[OOC] The Potter St. Theater

[Felono]

This is the story of a traveling carnival who have been traveling for over twenty years. Times are hard, and they could no longer afford their lifestyle. The Traveling Tent of Splendor made their last stop in a small, historic town with plans to disband. After finding an old and run down theater, their plans quickly changed.

I will update the synopsis to be more specific eventually. Here is the CS

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Personality:
Hobbies:
Appearance:
Role in Circus:

Feel free to fill in as many of the areas as you feel is necessary.

[Felono]

Here's my character

Name: Victoria (Vi) Snowden
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Personality: Vi is the kind of excitable person who could find the most mundane things amazing. She loves to e helpful, but she is a bit naïve and gullible. It probably doesn't help that she's spent her entire life up to this point as a carnie.
Hobbies: When she isn't performing, she spends time with her pet dove Penn. She loves teaching it new tricks. She also owns a collection of discarded ticket stubs. Other than that, she doesn't really have a life outside of the circus.
Appearance: She has wavy red hair and freckles that dot her face. Her costume consists of a top hat, a long cape, a leotard, gloves, stockings, and jester shoes.
Role in Circus: Magician

Just a general idea. Vi may or may not change when the RP begins.

[icicle]

Name: Felora "Vandal" Snowden
Age: 16 (I think it makes sense for them to be twins)
Gender: Male
Personality: By his nature, he is an insensitive person. Felora goes by the nickname "Vandal" for good reason. He picks fights and makes many snide comments in his daily routine, especially to strangers. He acts shamelessly no matter the circumstance, and has a great amount of courage, but has little to no strength to back it up, just his quickness and nimbleness. He can only get away with it because of his intelligence, magic, and his acrobatics. He acts highly defensive for the people he knows, especially members of the circus. He is even more defensive of his twin sister, Victoria, to the point of over-protection.

Hobbies: Vandal spends his time either reading or twirling, spinning, flipping, climbing, running, jumping, or whatever other activity he can manage. The kiddie jungle-gyms were always a joke to him, as they never delivered the thrill of jumping through a canopy of hard oak trees or practicing an acrobatics routine on swings. Some days, he is too tired to hop around, so he picks up books, especially about acrobatics, balance, fighting, or physics. Story books are his absolute favorite, but he tends to save those for curfew.

Appearance: He is noticeably thin, lean and light. His height is about 5'6" and his weight is around 120lbs. He has incredible stamina and moderate strength, but he doesn't have much muscle. He has brown eyes and reddish-brown, short, disheveled hair. His face is distinct due to his moderately sharp cheekbones, flat chin, and a few specks of minor acne. He has two noticeable scars on his body, a two-inch, oddly shaped burn mark on his right shoulders, and a long, thin and jagged scar across the left side of his chest, from his left shoulder-blade to just below his belly button. During acts, he usually wears a sleek, black leotard stretching from his ankles to his wrists. Occasionally, he will wear tights without a shirt for a performance, especially around fire.

Role in Circus: Acrobat, tightrope walker, trapeze artist, stuntman and speed-dresser. He is also especially good at vanishing acts.

[Felono]

I apologize for the lack of activity recently. A little while after the latest post, I had started a second job that greatly changed my sleeping schedule, so I was going to bed a lot earlier to get up earlier. I also started school again shortly after. I'm really sorry you were kept in the dark for so long.

[icicle]

I'd prefer if you wouldn't do it again, but it's not a deal-changer. If you don't know for sure if you won't be able to post for awhile, at least tell me if you 'think' you might be leaving for an extended period of time. That way I'm not eagerly checking the subscriptions page in vain.

I'll try to make a post by Saturday.

[Felono]

Again, I'm sorry for not telling you. If something like this comes up again, I'll tell you.

By the way, I liked your story. It was cute.

[icicle]

A week is fine, just tell me if you'll be gone for more than a week or two.

Thanks! Feel free to make your own background stories, if you feel inspired.

Edit: I responded to the IC. Vi can ask Vandal a question during the time I left out, between intersections or what not. I'll just edit my post so that Vandal's answers are included. The same goes for any reactions he has to what she does, like make a comment, point out graffitti, get bumped into by a passer-by, ect.

[icicle]

You didn't include anything from the walk over to the school! It's fine if you don't want to, but I left a few non-final points in my post so that interesting things could happen on the way to the school.

[Felono]

Oh, sorry. :x"

I just thought that since you were including stuff like "when Vi responded" that you thought it was probably going to be a generic response. I'm sorry. I'll pay more attention to stuff like that and add more onto a scene.

[icicle]

I appreciate the apology, but there is really nothing to be sorry about, because I haven't explained what I did to you.

Through past roleplays, I have realized that, if we want to make any real progress, we either have to 1: discuss the RP as it continues so that we can write what the other person/people are doing as we post, 2: skip around carefully so that we can spend more time on certain sections and skip over useless events which don't develop the characters, or 3: assume that the other character does something and have our character react to it. Now, if I assume that Vi does anything specifically, like she says "cars are dumb," that's powerplaying, which is a roleplayer sin.

Instead, I leave vague "unfinished points" where I assume that your character will do something without saying what she does. It would be nice for you to try to do it for Vandal as well, that way we won't have as many static or choppy conversations, and so we can accomplish more each post, because we have a rather slow post cycle right now. And, if you want to do something that I did not anticipate, just ignore what I assumed and write your character's actions, form-fitting what I posted to your character's new actions.

For example, if I wrote that Vi said something here and Vandal paused to wait for her, watching her speak, but you want Vi to zone out and stare at a stranger, clearly Vandal won't wait for her to talk again. He will ask her what she is looking at, or will try to find out for himself. Just try not to change anything significantly enough to change the following events. We don't want stuff getting too complicated here.

[icicle]

It's still summer break in the RP, right? School hasn't started yet, but it will start in about a week or so RP time, from what I can imagine.

Also, are you going to change your post at all or should I respond now?

[Felono]

Yea, the two of them have about a week in the RP before school starts up again.

And I'll go ahead and amend my previous post to fit more with what you had in mind.

[Felono]

I hope you're having a happy holidays.

[icicle]

I am, actually. I have had a lot of rest so far, and I am enjoying the cold, dry weather. I hope the same to you.

[icicle]

Alright, I responded. I'm sorry it was short, but I'm sure that's just because of the break. x3 Let's get this roleplay a bit more active, shall we?

[Felono]

Alright! I'll do my best to be active now that I'm done with school.

[icicle]

Welp, I didn't do a great job at getting a response out thus far, but I'm finally able to reply again. :D

Let's see where we can take this RP.

[Felono]

I'm sorry. I don't think I'll be able to continue this RP. I'm not having an easy time getting responses in, and I hate making you wait months for a response.