Cecelia Pollard
Cecelia Eriphyle "Sissy" Pollard was the third daughter of Lord Richard and Lady Louisa Pollard and younger sister of Peggy and Charley.
Biography
Early life
Cecelia Eriphyle Pollard (AUDIO: A Blind Eye) was born after 1912 (AUDIO: Neverland) to Lord Richard (AUDIO: Memory Lane) and Lady Louisa Pollard. She had two elder sisters: Peggy and Charley, (AUDIO: Zagreus) whom she and the family called "Lottie". (AUDIO: A Blind Eye)
When Sissy was thirteen, Richard took her on a fox hunt. She enjoyed the blood and gore and Charley believed that this changed her. (AUDIO: The Next Life) She was part of a badminton group made up of people that Charley described as the most ghastly people she had ever met. (AUDIO: The Viyran Solution)
Sissy attended finishing school at the same time as her sisters and was greatly upset when Charley disappeared to Bedfordshire. Her mother suspected that she would be "mewling like a kitten" with Peggy. (AUDIO: Zagreus)
Involvement in fascism
In the 1930s, Sissy became personally acquainted with Sir Oswald Mosley and joined the League of English Fascists, (AUDIO: A Blind Eye) something that her parents did not approve of as they considered fascists to be "a rum lot". By November 1936, by which time she had lost contact with her parents, (AUDIO: The Fall of the House of Pollard) Sir Oswald had made her the League's official observer in Munich.
Sissy sent messages back to Sir Oswald of all the things that Adolf Hitler was doing for Germany and met the Führer himself once, sitting by his side. She had a box in Nuremberg, went hunting in the Black Forest and often made antisemitic jokes. Around March 1939, she met Erich Kepler and came to think of him as being her boyfriend, although he was frequently unkind to her. The two went to Nazi Party rallies and receptions together.
On 2 September 1939, Sissy was given an apartment on the Hofmannstraße, entering through the front way whilst the previous residents, the Goldbergs, were escorted out the back. She was, by this time, worried about the imminent war which she believed would be futile. (AUDIO: A Blind Eye)
Death
In the original timeline, Sissy committed suicide by shooting herself in the head in Munich to protest the beginning of World War II. Using a fake telegram from Charley, who had been missing for a number of years, Celestial Intervention Agency agent Torvald lured Sissy to Switzerland and thus avoided her death, intending to make her a temporal anomaly to release anti-time to blackmail Romana II.
On 1 September 1939, a meeting with Leela made Sissy realise that her blind eye to the Nazis' crimes made her just as liable as them. Sissy shot herself in this new timeline after writing a farewell letter to Charley. (AUDIO: A Blind Eye)
Personality
Sissy was racist, classist and a Nazi sympathiser. She believed that beautiful things should be preserved, justifying keeping different people apart. She believed that World War II would be futile, shooting herself in an attempt to convince Germany and the United Kingdom of this. In the timeline created by Torvald's intervention, she was forced to re-evaluate her views and her dismissal of the death and suffering caused by those who shared them. (AUDIO: A Blind Eye)
Appearance
Muriel Joy said that Sissy was "the prettiest thing". Leela noticed a resemblance to Charley, although she did not believe that she carried herself with the same dignity as her sister. (AUDIO: A Blind Eye)
