[OOC] Animorphs: The Reckoning

[Aristocles]

@SM64Dude

That's fine. I'll have something for Adrian as soon as tomorrow, definitely by Monday evening.

[Lord Frostecs]

It's fine mate, don't you worry about it. I understand being distracted from role-play, for it happens to me far too often!

[Dusty]

I actually had this done yesterday, but forgot to post it. Anyway here he is.

Mason

Name: Mason

Gender: Male

Human: Certainly

Personality: Typically quiet and reserved Mason is a very serious, and yet somewhat violent person. Due to a troubled childhood, with his father in jail and his mother unable to care for him, Mason has spent most of teen years in the care by a decent foster family. He is slightly self-conscious about the lack of real parents in his life, and more importantly why they aren’t there. As such Mason’s grown tough over the years, originally having to endure a level of bullying in middle school over his home situation until he proved himself capable of giving those who mouthed off to much a good licking out behind the school building. Mason isn’t the smartest person in his class, far from it in fact, but he scores a few acceptable C’s, and does his work in time so as to avoid any pestering from his foster parents.

Although most of the time he’s uptight and doesn’t joke around, Mason does tend to lighten up every now and then to have a little fun. Most often this is when he’s playing catcher on the baseball team, hanging loose with friends, working at his job at the local pet store, or just playing video games. Mason isn’t one for delayed gratification either, so he has a tendency to be a little unorganized and apt to be doing important things at the last minute. Probably Mason’s greatest flaw is his short temper, which when frayed leads to him solving problems with shouted words, or his fists. His no nonsense attitude and sarcastic retorts has landed him in trouble multiple times, and most adults blame it on his rough childhood and implore Mason to try to calm down and think before he talks back to authority.

Physical Description: Standing at a moderate 5’11” Mason is a sandy haired older adolescent who looks to be in senior or junior year at high school. He weighs in at a healthy 165lbs and carries himself with a casual straight-backed confidence. Mason tends to wear jeans and a solid colored t-shirt, usually brown, grey, or black, with sneakers, and often times he dons a worn out old baseball hat. Usually Mason has a fairly serious look to him, though he can appear more relaxed and smile a bit on occasion.

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[Aristocles]

Adrian's up.

[Lord Frostecs]

I am glad to see all your creative posts! Reminds me of a time when I would write scifi/modern books outside of my main book series. Too bad my computer was reset and I lost the books before I could save them to a USB flash drive, but that is another story, another time.

[Aristocles]

So, when do we begin?

[Lord Frostecs]

I am guessing we have to wait for @SM64Dude

[Holly]

Sincerest apologies, all! I was absent for way longer than I expected to be, but that gave me time to think up a beginning for the story and devise my character sheet, which I'm working on as I type (sorta :p). Expect to start tonight or tomorrow! If we don't, one of you has permission to kick my ass! ;D

[Aristocles]

@SM64Dude

I'll take you up on the offer. :D

But seriously, take your time.

[Holly]

In the meantime!

@Dusty and @ayzrules, please add your character sheets to the "characters" tab!

[ayzrules]

@SM64Dude Sure thing! I'm still finishing up my character so that's why I haven't yet, but I will once I've got everything written up for her :)

[Lord Frostecs]

Sincerest apologies, all! I was absent for way longer than I expected to be, but that gave me time to think up a beginning for the story and devise my character sheet, which I'm working on as I type (sorta :p). Expect to start tonight or tomorrow! If we don't, one of you has permission to kick my ass! ;D

@SM64Dude

Oh, it's fine, you can take all the time you need for doing what you need to do. I like your character, it is short but sweet, and gets to the point! I hope we start the roleplay soon, but if not, that is fine, since it gives me a bit of time to work on my scrapcastle(TM) while I wait. So take your time, don't worry, because I can understand that you are doing other things before roleplay! :)

[Holly]

Alright folks! Just about everything's in place for us to begin! Finally!!

Just a couple quick things we need to make sure of before we start:

First off, ages. I was thinking our characters would be the same age as the characters in the books, but it looks like we're leaning more towards late-high-school types. That's fine! As long as it's something we all agree upon, and we respect that these are still kids, for the most part.

Second, posting schedule. Personally, unless we're doing something incredibly action packed, I'll be a bit slow to post- College and anxiety kick my ass on the daily! If you need to be slower as well, that's totally fine! But if you need to leave for any reason, I just need to know. I don't need details, just tell me. All I can ask for. Also sub to the RP if you haven't already!!

Third: don't be afraid to seize the narrative for a bit. Often times, I'll try to push things along, but if you see an opportunity to do something badass, helpful, important... just do it! Every book had a different narrator, so why shouldn't ours?

Number four is roles... I'm still hesitant about setting definite roles. I really don't want to be the leader, but I can be. It seems we have a lot of "Rachels"- characters who have violent tendencies who can hold their own in a fight. That's totally cool, just remember that this is most likely the first time any of these kids are actually seeing combat.

I think (?) that about covers it! Please pose any questions or disagreements you have now, or forever hold your peace (by forever I mean until I mess up and have to retcon a buncha shit, lol)

[Lord Frostecs]

Alright, this is going to be awesome, I can just smell it! And yes, I think late high school types would be good, because, since the characters in the book were children in mid teens, our characters should reflect that! And I will be able to post a few posts daily, don't worry about that. Thus a minimum of a post a day for me is a guarantee, even having multiple posts if everyone is active. However, if something comes up that forces me to post less and be less active, I will warn you guys of that development. And yes, seizing the narrative would definitely be good, and can help my character get around to having a little bit of his own free will with being spontaneous a little. And considering I myself am a teen in my 3rd year of high-school, I will easily be able to get into the head of my OC, since he is more or less based around me and my personality to make role-play a leetle bit easier for me. And my character could easily fit into the role of the nerd or the more heartfelt character that can step in when our intentions stray from good and start to cross the line into evil, so my character has a role set. I just have one final question: Which time period are we doing? Are we doing mid 1990's like in the books, or are we doing modern day? Just for conformation to be able to get my first post done when we write the first role-play post!

[Holly]

90's all the way baby!!! I wouldn't have it any other way B)

[Aristocles]

@SM64Dude

Alright, but that was a long time ago. I was about 12 when the Animorphs finished their run, although I remember the 1990s reasonably enough. Does everyone else remember those times well?

[Holly]

Whatever we don't remember can be filled in with a Google search or two, I'm sure! The books also serve as wonderful reference points to that end.

[ayzrules]

lol idk anything about the 90s besides like...walkmans were a thing?

(i don't think I've even seen one?)

anyway finishing my character up rn and I think I'd be able to post every 3-7 days, depending on what's going on in my life

[Aristocles]

@ayzrules

Some things to know about the 1990s:

- Bill Clinton was president for most of it (and pretty much all of the Animorphs run.)
- The Twin Towers were still standing, and we had little to do with the Middle East after the Persian Gulf war in 1991.
- Japan was still a close economic rival of the US, although they were slipping behind us. China was way behind where it is now.
- The late 1990s saw a fad for "dark" and "edgy" characters, such as Blade and Neo from "The Matrix."
- There was a second wave of Japanese cultural imports into the USA. Power Rangers, Pokemon, and Dragonball (this was mostly Dragonball Z, few people watched the original Dragonball, and Dragonball Super wasn't around at the time. Not sure about Dragonball GT, which isn't canon anymore IIRC) were way more popular then, and anime wasn't usually (fairly or unfairly) associated with perversion.
- The internet was a novelty, dial-up internet was standard, 3D video games were geometrical and blocky, and Yahoo was the biggest search engine. Google was in its infancy. And some people still called the internet "the information superhighway."
- Songs like "Macarena" and bands like "The Backstreet Boys" were big.
- "Cool" meant skateboards, dark sunglasses, and showing disrespect to authority figures. Wearing a baseball cap backwards was also a thing. And pogs were around for a few years. As were hand-held pixelated electronic "pets."
- People attacked video games for causing violence (they don't!). Today, they attack video games for being sexist (they're not!)
- Spider-Man and Batman were the biggest comics. Few people even imagined a movie about Iron Man, let alone the Guardians of the Galaxy.
- Rap was around back then, but it was different from today. Hard to describe it. Just listen to 90s rap to what we have today and you'll hear the difference.
- Radioshack was still around and was quite popular.
- Tesla wasn't around, so don't mention it. SUVs were popular then as now, as was the Hummer in some circles, which isn't around today.
- Also keep in mind that social media was in its infancy, and that no one had a smartphone. In fact, cell phones were rare in the 1990s until the last year or two.
- Nintendo, Sega, and (later) Sony made video game consoles. The Nintendo 64 and Playstation were the most popular, and Xbox wasn't around. Sega had a few consoles (including the Genesis), but Sega exited the console market in the early 2000s.
- Computers were usually quite large, slow, expensive, and there were few laptops. They also had very little memory, so don't mention anything with a terabyte of data unless it is a supercomputer or something. The biggest operating systems were Windows 95 and 98. Don't mention Apple unless you want to say it was a washed-up has-been, which it was between the early 1990s and early 2000s. Now it is back. Dell was the biggest PC company back then.
- Animated movies were almost all 2D, although Pixar was starting to make 3D films back then.
- Movies started to use special effects more, starting with Terminator 2, and especially after Jurassic Park. For a while, big movies were little more than a way to show off the effects, but they got better eventually.
- Titanic was the biggest movie of the 1990s, but that came late in the decade.
- People used VHS tapes (and maybe Betamax?) and laserdiscs, and later transitioned to DVDs. Look up anything you don't get.
- Finally, the Walkman was not quite the same in the 1990s as it was in the 1980s. If you've seen Guardians of the Galaxy, you will notice that Star-Lord has a tape cassette in the walkman. In the 1990s, this was replaced with a CD (compact disk), which (if I have to say it) is basically a blu-ray.

[RumikoOhara]

I've seen a briefcase-sized Cell phone from then

The smallest was called a Brick because it was the size of a brick