[OOC] The Path Ahead

[Nevermind]

Name
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Leonardo "Leon" Zambrano

Age
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18

Gender
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Male

Sexuality
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Straight

Personality
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Leon, at first, appears to be a calm, level-headed young man who has the drive and leadership to lead the group. To someone who does not know him, he would seem to be very intelligent, kind and friendly, full to the brim of self-control. This, however, is not the full picture. Leon is stubborn, volatile and easily manipulated in certain situations. Due to mental demons that have plagued him ever since his mother's passing, he can change in seconds from a bold, strong leader to being a weak, confused boy who is of no use to anyone. He often has mood swings, which can bring him from one extreme to another- occasionally, he can be very violent - if someone really hits a nerve, he'll stop at nothing to rip their head off. On other occasions he can be very low to the point where he can only sit and think to himself. Sometimes, his mood swings will throw him in to bouts of energy that will ultimately swing down to a low.

History
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Leonardo was born in Barcelona, Spain to a Middle-Class family. His father wrote psychological books and his mother worked at a local book shop. Leonardo rarely spoke with his father, but spent a lot of time with his mother, who he loved dearly. He and his two brothers were never too close, due to quite a significant age gap between them. When he was 5, he and his family relocated to Los Angelese, California, where he spent a large chunk of his upbringing. He grew to love the city, though when he was about 12, they relocated again, due to his father's desire to live in a much less populated area. They moved to Midcreek, a town where the wildlife was scenic and the area was peaceful, but the houses were relatively cheap due to a large gas company nearby. Despite his love for L.A., Leon quickly settled down in Midcreek, befriending a boy of his age named Benjamin. The two were inseperable, and usually stuck together rather than with bigger groups. Benjamin was rougher and meaner than Leon, so, naturally, Leon was toughened up by being in the presence of him, but he vowed to always keep his friendly nature, because of this, he became very popular and he and Benjamin slowly drifted apart.
When Leon was 15, he lost his mother when she had a heart attack. He found it extremely difficult to deal with and could no longer keep his popular status. He moved away from the big crowds and returned to Benjamin and his crowd, a group of troublemakers who would often get in to trouble with local police due to a range of crimes such as possession of drugs, theft and vandalism. His grades dropped, his reputation dropped and his health fluctuated, and he could honestly not give a damn. He began to experience some mental issues at this time.
When he was 18, he and Benjamin got in to serious trouble when they were caught smoking a joint behind the school. They were both kicked out of school for the remainder of the year including the school prom, which Leon would have probably gone to, but he wasn't exactly heartbroken to learn he would not be able to attend it. He and Benjamin remained together, spending most of their time in the local park for the next few weeks. That's where they were around the time the gas factory exploded. Benjamin rushed back to find his family, but Leon stood firm in his tracks, frozen by what he had just seen. When he finally decided to go and join Benjamin, he witnessed, from a distance, Benjamin getting shot. He turned on his heel and ran.

Appearance
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Six foot. Brown eyes. Tanned skin. Some stubble. Brown hair. Athletic.

Clothing
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Leon was wearing a plain black t-shirt, blue jeans, black sneakers and a grey hoodie when he escaped.

Skills & Weaknessess
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Leon is athletic and, at some times, he can show signs of leadership. His strength, speed and stamina will likely prove to be great assets whilst on the run from the government, though it is likely that his own worst enemy will turn out to be himself and how easy he lets control slip from his grasp.

Other
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His two brothers, Francisco (12) & Luis (25) were killed in his family home alongside his father, Marcelo (49). His father's best friend, David Waters (51), was the man that helped him and the others escape.

[Nevermind]

All apps up to scratch. All accepted. And Hell, I'm sorry, I didn't mean for it to sound like that.

Some interesting characters here. I do like a manipulative character, especially with how Leon is easilly manipulated.

Character count:
Males - 3 Females - 4

Willing to accept 1 or 2 more of each. Setting the limit at 9.

[Piqsy]

Name : Justine Christophe
Age : 18
Gender : Female
Sexuality : Bisexual
Personality : Justine is chatty, and friendly, but a little hesitant to talk to some of her peers, because of the language barrier between them, as her first language is French. She is strong willed, and quick to become defensive if she feels threatened, though she doesn't know enough English to argue well.
History : Born and raised near Nice, on the southern coast of France, her parents were vineyard owners just a few miles out of the city. Her three brothers all adored rugby, and Justine had little choice but to learn to love the sport. As her brothers grew older, only one managed to retain his talent for rugby, moving to Paris to train for the professional teams.
Justine emigrated with her parents and younger brother to California a year and a half ago, and settled on the edge of Midcreek to establish their new vineyard and business in America. She still feels rather like an outsider, because of the new language she has to cope with, as well as all of the new school and her different interests to her peers.
America, however, had less support for the sport than in Europe, which somewhat disappointed her. Still, she played with her younger brother on the hills beyond their home, which was where she was when the explosion happened. Her two older brothers, still in France, believe she is dead, along with the rest of their family.
Appearance :

[+]

Clothing :A French rugby jersey, dark blue v-neck jumper, grey jeans and brown boots
Skills & Weaknessess : She's very sporty, and quite strong after years of handling farming equipment. However, she isn't particularly good at communicating, tending to panic easily and then become unable to properly translate what she wants to say in to English so that others can understand her.

[Sixx]

I'm writing one up now, most likely going to be male. I apologise in advance if it's a bit rough though, I haven't rp'd in a long time and I'm a little rusty.

[Nevermind]

Ok. Sixx gets reserved male. Piqsy's in. One spot remaining. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

[Travesty]

Name: Henry Knowles

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Sexuality: He's still trying to figure it out. Probably bicurious?

Personality: Most people in his school would easily label him as a nerd. He's usually found in a corner with a book, or a survivor magazine in hand, probably hanging out with his [nerd] friends. He doesnt have many friend to begin with, may be except from a few close ones. He doesnt speak too much, although when he does speak up you can be sure its worth hearing. He's either shy or just intentionally avoiding people, or at least only those he thinks would cause him trouble later on.

History: His family owns a small diner a few blocks away from the local High School. His mum ran the business most of the time while his dad waste away in his beer. He is the youngest of the two children. His sister ran away after she finished High School, and never came back. All that he knew about her is that she hated it at Midcreek, she hated their family, how they come in so little, and how their father is a huge failure. She always argue that people in this town are insanely unimaginative. May be she's right. If its up to him, Henry would also choose to leave Midcreek. He often imagines himself some place else, somewhere far, and bigger, and livelier than his home town.

Appearance:

Henry

Clothing: His wearing a red-white striped button up shirt, topped with a brown cardigan, a pair of skinny jeans for his bottom, and an old pair of sneakers for his footwear.

Skills & Weaknessess: He has probably read tons of survival books in his life, and he's probably have enough knowledge to survive on his own out in the wild. But the problem is, they werent exactly tested in real life. Much of it were theories, and complex analysis of what to expect out there more or less.

Other: He has his own radio scanner set up in his room. Each night he listens to police reports, and sometimes he and his friends would actually go out in town and secretly help out on small town problems like getting homeless elderly people out of danger from the streets.

EDIT: Did I make it?

[Nevermind]

Ok. The gates are closed. Travesty accepted.
Waiting on Sixx's app.
Not going to put the IC up right away, so maybe spend a little time considering your relationships with the other characters. Let's assume, since its a small town, that they know eachother in some way, be it just that they see their face sometimes or that they or friends - or perhaps enemies.

Also, just saying - long term inactivity won't stop this RP. If you drop off the block for long enough, your character will be killed off, caught by the soldiers or something. If you don't have time to post (i.e. going on holiday) then make sure you drop in and tell me that, then I'll just put your character on autopilot for however long you are gone.

[Travesty]

Woot! Thanks! I'm excited for this.

[Kidd]

Alright, with that said, if anyone wants to be the student Lillah got in a fight with or the one she defended a couple years prior, lemme know. If it's the one she defended, we could start off with a couple friends. If fought, then she can especially hate someone rather than just kinda not like.

[Nevermind]

No problem. Surprised how fast apps came in. Was wanting about 7 people originally. With 9 I am sure a couple will end up going inactive, but, like I said, we can just weed them out by them getting caught.

[Kidd]

This is my first casual-level RP--much less high casual--too, so if I don't meet the standards I'd understand getting kicked. That'd weed me out, haha

[User]

Name : Charles Richrdson
Age : (17/18) 18
Gender : Male
Sexuality : Sexless (doesn't like man nor women)
Personality : calm, solitary, drinker, dark, creepy, "insane", over powering, intelligent, stubborn, aragont, gambler.
History : not much can be told of him as during the explosion he knocked his head and gained a serious case of amnesia.
Clothing : White silk gloves, no right eye, black formal toruses, red weather beaten coat, black waist coat, brown combed hair.
Skills & Weaknesses : smart, devious, scheming. poor pleaple skills, unlucky, split personnel
Other : None

[Nevermind]

Not accepted. ^

Kidd said
This is my first casual-level RP--much less high casual--too, so if I don't meet the standards I'd understand getting kicked. That'd weed me out, haha

No, you type perfectly well so I think you'll do fine.

[Travesty]

Reading everyone's CS and considering a few relations. Henry will most probably hang out with kids who are likely to be bullied, or with someone who would stand up for those who are being bullied. He's more of a follower and thus easily manipulated like Leon. This will be my first casual RP as well btw.

[Sixx]

Kidd, I have to ask, do you watch rwby by any chance? I love that show so much.
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(When I originally wrote this the character was almost identical to Jo, so I tweaked it a bit; I hope this is alright)



Name: Spencer "Spark" Small
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Heterosexual, but he's never really thought about it.

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Personality: Spencer has somewhat of a nervous disposition, due to an uncomfortable amount of accidents that lead to people being hurt, and it all being his fault. He's friendly enough, and actually has a pretty decent sense of humor when he puts his mind to it... It just takes him a little while to adjust to new people, even when they've been life long acquaintances, or friends in the past. Once he gets used to people he tends to open up a lot more, with a tendency to become more talkative (some would say more annoying, too), when he actually bothers to try and make friends. His main problem, however, is his natural ability to get anxious very easily, working himself up over the smallest details and convincing himself that, if something goes wrong, it's most definitely his fault. His coping mechanism is less than adequate too, as since a young age, Spark has been known to set things on fire as a means of relieving tension and, as much as he would like to deny it, he's a bit of a pyromaniac.

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History: Spencer's upbringing was unsurprisingly mundane. His dad worked in an office downtown and his mum, well, she liked to say her job was caring for people, but she was actually one of the worst stay at home mum's in town. Naturally bossy and lazy, she made it her duty to teach her kids the rights and wrongs of life, and, most importantly: how to survive. Or, that's what she claimed, anyway. She'd constantly have Spark doing the most mundane of tasks, like doing the washing up and hoovering, even if it was getting to the point where he couldn't balance chores and homework. He was taught that doing what he was told and obeying orders was always the best way to survive in life, and that talking things out or complaining would only make things worse. He couldn't talk things out, he couldn't do anything to a reaction out of his mother, apart from lighting things up, so that's what he did, and it all spiraled out of control from there.

Fire became Spencer's 'thing', if you will. A way of coping with the everyday stress that a mix of school and home brought onto him. If he ever got low or angry, he just had to set something on fire to feel better again. Well, for a while, anyway. It was this issue that brought more chaos into his life, his mother telling him that he 'had a problem and needed help', his dad telling him that it was 'just a phase'. Everything was just pilling up on top of him: end of year exams, his mother breathing down his neck every chance she got, and he couldn't take it anymore. That was the day he burnt the house down. Literally.

His mother almost kicked out for doing so, but by some miracle his dad talked her round. His home life had been rocky at best ever since. Not that he'd ever complain - the more his parents left him alone, the better he felt. He couldn't accidentally hurt anyone with fire if they weren't around him, right? And so he set to work distancing himself from people, something that wasn't particularly hard when you were are quiet as he was already.

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Clothing: White tank top with a dark grey zip up hoodie, black skinny jeans, once-white converse and a black beanie hat.
Skills & Weaknessess: Spark is a doer, not a talker. He's quick to act and follow orders, doing exactly what he's told to the exact letter, with no exceptions. Whilst he's no leader, he's one hell of a follower, and he's not unwilling to do the jobs everyone else is unwilling to do, as he's determined that a job is a job, and it has to be done for a reason. He's quite lean too, and what he may lack in strength he makes up for in speed and stamina, able to run happily for miles if he really had to... He just wouldn't enjoy it much.

Other: He has a lighter that he carries around with him obsessively, other than that I don't think so.

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Okiedokie, I hope this fine - I'm also sorry it took so long.

[HellGirl13]

So I finally read through everyone's characters and my character is kind of the geek, possible badass and outcast. Weird combination I know. Hmm, I see possible people to have relationships with. Hmm, interesting.

[Kidd]

Nevermind said
Not accepted. ^No, you type perfectly well so I think you'll do fine.

Oh, good! I'm glad you think so--gives me some confidence and hope

Travesty said
Reading everyone's CS and considering a few relations. Henry will most probably hang out with kids who are most likely to be bullied, or with someone who would stand up to those who are being bullied. He's more of a follower and thus easily manipulated like Leon. This will be my first casual RP as well btw.

Maybe him and Lillah can be acquaintances? She's the type to stand up to bullies--it's what got her in trouble in the first place. Maybe friends, Idk.

Sixx said
Kidd, I have to ask, do you watch rwby by any chance? I love that show so much.

Of course! Weiss is my favorite character thus far if that's not obvious. Though with volume 2 coming out--and a butt load of characters--that's up in the air, I suppose.

[MST3K 4ever]

Some interesting dynamics. ...have to study them a bit more....although Justine (Going on first impressions) is very interesting.

[Nevermind]

Sixxepted.

I don't watch rwby, as it's not really my thing, but I love Rooster Teeth, been watching them for years.

[Kidd]

I've only seen some of RvB before RWBY, but RWBY is what put Rooster Teeth on the map for me personally. I just like the anime feel--especially when the main focus is a group of ass kicking girls. It's right up my alley.