
4. The women should be protected at the cost of lives.
5. Take care of the stable and the horses there. Be sure they are pure, like the Goff family name.
6. If a child looks impure, make rid of it.

The following generations would follow Zain and Lexie's rules like they were written in the bible itself which was another thing that they worshipped. Sunday church was something they attended daily and insisted on. Every generation to follow was obedient to their rules for the most part while some kept their inbred children a secret but others didn't. It wasn't until Ronnie Goff was born that things started to shake up. Of course, the last thing he had wanted to do was disappoint his father but the idea of spending the rest of his life with his sister revolted him. The mere idea made him sick but he managed to get through one child. After Charlotte gave birth to their son, he had gone out drinking to try to escape that memory. Which was when he met Jennifer and a branch off the pure Goff family was made. This caused a lot of in house issues before Diane's ultimate departure from the family in which Ronnie did (and does) his best to maintain her whereabouts a secret while keeping her name apart of the family name.

## Family Members

### Current

* **Zain Goff** - Born circa the mid-to-late 19th century, Zain had dealt with parents who didn't understand the same things there were. Having always had a little bit of a darker twist to him which made it hard for him to really be able to follow what others believed. When he got older, he found himself falling in love with his younger sister Lexie. He was quick to make her follow his charm that he held and made her fall in love with him. From there, he worked on convincing her into his train of thought so when the opportunity to go to America arose; they took it. A group of three others had declared they were going off to start their own city to which Zain volunteered that his sister and him would go. They began building their legacy in Red Lieu.
* **Lexie Goff** - Younger sister, and eventually wife, to Zain Goff who was very naïve when it came to the world. Finding it easy for her to fall into the clutches of other people, she clung to her brothers side as she failed to realize the clutches that she fell into with him. At a early age, he had convinced her to fall in love with him and as they got older spoke of a great place where they could run away to be together. When they got to America she was ecstatic. It was her brother who suggested they follow the three others who were off to elsewhere.
* **Patrick Goff** - The eldest son of the Goff families more recent branch of children. Patrick lacks heavily in intelligence but makes up for it in strength and loyalty. The one thing he was most loyal to was the rules that had been passed down by generations. When he became of age, he married the second eldest of the four which was Libby. He was said to be the most angry when Ronnie had gotten another woman pregnant as it went against the rules.
* **Libby Goff** - Soft spoken Libby was never one to cause trouble and when her brother insisted that they continue on with the family rules, she didn't mind at all. Patrick wasn't a harsh man or mean by any means and her view of the outside world was limited as she was home schooled like the rest of her siblings. Unlike Charlotte and Ronnie, who were the two youngest, both Libby and Patrick were content with staying within the manor.
* **Charlotte Goff** - When she first learned the rules, she had cried about it as a child. Stating that she didn't want to marry or have kids with Patrick or Ronnie. It changed as she got older and Ronnie was different from Patrick. Something in him had sparked an interest in her that led to infatuation. When they got married, she was as proud as could be. Their first child had been named Simon in which she had excited awaited the next to only find out her husband had ran off to knock up some outsider.
* **Ronnie Goff** - The youngest between his siblings, he was the least willing for the family rules. It had left him sick especially at the idea of what inbreeding could do. One of the things that he had enjoyed doing was going to the library to read on his own where he learned about it. The rules had stated that if someone had come out wrong; he must kill his own child. This sat even worse to him but he didn't want to upset their father so when it came time to marry Charlotte, he did as he was told. Their first son had come out fine to which he was able to let out a breath he had been holding but he was repulsed by the fact that he had slept with his own sister so he went out drinking. During that time was when he had met Jenifer and found himself intertwined with her for a few weeks. Love had come quick for him for the woman and when she got pregnant, he knew that he had to tell the rest of his family. His father ordered Libby and Patrick to handle it once she was far enough along. They drugged her so they could cut out the baby and then dumped her off at the hospital so she'd never know the connection to Ronnie. This horrified him even more especially at the treatment that his daughter got and the idea that his daughter could be saved.
* **Jasper Goff** - Eldest child to Patrick and Libby, he also tends to be a little bit slow but relatively creative. Growing up he had shown very little interest in females in general and only carried out the marriage at his fathers grandfathers behest.
* **Belle Goff** - The younger sister and wife to Jasper who dreams of being a movie star on the big screen despite her parents never taking that dream or wish seriously. Most of her family seemed to laugh off her dream which has made her rather angry with all of them without the courage to leave.
* **Simon Goff** - The only son to Charlotte and Ronnie Goff, it is very possible as according to his grandfather that Belle might have to produce a child for him as well since his father fails to produce a wife for him. He is a rather closed off person with possibly sociopathic tendencies.
* **Diane Chase** - The bastard child that Ronnie had with Jenifer who meant a lot more to Ronnie then his son. She was often heavily mistreated within her families household. They rarely showed her any love and a lot of her abuse came from Charlotte. When she ran away, she vowed to never let them have anything new she created from herself.
* **Paul Chase** - Diane's only son with her husband Jack Chase. He is unaware of his families history or the secrets that go on within the Goff house of home schooled children let alone what his mother went through.

## Family Tree

Note: Dashed vertical lines indicate a span of unknown time between generations of family members. Dashed horizontal lines indicate confirmed parentage out of wedlock. Pink represents female while blue means male. Darker colors of each one in recent generations means they have a family that is not further listed.