West Virginia

West Virginia in 1880

**West Virginia** (ウェストバージニア *U~esutobājinia*), often called the **Mountain State** (マウンテン州 *Maunten-Shū*), and more commonly by her human name of **Viola Kirkland** (ビオラ・カークランド *Biora Kākurando*) is the state personification of West Virginia, and the youngest daughter of Duchess Candace Kirkland and the wealthy plantation owner, Fredrick Brown.

Viola spent much of her childhood with her parents and older siblings. Her life changed dramatically at the age of six, when her maternal grandparents visited her for the first time since her birth in June 20, 1863. Before her birth, her maternal grandmother (Alfred F. Jones) had fought in the American Revolutionary War, with Viola growing up in a divided country and in an toxic family environment. The entire estate, much to the surprise of her older siblings and mother was entrusted to the young, then-naïve Viola; her money-savvy mother doubled the family fortune of their family ensuring her and her children would have a safe childhood. The young Viola would also spend some time in the court of her European grandfather (Arthur Kirkland), alongside her widowed mother; tensions between her mother and her mother-in-laws became so tense that she was sent to Britain to stay with her maternal grandfather. Her father (Fredrick Brown) had passed one year after her birth, leaving the young Viola without a father from a young age; her maternal grandfather viewed the young Viola as a future British Duchess. As her maternal grandfather (Arthur Kirkland) was from the ennobled House of Kirkland, her entire family were viewed as loyalists to the British Crown; with her and her immediate family members being executed; her tragic execution where she was shot by a firing squad with the rest of her family enraged the ennobled House of Kirkland as she and her family were members of their House. Unfortunately, nothing could be done, with Viola and her family eventually being ferried back to England to be "buried" after their "funeral."

In reality, Viola and her family were being taken to the Kirkland Mansion, where they would revive and be returned to the United States–the news of their deaths circulated among the former British colony, with people accusing the family`s killers of "treachery" as the family had done nothing wrong–the entire country was in uproar over the decision to execute Viola and her family, though the colony`s former colonizers couldn`t care less about the execution of a "measly girl", Queen Victoria was shocked upon learning of the execution of a nine-year-old girl and her family; even Prussia (an ally to the Americans in the Revolutionary War) expressed their distaste for executing a young girl and her immediate family–in fact they expressed their hatred for such a measure. Photographs of Viola Kirkland and her family in house arrest were discovered by her extended family; these photographs were later loaned to the Smithsonian Museum and were used to illustrate the cruelty and manical rage of the early Americans. In fact, they were later passed down to Viola`s "next of kin", her "granddaughter" Viola II (who was just Viola in disguise); she passed these same photographs onto the House of Kirkland who casted anti-damage, anti-tear, anti-crack and numerous repair spells onto the photographs before finally framing them.

## Early Life

Viola`s father was Lord Fredrick Brown, Head of the Brown Family, who had historically been plantation owners and owned slaves. Until 1878, Viola had light blonde hair and was described as snow-white pale, as pale as the snow itself. Her sickly younger sister, Lady Frances Brown, born in 1878 was raised alongside the young Viola. Lady Frances`s death in 1878 and her two older brothers` rejection of the Lordship of Brown prompted a succession crisis that brought pressure on Lord Fredrick Brown and his unmarried brothers to marry and have children. In 1818 he married Duchess Candace Kirkland, an unmarried Colonial British woman, having three children with his loving wife; his youngest (Viola Kirkland) was born into a toxic family environment. Both of her parents were fighting with her paternal great-grandparents, desperate to keep them away from the future Lady-Duchess as her mother disliked their domineering attitudes, while