I thought it'd be nice to have a RP based around a group of college students meeting up, the bonds they form and so on and so forth over time. A simple premise, I know. But, I want to taste this character's out.
So, I will be doubling up and playing two main characters in this, who are twins of the opposite gender and opposite personalities. The opposing personalities are down to be raised apart from one another, for the first fifteen years of their lives.
I don’t have an awful lot plot wise, but I am more than willing to devise one with the group, so we can all come up with ideas slowly and surely. For my characters, I want to focus on the romances slowly but surely, as well as the friendships they both create with others, outside of only being friends with one another.
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Names: James William Harrison and Jasmine Marie Harrison
Age: 19
Personalities and biography information:
Jasmine is a rude, grumpy and volatile young woman, with a lack of respect for authority and other people and the property they own. To her, most people are not worth her time, nor her effort. Unfortunately, this can often lead to the young woman getting into trouble with others, from classmates, to teachers, and even the police on occasion.
She is prone to violent outbursts and has a criminal record, for assaulting a classmate at a previous school, and a teacher at another. Theft, shoplifting, arson… These are just a few more of the things which she has also gotten into trouble for in the past.
Some blame the fact that she has been with eight different foster families, with four of them between the ages of eleven and sixteen, when her attitude and her behaviour were both at their worst, lasting only 7 months with one family. Between fourteen and fifteen, she was in juvenile hall for drug possession, and all seemed lost. She seemed to have no prospects, no future, nothing…
But that all changed when she was reunited with her twin brother, James. Since then, she seems to have mellowed out a bit more, and hasn’t been in trouble with the police for over two and a half years. Wanting to maintain and keep the bond she’s formed with him, she is trying to prevent herself from falling back in her habits of drugs, alcohol and the like, in order to not be parted from him once again.
When it comes to James, she is very protective of her “baby brother”, as she jokingly calls him. (Despite the fact there is only an hour between them!) She is willing to get into fights with those who hurt or insult him, especially over the fact he is gay. She is still unsure about her own sexuality, but doesn’t let it affect how she treats others.
James, on the other hand, is a quiet and very reserved young man, who is nervous and timid in his nature, with a limited amount of friends, finding it very hard to meet or make them on his own. In contrast to Jasmine, he does respect people and property, with a large amount of respect for authority.
He isn’t really prone to outbursts, and those he does have tend to be outbursts of nerves and tears when he finds himself getting overly anxious and upset, not helped by his social anxiety and his naturally fearful nature. Never getting in trouble with the law, unlike his sister, he has only been involved with them when he has been the victim of an attack upon himself.
When he was reunited with his twin sister, Jasmine, James became a lot happier and seemed much more willing to socialise, so long as he was with his sister. He’s even be known to back-chat or retort to comments made by others about her, as if he’s trying to stand up for and look after her in his own little way, as twins are supposed to do.
Facts about the twins:
Jasmine is a “day older” then James, having been born at 11:55 pm on June 2nd 1995, and James being born at 12:55 pm on June 3rd 1995.
Despite the differing ways in which they lived the first fifteen years of their lives, the two share more then just physical similarities. Both love the same kind of music and books, and the two are studying at the same college, though not on the same course.
Both have light green eyes and brown hair, and both stand at the same height of 5’5” exactly. However, Jasmine has a more feminine form and similarities to their mother, whereas James is like their birth father
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Both grew up in different foster families for fifteen years, with James being adopted by a same sex couple from very early on, and Jasmine never seeming to settle down. Jasmine joined this family shortly after being adopted by James’ parents when they managed to trace her down, discovering that their son was a twin.
Jasmine is a lover of tattoos and piercings, and has plenty of both on her body. The tattoos range from simple words, to complex pieces of art. Her favourite, however, is not on hers, but on her twin.
James doesn’t like tattoos and piercings much, but has one on his arm, of his twin’s name in a simple cursive text, an image of the cover of her favourite book below.