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Victoria Winters
played by: (purple_angelic)
Vicky Winters grew up in a foundling home in New York with no family ties, other than an esoteric letter that had accompanied her as a baby into the orphanage: "Her name is Victoria. I cannot take care of her." She didn't know who she was, or even her own birthday. Vicky grew up in a harsh environment with many other "unwanted" children and internalized a very level-mindedness. But despite this, Vicky grew into being an incurable romantic. She made up stories with her fellow orphans about what her parents were like and this caught on like wildfire with the other children and became a favorite practice for them all. Later she helped younger children deal with this issue when she became a private tutor at the Foundling Home when she was only fifteen years old.
But upon barely reaching her eighteenth birthday, Vicky was notified that a woman she didn't even know living in a town she had never heard of requested her services as a tutor, to be engaged as a governess for an eight year old boy. Mystified, curious, and even a little suspicious, she arrived by train to a small fishing town named Collinsport, and |
almost immediately got sucked into the strict and very wrenching politics of the affluent Collins family. Her first romance was with a man that was determined to ruin the family and put the Collins Cannery out of business. After Bill Malloy (a loyal business man in charge of the cannery) was murdered, fingers were pointing everywhere and in the end Vicky was kidnapped after discovering the true murderer -- a man that had been working for the Collins household for years. A very protective, restless spirit once known as Josette Dupre, fiancé to Barnabas Collins in 1795, appeared to her captor. He was frightend so intensely that he died, therefore saving Vicky's life. Soon afterward police discovered Vicky's prison in the secret room at the Old House and was released, unharmed. Between this experience, her confused identity, fighting with Carolyn Stoddard over their shared love interest and eventually discovering her closest friend and confidant, Barnabas Collins, had fallen in love with her, Vicky thought her life would never iron out.
But Vicky's harsh life was yet to begin. The young boy she was governess to began to have frightening dreams and claimed a ghost named Sarah Collins haunted him and told him things about other members of the family. Upon attempting a séance to contact the spirit of little Sarah to find out why she was haunting the boy, Vicky was hurled back 200 years to 1795, switching places with a woman who was to become Sarah's governess. Pretending to take the other governess's place, Vicky became wrapped up in a terrible history that haunted Barnabas Collins to that day. Angelique, then in love with Barnabas and servant to Josette, began to practice witchcraft, killing Josette, Barnabas's young uncle and causing other terribly suspicious events. As the original governess was, Vicky inadvertently was implicated and condemned as a witch. Before she was led to the gallows, she and the man who guarded her jail cell, Peter Bradford, fell in love but were ripped apart by centuries and her condemned fate.
After supposedly dying on the gallows, Vicky was hurled back to the 20th century, terrified from her experience, and also pining after a love that she once knew in 1795. Because of the frightening experience, Liz Stoddard finally confessed to being Victoria's true mother. Ever since that day, Vicky has been treated as a Collins, although she has kept her last name as Winters. She lives at Collinwood with her half-sister Carolyn, their mother, Uncle Roger and his son David. Vicky was prepared to finally lead a life complete with a family and friends . . . until the day Judah Zachary returned to exact revenge on them all, destroying her newfound happiness . . .
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