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Name/Nickname: Xia Lin
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Timezone: Central

CHARACTER:
Name: Meg Murry
Age: Approximately fourteen or fifteen.
Series: Madeline L'Engle's, Time Quartet
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Occupation: Student, servant / house cleaner.
Point of canon to be drawn in: Post "A Wind in the Door"
Preferred level: Terra, but Elysium if that post is required to be a house-cleaner in Elysium.

Appearance:

Meg is a rather nondescript girl and bears the appearance of someone who has grown a touch too quickly over the summer. She is painfully skinny with a smattering of freckles over her upturned, small nose. Her eyes are bright blue, and usually framed by glasses, though she's recently come across contact lenses and wears them from time to time as well. Her hands are bony, a dry callous on the middle finger of her right hand. An explosion of wavy, mousy brown-colored hair pours from the top of her head, hanging to her mid-back. She usually keeps it restrained with a headband, or some kind of hair tie, though she's known to leave it down from time to time, to allow it to hang over her eyes. Meg is physically very awkward, and tends to trip over things. While she might be pretty at some point later in her life, right now she's merely a gangly teenager.

Personality:
Meg is a girl of fierce emotions, and never seems to have control of them entirely. She is willful and incredibly proud, though she frightens easily and gives into histrionics. She is stubborn to the point of recalcitrance and childishness, and possesses a prideful streak that causes her to ignore the people around her at her own cost. Over-dramatic, and in some ways a completely average teenage girl. She's over-obsessed with her weight and tends towards self-loathing.

Despite her flaws, Meg is incredibly protective of the people around her. When Meg is angry enough, she can swallow down her fear and perform great acts of bravery, instead of crying. She can be gruff, but underneath her prickly exterior, she cares deeply about her friends and family. Sometimes her feelings are hard for her to express properly, so she comes across as angry and brusque instead of protective.

Meg is very smart and somewhat eccentric due to her intelligence. Her particular intelligences are mathematical in nature, so Meg tends to want the world to make sense above anything. When people act in ways that are irrational she tends to become confused [or angry]. Consciously, Meg understands she does things that don't make sense, though she still tends to act like a child.

While usually rather shy around others, Meg is not an introvert. She has learned to keep her mouth shut to avoid trouble, even if it means she must bite her tongue.

Abilities:

Meg is terrific at math and science, and grasps these concepts easily. She is good at writing to a lesser degree, [though her handwriting is abysmal]. Everything she tries she picks up quickly, though she does not have the patience to excel at anything but math. At the age of fifteen, she was helping her friend Calvin with his calculus homework.

Meg's stubbornness can be a vice as well as a virtue. She does not often give up, even when things are extremely difficult for her. Eventually, by reasoning through things, she comes to the conclusion that whatever challenge presented before her is something she simply must do, whether she likes it or not.

Other than that, Meg is a fairly average girl with very high intelligence. She is not very strong, nor is she very fast. She has above-average dexterity and tends to be good at making things. Animals tend to like her. She is good at bringing order to chaos, that includes in her math, and in her occupation.


History:

Meg Murry was born in British Columbia to two scientists.

In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg goes on a journey throughout time and space to search for her father, who has mysteriously disappeared. She becomes friends with fellow student Calvin O'Keefe, who joins Meg and Charles Wallace in traveling by tessering - or folding space. Calvin provides a source of strength and stability for her throughout the book. Together they rescue Dr. Murry on the dark planet Camazotz, though her father is forced to tesser through the darkness that is surrounding Camazotz. Meg ultimately rescues Charles Wallace from Camazotz as well, not through her own intelligence or strength but simply by loving him.

Later, during "A Wind in the Door", Charles Wallace, who has difficulty getting along with students and teachers suffers from a mysterious illness involving his mitochondria. Even though Meg has had her own trials involving school and the teachers, she tries to intervene on her little brother's behalf with Mr. Jenkins, the school principal. Throughout the book, Meg is introduced to a Cherubim named Progonoskes, who is assigned to her to be her teacher.

She learns to love and appreciate Jenkins when she is given the task of "Naming" him and distinguishing between the principal and his Echthroi dopplegangers. The Echthroi are physical representations of the darkness surrounding the planet. Meg, Mr. Jenkins, Calvin, and a "singular cherubim" [Progonoskes, nick-named Progo] are then sent inside one of Charles Wallace's mitochondria to turn the tide against the Echthroi, the forces of Entropy and "Unnaming." Meg also learns to "kythe" with Calvin and others, communing with them essentially by telepathy.

False memories:

Meg does not know Sandy and Dennys ever existed. Instead, she believes Charles Wallace and she are the only siblings.

Meg believes that her Father went away on a business trip and came back after a number of years. Instead of being captured by IT and the people of Camazotz, her father was in a top-secret facility and was not allowed to contact his family.

Meg believes that she has always been in the city, and that her memories of the places she's been - Camazotz, inside of Charles Wallace's mitochondria, were simply games she and her little brother played to amuse themselves. The people they met - Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which, Progonoskes the Cherubim, Aunt Beast, the dark forces of the Ecthroi - were all made up as well. Any mention of them will bring fondness, any insistence of them being real will bring annoyance, and then anger.

Meg believes Charles Wallace is in a hospital somewhere, receiving treatment for cancer - that is where her mother and father are as well.

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Meg Murry and the Time Quartet books are copywritten to Madeline L'Engle.

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