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MILDRED Lee Fan
Anachronia	Age: 20 Year: 1930 Home: San Francisco, California Family: Thomas Wei Fan - Father Margaret Yun Fan - Mother Howard Hao Fan - Eldest brother David Tao Fan - Middle brother PB: Anna May Wong
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May I never grow too old to treasure 'once upon a time'.
personality
Mildred is a sharp and stubborn young woman, though few could tell from looking at her. At first glance, she seems pretty, pleasant, and unassuming - Normal. While she isn't unpleasant, this assumption is does little to showcase Mildred's true nature. She is passionate and driven, and she sees a world worth taking by the horns. Mildred is somewhat closed off, presenting a smooth, simple, pleasant front to most people. She is by no means disingenuous, but she realizes that her position in the world can often cloud the view others have of her. She knows their expectations, and she refuses to let it limit her achievements, but is also aware that making a scene is not always the best way to work. If she cannot go the "traditional" route, then she will make her own, determined to face each roadblock in whatever way she has to. Mildred also possesses a strong work ethic, often working well into the night to make sure the things that need to get done are done. There is no room for dalliance or hesitance in her life. She can't abide it. However, if you can manage to get close to her (and it is difficult), Mildred is a genuinely friendly, warm person. She adopts close friends as if they were family, and worries over her friends and brothers more like an older sister or a mother hen rather than the youngest of the group.
history
Born in the fall of 1911, Mildred was the youngest child and only daughter of restaurant owner Thomas Wei Fan and his wife, Margaret Yun Fan. She was born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown with her parents and two brothers. Her family was not rich, but managed to earn a tidy living from the restaurant her father ran. The restaurant was popular not only amongst the Chinese in the area, but which saw a fair amount of business from Americans who recently had developed a taste for Chinese cuisine. From a young age, Mildred excelled in school, much to the delight of her parents. They hoped their children would be well spoken and intelligent, and capable enough to take care of each other and the restaurant if they needed to. The family lived in an apartment above the restaurant, so during business hours, the children spent most of their time downstairs. Mildred and her brothers spent a lot of time helping out in the restaurant as they grew up. The hope was that, once they were old enough, Mildred's brothers would take over the business along with Mildred's eventual husband. Mildred had other plans, though. She excelled in school due to her own love of literature, of learning, of reading and writing and absorbing every piece of information she could get her hands on. Then, in her own private time, she took all these pieces of information and used them to build her own stories, which she wrote down on every scrap of paper she could find. She wanted more than anything to be a author. Yet she knew her parents would not approve, and she also wondered how well a female Chinese-American author would do. Could she even get published? It was a question she asked herself for a long time, until one day, as she was washing dishes at the end of the day, it came to her. She'd write her stories in secret, and submit it to an editor under a pen-name. After ages of searching phone books and libraries and even remembering the first names of customers that stuck out to her, Mildred settled on a name. And thus Wilfred Dorrill, the reclusive, forty-three-year-old San Francisco author was born. Under Wilfred's name, Mildred submitted a draft of her story to several periodical editors, using stories told to her in her own childhood as well as plenty of her own unique stories to spin a fantastical account of a young explorer's travels through the Orient. So as to hide her identity, Mildred explained in a letter to each editor that Wilfred, a veteran injured and disfigured in the Great War, preferred not to be seen and to correspond only by letter through a post office box. Weeks went by with no response, and Mildred became discouraged until one day she received a letter from the editor of a popular fiction periodical. She was ecstatic! After a brief period of correspondence, the first installment of Mildred's story appeared in a monthly fantasy periodical called Fantastic Tales under the name of The Mystic Travels of Ronald Willow. She'd done it. Mildred was a published writer, and no one was the wiser! By the time Mildred awoke in the village, her stories had been appearing in Fantastic Tales for six months.
credit to splott at rp_tutorials