[OOC] Cursed Critters - Tallshade Tales

[Obscurus]

You got Coyote! ;)

[MiddleEarthRoze]

@Obscurus
YAY! Thankyou! I am nearly done, so it should be up soon. :)

[MiddleEarthRoze]

Angel

Angeline Hardwicke

"Doth Mother know you wear-eth her drapes?" -Tony Stark

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Personal Information

Name:
Angeline Megara Hardwicke

Nickname:
Angel

Birth Date:
24th November

Age:
20

Gender:
Female

Sexuality:
Heterosexual

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In The Mirror

In Depth Appearance:
Angel stands at a less than average height of 5’5, along with a slim hourglass figure, and a heart-shaped face; atop of which sits a mess of chocolate brown curls, often worn in a myriad of different styles, and various shades of brown depending on how she feels like dyeing it. Her eyes are a bright, clear blue, standing out thanks to her dark lashes and brows. Her tanned skin is mostly unmarred, barring tiny scars here and there from scuffles in the past and childhood accidents.

Clothing Style:
Angel’s clothing style very much changes with the wind and her mood – some days she’ll favour darker clothes in a punk style, paired with heavy make-up and an obvious attitude. Other days she’ll be natural, wearing dresses of various styles and colours and accompanying accessories. And then the day after that she’ll just dress comfortably, wearing jeans and over-sized sweaters. The only clothes that rarely change are her pyjamas – anything with teddy bears. Because teddy bears are awesome, guys.

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Delving Deeper

Likes:

• Anything fluffy – particularly animals.
• Face Painting (Well, any form of painting really, but face painting is a fun pastime for her.)
• Way too Loud music (Particularly rock)
• Cooking
• Steak (Cooked blue – any more than that is blasphemy, in her eyes.)
• Puns, quips, innuendos, and double entendres. (She’ll even sometimes sink so low as to pull the ‘That’s what he/she said’ joke.)
• Chocolate
• Day-dreaming
• ELECTRIC GUITAAAAAARRRRRRR
• Marvel
• Nature, and all of her destructive and calm feelings.

Dislikes:

• Marvel-bashers
• Screamo or death metal
• Messing up her paintings
• Nosiness
• Apathy
• Slyness
• Ignorance
• The ever growing cacophony of irritating sounds often found issuing from children and babies.

Fears:

• Heights
• Insects and arachnids
• Dying in some kind of meaningless, pointless manner.
• Not having left something worthwhile on this earth before she dies.

Habits:

• Humming snatches of songs, or simply guitar riffs, under her breath.
• Tapping out drum beats.
• Day dreaming, zoning out, or losing track of a conversation mid-sentence.
• Clinging to a point rather stubbornly, should she believe she is correct and the other person is wrong.

Personality:

Entertaining ♦ Stubborn ♦ Opinionated ♦ Warm-Hearted ♦ Sharp

Despite the fact her looks – and occasionally scatter-braininess - can make Angel seem like a wee naive girl, she is far from it. She knows far more than she lets on, and she will never let anyone take advantage of her. However, when looking at what Angel truly is like, it is plain to see she can make quite the courteous friend. Not only is she happy to lend an ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on, but she gives fairly shrewd advice to people’s problems, in the hopes of helping them. Because of this, she is hardly one to judge others for their acts. One perspective of a story is hardly going to change her opinion of someone. Additionally, she’s quick to make jokes or light-hearted remarks in the hopes of getting someone’s spirits up. Humour rarely fails her, and is a very easy thing to fall back on.

As for her stubbornness... well, it’s a miracle her animal form isn’t a Bull. If she has a point in an argument she will fight it as long she believes she is correct – which can definitely cause irritation for others around her, but she does certainly enjoy being right in her views... not that that means she is not open to other people’s opinions. When it comes to hard facts, she will happily accept it if she is wrong in something. As for opinions, everyone is entitled to have them – unless some poor ignorant fool is under the impression that their opinions are indeed facts. In which case, she’s happy to deliver a few sharp words towards said ignoramous.

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Background:

Angel has been living in Tallshade for a good few months now, alongside her younger brother and Uncle. Prior to this, the last time she could remember a normal home life was when she was 9 years old, and still living in England with her brother, and parents. As such, life was pretty good. Her Mother was a Detective, her Father was in the army, and she was doing pretty good in terms of friends and school. Even with an annoying 5-year-old brother hanging around her at all times.

Except, this annoying little brother arriving was one of the few good things she could remember in this time of her life – for a few months after her ninth birthday, her Mother died. A police raid gone wrong or something. She was too young to be given all of the details, not that it made it any easier. It had been while her Dad was away, on a tour in some country that she couldn’t pronounce yet. Naturally, he came home early, to attend the funeral and look after his young children. Shortly after this, he left the Army, under Compassionate leave.

However, his time abroad had left its mark already – he’d seen such horrors, comrades blown apart before him, that things weren’t so perfect for him mentally. He became paranoid, plagued with nightmares and the inclination that someone had killed his Wife, and was then after him and his two children.

Just before Angel’s tenth birthday, their house was sold and they moved to America. From there, they lived a very uncomfortable nomadic lifestyle – travelling from state to state when their Father became certain “people” had followed him there. He acted in the attempt to save his family, and Angel understood that. She knew her Dad was sick, so she just helped look after her brother and kept her head down in school, never really answering truthfully when people asked her why she never stayed for long.

However, she knew something had to be done when he grew distrustful of her. Over the years she was maturing into a young lady, body and accent changing – but in her Father’s demented mind, she should still be his little nine year old. She became unrecognizable, and after she came home from school one day at the age of 16, he attacked her, thinking she was some kind of assassin that had broken in.

Evading her Father, Angel fled the home with her brother, heading straight to the nearest police station for aid. She knew this would mean social services would get involved, but she couldn’t live with her Dad anymore, not when he was quite capable of killing her and her brother in their sleep.

After a few weeks of wrapping their heads around their case, and a few foster homes, social services were able to find a relative of theirs living in America. Although the offer to go back to England was there, Angel decided remaining in the USA was better. She didn’t particularly want to remain in the same country as her Dad (Who was being deported back to the UK to receive mental help), but she knew this life better than her English life.

Their fathers cousin – they simply call him Uncle James, it’s easier – happily took them in, being childless himself, and after a few years living in rainy Washington, James’ work had them moved to Tallshade.

Now 20 years old, Angel is approaching her final year at University, studying Psychology. Over the years, she has also developed into a low-key rebel. Although not far rebellious enough to joy-ride vehicles or break into houses, she does partake in some amusing deviant acts. Her Uncle is quite lax when it comes to curfews, but had they been in place, she wouldn’t have paid attention to them anyway. Also, as a lover of art, she is quite happy to graffiti the town – nothing as crude as tags, but things that actually look nice.

This was how she came across the Mentor. Late one night, she was busy spraying a moonlit lake on a wall when he appeared behind her, at first complimenting her art... and then asking her to spray something for him.
Although dubious at first, she swiftly deduced that he wasn’t a cop – a cop would have arrested her already. So, she quite happily sprayed a pentagram on the church wall prior to his instructions (And thoroughly enjoying the irony behind said act), and from there, the conversation grew far more... odd. Now here she is with super-powers like the guys in her favourite movies, and doing things for a guy for reasons unknown to her...

Relationships:

☮Robert☮

The boy is an adventure-loving musician; what's not to love? He isn't too hard on the eyes either...

☮Toby☮

Has a pretty calming air about him. Seems like a dependable friend.

☮Cara☮

Ah. Bluntness. What a refreshing change in this world of political correctness. Also a potential foe when it comes to debating.

☮Nick☮

Hell, the boy can draw. He seems pretty sweet too - although not overly so, thankfully. His bootlegging of alcohol tells me that.

☮Nina☮

If I were to describe her in one word, it would be bitch. But hell, being a bitch isn't always a bad thing. I do admire girls and their claws, and she's got the sharpest of them all. Quite the hellion one looks for in a friend.

☯Eddie☯

Seems kind of meek, not really one to stand up for himself. Which is slightly irritating, but hey, the guy hasn't done anything bad to me.

☯Sloane☯

A fellow admirer of art, and isn't irritating so far.

⚡Teryn⚡

Ugh. I admire stubbornness, but clinging to one's opinions when proven wrong is pathetic. Lady also has some severe issues with everything and everyone, it would seem. Also, she hates dogs. Who hates dogs? THEY'RE SO FLUFFY!

Extra:
Likes to partake in some underage drinking – moreso than what one would consider to be healthy.
Dotes on the family dog – a clumsy Alsatian by the name of Dexter.
Is a supreme geek lord – will thrash your ass in any trivia in regards to her favourite fantasy novels or media.

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Dark powers:

Animal Form:
Black Coyote



Power:
Déjà Vu:
Can give the feeling of Déjà Vu to anyone, by wiping their memory from the past few seconds – this can cause slight disorientation, or simply a repetition of a phrase or sentence. Useful if she needs to record or remember a conversation, or slip away without them realising.

[Obscurus]

@MiddleEarthRoze Looks good Roze. She reminds me of.. well.. Roze :p
Angel is accepted if you fill in the relations part. It could be just how she views the others. Though you could discuss this with people.

(there's something weird going on with the symbols for 'ex' and 'boyfriend/girlfriend' but we don't need those atm anyway so that's oke for now)

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It's funny that I was having Robert have almost the same power, before I changed it.

[MiddleEarthRoze]

@Obscurus

I've worked a few out now :). By the way, is it cool if this is Angel's first time at the meeting place? She's only been in the town for a little while, after all.

[MiddleEarthRoze]

If anyone wants to change their status (Like turn friend into neutral, or bump it up into Best Friend or even Love Interest) Do let me know. :)

[Obscurus]

@MiddleEarthRozeAwesome, post her in the char tab. We could say that she only attended once before, with the last full moon. That way she is still new, but there doesn't need to be much explaining going on.

[MiddleEarthRoze]

@Obscurus

Cool stuffs! Can't wait to start. :)

[Smystar99]

@Obscurus My character should be out today, I`m almost done with her ^^

[Kidd]

@Smystar99 I'm going back and forth on this but would you be okay with Sloane having a major crush on Sky (unrequited obvi since Sky is hetero)?

[Smystar99]

@KiddYeah that'd be totally fine.

[Smystar99]

@Nytem4re Is it alright if Sky has a crush on Toby?

[Nytem4re]

@Nytem4re Is it alright if Sky has a crush on Toby?

@Smystar99

Sure, I'm fine with that.

[Smystar99]

Skylar Montgomery

Skylar Montgomery

"People are always saying I have a greater understanding. If this is true than someone needs to explain why everything is so confusing." ~Skylar Montgomery

Personal Information

Name:
Skylar Jane Montgomery

Nickname:
Sky or Fawn

Birth Date:
February 28

Age:
21

Gender:
Female

Sexuality:
Heterosexual

In The Mirror

In Depth Appearance:
Unlike the slim figures of all the other women in the Montgomery family Sky got more of a curvy figure. Along with being 5"2 and having unusual grey eyes it was safe to say she stuck out a bit compared to her four sisters. Freckles dot her face and body being something she loathed as a child and something she`s come to find as apart of who she is as an adult. The sun is usually an enemy because of her pale skin color. Her hair is naturally red and is curly and thick. She`s learned after cutting it short once that it`s best to leave it long, it`s a untamable beast. The redness in her hair varies by season, in summer months it turns copper due to the sun, in winter it turns a crimson red color(her preferred color of her hair). When it comes to make up she would rather skip it for a more natural look, though she does like lipstick. Even though she hides it, because mostly everyone in the group finds her to be the innocent one, she has a tattoo of a broken heart on the right side of her ribcage. The reason behind this tattoo no living soul knows, no one even knows she has it.

Clothing Style:
Sky`s clothing choices vary by how she feels. On a Friday she might be feeling a edgy black dress with three inch wedges while on a Monday she`d be wearing a white sundress with a light pink sweater. There are also the days where she dresses up like what she calls "witchy" or "hippy" styles. You can be assured whatever she`d wearing always has a necklace though and if she`s not feeling well sweat pants usually follow.

Delving Deeper

Likes:

• Music
• Coffee
• Strawberry pastries
• Literature
• Cats
• Art

Dislikes:

• Rap
• Dishonesty
• Cherry anything
• Body shaming
• Public Speaking

Fears:

• Abandonment
• Hurting other people
• Alienation
• Always being seen as the little sister

Habits:

• When she`s nervous she`ll often start spinning her necklace or a piece of jewelry she`s wearing at the time.
• As she gets excited she goes from speaking normally to loudly.
• Whenever she`s uncomfortable she puts her hair into a ponytail.
• Often stays up way too late at night.

Personality:

♦ Clumsy ♦ Wise ♦ Warm-Hearted ♦ Understanding

Even as a child most people said she was far beyond her years and as she reached her teen years people started to say she was the wise old woman in a teenager`s body. She tries to understand someone before she says anything against them. This leads to her being very trusting and understanding towards others. The advice she gives to problems is usually a lot more than someone her age should be able to give. It`s also one of her biggest downfalls as others can betray her quite easily. In all she`s rather clumsy and lightheaded, someone could tell her something and she`d forget it in two seconds. This has always been something she`s hated because while she`s very smart no one can see that with how forgetful and sporadic her nature is. In sad situations she feels rather uncomfortable, because while she tries her best to comfort someone she always feels like she`s doing everything wrong. Even though she looks down on herself a lot she does have confidence in her decisions and she believes that believing in yourself is the best thing you can do. She does feel like the owl represents her a lot. Like the owl she prefers being up all night than being awake during the day. It`s also seen as a wise creature and has aspects that she wants for herself, to be more precise and strong are two of them.

Background:
In her family there`s five daughters, Sky being the youngest. Meaning her childhood was full of hand-me-downs and often being misplaced. Her oldest sister Delilah is seven years older than her. The second and third daughters, Mary and May, are twins and are six years from Sky. Jamie who`s the closest to Sky at only two years apart. When Sky was born her parents had been hoping to finally have a boy. She`s always felt like her father didn`t approve of her because of this. The Montgomery family is known for being a very rich and successful family in a town a few towns away from Tallshade. As she grew up she had trouble trying to convince people she wasn`t a snob like they tried to make her believe. Many people bullied her for her intelligence and the difference of her looks compared to her sisters. Even her sisters would laugh and joke about how she was adopted. It really did make her feel like she had no one, her parents were always working, and it was very easy to just isolate herself in their huge house. Due to all of this she fell into depression and at some points self harmed.

In high school she got involved in a lot of bad groups. She often snuck out to get high or drunk with people she thought were her friends. It wasn`t until she was almost 18 that things went completely downhill. At a party she overdosed unintentionally. If the cops hadn`t broken up the party a few minutes later she would have died. In the hospital her family didn`t have anything nice to say to her and only yelled at her for being so irresponsible. They sent her off to a clinic for 6 months and she was released when she turned 18. Instead of going back to her family she broke off all tries to them. She got a job and lived in a small apartment till she finished high school and got a broken heart tattooed on the right side of her ribs. She saved up money and moved to Tallshade to go to college as soon as she had enough money. It was a step by step process.

The day she got to Tallshade she went to the Castle Street Café and ordered a cup of coffee and some breakfast. The things she owned were in a small suitcase next to her in the booth. As she sat there silently reading her book an older man came and sat across from her in the booth and ordered a drink from the waitress before looking at her. Sky asked him who he was and they eventually got into a conversation about her life somehow. She found out his name was Grimbold and he asked her if she wanted a way to completely change her life and be in an actual family for once, as long as she did what he said. It took awhile but she agreed and he told her to walk out of the shop and not pay for her coffee or breakfast. It was history after that and she`s been with the group for three years now. She finally has a place where she can be herself.

Relationships:
Sky thinks of the entire group as her family. As such she has compassion and understanding for all of them. Most she considers as friends and even if she doesn`t feel too confident in a member of their family she still treats them with respect and gives them the benefit of the doubt.

☮ Eddie ☮

- Eddie is a good guy, she finds it interesting to watch him tinker, and talking about fiction books is always fun. Sky always tries to convince him to like cats more. He`s the person she goes too to talk about the books she`s reading at the time.

☯ Terry ☯

- In Sky`s eyes Terry is alright, her observant nature makes her an okay person to talk too, although her crude nature sometimes makes her a bit uncomfortable.

☮ Sloane ☮

- When they first met she knew the woman didn`t think too highly of her, some friendships start out a bit rocky though. In present day she finds Sloane to be a very good friend of hers, even if they don`t agree on rap music.

☮ Rob(Foxy) ☮

- Foxy as she likes to call him. She likes to think of him like the older brother she never had as his middle name happens to be her last name. Like her she also values how he thinks of them like a family.

♥ Toby ♥

- Ever since she met him Sky`s always had a crush on Toby. At first she thought it was just his looks and tried to talk herself out of it. As she got to know him more she found to really like his calm nature and that he himself also had some bad experiences with drugs and such, in which she could relate.

⚡ Cara ⚡

- Cara makes Sky feel rather uneasy. While she seems very nice Sky can feel the other side of her personality and has seen it a few times. This rather scares her. On the outside Sky is usually very nice to her however.

☮ Nick ☮

- Much like most of the group she sees Nick as a younger brother. She likes that if either of them aren`t feeling talkative the other person can rant as long as they want. It can also just be a conversation or sitting in silence.

☯ Nina ☯

- At first Nina seemed like the type of person Sky would never be on great terms with. She was the queen bee in high school while Sky had been the rebellious/druggy girl. As time went on she`s started to become perfectly fine with her. Even if she`s hot tempered and can be rather hard to work with Nina does protect those she cares for and Sky admires that.

☮ Angel ☮

- Angel`s compassion is what Sky appreciates the most about her. Even though she went through some hard stuff in life she still jokes and laughs. In Sky`s eyes she`s the person to go to if you`re having a bad day.

Extra:

Dark powers:

Animal Form:



power:
She gets strong feelings of what someone is thinking. There are times when she can hear slight whispers of what they`re thinking or their intentions. While this can piss off a lot of people in the group it`s a useful tool.

[CharmingDevil]

Come back after a few days absence and I've missed so much! Haha working on finishing up my CS tonight. Was having some dilemmas on backstory and what his power will be but I think I just need to type it up now. Was hoping to finish before we started but oh well. Don't miss me too much! ;)

[Obscurus]

Hey guys, great to read all the nice introductions of your characters in the IC.

Don't forget to use the format I gave you in the rules: Name, picture, whereabouts, interacting with. And the bold and italic for speaking and thinking respectively.
I'll write up another post today:)

@Smystar99
Sky looks like another great member of our family. I like her. Though her power is not OP or wrong, I wonder how it would translate into bad luck for someone, or a form of ominousness, or just a bad day. If you get my drift. Perhaps you can find a way to twist or explain it that it could have that function. Let me know when you think of something, then I can accept her officially:)
Seeing as you also posted her in the OOC, I guess you figured out that that's where characters are supposed to go before they are accepted;)

[Obscurus]

@CharmingDevilYou're not too late yet;) Everybody is just entering the Cabin.

[Obscurus]

@Divine Darkness I like how Nina is entering in her cat form. Just remember that she has no clothes on when she transforms back.
That stuff happens more often though, so Grim-B will have some clothes lying around for these occasions. Don't expect anything fashionable though;)

[CharmingDevil]

Awesome, almost done, just need to finish up the character relationships section (there's so many of you to read through!) and tweak the power some more. I'm trying to make it relate to my character's personality because that makes the most sense to me instead of picking a random power.... But I'll have to finish in the morning as it's currently 5am and my brain no longer wants to function sooooo, farewell for now.

[Obscurus]

@AccursedBiscuit
Good Question! Basically you can speak to them, observe them, or take an action with a certain intention.
You can never make another character talk or act. you can only do that to with your own character.

Basically this means you can write:
Bob (your character) said "hi" to Tom (other persons character)
Bob stretched out his hand to shake Tom's hand. (with the intention of shaking toms hand, but not actually describing that action because that would need Tom's player's permission)
Bob saw that Tom was very fat (if that's in the characters description)

But you can't write:
Tom (not your character) said: 'Hey bob, I think you're so cool. Here is all my money.'
Bob punched Tom in the face.
Bob saw that Tom was turning purple (when the player of Tom didn't state that)

While I'm not going to write out the entire etiquette, you could google on 'godmodding' for all things that you shouldn't do.
We're also on the skype btw. Which is probably a more easy way to talk.

[edit: And this: roleplayerguild.com/posts/3337607 exists, but it's not really about how to RP with other characters, but more a general RP etiquette]

@Obscurus

@AccursedBiscuit
I just realised that in my last post I broke the etiquette three times. So I just wanted to bring some nuance to this.
Though I want to stick with the rules on no godmodding, minor things that the other person would probably go along with, can help speed up the RP. But since we're a new group, it's hard to guess what somebody would find acceptable. So we'll just have to find the right juice.

My crimes:
1) expecting Eddie to fistbump Rob back
2) expecting Eddie to answer Rob
3) petting Nina - because she could want to evade that.

The Eddie related interaction seems pretty safe, as they're best buddies - unless fistbumping is really not something you'd like to do.
Though I remember Nina not liking being touched, so I might change that.