Gemma

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Gemma is a member of the Duchamp family.

Personality

She is a cruel and abusive person, she has no compunction in using violence.<ref>“If you disfigure her with that sort of violence, they will show you no mercy, Gemma.  You shouldn’t be such a brute.”

“I’ve delivered a thousand slaps to girls and young women over the years.  You included, Sam.  I’ve done worse.  You do remember, don’t you?  I would hope my lessons don’t go forgotten.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.b</ref>

It's her job to deal with girls the family thinks aren't working hard enought.<ref>Girls get sent to me if the family thinks they’re behind.  If they’re not taking things seriously, if they’re unable to carry themselves the way the family needs, if they defy certain rules, if they’re distracted…”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.b</ref>

Relationships

Eloise was sent to Gemma because she was falling behind, she asked her want she wanted and gave her the choice between making herself a failure in the eyes of her family, not be awakened but have a normal life. Or she could accept the path her family had for her and excel at it.

Appearance

She has grey hair and permanent frown lines.<ref>Gemma was her mom’s cousin, she was pretty sure.  She was about five or ten years older than Eloise’s mom.  Her hair had turned gray, and years of being unkind had made the lines of frowns and condemnation in her expression a permanent thing.- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.b</ref>

Chronology

When she was ten her family arranged for her to marry a boy, when they meet the boy showed her an animal he was abusing.<ref>“I was engaged to marry a boy when I was ten,” Gemma told Eloise.  “My mother and I went to his place for the Christmas holidays.  To allow us a chance to play, to bond.  He took me by the hand, around the back of the property, to where he had an animal chained to a tree.  I’ll spare you the details, except to say it was a demonstration of how little love he had in him, and how much cruelty was in store for me.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.b</ref> Afterwards she rebelled against her parents and not awakened.<ref>“I stopped being a joyful child, then.  I fought, I rebelled, I begged.  I took every recourse available to me.  When I relieved myself on my bedroom floor and smeared it on the walls, screaming at them when they entered, I was sent to an ogre of a woman who was meant to knock sense into me.  As I’m meant to do for you, here.  As I did for Samantha.  A teacher of harsh lessons, a final recourse before they give up on you.  She asked me- I ask you:  Do you want this?”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.b</ref>

She never married.<ref>“No.  I never married.  I got close, then the nightmares started.  No.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.b</ref>

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