Hey, this looks great and I would love to apply, if that's alright with you. Would I post the character here first and then if she's approved move her over to the Character's thread?
Also, I don't know if this is a silly question or not but, how do we decide on an occupation? Are there already existing places in the city and we decide where we work, or do we just make the places up ourselves? Sorry if this has been asked before and I just didn't notice. I'm getting a bit lost in all these posts and I have no idea how I'll ever manage to catch up xD
Yep.
Pick any you want, existing and your own invention. Some of our locations began as player creations and work places. CS system is right, just tag me and Pilatus when your done, as we both approve them first.
And if you need help jumping in, just ask us!
We welcome new players, and we always help you link in if your want and need it.
Name Karishma Laghari Age 25 Apperance Karishma is a tall slender woman who has to work hard to maintain her figure. Her hair is naturally wavy and frezzy, but she wakes up early in the mornings to straighten it and make sure it stays that way throughout the day. Since coming to Sol, she ad gotten one tattoo under her breasts. She is often seen wearing dresses that show off her clevage or the curves she has worked hard to gain and maintain. Sometimes, to spice it up, she wears suits and heels, while still flaunting what her mama gave her. Weight 160 Height 5'11 Sexuality Poly Bi Likes
Clubbing/Partying
Alcohol, especially fruity drinks
Hip-hop and Rock
Dancing and Singing
Some illegal drugs
The diiirty
Theater
Dislikes
Smoking
Up-right people
Homophobes
Party poopers
Zodiac Sign Tauros Special Talent
Can fit her whole fist in her mouth.
Has a high tolerance to alcohol
Profession Ex-Bollywood Actress/Artist Bio/Personality Karishma is a social butterfly who loves to interract and chatter with people. She is an engaging, bubbly person, someone who oozes confidence and charm while trying to get those around her involved. She is someone who would be considered a very friendly person and sometimes can talk too much. While Karishma looks like someone who would be a delicate and deciplined person, she can be quite the opposite most of the time. She is a big flirt who often gets in trouble because of it. She tends to buy drinks for the wrong people and sleeps with anyone who meets her standards. Karishma has no sense of personal space and gets all too touchy with anyone who's lap she had invaded. She's not afraid to do anything on a whim and enjoys watching people's reactions to her over friendly demeanor.
Karishma was born in the United States, but her family moved back to India, New Delhi when she was just two years old. Her mother, Mehar, is a surgeon and her father, Jai, is an engenier. As a child, Karishma had a huge interest in theater and in music. She would often enroll in school plays and would get the role of the main character. Her parents tried to take her away from theater and acting as she got older, but all of her efforts to make her interested in medecine or sciences were pushed down by a very competative and determined Karishma. She was about 13 when she got her first role in a comercial about kid's shampoo.
Her mother gave up in trying to convince her to study medicine when Karishma landed a role in a TV drama as the daughter of the main character. She was only 17 at that time, but it was clear that Karishma had a talent for acting. After the TV drama she was brought in to an acting agency where they managed to score her a role on a few major films in India. At 21 she started her singing career while still acting in Bollywood. It didn't take her long for her to be involved in many scandals and gossip.
Indian tabloids slander her name and spread rumors that she had been sleeping with directors and other actors/actresses. The rumors that she had slept with her co-star, another actress, were bigger than the ones about her sleeping with directors she had to end her career in India. Homophobes sent many death threats to her and her family, so she was pretty much forced to get out of the country after a group of men broke into her home while she was away. Karishma didn't mind moving, she had gotten tired of the close-minded people there, so she moved to Sol in search of new career opportunities and more people to bang.
After the incident with the media, Karishma's parents became distant from her but they didn't completely cut her off. She hasn't talked to her father in a year but her mother still calls her every week to check up on her. She isn't ashamed for who she sleeps with or who she likes. It's not her fault that people do not accept her, and she cared very little about what people think of her.
Will not be held responsible for any injuries inflicted if ever called "Penny".
AGE | 25
NATIONALITY | Irish
SEXUALITY | RELATIONSHIP STATUS | Female. Heterosexual. Single.
HEIGHT | 163cm or 5'4" WEIGHT | 58 kg or 127 lbs
APPEARANCE |
She has a slender frame-- quite attractively proportioned with a smooth, shapely figure and flattering, but not overbearing, βendowmentsβ.
Her skin is pale milky white and literred with a few beauty spots and moles around her right eye, as well as several others on her body. She has long healthy hair-- almost raven-- that's all one length and falls to her waist, straight but oftentimes with a mind of its own. Sky blue eyes are framed by dark expressive brows. Full lips peak into a delicate cupidβs bow.
When she smiles, her grin is wide and contagious and her teeth are straight, if not for her slightly more prominent canines; her father never had them fixed for her because he thought they had 'character'.
EAR PIERCINGS |
TATTOOS |
ACTRESS | Katie McGrath
LIKES | DISLIKES
Whiskey. Children. Violins. Birds. Rock/Alternative rock. Fairy tales. Sleepy smiling. When people snort while they laugh. Ink of any kind. Opening jars for people. Having her hair touched. Talking early into the morning. The smell of rain. The smell of jasmines. Coffee, popcorn, and anything that's mint-chocolate chip. The words 'infernal' and 'ultramarine'. The colour ultramarine. The cold.
The blazing heat. Feeling like she can't help. Being interrupted, doubted, or told to 'Calm down/Chill'. Being called 'Penny'. Being asked her favourite song. Dishonesty. Children being spoken to like they're stupid. The sound of people chewing or lips smacking. ASMR. Apathy. The silent treatment. When dogs are upset. Raspberries.
ZODIAC SIGN | Scorpio, but she doesn't really think about astrology very much.
SPECIAL TALENTS | Predicting what happens in films. Has an incredible photographic memory. Is unexpectedly good at throwing a punch. Can break anything and usually accidentally does. Can speak fluent Greek for some reason.
PROFESSION | Schoolteacher at Lovelace Elementary and teaches the third grade.
FAVOURITE SONG |
Will go into a panicked frenzy if asked this question. For a brief moment she may look like she will explode with indecisiveness, but she won't hurt you-- it's just stress.
However, recently, she's been dancing/lip-syncing to "Brick + Mortar - Hollow Tune" and "Night Argent - Dreamcatcher" quite a bit.
BIO/PERSONALITY
TL;DR: Poppy moved to SOL city from Dublin and lives with her 15-year-old cousin, Liam, while working as a schoolteacher at a primary school. She's the kind of person you want to have as your friend, if you ever need to bury a body. On the other hand, she's the kind of person you don't want to piss off, unless you want to end up as the body that's being buried. Or in time-out.
Her father, Magnus, was Irish and met her British mother, Heather, in Dublin. Heather left Magnus shortly after Poppy was born, and he ended up having to raise his baby as a single father who hadn't the foggiest clue about anything concerning little girls. But Magnus made it his business to learn.
And oh, how much fun they had. It was difficult, sure, but nobody could be fonder of one another than the goofy dad and his adoring daughter-- they were best buds and essentially inseparable. Poppy was raised there, in Dublin, for the better part of her life-- 15 years (thus, she does have a slight lilting accent and it is recognisable as Irish).
Tragedy struck when Poppy was 14, and Magnus was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The loving father died within the year.
It was his decision that, should something happen to him, Poppy would move to SOL City, where his younger sister, her aunt Eleanor, lived, in the hopes that perhaps the woman could take care of her and also support her in the areas he felt he had neglected her over the years-- the areas that required the mother's touch he lacked.
As fate would have it, Poppy's aunt Eleanor had a child of her own-- a seven year old boy named Liam, who grew up as fatherless as Poppy did motherless, but whom the girl grew to love more than life itself. As she flowered into a young woman, the trio only became closer and closer, until⦠the cycle repeated itself.
One day, while Poppy was at college, Eleanor and Liam got into a car accident. Although Liam was badly hurt, he recovered slowly and surely, but his mother was dead before the paramedics ever came.
The 12-year-old boy was orphaned and, at the tender age of 22, Poppy was left alone to care and provide for them both. With the financial aid her father left for her and countless menial jobs to get by on, Poppy managed it, working everywhere from reception desks, to tattoo parlours, to coffee shops, and somehow still successfully completing her college studies.
It seemed being a nurturer and a caregiver was like second nature to her, but, even after becoming a schoolteacher, it was never a simple matter for Poppy to adopt the role of being her teenaged cousin's legal guardian when she was barely in her twenties. It was an easy decision, of course, no one else could take care of Liam and, regardless, she adored the boy so much that she wouldn't have it any other way, but as a result, Poppy never had much of a life of her own. Friendships outside of work were few, and her love life was even more stumped-- it wasn't like most guys her age were all for a serious relationship with a girl parenting a grown-kid of her own. She couldn't exactly blame them, of course, but that was her reality and she embraced it. Liam was anything but a burden-- she had never tried to replace Eleanor in his heart, instead acting as a guide and a sister, as opposed to a mother.
Even despite the curveballs life throws at her, though, and no matter how much her experiences have matured her, Poppy is still every bit the curious, witty dreamer she's always been. Full of life, it is impossible for her to hide how she feels about anything-- Poppy is an absolutely atrocious liar when it comes to her opinion-- and even when she tries to, her treacherous eyes give her away every time. Like everyone else, though, she can be kind of a wreck, only she's horrible at hiding that too. The woman is clumsy, anxious, swears like a pirate, and has a botched up verbal filter that usually ends up in her communicating the first sound that pops into her head, whether it be appropriate or not.
Ultimately, she's an absolute firecracker of passion, feeling everything to the max-- loyalty, glee, compassion, grief, fury... Inner balance is something she'd always struggled to achieve, but at least (if only to her own psychological detriment, perhaps) this gives her great intuition when it comes to empathising with people-- Poppy is the absolute boss of putting herself in other people's shoes. She tends to ramble when anxious, overthinks things to the point of disgust (and borderline paranoia, actually) but at the end of the day, it all makes it so that she is incredibly sensitive to the feelings of people around her.
β¦ Until someone pisses her off, or acts like an inconsiderate dipshit. That's when the kind, day-dreaming schoolteacher turns into a volcano of boiling rage. Put simply, Poppy has very low tolerance for ignorant people.
ABOUT ME |
~My name is Flor and I'm 21. I come from a little island called Cyprus.~
How many years have I been roleplaying? Um, properly? Like with real writing? On-and-off 4-5 years. Since I was 17.
I work freelance and so I make a lot of my own hours-- I have the freedom to post quite frequently. On the other hand BECAUSE I work freelance, the amount of work I have fluctuates depending on my clients, and so there will be times when I am busier, and times when I am more relaxed. I'm going to commit to posting at least once every 2-3 days, if not more.
But yes. I am a freelance comic illustrator, simultaneously working to finish my degree in Classical Animation. I like singing-- a lot. I play the piano and hope to one day pick up the bass.
I live and breathe the music I listen to and the stories I create, both on my own and with other people, because they fill me inspiration for my drawings and films.
I think my favourite thing about role-playing is the chemistry and nuances of what connects the characters-- how natural they feel when responding to each other. There's also the great feeling of when someone hits you with a great twist and you have to go along with it, because life itself never asks you if you want any goddamn lemonade before it gives you lemons, and it sure as hell won't take them back after.
Help would be appreciated, but I think I have an idea cooking in my head for how to get her into Aether. Only thing stumping me is how to get her to interact with people, and how the whole group writing thing works. I've been role-playing a while, but I'm still fairly new to roleplaying in a large group and I don't wanna mess up and be an inconvenience.
Help would be appreciated, but I think I have an idea cooking in my head for how to get her into Aether. Only thing stumping me is how to get her to interact with people, and how the whole group writing thing works. I've been role-playing a while, but I'm still fairly new to roleplaying in a large group and I don't wanna mess up and be an inconvenience.
No problem :)
honestly, you just enter the scene, and dpon't think you have to do everything at once, interact with a situation and just try to keep up with the post rate, some are slower, some are faster and you will find people who match your pace and ideas.
just start smaller, and work up. Rome was not built in a day.
We will have some drama coming in scene, so react to events, and you will soon find yourself reacting to or bouncing off other characters.
its alot harder to open up, but once you get abit of back and forth things soon start to slot into place.
you can always bump into my characters, i always try and help people out :)
DISCORD
We have a discord too, so if you want ot chat back and forth, its easier.
This sounds like the best thing ever. Just got done reading the first two pages of the chapter one IC and I really love it. Slice of life is one of the genres I genuinely always had the urge to RP (but there weren't a lot of opportunities). I see the male to female ratio is leaning a bit on the male side, so a female character would be welcome?
If there is room for one more, of course. I literally just jumped into browsing the site today after a long time, to see if there is anything interesting to shake away rust from my typing fingers.
This sounds like the best thing ever. Just got done reading the first two pages of the chapter one IC and I really love it. Slice of life is one of the genres I genuinely always had the urge to RP (but there weren't a lot of opportunities). I see the male to female ratio is leaning a bit on the male side, so a female character would be welcome?
If there is room for one more, of course. I literally just jumped into browsing the site today after a long time, to see if there is anything interesting to shake away rust from my typing fingers.
Great, we always welcome people.
And id just wait a second till we do a up to date Gender count, we had a bunch of new characters and i need to do a new count first. we may have a gender til to female, or a equal balance.
I will have a post up later guys. I usually would post more than once a day but the best time for me to have quiet to post is during my lunch hour at work lol.
Just as a note since we got REALLY busy today: Please make sure you let all the characters that haven't had a chance to react to the current scene get a chance to post before you start new replies. Not trying to stifle anyone here, believe me this has been a fun one so far, but we do want to try to be thoughtful of those who might be busy and haven't had time to get a post in.
I'll be having my character up in less than a day, I had guests these two days so it's been hard to sit down and write :) Thanks for the info on genders!
