[OOC] The Breakfast Club: 2017 Edition

[Tlstiffl]

Dear Mr. Vernon:

We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain... ...and an athlete... ...and a basket case... ...a princess... ...and a criminal.

Does that answer your question?

Sincerely yours,
The Breakfast Club.

The Breakfast Club: 2017

At 7:00 AM on a cool, brisk Saturday, five students from Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois attend an all day detention. Each student did the crime and now they have to do the time. As seniors, all five students may be aware of each other, but does that make them friends? There will be fights, arguments, laughs, and craziness to ensue. They may not have entered as friends, but will they leave as them?
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Rules
1. Please be 18+. I know this sucks, but there could be mature themes.
2. Though this is 18+ there will not be any smut.
3. This is advanced, so looking for a minimum of ~3000 words per post. Grammar and spelling has to be decent, but by no means perfect.
4. Be active. If you have to be gone for a period of time, just let us know.
5. Have fun!

Now in terms of the characters, I am not going to be restrictive to the point that you have to play the same gender as the characters in the movie. And same goes with any sort of romance, there can be a variety in the relationships that form. I just want you to really stick to the "clique" that your character is in and work from that.

Characters

1. Basket Case- Taken by @FloriCello

-This character is the oddball, the one that no one quite understands. She/he can be mute at first like in the movie if you want, or they can be a bit more vocal with their thoughts. Just really encompass the quirky behavior and play with the fact that they are like a caterpillar wanting to just spread their wings.

2. Princess- Reserved

-This character is the queen bee of the school, most popular, everyone knows her. I feel like this character should stay a female, but if you want to play it as a male then just tell me why you feel that way. This character will be disliked by a majority of the other characters because she represents everything they hate: beauty, money and popularity... but she wants to seen for so much more than her looks.

3. Brain-Taken by @tlstiffl

-This character is extremely smart and dorky. She/he does not know how to fail and strives for perfection. Their focus on their studies makes them the target of teasing and ridicule, yet if anyone is desperate for an answer then she/he is the one everyone turns to. All this character wants is to be noticed for something other than their brain.

4. Athlete- Taken by @codex

-This is the popular boy, the jock, the star of the school. Whether she/he is the captain of the football team or any other sport, the school's spirit is determined by this person. The pressure to perform every week can be overwhelming at times and can hinder this character's ability to show who they truly are.

5. Criminal- Taken by @Fabricant451

-The bad boy of the school, he/she is no stranger to detention. Their home life is probably not the best and as a result their frustrations are taken out at school. Instead of trying to get help, this character just pulls away from people constantly, but really has a softness inside that just needs comfort. The hard shell on the outside though will take a lot to be broken.

So if you are interested, please either PM or post below and tag me and include the following character sheet. As the characters are filled, I will edit this post accordingly.

Character Sheet Application

[b]Name:[/b]

[b]Age/Birthday:[/b]

[b]Clique:[/b]

[b]List of Family:[/b]

[b]Reason for being in detention:[/b] (if you want the reason to be kept secret for the plot, then just let me know)

[b]Personality:[/b] 2-3 paragraphs describing how your character is around family, friends and total strangers. What makes them tick or what can put a smile on their face.

[b]Brief Background:[/b] 2-3 paragraphs describing how your character has reached the point in their life where they are now in Saturday detention. Were they always the way they were? Ie was the princess always popular? Did the athlete use to be friends with more nerdy kids? Ask yourself these sort of questions when doing this bit.

[b]Requests for Relationships:[/b] If you have an idea for a romantic interest you want to try, put it here and we can discuss it further in OOC chat.

[b]Appearance:[/b] Use a real life image of a person. When it comes time to actually RP, do take the time to describe your character's outfit, but you don't have to do it here.

Post your character sheet here in the OOC tab and once it is approved, it can be moved to the character tab.

[Venus]

_{Posting this again here since this is the official thread and all that...}

@Tlstiffl Hi! I have conceps for a male criminal and the princess character (which I would REALLY LOVE because she is BADASS lol) already written out!

Question: how many posts do you expect on average? I'm a full-time college student so my taking on this RP would depend on my free time available for posts.

[arcade43]

@TlstifflJust letting you know that I may be going for a girl criminal. If there's an uneven gender ratio I'm fine with going for a boy basket case. I've already established both characters, that's why their genders are fixed lol, all I have to do is move it to the CS. X)

[Silent Whispers]

@Tlstiffl When's the deadline for our characters? I have two to make before this one. And since this is modern, mind if I make the princess character African-American? :)

[Tlstiffl]

@HushedWhispers as of right now, no deadline cause my personal life is hectic at the moment. I'm hoping to get things started by middle of next week

[Silent Whispers]

@HushedWhispers as of right now, no deadline cause my personal life is hectic at the moment. I'm hoping to get things started by middle of next week

@Tlstiffl

Awe, sorry to hear that your life is hectic right now. I hope things get better for you soon enough. :) And I can definitely have a character ready by the middle of next week. Sounds good to me.

[Fabricant451]

We can post characters here, right? Because I can have my criminal gal up no later than Tuesday

[FloriCello]

@Tlstiffl

Okay I posted in the 'looking for students' thread. I'm interested in the male basketcase role... it's still open, right?

[FrankenDaughter]

Quite excited to watch this develop.

[Tlstiffl]

@HushedWhispers@FloriCello@Fabricant451

Ok so here is the dealio! I am going out of town from Thurs-Sunday, so I don't want to start anything and then just disappear. So in terms of timeline, I was hoping every could have their character sheets posted here by Monday 9/18. And then if everything looks good, hopefully we can get things going by the next day. Let me know if you have any questions!

@codex I know you are sick, so don't worry about rushing :)

[FloriCello]

@Tlstiffl Gotcha :) Sounds good to me!

[FloriCello]

Basketcase

Name: Killian Angus Greer

Age/Birthday: His birthday is on the 15th of November, 1998, making him 18-going-on-19 years old.

Clique: "That weirdo". More specifically, "that weirdo in the art department". (Population, yours truly.)

List of Family:

He has an older sister named Nancy, 25 years old, who is a med student and lives away from home. He is quite close with her in a bickering brother-and-sister kind of way. They bully each other a lot but they’ve always had each other’s backs, and always will.

His parents, Katriona and Phillip, divorced when he was 3 years old and he lives with his mother, who he takes care of and loves immensely in a strictly not-a-mama’s-boy kind of way.

He does spend time with his dad as well, who got remarried to a woman named Heather, although his relationship with his father is a bit more distant compared to his connection with his mother. Killian thinks this is because they don’t have much in common, seeing as he is an artistic and sensitive kind of guy, and his father is more old-fashioned and ‘hyper-masculine’, but they both try to enjoy each other’s company and it’s never unpleasant.

Killian also has a half-sister from his father’s new marriage who is 8 years old. Her name is Felicity and they’re practically best of friends, often playing video games, or drawing whatever crazy mythical whim she has. She especially loves selkies and mermaids.

Brief Background and Personality (I smushed the two because a lot of it is the same):

Killian is very protective over his family. His situation is not always ideal, being a child of divorce and all, but he could never imagine having a rotten relationship with any member. He even gets along with Heather, his step-mother.

Generally speaking, Killian doesn’t talk very much. He definitely has a lot to say about a lot of things, but it’s hard to talk when no one is willing to listen to you. So sometimes he catches himself talking on his own, in the shower, doing dishes, walking to school, or during other mindless activities he does in solitude.

Sometimes he confides in Felicity, which some people find strange because she’s eight. That’s just another thing that makes him a bit odd. His best friend is an eight year old girl who makes him draw seals for her, and he’s perfectly okay with it. She’s really smart for an eight-year-old, though. Hell, she’s actually pretty smart in general.

He doesn’t have any other friends really, but if he did he’d probably treasure them dearly, if only for what a rarity they would be.

In the case of where he stands on the high school hierarchy, he’s occupied the same spot for his entire social existence. He could easily change that, but he’s in denial, and he’s not even sure he wants to change. He feels like two sides of him are always at odds: the part that would go along with any amount of bullshit to be considered worthy of fitting in, and the part that wants to tell everyone they’re being stupid, and blurt out everything he thinks of them without having to filter it. He wants to fit in but also stand out, but since those two do not correlate, he is stuck in the middle. One third of time he lets out sarcastic quips that make people give him ‘the look’ (you know the look… the ‘why-are-you-even-here’ look, the ‘who-asked-you-loser’ look), another third is spent with him inwardly cussing out everyone who treats him badly and convincing himself that he doesn’t care, he’s above it all, and the final third is spent with him running stupid errands for those same people because he doesn’t know how to say no and ‘disappoint’ anyone.

Basically he’s a hot mess.

Recently he’s become a lot angrier too, lashing out at random things, being enraged by situations that might seem unimportant, or that could be easily forgiven. Once the fire is lit, he’ll pace for hours, ranting, kicking things, stewing in his own rage. He doesn’t know how to escape his own head and all he wants is to be at peace with who he is and what he likes, and finally stop caring so much about what people think of him. Felicity told him that he’s “triggered” and needs to go to “anger management”. God knows how she even knows what that is.

Reason for being in detention: If it’s okay, I’ll keep it for the story. I don’t think it’s a huge plot point, but it could make an interesting anecdote.

Requests for Relationships: No particular request… I’m open to seeing what happens and how all the characters are represented and developed before requesting or being assigned to anyone.

Appearance:

He is 6'4" in height, with a boyish face and a lanky build. He's not exactly skinny, he just has long limbs and slouches a lot. He's not quite muscular either, but he does possess some upper body strength from carrying around too many things to and fro school and art class. He wears dark-rimmed glasses sometimes, because he's always late to wake up, so he doesn't have time to put contacts in, and he has kind of a resting jerk face. It's possibly a defense mechanism.

[Tlstiffl]

@FloriCello this looks great! Feel free to post it in the characters tab :)

[FloriCello]

@Tlstiffl Sweet :) Thanks!

[Silent Whispers]

@HushedWhispers@FloriCello@Fabricant451

Ok so here is the dealio! I am going out of town from Thurs-Sunday, so I don't want to start anything and then just disappear. So in terms of timeline, I was hoping every could have their character sheets posted here by Monday 9/18. And then if everything looks good, hopefully we can get things going by the next day. Let me know if you have any questions!

@codex I know you are sick, so don't worry about rushing :)

@Tlstiffl

Sorry for the late response. Been a little sick. But this definitely works for me.

[Fabricant451]

My character should be up tomorrow!

[Fabricant451]

The Criminal

Name: Mackenzie Maya Lin

Age/Birthday: August 13. She's 18 as far as anyone's concerned.

Clique: Noted Troubled Students

List of Family: Kenzi has an older sister, Kim, that she once (and still kind of does) idolize. Kim was once a student at Shermer High which only made Kenzi come into the school with a reputation left by her sister. Though Kenzi once looked up to Kim, the two of them rarely see each other as Kim has pretty much left the family behind in pursuit of her own highs. Kim left a reputation that Kenzi is already poised to topple and supplant it with her own.

Kenzi's mother, Amber, is a single parent who, after seeing what she perceives as failures with Kim, started a more controlled and demanding lifestyle for Kenzi. It's not terribly surprising that a mother exerting more control over her daughter had the opposite effect. Kenzi never knew her father and it's because Amber, in her youth, was rather promiscuous - stating that that's just how it was "in the industry." Amber had Kim with a record producer back when Amber was trying to become famous but Kenzi's father remains unknown. That hasn't helped matters either. Amber just wants Kenzi not to make the same mistakes; that's fine, Kenzi is making her own.

Reason for being in detention: Technically ever since the 'Talent Show Incident' Kenzi has had detention for months. Though this specific Saturday was a combination of vandalism and a vulgar telling off of a teacher.

Personality: There she goes to the principal's office again. What did she do this time? There's a reputation Kenzi has and like most reputations it's hardly a good one. Whenever there's an incident at school that has no culprit, most turn to Kenzi as the scapegoat. Sometimes for good reason, but most of the time because she's an easy target for it. There's a noted lack of respect for authority due to her reportedly telling multiple teachers to fuck themselves with a colorful term for human genitalia and being caught twice tagging a wall. Rumors surround Kenzi like flies around...well you know the expression. While it's certainly true that her mouth has no filter, no one seems to stop and consider the sheer amount of issues they attribute to Kenzi. If she truly did half of the things she was blamed for she'd most likely be expelled or even in jail at the moment. But of course that doesn't concern those who are quick to point fingers. Kenzi is the perfect target because of well known incidents in the past and her seeming desire to live up to the reputation she already had.

Many assume she'll drop out before graduation. Others have a bet going on whether or not she'll be arrested. And still there are those who wonder how the hell she managed to become the top soloist in the choir. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and plenty of staffers who have supported these rumors still remember the last time a Lin wandered the halls.

While it's true that Kenzi has a bit of a vulgar mouth, the reality of the matter is that Kenzi is a confused person. She has two very different forces in her life and is slowly realizing that she can't make them both happy and doesn't quite know what to do. Standing at the crossroad of life that is maturity was never supposed to be this difficult. Kenzi isn't sure that she's ever made a decision for her own sake and her run-ins with authority were her way of doing something that she wanted to do. Despite the claims that she'll be a dropout, Kenzi maintains a high B/near A-average, a fact that she keeps to herself. It's not that she's unhappy, it's just that school is about the only place she can actually be true to herself, even if that puts her at odds with others because of her attitude.

While she isn't going to mouth off to teachers unless provoked, Kenzi still gets into trouble over seemingly nothing; again because of her reputation and that of the Other Lin as well as her uncertain nature, Kenzi accepts the punishments even when she didn't do the crime. Because that's what's expected of a Lin. The Lin Legacy, in other words. Slowly but surely she's starting to learn that in the end it's her life, not anyone else's. She can be her own person. She can do what her heart desires.

Kenzi isn't sure that she even has friends, just people that take advantage of her reputation to remain under the radar and blameless. In all honesty, she's a deeply lonely person who still wants to find her voice.

Brief Background: Kenzi arrived at Shermer High with a target on her back from day one. There was a legacy in place thanks to Kim Lin's antics. Ever since her Freshman year Kenzi has felt like no one really gave her a fair chance. Teachers, when doing attendance, would see her name and ask "Oh, are you related to Kim?" and instantly their demeanor would change when Kenzi was around. By all accounts Kenzi had intended to simply quietly endure the four year prison sentence that was high school, but it was Shermer that created Kenzi Lin. Kenzi figured that since she was already in the shadow of giants that why not embrace what everyone expected? That's how she had lived her life so far, just doing what she was told, what was expected of her.

Her infractions started in the back half of her Freshman year but it wasn't until her sophomore year that Kenzi Lin became infamous. Vandalism, profanity, truancy, causing fights in the cafeteria, the talent show incident, and those are just the things that Kenzi could be directly linked to. Whenever there is an infraction, Kenzi is typically the first suspect (also often the only one) and it's not all that unreasonable to see why. The only aspect of high school that Kenzi seems to mellow out for is the school choir. She didn't join by choice, having been forced into it by both her mother and the guidance counselor who assumed an extracurricular might help channel some of the aggression into more positive pursuits. Her junior year saw her earning a soloist spot for choral recitals, which baffled her fellow choir members as well as those who heard. Fortunately her reputation remained in tact after denying her enjoyment of the choir and suggesting she was forced to do it and that quitting would get her expelled. Though she'll deny it for as long as possible, the choir and her place in it does make her happy.

Because of the choir rumors on top of her multiple rule violations, Kenzi is known as the Siren of Shermer because of her vocal ability in the choir and because of a little joke 'if there's a Siren at Shermer, Kenzi's in the backseat'.

Requests for Relationships: Play it by ear. Kenzi's equal opportunity.

Appearance:

]There's nothing immediately eye-catching about Kenzi's height or general appearance; her features tend to speak for themselves what with her pale complexion and blemish-free face. Some have said that Kenzi's eyes are quite striking, but she believes it's just because they are wide and rather expressive. Someone once told her that it was odd to see her dark green eyes but that same person was being kind of racist at the time and Kenzi didn't really know any better. She's just always had expressive, forest-green eyes; over the years she's managed to bring attention to them with the proper application of makeup. She goes for emphasis, though heavy makeup is so not her style.

In fact her style is a bit more...naturalistic in tone. Or, in truth, a bit more 'urban' though she loathes to use such a generic term herself. No one can deny that she has a distinct and certainly striking sense of style that gravitates towards the 'wear a big shirt so it looks like you don't have pants' end of things. Typically Kenzi is found adhering to no real sense of fashion while still coming off as stylish, to a certain degree. Thrift store casual is a style, surely. Kenzie hates when people are married to their outfits which is why she is so uncaring about her own clothing. The only time she dresses in a presentable, formal manner is when she's singing with the choir...and even then only because it's 'mandatory'. On colder days, Kenzi will don a hooded jacket while still sticking to her 'pants that are technically shorts but christ and large shirt' dress. It's not as if her legs are particularly worthy of being shown off in such a manner, she just feels like the look suits her. If not her personality.

Kenzi's hair is of frequent medium length and often chestnut in color. It's her natural hair color as well, which always draws suspicious glances. She's not particularly fussed about her hair, it's just sort of there, and most of the time it's covered by various hats and headwear anyway. She keeps her bangs straight and the style of cut to a bob, thus ensuring that her plain featured face is on full display for the adoring population. It's appropriate, however, given that her face is so expressive.

Her height and weight are, much like the rest of her, are average. Five foot two and slender with no real curves to speak of; she had been describe as having a 'boyish' build to her. She's still not sure what that means. Kenzi doesn't flaunt it not because she thinks she don't got it, but because she hates when people think they can use their looks to excuse a lack of personality.

@Tlstiffl

[Tlstiffl]

@Fabricant451 looks great! You can post it in the character tab :)

[Tlstiffl]

@FloriCello@HushedWhispers@Fabricant451

I feel like the worst GM ever- I haven't even gotten my own CS up. I am going to try with all my might to get it up tomorrow, so we can get things going ASAP!

Our wonderful co-gm, @codex is unfortunately having some health issues, but has given us the go ahead to start- their character will join us later (perhaps the athlete couldn't miss practice or something like that lol).

So yes, I apologize for the delay in starting, September has just been so hectic for me, but things should be slowing down now.

[Tlstiffl]

@HushedWhispers@Fabricant451@FloriCello@codex

Dear Lovelies,

I have to apologize, but I think I need to put this RP on hold :( :( :(

I feel like the worst person ever, but my personal life has gotten a tad too hectic to give this RP my full attention. I am hoping by the winter when things suddenly settle down, I will try to start this up again and I will message all of your first to see if you are still interested. But I am so deeply sorry (especially to Fabricant and Flori for doing such a great job on your character sheets) and hope you all find RPs that work for you!