AlteredTundra

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Gif the User

Hewwo there

Howdy! Welcome to the guild! Enjoy your stay in our little asylum of fucked-uppery!

♆ 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝙱𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚁𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚜 ♆ (Roleplay Re-Booted)

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Damien Blake had laid on the dirt for...well, he couldn't tell you how long it's been. Whenever Serafina left to Gods-know-where, probably annoying the crap out of some unlucky sap, he'd just been laying next to the same tombstone everyone at the cabin knew was his. The same one that Sera had found him sitting on. Even as Shadowhunter whistled, his selectively sentient pair of short swords who seemed to care more about what he did more than he could muster in a single grunt. The same pair of swords that were imbued with the very souls he commanded, yet was nothing more than a tool for his powers to extend themselves through.

Yeah, his Shadowhunter was hissing in his head, but it was in an unique frequency. Probably its way of telling him to stop sulking about losing.

"You try losing because you were tickled into submission. Oh wait."

hiss hiss

Yeah yeah, you go off like that. Ain't like Shadow can do much about it, now can it?

And maybe this was the moment where Damien had reach new lows. He lost to Serafina, who was a worthy, if not creative sparring partner, but now he lost the battle of common sense to his own fucking swords.

As he contemplated just how low he could go, for some reason he was thinking about Erin and about how she probably was on her quest by now. He wondered if Zeru was really going to look out for her better than he would have. Well, that's impossible but laying on the ground did give Damien the time to think. No, it didn't change his mind that Zeru was a tool and would never hear the Son of Hades say anything other than that, but even he could admit that the Son of Zeus was strong. There was a reason why neither of them won a match against each other. For as much as Damien wished it and as much as he was certain Zeru wished it, they both were equal in pure strength and there was no beating that.

So maybe that's why he found peace in the fact that he was on that quest with Erin. It made him curse himself into a kip-up to his feet, grunting as he did so, but Damien would remain content on that matter.

Just as he was about to head in, Damien felt something in the earth. And a moment later, Shadowhunter hissed in its "danger is approaching" frequency. Holding his hand own, both swords were at the ready as Damien faced towards the cabin. He was ready to strike, channeling his power into the hilt of both swords. It wasn't until he saw who was approaching the graveyard did he have a moment of anticlimactic disappointment. "Oh, all the people." Shaking his head, he sheathed his sword. "What are you doing here, Kalinda? Kinda far from your usual place of sunshine and rainbows, ain't ya?" He teased as he took a seat on his tombstone throne.

Oi!

Welcome to the Guild!

Edenridge

December 4, 2016, The Streets
_{A @metanoia & @LovelyComplex Collaboration || Featuring Danny Belmonte & Marco Brady}
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As scary as ReyRey seemed, Danny was too drunk to process anything he was saying. When Marco went to retrieve his coat, the young jock wondered if they could stop and get some food somewhere. He was kind of hungry. Was anything even open? Since being drunk wasn’t really something Danilo was used to, the best parts of his brian, which were minimal to say the least, had turned completely off. Unbeknownst to him, the rest of the night would be led by a fool and the next morning, he would not remember anything.

Nothing. Nada. Zip.

After thinking about greasy diner food his mind went to the fading music and how he didn’t get to dance. Weren’t parties supposed to have dancing? Why did it all stop? He could’ve gotten a pretty girl and showed off how smooth he was. He could’ve become like an uncoiling rope, one with the music, one with the girl, and let the adrenaline shoot up his veins like some hardcore drug he’d never experienced before. He missed the part where people were feeding off each other’s energies… he got too caught up with impressing his team that he had forgotten to have fun.

Sucks, man.

In his stupor, deep in thought, Danny hadn’t realized he already left the party house and beside him was the boy he randomly befriended tonight. Trying his best to push all the negative thoughts aside, he threw his arm around his new friend, dropping a lot of his weight on him, but also pulling the acquaintance close, as they walked down the sidewalk. “Did I ever ask you your name? I feel like if I did I would know what to call you right now… the name’s Danny! Well, Danilo. But pleeeeeeaseeeee, call me Danny. You probably knew that already because I was great tonight. You said it yourself! I was great. I like being great.”

“Oh yeah! You definitely were!” Marco said in a sudden rush of excitement when he was pulled close to Danny.

He didn’t know if it was his lack of muscle on his own body or if Danny was just physically stronger than him or if being so close to Danny in general made him physically weak from...whatever it was that he might be feeling at this moment, Marco let it happen and now he found himself trying to support the full weight of this boy who smelled awfully a lot like the top shelf booze that he remembered his Granpappy always kept when he lived in Ireland for a time. He didn’t know why he thought of his Granpappy Sheamus, but the fact that the scent was the same made Marco smile.

Grunting, Marco yanked on Danny’s arm as he struggled to keep both of them up. “You totally killed it out there tonight!” Somehow he said that without a gut-punching grunt in-between.

There were a lot of compliments thrown at him which put a goofy grin on the freshman jock’s face and then he blinked a couple of times, realizing he still did not know a name. How could he be friends with someone with no name?! Well, Danny could always give him a nickname. A nickname. His acquaintance was small, kind of energetic, and cute.

Cute like a…

“Puppy!” Danny shouted out, deciding this was good to do so in his drunken state, which probably sounded like he saw a dog from afar, but really, he was referring to the boy holding him up. “Besides X-Men, what else do you like? I like strawberries.” Seeing a stop sign, Danny let go of the boy and latched onto the pole and started spinning around it like a kid. “Strawberry milk. Strawberry shortcake. Strawberry fields foreverrrrrrr. Do you know Cece? Or, uh, Caitlin Cleary? She makes the bestest strawberry cupcakes. Oh man, the more I think about them the more I want to eat…”

”Uhm…”

Marco looked at Danny with a confused expression as he hugged the pole the stop sign was drilled to and how he went on about his fondness of strawberries. That wasn’t why he was scratching his head like he was right now and it certainly wasn’t why he took a few glances behind him to see if anyone else was around.

There wasn’t.

But that seemed to help the feeling go away. Truth was, as much as he was enjoying spending time with Danny and probably would have been filled with nerves about what to say, Marco was clueless on what to say while the star athlete of today’s game against Pinehurst was acting like...well like how he was right now. ”Yeah, I know CeCe. She was, uh, the first person I met and became friends with…” It was strange because Marco, as well as his family, had fit in so well with the town and everyone seemed to love his parents, that it was strange he had only been living here for less than half a year. And as much as he felt anxious around Danny (for different reasons than he had in the past), he was now thinking about Cece's cupcakes. ”I have actually tasted her cupcakes. They’re quite yummy!” For some reason, Marco patted his stomach for emphasis.

“Cece forgot me today,” Danny’s demeanor became somber as he let go of the pole only to tumble backward on his feet. Oh man, he drank way too much tonight. With hardly any body fat to store his alcohol, Danny could feel he was past the point of no return. He was truly and deeply feeling it.

Looking around him, he searched for a frosted looking grass patch and found himself dramatically dropping on the ground, laying backwards and staring up at the starry night. “It’s kinda’ crazy, huh? You grow up with people, you go through so much with these same faces, and then you think… wow, one day, I’m going to have to graduate and become a star, like my parents want me to be.”

”Uhh, maybe we should—”

With loose lips and no restraints, Danny got lost in his thoughts, on someone’s lawn, in the cold, with this boy he barely knew, “I know it’s too early to think that far ahead, but don’t you just wonder… what if all these faces start to disappear? Life continues to move and I just want it to stop, right here, right now. In time. I don’t want to grow up.”

What seemed like one of those ‘against your better judgement’ moments, Marco took a seat next to a laid out Danny.

God, the grass was cold. And of course it was because it was winter. In Massachusetts. Why on earth was he not trying to help Danny up? Maybe because he didn’t feel like that’d be an okay thing to do while he was talking and some of the things he said. They felt foreign to Marco. He never thought of those things. Never thought about the day his parents would never be around or that he’d never see people he went to high school with. And maybe he was confused why Danny was.

“I guess I never really thought about it.” Marco would say after a few moments of silence and trying to figure out what he could say. “I figured that if my friends go away, I’ll see them again soon. You know, kinda like how we grew out of our playing-with-our-toys phase when we were younger—” You say that as if you’re out of that phase.. “—And you develop other interests and play with other things that are better suited for us. But like, at some point, you might find yourself wanting to go to a toy store and indulge in the latest X-Men figure with the money you saved up from your allowance.”

“You really like X-Men, huh?” Danny found himself no longer laying down. He didn’t know when his position changed, but he was now sitting up, as he intently listened to Puppy. Getting closer and closer to the back of Marco’s head, as if the Leaning Tower of Pisa was actually falling, Danny went forward and rested his forehead on the geek’s back, “You’re very optimistic.” And smell nice. “You know that right?”

When Marco felt the touch of Danny’s forehead on his back, there was a rush of adrenaline that made him jerk his entire body slightly that was almost immediately followed by a foreign hotness coming over his cheeks. And when he complimented him, Marco didn’t know what else to say than “y-yeah, I know--” as if it explained why he was like that. “I mean, I guess, like, I don’t know it’s just who I am. I’ve always been a lot more hopeful than most in my family.” Thinking about it, Marco hadn’t realized that he was literally the only one who was like this. Between him and his younger siblings, he was the only one that didn’t see the bad of any situation.

Danny’s head felt foggy, the alcohol having taken him to oblivion. His eye lashes weighed more than they should and gravity was pushing him into a sweet, drowsy dream. Absentmindedly, he nuzzled his face to the warmth in front of him. His chest rose and fell to the sedative lullaby of the night. His breathing was calm, gentle, and close. He felt at peace, even if other people in the town of Edenridge were not. Danilo Belmonte had fallen asleep and it felt good. For once, he could relax and be himself, with this boy he barely knew.

And as Marco looked over, he didn’t pay Danny any mind because he seemed like he was just resting his eyes at first.

Yeah, at first.

But then a minute went by and Marco grew concerned on the face as he turned around, shaking Danny as he tried to shake and wake him. When the first, albeit gentle, attempt produced no results, Marco tried again, this time he went faster and started to exert whatever pathetic strength he had in him.

And still there was nothing.

And Marco’s concern increased still.

He grabbed the larger boy’s shirt and tried to raise him up, but if you have ever lifted a hundred and something pounds of dead weight with a shockingly low amount of muscle (and in the cold at that), then you might be able to understand Marco’s difficulties. His lack of strength wasn’t the only issue because it was butt-freezing outside and the fact that Danny was asleep spelled bad things for both of them if he couldn’t think of a way to lift the soundly asleep hunk.

“Yes yes, he’s very cute sleeping like that. And this is the most you’ve spent with him since you started to drool over him. But this is not the time for that.”

And of course, Marco considered that it was next to impossible that he would be able to lift him up.

“But ma didn’t raise a quitter--” Marco stopped himself with both a lightbulb-over-the-head-worthy idea as well as a frightening realization. “Ma. She could help. But is it really that bad that I’m left with no outcome but to call her?”

Marco stood up, brushing the cold grass blades off of his pants and looked down at sleeping beauty. On one hand, maybe if Marco really dug deep, he might be able to drag this boy the few blocks it was to his house. But on the off chance that he collapsed from the overexertion of what remained of his physical strength, or ya know, he died form hypothermia, there was the other hand to consider.

Calling his mother.

Both presented a scenario Marco wasn’t keen on experiencing. The latter would expose Marco’s interesting situation to his mother and the former meant they’d both probably die.

“God, why did this have to happen? Why couldn’t Kylee just let me gawk from afar?” He shook head and decided that one problem was enough for him.

As he stepped onto the sidewalk, there was a tense, almost dramatic moment that led up to Marco pulling out his phone from his jacket pocket. With a deep breath, he called his mother. And as the dial tone ended, he didn’t hesitate. “Ma? Yeah, it’s me. Listen, can you come pick me up? Oh, where am I? Uhh…” Marco put his hand over the bottom of it and whispered a Catholic prayer to himself. “I’m about three or so blocks away from the house. Ya can’t miss me. I’m on the sidewalk with sleeping beauty.”

♆ 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝙱𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚁𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚜 ♆ (Roleplay Re-Booted)

Is still open for applications?

@KatKook

Yessss we are! Feel free to make a character! Any you might be eyeing?

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

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Delbrook Academy High School

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Kyle Vass

_{"Nothing but good vibes!"}

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_______________________________________ N A M E Skylar Aolani Vass ∞ Kyle, “Totally Kyle”, KyeKye (his little sister used to call him that) A L I A S E S KyleDoesThings @TotallyKyle @TotallyKyle A G E 17 || February 16th G E N D E R Cisgender Male S E X U A L I T Y Pansexual - Much like the waves he rides, Kyle is very much about “going with the flow” when it comes to romance or otherwise. Gender identity has no place in this surfer’s heart. C U R R E N T C I T Y Long Beach, California E T H N I C I T Y Native Hawaiian, ScotIrish, Chinese, and Japanese _______________________________________ A P P E R A N C E Height: 5’10” Weight: 165lbs/75kg Hair: Dark Brown || silky to the touch, mid-back length Eyes: Dark Brown Body Type: Surfer bod Body Marks: N/A Clothing Style: Usually, you might say that Kyle is someone who prefers “comfort over style”, but to him his comfort is his style. Long sleeve shirts, baggy shorts, jeans, tanks for those hot days, and a collection of baseball caps + a handful of hair bands because of his long hair, this is his style. He doesn’t know what the hell to call it, but it’s his! He also favors Nike shoes exclusively. He might be a materialistic person, but top of the line Nike shoes is his one indulgence -- well, when it comes to apparel. Food on the other hand is another matter altogether. _______________________________________ R E L A T I O N S H I P S T A T U S Single (for now) Current Relationship: Taken but don't tell Cass! Crushes: ∞ Maria Costello - Mildly dangerous but not much! Also red hot! ∞ Charlotte Thorne - BABE ALERT! ∞ Davina Deveraux - super hot and danger free...right? ∞ ∞ Sandra Bishop - DANGER DANGER! Do not do it! Past TBD F A M I L Y father: ∞ Akoni Kahale Vass || 55 || Retired Surfer/Owner of VassWear, a successful surfing apparel and equipment brand || FC: Keanu Reeves mother: ∞ Mitsuki "Suki" Vass (nee. Watanabe) || 54 || Retired Skater; now a consultant for skating games such as Skate and Skater XL || FC: Tomita Tamlyn younger sister: ∞ Malina Leilani "Malu Vass || 16 || Junior at Delbrook Academy; ametuer skater || FC: Fivel Stewart P E T S ∞ Rocky (4 years old male) - Male Black Lab || Lola (4 and a half years old ) - Female White Lab ∞ Hawk (3 years old) - Male Saint Benard _______________________________________ H O M E S W E E T H O M E House Room _______________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________ L I K E S ✔ The beach and everything it provides: the sun to tan, the ocean to surf and swim, the beach to play volleyball and throw frisbys, also the beach to get buried in the sand by the boys and potentially have a sandbra made in the process, and having occasional picnics where SAND WILL NOT GET CAUGHT IN THE POTATO SALAD! ✔ #winning - Kyle loves to win and hates losing. There is no worse feeling in the world to him, so he'd prefer to win if at all possible. ✔ Loco Moco - yeah, he's a walking stereotype, so you bet he adores this beloved classic from the island. Meat? Good! Rice? Good! Beef gravy with MSG and soy sauce? GOOOOOOOD! ✔ Or really any food. Kyle loves his food. Especially if it';s cheesy or with a little soy sauce on top. ✔ Not doing homework - he's not his sister. Homework makes him want to die. ✔ Hanging with the boys ✔ Mixing all sorts of sodas for a special surprise flavor ✔ 90s beach vibe, or really anything about the 90s ✔ Playing video games ✔ Trying to win big with the ladies and fellas who aren't one of the boys D I S L I K E S ✘ #losing - he isn't a sore loser or winner but he really hates the feeling of failure ✘ When the vibe is ruined - all Kyle wants to do is be all about those good vibes, but when the good vibes are ruined, it's a real bummer. ✘ Drugs that isn't weed - he gets high but he doesn't do anything stronger than that. ✘ Being told to cut his hair - yes, he understands you dumb boomer - his hair is too long. You can shut up about it already. ✘ TV series/films that require too much thought to enjoy ✘ Aggressive music - he much prefers the easy listening stuff ✘ Beer - not that Kyle doesn't enjoy his alcohol, but he's more of a wine cooler and fruity drink kind of drinker. ✘ All the "Kyle" memes - okay, maybe not all of them, but it got annoying a couple of years ago when all everyone wanted was for him to punch some drywall. ✘ Spicy food - he does like the hot stuff and definitely doesn't like it when it gives him the shits from hell ✘ Wasting time - not so much because he's impatient but Kyle doesn't want to waste time beating around the bush. Rip off the bandaid! ✘ Spiders - they scare the heeby-jeebies out of him ____________________________________________________________________________ P E R S O N A L I T Y Adventurous → confident → energetic → hyptastic → super friendly → optimistic →motivated to win → creative → tenacious → stubborn → oblivious → foolhardy → thick-headed ____________________________________________________________________________ Being the thrill-seeker that he is, Kyle approaches every new obstacle that comes his way with the mindset of someone optimistic about success but accepting that he might stumble. He believes that if you don't try, then you won't know what'll happen. Rejection is always something that life will throw at you, but in his sometimes-humble opinion, Kyle has always tried to keep a level head if he failed. Of course, there are moments when his emotions get the better of him. He might flip out, fall into a "mood" that will take him out of commission for a while, but eventually, he'll come back swinging harder than ever. Kyle believes in never staying down. Whatever he did wrong before won't happen again because he'll tackle that obstacle from a different approach. Whether it's mastering a new trick, making friends, wooing the hot person that caught his attention, or trying to figure out the monster that is Algebra, Kyle never gives up. Even in his down periods, in the back of his mind, he knows he has to face what nearly destroyed him. Remember, what doesn't kills you truly makes you stronger. His eyes being open to adventure and trying new things also extends to befriending someone who might be his polar opposite. Sometimes he isn't met with the most positive reaction due to his ability to come off as obnoxious and simpleminded (not his words, but it's been said in the past to his face) - but he always means well. In both friendship and romance, Kyle only has the best intentions at heart. As overbearing as he might be and as annoying others might find him (ask his younger sister), Kyle will persist. He's tenacious like that. Sometimes, however, Kyle is oblivious to what others want. Or more like he'll be so lost in his own head, believe that the best thing for him is to succeed after he has failed, that he'll lose sight of something even more valuable. In his mind, losing often doesn't come into play unless all options have been explored. Sometimes Kyle doesn't acknowledge that some things weren't meant for him to succeed. And that's really the worst thing about him. A special kind of stubbornness that takes form in his dedication to win. ____________________________________________________________________________ B I O G R A P H Y There is a love story that holds a lot of importance in the Skating and Surfing worlds. Two cultures that have often been associated with each other, yet both have significantly different vibes (as the kids say). Surfers are laid back and relaxed. They are very much “go with the flow”, as is the requirement of their sport. Meanwhile, skaters are rowdier. They live by a “live free or die trying” creed. They are rebellious and not always law-abiding. They are rough around the edges and usually come from broken homes. Their aggression takes form int he music often associated witht hem. And their tricks are flashy. Very much a “high risk and high reward” style. And yet if you really think about it, they aren’t all that different. That’s what brings us to how these two collide and why it is so relevant to Skyler and Malina Vass. IT is because their parents comes from both worlds. And much like their parents, they followed in the same footsteps. In the shadow of Akoni Vass, Skyler found a love in the freedom and the relaxed vibes that the ocean gave him, while Malina, who was very much like her mother, Mitsuki Watanabe. Aggressive, graceful, and full of attitude. And the story of how Akoni and Mitsuki met is something of a romantic tale that goes back nearly thirty years. Akoni, a native to the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, came from a long line of Big Wave Surfers. And he was a gifted one at that. At just twenty years old, he was in the surfing finals in 1985. It was him and an Australian by the name of Jason Dust (clearly not his real name but that’s what everyone called him). He got the name in how he always left everyone in his dust and won every competition he paritipated in. And this one was no different. While he lost in the competition, it was after that a nineteen year old Japanese girl came up to him. She introduced herself as Suki. They talked for ten minutes about how close he came and how hse was rooting for him. She said she had been following his career for a few months and how she admired his talents. And then at the luau, they talked some more. They’d spend the entire night off on their own, talking about anything and everything: their hobbies, interests, what kind of music they liked, what kind they hated, their favorite food, least favorite, and pretty much everything came up. It’s funny. They were two people who met by chance. She was visiting her grandfather who lived on the island and there she met the boy who would become the love of her life - only it wasn't at that moment. It wouldn’t be until twelve years later at the 1997 Summer X-Games that were being hosted in San Diego where he’d see Suki again. It didn’t matter that he received international success as a multiple award-winning surfer and had made a name for himself, or that so much time had gone by since he last saw her, Akoni knew her face almost immediately. And when she took gold in the Vert event by landing a 720 tailgrab and she was getting honored, he thought about all the time wasted and he rushed to the podium. Of course, security recognize dhim and in a rare moment, they let him go on stage. After several moments of letting the audience realize that Akoni Vass was in the crowd, he went straight to Suki, knowing full well she knew who he was (or so he hoped) and he stumbled through his words only to say “frick it” into the microphone and got down on one knee. “We haven’t seen each other in so many years, but I never forgot you. Suki, marry me babe!” And she didn’t hesitate to say yes. On the day where, until five minutes before seeing Akoni, her biggest thought was how happy she was about all of her hard work paying off. But after it all, now she was engaged to the person she’d spend the following 20+ years with and have two amazing children with. And no matter how many times the story gets told in their household, both Kyle and Malu never seem to be able to fake their smile. It is more than just a nice, romantic tale about how two people who didn’t think they’d ever see each other again end up not only finding their way back to each other, but carpe diem life. It’s about how all the success in the world never fill the void of true happiness. But one big takeaway they both have (albeit for very different reasons) is how their parents’ story, much like the old tradition, is also their legacy. For Kyle, he has always saw it as inspiration. The hope that you might not always succeed, but never giving up has stuck with Kyle all his life. Not only does he take after his father in the passion he followed, but many who have seen them together have said that they are alike in so many ways: their thrill for adventure, love for Hawaiian classics like dry seaweed and loco moco, and the completely approachable personality. But the biggest thing that they are often compared to each other for is their ability to piss off the women in their lives. Kyle is young, so he doesn’t know better, but Akoni is almost fifty, so you’d think he wouldn’t be a literal manchild, yet he constantly proves this whenever he and his boy decide to go on one of their spending spree at whatever toy store they can find. But you can’t say that they don’t make things interesting for whoever is waiting on the other end of one of their wild adventures. ____________________________________________________________________________ S C H O O L I N F O G R A D E Y E A R 12th - Senior G P A & A V E R A G E 2.9 || C+ average with your occasional B and rare A E L E C T I V E C L A S S E S Yoga & Acrobatics E X T R A C U R R I C U L A R ∞ Surfing (for Delbrook) in the spring; otherwise, he does it as a passion. T R A N S P O R T A T I O N Kyle drives a dark blue 2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 P L A N S A F T E R G R A D U A T I O N As if it wasn't obvious, Kyle wants to go pro. As in be like his father was at his age and go pro in Surfing. It's his biggest passion and, even though he might be the captain of DA's surfing team, it's not enough. At the end of the school year -- spring season, to be specific -- he won't be the captain anymore. So Kyle hopes this last year will open doors for him. He hopes that he'll make it big and really get off to the right foot. If not, then there's always being like Mr. Beast and becoming the biggest stunt Youtuber the site has ever seen. That'd be fun, right? ____________________________________________________________________________ A F T E R - S C H O O L I N F O E M P L O Y M E N T Due to his surfing and acrobatic stunts and how-to videos on Youtube, Kyle makes anywhere from 1k to 7.5k dollars per month due to the consistent sponsorships he gets from companies such as Raid: Shadow Legends and SquareSpace. F A V O R I T E P L A C E S ∞ Really any beach, but he has a preference for Hunnington Beach ∞ Abalone Cove Shoreline Park (for cliff jumping) ∞ Driving along the SoCal coastline during sunset and sunrises ∞ Finding any hidden dives to chow down at after a hard day of surfing R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S ∞ Captain of the Surfing Team #GoRisingTides ∞ Does being chill and awesome count? No, then probably making sure his sister doesn't get into trouble ∞ Managing his social media accounts and making sure he keeps his presence on them consistent ∞ He pays for his own phone bill and car insurance and he has been on time with them for most of the time. ____________________________________________________________________________ O T H E R My favorite show in July/August was Criminal Minds Kyle has a solid presence on social media where he and his friends perform various stunts Kyle is technically diagnosed with ADHD, but neither of his parents got him treated for it due to neither of them believing in the label, so instead, Kyle channels his energy into his various hobbies and his parents allow him the freedom that comes with it Kyle has a severe addiction to energy drinks but with a strong affiliation towards Bang Energy! 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_______________________________________ N A M E Malina Leilani Vass ∞ Malu, Mad Malu, Maliboo (only a select few can get away with it) A L I A S E S Malu Vass Offical @MadMalu @MadMalu A G E 16 || February 16th G E N D E R Cisgender female S E X U A L I T Y Bisexual (slight female lean) - Malu isn't against dating boys, but boys are dumb and she likes the gentle touch some girls bring to the table. C U R R E N T C I T Y High school is set in the LA School District, so.. the choice is yours as long as it fits in that area! E T H N I C I T Y Native Hawaiian, ScotIrish, Chinese, and Japanese _______________________________________ A P P E R A N C E Height: 5’5” Weight: 130lbs/59kg Hair: Dark Brown || silky to the touch, mid-back length Eyes: Dark Brown Body Type: Petite Body Marks: She has several piercings along her head: earlobe, nose, eyebrows, and tongue Clothing Style: Like her brother, Malu is a creature of comfort. Baggy clothes from oversized jeans, windbreaker jackets and pants to oversized sweatshirts and shirts, Malu embodies everything one might expect from a SoCal skater girl. She prefers vans over all other skater shoe brands. She typically has a plethora of hats as well: knit caps, actual hats, bandanas tied over her head. She also fashions herself a fan of big loop earrings and piercings as she has several. She usually fashions her hair naturally and tied up with anything really: clips, hairties, etc. _______________________________________ R E L A T I O N S H I P S T A T U S Recently Single (long story) Crushes . . . Flings . . . Past Relationships . . . F A M I L Y father: ∞ Akoni Kahale Vass || 55 || Retired Surfer/Owner of VassWear, a successful surfing apparel and equipment brand || FC: Keanu Reeves mother: ∞ Mitsuki "Suki" Vass (nee. Watanabe) || 54 || Retired Skater; now a consultant for skating games such as Skate and Skater XL || FC: Tomita Tamlyn older brother: ∞ Skylar Aolani Vass || 17|| Senior at Delbrook Academy; ametuer surfer and full-time dumbass || FC: Booboo Stewart P E T S ∞ Rocky (4 years old male) - Male Black Lab || Lola (4 and a half years old ) - Female White Lab ∞ Hawk (3 years old) - Male Saint Benard _______________________________________ H O M E S W E E T H O M E House Room _______________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________ L I K E S ✔ Going to any skatepark to unwind. ✔ #winning - Like her older brother, Malu loves to win, but her version of winning is more about acing her tests and getting the top marks and, during decathelon season, when the Delbrook team wins, she feels vindicated beyond belief ✔ Bizarre food combos - the odder the better. Malu's tastebuds aren't like most, so naturally things like peanut butter ramen and flaming hot cheetos-crusted grilled cheese hits the spot ✔ When she’s trying to focus, Malu puts her beats headphones on and blasts some hardcore gangsta rap. Anything from Pac, Biggie, P-Diddy, and NWA focuses her mind.. ✔ Malu's a nerd and she isn't shy about it (but doesn't broadcast it), so naturally she watches a lot of anime and superhero fiction, reads comicbooks, and, though video games aren't always her forte, sometimes you can catch her playing Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts with the occasional MOBA if she has the time D I S L I K E S ✘ #losing - like her brother, Malu doesn’t like losing, either. It infuriates her to no end. ✘ Being late to school. Her perfect attendance record is kind of important to her and usually whenever her brother has it in his hands, she grows increasingly annoyed with him. ✘ Limes - from the color to its sour taste, Malu just doesn’t vibe with it. She much prefers the tanginess of a grapefruit or a lemon vs gross limes. ✘ Her brother’s annoying habits of “going witht he flow”. As someone who is pretty anal about punctuionality, Malu can’t handle it sometimes. ✘ Know-it-alls who don’t actually know it all. Malu knows her shit but she doesn’t brag; she shows it. Those who brag probably are compensating for something. ____________________________________________________________________________ P E R S O N A L I T Y Intelligent → observant → analytical → passionate → ambitious/ambitchous → arrogant → self-critical → stubborn → has a volcanic temper ____________________________________________________________________________ Malu is the exact opposite of her brother. While both are loud in their own right and have a certain energy to them that makes it undoubtable they are related, Malu's energy is less chaotic than Kyle's; she has a focus. She is an amateur skater, but that is not what she devotes most of her time to. Even though part of her heart is with it, academics is where she feels her soul pulling her towards. She has a bright mind and using that, she has devoted herself to her studies. She's observant and has comprehension skills that far outclass most of the members of her family. With AP classes making up most of her class schedule, she proves that she has the drive to succeed. But sometimes this means Malu is too driven. She has the tendency to never give up and while that's normally a positive thing, she does it obsessively and may even put everything in her rear-view mirror as she tries to accomplish whatever her mind has convinced to put her all into. Malu is someone who will also go to bat for those closest to her. Unlike her brother who tries to go more diplomatic or get everyone to chill, Malu is a fighter. If she has a problem with you or you cause one for her, she won't hesitate to show you why they dub her "Mad Malu". And as a lover, she's equally as passionate, but she gets jealous easy. Or at least it is assumed. Truth be told, Malu hasn't actually had a girlfriend or boyfriend mainly due to her obsessive nature of devoting everything to her schoolwork. ____________________________________________________________________________ B I O G R A P H Y There is a love story that holds a lot of importance in the Skating and Surfing worlds. Two cultures that have often been associated with each other, yet both have significantly different vibes (as the kids say). Surfers are laid back and relaxed. They are very much “go with the flow”, as is the requirement of their sport. Meanwhile, skaters are rowdier. They live by a “live free or die trying” creed. They are rebellious and not always law-abiding. They are rough around the edges and usually come from broken homes. Their aggression takes form in the music often associated with them. And their tricks are flashy. Very much a “high risk and high reward” style. And yet if you really think about it, they aren’t all that different. That’s what brings us to how these two collide and why it is so relevant to Skyler and Malina Vass. IT is because their parents comes from both worlds. And much like their parents, they followed in the same footsteps. In the shadow of Akoni Vass, Skyler found a love in the freedom and the relaxed vibes that the ocean gave him, while Malina, who was very much like her mother, Mitsuki Watanabe. Aggressive, graceful, and full of attitude. And the story of how Akoni and Mitsuki met is something of a romantic tale that goes back nearly thirty years. Akoni, a native to the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, came from a long line of Big Wave Surfers. And he was a gifted one at that. At just twenty years old, he was in the surfing finals in 1985. It was him and an Australian by the name of Jason Dust (clearly not his real name but that’s what everyone called him). He got the name in how he always left everyone in his dust and won every competition he paritipated in. And this one was no different. While he lost in the competition, it was after that a nineteen year old Japanese girl came up to him. She introduced herself as Suki. They talked for ten minutes about how close he came and how hse was rooting for him. She said she had been following his career for a few months and how she admired his talents. And then at the luau, they talked some more. They’d spend the entire night off on their own, talking about anything and everything: their hobbies, interests, what kind of music they liked, what kind they hated, their favorite food, least favorite, and pretty much everything came up. It’s funny. They were two people who met by chance. She was visiting her grandfather who lived on the island and there she met the boy who would become the love of her life - only it wasn't at that moment. It wouldn’t be until twelve years later at the 1997 Summer X-Games that were being hosted in San Diego where he’d see Suki again. It didn’t matter that he received international success as a multiple award-winning surfer and had made a name for himself, or that so much time had gone by since he last saw her, Akoni knew her face almost immediately. And when she took gold in the Vert event by landing a 720 tailgrab and she was getting honored, he thought about all the time wasted and he rushed to the podium. Of course, security recognize dhim and in a rare moment, they let him go on stage. After several moments of letting the audience realize that Akoni Vass was in the crowd, he went straight to Suki, knowing full well she knew who he was (or so he hoped) and he stumbled through his words only to say “frick it” into the microphone and got down on one knee. “We haven’t seen each other in so many years, but I never forgot you. Suki, marry me babe!” And she didn’t hesitate to say yes. On the day where, until five minutes before seeing Akoni, her biggest thought was how happy she was about all of her hard work paying off. But after it all, now she was engaged to the person she’d spend the following 20+ years with and have two amazing children with. And no matter how many times the story gets told in their household, both Kyle and Malu never seem to be able to fake their smile. It is more than just a nice, romantic tale about how two people who didn’t think they’d ever see each other again end up not only finding their way back to each other, but carpe diem life. It’s about how all the success in the world never fill the void of true happiness. But one big takeaway they both have (albeit for very different reasons) is how their parents’ story, much like the old tradition, is also their legacy. But for Malu, the impact the story had on her isn't as important as what her mother did in her day. She proved everybody wrong that being a champion at the X Games wasn't just a boys club. That was something that Malu always clung to. She knew most girls her age, especially when they heard of their parents' grand love story, would hone in on the romantic aspect of her father proposing after they hadn't seen each other for so long. And yeah, maybe Malu thought that at first, but the older she grew up and more confident and sure about what she wanted out of life, the more she came to look up to her mother's groundbreaking achievements and wanting to do the same. She didn't want to be another pretty face nor did she want to be the person who would have the tagline "just like her mother did before her". She wanted to stand on her own. Yet, Malu isn't at the point yet that she knows exactly what she wants. Despite her desires, her love the sport that her mother brought up in is there. Her mother's influence is all around her in more ways than she probably realizes. She feels a pull towards the sport, but she also wants to stand on her own two feet, separated from her parents' accomplishments. She just doesn't know what she wants to do. ____________________________________________________________________________ S C H O O L I N F O G R A D E Y E A R 11th - Junior G P A & A V E R A G E 3.9 || B+ and A- average - 90/92% average E L E C T I V E C L A S S E S Trig & Physics E X T R A C U R R I C U L A R ∞ Academic Decathelon Team ∞ Occasionally tudors T R A N S P O R T A T I O N When she isn't dragged around by her idiot older brother, Malu gets around with her board P L A N S A F T E R G R A D U A T I O N Hard to say. Malu has her heart set on Harvard or Yale. Those are her dream schools, but selection is hard and acceptances are even more difficult. It's why she's putting in as many AP courses that she can get. And why she's tutoring so she can beef up her application. But then there's her skating. God only knows that if she wanted to, Malu could make it big. She has the talent, but she doesn't want to be just known for that. What should she do? Forget about getting a degree that could set her up for life so she can just be referred to as Suki 2.0? Is that really something she'd be okay with? ____________________________________________________________________________ A F T E R - S C H O O L I N F O E M P L O Y M E N T When she was a preteen, she made a good amount of money from skating competitions that she saved. Her current income is from her tutoring. Rich parents want their dumb kids to barely pass and that's where Malu comes in. F A V O R I T E P L A C E S ∞ Houghton Skatepark ∞ Long Beach Towne Center ∞ Any comic book store, especially when the new Saga and Wonder Woman is due and Comic Con when it's Comic Con season R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S ∞ Making sure she’s the top of her class, which given she’s thrown in with the seniors, it’s a lot. And Malu likes the challenge that brings. ∞ Making sure her spot on the Academic Decathelon team stays hers. ∞ Not ruining her perfect attendance, which given her main mode of transportation is her idiot brother, that proves to be more difficult than it should be. ∞ Tutoring the occasional dumbass ____________________________________________________________________________ O T H E R My favorite show of July/August was CRiminal Minds Growing up, in addition to her mother, Malu had always looked up to women who were icons like Rosa Parks, Joan Jett, Hayley Williams This isn't just limited to real life. Malu took a liking to powerful women in fiction like Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Katness Everdeen, etc An unashamed guilty pleasure of Malu's are daytime soap operas. Don't judge her, but Days of Our Lives is her favorite and has been ever since 2009. She will fight anyone that Marlena's possession storyline was actually pretty iconic. Malu isn't picky on who she tutors, but if they're a lost cause, she'll tell the parents - almost brutally When it comes to the decathlon team, she normally assumes the role of captain until someone either officially declares her the team captain or someone more qualified comes forward. She hates any kind of vinegar: distilled, red wine, balsamic -- whatever it is, she doesn't like it. Hates her full name and punches anyone who dares to call her Malina. T H E M E S O N G Got Her Own - Ariana Grande (feat. Victoria Monet) Face Claim: Fivel Stewart - | #dc413c/Crimson

Delbrook Academy High School

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____________________________________________________________________________ L I K E S ✔ The beach and everything it provides: the sun to tan, the ocean to surf and swim, the beach to play volleyball and throw frisbys, also the beach to get buried in the sand by the boys and potentially have a sandbra made in the process, and having occasional picnics where SAND WILL NOT GET CAUGHT IN THE POTATO SALAD! ✔ #winning - Kyle loves to win and hates losing. There is no worse feeling in the world to him, so he'd prefer to win if at all possible. ✔ Loco Moco - yeah, he's a walking stereotype, so you bet he adores this beloved classic from the island. Meat? Good! Rice? Good! Beef gravy with MSG and soy sauce? GOOOOOOOD! ✔ Or really any food. Kyle loves his food. Especially if it';s cheesy or with a little soy sauce on top. ✔ Not doing homework - he's not his sister. Homework makes him want to die. ✔ Hanging with the boys ✔ Mixing all sorts of sodas for a special surprise flavor ✔ 90s beach vibe, or really anything about the 90s ✔ Playing video games ✔ Trying to win big with the ladies and fellas who aren't one of the boys D I S L I K E S ✘ #losing - he isn't a sore loser or winner but he really hates the feeling of failure ✘ When the vibe is ruined - all Kyle wants to do is be all about those good vibes, but when the good vibes are ruined, it's a real bummer. ✘ Drugs that isn't weed - he gets high but he doesn't do anything stronger than that. ✘ Being told to cut his hair - yes, he understands you dumb boomer - his hair is too long. You can shut up about it already. ✘ TV series/films that require too much thought to enjoy ✘ Aggressive music - he much prefers the easy listening stuff ✘ Beer - not that Kyle doesn't enjoy his alcohol, but he's more of a wine cooler and fruity drink kind of drinker. ✘ All the "Kyle" memes - okay, maybe not all of them, but it got annoying a couple of years ago when all everyone wanted was for him to punch some drywall. ✘ Spicy food - he does like the hot stuff and definitely doesn't like it when it gives him the shits from hell ✘ Wasting time - not so much because he's impatient but Kyle doesn't want to waste time beating around the bush. Rip off the bandaid! ✘ Spiders - they scare the heeby-jeebies out of him ____________________________________________________________________________ P E R S O N A L I T Y Adventurous → confident → energetic → hyptastic → super friendly → optimistic →motivated to win → creative → tenacious → stubborn → oblivious → foolhardy → thick-headed ____________________________________________________________________________ Being the thrill-seeker that he is, Kyle approaches every new obstacle that comes his way with the mindset of someone optimistic about success but accepting that he might stumble. He believes that if you don't try, then you won't know what'll happen. Rejection is always something that life will throw at you, but in his sometimes-humble opinion, Kyle has always tried to keep a level head if he failed. Of course, there are moments when his emotions get the better of him. He might flip out, fall into a "mood" that will take him out of commission for a while, but eventually, he'll come back swinging harder than ever. Kyle believes in never staying down. Whatever he did wrong before won't happen again because he'll tackle that obstacle from a different approach. Whether it's mastering a new trick, making friends, wooing the hot person that caught his attention, or trying to figure out the monster that is Algebra, Kyle never gives up. Even in his down periods, in the back of his mind, he knows he has to face what nearly destroyed him. Remember, what doesn't kills you truly makes you stronger. His eyes being open to adventure and trying new things also extends to befriending someone who might be his polar opposite. Sometimes he isn't met with the most positive reaction due to his ability to come off as obnoxious and simpleminded (not his words, but it's been said in the past to his face) - but he always means well. In both friendship and romance, Kyle only has the best intentions at heart. As overbearing as he might be and as annoying others might find him (ask his younger sister), Kyle will persist. He's tenacious like that. Sometimes, however, Kyle is oblivious to what others want. Or more like he'll be so lost in his own head, believe that the best thing for him is to succeed after he has failed, that he'll lose sight of something even more valuable. In his mind, losing often doesn't come into play unless all options have been explored. Sometimes Kyle doesn't acknowledge that some things weren't meant for him to succeed. And that's really the worst thing about him. A special kind of stubbornness that takes form in his dedication to win. ____________________________________________________________________________ B I O G R A P H Y There is a love story that holds a lot of importance in the Skating and Surfing worlds. Two cultures that have often been associated with each other, yet both have significantly different vibes (as the kids say). Surfers are laid back and relaxed. They are very much “go with the flow”, as is the requirement of their sport. Meanwhile, skaters are rowdier. They live by a “live free or die trying” creed. They are rebellious and not always law-abiding. They are rough around the edges and usually come from broken homes. Their aggression takes form int he music often associated witht hem. And their tricks are flashy. Very much a “high risk and high reward” style. And yet if you really think about it, they aren’t all that different. That’s what brings us to how these two collide and why it is so relevant to Skyler and Malina Vass. IT is because their parents comes from both worlds. And much like their parents, they followed in the same footsteps. In the shadow of Akoni Vass, Skyler found a love in the freedom and the relaxed vibes that the ocean gave him, while Malina, who was very much like her mother, Mitsuki Watanabe. Aggressive, graceful, and full of attitude. And the story of how Akoni and Mitsuki met is something of a romantic tale that goes back nearly thirty years. Akoni, a native to the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, came from a long line of Big Wave Surfers. And he was a gifted one at that. At just twenty years old, he was in the surfing finals in 1985. It was him and an Australian by the name of Jason Dust (clearly not his real name but that’s what everyone called him). He got the name in how he always left everyone in his dust and won every competition he paritipated in. And this one was no different. While he lost in the competition, it was after that a nineteen year old Japanese girl came up to him. She introduced herself as Suki. They talked for ten minutes about how close he came and how hse was rooting for him. She said she had been following his career for a few months and how she admired his talents. And then at the luau, they talked some more. They’d spend the entire night off on their own, talking about anything and everything: their hobbies, interests, what kind of music they liked, what kind they hated, their favorite food, least favorite, and pretty much everything came up. It’s funny. They were two people who met by chance. She was visiting her grandfather who lived on the island and there she met the boy who would become the love of her life - only it wasn't at that moment. It wouldn’t be until twelve years later at the 1997 Summer X-Games that were being hosted in San Diego where he’d see Suki again. It didn’t matter that he received international success as a multiple award-winning surfer and had made a name for himself, or that so much time had gone by since he last saw her, Akoni knew her face almost immediately. And when she took gold in the Vert event by landing a 720 tailgrab and she was getting honored, he thought about all the time wasted and he rushed to the podium. Of course, security recognize dhim and in a rare moment, they let him go on stage. After several moments of letting the audience realize that Akoni Vass was in the crowd, he went straight to Suki, knowing full well she knew who he was (or so he hoped) and he stumbled through his words only to say “frick it” into the microphone and got down on one knee. “We haven’t seen each other in so many years, but I never forgot you. Suki, marry me babe!” And she didn’t hesitate to say yes. On the day where, until five minutes before seeing Akoni, her biggest thought was how happy she was about all of her hard work paying off. But after it all, now she was engaged to the person she’d spend the following 20+ years with and have two amazing children with. And no matter how many times the story gets told in their household, both Kyle and Malu never seem to be able to fake their smile. It is more than just a nice, romantic tale about how two people who didn’t think they’d ever see each other again end up not only finding their way back to each other, but carpe diem life. It’s about how all the success in the world never fill the void of true happiness. But one big takeaway they both have (albeit for very different reasons) is how their parents’ story, much like the old tradition, is also their legacy. For Kyle, he has always saw it as inspiration. The hope that you might not always succeed, but never giving up has stuck with Kyle all his life. Not only does he take after his father in the passion he followed, but many who have seen them together have said that they are alike in so many ways: their thrill for adventure, love for Hawaiian classics like dry seaweed and loco moco, and the completely approachable personality. But the biggest thing that they are often compared to each other for is their ability to piss off the women in their lives. Kyle is young, so he doesn’t know better, but Akoni is almost fifty, so you’d think he wouldn’t be a literal manchild, yet he constantly proves this whenever he and his boy decide to go on one of their spending spree at whatever toy store they can find. But you can’t say that they don’t make things interesting for whoever is waiting on the other end of one of their wild adventures. ____________________________________________________________________________ S C H O O L I N F O G R A D E Y E A R 12th - Senior G P A & A V E R A G E 2.9 || C+ average with your occasional B and rare A E L E C T I V E C L A S S E S Yoga & Acrobatics E X T R A C U R R I C U L A R ∞ Surfing (for Delbrook) in the spring; otherwise, he does it as a passion. T R A N S P O R T A T I O N Kyle drives a dark blue 2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 P L A N S A F T E R G R A D U A T I O N As if it wasn't obvious, Kyle wants to go pro. As in be like his father was at his age and go pro in Surfing. It's his biggest passion and, even though he might be the captain of DA's surfing team, it's not enough. At the end of the school year -- spring season, to be specific -- he won't be the captain anymore. So Kyle hopes this last year will open doors for him. He hopes that he'll make it big and really get off to the right foot. If not, then there's always being like Mr. Beast and becoming the biggest stunt Youtuber the site has ever seen. That'd be fun, right? ____________________________________________________________________________ A F T E R - S C H O O L I N F O E M P L O Y M E N T Due to his surfing and acrobatic stunts and how-to videos on Youtube, Kyle makes anywhere from 1k to 7.5k dollars per month due to the consistent sponsorships he gets from companies such as Raid: Shadow Legends and SquareSpace. F A V O R I T E P L A C E S ∞ Really any beach, but he has a preference for Hunnington Beach ∞ Abalone Cove Shoreline Park (for cliff jumping) ∞ Driving along the SoCal coastline during sunset and sunrises ∞ Finding any hidden dives to chow down at after a hard day of surfing R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S ∞ Captain of the Surfing Team #GoRisingTides ∞ Does being chill and awesome count? No, then probably making sure his sister doesn't get into trouble ∞ Managing his social media accounts and making sure he keeps his presence on them consistent ∞ He pays for his own phone bill and car insurance and he has been on time with them for most of the time. ____________________________________________________________________________ O T H E R Kyle has a solid presence on social media where he and his friends perform various stunts Kyle is technically diagnosed with ADHD, but neither of his parents got him treated for it due to neither of them believing in the label, so instead, Kyle channels his energy into his various hobbies and his parents allow him the freedom that comes with it Kyle has a severe addiction to energy drinks but with a strong affiliation towards Bang Energy! Because of his presence on not only the surfer scene, but social media, Kyle is sponsored by Vans, Bang Energy, and Raid: Shadow Legends T H E M E S O N G Gimme That Sunshine - Animal Island Face Claim: Booboo Stewart - | #7fffd4/Aquamarine