A street not quite a main street, in the town of Nashua, just a few miles down from Lovell and a two to three hour train ride from Herford, depending which side of the both cities you were coming and going towards. On this street in the city of Nashua, in a location not really remarkable, was a dormitory. Not a school dormitory, no this location was just far enough away to be considered inconvenient to the average student, to whom a twenty minute transit by bus plus waiting times couldn't compete with the housing right across from the school. This was a private dormitory and boarding house, open for any young people who were looking for a place away from home to stay at.

Maybe these people were refuges from the city of Herford, which despite being larger, had an inferior college and schooling system. Perhaps they fled to Nashua to attend their local college before transferring to a real college, one that was above community college level. Perhaps they were simply avoiding the expensive housing in Lovell, and didn't mind an hour long commute to the school of the arts housed in that city? Maybe they wanted a degree from that famous university or to graduate from that amazing high school that shared its grounds, but did not enjoy the stuffy artistic nature of the town itself. Maybe they were simply original denizens of Nashua, overlooked by its larger and richer neighbor Herford, and its smarter and more artistic neighbor in Lovell, and simply needed that spark of independence that comes from moving away from home, with none of the inconveniences of losing all family and friends.

Yes, there were many reasons for a person to settle down in Nashua. Its high school was absolutely ordinary, which to some was appealing. Its community college was very accepting of transfers and students from out of town, and its students tested very well. It would not be difficult to go to the larger town of Herford on days off to see the sights and perhaps shop around the more expensive stores a little, and of course who could resist spending a day in Lovell, with its public art at almost every street corner?

Put simply, Nashua was ordinary, and so was 13674 Island Sunset Blvd. Owned by a grumpy older lady, helped by her rebellious younger daughter, it was an unassuming place whose only real feature was being less than three blocks away from a bus stop, supermarket, convenience store, and that it took only one bus stop to get to the local arcade, and three more to get from there to the college. With its red brick walls and cozy interior, the ad that its owner Greta put out in local papers was decently appealing, she thought. Gretchen, her granddaughter, even put the ad on craigslist as well, there would be a few ways to have found the place. A trip to the local civic centers together and they had also placed quite a few flyers around the town.

With this, Greta's could rest easy on her social security payments with people paying rent to her, and she could perhaps teach her rebellious granddaughter some respect by making her help around the Dorm.

And so, this was the situation at 13674 Island Sunset Blvd, an unremarkable place centered in a slightly more remarkable town that was itself overshadowed by two more prestigious neighbors.

People would gather here, but it didn't really matter what happened with them. There was no underlying story, no intricate plot of deception. It was simply a new home for people transitioning through their lives, and if they happened to grow and develop a little, then all the better for the world around them.

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This rp does not focus on paranormal, fantasy, or mystery. This RP is slice of life in its purest form. That said, please DO adapt your fantasy or supernatural based characters to rp in this roleplay, and please do let us know in your character sheet that they have such an origin. The point of this rp is character interaction and development. No characters will be forced to interact, work together, or even get along. In fact, I suppose I won't even force you all to live in the dorm. The boarding house is our primary setting however, and I'd advise you make your characters fit inside or around the lifestyle of said boarding house.

The following rules and guidelines are meant to allow the RP to move properly and to manage expectations about the roleplay. Some can be taken with a grain of salt or interpreted as you wish, and if you feel like just plain defying one, please PM me about it and we can talk. So long as the quality of the RP does not suffer from it, I'm all ears to your ideas fellows.


1: There is no maximum on the number of characters one may have. Rather, everyone must have a minimum of two.
2: For every character you make that we agree goes a bit too far beyond the ordinary in any way, for example a tragic past, rich background, or absurdly talented, you must make a character that's talents would fit very easily into an ordinary life. This does not mean your balancing characters cannot be interesting or unique, this is just to prevent this RP from being overrun with dramatically over-dramatic characters.
3: Please do not post in excess when other Rpers are nor present unless your scene is obviously detached from any form of involvement with other characters. If your posts will create a page with just you or a group of people, please perform the RP in PMs and then compile the results into as few posts as possible.
4: Do not create predetermined events in OOC. Possible romances or rivalries can be discussed, but please let the characters interact in a realistic way without bias.
5: That said, I do encourage thought-crafting in OOC about possibilities. This can also be used to make sure people don't post too fast in a scene you mean to interact with.
6: Please do consider attempting to get together with a friend and creating two characters together with some previous history. It is far more realistic to have some of these present in a RP like this than to have everyone be strangers to each other.
6.5: Include a random sentence blurb about the hidden rule to me inside your character profile. I will owe you the mutual respect of reading your profile thoroughly enough to find it, and will inform you when I do.
7: I expect Rpers to follow general site guidelines when it comes to godmodding and to behave appropriately for an advanced RP section.
8: However, I do not agree that length = quality. In some cases, a realistic conversation would involve each character speaking quickly in sequence, interrupting others, and generally not having room between interactions for a page a post. In such cases however, try to compact several peoples posts into as few as possible.
9: Respect other Rpers and their characters, and above all, respect your own character. Come into the RP with the mindset of improving, defining, and exploring your characters and the characters of others.
10: Enjoy the RP you kind soul who listened to all of this rambling.

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Username: I will moving all profiles to my first post, so this is necessary.
Name: Characters name.
Age: Middle school-any ages allowed. Focused on College age, but there are no rules on this.
Gender: If your character does not fit the Gender binary, start with their preferred identity if applicable, and then technical terms for ease of understanding.
Schedule: What hours do your character keep, if any? Does this ever change?
Education level: Characters current level/status in educational system.
Life goal: Characters overall goal/dream in life, if applicable.
Current goal: Characters more immediately important goals.
Appearance: Appearance, with as few details as possible on why. Must be written, pictures hotlinked if included.
Personality: An overview of a characters tendencies when interacting with others, pet peeves, and other details. Leave history out of this as much as you can to leave your profile easy to read.
Reason for moving into dorm: Why is your character moving into the dorm? Also a short overview of more immediate history.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: Because why not. List as detailed or as undetailed an account as you wish on your characters romantic and sexual exploits, for reference.
History: Life story I guess. Go nuts. Pull all those other details together.
Notes: For any details you feel we may need to know about. Perhaps your goals development wise with your character, details you may wish to inform us all of, or maybe the characters origins RP wise. Use as a sort of Misc section, and feel free to drop this one if you have nothing to put here.

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Username: ProxyPawaa
Name: Gretchen Flores
Age: 63
Gender: Female
Schedule: Rises at eleven, sleeps at midnight. Sometimes stays up later reading or watching television. Impossible to wake while sleeping.
Education Level: Graduated high school.
Life Goal: Raise Greta into a respectable young woman.
Current Goal: Manage to resist insanity while trying to fulfill life goal.
Appearance: Gretchen may be sixty three, but if it weren't for her fading hair and the wrinkles just starting to set in onto her facial features, you would never believe that she were so old. Thanks to regular workout routines with yoga on Wednesday’s and occasional dancing to instructional tapes she remains limber and in good shape for her age. Her hair color was originally a deep dark brown, but is overtaken and mostly Silver, with occasional strands of her original hair color. Her eyes though remain an enticingly dark shade of blue, a color through which her wisdom shows.
Gretchen is around 5'7, not horribly short but shorter than the average college man perhaps is. Her body is in great shape for her age, but is just starting to develop what will perhaps become a bit of a belly. Her arms still look like she could give some nonathletic men a run for their money in an arm wrestling contest, and the shape her legs are in attest to the fact that she stubbornly insisted on moving furniture into her dorm herself. The last detail of note is perhaps her expressions, which around Greta usually are of a negative variety. Still, her face is capable of fondness and shows it most often behind the younger girls back.
Personality: Gretchen is a busybody, but also a busy body who is very, very tired of being busy. Having worked for her entire life, Gretchen is now very obsessed with the idea of being able to sleep in every morning and spending hours doing nothing. Her incessant need to be active at all times however drives against her, and much of her time is spent doing work around the house and sometimes subsequently complaining about the fact that she is doing work around the house.
Without a romantic partner, job, or hobby, Gretchen's concerns mostly center around Greta and her life choices. She is bored with her life, which makes her very nosy about Greta's life. She is the type to want to feel involved and concerned for someone, but not the type to go the extra mile for them. She is also the type to keep score of everything she has ever done good for someone, and every way they have ever inconvenienced her. She does have a hidden sense of justice, and if she sees someone being bullied(especially a young girl) she is completely willing to go full bitchy grandma mode on whoever is the perpetrator.
Reason for moving into the dorm: She uhhhh... owns it.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: At one point married to Greta's grandfather, the two separated and the man is no longer involved in their life. She has had two relationships since then and both have ended, she has no current partner and doesn't expect to have any new one. She also believes that older people are expected to experience less sexual desire as they age, and that her aging body is less attractive, which furthers that belief that she will remain single until she passes.
History: Gretchens history is nothing extraordinary, she was raised in a christian household and was expected to become a housewife when she grew up. She always had good grades growing up, and was very good at the sports society at the time allowed her to take part in, which she remembers fondly. She could have been incredibly successful with her work ethic in todays world, but in her youth she married the first man her parents approved of, a relationship that lasted fifteen years and ended when both finally admitted they had nothing but hatred for each other.
The only good thing that came out of it was Greta's mother, who from then on felt abandoned by her father. Gretchen raised her daughter alone and was very close with her until eventually, she dated a biker, which Gretchen didn't approve of. When Greta's mother moved out to live with this man, Gretchen started dating again and attempted to ignore what she thought of as her daughters foolishness. Now, she regrets cutting off contact, but at the time she felt incredibly justified.
It was when Greta was six that Gretchen found out that her daughter had gotten in trouble with her biker husband and was going to jail after abusing drugs. She immediately took control and took her granddaughter into her own care, and even now refuses to relinquish her back to her mother, who still to this day struggles with drugs. On rare occasions the two will receive a call or a visit from her, usually involving a need for money. Gretchen usually spares what she can, still caring and loving for her daughter despite her problems.
Notes: I intend her to mostly carry out a background role, showing up when necessary.

Username: ProxyPawaa
Name: Greta Flores
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Schedule: Wakes up early, from five to seven. Often naps during the day, and falls asleep anywhere between nine and midnight.
Education Level: Currently in middle school.
Life Goal: Greta is still deciding.
Current Goal: Drive her grandma insane. Prove herself reliable and trustworthy so that Gretchen gives her some more space.
Appearance: Greta has the same deep blue eyes as Gretchen, along with raven black hair and slightly pudgy cheeks. Greta is not one of those young ladies that started developing early, her chest is still flat as a board, and her body's shape is some mix between a twig and a barrel with little contours of curves in the slightest. If anything, she has a small belly resulting from her inability to keep herself away from sodas and other sugary treats.
Also of note is her fashion, primarily in that it drives Gretchen completely batty. Greta likes to wear shirts with logos of heavy metal bands on them, occasionally wears hoodies and generally dresses in a way that Gretchen perceives as thuggish and indecent. The only thing Gretchen does approve of, is that Greta does not ever wear short skirts or otherwise revealing things.
Personality: Greta is still at the age where she is discovering exactly who she is and what she wants out of life. She is very excitable, bubbly, and prone to being very obnoxious with her humor. She has an excellent work ethic that mirrors her grandma, but prefers to avoid work whenever possible. She is definitely interested in boys, and sometimes girls, but is still at the stage of her growth where kissing is a big deal thanks to Gretchens sheltering. Like Gretchen, she likes to have as much time to herself as possible and prefers to spend time alone, or outside with friends.
Reason for moving into the dorm: Mother went to jail, has lived with Gretchen since she was seven.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: Greta hasn't even had her first kiss yet. Calm down.
History: Greta lives a tumultuous life for several years before being taken in by Gretchen. Living with a mother and father who weren't ready for you was rough on her, and for the entirety of her seven years with her mother she lived in a trailer park and was often made fun of for her ratty clothes. Her father used to be a biker before she was born, and her mother was a naive girl looking for a man on the wild side. Compared to her parents, Greta became the reliable caretaker of the household by the time she was four, and often did laundry and cooked meals for the household.
Around when she became six, her parents began experimenting with hard drugs and drinking more often and her house life became increasingly chaotic. It wasn't a surprise to her when police picked her up to take her to Gretchen's, though it did take her several months to adjust to living with her grandma instead of her mother. She misses her family a lot, and wishes she could see her mother and father more, but has grown accustomed to Gretchen and her new life and knows that staying where she is would be for the best.
Notes: Greta will be the front desk worker in the morning when necessary, so that her mother can sleep in. She works weekends for most of the day as well, and often on days she doesn't have school.

(Beebee2121) Ericka Parker
(ProxyPawaa) Shae Liberman
(ProxyPawaa) Tai Summers
(Beebee2121) Wes Thayer



Beebee2121: Erika Parker, Wes Thayer
ProxyPawaa: Shae Liberman, Tai Summers



Username: Beebee2121
Name: Ericka Parker
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Schedule: She rises early every day between six and seven. Weekdays, she commutes to Lovell for school and comes back in the evening around four o’clock.
Education Level: High school graduate, currently a Comparative Arts Major with her fingers in a few different arts (creative writing, acting, and visual arts)
Life Goal: Decide on a better major?
Current Goal: Decide on a better major.
Appearance: Ericka is petite, 5’2”, and slender with modest curves. Her hair is cut in a short black bob and her round eyes are hazel with a subtle mix of green. She has a healthy glow, but when she blushes, it’s possible for her face to go as red as a tomato. She has a sweet smile and uses just a little make-up, usually eyeliner and soft pink lipglosses.
She dresses for comfort, except for school days. Then, it's blouses, skirts and the occasional floral print dress. Office casual. Rarely jeans. Weekends or after school, if she has no plans for going out, she wears oversized sweaters, t-shirts and jeans or sweatpants. She never wears anything too revealing. She tends to wear pastels and her favorite color is yellow.
Personality: Ericka is shy when first meeting people, but she quickly warms up to show her true outgoing nature. However, she’s very sensitive and can often misinterpret things that will end up making her feel like she’s doing something wrong. She blushes easily and she cries easily. She’s very passionate about passion. And romance. Honestly, she’s a sap. She enjoys reading romance novels and she also has a passion for writing, but she tends towards adventure stories. She crushes hard, too, but not for very long.
Since she was raised by a housewife, she has all the instincts of a housewife. She can be unassuming, but helpful when needed, often the first to volunteer. She can sew, cook, and clean without being asked and she takes a small amount of pleasure in doing these chores.
She’s a great listener, too. And very sympathetic. Her advice is usually pretty solid, too. But she can get a little lost when it comes to solving her own problems.
Reason for moving into the dorm: Her parents (and a swanky scholarship) are paying for her tuition, so it was up to her to pay for her housing. She stayed on campus for one year and after finding the ad for the boarding house, she decided to commute.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: Ericka had her first boyfriend in high school, but he broke her heart before they could get past kissing. Since then, she’s always been to shy to make the first move with someone. She could count on one hand how many people she’s kissed and still have fingers left over. Gender is no object to her.
History: Ericka was raised in a very traditional, very conservative nuclear household. Both of her parents were very strict and put a lot of pressure on her and her twin brother. Different pressures, of course, and she found it easier to adapt to the gender roles imposed on her than her brother. Their father was a lawyer with a failed career in politics which really worsened the expectations on her brother, but they confided in each other through everything; Homeschool, church functions, campaign parties, crushes, lovers- everything. It wasn’t until they graduated at the ripe age of sixteen that they started spending time away from each other.
While Ericka took a gap year, her brother went right into pre-law. She was able to visit often, but because she wasn’t dating, her parents begrudgingly allowed her to go to school and pursue a career in the arts. She’s a Sophomore in college.
Notes: Might have her twin visit every once in a while. He might even end up living in the dorm with her.

Username: ProxyPawaa
Name: Shae Liberman
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Schedule: No set schedule. Sleeps whenever she feels tired, stays up later whenever she's interested in something. Days and nights swap often for her.
Education Level: High School and whatever she's learned from hours on wikipedia and tvtropes or other such websites. Currently taking online classes for programming and web design from an online college associated with Nashua's college system.
Life Goal: Manage to establish a harem. Become a successful hacker or programmer. Eventually lose her virginity.
Current Goal: Live without her parents bothering her and find a better source of income.
Appearance: Shae is a master at taking pictures at very good angles and photoshopping them to make them look better, but when she isn't doing that she's most often looking very tired and very unhealthy. She an unhealthy belly that she mostly hides under baggier shirts and continually has bags under her eyes. Her hair is almost always a mess, and she can become very lazy with showering and shaving when she doesn't feel like it. Overall, most of the time Shae looks like an absolute wreck.
On rare occasions though, and in every picture of herself she lets see the light of day ever, she has a much prettier more presentable side. Shae enjoys putting her long blonde hair into pigtails that reach nearly to the bottom of her ribs, and when her eyes aren't puffy from lack of sleep, her blue eyes are very vibrant and colorful. She has a number of outfits she wears only for pictures that she wouldn't ever dream to wear in public with her stomach the shape it is in, many involving anime cosplays or just cute or sexy outfits she likes to collect. Mostly though you'll see her in sweatpants or shorts and a baggy t-shirt. On rare occasions, a camisole during the summer as well. When alone in her room she wears just a T-shirt most of the time.
Personality: Shae has unrealistic expectations of the world skewed by her intense interest in anime and her hate for the real world. She is in many ways the female equivalent of the most extreme male shut ins, comparing real life to anime and dating sims and thinking with an almost continually perverted mind. Shae can be very judging of other people and often projects her own insecurities onto others. She has an intense need to feel loved, needed, and to know that someone is attracted to her. Despite this, her insecurities also push those same people who would try to give her this attention away as harshly as possible in most cases.
She feels she can express herself more clearly over the internet than in person, struggles at times to say things aloud, and gets incredibly nervous and anxious in tense social situations. Her mind wanders to sex very often, and often thinks dirty things about the people around her. Despite this, if presented with a chance or reality that one of these fantasies is or may come true, she is more likely to run away and hide in her room than anything else.
Reason for moving into the dorm: Shae had a very rough life back at home with parents that didn't understand her or attempt to do so. As soon as she was eighteen she used the money she had saved up to find a new place to live.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: Kissed a boy back when she was eleven, and maybe accidentally brushed against someones junk once or twice since then. Yes, she counts that, and remembers that.
History: Shae has been nervous in social situations as long as she can remember. At first it was just boys her age, but then girls started to bully her too until Shae had a very hard time trusting anyone around her. The bullying she experienced was average, and her reactions were always so severe that it encouraged the teasing to get continually worse. Even her close group of friends would avoid her when bullies came by, and she got used to such treatment.
It was her parents constant talks about how this bullying would get better that pushed her apart from them initially in fact. She began avoiding family dinners and eating in her room, and eventually never leaving her room at all. She would play sick every day to try and get out of school and found forums online where she could complain about her bullying and get a sympathetic ear. There were rude people online too, but they were easier to ignore and she found that online she could piss them off very easily.
By the time she was thirteen, the internet was already Shae's entire world. She had people who called themselves her friends at school, but none she herself considered a friend. She held grudges for a ridiculously large time and pushed away even those who now wanted to get closer to her. She even got in trouble once or twice for exacting petty revenge on an old bully or two. Around that time she also found herself in more adult places on the internet.
At the age of fourteen she was almost kidnapped meeting someone who said he was around her age online, which terrified both her and her parents. She was only safe because a teacher happened to recognize her and take her to safety. Her parents took away the internet from her and immediately sent her to therapy, which was the final straw before their relationship broke. Shae hated therapy with a passion, and began to hate her parents with a passion as well. She managed to get by the block on the internet and wasn't dumb enough to attempt a real life meeting again after that incident. Her parents tried to intervene constantly in as many different ways that they could think of, but Shae defied them and ignored them.
At fifteen, Shae discovered online website modeling and began making money through that online. Much of her work was incredibly shady, and some probably illegal. She never gave out photos that were fully indecent though, and mostly did shots dressing up like a character from an anime or a schoolgirl of some variety. It was when they banned soda in the house and she bought some more with her own money that her father finally, truly, gave up on her.
With her little business of taking pictures of herself and selling them online to some websites reputable, and others not, and another talent she discovered of drawing pictures by commission for people on deviantart, she amassed a pretty large savings by the time she managed to graduate high school. When she left her home, it felt almost unrecognizable to her. It wasn't a place that was home, it was a prison where two people constantly nagged her and compared her to her brother and talked about how badly she was messing everything up. She left that place with all of her things sent ahead and didn't even bother to say goodbye.
Notes: Just gotta say, the concept of her making money through web modeling sounded like it could be plausibly way more innocent when I conceptualized it. Lets just pretend there are a few more avenues available for cute girls to take innocent pictures and make money for them online in this universe, so that Shae doesn't have to go all full child porn star on us please. :) EDIT: Sorry for the laziness here, but I forgot something from my original concept. Its a small add on, but Shae like many typical shut ins is addicted to an MMO or two. She actually has selling high level accounts, items, and actual in game currency as another side job too.

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Username: ProxyPawaa
Name: Tai Summers
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Schedule: Stays up until dawn, sleeps until at least 2 pm. Only takes night classes or online classes to accommodate this, mostly night since he's bad with computers.
Education Level: High School Graduate, somehow. Attending College in Nashua.
Life Goal: Not end up a tool?
Current Goal: Successfully manage to avoid getting an STD while simultaneously probably having a lot of sex and partying a lot and on top of this maybe probably graduate college.
Appearance: Tai has short brown hair, brown eyes, and an expressive face fit for acting. His body is lean from being a generally active guy with a fast metabolism. His body is lean, but doesn't feature any specifically prominent musculature, any he has he can only thank dancing and sex for, since he hasn't worked out a day in his life. He stands around 5'9 and has decently long arms suited for playing basketball. His signature style involves wearing some sort of headband, and some form of tie dye on some part of his clothing at all times. He also has a fondness for wearing glow in the dark anything at all.
Personality: Tai is a man who has lost himself in the world of the young, partying with most of his time and throwing his future aside. He is incredibly irresponsible, putting off deadlines of all varieties to the last minute and forgetting obligations he may have had. That said, the one exception is when he is trying to woo a girl or is serious about dating her. Tai is in that one single circumstance amazing at remembering dates, times, and important details for the sake of a relationship.
It is also worth noting that Tai will be a very different person depending what time you catch him at during the day, and where as well. Any time before six and he's liable to be mistaken for a zombie. Tai is a slow waker and very lazy about waking up at any time, god forbid its anytime people consider morning. As he wakes up though, he becomes very spunky, witty, and sharp thinking. Some may consider him quiet as he roams the house during the daylight, but the moment he finds himself at a party or some social situation Tai becomes an animal, doing the dares no one else dares do, hitting on the untouchable girls other guys are afraid to approach. He also prefers to stay sober, so that he remembers the events perfectly the next day.
Reason for moving into the dorm: Tai needed a place closer to downtown than the college, but one that had reliable transportation to either place. Gretchen's boarding home just happened to fit those requirements and be within his budget.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: Tai is not a virgin, but despite his partying experience he hasn't gone fully off the deep end with his sexual life. While Tai can come off as an asshole and a player when flirting, he never has sex with someone unless he takes it seriously, even for a fling. If he doesn't feel a spark, he stops at foreplay.
History: Tai was not born into the world as the irresponsible party animal he is today, he was at one point a young man with AP classes in middle school and a lot of parental expectations lying on his shoulders. One day he cracked and started sneaking things his parents disallowed behind their back, weed, alcohol, parties, and over time he grew addicted to this escape from his everyday stresses and demands. His grades dropped, his parents freaked out, and he even ended up in therapy for a few months. By high school he had dropped out of AP placement, and by the time he eventually graduated he was barely meeting graduation standards and every parental and authority figure in his life was incredibly disappointed in him.
The only good thing that happened for him in his high school days was he got tired of drugs. While he still smoked weed on rare occasions, he no longer abused drugs as the escape he had used them as before. His parents eventually got tired of grounding him, since he was perfectly willing to lose anything they were giving him and could just sneak out anyways. When he graduated high school and talked about just joining the work force, his parents intervened.
Wanting him to get his act together and get a college degree, they offered to pay for him to go to a college if he found one that accepted him provided he kept his grades up to a certain level. Tai took the chance to avoid working for a few more years of his life happily, and it was this choice that led him to the dorm in Nashua. His parents thought he not be able to find parties like before in his new town where he knew no one, but he had no doubt he'd find a club or group of friends that would suit him before too long.
Notes: All it took was one injection of marijuana.... and his life was ruined.(loljk)

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Username: Beebee2121
Name: Wesley Thayer
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Schedule: He wakes up around 9 or 10 during weekdays and mills about for the whole day (until he gets a job). Weekends, he might stay out later and sleep in a little longer.
Education Level: Bachelor’s in Linguistics. He has extensive knowledge of the French government from working there and a vested interest in visual art, particularly paintings during the Impressionist period. He has almost encyclopedic knowledge on this.
Life Goal: Own an art gallery. Get married. Maybe have some kids.
Current Goal: Lay low.
Appearance: Wes is a few inches shy of six feet tall and lean. He has a rather odd sense of style, usually involving some busy patterns, and doesn’t typically wear the same thing twice over a significant period of time, if he can help it. There’s always a lock of his hair that falls into his sea-green eyes. His smile is really more of a smirk. The kind of smirk that says he’s up to something bad. He’s a little pale and fit because of his excellent metabolism and refined diet.
Personality: Wesley enjoys being the object of mystery. He never gives a straight answer about himself or his past, if asked, and embellishes liberally on every story he tells. Lies come easily to him, but lately he’s been trying to make a conscious effort to be a little honest sometimes. Not of his past, obviously, but of himself which is difficult because he’s not quite certain who he is right now.
He truly loves pranks and surprises, but he’s hesitant to pull any himself (that whole “laying low” thing). Unfortunately, he bores easily and takes his boredom out on others by bothering them with his presence. He gets restless if he stays indoors for too long or goes too long without talking to someone. He’s careless, mannerless and a terrible flirt.
Reason for moving into the dorm: He was taking a road trip to Florida and decided to stop for a little bit at a hotel. A day of rest turned into a week and he decided to plant his roots using the dorm as a kind of halfway house until he could find something better.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: He lost his virginity when he was seventeen after drinking a little too much at a party. He’s since enjoyed the company of plenty of women and experimented once with another man. After a lot of kissing, he decided it wasn’t for him.
Romantically, there was a girl in college who liked him quite a bit and he made it his responsibility to treat her nicely, but aside from a few dates, it didn’t amount to much. And then there was a very beautiful woman he met in Costa Rica the month he visited. He found her very charming, but he had to leave before he could get her name.
History: Wes was born and raised to a precocious upper-class family in France. His father work for the government, mostly investigating international crime and possible threats against the country. He was the only child and thus the sole focus of his mother’s energies to build a better, more glamorous life than she had. He studied piano and sang in church, then found he could pick up other languages and accents easily. All of these things combined with his sense of humor made him charming and entertaining to pretty much everyone he met. He even dabbled in theater for a little bit until it got boring for him when he was eleven or so.
Things started to go sour for him about the time of secondary school for him. He went to a private, all-boys school full of bored and wealthy teenagers being railroaded to a passionless career, much like himself. He made a few friends, went to a couple of parties and did his fair share of drinking, but otherwise survived school with flying colors. College was more of the same and then his father got him a job as a linguist in his department.
The job was good for him and, again, thanks to his father, he climbed the ranks swiftly and traveled around the world often. Still, he couldn’t shake the feeling of being trapped with his father breathing down his neck.
What started out as a few misdemeanors for fraternizing with arrested criminals quickly and quietly escalated into Wes being the eyes on the inside for a series of art thefts in France. His partner, surprisingly enough, was a childhood friend and they worked together for a whole year before things started to get worse for Wes. He took his chance on a trip to America and vanished completely using his own knowledge of the system and his partner’s resources. They sold all the art they stole, split the money, shook hands and parted ways.
Wesley Thayer isn’t his real identity. Wesley Thayer is a nobody that came from nowhere, but is friendly enough to ignore. He has a job interview for a spot in sales at the local art gallery.
Notes: He’s been in town for about a month; the dorm a few weeks longer than that. He says he’s from Rochester, New York and speaks with a generic, implacable American accent.
The French-American authorities are still looking for him, but the trail went cold somewhere around California.

And this is the last reserved post, just in case I need one for maps or whatever, should the need arise. I will provide a bio for Greta and Gretchen soon, and I'll also outline the boarding houses structure in paint or something before too long.

Any questions? Concerns? Suggestions? Let me know here or via PM.

-a friendly poke so I remember to come back to this- :) Kinda busy tonight but I SHALL return.

Just bumping and saying that I'm busy myself tonight, and possibly tomorrow. I'll finish the dorm managers profiles asap though, so that you guys at least have that to imagine haha. I'm still considering what characters I want to throw in to this though.

One quick question before I make my characters- Is this dorm expensive?

I've been looking for slice-of-life for about a week and I'm so excited to have found one!! I do have to say, I've never RP'd Advanced before, so this is my first toe-dipping experience with this. I'm a bit of a grammar nazi, I'm just worried that every now and then, the length of my posts wont quite fit the criteria.

Just jumping in to say hi! New to this site but not new to RPing... This seems like a good way to get back in the saddle, so to speak. Quick question before I start making my characters, do they both have to be used constantly? Or is it ok if one gets a little more attention during certain plot points, while the other hangs back until his/her moment. Then they switch.

@linflex: Nope. I was even considering having a first floor with cheaper, smaller rooms and a shared bathroom/shower area and another floor with rooms with their own restrooms..... but Idk about that. Thoughts? Either way it'd be a dorm targeting students, so it wouldn't be horrifyingly expensive. It also isnt conveniently located to anything that would increase the costs.

@Stephanie96: I'd say you found the right place if you're looking to make the jump. Personally, as I mentioned in the rules, I think length is irrelevant. Its a good sign of a persons writing ability in general and sometimes it is nice if you're able to monologue effectively between scenes, places, and for certain points of exposition. However.... sometimes, the ridiculous requirements for a set length hurt scenes where it is emotionally charged, as angry people will interrupt each other and end sentences with questions far more often. So long as your characterization skills are up to par and you express your characters realistically, and are able to hit higher post lengths for introductory posts and other interludes where it counts a bit more, I don't mind if your average is perhaps a little lower. I think average post length slips over time in most rps anyways.

@Starwinter: Glad to hear I fit the niche you were looking for here! And no, of course not. In fact, I'd rather people didn't use their characters constantly. Real humans will never find something to interact with or do every second of every day. In fact, you just reminded me of a REALLY important thing I intended to add to the character sheet that I will do now! Thanks.

Just so everyone knows, that thing I forgot to add is 'schedule'. I think its a pretty interesting thing to consider for a character, and I'll be trying to write a few character bios of my own for tonight to give you a good idea of how to fill them out. Glad to have people keeping this bumped. :3

I shall join in the fun!

Is it possible that my Character's father could own maybe a few stores and places nearby the dorm?

Yeah, heck, you can make a profile for him too if you'd like or you intend him to be a regular part of the RP. Just make sure I'm cool with whatever he runs being near the dorm before you go through all the effort of making your profiles. It'd be cool if someone wanted to RP the management of the nearby arcade or something.

He is , he's a student in the boarding school... well somewhat

I should have a CS or two up in the next 24 hours.

I'll have my CS up soon. I'm a little busy right now D:

I really can't say shit to you guys given I haven't posted one myself yet.... and this is my rp too. Don't worry about it. :)

Random but is anyone here a fan of the Game of Thrones tv series?

Coming up with two characters that I like/am comfortable with is not going nearly as well as I hoped.

I will try to get them up soon...but it's gonna be more than 24 hours.

MST3K 4ever said
Coming up with two characters that I like/am comfortable with is not going nearly as well as I hoped. I will try to get them up soon...but it's gonna be more than 24 hours.

Likewise.

Hi, I'm interested in this.

I'm considering one guy that's a retired art thief and maybe his partner or a starving musician that works at the bar his family owns. The problem is that a lot of different characters can be adapted to Slice of Life. At least for me, anyway.