Nora Wild
Nora Wild, born as Lady Elonora Weathley-Huntington of Dorncastle, was one of the most popular girls among the ranks of nobility. Her parents, ambitiously trying to marry her to the pince of Kolbergen, failed to notice young Elonoras growing interest in steam car racing. At the soft age of 19 she fell in love with the successful race car driver Oscar Wilde and shortly after they got married secretly. Being trained by her secret husband, Elonora soon started her own career as a steam car driver. Despite diguising herself and taking up the nickname Nora Wild, her escapades were soon noticed by her parents and the rest of the nobility. Refusing to end her career and unwilling to divorce her husband, she was expelled from the ranks of nobility in a never before seen inofficial trial. The following years Nora spent becoming the most famous steam car driver of the known world. As time went by there was only one opponent left, who, obviously, was her husband Oscar. They faced off in a one to one race in the newly built sky city racing drome. After an almost two hours long, head to head race, both of them were on their final lap. Oscar, having always been known for driving economical, saving as much fuel and tyre profil as possible, was much better off at that point and would have won the race, if his car, never before showing any technical problems, wouldn’t have catched fire shortly before reaching the last turn. Blinded by smoke and flames, Oscar lost control of his vehicle, leaving the track, somersaulting several times and finally crashing into a solid brickwall. His body was later recovered from the wreck, however the cause of his death couldn’t be speified, due to the numerous injuries and severe burnings. Nora however, took over at that exact point, finishing the race in first place. When she was told about her husbands death right on the winner’s podium, she didn’t even stop smiling and continued celebrating her success. After the race was investigated, experts demanded the removal of Nora‘s trophy, since sabotage was suspected. Nora tried everything to keep it and become known as the best race driver ever. Eventually she was allowed to keep the controversial trophy. Still, she rather was known as a saboteur and criminal, blinded by success afterwards. Promotion contracts were refused and her wealth and glory faded with every year. Nora Wild spent the later years of her tragic life, driving around the streets in a small steam cycle, scaring pedestrians and trying to establish herself in the street racing scene. However, she never reached her old status ever again and eventually died after an extreme car chase with the police, crashing her steam cycle into a brick wall after somersaulting several times. This incident was viewed as her divine judgement by most people, since it bore an interesting resemblance to her husbands death. Her death was only marginally mentioned in the newspapers though, since by that time the public interest had shiftet from race car driving onto steam plane races.
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The character portrait for the steam cycle driver.
The steam cycle is my entry for VehiJuly and was featured in my recent vignette "The age of steam".
I put quite some effort into the describtion, I hope you enjoy it !
Nora Wild
Nora Wild, born as Lady Elonora Weathley-Huntington of Dorncastle, was one of the most popular girls among the ranks of nobility. Her parents, ambitiously trying to marry her to the pince of Kolbergen, failed to notice young Elonoras growing interest in steam car racing. At the soft age of 19 she fell in love with the successful race car driver Oscar Wilde and shortly after they got married secretly. Being trained by her secret husband, Elonora soon started her own career as a steam car driver. Despite diguising herself and taking up the nickname Nora Wild, her escapades were soon noticed by her parents and the rest of the nobility. Refusing to end her career and unwilling to divorce her husband, she was expelled from the ranks of nobility in a never before seen inofficial trial. The following years Nora spent becoming the most famous steam car driver of the known world. As time went by there was only one opponent left, who, obviously, was her husband Oscar. They faced off in a one to one race in the newly built sky city racing drome. After an almost two hours long, head to head race, both of them were on their final lap. Oscar, having always been known for driving economical, saving as much fuel and tyre profil as possible, was much better off at that point and would have won the race, if his car, never before showing any technical problems, wouldn’t have catched fire shortly before reaching the last turn. Blinded by smoke and flames, Oscar lost control of his vehicle, leaving the track, somersaulting several times and finally crashing into a solid brickwall. His body was later recovered from the wreck, however the cause of his death couldn’t be speified, due to the numerous injuries and severe burnings. Nora however, took over at that exact point, finishing the race in first place. When she was told about her husbands death right on the winner’s podium, she didn’t even stop smiling and continued celebrating her success. After the race was investigated, experts demanded the removal of Nora‘s trophy, since sabotage was suspected. Nora tried everything to keep it and become known as the best race driver ever. Eventually she was allowed to keep the controversial trophy. Still, she rather was known as a saboteur and criminal, blinded by success afterwards. Promotion contracts were refused and her wealth and glory faded with every year. Nora Wild spent the later years of her tragic life, driving around the streets in a small steam cycle, scaring pedestrians and trying to establish herself in the street racing scene. However, she never reached her old status ever again and eventually died after an extreme car chase with the police, crashing her steam cycle into a brick wall after somersaulting several times. This incident was viewed as her divine judgement by most people, since it bore an interesting resemblance to her husbands death. Her death was only marginally mentioned in the newspapers though, since by that time the public interest had shiftet from race car driving onto steam plane races.
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The character portrait for the steam cycle driver.
The steam cycle is my entry for VehiJuly and was featured in my recent vignette "The age of steam".
I put quite some effort into the describtion, I hope you enjoy it !