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Growth ~ A Musician's Life

@SouffleGirl123PM me when you have time to chat about names/backstories etc :)

Growth ~ A Musician's Life

@SouffleGirl123Sounds good! I'll update my CS now. We'll have to collaborate on some of the band stuff. We could always make the other band members NPCs?

Growth ~ A Musician's Life

Ok people, so I'll have a lead singer and a rhythm guitarist if anyone would be interested in collabing in an alternative rock band? I don't mind if my characters are in the same or different band, if you're interested let me know ^-^.

@SouffleGirl123

Hey I could change my singer into a lead of a alternative band, if you want to be the rhythm guitarist? That would be pretty cool.

Growth ~ A Musician's Life

I think I'm finished.

Harper Cole

[Harper Cole]

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Harper Cole

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Name
Harper Louise Cole

Nickname
Harps, Harpy (by haters)

Gender
Female

Age
23

Nationality
English

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Appearance
Harper is slightly shorter than average at 5'3, with bright purple hair and blue eyes. Her natural hair colour is a mousey blonde and her hair has been almost every colour it could be before she settled on purple. It's hard work keeping the colour bright though and Harper has to reapply colour to it every 2-3 weeks. She uses a mixture of purple shampoos and dyes to keep it looking the way it does. Harper is very slim, has been described as petite often. She is one of those people who don't need to worry about their weight or what they eat. She struggles to ever gain weight, instead remaining at the size she is. Harper likes to keep her makeup minimal, but always moisturises and has a good lip gloss.

Her fashion varies depending on what she is doing. In her personal life, she wears a lot of black or dark clothing, but on stage she wears all sorts of bright colours. Most of her clothes are from markets or second hand shops and then Harper has sewn sequins on or altered them to look nicer and more upmarket. Harper prefers dresses and tights over pants of any kind. She usually performs in bare feet, but otherwise wears platform heels or wedges, never stilettos.

Personality
Harper is outgoing, extroverted and this comes across well on stage. She doesn’t really dance but she doesn't think she needs to. She enjoys performing and likes to have fun with fans and members of the audience. She enjoys people and can often be the life of the party. Harper is creative and she gets excited about new ideas and projects. She is comfortable in unfamiliar situations, finding it easy to go with the flow. She can be wild and crazy, spontaneous but also impulsive and unconventional. Harper can be a risk taker or a thrill seeker and she likes to break the rules. She finishes most things she starts, but not always. She tends to shy away from confrontation unless it is in her best interest to argue a point. She doesn't have many friends, but the ones she does have, she considers family. It can be hard to get to know Harper well because she is often not taking life too seriously.

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Music Career
Singer in the duo, Moon Under Water

Role
Lead Vocalist

Inspiration
Jemima - A female solo artist who caused scandal when she broke away from girl group Glitter because she didn't think she was being true to her own musical style.
Olivia Smythe - another female solo artist who hasn't quite made it big, from Harper's home town.

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Likes/Advantages
Harper would consider herself an alternative artist. She doesn't really fit into the pop genre or rock. Her voice is quite unique, the kind that when you hear it on the radio, you know who the artist is straight away. Harper likes spending time at the beach, it's where she writes most of her music. She is teaching herself guitar and piano, so she can make more music organically. Harper prefers winter to summer and she likes going for walks in the rain. She also likes caffeine because it keeps her going when she is on an all-nighter writing. Harper enjoys working with other artists, especially in different genres because she is always learning.

Dislikes/Disadvantages
Harper doesn't like people who only care about themselves, or their possessions. She also doesn't like people who are only in it for the fame. Harper is afraid that she will never be remembered for doing anything important in life. This is what lead her to want to sing in the first place. She likes the thought that music will live on forever. Harper sometimes suffers from writer's block with her music and she can get very frustrated. Harper also has a dislike for salad, because, let's face it, life is too short to eat salad.

Background
Harper was born in a town of southern coast England. Her family consisted of three children and Harper was the middle child. When Harper was 4, her father left the family to move to America and start a new life without them. Harper's mother struggled as a single parent for a few years, before meeting someone new, who she eventually married. Harper's step father already had two children of his own, so Harper gained two more older siblings, a stepbrother and stepsister. Harper went to a local primary school and started attending a local grammar school.

At age 14, her parents decided they wanted to move overseas, to New Zealand. Harper didn't have any choice but to go with them. Her two older step-siblings stayed in England with their mother, but Harper and her brother and sister, moved with their mother and stepfather to the South Island of New Zealand. Harper finished high school in New Zealand, and then at age 18 moved back to England. She moved in with her stepsister and began working in a pub, waitressing and working behind the bar. Every week the pub would have a karaoke night, which Harper enjoyed taking part in. She eventually began writing songs and saved up some money to pay for some studio time.

One day at the pub, she made friends with a new co-worker. After chatting for a while, they realise they both want to make music. They decide to get together and form Moon Under Water.

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Character Inspiration
London Grammar - Florence and the Machine - Alessia Cara - Broods

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Growth ~ A Musician's Life

Will put my CS up after work today :)

Voltus' One on One Search Thing

Hey I'm interested in some of your pairings. Can you PM me with some of your ideas for any of the follow ideas:

Prince(ess) x Other Royalty
Prince(ess) x Royal Staff/Adventurer
Slave Owner x Slave
Bandit x Captive
Bestfriend x Bestfriend
Childhood Enemy x Childhood Enemy
Country Boy/Girl x City Girl/Boy

Thanks!

Crisis Mars: Evolution [Super humans on Mars]

Name: Evelyn “Evie” Morris
Alias: n/a
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Appearance: Evie is a young woman, long dark hair, brown eyes. She is 5'4 and slender. She has small hands, but rough from working a sewing machine in the factory and her nails are always short because she bites them. Her clothes are home-made, either by herself or her mother, or something she has stolen from the factory. Her hair needs a good brush, but she never really pays any attention to it. She normally has it tied up or at least pushed back from her face.

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Abilities

Abilities: Evie's superpower is invisibility. She has yet to control it, mostly finding herself phasing in and out of visibility. She knows when it is happening because she feels a sensation, almost like pins and needles. Her mother is the only one who knows about it, as she walked into Evie's room one day to find her standing in front of the mirror, invisible from the waist down. Her mother of course screamed. This jolted Evie's concentration and she became visible. Evie has been practising trying to stay fully invisible for longer periods of time, because at present she can only be completely invisible for about a minute before a hand or foot reappears. Her mother hates her practising in the house, but Evie uses her invisibility quite often to sneak in and out. More recently, Evie discovered if she is touching someone or something else, the invisibility can spread to them to.

Skills and Flaws

Skills: Evie is good at calming people down. She is softly spoken and she can see a situation from a variety of viewpoints. This comes from years of arguing with her brother and always managing to diffuse any situation. Evie has a passion for reading and is very literate. She would often spend whole days in the library studying up on anything and everything. Evie is also good at running, making sure she stays in shape, she runs anywhere from 5-15km a day.

Flaws: Evie has never used any kind of weapon or been in a fight. If it came down to fight or flight, flight wins every time for Evie. Evie is also very stubborn and always likes to do things her own way. Evie struggles to trust people, mainly because she doesn't want to get hurt when they die or leave her.

Background

Background: Evie was born in 2179 in New London. Her parents were working class, both of them working two jobs just to get enough money for food for the family. Evie has one older brother, Justin. Her childhood was mainly normal, they lived in a small house just on the outskirts of the "bad" part of town. Her father always used to joke that they had the best house in a bad neighbourhood. Her mother always used to sigh. Both her parents worked in a factory during the day time, making clothes. Her mother would sneak clothes home for the children, luckily never getting caught. Her father worked as a security officer in the evenings, while her mother worked on some kind of "hotline" out of the parents bedroom at night. Evie could her her mother whispering away at late hours.

Life ticked along in the Morris household, things staying the status quo for sometime. Justin wanted to work for the Lorne Corporation because he thought it would be his only chance to move up in the world. He applied many times for a job but never got accepted. In 2195, Evie's father died in an accident at the factory. The family plummeted into a depression, emotionally and financially. Evie's mother quit her night job and Justin took over her father's job at the factory and as a security officer. Things weren't really the same without their father. Evie finished her education and joined her mother at the factory, thinking there wasn't any other way to live.

In 2198, when the riots began, Justin got swept up in the movement. He quit both his jobs and spent all his time organising protests, attending marches and riots. Their mother always tried to tell him to be careful, but he didn't listen. One night in September, during one particularly nasty protest, Justin was killed. The circumstances of his death were never revealed. He just never came home and Evie had a lot of questions that remained unanswered.

When Mars shook in 2200, things started to change for Evie. She didn't know what initially, but things started happening around her. People she knew began disappearing and she noticed herself that she had changed.

Sample Post

The alarm clock went off at 5am, same as it did everyday. Evie could hear her mother moving around in the other room. She could tell the light from the hallway had been turned on, as the glowing yellow light crept under the bottom of her bedroom door. She silenced the alarm with the flick of a switch and quickly jumped out of bed. She threw on her running clothes before her body had a chance to react to the cold. She pulled on her tatty running shoes and opened the door, trying to stop it creaking. She walked down the hallway, past her mother's door, which was slightly ajar. Evie could see her mother sitting on the edge of her bed, picture of her late husband, Evie's father in her hand. Evie didn't want her mother to see her, so she slipped past and out the door.

The air outside was crisp, cool. There was a light wind that blew in her face and she made her way down the street. She had a set route, that only varied depending on the distance she wanted to cover. Today would be a long run, 10km at least. She slowly worked her way into a steady jog, not wanting to overdo it before she hit the middle kms, the hardest part. She liked being out in New London when it was early, when most other people were still asleep. There was a quietness to the city that didn't happen at any other time of the day. There was a stillness that she never seemed to get used to.

Evie's route took her past the factory she worked at, black smoke pouring out the top at all hours of the day. She had never worked the night shift, but she assumed it was just as boring as the day time. As she ran past the factory, she wondered if there would ever be anything else for her to do in life. It seemed that like her parents, she was destined to work there forever, or at least until another tragedy struck. But maybe things were changing now. Since the shake, the management of the factory had been giving lots of overtime to staff. Her mother had been working double shifts some day. It was like they were desperate to get clothes made in case they needed to shut down. And of course, there were trying to replace members of staff that had disappeared since the shake. Evie had heard whispers, rumours about what happened, but nothing confirmed.

Evie could theorise all she liked, but she never got any answers. It did give her something to think about on her runs though. An hour later, Evie returns home, having just come short of her 10km target. She is drenched in sweat but feeling refreshed. Her mother is in the kitchen now, preparing breakfast. Evie slips past into the bathroom to get ready for work. She showers quickly and gets dressed, knowing her mother would want to leave for work as soon as she was ready. Evie stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom, tying her long brown hair up.

"Evie, hurry up. We need to go." Her mother called from the kitchen. Evie didn't acknowledge her, instead continuing to stare at herself in the mirror. She turns to leave, but pauses. Her fingers begin tingling, that weird pins and needles sensation. She looks down at her hand, and she can see it is slowly changing into the colour of the carpet. No, she isn't changing colour, she is just becoming transparent. Evie turns back to the mirror, focusing on her hands, her arms, her upper body. Slowly, her reflection disappears.

"Evie, come on. We will be late!" Her mother calls, even louder now, footsteps coming down the hall. Evie stops looking in the mirror and the tingling sensation dissipates. She grins to herself, "still got it" she thinks. Then she sighs, and leaves the bathroom, off to work for another day.

Crisis Mars: Evolution [Super humans on Mars]

@SepThank for accepting my character. Do I move my CS sheet to the characters tab now? (The layout is different to when I was last here)

Can't wait to get started.

Growth - A Musician/Life Roleplay

Here are some of my ideas of the things you raised in the original post...It's late, so I don't know if this is going to make much sense!

Now here comes a couple of little discussion points for this Thread. First of all is the Music. It could be set in a parallel universe, to some extent, where famous artists are just fictional. Famous Modern musicians around at this time wouldn't exist, only the ones we can create names for.

@LetMeDoStuff

I don't know how this would work. The characters we play wouldn't be the only musicians in the world. I still think there should be some famous musicians around in the universe, but we just don't know them or interact with them. The alternative is that there are other musicians out there, doing their own thing that are like NPCs. So we can interact with them but we don't play them. I guess I just read the main idea as we are all musicians just starting out, so I don't think any of us would be famous straight from the start.

For the actual Musical performances, I guess you could stick to Music that already exists. I'm not sure how you could present it. Whether we select occasional songs we know out of the Roleplay, maybe starting towards the songs that are lower in quality and building up, and playing them during a IC Performance Post, or do something better, we need to discuss.

@LetMeDoStuff

I guess it just depends on how much music you are wanting to include. This kinda comes into the point below about focus. If it is all about the performances and music, then yes, we would need to come up with music to include and whether that's existing music or not, should be up to the poster. If the focus is more on the character development and that sort of thing, then there's the potential for us to flesh out performances without using music.

Secondly, there's how much focus is wanted. I was planning on have it focus more on the actual lives of these young, aspiring individuals rather than just performing, giving the Roleplay some purpose.

@LetMeDoStuff

I think will be the best part of the story. I really think the story needs to focus on the lives of the characters rather than just having performances.

I'll wait to hear what other people's ideas are :)

I Survived...Till Now [[ Permanently Closed ]]

I'm just going to put this here to hold my place. I've started filling in some, but I will have to finish it tomorrow.

EDIT: Think I'm finished :)

Think I'm finished

:: Personal Information ::​

Full Birth-Given Name ::
Lydia Miller
Preferred Name // Nickname ::
Liddie, Lydz. But most of the time Lydia is fine.
Sexual Orientation & Gender ::
Straight, Female
Established In:
25th May 1993, 22 years old
Anyone In Your Sights? ::
Not at the moment.
Also Knowing ::
Lydia is a very academic student, always doing things for extra credit. She wants to be a doctor when she finishes college. Her grades are always pretty good, but it's hard work. She is not naturally intelligent, but she works hard to keep up with the gifted students in the class.

:: General Information ::​

Current Attended College ::
Bayside College

Class You’re Enrolled In Participating In Trip ::
Biology

Contents of Suitcase ::
Lydia brought the following things in her suitcase:

> 1 jacket > 1 skirt
> 2 bra > 1 t-shirt
> 3 dresses > 2 pairs of underwear

Contents of Carry-On Bag ::
Lydia brought a carry-on handbag with the following items:

> Her cell phone > Her passport
> Her makeup bag > Her diary
> Spare underwear > A pencil case
> Headphones

Song That Best Describes Me ::
Jessie J, "Who You Are"

:: Other Information ::​

Here's an Inside Look at How I’ve Lived ::
Lydia is the youngest daughter of Mike and Juliette Miller. Her father is a doctor and Lydia has taken after him in terms of what she wants to do with her life. What most people don't know is that Lydia's mother is in a wheelchair after a bad car accident that killed Lydia's twin sister, Tayla, 5 years ago. Lydia doesn't like to talk about her family life. Her mother blames herself for Tayla's death and this causes some tension in the family home. Lydia is using this trip to spend some time away from her parents.
How Some People Might See Me ::
To describe Lydia in three words it would be quiet, kind and conscientious. Lydia often puts the needs of others before her own. She spends a lot of her time watching other people and as a result she is quite perceptive of other people's feelings. She is a private and polite girl but often socially uncomfortable. Lydia avoids confrontations, can be easily offended and tears come easily to Lydia. Lydia is a goody-good, often following the rules, responsible and making sure others are doing the same thing. Lydia is a planner, she likes to be organised and often finds it difficult to adapt to change.
Standing Before a Mirror, I See ::
Lydia is slender and a little taller than average, standing at 5'8. She has long dark hair and green eyes. Her dress style is quite casual and she doesn't go out of her way to dress up. She doesn't own any long trousers though, preferring instead to wear dresses and skirts. She can't walk in heels, so is often wearing flats or even flip-flops.
Accessories, Tattoos, Scars, etc. ::
Lydia has pierced ears and a pierced belly button. She has a small infinity symbol tattooed on her right wrist. She has a scar on her left wrist from a burn that never healed properly. Lydia also has a ruby necklace she wears around her neck at all times.
Photographed Picture of Myself ::