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Kelly's Journey (Revised)
Chapter 26: Cast Of Characters By Stanman63 |
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Kelly Lee Moore is the son of Edward Stuart Moore and Terri Lynn Moore. A natural redhead with green eyes. Looks like his Mother. Always on the small side, he is quick and nimble. He loves to play sports, is a selfless boy who is always helping others. After his Dad dies, he finds comfort in wearing his friends clothing, especially Julie who is his same size.
Over the course of his young life, he faces many obstacles that make him stronger as he overcomes them. His main goal is to become the girl that he finds he is after a fateful Halloween costume party. As much as he loves his Mom, loves my Daddy too which is shown as he finds solace in Heaven when things on Earth become too much for the now Kelly girl to handle.
Edward Stuart Moore was a gentle giant of a policeman who looked like Tom Selleck. He loved to hunt and fish and had wanted to be a Park Ranger, but unfortunately, he never qualified before he died in the Line Of Duty.
He loved to fish and take nature walks. He built a cabin in the nearby woods where he took his family and friends to visit nature. It was here that he taught Kelly and the twins; Johnny and Julie all about a Love for Nature that Mister Woods continued after his best friend's death.
He chose to go in for a fellow Officer who called in sick, but was once again hungover from excessive drinking the day before. When he was killed in the line of duty, he was hand picked by his captain to replace him when he retired.
Terri Lynn Moore is a natural green eyed redhead like Kelly.She weighs 100 pounds soaking wet and is only 5 feet tall like her son. They look like Redheaded Olsen twins. Whenever they go out together, people think that they're twins which makes her day, the only real difference is that she has a few wrinkles around her eyes. After the death of her husband, she gets a job as head secretary and hostess for a local health clinic. Because of the late hours, she often leaves Kelly with his Godparents, the Woods.
In her refusal to accept charity from the Woods who are Kelly's Godparents, she has silently endorsed her son's journey into womanhood as she buries her ongoing grief in her work which continues to call for her abilities as she learns and grows into a modern businesswoman. It is only when she sees Kelly as a young woman that she regrets her decision and helps Kelly to realize her dream.
Jonathan -Johnny- Stuart Woods is a hazel eyed, blond gentle giant who loves to play sports and with G.I. Joe. He is Kelly's best friend. They are on the same teams in church, community center, and school. He is easy going and slow to anger, but aggressive when playing. He is very protective of his family and friends, especially Kelly who he thinks of as his brother.
Then when he sees Kelly as a girl, he falls in love with her and becomes her boyfriend, even though he knows that she is a boy. It is during a night of passion that he discovers that is love is returned, yet even though his family supports him and Kelly, he fears the retaliation from the hate-mongers that caused him to reject Kelly.
Then he stands up to them and in doing so ends their legacy of hate, but not before the price has been paid, leaving Kelly broken in despair. When she recovers, she accepts his friendship and completes the transition into becoming a woman to find Johnny there for her.
After an accident, he awakens to find Kelly there for him. During this time, they reconcile and he finds that his passion for her is now love and they marry, uniting two hearts into one as their souls merge in that mystical union of marriage.
Juliet Marie Woods is a petite hazel eyed blond Barbie doll who loves to cheer and dance. She is Kelly's girlfriend. She has an empathic gift to discern and treat sick animals and humans that leads her into becoming a surgeon and later, a psychiatrist due to her friendship with Kelly.
It is due to a kidnapping and rape that Julie finds her husband to be who agrees with her on her decision to give Kelly the gift of a Love Child to honor her sacrifice. It is due to a psychiatrists decision that Kelly wants to be a girl and gives her drugs that send her through a girl's puberty that sends Kelly onto her journey to be a woman. Julie has the last of his sperm harvested so that she may have a child by Kelly boy.
Andrea Lynn Woods is the mother of Julie and Johnny Woods. She is a tiny Oriental woman who looks like Lucy Lu. She loves to paint and do jigsaw puzzles. She has given away framed and completed puzzles as gifts.
Her best friends are the Moore's. When Stuart Moore died, Terri became her adopted sister and Kelly her adopted son in her heart. She loves Kelly as her daughter/son and totally approves of Kelly being first Julie's boyfriend, then Johnny's girlfriend when Kelly discovers the girl within.
She serves as Sunday School Teacher, Nursery Worker, and Teacher in her Church, often called upon when help is needed. She is the silent strength that holds both her family and Church together.
Charles Tyler Woods is a tall and rugged blue-eyed blond who looks as if he could easily be a lumberjack with his long hair and facial hair, or the next Fabio for Doctor Ruth. He loves to cook and invent new dishes for his restaurants and catering business. He also like to tinker with old appliances.
He has a rare knack to take over a failing , or failed business and have it make a profit. He has created the Woods Business School which all employees must graduate, teaching them how to run a successful business.
Joe Donald Moore is a gray haired blue eyed gentle giant. He overcame his bigotry against trans-gendered girls when his son was forced to become a woman. He is fiercely protective of his family,especially his new daughter Debbie. He grows a bit of everything upon his farm with those greenhouses of his where he grows the exotic produce from the tropics and grows traditional produce and sells his produce to Mister Woods for his stores and restaurants. He also raises cattle, pigs and poultry. His farm is the largest privately owned farm in the state.
Lizzie Jane Moore is gray haired version of of her daughter Terri Lynn. She loves canning, preserving using Grandpa's produce. She has won many an award at the county fair for her entries in cooking, quilts and bedspreads from sewing, knitting and crocheting that are keepsakes that she either give a presents or sells and gives the proceeds to the church.
Debbie Annette Moore is a tall lithe gray eyed brunette. She owns/operates a dress shop over in the valley. She has helped other trans-gendered woman in their transformation and sponsors a T.G. support group. She loves to collect rare books. She has a library of books sold by the public library that she loans out while keeping her collection of first edition in her room.
Pastor Patrick West is the Pastor of the Tri-County First United Methodist Church which he took over after former pastor Linden Avery was disbarred for trying to seduce a recently widowed mother. Under Pastor Patrick's leadership, the Church has regained its former place as Community Leader as Church Membership grows, allowing for expansion of the ministries.
He loves all people and has instituted a Radical Hospitality Policy of welcoming all people regardless of their gender identity or sexual identity leading the community in embracing the Trans-Gender Community.
Joanne West is the wife of Patrick West. She is the Church's Youth Director/Music Minister. She has a love for children and music that helps to keep her grounded because she is unable to conceive. She sees the Acolytes a Little Angels and often invites the Church children over for a weekend fun time. She totally accepts Kelly's transition in spite of her conservative upbringing that condemned people like Kelly.
Harold Oscar Branch [Hob] is an elderly black man with a gray hair, almost as tall as Edward Stuart Moore. He is Moore's Commanding Officer. He cares for the Officers under his Command and finds having to tell the families when their husband or brother dies to be his most dreadful duty. He picked Stuart Moore as his successor, but with his death, Harold has chosen his son Harold Oscar Branch Junior.
Renee, Sebastian, Romero, Shaw is a lifelong friend of Stu Moore and Hob. He felt that Stu should have qualified for being a Park Ranger, yet happy that his friend stayed. He led the young Stu into becoming a Police Officer when his brother Brian was attacked and turned into Debbie.
Augustus Avery Shaw is Sebastian's son. He has followed in his father's footsteps and is now a County Constable who is sweet on Debbie Moore.
Father Peter Downing is a Catholic Priest in charge of a Rest Area Chapel where he holds services for the many local drivers that frequent the area. He retired to the Chapel after years of faithful service to the Church and now is free of the restriction placed on him by the Church and its limited view on the T.G. and women in the Ministry.
Sister Mary Angello is a Catholic Nun who has twins by Father Downing after she comforts him when he loses his sister. They let her parents raise the twins, but let them know who their parents are. Their daughter has chosen to be a Methodist Minister while her brother chose to be a Catholic Priest, a choice that their parents heartily approve of. Now both share duties with their father who now ministers in hospital Chapels as well.
David Lee Hornsby is a Black retired quarterback. He suffered a severe back injury in high school that forced him to stop playing. But he went to college to become a coach because he loves the game and children. He coaches for the community center.
Principal Rudy Jacob Franklin is a gray eyed redheaded small stature man. He went to college on a tennis scholarship and teaches tennis at the community center. He is very supportive of Kelly and others like him in honor of Debbie Moore because he was her teacher when she was attack and forced to change gender.
Doctor Isiah Ezekiel Benjamin is a full blooded Jewish family doctor who looks like Jamie Farr. He became a U.S. citizen when he left Israel after his family was killed by terrorists. He supports a persons right to choose their gender in memory of his best friend who never had the courage to transition. He discovers Kelly's change and tells Kelly the news and gives her medicine to halt the transition that leaves her in puberty limbo.
Coach Benjamin Joseph Adam Cartwright is a curly haired huge brunette with blue eyes. His father named him after the fictional Cartwrights of Bonanza. Like his dad, Benjamin grew up to be a raw-boned tall man. He enjoys working with his hands in woodwork and an avid shade tree mechanic.
Augustus Armstrong: Heisman Award winner from Alabama. He led the team to consecutive national titles before graduating and sponsoring programs to help the under-privileged to help them to find the athlete in them, and give them a chance to attend a game.
Chris W. Bond: Olympic Gold Medalist in Gymnastics is happily married to Rachel Anne. When Rachel Anne learned of her pregnancy, Kelly kept her from despairing and and committing suicide, urged her talk to Chris, the father of the child. Under Kelly's guidance, they reconcile, and marry. Chris, Olympian, and sports hero, has devoted his career to helping the Trans-Gendered Community.
Sasha Nexus: Olympic Gold Medalist in Figure Skating is happily married to Mark Henry. She has two sisters who travel with her to help organize her itinerary to keep her focused. She and her husband were, and still are great debaters and use their skills to further the rights of the Trans-Gendered Community
Angel O'Hare: Olympic Gold Medalist in Cycling, learned of her inter-sexed status when she developed as a girl in puberty. She was then given her grandmother's name, and her father's surname. She became an advocate for women cyclists and the Trans-Gendered Community because of her unique nature.
Maggie 'The Kitten' O'Malley is Angel's twin sister who is devoted to her by helping to keep her schedule. She gained the nickname of Kitten from her adopting every stray in the neighborhood.
She visits the local Humane Society of whichever city she is in and rallies support for homeless pets, telling stories about the misadventures of her kitten, Cuddles and Beagle Bailey.
Pastor Gregory Avery Linden is a weak eyed bald old-style, Bible-thumping,fire & brimstone, preacher that hates any and all that goes against his sensibilities. His narrow minded view has caused him to form an army of bashers that hunt down undesirables.
Officer Donald Whitehead looked like a surfer dude. His tanned physique and blond curly hair won him many girlfriends and invitations to parties that led to his downfall. He lost his commission after calling in with a hangover that caused Stuart Moore's death. Now, barred from any civil service job, he concentrates on becoming a bodybuilder.
To Be Continued...
