[OOC] [Love Less] | In the Game of Love, Everyone Loses

[AimeChambers]

@KimmiNinja

Yay~ I've already started on my CS

[Duoya]

@KimmiNinja
I'm getting swamped by homework (that's what I get for waiting till last day of winter break), so I can't post tonight.

Promise, my CS will be up by tomorrow.

[AimeChambers]

@Duoya

Still haven't read the book I'm supposed to read by wednesday~

[Sazama]

@Duoya

No worries take your time! I probably won't start putting together IC post til Thursday

[AimeChambers]

Deanna Price

Name: Deanna "Dee" Price
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Doesn't know
Age: 20
Job/Career: Musical Theatre Major

Personality: Deanna's main objective in daily life is to stay quiet and not be the center of attention, because when she opens her mouth she speaks her mind, and her mind can be rather rude and uncouth. She can't filter her thoughts which have lead Deanna into so many sticky situations that she likes to pretend she's mute or just really quiet around new people. For the people she is close to, she'll talk as much as she wants... and then is quick to apologize depending on what she said to you. For those who know of her bad habit and still stick around, she views them as truly amazing and admirable.

Background: From when Deanna was a young girl, she has always spoken her mind. So when she was a child, she would always demand for the stuff she wanted and acted like a spoiled brat. The girl was spoiled by her parents and her friends would only stick around because her older brother was known as the school hotty. As she got to the end of her elementary years and transitioned to Junior High, she came to realize how nasty girls could be and broke off with her "fake" friends. The girl mostly hung out with guys after that, during that age they were known to be rugged, if not straightforward. But Deanna couldn't ever reciprocate feelings for any of her friends that started getting crushes on her, leading to friends choosing sides, and too many conflicts to end with her friendless again.

Deanna tried her best to fix up her personality. Stay on the high road, put others first and the works. She tried to keep away from stuff like gossip and talking about crushes, the idea of break-ups and the loss of friends too upsetting for her. During her high school years, she gained two best friends that were able to handle all of her nonsensical blabbering and the like, but the girl ended up getting a crush on her, making everything awkward. By the end of high school, she was full of regret when it came to romantic relationships, never really understanding the meaning of attraction even though the other person might not be that great.

Now in college, she tries her best to stay quiet because she doesn't have any close friends in the area. Try not to be alone with someone else in a conversation, and always run the reply in Deanna's head before she says it. The awkwardness continues as she stands there up to a minute thinking about what to say, and then forgetting the topic of conversation in the first place.

The great thing about her major is that you aren't yourself, but you play someone else! The whole thing involves looking through someone else's eyes and not your own. Originally she was going to go into Film Production, but after trying out for the Black Box musical, she decided to switch her major.

Likes: Sweets, cheezy/bad puns, music
Dislikes: Concerts, being alone with strangers, oranges

[Typical]

@kimmininja Started CS, will try to post by Wednesday :)

[Sazama]

@AimeChambers

Accepted you can move it to the character tab

@Dusksong

alright looking forward to it ^ ^

[Typical]

[@kimmininja] Haha just kidding, finished it xD

—Nylah Weiss—
What procrastination does to me ._.

[Cat]

@KimmiNinja Are you still accepting members? ^^

[Sazama]

@Dusksong

haha love it, go ahead and move it to the character tab

[Sazama]

@Cat

At the moment, no but there's a chance for more open spots sometime Wednesday. I'll definitely pm you if that's the case.

[Cat]

@KimmiNinja I understand, thank you for informing me. I'll make sure to keep an eye out till then!

[Sazama]

@Cat

Yeah I'm only limiting spots at the moment because of the people who reserved was a larger number than I expected so I need to organize everything story wise but there'll most likely be spots open soon once I do get everything organized.

[AimeChambers]

@Dusksong

Friend!

Nylah and Deanna are in the same department at University! They should at least know of each other right?

[Typical]

@aimechambers Haha I was thinking as much, but I don't know if Nylah and Deanna would know much else about each other than their names and perhaps a few random details from class... wanna take this conversation to PM if you have any other ideas?

[Nevix]

Working on a CS now!

[Sazama]

Updated the join status to full but everyone who got the okay from me to still make a character may still do so. That should be everyone that I tagged when I first put up the OOC.

Also to those that requested to join and I told them I would PM them, may still make a character when I give them the notice.

[Duoya]

@KimmiNinja
This guy okay?

Derick Cummings

Appearance

Name: Derick Cummings

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Hetero, but he doesn't plan on doing sexual things anytime soon.

Age: 30

Job/Career: Professional Musician

Personality: Derick isn't hard-pressed for money, and he shows it in his attitude. He acts with an air of classiness and respect, and is caring and responsible to a fault. He is diligent in his music, and he has a very deep relationship with it, making him highly defensive over the entire field. That is probably because it is one of the few things he is capable of experiencing like a normal person, as he is blind in both eyes. He does his best to ignore his disability, so far as to not bring it up in normal conversation unless asked. He tries to make people comfortable around him, and is willing to understand that his disability makes people uneasy. He especially enjoys when people try to change how they speak around him, mainly when they avoid phrases like "I see". Despite how warm he is to people, it is clear from talking with him that he is incredibly cynical and melancholic. it takes only a few years of knowing him for those around him to realize he has a major sociopathic trait that makes him someone others wish to avoid: He cannot feel love.

Background

Derick was raised in a fairly normal home, but lacked any of the stereotypical attributes of a child. He was quiet, reserved, and spent his time in his room, alone. It wasn't until the age of 7 when he actually started doing something meaningful: He started to play guitar. His parents had gotten it for him on his birthday, and he has rarely put it down since. He learned chord after chord, constantly growing as a musician, to the point where he even created a musician club in his high school. It was there that he met sherry.

She was the school's idol. Smart, athletic, talented, and pretty to boot. And she wanted Derick of all people! Derick never felt any romantic kind of attraction towards her, but he was definitely not going to deny her. The two quickly entered into a relationship, with the calm and classy Derick making a perfect match for the similar Sherry. Several months later, in Derick's junior year, the two had sex for the first time. The next morning, Derick was completely blind.

Glaucoma. A strange word. A word you wouldn't want to be in the same room with. Derick had experienced a somewhat rare occurrence: he went blind overnight. His doctors held him in the hospital for what felt like an eternity, and may as well have been. Derick couldn't see the sun anyways. No way to tell what day it was besides the date his (usually sobbing) parents told him. Despite all of the money and time that his parents put into him, Derick still didn't love them. He only felt grateful, and sorry they gave birth to such a useless son.

Gifts and flowers littered his room for weeks. Even the local concert hall had sent him a bouquet, wishing him well. But slowly, like a balloon loosing it's air, the gifts trickled down into nothingness. His visitors, once plentiful, also began to disappear. Sherry was the last to stop coming. All he had now was the unfeeling staff, and the parents he couldn't help but not love.

After 6 months in the hospital, Derick was finally released. It was the beginning of summer. It wasn't like he was kept there for his illness: his parents wanted to keep him away from his old life, all the old memories. But there is only so much a parent can do until the budget runs out. During his stay, he was taught to read and write in braille, and he spent his days strumming on the guitar which he had already imprinted in his muscle memory. He began to learn how to walk with a cane, and he even managed to become a senior in high school. Well... Not his high school. Derick was moved to a school for the blind, where he spent his days coping with the disability he wanted nothing more than to ignore. He never managed to recreate his old club, and graduated from high school with a B-average.

Derick never entered College. He thought it was a stupid waste of time considering his disability. Instead, he successfully became a musician. He played guitar in concert halls, never going for celebrity status or fame, only trying to distract himself from his problems. His music had a feeling, a kind of emotion that other people loved to hear. He became a regular at the local concert hall in New York, and he frequented cafes and restaurants that wanted a musical background. He moved out of his parents home at the age of 20, renting out a small apartment to live in. And all that time, Derick couldn't shake the feeling that everyone cared less about the music than they did about the disabled person playing it. He was worried people only cared about his disadvantage, and how he has become a musician despite this blatant struggle. He was worried no one cared about his music, the one constant that remained throughout his entire life.

Everyone always commented on the emotion behind his music. How it carried a strong sense of longing, how some songs were depressing and melancholic, while others were joyful and gay. No matter what song, everyone always commented on how much they loved it. At 26, Derrick had finally moved into his own house. He never knew what people talked about when they commented on his music. He wanted to understand why his music caused this emotion in others. He didn't even care about finding a relationship, music was the only lover he needed.

Derick began his search to feel love.

Likes: Music, playing guitar, playing the saxophone, chatting with others, drinking tea, audio books, taking care of other people, and warm summer days.

Dislikes: Grocery Shopping (an employee usually has to help), loud places, wide-open spaces, people stealing his walking cane, and artists.

[Sazama]

@Duoya

Yup, love the take on the character in terms of him being blind. Go ahead and move it to the character tab !

[Sazama]

@Fabricant451 @MechonRaptor @crescentmelody

Are you guys still interested in participating? If not that's fine I just need to know so that I may inform of open spots for other people