Welcome everyone. Instead of a Ping File adventure I instead bring you an AU set during the Great Depression with Veronica Victoria herself as our lead. Enjoy and review.
A Comely Belle
Veronica Victoria had been born in 1907. She grew to be a comely gentlewoman whose beauteousness could make Helen of her boats expire of disesteem.
Her father had been a provincial governor and her mother had been a mad woman who ultimately hung herself not long after the death of Veronica's father. Veronica wondered if the madness could manifest in her someday for a time.
Now it should be stated that depending on the view of Veronica Victoria she was either a goddess or a she-beast. She was not one or the other but rather both as she was neither a cardboard angel nor a cardboard devil.
She had become a clothes mannequin or as they say more commonly a fashion model. Being the comely belle that she was, it was rather fitting.
Besides being a comely belle, Veronica was also a coquettish flirt. "Coquettish" meant behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual attraction and a flirt was a person who habitually flirted. While Veronica did habitually flirt it wasn't as habitually as one would have thought. She had only four targets: her bookkeeper Bifford Goldstein, a son of one of her father's friends Basil Hagen, her beau Byron Clarence and the person who ran the company she worked for: Wendell Barrage. She seemed to have a thing for B names.
Veronica Victoria seemed to hold a decent amount of control in the company she worked for. Theoretically, it must have been due to her flirting with Barrage but who can say as eventually she lost that amount of control when Barrage went missing for a time on a fishing trip.
This story all started the day a younger model by the name of Venus Kellerman appeared on the scene. It seemed that bitterness had taken root in Veronica as with her thirtieth birthday approaching this would mean that she would be forced to retire. Goddess? She-beast? She was both but even a goddess was capable of jealousy.
Was she hero? Was she villain? Who can say? All that can be said was that she was quite a woman!
