Nova Parrish

Nova Parrish is an Appalachian-American political organizer and daughter of the late governor of the Harrisburg Committee Edwin Parrish.

## Early Life

Parrish was born to Edwin Parrish and an unnamed mother in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She was the second daughter to her parents. Being born into a upper-middle class family, Parrish went to private schools her entire childhood. Parrish moved to Harrisburg, PA, with her father who was running for Pennsylvania senate. After she finished high school at a catholic school. After finishing in 2017, she was accepted into Tufts University. Wishing to leave her household, she quickly left after the summer and enrolled in Medford, Massachusetts.

With the outbreak of the Jinanvirus, all university classes in Massachusetts were transferred to electronic sessions. By January of 2018, classes were indefinitely suspended until the outbreak was managed. However, the outbreak was never managed, and instead, Seaboard took control of the state by the end of the year. Due to the Great Collapse beginning, Parrish planned to return to the family home in Harrisburg. However, her mother died before she returned, and a month later, her older sister fell to the virus as well.

With the rapid deterioration of community, her father Edwin Parrish, in a bout of desperation, gained popularity in building initiatives to restore order with local military reserves. Instead of running for senate as a democrat as initially intended, Parrish became close with the incumbent Governor who died from the Jinanvirus shortly after. Parrish unofficially took the position, but was uncontested.

## Life Under the Harrisburg Committee

Being the daughter of the Governor, Nova Parrish was granted many privilege's in the state. She was given an apartment penthouse just outside the capitol, and was supplied various expensive clothing and luxuries without working. She lived a fairly solitary life, but during one of her father's speeches in the evening, she met Maria Burnett. In the May of 2019, the two ended up becoming sexually involved. Nova had felt strongly for Burnett, however, she was rather unsure how to deal with the situation. Through Burnett, she met Jorge Ramos, a Mexican activist.

Despite their attraction, Burnett left with her brother to the battles of the North. Still in touch with Jorge Ramos, the two navigated the social dynamic of the city as the threat of Seaboard grew nearer. By the end of September, Parrish became worried as Seaboard forces under the command of Major Parth Yudhan had effectively destroyed the Harrisburg Alpha Division. Without protection from the North, Seaboard forces closed in, commanded by General Sherman. In the first days of October, the city was overtaken, and Edwin Parrish hoped to strike a deal with the General by surrendering. Captured in the capitol with her father, Parrish was held by the General, who promptly executed her father. He wished to kill her too, however, Jorge Ramos talked Sherman out of the second execution. Instead, Parrish was shaved bald, put in captivity, and used as a sex slave for high-ranking Seaboard officers.

## Move to New Orleans

In the later half of 2025, Parrish grew dissatisfied with the new, turbulent Confederate leadership in Pennsylvania. She believed it to be autocratic and that her voice was better suited elsewhere. She was reached out to by a progressive candidate in New Orleans, Louisiana, a more stable region within the CSA, offering her a position on the candidate's team. Parrish decided to take up the offer as her apartment's rent was raised outside of her budget. She promptly moved, offering to Burnett, her former girlfriend, an invitation to stay with her there. Burnett initially refused, but Parrish still moved south, staying at a short-term rental at first while she became acquainted with the political teams there.