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1. What’s their full name? Why was that chosen? Does it mean anything?

Bennette Elizabeth JonesI chose that name because I absolutely love Pride & Prejudice (and yes.. the zombie version as well) and I thought that Lizzie’s last name would be a beautiful first name. For story purposes, I had Bennette’s Father, James, be the one who chose her name and played on my love for P&P and gave it to him to pass down to his daughter. Which is why she gave her eldest daughter, Macie, the middle name Jane (unasked for information - Macie’s first name originally was going to be Jane, but because Bennette’s late husband was so keen on the name, in honor of his memory, she named her Macie Jane.)

2. Do they have any titles? How did they get them?

You mean like, Mom? LMAOBennette grows her own produce and has her own stall at the local Farmer’s Market. Recently she’s started getting into making her own soaps out of fruits and vegetables and local plants. She’s also been making her own baby food which she’s been selling at her farmer’s market stand. She has all her permits, licenses, and insurance to create and sell food out of her home/stand. She also travels and sends out packages for online orders etc. She doesn’t have any employee’s. I don’t see her becoming this huge in home name kind of thing, but sometimes her friends come over and help and so do their older littles (those aren’t sold, lol).

3. Did they have a good childhood? What are fond memories they have of it? What’s a bad memory?

Yes and no. I’d say that 89% of her childhood was good up until her Father passed away (this is probably her the worst thing that happened to her as a child). Her fondest memories are all with her Dad and her closest friends. What she loved doing most was going fishing and checking the crawdad traps with her Dad and horseback riding. 

4. What is their relationship with their parents? What’s a good and bad memory with them? Did they know both parents?

Bennette knows both of her parents. She was closest with her Father when he was alive and even now she still feels closer to him than she does with her Mother with whom has always kept herself emotionally distant with her only daughter. All memories with her Dad were good, even the ones where he had to be stern with Benni. She cherished every moment she had with him. Definitely a Daddy’s Girl. Her worst moment is finally understanding why her Mother was so cold towards her. A little less than a month after her Father’s passing, Bennette had worked up the courage to ask her  Mother if she even liked her. Her Mother, not batting an eye or even turning to look Bennette in the eye, her only child, said she’d only given birth to her because it was part of the agreement she’d made to her Father. Like it was a job. That’s when Bennette stopped trying to win her Mother’s affections/attention.  

5. Do they have any siblings? What’s their names? What is their relationship with them? Has their relationship changed since they were kids to adults?

She has a half brother named Cash whom she recently just found out about a little more than a year ago. Though it didn’t start off the way Cash would have liked, Bennette and her brother have grown close and have found they have a  lot in common. Cash is the illegitimate child of James Jones, Bennette’s Father, who’d had an affair with his old high school sweetheart. He’d wanted his children to grow up together, but Bennette’s Mother absolutely refused and threatened to take Bennette and leave with her if he so much as brought Cash or his Mother around. So, Cash was kept a secret from his sister until he was old enough to receive his inheritance he was left by James upon his death and set out on his own to find her.

6. What were they like at school? Did they enjoy it? Did they finish? What level of higher education did they reach? What subjects did they enjoy? Which did they hate?

Bennette was one of those girls who was friends with literally everybody. Always laughing, smiling, singing and just living life to the fullest. She loved school and lived by her Father’s moto, life is what you make of it.. if you look at it with a negative perspective, you’ll get negative outcomes.. if you look at it and can see it from a positive perspective.. then you’ll have a happy life.Bennette’s favorite subjects were English and History. She played on the girls Softball and Volleyball team and volunteered as a peer tutor in her free time.She wasn’t much of a fan of Math, mostly because she didn’t think she understood it even though she had an A. She didn’t necessarily “hate” anything though, she sees “hate” as a pretty strong word and doesn’t use it freely.

7. Did they have lots of friends as a child? Did they keep any of their childhood friends into adulthood? 

As polite as she was to everyone and many would of called Bennette their friend, Bennette didn’t share the same feelings. Though she treated others how she wanted to be treated, she only considered a small group of people her “friends.” And those were ones she trusted most. She keeps in contact, but not as well as she would like to. Especially after her late husband passed away. She has a few, two or three, that she sees regularly though.

8. Did they have pets as a child? Do they have pets as an adult? Do they like animals?

Bennette had a dog, a Border Collie, named Ace when she was a child. He passed away not too long after her Father’s passing. She suspected her Mother had a hand in Ace’s passing, but never found evidence that she had. She also had a bird, a parakeet, named Cornelius. She gave it to a friend after her Mother complained that it gave her headaches.Nowadays, Bennette has two farms that has LOTS of animals! Domestic animals, Bennette has had a lot of animals honestly, but counting the ones she’s had on her own since Atlas passed away she’s had four dogs. A Pug named Pugsley, a Basset Hound named Molly, a Bloodhound named Dixie (Bennette’s friend Selena ended up with her as Dixie kept following her from Bennette’s farm to her home, turned out Selena is pregnant and they think that’s why Dixie kept following her), and now she has a Border Collie (thanks to her friend Thea @msmidnightblonde for finding the ad about needing to find a new forever home for the dog) named Pal. She’d like to adopt another Border Collie, a female, but with the move to Georgia - they decided to wait. They also had a cat adopt them, yes he adopted them, in which Macie Jane named him Kevin the Cat. He’s a three legged stray that took a liking to them and after taking him in to the vet to make sure he wasn’t chipped they waited a month before adopting him officially (he’s chipped now).Farm animals - They have a horse, Duke.In Arizona they only had cows and some chickens (and yes, Duke, too).In Georgia, they decided to expand and now have pigs, sheep, goats, more cows and a lot more chickens! And yes.. still Duke <3

9. Do animals like them? Do they get on well with animals? 

Bennette has always had a soft spot for animals and they for her <3

10. Do they like children? Do children like them? Do they have or want any children? What would they be like as a parent? Or as a godparent/babysitter/ect?

Bennette absolutely ADORES children. She and Atlas had tried for years to conceive, but after several miscarriages they started taking in and fostering animals until they could find forever homes for them. Bennette didn’t find out she was pregnant with her first child until a few months after her husband’s funeral. Her second child was conceived the first time with Theron, and her third child was adopted through a wonderful adoption agency @bootsandleaves. Bennette would love to have more, but it would be very dangerous for her and for her baby.She is also a godparent to her best friend’s children, Meghan Shields (@charsimatic - @littlegingersnaps), Harrison and Hazel Shields.

11. Do they have any special diet requirements? Are they a vegetarian? Vegan? Have any allergies?

Yes, they’re on a “see” food diet. As in they see food and they eat it *winks*As for food allergies, Bennette has noticed recently that her throat and tongue burns whenever she eats a banana - which is odd because she’s ate them her whole life and though she’s had issues like she does when she’d drink milk where it feels like she’s got something stuck in her throat, but she’s never had the issue of it burning (like having a sore throat).Other than that, she is allergic to alcohol so she doesn’t drink often. A glass of wine maybe as she doesn’t have as bad of a reaction to dark wine as she does other alcoholic beverages.She’s also allergic to cat dander and poison oak (not food I know, but..) and she has seasonal allergies.

12. What is their favourite food? 

She loves cheeseburgers and anything spicy.

13. What is their least favourite food?

Okra and black licorice.

14. Do they have any specific memories of food/a restaurant/meal?

Sleeping outside on the screened in porch during the summer.Going horseback riding with her Dad.Taking tours as a teenager with her best friends through the swamps, laughing with the locals as the vacationers screamed or jumped at the ‘gator’s in the swamps and snakes when they’d swim by the boat.Racing her dog, Ace, from where the bus dropped her off at the end of the long drive back to the house.

15. Are they good at cooking? Do they enjoy it? What do others think of their cooking?

Bennette would say she’s an average cook and she likes what she makes, but others would say she should of become a chef and missed her calling.

16. Do they collect anything? What do they do with it? Where do they keep it? 

Do animals count? JK Lol. Um, idk. I wouldn’t say she’s a collector of things.. she used to have a sea shell collection, which is probably still in her bedroom at her parents plantation house in Georgia. 

17. Do they like to take photos? What do they like to take photos of? Selfies? What do they do with their photos?

She loves taking pictures, or making memories as she calls them. She takes all kinds of pictures, including selfies, in which most she uploads to her mumblr. The ones she prints off she has a in a box to put in frames to eventually hang up around the house.

18. What’s their favourite genre of: books, music, tv shows, films, video games and anything else?

She loves reading psychological thrillers, horror movies, fallout 4, the witcher, bones, ncis, the walking dead, charmed, etc. She also loves Gold Diggers (a movie starring christina ricci and anna chlumsky) and other cute movies that I can’t think of the titles right now. She’s a big movie buff and she loves loves reading. Anything that can hold her interested or keep her on the edge of her seat.

19. What’s their least favourite genres?

I don’t think she has a least favorite, really.

20. Do they like musicals? Music in general? What do they do when they’re favourite song comes?

Bennette’s never been to a musical. As for her favorite songs, she dances and sings to them, even if she can’t sing that great :) It doesn’t stop her!