[OOC] Caelbury Academy

[Undine]

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[Kidd]

I am here and working on a sheet! I am also at work though so I might not get it up until tonight if today

[Queue13]

So, a couple of questions for the CS:

1, when is it that we start within this world? Are we Juniors/Seniors in 2015? is it August? or December?

2, is more than one char ok? prob wont make one, but could easily supply.

[cerozer0]

I'm here I'm queer I'm using Taron Egerton as an FC SO LOOK OUT FOR THAT FUKBOI �����

[HalfOfLancelot]

So, a couple of questions for the CS:

1, when is it that we start within this world? Are we Juniors/Seniors in 2015? is it August? or December?

2, is more than one char ok? prob wont make one, but could easily supply.

@Queue13

Assume it's 2015 and we're starting in August!

I don't know the max but I do know that it's more than 2 characters.

[Kidd]

This is the biggest sheet I've ever had to fill out but it was fun!! I hope everything's okay

Cori

Cori Woods

Scathing eyes ask that we be symmetrical, one sided and easily processed.
Yet every misshapen spark's unseen beauty is greater than its would-be judgment.

M. Oum

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Name

Corrine Elizabeth Woods

Nicknames

Cori, simply a shorter version of Corrine. It's how she'll introduce herself even though her parents and more traditional peers will still use Corrine.

Age

17

Gender

Female

Sexual Orientation

Heterosexual

Grade Level

Senior

Social Class

Wealthy: her great grandfather on her father's side was just kinda lucky. He invested into stocks for a home and furniture company. When they won big, he won big--and then used his money to start his own home and furniture company. Wood® Furniture and Interior Design grew so large and so fast, in fact, that it was able to buy out the company Great Grandpa Woods had initially invested stocks in by the time Grandpa Woods was born. Now, Wood® products--not always made of wood anymore--are the go to brand of anybody who's anybody.

Appearance

Slightly above average height for a woman and thin and boy-ish in body shape, Cori could be mistaken for a model if her pigmentation wasn't so atypical. If she's outside during the day, she's wearing sunglasses--not only do they protect her sensitive eyes, they hide the strange violet from public. Though the albino's pale skin and white hair isn't very subtle either. She wears said hair down, typically at her shoulders with bangs over her eyebrows. She stands at 5'7", but appears taller since she wears heals and weighs in at about 120 lbs. She carries her height and weight with a proud gait--head up, shoulders back, and a serious scowl on her lips. She tends to wear square necklines that pull attention to her shoulders and beautiful jewelry around her neck and wrists, emphasizing her status and sense of fashion.

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"Do you think I care?"

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Personality

Cori makes a point to put appearance above almost all else. So long as it seems like she knows what she's doing, she pretty much knows what she's doing. Needless to say, when she's unsure about something, she'll take a chance and give her thoughts in an attempt have some control over what's going on. She doesn't like looking weak or unintelligent in front of other people and enjoys considering herself independent. She comes off as very serious to most people and generally humorless; she tends to carry herself as if she's better than most people. This gives her an air of arrogance and intimidation that is backed by a sharp tongue at people who irritate her.

Despite her bad attitude, she's very caring and generous to the people around her. If you need help, she won't hesitate to offer a hand even if she comes off as reluctant to do so. She at the very least knows right from wrong, but tends to give into class and society viewpoints, preferring to stick to the status quo than vouch for underdogs. All this creates a queen bee, very uninterested in screwing up her social life in her senior year.

Likes

• Coffee, one sugar (but not real sugar)
• Interior design and the application of mathematics to improve it
• Books, particularly the romance genre
• Lowkey loves cars and car stuff
• Parties, dances, and similar events, for the fashion and effort that goes into them

Dislikes

• Selfie culture: empowering for some, but a constant reminder of her albinism for her. She engages in it anyway, as it's what she's supposed to do.
• People: she can sometimes deal with them, but her patience runs thin quicker the less impressive you are in terms of status
• The way she looks: she's fine with her body, but the way she stands out next to others makes her self conscious. She would prefer not to stand out.
• The middle class normies who decided to attend the school. Scholarships are cute, but she and he family were under the impression that the school were elites--not commoners.

Fears

Cori has a phobia of heights, but closer to her heart is the fear of failure. The pressure of being an only child is great enough, but peers and teachers alike are also sources of stress. She struggles to meet expectations set by others and will set higher goals if she deems the given task too "easy."

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*shows up 20 minutes late with Starbucks*

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Strengths

• Budding leadership skills
• Social skills and the connections to get what she wants
• Organization: with just a thread, she always finds a way to balance anything life throws at her
• Academically, she excels in mathematics.

Weaknesses

• Low self esteem despite outwards confidence, leading to hesitation and a thin shell as far as her feelings go
• Defensive: her fight or flight response tends to be "fight" so she can easily make a bad situation worse
• Hopeless romantic: easily charmed by a handsome pair of eyes, and the badder the boy, the more tempted she is

History

Corrine Elizabeth was born the first and only daughter to the Woods family, known for the dominance in the interior design and products industry. Her parents--the renowned Quincy Woods and former model Jennifer LeDuc--did not exactly expect such a pale, purple-eyed creature and were mostly ignorant to the pigment disorder until Corrine came along. They learned what they could, of course, and Jennifer pushed her daughter into wearing makeup relatively early. "You need some color, let's darken your eyelashes, a pretty pink for your lips," are criticisms the young girl got a lot. Still, she was never bullied even though she attended public school before attending Caelbury Academy (and perhaps it was because of her mother's attention).

So she grew to enjoy school life; outside of public school, she was enrolled in other classes, as well. Partly because they wanted their daughter to live a life rich with music and culture, and partly because Quincy and Jennifer had so little time to actually spend with her. So Corrine was always buried in schoolwork or piano classes or French classes or art classes. Despite all these, she never really had any close friends, and tended to focus on bettering herself than the others around her.

Until there was a boy, anyway. She started high school--still in public school--and he was a couple years older. He made her feel special and loved--and beautiful--and dating an older boy of course earned brownie points as far as popularity went. He was the first to call her Cori. However, he and his family were by the Woods' standards, skeezy. Neither Quincy nor Jennifer approved much and they knew the tabloids wouldn't either. So, the Woods packed up and left at the end of Cori's freshman year. For sophomore year, she was enrolled into Caelbury Academy.

At the time, she was heartbroken. The move had awakened a demanding brat that her parents could only calm with gifts and money. And, after enough clothes and makeup and new cars, Cori found the strength to get over her lost love. She grew content with Caelbury Academy and found the crowd much more relatable than the drivel at public school.

Favorite memory

Piano recital, she was 12 years old. Both mother and father were there to watch her and she didn't catch either of them on their phone once. She doesn't remember how well she did, but she remembers the beautiful opalescent dress she wore and the pride in her parents' faces.

Least favorite memory

Less because of the fear and more because the whole story is humiliating: he "ran away" the summer her family moved to a fair. When her parents figured out where she was, they called her and told her that her mother would be there to pick her up. So she got into the ferris wheel--and got stuck at the top. When they finally got her down, she was a blubbering mess.

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"Father will hear about this."

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Birthday

October 29, 1997 (depending on the year we start? She'll be turning 18 in the beginning of the school year but ye)

Astrological Sign

Scorpio

Twitter Name

@CWoods: My biggest fear is the green text bubble.
(3k likes, 2.4k retweets, 1k replies)

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"If you want something done right, best hire a professional."

Also, to anyone interested, hmu and we can figure out relationships (good or bad). I assume most of our character will have been attending since freshmen year.

[cerozer0]

@Kidd

I love that FC, she's gorgeous! I have a few gifs of her if you'd like them :3c

[Kidd]

@Liriia Ohmygosh, you do?! I'd love to see them!!

I love her as a model and I was especially excited to find her a couple years ago since Cori has been a character of mine for such a long time.

[cerozer0]

@Kidd

I'm on mobile right now so I can't link all the posts I have, but if you have a tumblr you can use tumblr.com/tagged/nastya_kumarova_gifs to find a lot!

[Kidd]

@Liriia Perfect! Thank you much :D

[smarty0114]

I'll get a CS up soon :)

[Conflux]

So is it acceptable for one character to be of two different classes? Like he/she can both be of the wealthy and gifted class? Because I'm planning to make a guy who is somewhat talented and rich at the same time.

Also just a clarifying question, do students receive unbiased treatment and equal benefits from the academy's administration given their differences on the social hierarchy?

[HalfOfLancelot]

So is it acceptable for one character to be of two different classes? Like he/she can both be of the wealthy and gifted class? Because I'm planning to make a guy who is somewhat talented and rich at the same time.

Also just a clarifying question, do students receive unbiased treatment and equal benefits from the academy's administration given their differences on the social hierarchy?

@Conflux

Great questions!

They can be of two different classes, but they have to get into the school through one or the other. So, yes, you're character can be exceptionally gifted, as well as come from a loaded family. However, in terms of academic classification, and for realistic ease of all that documentation crap, they can only come in through one. Either their parents paid the tuition, or they received an invitation/scholarship to go to the school for their specific talent. If that makes sense.

So, while they socially can, in terms of technicality, they can only be considered one by the school itself, and their records. Determine whether they're talented enough to have received a scholarship or if their parents wouldn't have wanted to risk it and just paid for tuition. Or, however you want to play that off. Your CS may be judged more critically for that, though, because it may be a bit difficult to pull that off more believable than say just having your student be one of those things. Just so you know.

As for differences, there's a stigma between certain teachers concerning the class hierarchy between students and they may show that individually, but the school likely has a very, very strict policy concerning unfair treatment between students and teachers. So, whilst it is personal for the more elite teachers, it's not for the school as a whole and they do their best to combat social prejudices. ;D It's a good topic to consider when making a character, though, as they're likely going to receive specific treatment from specific people. Of course, they'll more than likely be able to combat that, so not all hope is lost.

(I know the teachers I made in the last installment of this would have had pitched a fit about students being treated unfairly. Unfortunately, teachers will be (semi-)npcs this time)

[Crazy Doctor]

Ok I'm here and will start working on a Char. I will try and post in a day maximum, will warn you though if i can't. This is gonna be following the american system right? because i studied in england and australia so can someone quickly explain what a senior and junior and stuff is for me.

[Conflux]

@HalfOfLancelot That pretty much explains my slight confusion. Just something that I wanted to hear before conceptualizing my character.

And I was thinking between the lines that the academy might scheme their way into corrupting their own system since the wealthy families are likely to give them more recognition than the middle class. So I was assuming that they might secretly give more acknowledgements to the privileged while sustaining the same treatment to the rest of the social class.

I also kinda wanted to create a teacher but I fully understand them being semi-npcs in this RP since I've a fair share of the same kind of RP setting where teachers only had a small percentage of interaction between the ensemble of students. However, if there can be a consideration on making them completely playable, then count me in! :D

[Queue13]

In a typical public high school, there are four grade levels deemed high school level, grades 9-12.

9th Grade - Freshmen
10th Grade - Sophomores
11th Grade - Juniors
12th Grade - Seniors

random definition rant

For the most part, grades 9 and 10 are just like the previous grades with the exception of students starting to be able to drive (and thus accommodate that with (usually purchasable) parking spaces). They also try to push the whole 'responsibility of being an adult', landing it in the back of students minds as there really isn't much actual responsibility handed down to them at this time.

In the larger, more populated schools, you could easily find a break here and have a whole additional school for the last two grades.

11th grade (junior) starts to set itself apart as the minority of students could easily be considered an adult. In the stricter or more troubled cases, it isn't unheard of to see kids with jobs or graduating early due to nabbing all the required classes early, or in the more extreme cases kids actually moving out on their own. (ya know: 16 and pregnant, parents are too insane/demanding, money's tight, ...)

12th (senior) is more or less for the lazy, the plain, and the underachiever. they only need about 60% of their classes to graduate and they know that this is their last year within the system. Teachers usually are more relaxed with them, and they get by knowing that whatever they do isn't going to affect them, save for their academic achievements, ever again. Some don't really get too out of hand, but it is generally a chill year. Again, about half work and it isn't uncommon for there be an older love interest from outside the school.

suppose it would be a bit different for the rich; more hoity-toity and probably involved with the family business.

not much difference, just how long they've been in school.
as a private school, there could be most any kind of tweaks to the system in this rp

[Nallore]

@Undine *Rears head into the thread* Mind if I join in on the action? :)

[Undine]

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