Aliprin Parcross

Brothers:

* Silas
* Moe Malik (half brother)
* Marcus (deceased)
* James (deceased)
* George (deceased)

Sisters:

* Hannah
* Judith
* Lily

## Description

### **"Everybody deserves a bit of kindness at least once in this world."**

Aliprin is a friendly woman who prefers to help others. Known as a bit of a loud, social butterfly, she tends to surround herself with people, occasionally spotted listening more than speaking. She is also known to tease her friends and lover in public. Generally the first words spoken by people she meets are "Hi- oh good god, you're tall!"

## Appearance

Standing at over 6 feet(2 meters) in height, Ali is a tall lady with an athletic build, grey hair, and green eyes. Her left eye has a large scar, covered by an eyepatch. She is currently never seen without her gloves on.

## History

Born on a small homestead in Athens, West Virginia, Aliprin was the eldest child of the eight Parcross children. Growing up, she and her siblings were lovingly raised by their parents. Her father had trained and given her a love of botany and wildlife, while her mother, a doctor, had taught her how to put that love to a medicinal use. By age 14, she had 4 brothers and 3 sisters, which had put a small strain on her family’s finances, but this had only encouraged and inspired Aliprin to help them cope with the burden. At first, she started by gathering herbs for doctors, and selling fish that her and her siblings caught. However, her parents would put a stop to this a year later when she was protecting her siblings from a drunk bandit. In the end, the children were robbed, her bones were broken, and her face scarred; but luckily her eye had been spared at that time. For a whole year, all the poor girl could do was stare out the window, while the rest of the family took up the burden, only encouraging her to speed up her recovery.

By age 16, she began working on ranches by helping with the livestock, mostly through guarding cattle at first, but eventually assisting with veterinary work. On the occasion when a farmhand was injured, Aliprin would do her best to keep them going long enough to reach an actual doctor. The stress of it all may have given her some gray hair, but that never really bothered her. After 5 years of this, the girl had decided to follow in her mother's footsteps, and go into the medical profession. With some family support, she set out to learn not only medicine from her mother’s colleagues in the nearby towns, but also traditional medicine used by the local tribes. From there, she set off from home with nothing but a recommendation letter from her mother, a bit of money that she had saved after supporting her family, and a journal waiting to be filled with the wisdom the world had to offer.

During her travels, the aspiring doctor had made her way home on a break after a year, only to find that her family had become near destitute. Always one to help, Ali had given her parents permission to arrange a marriage on the condition that they "choose a man who could keep up with my wanderlust." This would lead to her meeting a man by the name of Victor Lions, at the time a prominent writer who had taken interest in Ali. After a few months of courting, the two officially became engaged, but this would be short lived, as she would discover that Victor had planned on murdering and cannibalising her. Mentioning this to her brothers, they immediately hunted down her fiance, which led to a chase by coach that would result in two of her brothers being fatally shot. Days later, Victor would kidnap Ali, taking her to one of the local caves where he then proceeded to torture her. Eventually it would escalate to him carving "The Wendigo's Bride" into her right arm and removing her left eye, eating it in front of her. Before attempting to kill her, he would fatally shoot Marcus before being killed by both her and her older half brother, Moe Malik. Traumatised by this, and to protect Moe from being charged with murder, she would always claim that she had been attacked by a Wendigo, passing it off as the reason why her hair had greyed, as well as the reason for the carving in her arm.

After this incident, Ali and Moe set off for New Alexandria together, only to be separated during the journey. For the next three years she spent her time helping others however she could, refusing to let anyone else experience what she had gone through. In order to cover their tracks, she would claim to be from New Austin whenever asked, and that her mother was Jesse Parcross (her aunt) which to her, was "not entirely a lie, since the Parcross ranch **used to be** in between Armadillo and Tumbleweed."

## MAJOR EVENTS

During a fishing trip out at Window Rock, she had a deep conversation with Varun Torino, eventually getting him to confess that he "Likes her a lot" and revealing that she felt the same.

Later on, in a fisherman's shack outside St. Denis, the pair would play a game of 20 questions, where she would reveal the truth about her eye and show the carving on her arm.

Days after this, Ali would lose her left hand in a dynamite explosion during an excursion with her friends, Al Winchester and Ada Lockwood. She would immediately send a letter, including the space rock shards, to Moe, instructing him to see if he could help find her a custom prosthetic. Days later, the siblings would meet in Valentine, where Ali would reveal that Torino was courting her.

## TRIVIA

* She learned to play the piano from George, who she says "was the best piano player she had ever heard, but not the best piano teacher."
* Her aunt Jesse had given her a solid gold pocket watch, a family heirloom, before disappearing one day, never to be seen again.
* She found her horse in a potato field she had walked past one day, which inspired his name.
* Potatoes has a habit of escaping the stables and wandering all over New Alexandria, and is always found chewing on a potato, but never eating them. It is unclear how he keeps finding them, or how he keeps finding his owner.
* Has shards from a space rock she found with Varun Torino, which were recently added as decoration to her prosthetic hand, resembling a rose.
* Ali has a very bad memory.
* She always wonders why nobody can pronounce her name correctly.
* She does not know that her sibling, Moe Malik, is actually her half brother.