Eva Fisch
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Actor: Alice Krige
Concept
Uncompromising Family Matriarch (minus most of the family)
Tropes
Details
Eva Katharina née Fisch was born in 1812 in Mingolsheim, Baden. Even as a child, she had a defiant, fiery streak in her. In 1832 she married Johannes Walz, a successful local tradesman, and bore him a total of 14 children before he died on 16 Sep 1845. After the "Badian Revolution," she decided she'd had enough of the Old World and its political chaos, and in Mar-Apr 1851 she emigrated with her still living eight children (six had already died) to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The family moved to Minnesota several years later.
She found the American spirit suited her. She operated a number of different enterprises over the decades, increasing in scope and independence as her children grew and eventually left home for enterprises of their own, out West. But when the Civil War erupted, she stayed well out of it, fearing a return to the chaos of her early years—though her neighbors knew better than to challenge her "aggressive neutrality" (to her face, at least). Even so, some of her children defied her wishes by enlisting, most-notably, her youngest son Albert, who made a name for himself in the Union Army as a scout.
After 60, she figured she had at least one good venture left in her before old age finally caught her up, and she moved out West herself, to be closer to her children and grandchildren. Albert had written of a place in the San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado that reminded him, somehow, of the place they had left behind in Germany (he was only eight years old when they left), and she decided to go there and start a gasthaus—and maybe bring the family together again. These boom-towns would surely see a lot of visitors needing a place to stay. Since her arrival in Babylon in Apr 1877, she's been scouting out potential locations and attempting to organize capital, though she's come to realize the town seems to have lost its boom…
- Been in the US for 25+ years
- Insists on cooking German food, even out West, where nobody knows what it is
- Absolutely fearless (of people), and will not, under any circumstance, tolerate foolish, childish behavior, or impoliteness—would slap the President in public for being rude.
Contact
Category: Technical/Trade (Hospitality)
Traits
Speaks German better than English; Expert at all manner of home-crafting skills (esp cooking); Fearless (of people); Stubbornness; "The Slap"
Notes
- Al Walz's mother
