TheSeriousJoke

It's a Hard Life in the Real World(Slice-of-Life, Sci-fi and a bit of action involved)

I'm interested!

Two Worlds- Finding Myself [A part slice-of-life part dystopian roleplay]

You wake up. You get up slowly, stretching. You slept well last night. You check the time. Seven thirty AM. You hop into the shower. You have a busy day today, so you try to get ready quickly.

You pack your kids lunch, giving them a hug as they leave for school. You get into your car, and drive off to work. You stop by a coffee shop to pick up a muffin and a coffee on the way. You arrive at the office, prepared for the day of meetings and busy work.

You come back home, asking your family about their day. You kiss your spouse. You all eat dinner, then eventually split off to do your own things for the evening. You eventually go to bed again. Today was a hard day, but a good day. You hope perhaps it'll get better. You smile before drifting off to sleep. It's not perfect, but you have it good.

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You wake up. You try to work past the grogginess, forcing yourself to stand. It was the best sleep you've had in a long time. You look into the sky. The sun has not risen. You search through your materials, making sure you have everything. You have a busy day today, so you try to get ready quickly.

You load the children's guns, wishing them the best of luck as they leave for battle. You get with your group, and march off to the battlefield. You don't have time for a meal on the way. You arrive at the field, prepared for the day of war.

You come back to base, not saying anything. It's days like these you miss home, no matter how inhospitable it was. You eat the random mess of food you gratefully eat every day, and you prepare the camp for the night. You eventually go to bed again. Today was a hard day, but a good day. You hope perhaps it'll get better. You smile before drifting off to sleep. It's not perfect, but you have it good.

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Hello, and welcome! This roleplay is an idea that's been rolling around in my head and I decided to write it! In this roleplay you play as a person- or rather, two people who are essentially the same. They are parallel versions of one another, one belonging to the sunny and bright world, and another belonging to the grim and dark world. In the story you will first meet your parallel, then you will meet the rest of the group. I'll leave the how under wraps for now.

The first world is much like our own, except unrealistically pleasant. Very little conflict happens there, and everyone lives a good life. Everyone has a job, can pay their bills and get food, everyone has someone to be there for them, everyone has a home. Everyone is loved and cared for, and the only people judged are those that judge others. Not that that's happened in a while. Everyone is happy here.

The other world is much like our own, except much more dismal. The negativity is all that's apparent, with constant war, constant injustice and distrust within the loosely called countries, and frequent conflict between individuals. Every year someone is sent to battle for several months before switching out with another fourth of the population. There is constant fighting between individuals, leaving little companionship. Here everyone is off to war or causing/dealing with problems at home. Family is often created by law, and friends are rarely heard of. It’s rumored that the mysterious overlord of the land intentionally makes it hard on the residents, but that rumor didn’t last long. After all, that’s just how things have always been.

Rules:
1. Follow the site rules.
2. Combat between players is possible, so make sure you PM with the other user to make sure you’re both know and agree how the fight will end.
3. Make your parallels similar. They don’t need to be exactly the same, in fact, their wildly different up-bringings should create differences, but at their core they should be similar.
4. Be creative! Or don’t. It’s more of a suggestion than a rule really. Your characters life doesn't have to mirror the ones approve, those were just to get the point across. Also, if you have an any questions, please ask! I’m always open to ideas and having my ideas probed at.

I’ll put up a CS if I have some interest~! Thank you for checking out my Interest Check and I hope to see you in the OOC.

Eden Boarding School : Embrace The New You

Shay was finally up for his key. He had ran out of numbers, since he didn't know anything past 199, and had instead been tapping his pencil on his side to make some sort of music. When he got up he had realized he hadn't picked a number. He thought about it for only a short time before selecting room 428, for no other reason than he liked making equations with his room numbers. Ignoring the nerdiness, he entered his name, quickly checked for spelling errors, then hit enter.

He got his key and sticker, finding it amusing that they choose to colorize the stickers based on sex. He climbed up the stares with relative ease, but he was certainly not happy about climbing four stories worth of stairs.

He went to his room and saw that names were already on the wall. Andrew Jones, William Davis, and Lucas Godwin. Shay put his own sticker on the door, and was just about to knock when suddenly the door opened and someone ran into him, knocking him down on the floor.

"Oh, wow! Sorry, bro!" He lended Shay a hand in getting up, "Names Will, and you are?"

"Shay." He then tried to cough out the roughness that always plagues his voice when he awakens, "It looks like we're roommates." Will looked back at the stickers and turned back.

"Oh, yeah, I guess so! Well, welcome to the team!" Shay looked behind Will to see to other boys. One boy was throwing a water bottle while the other tried to hit it was a pillow in some form of pseudo baseball. Shay tried not to look as unpleasant as he felt, and tried not to let out any internal though he may or may not have on the matter. He did, however, raise an eyebrow. He knew this was going to be a painful experience.

Eden Boarding School : Embrace The New You

When the bus stopped, Shay made a quite groan if frustration. People were beginning to get off and he was only in the middle of the bus. He gathered his stuff and whatever limited courage he had. His sister had always told him it only took five seconds of bravery to do anything, so he decided to just not think about it until he was in line. He started counting in Spanish, taking his mind off of it.

Uno, dos, tres...

As he climbed off the bus and lifted up his suitcase, which wasn't hard due to it's light weight. He quickly got in line, ignoring his serroundings and twirling a pencil in his hands.

Cuarenta, cuarenta y uno, cuarenta y dos...

He looked to see where the other students were going after they picked up their key. For the most part it seemed pretty split between the elevator and the stairwell. He decided to take the stairwell, as it would no doubt be cramped in the elevator. He smiled at himself, proud he was able to work at the situation objectively, even for a little while. He focused back on the line and his counting.

Eden Boarding School : Embrace The New You

They drove for a few minutes before the school came into view. He was mentally removed from his place of half-awareness into the realm of an exciting reality. He shoved his book back into it's place, trying not to look overly excited. This was when it would start, a new adventure into an exciting academic experience. He realized just how embarrassing that sounded in his head, that's the kind of stuff you find on school flyers, not in anyone's mind. Still, he couldn't help but be excited.

He listened the announcement on the speakers. It seemed simple enough instruction. Until he realized he had to pick a room. He rubbed his face out of worry.

While it was no big deal for most people, this was something that could cause Shay a lot of unneccessary stress. He could easily end up picking the wrong room, maybe taking a room from the wrong guy or he could end up getting really crappy room mates. Or maybe there were guidelines about picking rooms he wasn't aware about and he would end up totally embarrassing himself. It was all he could do to keep himself composed thinking about these scenarios. Maybe he could just ask for any room. But what if that's wrong too?

He decided to just stay in his seat and try not to look as stressed as he felt. He would wait until there were few people left, that way if he embarrassed himself it wouldn't be in front of everyone. But maybe it would be in front of the wrong people and then suddenly everyone will know about the guy who did a dumb thing. Maybe if he just sat there looking desperate enough someone will help him. But that's a pretty childish thing to do for his age. Maybe he could just wait until everyone's gone, but then he could be late for the assembly. He continued to sit and sort through the possibilities, finding little success in creating a solution.

Eden Boarding School : Embrace The New You

Have the students already selected their rooms, like online or when they signed up or something, or are they going to do so once inside?

The 100: We are Grounders

Name: Robin Uccello
Age: 13
Appearance: A tan skinned boy standing at four foot seven. He has dark brown hair (which he gels out of his face), blue eyes, and almost always smiles. His noticeable facial features and his wide eyes and his over average nose size. He wears a blue t-shirts and denim jeans.
Skills: He has few, being his age, but he's good with slight of hand and very good at drawing, which could help as he could very well draw helpful and dangerous organisms.
Personality: He is a child, and it very much shows. He's full of energy, but has a habit of daydream and not focusing. Half the time he lives in a dream world, and this weirdness left him with few friends. Though he's pretty young, he's also very savvy, and can predict outcomes fairly well and make good actions regarding them, assuming he doesn't try to delude himself to believe in a different outcome, which happens more often than not. He's not malicious, but he can be sneaky and acts very independently.
Job: Plant and animal artist
Bio: His caretaker was always very busy doing work in the Ark, and thus Robin was almost always alone. He doesn't even know what they look like. He had gotten by just fine, but he found that even with his caretakers constant work they had very little to work with. Eventually he had started to steal whenever he could, he wasn't proud, but it was all he could think of to do. When they had caught him, they found he had taken many important valuables, some that people had suffered for loosing. He has been imprisioned since, just about to become part of this strange new expedition.

I hope everything checks out!

Eden Boarding School : Embrace The New You

Shay was awoken by the bouncing of some object on his head and the giggling of boys behind them. He rubbed his face to wake up, unsure of where he was. He looked around, seeing if he could identify anything in the nearby area. After a few moments of looking, he realized he was on the bus to Eden. He had been so excited this morning, he remembered, he barely slept last night. Long trips can do a number on even the most enthusiastic, he though.

He pulled out his notebook. He figured he might as well write a little bit. He had at least thirty prompts in his notebook, but he had rarely gotten any of them past the first page. A shame, in his opinion, but he had no muse to continue them, so what could he do? He tried to get himself to write something, even a few sentences, just so he could do more than look at an empty page.

Just then he had heard someone talk about being who they are or something like that. He looked back to see the boy standing from his seat and celebrating his small speech with other surrounding boys. He turned back to his notebook, writing down what he remembered from the statement. He was sure he could write something from that.

Eden Boarding School : Embrace The New You

Name: Shay Elezab
Age: 15
Starting Gender: Male, but you could call him something else and he wouldn't feel insulted
Occupation: Student
Reason for Going: Shay had been interested in joining when he heard about the excellent education provided at Eden. He'd been working intensely for entry since the fifth grade, and was extremely excited when he had been accepted when he was just a freshman. He's passionate about becoming a teacher himself one day, and thus tries to get in good with the teachers so that he could get some experience.
Appearance: Shay is pretty consistently average, with brown hair, brown eyes, tan skin, stands at five foot seven, and has a body shape that isn't too thin nor too fat. He has a face that doesn't really become cute until you look at it enough times. He often wears a bottom up shirt and some slacks, and a thin jacket if it gets really cold out. The only noticeable feature about him is his hairstyle, since he wears it as a faux hawk.
Personality: Shay is passionate, independent, and very, very shy. He knows he has a lot of potential, and has the desire to do so, but he's limited by his rather intense social anxiety. Even though he tends to shy away from people, if they give him crap he will not take it, and he'll fight to fight to stop it. He always tries his best in whatever he does, and always does what he can for others.
Other: He brought his notebook with him, but that's it other then the necessities. He also might have brought a music box, but he won't take it out unless the felt safe with his roommates.

I'll get my first post up within the hour!

The 100: We are Grounders

Also, is it okay if I use a description instead of a picture? Because if so I don't have a picture.