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Tw: Mention of domestic abuse, period typical sexism, war trauma, idk what else lmk if i missed anything
Note: when I write things like this i am not ever trying to disrespect real life veterans who fought in wars, this is based off the HBO series
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Appearance: 5'5, large greyish brown eyes, thick dark brown hair, fair skin, def has a sleeper build. dark circles under her eyes, 30% deaf in her left ear.
Personality: Nancy is practical and tough, her will doesn't break easily. She's as stubborn as she's pretty. She's intelligent, brave and fiercely loyal but she feels like she needs to protect everyone, all she's ever done is take care of other people and she's forgotten how to take care of herself first. She doesn't feel like she deserves to be called a saint or an angel and hates it when people call her that. She hopes to find peace one of these days but for now she's got work to do on the battlefield.
Backstory: Nancy was born in a small town just outside of Casper, Wyoming to a working class Irish American family. Her father, Paul, was a lumberjack, her mother, Rose, was a housewife. Nancy was the eldest of three daughters, her two sisters are Bonnie (17) and Mary (15). Her father wanted sons, he loved his daughters but his trauma from the first world war mixed with the fact that he had his first daughter quite young meant he didn't really know how to be a father be there for his children. Nancy raised her younger sisters with her mother while her father worked all day, the silent resentment brewing as they struggled to get by during the Depression. When Nancy was 16, she fell in love with James O'Ryan, another Irish boy in town. They had grown up together. His father had a good job and he was smart, handsome and respectful, and her father liked him. It seemed like a dream come true. They became engaged when they were 18 in 1940. They had a generally happy relationship even though James' expectations for Nancy to be a quiet housewife and to know her place were clear, Nancy tried to play along even though it got on her nerves. In 1941 when the United States declared war on Japan and the Axis Powers, Nancy wanted to enlist and become a nurse withJames, who was enlisting in the Airforce, he forbid her from it, saying it wasn't her place and that she was to stay at home waiting for him like a "good woman". They fought about this until James made the mistake of hitting her during the argument, trying to "knock her down a peg". Nancy left that night with a bruised face, broken heart and a steel resolve and enlisted in the Army to become a combat nurse, she was placed in the 101st Airborne Division, in the second platoon of Easy Company. Not only did she join the Army to escape her abusive relationship, but to also prove that she could do anything a man could do after being told her whole life what she can and can't do. Sobel resented that Nancy was a woman and was trying to keep up with the men (and succeeding), and made her life a living hell at Toccoa. She worked twice as hard as the other men and gained their respect because of it.
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-She keeps a journal, writes in it everyday. (i might write it at some point)
-insomniac, girl does not sleep
-calls herself dramatic but people just don't listen to her until she's hysterical and don't give her credit for the countless times she's regulated her emotions when she wanted to scream her head off (same)
-It took a little while for the men to fully accept Nancy but once they did it was like she was one of them (oversharing, complete lack of personal space, fierce loyalty and lifelong friendship)
Rip Nancy you would've loved Mitski
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