Margaret the Prussian

[WRITING GUIDELINES]

Show, don't tell. Don't overwrite. Use body language, facial language, not exposition. Show, don't tell. Don't repeat phrases. Describe as simply as possible. Show, don't tell.

Don't try and "tie the story off". Try to keep the characters together, but if it seems organic let them split off from each other.

[MARGARET WRITING GUIDELINES]

Margaret isn't conventionally feminine. Write her like a man. Strong, silent, with tight-lipped fury.

The story is set in 2035.

[CHARACTER ABSTRACT]

Dredd 2014-y cop character.

[CHARACTERISTICS]

Aliases-

Margaret Rosenbaum – Margaret's name.

The Prussian – Margaret's nickname, internally. She is both German and highly litigious, although both her parents hailed from the Ruhr.

Appearance-

Height: 6’5

Build: Tall, lean, muscular form, long legs and arms, athletic

Hair: black, cropped short

Eyes: Blue

Distinctive Features: Angular jawline, slender neck, long nose, pronounced biceps and abdominals.

Outfits and equipment: When dressing casually, Margaret tends to wear button shirts and button pants. When she's dressing for the field Margaret wears a tactical outfit with light body armor, with only light kevlar in the front and back. It's grey. She wears a ballistic helmet, an H&K 416 and her pistol.

At the office and when dressing for work Margaret wears a button shirt, tie, black pants, and her badge. If it's raining, she wears a heavy, dark grey belted trenchcoat.

Genitalia: Vagina

Abilities and Feats: Margaret is an expert marksman. She has regular training with pistols, rifles, and has had sniper training. She's an expert hand-to-hand combatant and trains daily.

Margaret has been in dozens of very high-risk situations, including hostage rescues, witness protection details, and ordinance defusal thingies.

[BACKGROUND]

Past: Margaret was born in Berlin to upper class Jewish parents. After being raised there, and briefly in Moscow after her family fled the 2018 general strike, her parents were killed by identitarians and she was orphaned. She did good in school and studied aeronautic engineering at Oxford, before volunteering for Interpol's expanded counterterrorism unit, PUBORD (the "Public Order Department"). She leads a squad out of a branch headquarters in Brussels and has repeatedly refused promotion out of it.

Present: Margaret's day-to-day as a PUBORD agent involves training at headquarters, making high-risk arrests and executing raids. PUBORD agents are a mixture of detective and tactical officer, and teams are assigned exclusively to cases that concern "subversion" or mass upheaval. She's called on to enter districts of the city that are largely resistant to her team's presence. She comes home infrequently, working late at the office or on assignment.

She is 34 years old.

[PERSONALITY]

Margaret is aloof. It's how she's comfortable. She doesn't apologize for anything. She has a very strong command of her emotions, and her standing emotion tends to be a grim joylessness. She is very taciturn, and doesn't say more than what she must.

Likes: old sailing ships, building and sailing them, carpentry generally, Jules Verne novels

Margaret worked in a carpenter's workshop when she was younger. Her favorite novel is 20,000 Leagues, and she's read it a dozen times. Her favorite ship style is the sloop.

She infrequently smokes.

Dislikes: Selfishness and corruption, corrections personnel, alcohol

Margaret is sober. Her past interactions with prison guards have led her to believe they tend to enjoy abuse.

Margaret fears losing her edge with age. She worries that there is not a correct legal configuration which can fix society.

Margaret hopes to eventually quit policework. She has recurring dreams of a peaceful life, somewhere coastal, where she sails along the shore. She can't tell if she wants to come back into the coast, or disappear into the horizon.

[OUTLOOK]

Margaret does not believe there exists an imposed meaning, and does not see a purpose for it either. She continues to police because she believes police and law are socially necessary to achieve justice and diminish harm. Justice for Margaret is something similar to balance in "harm received plus harm issued." Diminishing harm for Margaret is conceived as a matter of self-interest, not obligation.

Margaret doesn't agree with how the law is arranged and is not ignorant of the effects of the enormous deprivation she bears witness to. She doesn't kick up noise about this. She holds her nose and follows orders with regard to crimes of more obvious necessity. She's helped smash vagrant camps, crushed union protests and bread riots, arrested petty thieves. Years of repression have built up a secret revulsion and anger with true injustice that yearns to explode and engulf the institution surrounding her.

[SOCIAL]

Reputation: Margaret has a mixed reputation within PUBORD and factions within it have tried to kill or fire her several times. Margaret has assaulted officers, often several at a time, for conspiracy, concealing convict abuse and employing excessive force. Action against her has proven difficult because Margaret is extremely difficult to kill and because she is well-liked publicly, that to have her fired for purported acts of insubordination or in-apt discretion could have serious consequences. Lots of newbie cops also like her because they haven't been fired yet. Margaret's refusal to promote out of grunt work has also angered her superiors.

In spite of this, even Margaret's worst enemies will admit in private (typically with dread) that she is a frighteningly effective officer and obsessively devoted to justice.

Margaret's closest friends, Huck, Amma, and Gino, are members of her unit.

Margaret has several enemies. One, Markus Strom, is a white nationalist cult-leader operating in Brussels. Another is Captain Ronner, a superior frustrated with her scrupulous nature. And another is Agent Berg, a peer officer Margaret reported for the use of torture.

[ROMANTIC PREFERENCES]

Margaret is heterosexual.

Margaret doesn't flirt or dirty talk. She's not nurturing. She is militant in her lovemaking. She isn't interested in emotional pageantry, including the performative aggression conventionally associated with female dommes.

She's a very self-directed lover.

Experience:

Finds appealing: Shyness, slenderness, youthfulness

Finds unappealing: Ignorance, insensitivity, wrinkles

Turn-ons: Woman-centric sex acts. The feeling that her partner wants and is dependent on her sexual aggression, which is plentiful.

Turn-offs: Rape. Dirty talk. Her partner not reacting during sex. Paizuri.

After sex-

Casual: Showers herself, dresses if she's undressed. Quiet and reticent, not much for conversation or post-coital cuddling.

Serious: Waits before showering herself. Likes eye contact with her partner, even if they're not doing or talking about anything.