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Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Yakuza: Like A Dragon has more effort put into its dumb go-kart minigame than some open world games put into their entire bloat design.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

(Won't touch another Blizzard/Activision title myself. Regardless of quality.)

@SleepingSilence

Fortunately their quality has been going off a cliff even BEFORE this lawsuit!

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Finally been able to play it now that I have the means to do so on a good machine so I can safely say that Doom Eternal fucks.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Since the first one I guess is closed for inactivity, might as well bring it back because I have some hot takes that need to sizzle. So let's keep it civil and talk about video games as we so often do.

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Alright so.

Maybe it's because I think the best one is 6 or maybe it's because I think the series should stop trying to run away from what it actually is but I thought Resident Evil Village was fucking trash. Okay that's a bit harsh, but it's a game that at every turn is full of baffling decisions and choices be it narratively or structurally or from an encounter and gameplay perspective. The game makes it seem like it's some kind of Metroidvania meets Souls-like in terms of progression, to the point where after the first part they literally mark your map with the remaining places you have to go to as if you'll be able to tackle them in any order you want. You know, like a video game. But in fact this is not the case as you're railroaded to take them out in a specific order because the game is actually super fucking linear to a fault.

The 'hub' area isn't even as open as it tricks you into thinking because they find new ways to block paths and make you go around or funnel around a specific path so even if you have the key that opens a door now you can't get to it until later anyway because oh no there's a truck in the way or whatever bullshit. And that sense of disappointment in the exploration is in every inch of the game. The first real 'area' tricks you into thinking it's some kind of exploration puzzle solving thing but it's not. There's only ever one way to go because doors are locked and it's hugely scripted and by the time you theoretically could explore everywhere, you already have anyway so there's no real point to go and find if you missed anything because chances are what you missed is shotgun ammo which is in high supply anyway because of the crafting and how the game shits ammo and materials to make ammo at you (because it's an action game lying about being survival horror).

The reason so much of the marketing seemed to focus on Tall Lady is because she's one of two characters that have anything resembling a personality, and no I don't mean personality with a wink and a nod. There are Five Antagonists and only two of them matter, largely because they're the only two that have genuine presence in the story and the areas they inhabit. As a game it feels like it wanted to recapture the lightning that Resident Evil 4 had when it came out and became a landmark title in the genre except the only part of RE4 it gets accurate is the fucking cheese.

The story is bad, even by RE standards, and thinking about it for more than a minute makes the whole thing fall apart. But there are parts where the game embraces the bullshit dumb parts of Resident Evil and it's in those moments where the game actually becomes enjoyable. Alas they are brief but I'll take brief moments of good where I can get them. The first person thing was a novel idea but I desperately hope they go back to third person for RE9; I also hope they stop trying to make it scary and just make it crazy but thye have to pretend I guess, but in a franchise where every enemy becomes a dumb goo monster and parasites give people superpowers and they give you big guns and plenty of ammo how can they keep acting like it's a survival horror game and not just an action game with horror elements. They even seem to realize this because the one part that most resembles what a survival horror game is they take away all your items and it's genuinely a highlight but also feels incredibly out of place with the rest of the game.

I really think Village is a bad game. But hey it's got hot evil people so that's all that matters.

So what've ya'll been playing in the hell that is our day to day existence?

Paramount

Erika Morales

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F O R T H E R E C O R D

| | N I C K N A M E (S) | |

• Vileplume
• Puzzle Buddy (Only one person gets to call her either of those names)
• Some of her buddies have called her E-Mo. Because Erika MOrales

| | A G E | |

16. April 24. She was so close.

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Female

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Lesbian

| | R E L A T I O N S H I P S T A T U S | |

Taken by her little warrior goddess. Cuz her name's Athena.

| | O C C U P A T I O N | |

She wasn't volunteered, it was mandatory, but she is a 'sanitation volunteer'. Basically she helps the custodian clean shit but mostly she uses the custodian's office as a place to get high because, turns out, many custodians at Marble Heights really fuckin' love getting high to Pink Floyd and Erika can fuck with that.

| | C L A S S I F I C A T I O N | |

Junior

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A T F I R S T G L A N C E

| | I N D E P T H A P P E A R A N C E | |

Erika is biracial though she favors her mother in many ways, except for her facial features which come from her father. Her skin has a natural tan to it which gives off an ‘exotic’ vibe even if the only thing exotic about her is the Chinese food she had for dinner a week ago. Her hair is medium length, black as night, with slightly bushy eyebrows to match. She’s a bit self conscious about her nose, she thinks it’s a bit too big for her face, though she’s got nothing but love for her lips which, while a but on the puffy side, have a tendency to make it look like she’s a bit out of it even when she’s intently focusing.

When it comes to style, outside of the uniform which she totally dislikes on her but loves it on her girlfriend because it shows off those athlete's legs, Erika likes wearing sleeveless tops and a jacket she got at military surplus along with jeans that are tight enough to show off the effects of her 'I really like onion rings, milkshakes, cheese sticks, and cheeseburgers' diet but loose enough to be comfortable and also allow Athena to put her hand in the ass pocket as they walk together. Cheese isn't limited to her diet, clearly. Some people wonder if she's able to fully close her mouth, but he always has that slightly open, eyes glazed look of confusion about her and that stays even when she isn't under the influence. But Athena has seen Erika smile and she swears it's as cute as her nose, which is about the only way Erika blushes.

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Before crossing the streams and getting in with some athletic types by proxy, Erika was known as one of the stoner kids which wasn't even an inaccurate statement. Erika does not hide the fact that before she updated her relationship status that the only thing she loved more than extra cheese pizza was getting high. And NASCAR. For some reason Erika loves NASCAR even when she isn't high off her ass. She didn't really have much of a profile other than the fact that she's one of the few students whose admittance at Marble Heights is contingent on her working on campus, something she had no control over but if she doesn't fill out an hours sheet every month then she's in danger of getting kicked out which really sucks because she kinda likes it here most days.

Things changed for Erika just prior to summer break. Her entire sophomore year Erika would tell her buddies that she thought Athena Snyder was cute and after a whole school year of this, the stars aligned and Erika and pals were high at a soccer match which just so happened to be the sport Athena played. Erika was dared to ask Athena out and all her friends assumed she wouldn't do it. Erika didn't even wait for the end of the match, she walked over to where the other players were on the side, blended in, then when Athena was doing a throw-in, Erika stood next to her, asked her out, and walked away without an answer. After the game Athena came over to the stands and just said "Sure". They've been dating ever since.

Now Erika gets the best of two worlds. She gets to have her burner buddies and she gets to hang with the sporty types, but she really only cares about one athlete and it's the one she does jigsaws with and crosswords before class. Her Puzzle Buddy. Some of her friends think she's gone lame now, but screw them, Erika's happy and gets to see and touch her crush's breasts when they make out so they're the lame ones.

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Erika isn't at Marble Heights by choice. Really, when she first heard she was being sent to private school because her mom caught her smoking weed in the bathroom - for the third time after saying before it was just the one time - Erika thought she was in for the worst time. She assumed private school kids were, like, gossipy bitchy totally judgey rich kids. And she was right, but some of them also know how to score some good weed so it evens out. Erika's mom, Mariella, is kind of a huge bitch - her friend call her a Omega Karen but Erika assumed Karen's had to be blondes even though the label applies - and is why Erika has to do janitorial work because Marble Heights is supposed to both punish her and get her to stop smoking.

So far it's done neither of those things and Erika is doing better socially in Marble Heights than she was in public school so her mom kinda fucked up.

Other than the whole 'weed thing', Erika had a fairly normal home life. She got a bass guitar for her thirteenth birthday. She loves her abuela, and she never missed a chance to order mozzarella sticks. Sure, she doesn't really have a clear idea for her future but she's also sixteen and who at sixteen knew what they wanted other than to do things that were only cool because they had the 'underage' description before it. Drinking's not cool but underage drinking? Fuck yeah. Erika still doesn't know what she's going to do after high school, but she hopes it's with Athena; her friends tell her that high school romances rarely last but she tells them to stop ruining her vibes and they tell her to stop talking about her girlfriend all the time and then she apologizes and they do too and it's a good system they have.

Erika doesn't know where she's going in life, but for now she just wants to have a good time and do puzzles with her Buddy.

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Erika might not have the greatest grades but she's really fucking good at riddles and word scrambles and various puzzles like that. It only makes sense given her hobbies but it surprises people damn near every time she manages to surprise them with her thinking skills. Erika thinks she would be the fucking bomb at escape rooms and she really wants to do one.

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A C A D E M I C S

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• Cheerleader for one and only one athlete. Not even on the cheerleading team but she's the loudest supporter of Adriana 'Athena' Snyder in the whole damn school.

| | B E S T & W O R S T S U B J E C T S | |

| B E S T |
Study Hall; Math

| W O R S T |
History

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Her social media handle used to be 'GroovyGooey' but she has since changed it to 'PB_VileplumE'

Annabelle Ashford

_{(FC: Jennette McCurdy, Dialogue Color: 4DCD32)}
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F O R T H E R E C O R D

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• Dancing Queen (cuz A.B.A. is her initials and that sounds like ABBA and she went through a phase as a kid where she listened to that song every day. She still likes it)
• Flower Girl

| | A G E | |

15. December 5th

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Female

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Anything and Everyone

| | R E L A T I O N S H I P S T A T U S | |

Single

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Technically speaking, Annabelle is a tutor but so far no one has really taken her up on the offer to tutor them, so she mostly hangs out at the library during tutoring hours and draws in her sketchbooks. It's a pretty good system.

| | C L A S S I F I C A T I O N | |

Sophomore

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A T F I R S T G L A N C E

| | I N D E P T H A P P E A R A N C E | |

There's a song Annabelle heard as a kid on an oldies playlist with the lyrics 'If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair' and she took that personally. One of the first things people might notice about Annabelle is the fact that she does indeed wear flowers in her hair. Every day a different flower is in her hair, not like a floral crown or like something on her ear, but like a flower on her hair like a hairclip. It's sort of become her identifying trait, if the blonde hair, long legs due to her being six foot even, and eternal smile on her face didn't also apply. Annabelle always seems to be in a good mood, either that or she just has an aura of optimism to her, which is fitting given her mother.

Annabelle doesn't really have any other quirks with her style, when it's casual day she tends to wear regular clothes, jeans and the like, though if she's not going to have a busy day she'll just as easily pick a sundress because those make it easy and comfy to just lay on the grass and let the day roll by. It's really the flower thing that is most identifiable about Annabelle. That is, of course, for those who only know her by sight and not by her notorious quirk that explains just why no one wants to get tutored by her.

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Annabelle is an artist. So to speak. She draws. A lot. She likes to draw animals and flowers and landscapes but struggles to draw people unless they're in her unique, cartoony style. A childhood spent watching Disney movies will do that. Most days, Annabelle can be found between classes just hanging out in the grass. If she isn't sitting on the grass and drawing something, she is laying on the grass looking up at the sky which would be weird if it hadn't just become...the thing she did. In class she rarely seems to pay attention, instead doodling or looking out the window which makes people assume that she's not the brightest bulb in the box and it's their right to think that, she doesn't exactly act like someone who is in the top ten academically not just in her year but within the entire current student body. But she is.

Annabelle is smart. Like smart enough to the point where she doesn't pay attention much in class because it's not really much of a challenge for her and the way schools are taught via repetition, as soon as the teacher explains it once she's pretty much got it down pat. She doesn't brag or act like a smug intellectual because those people are just meanie bullies except they're mental bullies and not physical bullies and in some ways mental bullies are worse bullies. What Annabelle also doesn't do is contribute much in class but that's because teachers found out the hard way what happens when Annabelle is called on.

The reason no one wants to be tutored by Annabelle, apart from them maybe not knowing that she's smart, is the way she talks. While her mother only ever had ONE VOLUME AND IT WAS THIS IT WAS LOUD IT WAS ALWAYS LOUD NO MATTER WHAT, Annabelle has her own verbal quirk. She doesn't talk loudly but she does talk likethisshetalksreallyfastanditssofastthatitsreallyhardtounderstandwhatshessayingmostofthetimeespeciallybecauseshehasahabitofgoingoffontangetsthatarentrelatedtothetopicathandlikeonetimeshewasaskedaquestionabouthistorysomethingaboutawarorsomethingandannabelletookfiveminutestoanswerbecauseratherthanjustsayingtheanswerofarchdukefranzferdinandshestartedtalkingaboutotherthingsbutdideventuallysaytherightanswerbutbythatpointeveryonewasexhaustedandjustwantinghertopleasestoptalking.

It's no wonder she mostly keeps to herself. But she's happy. At least she seems to be. People look at her smile but don't see her eyes screaming for friendship.

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O F F T H E R E C O R D

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Annabelle is the only daughter of Batman and Catwoman. Those are the names she gives her parents because her dad, Brian Helmsley, is really really smart and her mom, Parker Ashford, runs an exotic petting zoo that has many cats like tigers. There was an article about her mom once that called her 'The REAL Tiger Queen' with a byline of 'And this one didn't feed her husband to a tiger!' and that's all it took for Annabelle to call her mom Catwoman. There's often confusion as to why Annabelle goes by Ashford and not Helmsley and people assume divorce but, no, her parents are happily married and Parker Ashford is Parker Helmsley now. The answer is simple: Annabelle Ashford sounds way better than Annabelle Helmsley. Seriously. Try it. Which one rolls off the tongue better. Annabelle thought so too so she goes by Annabelle Ashford. Simple.

Technically speaking her name is Anna and her middle name is Belle, named so because her mother is a huge (well, not huge, she's only 4'11") fan of Disney princesses and cartoons and couldn't decide between Anna or Belle and went with both. Annabelle decided to just use both names because Annabelle sounds a lot nicer than just Anna. Her parents decided it might be best to put Annabelle in private education because the public school system is kind of a joke and for someone like Annabelle she might not exactly fit in, not because of her brains but because of her other quirks and a private school environment would allow her to theoretically be around people with a bit more decorum. That's the funny thing about theories though, they often are completely wrong.

No one really knows how to approach Annabelle in any way because of her dreamy, grass laying, flower wearing self combined with her rapid fire, tangent ranting method of speaking, so she mostly just sticks to specfic locations. Classroom, food, grass, library, dorm room. It's a pretty good system. Maybe she'll branch out or maybe people will finally put up with her enough to hang out. Either way, Annabelle at least has understanding parents to come home to.

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Her first roommate freaked out when she saw Annabelle in what has become known as 'The Trance' which is when Annabelle listens to electronic music loudly in her headphones while focusing so intently on her studying or homework or drawing or anything to the point where the only way to get her to snap out of it is to physically remove her from her chair. Sometimes it's just best to let her finish, even if that can take hours on end.

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A C A D E M I C S

| | E X T R A C U R R I C U L A R A C T I V I T I E S | |

• Tutor

| | B E S T & W O R S T S U B J E C T S | |

| B E S T |
Academic Classes

| W O R S T |
Physical Education. She would rather sit on the grass than run the mile. Also it's fucked up that kids get graded for gym.

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Annabelle's favorite food is french fries. She loves french fries and will have them with as many meals as possible. She's gone on record as saying that if anyone wants her to do their homework for them all she asks is they pay her in french fries because, quote "IhavemoneyIdontneedmoneywhywouldIneedmoneyjustpaymeinfriesIlikefriesandhavemoreuseforthemthanIdomoney" and there was more but she was cut off by some golden sticks of slightly salted delight. She'll even eat steak fries, she doesn't care as long as they are crispy on the outside and oh so fluffy on the inside.

Elf

_{(FC: taicho07789 / nanaha0703778, Dialogue Color: 10CFB4)}
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F O R T H E R E C O R D

| | N I C K N A M E (S) | |

• 'That Weird Girl'

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In elven years she has seen the history of man unfold since what seems like an eternity
In human years she's soon to be 17.

| | G E N D E R | |

Elves are androgynous most times but for the sake of it she identifies as a female of her species. Her species being elf.

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A true elf is attracted not to specific gender but to the individual regardless.

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Waiting for the Return of her King. Or Queen. Or whatever.

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She's earned some money from YouTube revenue but not enough to call it an occupation.

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Junior

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A T F I R S T G L A N C E

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If elves were real, and to Elf they certainly are, then they might indeed look like Elf. Her eyes are quite 'elven' which is a nice way of saying that they are wide and open and bright but it's not just her 'elven eyes' it is, in fact, her ears as well. Her ears are elven by way of being larger than average and they have a slight point to them that she claims isn't due to surgery or cosmetics but natural as a result of her heritage. It's the rest of her body that doesn't match the elven nature of her face. Elves are known to be rather lithe and often tall but Elf is on the shorter side and is rather...top heavy, to put it nicely, which clashes with the petite limber stereotype that fantasy elves so often have. And by 'on the shorter side' Elf is barely 5' even.

Elf at a glance just looks soft from her hair that sometimes looks like candy with to her aforementioned generous front section, and her arms, legs, and torso just look soft to the touch. Elf might be an elf but she's not the kind of elf who lives in trees and seems more like an elf who enjoys the sweet side of humanity by way of cakes with berries on top. As an example.

Casually, Elf likes sweaters and long sleeve clothes or one piece knee length dresses or baggy shirts that are three sizes too big and cover her from neck to knee. But always she wears sleeves. It's an Elf thing, as she says it.

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Every class has that 'weird person' that doesn't really contribute much but is kind of memorable because of being weird and that's Elf. Elf makes Ally Sheedy's character in The Breakfast Club seem totally fine and normal, actually. Elf often does what is dubbed as 'fish mouthing' in class which is where makes a little 'pop pop pop pop pop' sound with her mouth by making a puckered 'o' and smacking her lips together it is, often, very distracting but she does it anyway. If that wasn't weird enough, at random times she'll just stop, pull out her phone, and move it around like its a metal detector. Elf could be walking to class, stop, pull out her phone, and suddenly be late to class by ten minutes with the only excuse of "I couldn't let it escape" with no explanation for what 'it' was. That's just how Elf is.

Yes, her name seems to actually be Elf. Teachers call her Elf. It's on her student and state I.D.. Elf is her name and elf is her reputation. She's a weirdo and some people think that makes her cool and some people think that makes her, well, a fucking weirdo. When she isn't making fish noises or finding 'it', she is reading fantasy novels. She's read Lord of the Rings enough times to be able to list the chapters in order and she can quote the movies damn near verbatim. Not the Hobbit movies, though, she didn't really like them.

Elf is Elf and people's opinion on her depends entirely on how they take that factual statement. Elf is...Elf.

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O F F T H E R E C O R D

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Elf came to Marble Heights to get a better understanding of how humans interact. There's been whispers among her clan of potential integration between elf and man and Elf was selected to be something of a scout, something of an emissary. Because of her uniqueness even among her own people, if Elf can get along with the humans then surely cohabitation is possible. Elf has to swear not to use any elven magicks in the presence of humans; it's kind of like Harry Potter rules in that way or something. She never read those books, they're bad fantasy stories and the elves are not elven at all and also the author seems kinda like a bad human.

Elf doesn't really talk about her clan because she says it's forbidden to talk about the elven world to humans right now, but she has let slip that she's not from this particular area and comes from a more rural place with more trees, but that doesn't really narrow it down. She's never been among the clouds because 'Elves do not fly' but heat doesn't seem to bother her since she wears sweaters and long sleeves even in the warmer west coast weather. To know Elf's history is an ordeal and sometimes she'll start talking about it but it's very clearly the story of Legolas or Arwen or something that is clearly from Warhammer or Warcraft or some other property involving elves.

Elf is Elf and that extends to her history.

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Unbeknownst to her classmates, or maybe some do if they're keen and savvy, Elf has an ear for music and specifically making her own songs or remixing others. The 'it' that she can't let escape is sounds. Not like instruments, but the sound of life. A car speeding down the street, the hum of electric displays, footsteps marching in an irregular beat, the sounds of life. Of living. Many of her custom mixes are her taking those sounds she records in her daily life and turning them into beats and melodies. She specializes in turning life into music. If she isn't reading fantasy novels, chances are she's either getting sounds or making mixes, remixes and music. She'd very much like to d.j. school events but so far they deny her because she's not in a band or anything. It sucks but sometimes humans just don't understand. Still, Elf loves music and is always hearing the rhythm in every day life. Even conversations can be quite sonically pleasing. It just takes the right ear and Elf certainly has experience there.

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A C A D E M I C S

| | E X T R A C U R R I C U L A R A C T I V I T I E S | |

• N/A

| | B E S T & W O R S T S U B J E C T S | |

| B E S T |
Music
European History
Literature

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Math
Science

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Her social media handle is 'ElfOnDeck' and on her YouTube and Soundcloud she posts her mixes and remixes. She doesn't care about view count, so long as at least one person hears it she's happy.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

I hope whoever designed the cairn stone activity in Assassin's Creed Valhalla never has a good night's sleep for the rest of their fucking life

Paramount

Posting them here first before moving them to the characters tab just cuz

Evie Green

_{(FC: Danielle Etc, Dialogue Color: 7E24BC)}
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F O R T H E R E C O R D

| | N I C K N A M E (S) | |

• Princess
• 'That Bitch'
• E
• Queenie/Queen E

| | A G E | |

Sixteen. May 4th

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Female

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Have genitals, will smash provided said genital owner is hot enough to not be embarrassed by. Exceptions made for football players. No, not that football. The actual one played on a pitch with goalkeepers.

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Single by choice, relationships are for status, love is not on the mind when lust is on the table.

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Evie has a palladium card, she doesn't have to work.

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Incoming Junior

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A T F I R S T G L A N C E

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Evie does not at all hide any part of her features, be it from tops that show off her stomach and her chest, jeans that accentuate the hips, or skirts for when she feels like showing off her legs, every bit of Evie is tailored to get heads turning - and that's before she even gets to accessories. Her preferred hairstyle is long and wavy though if she's feeling particularly fun she'll adopt more playful, 'cute' styles like pigtails or a ponytail, it really depends on the outfit. Really, the only difference between 'sexy' and 'cute' or 'sexy-cute' comes down to how Evie styles her hair because in her esteemed estimation there is not a combination of clothing on earth that she looks ugly in. It might be vanity, or it might be the millions of social media followers who can't help but to comment on even casual selfies with their heart eyes and lascivious comments. When it comes to uniforms, she fully intends on making sure she does her precursors proud. Her precursors being 'Baby One More Time' Britney Spears, 'Don't Love You' Jenn Bocian, and 'All the Things She Said' t.A.T.u. but for that one she might need a partner in crime.

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The best thing about being a new student is that no one knows who you are. Except, of course, if you're Evie 'Project X' Green. Even if Evie wasn't arriving to MHA as punishment, the fact that she's the daughter of a 1% family would put her on the radar from moment one. And she wouldn't have it any other way. What's the point of having money and notoriety if you don't use it? Evie's reputation precedes her, she recently made the news (for the aforementioned incident leading to her punishment of a new school) but even without that she has a sizeable social media presence because she can afford to take professional quality pictures for her Instagram so even something as simple as 'sitting on the hood of a car like everyone does for casual pics' looks like something out of a photoshoot. What she isn't, though, is an influencer because influencers have no integrity and besides, Evie hasn't touched a Pepsi in her life. If all people know of her is her headlines or her social media or her family, then what they'll soon learn is Evie will stop at nothing to not only put herself at the top of any hierarchy, but also turn the student body into her own little game.

Every school needs its Queen and some queens aren't afraid to get bloody with the revolution.

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O F F T H E R E C O R D

| | H I S T O R Y | |

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand, and those people go on to wish they had the diamond spoon that Evie Green uses to eat her cereal in the morning. Evie makes no attempt to hide the fact that she's the only daughter of Henry and Min-Seo Green; Henry being the son of an already elite family and Min-Seo being the daughter of a notorious South Korean construction magnate who had a habit of buying areas and raising rent to evict tenants. That is to say, Evie comes from a dynasty family and while her mother admirably said that money wouldn't change her (it did), Evie has realized at far too young an age the two truths of her life: her father sees her as his little princess (and she, in turn, is an unashamed Daddy's Girl) and that if you have enough zeroes on the check you can get out of anything. As is all too common with the elite, Evie lacks empathy because empathy isn't something one can buy.

Her family has a rather turbulent history of sibling and familial rivalries and Evie hasn't avoided it. She's not the biggest fan of her cousin despite being heavily influenced by her Aunts. Family drama doesn't interest Evie, not when the perfect gameboard of school life exists. To her there's no better petri dish than a campus full of teenagers with loose and flexible morals. Evie sees herself both as 'above it' all and also as someone who has to be calling the shots. Influence, power, control, and all that in-between. Some people like to play at being a queen, but Evie feels it's her right simply because of the family she belongs to. Is she sociopathic? Kind of. But she's good at hiding it behind a smile and perfectly chosen words.

Evie recently made headlines when she threw an end of semester party that got so out of control that not only did it destroy an entire wing of her house (and at least two cars), but also caused a fire that, fortunately, didn't become a wildfire though not for lack of trying. The party was also her coronation to being the de facto ruler of her public school's hierarchy but much like Icarus she flew too close to the sun in thinking she was above consequences. Granted, her 'consequence' was having to go to boarding school but boarding school was basically jail with recess on the weekends.

Two months. Evie has given herself two months before she runs this new school, and if there's one principle she swears by it's that with enough money and influence she can do anything. She has money. She's already halfway there. The students of Marble Heights Academy will either get on board Team Evie or they'll get thrown to the wolves fighting for scraps when all is said and done.

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When Evie says she is an unashamed Daddy's Girl, she means it. She's close with her father more than anyone else in her life except for maybe Butler who is basically her confidant. Her dad didn't agree to sending Evie to boarding school but her mother was...persistent. From a young age, Evie and her dad have been close and they have a shared love of football. Not that one, the actual football. They play FIFA together (and Evie gets in trouble for spending money on FUT) and have gone to two World Cups. They both hate Arsenal but while her dad supports Man U, she's a 'Spurs girl.

What Evie truly wonders is if she'll ever be able to have any meaningful connections with people other than Butler. Her family and their dynamic has undoubtedly warped her perspective on relationships of every kind and she can't help but think that she'll never truly know people since she sees them as 'playthings'. Evie hates to lose but what she hates even more than that is the fear that she'll be alone if she tries to spread her wings and fly away from the Green family nest. Does she have value outside of money? She doesn't know and that terrifies her deep down.

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A C A D E M I C S

| | E X T R A C U R R I C U L A R A C T I V I T I E S | |

• None Yet.

| | B E S T & W O R S T S U B J E C T S | |

| B E S T |
History
Math

| W O R S T |
Chemistry

| | E X T R A N O T E S | |

She has a weakness for Hershey Kisses with Almonds and only the ones with Almonds. Only four people know about this little sweet tooth of hers.
Evie speaks Korean because her mother was adamant that she learn about that side of her family tree.
She has a younger brother and if anyone ever says anything bad about him then Evie will get violent. No one badmouths her baby bro
Her social media handle is 'GreenWithEvie' and she has backup accounts just because. Across Twitter and Instagram she has near 9 million followers but some of them are likely bots. She rarely follows back.

Shauna Flynn

_{(FC: Saoirse Ronan, Dialogue Color: FF6347)}
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F O R T H E R E C O R D

| | N I C K N A M E (S) | |

• The Shark (Unofficial)

| | A G E | |

17-going-on-18; October 16

| | G E N D E R | |

Female

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Lesbian

| | R E L A T I O N S H I P S T A T U S | |

It's Complicated

| | O C C U P A T I O N | |

Weekends at a women's clothing store in the city. She works the floor and helps middle aged women feel pretty.

| | C L A S S I F I C A T I O N | |

Senior

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A T F I R S T G L A N C E

| | I N D E P T H A P P E A R A N C E | |

Shauna is confident in subtle ways, from the way she walks to the way she seems so effortlessly fearless in approaching and communicating with others. Chalk it up to her theater background, but Shauna has a fierceness that matches her style, which can best be summed up as 'mid femme'. Her hair, medium length but frequently changing in cut, is light auburn in color that meshes well with her vibrant, bright green eyes. Shauna's on the taller side of the spectrum, just shy of six-one, and that height only serves to enhance her own personal sense of aesthetic. Shauna is going for a look and with her penchant for blouses, slacks, trousers, and jackets she's certainly succeeded at it. Her swagger exudes confidence, she's someone who knows what she wants and, most importantly, knows how to get it. What she wants, though, is where her nickname comes from.

If her appearance wasn't strong enough, due to her heritage she speaks with a near constant Irish brogue. She doesn't sound like some cereal leprechaun, but the cool Celtic tilt to her speaking gives a sort of worldly vibe - and that she can turn it off for acting or turn it on for a critical flirting whisper in the ear is a testament to her love of performance. She has a husk to her voice that could only be described as, well, husky; she can't help but to sound like she's always on the cusp of whispering eroticisms in someone's ear - and to her credit she often is.

| | R E P U T A T I O N | |

If there's any advice the upperclassmen give to the younger students it's simply: 'Look out for The Shark'. Shauna is very much aware of her name and how she came to have it, but she thinks its more cute than an indictment of her behavior. If Shauna wasn't The Shark, she'd probably still be known at Marble Heights as 'the cool lesbian thespian' because there hasn't been a school theater production since her arrival where she hasn't been involved. Shauna is a theater kid who often auditions for male roles (often because those roles get to kiss the female one) and frequently gets them. She loves the theater, she loves acting, and more to the point she escapes into whatever role she's cast in. Her acting chops are probably a reason why she's so good at what she does for 'extracirriculars'.

What makes Shauna infamous and a Shark is her habit of flirting with younger students, Freshmen who don't know any better or Sophomores who didn't heed warnings, and making them feel special and wanted and loved up until she sleeps with them and never speaks to them again. Shauna bites into them, rips out their heart, and leaves them crying and she moves on to the next. A shark. A predator. Her victims have their own support group called The Sharkbitten. It's not a sex thing, Shauna is perfectly willing and has done casual no strings attached hook ups with other girls so sex is not difficult to come by. Shauna just enjoys playing with her food, so to speak, and it's a thrill for her. In her mind, they knew the risks when they took the plunge - but they rarely ever do, and that's the problem.

Shauna is well aware that even her fellow thespians likely talk behind her back, but she's a senior on her way out and soon enough she'll either be a star of Broadway or Hollywood and a Shark doesn't concern itself with the opinions of Guppies.

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O F F T H E R E C O R D

| | H I S T O R Y | |

Shauna's passion for the performing arts likely comes from her mother and her youth. Her mother, Dana Flynn, is the on-screen authority figure for AWE, a well known wrestling promotion that airs a weekly television show. Dana calls the shots on screen and Shauna spent some of her youth in the backstage of an AWE locker room and watching people who gave her piggy back rides and let her win arm wrestling contests suddenly turn into evil people who kicked faces hard an cheated to win. That was when she first learned about playing a 'character' and spending enough time around wrestlers and a mother who had fans just because she was a hell of a talker meant that Shauna, too, became a hell of a talker only instead of putting on lycra and boots and oiling up, Shauna used her charisma and talking on live theater with foam swords instead of chair shots.

She's not sure where her lady-killer ways came from, only that in her Freshman year at Marble Heights she was quiet and kept to herself except for when she auditioned for the winter play. She only got cast in a minor role but she made sure she crushed it and by the time her sophomore year rolled around she was much more talkative, charismatic, and cool. She truly became The Shark into her Junior year when people began to notice that she had a new girlfriend damn near every week. Her reputation as a drama kid grew but her reputation as The Shark always overshadowed her.

Shauna has the uncanny ability to know exactly what to say. Call it manipulation, call it flirtation but really what is flirting and dating if not mutually agreed manipulation with the end goal of sexual release? Shauna doesn't see what she does as problematic (though it certainly is) because she's just helping the girls get what they want. Love, attention, sex, whatever. Nothing in this world lasts, why should a relationship? For however long the courtship and sex lasts, her victims are on top of the world, they just aren't prepared for how hard the fall back to earth truly is. This might be the year The Shark gets her comeuppance but this year Shauna is still intending on getting some victims to cum in their pants.

| | B E Y O N D M Y R E P U T A T I O N | |

Shauna doesn't have the best relationship with her mother due to the necessities of her mom's job, constant travel and putting on a show meant few nights where mother and daughter had dinner together and talked about their days, but she's not resentful. If anything she's grateful that her mother was able to help her figure out what kind of person she wanted to be: an actress. Shauna doesn't feel any remorse for her actions as The Shark, that much is obvious, but she hasn't ever really had her ass kicked by feelings and she isn't sure she'd be able to handle it if it ever happened. Shauna Flynn is a predator of love who has never been in love herself which doesn't bother her on the surface, but there's starting to be less and less enjoyment from her conquests and she doesn't know why. She isn't going to stop, though.

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A C A D E M I C S

| | E X T R A C U R R I C U L A R A C T I V I T I E S | |

• Drama Club
• Runs for Student Council, never wins
• Inspiration for The Sharkbitten
• Has been in multiple school theater productions

| | B E S T & W O R S T S U B J E C T S | |

| B E S T |

English Lit

| W O R S T |

Physics

| | E X T R A N O T E S | |

She speaks Gaelic really her Irish accent is her biggest boon regardless of what she says.
Her social media handle is PrimaShauna with a shark emoji between Prima and Shauna
Shauna has a playlist of dreamy mood pop that never fails as romantic music to use when she preys on her victims

Divya 'D.B.' Bajwa

_{(FC: Alia Bhatt, Dialogue Color: F4A460)}
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F O R T H E R E C O R D

| | N I C K N A M E (S) | |

• Queen of the Nerds (Self appointed)
• D.B.

| | A G E | |

15, August 25. Turning 16 the day after move-in

| | G E N D E R | |

Female

| | S E X U A L I T Y | |

Uncertain. Discovering.

| | R E L A T I O N S H I P S T A T U S | |

Never Been Kissed

| | O C C U P A T I O N | |

Cafe Server. Applied freshman year but got rejected because she was sneaking and eating food on the job. Has promised not to do that this year.

| | C L A S S I F I C A T I O N | |

Sophomore, thanks to her birthday being what it is

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| | I N D E P T H A P P E A R A N C E | |

Divya doesn’t really tend to play up her looks, though anyone with a pair of eyes can see she isn't exactly hard on the eyes. Her hair is a dark black and medium length with no particular style, though she parts it always to the right out of habit. Don’t mention her eyebrows as they, along with her bust, are sort of sensitive areas; the bust because she figures it’s unfair that they didn’t much grow when she did and her eyebrows because she thinks they grew a bit too much. Fortunately her less than healthy eating habits have gone right to the hips. Or so she wishes; her legs and arms are getting the brunt of it. Some people like thicker legs, she’s heard.

Her clothing style, casually anyway, is a bit on the modest, unstylish side and consisting largely of graphic t-shirts and jeans or collared shirts that look like something that should have a pocket protector attached but doesn't. She has a large collection of shirts that have comic book characters or mention things like dice rolls on them in a case of quite literally wearing her passions on her sleeves. Practical is a word for her particular style. Nerd chic is a fancy way of putting it. D.B. doesn't put a lot of effort into being some eye catching beauty queen, she's happy being among her own people, those being the 'indoor kids' who would just as soon roll out of bed and put on the same shirt they've been wearing for three days than those who have a walk-in closet and take an hour to decide between two tops to wear.

She's managed to get away with putting little pins and buttons on her uniform skirt. She has ten on them, five on either side. On one side she has the Captain Marvel logo, the Superman symbol, Captain America's shield, the Avengers logo, and the Green Lantern symbol; on the other side she has a 1-UP Mushroom, the Triforce, a Pokeball, a Moogle, and a chibi Chun-Li face. She would put more on there but she doesn't want to go overboard. (She was way more on her book bag and her laptop case. Also her laptop has many stickers on it.)

| | R E P U T A T I O N | |

D.B. is surprised she has any reputation at all beyond 'isn't she the one with the comic book shit?' which is totally on brand for her. D.B. would be a wallflower at any other school, but because here she has a room mate she at least is forced to socialize a little bit. There's good reason she calls herself the 'Queen of the Nerds' and it's not just because of her excessive amount of paraphernalia for geek media or the fact that she can recite quotes from movies and books along with sourcing them; it's because her unique position as a singular club member allows her to use her club's room for whatever she wants - and she uses it to host tabletop games for those who are interested as well as a place outside of dorm rooms to hook up a console and play something after class. D.B. knows her people.

She has a certain enthusiasm, a passion for what she likes, but too often her ideas just remain swimming in her head rather than used productively - something she's vowed to change going forward. When she isn't doing her nerd stuff, D.B. has a real passion for being behind the camera not as a photographer but as a director. She got in trouble her Freshman year for filming students on the yard without their permission and she swore she didn't need permission because it was a public location but that didn't apply to a private institution and she had two weeks detention because of it. She joined the A/V club to get around this - the other member graduated early leaving her the only member in the second semester of her Freshman year. Now when she gets caught filming stuff she can just say it's for the A/V Club and that's her excuse.

If she has any reputation other than her nerdy stuff it's likely that. Or her almost annoying excitement for everything. She'd love to share her passions with people but she communicates better with a camera than with her own words most times. She's doing her best and no one can fault her for that.

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O F F T H E R E C O R D

| | H I S T O R Y | |

Even from a young age D.B. had a love for the arts though her introduction to the world was because of her mother. When she was six, D.B. auditioned for a sitcom that sought to do for Indian-Americans what Fresh Off the Boat and Living Single did for their respective communities. She got the part of the main character's younger sister but unfortunately the show never made it to air after filming the pilot. But D.B. didn't get bit by the acting bug because of it and while her mother was adamant that D.B. do more auditions, she didn't want to and by the time she was twelve and she was living solely with her divorced dad, D.B. was watching movies for the director and not the cast or plot.

Her passion for filmmaking was what led to her father, a dentist, sending her to Marble Heights rather than a public school, because he believed it would foster an environment to let her talents develop and grow. In return, D.B. helped her dad set up a dating profile because she figured he'd be lonely without her at home for movie nights and that just because he still had feelings for mom didn't mean he had to stay single when there were plenty of women out there. Plus she knew that her mom had moved on and married some surgeon or something, D.B. didn't care, her mom kinda sucked.

D.B. has a lot of goals for her remaining three years at Marble Heights and the only one holding her back is, well, herself. Well, that and the uncertainty of any idea, but this is the year she makes more of a name for herself. And maybe go on a date or something. That would be nice.

| | B E Y O N D M Y R E P U T A T I O N | |

D.B. has dreams and passions but also takes failure incredibly hard. If she doesn't succeed at something then she doesn't easily just brush herself off and try again. This has led to her sometimes not wanting to take chances on things unless she knows they have a greater than usual chance for success. Not having someone to motivate her, encourage, or be in her corner is rough on her. Despite calling herself the Queen of the Nerds, she can't exactly say she has many friends based on the fact that the only real text chain in her phone is between her and her dad. But she can smile through it because no it doesn't bother her that she has to go to movies alone. Not at all. D.B. really could use a hug.

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A C A D E M I C S

| | E X T R A C U R R I C U L A R A C T I V I T I E S | |

• A/V Club President and Sole Member

| | B E S T & W O R S T S U B J E C T S | |

| B E S T |
Chemistry, Art, History

| W O R S T |
Geometry

| | E X T R A N O T E S | |

D.B. is Hindu but she doesn't strictly follow the vegetarian lifestyle of her father. She doesn't eat beef at all but she does eat chicken and lamb and she loves, loves, loves chicken burritos and chicken sandwiches.
She has seen every major comic book movie of the past five years multiple times. Like, double digit numbers. By herself. No one would go with her.
Her social media handle is 'DeebDweeb' but she's been thinking of changing it to something where she isn't calling herself a dweeb.

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