Post by Alisa Stevens on Jun 16, 2009 17:02:24 GMT -5
Name: Alisa Beatrice Stevens
Gender/Sex: F
Age: 39
Height: 5' 7"
Physique: Slender
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green
Clothing description: Typically simple but stylish, formal office wear, blouse, jacket, skirt.
Occupation: President of the United States
Home City: Born in Mercury City, lives in Washington DC
Housing location: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC
Other: Did you know the President can read and modify her own FBI file? Cool huh. -- ABS
Backstory:
On the wall of the Oval Office of the Stevens White House, there is an enlarged copy of a famous photograph. It's the USS Midway, half-sunk, its hull peering out from the water in Mercury Bay. It was there to remind her, but not of the folly of her predecessors, but of the coincidence, luck and opportunity she had taken advantage of to get where she was. In 2016 she had been but an assistant attorney, a low-level prosecutor in Mercury City, chasing drug dealers and carjackers. Then her politically active friends suggested, mostly as a joke, that she run for office in the 37th Congressional District. The incumbent was eight-term Republican, and there was no hope of ever unseating him in a wealthy district like that. It was at most a trial balloon, an experience, a thrill. Then the eight-term Republican man turned out to be a woman, and suddenly the thrill was tenfold. She won in a squeaker, 48.1% to 47.5%.
She had felt invincible after that. In 2018, she was re-elected with a landslide margin after her old opponent had tried to remake her image and persuaded her party to let her run. Stevens won with more than three quarters of the vote.
In the House as a freshman Representative, she refused to remain out of the limelight, "Show Stealing Stevens" they started to call her. She was on fire. And in 2019, after the forerunners had crippled each other in the Democratic primary by slinging mud, she ran away with the nomination and the election. She was Governor of California.
2020. Disaster struck. A gigantic boondoggle, the fruit of the military-industrial complex's labours, brought total war to Mercury City. The Governor rose to the occasion, fighting tooth and nail for aid, posing solemnly for the newspapers, taking charge while the incumbent President, ailing and weak, remained in his bed in Washington. His Vice President, the President Elect, refused to throw him under the bus. Why, Stevens never found out.
That Christmas, the Black Christmas of 2020, Stevens remembers a comment she made in the Armed Services Committee."Mister Chairman, I find this project ill-thought and ill-advised, a disaster waiting to happen, and I say we scrap it." Another fortunate accident. She tucks it away and bides her time. The party rank and file clamour for it, but President Word stays in office. Everything has changed. SWORD is founded. The Republicans flail from one disaster to another. Still she bides her time, winning re-election in a landslide thanks to her efforts after the Massacre.
Then it's New Year's Day, 2024. Slow news day. Two days before the Iowa caucus. The tape with her comment on it leaks to the media by someone certainly not working for her. The whole story jumps to the forefront again. Who was responsible? Who knew better? Alisa Stevens wins the caucus by the power of write-in votes alone. Former Secretary of State Morgan Delacroix volunteers for her running mate before the votes have been counted in New Hampshire. He's perfect - popular, experienced, old, a good southern boy.
She's honoured. She's privileged. She's humble. She defeats Jameson Word in a landslide, and on her coat-tails, the Democrats win 62 senate seats.
Other:
Alisa Stevens is an intelligent, ambitious woman, perfectly demonstrated by her becoming the first female President of the United States at the age of 38, thereby also becoming the youngest President ever. Her only regret is that she didn't do it three years earlier, so that no one could possibly break her record as the minimum age for the office is 35. She recognizes her failings - impatience, inexperience, indecisiveness - and seeks to balance them with the people she surrounds herself with. Arguably this is the best possible trait in a President, if the she can rely on her assistants. Sometimes she can't. She is also reluctant to delegate matters, but will do so if she realizes it's necessary.
She wants to think she is a woman of principle, but she will not hesitate to take advantage of the misfortune of a political opponent, or an event that's ultimately beyond her control. She embodies the Greek concept of "kairos", of a sense of opportunity, the knowledge of when to act and how. The scant years spent as a public prosecutor have also stricken into her a very dim view of justice and law - more often than not, the one who has the means also has the law on their side. As President, she will follow the law only as far as her sense of justice and political acumen allow.
Finally, she is worried that her focus on her career means she will never have a partner, but as long as she's President, it's far more convenient for everyone involved to just forego that part. Maybe she'll have time on her second term - she'll only be pushing past forty, though with her iron lady reputation, finding a husband could be impossible...
Gender/Sex: F
Age: 39
Height: 5' 7"
Physique: Slender
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green
Clothing description: Typically simple but stylish, formal office wear, blouse, jacket, skirt.
Occupation: President of the United States
Home City: Born in Mercury City, lives in Washington DC
Housing location: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC
Other: Did you know the President can read and modify her own FBI file? Cool huh. -- ABS
Backstory:
On the wall of the Oval Office of the Stevens White House, there is an enlarged copy of a famous photograph. It's the USS Midway, half-sunk, its hull peering out from the water in Mercury Bay. It was there to remind her, but not of the folly of her predecessors, but of the coincidence, luck and opportunity she had taken advantage of to get where she was. In 2016 she had been but an assistant attorney, a low-level prosecutor in Mercury City, chasing drug dealers and carjackers. Then her politically active friends suggested, mostly as a joke, that she run for office in the 37th Congressional District. The incumbent was eight-term Republican, and there was no hope of ever unseating him in a wealthy district like that. It was at most a trial balloon, an experience, a thrill. Then the eight-term Republican man turned out to be a woman, and suddenly the thrill was tenfold. She won in a squeaker, 48.1% to 47.5%.
She had felt invincible after that. In 2018, she was re-elected with a landslide margin after her old opponent had tried to remake her image and persuaded her party to let her run. Stevens won with more than three quarters of the vote.
In the House as a freshman Representative, she refused to remain out of the limelight, "Show Stealing Stevens" they started to call her. She was on fire. And in 2019, after the forerunners had crippled each other in the Democratic primary by slinging mud, she ran away with the nomination and the election. She was Governor of California.
2020. Disaster struck. A gigantic boondoggle, the fruit of the military-industrial complex's labours, brought total war to Mercury City. The Governor rose to the occasion, fighting tooth and nail for aid, posing solemnly for the newspapers, taking charge while the incumbent President, ailing and weak, remained in his bed in Washington. His Vice President, the President Elect, refused to throw him under the bus. Why, Stevens never found out.
That Christmas, the Black Christmas of 2020, Stevens remembers a comment she made in the Armed Services Committee."Mister Chairman, I find this project ill-thought and ill-advised, a disaster waiting to happen, and I say we scrap it." Another fortunate accident. She tucks it away and bides her time. The party rank and file clamour for it, but President Word stays in office. Everything has changed. SWORD is founded. The Republicans flail from one disaster to another. Still she bides her time, winning re-election in a landslide thanks to her efforts after the Massacre.
Then it's New Year's Day, 2024. Slow news day. Two days before the Iowa caucus. The tape with her comment on it leaks to the media by someone certainly not working for her. The whole story jumps to the forefront again. Who was responsible? Who knew better? Alisa Stevens wins the caucus by the power of write-in votes alone. Former Secretary of State Morgan Delacroix volunteers for her running mate before the votes have been counted in New Hampshire. He's perfect - popular, experienced, old, a good southern boy.
She's honoured. She's privileged. She's humble. She defeats Jameson Word in a landslide, and on her coat-tails, the Democrats win 62 senate seats.
Other:
Alisa Stevens is an intelligent, ambitious woman, perfectly demonstrated by her becoming the first female President of the United States at the age of 38, thereby also becoming the youngest President ever. Her only regret is that she didn't do it three years earlier, so that no one could possibly break her record as the minimum age for the office is 35. She recognizes her failings - impatience, inexperience, indecisiveness - and seeks to balance them with the people she surrounds herself with. Arguably this is the best possible trait in a President, if the she can rely on her assistants. Sometimes she can't. She is also reluctant to delegate matters, but will do so if she realizes it's necessary.
She wants to think she is a woman of principle, but she will not hesitate to take advantage of the misfortune of a political opponent, or an event that's ultimately beyond her control. She embodies the Greek concept of "kairos", of a sense of opportunity, the knowledge of when to act and how. The scant years spent as a public prosecutor have also stricken into her a very dim view of justice and law - more often than not, the one who has the means also has the law on their side. As President, she will follow the law only as far as her sense of justice and political acumen allow.
Finally, she is worried that her focus on her career means she will never have a partner, but as long as she's President, it's far more convenient for everyone involved to just forego that part. Maybe she'll have time on her second term - she'll only be pushing past forty, though with her iron lady reputation, finding a husband could be impossible...