Alright, so I know my co-mod (Beebee) may or may not get sheets up today, but I can say this - all the sheets so far are accepted. (Also, @ Nobody, Harper probably would have been interested to find out what he writes, 'cause her dad's a writer. And she would have loved that he wrote a monologue for her to perform.)
All the ways they met up are excellent and totally appropriate. And Evelyn inviting herself along sounds extremely realistic in relation to what you've said to her character. I have high hopes we're all going to have fun with this.
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Y'all can call me Bard.
I've been RPing for about 15 years now.
I'm also an aspiring novelist and an avid writer of short stories.
I believe hardship and bad karma (regardless of how much good one does) are necessary for character development, aptly explained by a well selling writer:
"Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of." —Kurt Vonnegut
I've been RPing for about 15 years now.
I'm also an aspiring novelist and an avid writer of short stories.
I believe hardship and bad karma (regardless of how much good one does) are necessary for character development, aptly explained by a well selling writer:
"Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of." —Kurt Vonnegut
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To be fair, the statistics of brown eyes being more common is because ethnicities predisposed to darker skin tone also have a predisposition for brown eyes. Only 25% of Caucasian origins has brown eyes as a dominate trait consisting mostly of the south-eastern part of Europe. Considering the melting pot of America is 40% Caucasian to 60% Non-Caucasian, it raises the statistics of brown eyes being more common.
With the majority of characters in this thread being Caucasians - the odds of their eyes being brown isn't exceptionally high unless they have darker heritage mixed in. If we had more of a mix of ethnicities, that would be one thing. But for a mainly Caucasian character thread - it's not surprising to see so many blue or green eyes.
With the majority of characters in this thread being Caucasians - the odds of their eyes being brown isn't exceptionally high unless they have darker heritage mixed in. If we had more of a mix of ethnicities, that would be one thing. But for a mainly Caucasian character thread - it's not surprising to see so many blue or green eyes.
Name: Loralei Harper Parker
Nickname: Harper
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Appearance:
Harper has the petite frame of a gymnast, complete with pixie like features like a perfectly symmetrical face and properly proportioned nose. Her small bust actually fits her frame perfectly, making her small Bs look like moderate Cs. Slightly shorter than average, Harper only stands at about five foot three. Her golden topaz colored eyes are round, but she uses eyeliner to help create the illusion of narrowness/almond shape even if she isn’t wearing any other make up. Generally, she only wears nude smokey-eye eyeshadow and a lip gloss a shade or two darker than her own lips. Light brown hair color often confused with dirty blonde flows down nearly to her waist; she keeps her chin length bangs tucked behind her ears but not pinned. Typically dressed in sneakers, some nice hiphugger jeans, and a baby-tee - she likes to be comfortable day to day over making sure she looks attractive/dolled up.
Loves: acting, the color purple, strawberries, having her picture taken, being around others, singing
Likes: playing guitar, dancing, telling stories, listening to music, entertaining people, making friends, romance stories, dogs, cats, parties, talking to people
Dislikes: People bullying others, screamo/speed metal, people chewing on their nails, jumping through hoops, anyone looking down on anyone else, silence
Hates: raisins, snakes, spiders, the dark, being forced to be alone for long periods of time
Personality: Harper is sweet and kind of bubbly. She has a knack for finding the silver lining to almost anything. As much as she loves telling stories, they’re usually some awesome thing someone else did instead of her own exploits. Despite a childhood being the center of attention from her father and eldest brother, she still always wants to hear about everyone else’s day and watch/shadow her youngest brother; it’s not that she can’t talk about herself, but she’d rather hear about someone else, and she rarely realizes she’s turning the conversation away from herself.
Often times she wishes her life were more like a musical. She sometimes breaks out into a song - not in the middle of a conversation, but sometimes out of no where - just to get it out of her head or because she just wants to fill the silence. It doesn’t bother her if no one really pays attention, and most of the time this is when no one else is around. However, it doesn’t take much to egg her on to sing or break out into monologues from plays and the more people around, the better her performance.
She may not be much in way of negative emotion, she definitely doesn’t stand for injustice such as anyone putting anyone else down; that’s when she puts on her serious face and will step in to try to work things out peacefully. With three older brothers, she managed to stay the girly princess, even though she loves all the playing in dirt and roughhousing of a tomboy. Broken nail? Not a problem, that’s what the other nine are there for - that’s kind of her motto.
How they got the invite: It’s Harper’s trip
Brief bit about them: She’s an actress that’s been in a few minor roles for several shows and her most recent gig of being a semi-main character (in more than sixty percent of the episodes) in a series landed her a role in a made for TV movie being filmed out in California. There was a rumor going around school that she was a lesbian, but that was mostly due to her role on the television show where she did play one; that rumor is completely untrue even if she’s willing to play one for roles. She is the youngest of four and only girl - her eldest brother is twelve years her senior while her youngest brother is still five years her senior. She can recite lines from any play she’s been in (and even some of her favorite movies) or even sing songs she knows from the top of her head and translate them into the languages she knows - French, Italian, and Russian.
Notes: She doesn’t have a boyfriend, and hasn’t actually ever had a boyfriend. In fact, she has never officially kissed anyone; she doesn’t count any scripted kisses as actual kisses.
Nickname: Harper
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Appearance:
Loves: acting, the color purple, strawberries, having her picture taken, being around others, singing
Likes: playing guitar, dancing, telling stories, listening to music, entertaining people, making friends, romance stories, dogs, cats, parties, talking to people
Dislikes: People bullying others, screamo/speed metal, people chewing on their nails, jumping through hoops, anyone looking down on anyone else, silence
Hates: raisins, snakes, spiders, the dark, being forced to be alone for long periods of time
Personality: Harper is sweet and kind of bubbly. She has a knack for finding the silver lining to almost anything. As much as she loves telling stories, they’re usually some awesome thing someone else did instead of her own exploits. Despite a childhood being the center of attention from her father and eldest brother, she still always wants to hear about everyone else’s day and watch/shadow her youngest brother; it’s not that she can’t talk about herself, but she’d rather hear about someone else, and she rarely realizes she’s turning the conversation away from herself.
Often times she wishes her life were more like a musical. She sometimes breaks out into a song - not in the middle of a conversation, but sometimes out of no where - just to get it out of her head or because she just wants to fill the silence. It doesn’t bother her if no one really pays attention, and most of the time this is when no one else is around. However, it doesn’t take much to egg her on to sing or break out into monologues from plays and the more people around, the better her performance.
She may not be much in way of negative emotion, she definitely doesn’t stand for injustice such as anyone putting anyone else down; that’s when she puts on her serious face and will step in to try to work things out peacefully. With three older brothers, she managed to stay the girly princess, even though she loves all the playing in dirt and roughhousing of a tomboy. Broken nail? Not a problem, that’s what the other nine are there for - that’s kind of her motto.
How they got the invite: It’s Harper’s trip
Brief bit about them: She’s an actress that’s been in a few minor roles for several shows and her most recent gig of being a semi-main character (in more than sixty percent of the episodes) in a series landed her a role in a made for TV movie being filmed out in California. There was a rumor going around school that she was a lesbian, but that was mostly due to her role on the television show where she did play one; that rumor is completely untrue even if she’s willing to play one for roles. She is the youngest of four and only girl - her eldest brother is twelve years her senior while her youngest brother is still five years her senior. She can recite lines from any play she’s been in (and even some of her favorite movies) or even sing songs she knows from the top of her head and translate them into the languages she knows - French, Italian, and Russian.
Notes: She doesn’t have a boyfriend, and hasn’t actually ever had a boyfriend. In fact, she has never officially kissed anyone; she doesn’t count any scripted kisses as actual kisses.
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Vincent has brown eyes...just saying.
Welp, the OOC is up.
When making character sheets - please use the one from the hider. The one above the hider is simply for reference.
When making character sheets - please use the one from the hider. The one above the hider is simply for reference.
Hey, this is our last summer to hang. We've got our own things going on come Fall - I mean, heck, I won't even be on this side of the country come August - and I thought it would be great if we got together for one last blast, make one last memory. My dad helped me rent a beach house out on the Cape and I'd love for you to join me. We've got it from June 21st until July 31st, and unless something major comes up - that's how long I'd like the trip to be.
Let me know ASAP if you can make it; I'm getting together a group for this and will be providing transportation in the form of passenger van so I need the head count so we have enough seats for everyone, and space for their stuff.
Anyways, let me know. Hope you can make it! <3 ~Harper~
Several of Harper's friends received this message over the week leading up to graduation.
Basically, Harper's looking for one last big fun get together with her friends before she leaves. There aren't really any concrete plans aside from drive out and hang out on the beach and party at the house. Plans beyond that can be discussed in character, or we can have a chat about it beforehand once the OOC goes up if people would rather.
These are the basic rules for characters:
You can have up to 2 characters, but if you do then one of the characters must be a friend of Harper's. Any characters submitted must either be friends of Harper or know one of the other characters going on the trip.
That said, I'm only accepting up to 16 characters. We don't have to have 16 people, but that's the limit.
Aside from requesting that at least half of the people attending are actually friends with her, the only real restriction for characters is that friends receiving the invite are 16-18 years old (either having just graduated high school or will be seniors in high school next year.) *Note this can be negotiated if you have an idea for a character that isn't a high school friend.*
Gender, interests, personalities - those are all up to you. All I ask is you think very carefully before submitting a loner or someone that could be labeled 'asshole'; this is a social experience, and - even though Harper might be friends with them - she would have used her better judgement than invite along someone that would make the others miserable or put someone in a social situation which they would probably prefer not to be.
Beebee2121 is my co-mod.
Alright, with all that out of the way, character sheets!
Name: At least put the character's full first and last names.
Nickname: If the character prefers to be called something else, including an alteration of their first name, list that here. Feel free to list all that apply.
Age: Friends of Harper must be 16-18. No character should be younger than 15 or older than 22.
Gender: If your character does not fit the Gender binary, start with their preferred identity if applicable, and then technical terms for ease of understanding.
Sexual Orientation: If it's complicated, please feel free to elaborate.
Appearance: Appearance, with as few details on why as possible. Pictures are only acceptable as a hotlink.
Loves: What is their absolute favorite things? Food, color, type of music - whatever.
Likes: What do they enjoy doing or seeing or whatever?
Dislikes: What don't they enjoy? Include pet peeves.
Hates: What do they absolutely abhor? This isn't just would rather not have it, but absolutely detest.
Personality: How does this person react to situations, tendencies when interacting with others, and other details. Leave history out of this as much as you can to leave your profile easy to read. Nervous habits, little eccentricities, and so on go here too.
How they got the invite: Are they a friend of Harper's? Are they there because of someone else?
Brief bit about them: What's their home life like? What are their plans for next year - finish high school, attend college, going into the work field? How did they meet Harper if they're friends with her? What's they're favorite activities? Any skills you think that might come up?
Notes: Is there anything else about the character you think I should know?
Let me know ASAP if you can make it; I'm getting together a group for this and will be providing transportation in the form of passenger van so I need the head count so we have enough seats for everyone, and space for their stuff.
Anyways, let me know. Hope you can make it! <3 ~Harper~
Several of Harper's friends received this message over the week leading up to graduation.
Basically, Harper's looking for one last big fun get together with her friends before she leaves. There aren't really any concrete plans aside from drive out and hang out on the beach and party at the house. Plans beyond that can be discussed in character, or we can have a chat about it beforehand once the OOC goes up if people would rather.
These are the basic rules for characters:
You can have up to 2 characters, but if you do then one of the characters must be a friend of Harper's. Any characters submitted must either be friends of Harper or know one of the other characters going on the trip.
That said, I'm only accepting up to 16 characters. We don't have to have 16 people, but that's the limit.
Aside from requesting that at least half of the people attending are actually friends with her, the only real restriction for characters is that friends receiving the invite are 16-18 years old (either having just graduated high school or will be seniors in high school next year.) *Note this can be negotiated if you have an idea for a character that isn't a high school friend.*
Gender, interests, personalities - those are all up to you. All I ask is you think very carefully before submitting a loner or someone that could be labeled 'asshole'; this is a social experience, and - even though Harper might be friends with them - she would have used her better judgement than invite along someone that would make the others miserable or put someone in a social situation which they would probably prefer not to be.
Beebee2121 is my co-mod.
Alright, with all that out of the way, character sheets!
Name: At least put the character's full first and last names.
Nickname: If the character prefers to be called something else, including an alteration of their first name, list that here. Feel free to list all that apply.
Age: Friends of Harper must be 16-18. No character should be younger than 15 or older than 22.
Gender: If your character does not fit the Gender binary, start with their preferred identity if applicable, and then technical terms for ease of understanding.
Sexual Orientation: If it's complicated, please feel free to elaborate.
Appearance: Appearance, with as few details on why as possible. Pictures are only acceptable as a hotlink.
Loves: What is their absolute favorite things? Food, color, type of music - whatever.
Likes: What do they enjoy doing or seeing or whatever?
Dislikes: What don't they enjoy? Include pet peeves.
Hates: What do they absolutely abhor? This isn't just would rather not have it, but absolutely detest.
Personality: How does this person react to situations, tendencies when interacting with others, and other details. Leave history out of this as much as you can to leave your profile easy to read. Nervous habits, little eccentricities, and so on go here too.
How they got the invite: Are they a friend of Harper's? Are they there because of someone else?
Brief bit about them: What's their home life like? What are their plans for next year - finish high school, attend college, going into the work field? How did they meet Harper if they're friends with her? What's they're favorite activities? Any skills you think that might come up?
Notes: Is there anything else about the character you think I should know?
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Username: ramblingbard
Name: Naomi Loker
Age: 19
Gender: female
Schedule: She’s out the door around eight every weekday morning to commute to Lovell. Mondays and Wednesdays, she’s back around four or five. Tuesdays and Thursdays she’s back around seven. Generally, when she leaves on Friday for school, she doesn’t end up coming back until Sunday afternoon - usually between three and five; when she comes back on Fridays, it’s generally around nine o’clock and the rest of her weekend is spent mostly in her room or going to a local bookshop/cafe.
Education Level: High school graduate, some college - second year in Lovell majoring in creative writing
Life Goal: become a best selling novelist
Current Goal: become independent of her best friend and make new friends
Appearance: She has almond shaped aquamarine colored eyes (one of which is closer to green than blue and the other more blue than green, which is only really noticeable when someone actually sees both her eyes) and she has a nice - healthy - golden tan. Generally, she keeps her bangs cut so they curl in a plentiful bound to cover up one eye, to prevent someone from seeing the defect; the rest of her curly dirty blonde hair goes down to her mid-back in more natural waves than a tangled curls. She has well defined cheekbones and applies make up in a less-is-more kind of style in smokey nudes that helps enhance her features without making it noticeable she has any make up on at all aside from eyeliner to help really enunciate her almond shaped eyes and a bit of lip gloss in a shade that mostly just puts a sheen to her lips.
Dainty by bone structure, she is super model thin and probably could have been a super model too if it weren’t for the fact she only stands five foot nothing. Her level of attractiveness degrades from how she carries herself, very guarded and full of nervous glances around instead of confident like most attractive females, and the depressed, sometimes scared, look in her eyes dampens them further. She also has a handful of scars scattered around her body - cuts and surgery scars from having bones reset - but all of that is covered up with her clothing. She doesn’t wear anything without long sleeves to it; usually something thin and generally layered - long sleeve under short sleeve - with an out of place leather jacket that is clearly too big for her on over that. Aside from the jacket, she’s generally in something form fitting and/or fashionable so long as none of her skin that isn’t her neck and face is visible.
Personality: This is a girl with no self-confidence; whether it be in her own abilities or own appearance. She tries to be friendly, though, but always seems at a loss for the right thing to say and immediately self-deprecates for anything misspoken or stammered. Almost everything about her could be better in her eyes, though she’s making lots of progress from how bad she was when she first started seeing her therapist.
Polite enough to carry on a conversation struck up, she doesn’t invest much into interactions if it’s an intimate setting (read: just her and someone else alone together) and tends to try to keep things superficial as much as possible. It takes a bit of time for her to be comfortable enough around someone before she’ll really try to connect, but she at least has been forcing herself to start up small talk with people she sees on a daily/semi-daily basis rather than simply ducking past people.
She's more likely to just sit there and take it rather than stand up for herself, and she's constantly battling her own inner voice that critiques everything she does. Depression constantly looms in the back of her mind, and makes her more of a pessimist than she has any right to be. But she is trying, despite all her mental failings, she takes one step at a time to go out and try to better herself. Assertiveness is something her therapist is trying to get her to work on, but it is an uphill battle for it. She bottle negative emotions up, and rarely can get a genuine smile on her face - though she does try; she refuses to cry in front of others though - conditioned not to really - and thus it is extremely difficult to bring her to tears rather than her simply looking sad or dejected.
She has a habit of playing with the ends of her shirt sleeves when she’s nervous or talking to someone for the first time. If talking to someone new one on one, or even just anyone she’s not very comfortable too yet, she’ll hug her book - as she generally has either a composition book or a novel in hand - to her chest while chatting as if it were a security blanket. She gets wrapped up in romances, and any teen/young adult series but prefer stories that are more pleasant than dark and when a book or series gets too dark for her to read - regardless of how much she likes the book or series she just won’t read any more (like she hasn’t finished the Harry Potter series, having stopped at the end of Goblet of Fire, without managing to finish the book.) Ironically, some of her best writing deals with darker/more violent aspects of life and love, but she doesn’t let anyone read that stuff; the things she submits for classes are more along the lines of what she likes to read.
Reason for moving into the dorm: Her therapist said she needed to distance herself a little from the source of her dependency, and her best friend suggested the dorm as there were fewer people, so not as much noise or possible overwhelming factor.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: She hasn’t really had any kind of romantic or sexual experience. The close relationship she has with her best friend is often confused for a romantic one, but it is more on the level of very close siblings over anything remotely romantic.
Closest she’s been to any romantic relationship in her writing - so pretty much all in her head and not even featuring herself.
History: An only child, Naomi grew up in Herford. From a very young age, she endured a lot of abuse; her mom was never satisfied with anything she did - even as a toddler, her mother wanted her to be the perfectly behaved child and every time she was even just a typical child she would be verbally berated - and her father had a nasty disposition when he drank. If showing up to school in a cast or with a bruise raised any alarms with the teachers, they never said anything; her father was on the force and had one of the highest arrest records. So for years, she endured the emotional abuse - constantly being told her grades weren’t good enough, or she wasn’t pretty enough, or really anything her mother could think of - and physical abuse which she learned to hide with styling her hair and clothing and eventually make up.
That is, until her best friend - the son of one of her mother’s associates - finally found out. By 13, running away was almost a regular occurrence for her, escaping to the safety of her friend’s house for at least a night or two and even skipping school. After one night, when her father beat her so bad she barely managed to dial the phone and have her friend pick her up, he brought her to a hospital a town over. An investigation was finally started, and - with her friend’s help and connections - she was emancipated when she was 16. She moved in with her best friend, and finished high school.
It took about that long for him to convince her to start seeing a professional about all the years of abuse and neglect. She enrolled in Lovell to purse the one dream she ever had, to be a writer since writing stories to escape reality was the only other thing aside from her best friend to keep her from doing anything she might not live to regret. It was only recently during her therapy, that it was recommended she branch out on her own.
Notes: Her best friend contacted Gretchen last week to look at the place before actually recommending it to her.
Over the course of the RP, I intend to have her growing as a person, learning to be more open, less meek, etc. There will be a lot of rough shyness at the beginning, but it will get better.
Name: Naomi Loker
Age: 19
Gender: female
Schedule: She’s out the door around eight every weekday morning to commute to Lovell. Mondays and Wednesdays, she’s back around four or five. Tuesdays and Thursdays she’s back around seven. Generally, when she leaves on Friday for school, she doesn’t end up coming back until Sunday afternoon - usually between three and five; when she comes back on Fridays, it’s generally around nine o’clock and the rest of her weekend is spent mostly in her room or going to a local bookshop/cafe.
Education Level: High school graduate, some college - second year in Lovell majoring in creative writing
Life Goal: become a best selling novelist
Current Goal: become independent of her best friend and make new friends
Appearance: She has almond shaped aquamarine colored eyes (one of which is closer to green than blue and the other more blue than green, which is only really noticeable when someone actually sees both her eyes) and she has a nice - healthy - golden tan. Generally, she keeps her bangs cut so they curl in a plentiful bound to cover up one eye, to prevent someone from seeing the defect; the rest of her curly dirty blonde hair goes down to her mid-back in more natural waves than a tangled curls. She has well defined cheekbones and applies make up in a less-is-more kind of style in smokey nudes that helps enhance her features without making it noticeable she has any make up on at all aside from eyeliner to help really enunciate her almond shaped eyes and a bit of lip gloss in a shade that mostly just puts a sheen to her lips.
Dainty by bone structure, she is super model thin and probably could have been a super model too if it weren’t for the fact she only stands five foot nothing. Her level of attractiveness degrades from how she carries herself, very guarded and full of nervous glances around instead of confident like most attractive females, and the depressed, sometimes scared, look in her eyes dampens them further. She also has a handful of scars scattered around her body - cuts and surgery scars from having bones reset - but all of that is covered up with her clothing. She doesn’t wear anything without long sleeves to it; usually something thin and generally layered - long sleeve under short sleeve - with an out of place leather jacket that is clearly too big for her on over that. Aside from the jacket, she’s generally in something form fitting and/or fashionable so long as none of her skin that isn’t her neck and face is visible.
Personality: This is a girl with no self-confidence; whether it be in her own abilities or own appearance. She tries to be friendly, though, but always seems at a loss for the right thing to say and immediately self-deprecates for anything misspoken or stammered. Almost everything about her could be better in her eyes, though she’s making lots of progress from how bad she was when she first started seeing her therapist.
Polite enough to carry on a conversation struck up, she doesn’t invest much into interactions if it’s an intimate setting (read: just her and someone else alone together) and tends to try to keep things superficial as much as possible. It takes a bit of time for her to be comfortable enough around someone before she’ll really try to connect, but she at least has been forcing herself to start up small talk with people she sees on a daily/semi-daily basis rather than simply ducking past people.
She's more likely to just sit there and take it rather than stand up for herself, and she's constantly battling her own inner voice that critiques everything she does. Depression constantly looms in the back of her mind, and makes her more of a pessimist than she has any right to be. But she is trying, despite all her mental failings, she takes one step at a time to go out and try to better herself. Assertiveness is something her therapist is trying to get her to work on, but it is an uphill battle for it. She bottle negative emotions up, and rarely can get a genuine smile on her face - though she does try; she refuses to cry in front of others though - conditioned not to really - and thus it is extremely difficult to bring her to tears rather than her simply looking sad or dejected.
She has a habit of playing with the ends of her shirt sleeves when she’s nervous or talking to someone for the first time. If talking to someone new one on one, or even just anyone she’s not very comfortable too yet, she’ll hug her book - as she generally has either a composition book or a novel in hand - to her chest while chatting as if it were a security blanket. She gets wrapped up in romances, and any teen/young adult series but prefer stories that are more pleasant than dark and when a book or series gets too dark for her to read - regardless of how much she likes the book or series she just won’t read any more (like she hasn’t finished the Harry Potter series, having stopped at the end of Goblet of Fire, without managing to finish the book.) Ironically, some of her best writing deals with darker/more violent aspects of life and love, but she doesn’t let anyone read that stuff; the things she submits for classes are more along the lines of what she likes to read.
Reason for moving into the dorm: Her therapist said she needed to distance herself a little from the source of her dependency, and her best friend suggested the dorm as there were fewer people, so not as much noise or possible overwhelming factor.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: She hasn’t really had any kind of romantic or sexual experience. The close relationship she has with her best friend is often confused for a romantic one, but it is more on the level of very close siblings over anything remotely romantic.
Closest she’s been to any romantic relationship in her writing - so pretty much all in her head and not even featuring herself.
History: An only child, Naomi grew up in Herford. From a very young age, she endured a lot of abuse; her mom was never satisfied with anything she did - even as a toddler, her mother wanted her to be the perfectly behaved child and every time she was even just a typical child she would be verbally berated - and her father had a nasty disposition when he drank. If showing up to school in a cast or with a bruise raised any alarms with the teachers, they never said anything; her father was on the force and had one of the highest arrest records. So for years, she endured the emotional abuse - constantly being told her grades weren’t good enough, or she wasn’t pretty enough, or really anything her mother could think of - and physical abuse which she learned to hide with styling her hair and clothing and eventually make up.
That is, until her best friend - the son of one of her mother’s associates - finally found out. By 13, running away was almost a regular occurrence for her, escaping to the safety of her friend’s house for at least a night or two and even skipping school. After one night, when her father beat her so bad she barely managed to dial the phone and have her friend pick her up, he brought her to a hospital a town over. An investigation was finally started, and - with her friend’s help and connections - she was emancipated when she was 16. She moved in with her best friend, and finished high school.
It took about that long for him to convince her to start seeing a professional about all the years of abuse and neglect. She enrolled in Lovell to purse the one dream she ever had, to be a writer since writing stories to escape reality was the only other thing aside from her best friend to keep her from doing anything she might not live to regret. It was only recently during her therapy, that it was recommended she branch out on her own.
Notes: Her best friend contacted Gretchen last week to look at the place before actually recommending it to her.
Over the course of the RP, I intend to have her growing as a person, learning to be more open, less meek, etc. There will be a lot of rough shyness at the beginning, but it will get better.
That's perfectly alright. And if they're siblings, only one of them has to fall into the requested age range. I'll edit to save your spots.
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My second character:
Username: ramblingbard
Name: Riley McKenna
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - she’s up around seven, out the door by eight, and comes back around nine between classes and working at a local ice cream parlor.
Tuesday and Thursday - she’s up around eight, leaves around ten, and comes back around six for a few minutes before heading back out until nine or ten (depending on homework) due to sparser classes those two days and then going to various locations to either paint/draw/whatever or just take in the local life.
Weekends - she has a several hour class every other Saturday, but a lot of that is also taken up by working shifts at the ice cream shop.
Education Level: High school graduate and some college - majoring in art therapy and minoring in sociology
Life Goal: to become a famous artist and be able to live off her earnings without starving or struggling
Current Goal: Become an art therapist and help troubled/mentally handicapped children
Appearance: Standing at only five foot three, she has a slender physique of a dancer though it’s mostly just dieting rather than exercise that keeps her in shape. She doesn’t have much of a pronounced bust, but enough of one that she could play it up if desired. She uses makeup to help make her round eyes seem more almond shaped and help the emerald green color pop, with a bit of natural colored lip gloss just to give her average lips a sheen that makes them look somewhat full. Her golden blonde hair flows down to her bust, styled in layers, with nose length bangs that are in a way that it naturally sweeps to one side. Scar tissue covers a good portion of her body from her upper left arm that stretches across her entire back; it isn’t as bad as it once was, and remains mostly as a spiderweb of white tissue that she is still self-conscious over.
She dresses in form fitting t-shirts that still manages to cover her scars and loose fitting jeans that requires a belt to hold up. Generally she wears sneakers and a bandana or headband to help style her hair. Her style of clothing does change sometimes, depending on her mood, to something more bohemian like peasant skirts and flowy blouses. She tends to prefer bright colors and occasionally pastels; it’s easy to tell when she’s been at the park drawing as she generally comes back with charcoal or chalk on her clothing and face.
She always wears a silver locket that contains a picture of her family from when she was a little girl - mom, dad, her, and baby brother.
Personality: The first thing most people notice about her is that she is friendly, and willing to help someone out - like offering to help people move in if she’s around. She likes to make new friends, and can be quite sweet - never raising her voice, or saying anything mean about anyone else - with a tendency to call people sweetie, or sweetheart, or dear, or other terms of endearment even if she knows their name (usually as an added after saying the name they preferred to be called.) Although she prefers to be around others, she may not initially be social - enjoying to watch how people interact more - but she does enjoy talking to people so long as it’s smaller gatherings. She dislikes being in large groups of people; it raises the odds of someone touching her and she absolutely hates being touched.
She can be rather forgetful, though, and often has to leave herself notes about lots of things that aren’t routine - like if she has a shift changed. Some friends consider it the burden of being an artist, while others just believe she’s spacy. She generally doesn’t pick up on that stuff though, usually preoccupied with taking in the world around her more than that stuff. It can get in the way of actually learning stuff sometimes, as her mind can wander; to help her focus, she needs to be doing something with her hands so she has taken to always carrying around a small sketchbook and pencil. Some of the spaciness is evident from occasional splashes of chalk or charcoal on her face and clothes when she’s gone out to draw in the park and absentmindedly swept her bangs out of her face or rested a hand on her clothing without cleaning her hands off first.
Reason for moving into the dorm: It was a smaller, more quaint environment with fewer inhabitants, but the main reason is it gave her independence without costing as much as living in a dorm.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: She has never had sex. As for romantic relationships - there was this boy that tricked her into a date when she was a sophomore in high school. He said it was a group thing and, when no one else showed up, claimed everyone must have bailed on them. It wasn’t bad, aside from several attempts to put an arm around her or hold her hand. After the movie, he admitted it was the only way he could get the courage to ask her out. This actually got him a second date and a relationship budded - nothing much, mostly he’d walk her to class and carry her books while she’d show up to his games and be a personal cheerleader for him. Eventually, after she finally confided in him a bit of why she didn’t like being touched, she even became comfortable enough to hands with him. He was pretty much perfect for her, understanding and patient, but midway through junior year his mother got a promotion - which included a relocation - and he had to move. Their first and last kiss happened right after he told her the bad news and they broke up.
That was her first and only boyfriend, and there have been no dates ever since.
History: Life was simple when she was younger - mom, dad, got a baby brother when she was almost 4, and they even just got a kitten. Then a fire started and it disrupted her life for almost two years all when she was five; her baby brother died from smoke inhalation, and a flash burn when a fireman was carrying her out mixed with smoke inhalation landed her in the hospital for months. Though the burns weren’t severe enough to require skin grafts, they did leave scars and caused her nerves to become hypersensitive.
But, life goes on. She spent a lot of time for the year and a half following her release from the hospital going to a therapist that used art therapy to help her understand and cope with what happened. This got her very interested in art, and soon the past remained past; not that she will ever forget it, but it is something she has learned to not let drag her down. She did good in school, always filling her unfilled blocks with an art class, but didn’t participate in clubs; she preferred working on a portfolio instead, using all mediums, subject matter, and styles in hopes of going to a good art college and maybe someday becoming a famous artist. A friend introduced her to deviantArt and suggested she display her stuff on there, which lead to selling prints and eventually using commissions as a way to further explore additional styles and subject matter (never going beyond a PG-13 rating).
As she got older, her dreams became more realistic and her memory of all those sessions brought her to want to pursue art therapy as a career. When she realized money was tight and even getting into a good college would hurt her family financially, she opted to start working at a local ice cream shop to help build up funding. Her parents insisted on putting her through college, so she enrolled in the local art college in Lovell but she wanted to live away from her parents. To help save them money by not dorming there, she lived with them until stumbling across a flyer hung up at the ice cream shop one day. She contacted Gretchen a few months ago to get a room.
Notes: She absolutely loves kids.
She’s extremely pyrophobic, like even seeing someone light a cigarette.
She displays and sells her art, and accepts commissions through deviantart, and has been considering running her own website for it instead. Most of her art that she sells prints of are landscapes/sceneries done in various mediums, though she has sample art for almost any style, subject, and medium for helping gain commissions. (She does not consider this being a real artist as these sales barely help subsidize her rent/food/whatever else she needs to buy when combined with her paycheck from the ice cream shop and it in no way makes her famous.)
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Maybe her and Shae know each more from deviantart than from living in the dorm/house? Just a thought.
Username: ramblingbard
Name: Riley McKenna
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - she’s up around seven, out the door by eight, and comes back around nine between classes and working at a local ice cream parlor.
Tuesday and Thursday - she’s up around eight, leaves around ten, and comes back around six for a few minutes before heading back out until nine or ten (depending on homework) due to sparser classes those two days and then going to various locations to either paint/draw/whatever or just take in the local life.
Weekends - she has a several hour class every other Saturday, but a lot of that is also taken up by working shifts at the ice cream shop.
Education Level: High school graduate and some college - majoring in art therapy and minoring in sociology
Life Goal: to become a famous artist and be able to live off her earnings without starving or struggling
Current Goal: Become an art therapist and help troubled/mentally handicapped children
Appearance: Standing at only five foot three, she has a slender physique of a dancer though it’s mostly just dieting rather than exercise that keeps her in shape. She doesn’t have much of a pronounced bust, but enough of one that she could play it up if desired. She uses makeup to help make her round eyes seem more almond shaped and help the emerald green color pop, with a bit of natural colored lip gloss just to give her average lips a sheen that makes them look somewhat full. Her golden blonde hair flows down to her bust, styled in layers, with nose length bangs that are in a way that it naturally sweeps to one side. Scar tissue covers a good portion of her body from her upper left arm that stretches across her entire back; it isn’t as bad as it once was, and remains mostly as a spiderweb of white tissue that she is still self-conscious over.
She dresses in form fitting t-shirts that still manages to cover her scars and loose fitting jeans that requires a belt to hold up. Generally she wears sneakers and a bandana or headband to help style her hair. Her style of clothing does change sometimes, depending on her mood, to something more bohemian like peasant skirts and flowy blouses. She tends to prefer bright colors and occasionally pastels; it’s easy to tell when she’s been at the park drawing as she generally comes back with charcoal or chalk on her clothing and face.
She always wears a silver locket that contains a picture of her family from when she was a little girl - mom, dad, her, and baby brother.
Personality: The first thing most people notice about her is that she is friendly, and willing to help someone out - like offering to help people move in if she’s around. She likes to make new friends, and can be quite sweet - never raising her voice, or saying anything mean about anyone else - with a tendency to call people sweetie, or sweetheart, or dear, or other terms of endearment even if she knows their name (usually as an added after saying the name they preferred to be called.) Although she prefers to be around others, she may not initially be social - enjoying to watch how people interact more - but she does enjoy talking to people so long as it’s smaller gatherings. She dislikes being in large groups of people; it raises the odds of someone touching her and she absolutely hates being touched.
She can be rather forgetful, though, and often has to leave herself notes about lots of things that aren’t routine - like if she has a shift changed. Some friends consider it the burden of being an artist, while others just believe she’s spacy. She generally doesn’t pick up on that stuff though, usually preoccupied with taking in the world around her more than that stuff. It can get in the way of actually learning stuff sometimes, as her mind can wander; to help her focus, she needs to be doing something with her hands so she has taken to always carrying around a small sketchbook and pencil. Some of the spaciness is evident from occasional splashes of chalk or charcoal on her face and clothes when she’s gone out to draw in the park and absentmindedly swept her bangs out of her face or rested a hand on her clothing without cleaning her hands off first.
Reason for moving into the dorm: It was a smaller, more quaint environment with fewer inhabitants, but the main reason is it gave her independence without costing as much as living in a dorm.
Romantic/Sexual Experience: She has never had sex. As for romantic relationships - there was this boy that tricked her into a date when she was a sophomore in high school. He said it was a group thing and, when no one else showed up, claimed everyone must have bailed on them. It wasn’t bad, aside from several attempts to put an arm around her or hold her hand. After the movie, he admitted it was the only way he could get the courage to ask her out. This actually got him a second date and a relationship budded - nothing much, mostly he’d walk her to class and carry her books while she’d show up to his games and be a personal cheerleader for him. Eventually, after she finally confided in him a bit of why she didn’t like being touched, she even became comfortable enough to hands with him. He was pretty much perfect for her, understanding and patient, but midway through junior year his mother got a promotion - which included a relocation - and he had to move. Their first and last kiss happened right after he told her the bad news and they broke up.
That was her first and only boyfriend, and there have been no dates ever since.
History: Life was simple when she was younger - mom, dad, got a baby brother when she was almost 4, and they even just got a kitten. Then a fire started and it disrupted her life for almost two years all when she was five; her baby brother died from smoke inhalation, and a flash burn when a fireman was carrying her out mixed with smoke inhalation landed her in the hospital for months. Though the burns weren’t severe enough to require skin grafts, they did leave scars and caused her nerves to become hypersensitive.
But, life goes on. She spent a lot of time for the year and a half following her release from the hospital going to a therapist that used art therapy to help her understand and cope with what happened. This got her very interested in art, and soon the past remained past; not that she will ever forget it, but it is something she has learned to not let drag her down. She did good in school, always filling her unfilled blocks with an art class, but didn’t participate in clubs; she preferred working on a portfolio instead, using all mediums, subject matter, and styles in hopes of going to a good art college and maybe someday becoming a famous artist. A friend introduced her to deviantArt and suggested she display her stuff on there, which lead to selling prints and eventually using commissions as a way to further explore additional styles and subject matter (never going beyond a PG-13 rating).
As she got older, her dreams became more realistic and her memory of all those sessions brought her to want to pursue art therapy as a career. When she realized money was tight and even getting into a good college would hurt her family financially, she opted to start working at a local ice cream shop to help build up funding. Her parents insisted on putting her through college, so she enrolled in the local art college in Lovell but she wanted to live away from her parents. To help save them money by not dorming there, she lived with them until stumbling across a flyer hung up at the ice cream shop one day. She contacted Gretchen a few months ago to get a room.
Notes: She absolutely loves kids.
She’s extremely pyrophobic, like even seeing someone light a cigarette.
She displays and sells her art, and accepts commissions through deviantart, and has been considering running her own website for it instead. Most of her art that she sells prints of are landscapes/sceneries done in various mediums, though she has sample art for almost any style, subject, and medium for helping gain commissions. (She does not consider this being a real artist as these sales barely help subsidize her rent/food/whatever else she needs to buy when combined with her paycheck from the ice cream shop and it in no way makes her famous.)
Maybe her and Shae know each more from deviantart than from living in the dorm/house? Just a thought.
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