Augusta Martin

The Siren

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Cisgender woman (she/her)

Augusta Leigh Martin

Miss Martin. She was informally known as Augusta Robertson/Mrs. Robertson during her marriage to Bob Robertson and Augusta Whitman/Mrs. Whitman during her marriage to Richard Whitman, but kept her maiden name on-stage and in films. On occasion, people will call her Gus but not often.

Augusta

Great, Magnificent

Awh-gus-tah

Leigh

Lee

Pasture, Meadow

Martin

Warlike

Mar-tin

Her name is Augusta because her story was originally a Merrily We Roll Along fanfic idea and her character is based on Gussie Carnegie

Human (white)

A bit above average height, curvy

A bit above average

Light

5'7"

Auburn

Bottle green

Long and mostly straight with a bit of wave. Always worn loose.

Augusta is fairly tall for a woman, with an hourglass figure and a curvy build, especially in the hips and chest. Her hair is long and thick with a bit of a wave to it and worn loose down her back (occasionally tied back or up, but only when she's around the house and wants it out of the way). Her skin is light with no freckles or moles of note and her eyes are a deep yet vibrant green. She has soft, full lips that are always accentuated with red lipstick. Green is her color and she wears it well, incorporating at least a drop of it into everything she wears. She has long eyelashes and a narrow, straight nose. Her mouth seems to rest in a perpetual half-smile and her eyes seem to rest as "bedroom eyes"--it can be hard to tell if she's genuinely trying to seduce you or if that's just how she looks. In reality it's a bit of both--Augusta is genuinely a flirty and charming woman, but she's also put decades of her life into crafting her persona and parts of it aren't easy to turn off.

Low and soft, the kind of voice that makes you want to lean in even if you can hear her just fine. Historically critics have described it as smokey.

A tight-fitting green cocktail dress and black high heels with pearl earrings.

Augusta is charming and radiates an effortless confidence--she can turn even the most self-conscious person into a vibrant conversationalist by pulling them out of their shell so subtly they can't even tell. She knows her worth and isn't afraid to say so. Oftentimes she comes off as vain and like most of Augusta Martin, it's partly true and partly an illusion--she values her appearance and puts a lot of stake into it because she's been told since childhood that that's all she's good for, but she also does genuinely enjoy looking nice and finds herself attractive. She takes great pains to conceal any perceivable flaws in either her appearance or her personality, save for ones that make for interesting newspaper articles. Beneath the effortless Augusta Martin persona, Augusta is deeply sad, feeling like her life isn't amounting to anything. Here she is, forty years old, and her second husband has cheated on her with a twenty year old starlet, the same girl he picked over her for the starring role in his film. Even before the scandals (and there have been multiple) she was unhappy since nothing she ever did really amounted to what she had hoped for. She grew up watching musicals and movies and falling in love with the stage and the screen, and some of the magic was irreversibly lost by seeing how the sausage gets made. She poured all of her hopes into Richard Whitman, a struggling young composer who she met through her first husband (who she eventually left for Richard) and even at the height of his stardom and the height of her own, she could still hear a whisper of "this is it, huh? you're still not enough.". Augusta is often passive-aggressive to those she dislikes, veiling her distaste behind layers of insinuation and charm that make them obscured to all but those who can see through her. She is also often manipulative, but she sees herself not as a manipulator (well, not solely as a manipulator) but as some sort of chessmaster who helps others unlock their true potential and find good opportunities that she feels she'll never truly make the most of.
On the few occasions that her mask slips and we see Augusta express her true feelings, they are often either emptiness (as seen when she speaks to Richard at their first party) or emotions made all the more potent by being bottled up (such as when she shoves Annie "Honey" Pryce into the pool or when she makes the decision to leave Bob Robertson). The death of Richard Whitman seems to genuinely rattle her as her facade is notably unsteady when speaking to Ted Dugan --when she attempts to seduce him into letting her get out of the investigation she seems almost tipsy, or like she's forgotten what she's supposed to be doing and is relieved when he turns her down, confessing that she's always wanted someone to look at her offering herself up for them (whether physically or in another way) and say no, seeing her as a person and not as meat or money or an amorphous blob to cry on. Sometimes she feels like she's pushing herself until she inevitably breaks, but that the breaking point is never coming. Her over the top persona can be overwhelming and grating to a lot of people, and although she's generally respected (or at least is/was outside of the sex scandals), she has very few genuine friends.

As a child, Augusta's motivation was solely to get ahead and get out of her old life, but now that she's had a taste of fame, her motivation is to stay relevant and in the spotlight--if people don't notice her, does she even exist?

Biromantic

Bisexual

Aquarius

ENTP

Fawn

Her pearl earrings. They belonged to her mother, who gave them to Augusta on the eve of her first audition.

Probably Richard Whitman, but Augusta doesn't have many close friends. She comes off as aloof and vain to a lot of people and although they love her performances, they are uninterested in spending time with her in person. Her friendships with Jonny Quinn and Lucille Quinn were destroyed after Jonny and Richard's falling out, her friendship with Elizabeth Marie was destroyed after the affair came to light, and Molly Jones will never fully be friends with her because of the tension due to Augusta marrying Richard.

Bob Robertson (former; divorced)
Richard Whitman (current; deceased)

Actress

Green

Oysters