Krauxis

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For posterity and so I can close notepad, posting this here maybe a bit prematurely.

Relationship sheet

Maie-Marie Malveaux

"Who is my best friend...? If you had to ask me right now I would say... you, I suppose?"

Brooke Avery

"Brooke is a bit of a flower, I can tell. I would like to spend more time alone with her, even if she says she hates me. Perhaps I could get her to move past my flaws and we could be friends?"

Marie takes Brooke's harsh attitude towards the world personally, as though Brooke were actually mad at her specifically for being imperfect. She hopes in time that she can become a person that Brooke could bear to be friends with, though she doesn't really know how she might accomplish such a task.

Hal Polwith

"Hal is very funny, I like hanging around with him, because the way he talks makes me smile."

Marie likes Hal a lot. He is just the sort of person Marie likes to hang around with. The type that is active and upbeat, as well as being very passionate and able to 'nerd out' every once in a while. She secretly wants to run a marathon with him to see who could last longer.

Korrie Jackson

"I think I could learn a lot from Korrie, but I wish that he would stop pranking other people."

Marie admires Korrie for being so into computers as well as so many other things that she can't find the time for. She severely dislikes his mean streak, but thinks that he'll 'grow out of it' somehow. She would like to learn computers from him, even though anything beyond downloading anime and social media is probably a bit much for her.

Amanda Hirano

"Amanda-san chou kawaii neeee~ Bishoujo desu neeee~"

Completely oblivious of the fact that she is probably coming on way too strong at all times, Marie thinks that Amanda is adorable. Even though Amanda is older than her, Marie treats her like a younger sibling. She admires Amanda's sense of style and always tries to talk about Japanese culture with her for some reason. Emphasis on tries to.

Spencer Dalle

"Monsieur Spencer is difficult to place, I think."

Marie gets a strange feeling from Spence, like that of a kindred spirit, as somebody who sometimes makes horrible decisions to hurt themselves for unknown reasons. However, she doesn't really know him well enough to broach the subject, so their relationship remains mysterious and superficial.

Laney Chandler

"SHE IS SO... COOL!"

Marie has a hard time seeing past Laney's 'Ms. Perfect' facade, and admires her greatly for being so 'haute-couture.' Marie recognizes that she herself isn't exactly the model of class and panache, but she greatly admires all the hard work and time it must take to pull that style off.

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I'm a little confused about why people don't like her beyond the whole popularity/social ladder thing. If she's friendly and approachable, why do people not like her? While a social hierarchy is important in high school, it's not always the case. As part of the unpopular kids back in high school, it was always really fun to talk to people, even if I didn't know them very well. I suppose it would all depend on where Marie stands in the social hierarchy... But are there other reasons why people don't like her? Or is it literally just because of the popular/not popular kids thing? Because if it's the latter, it feels like a little bit of a stretch to me.

@Undine

Basically I was pulling from my own high school experiences, where any potentially popular kids (which Marie would be, since she's friendly and approachable as well as sporty, active, and relatively attractive) who mingled with the nerds or the socially inept folks ended up catching just as much flak as those unpopular kids themselves. Like a "Why aren't you as elitist as we are" penalty. If you feel that's unreasonable, I don't mind changing it up a bit, because I don't really disagree with you either.

My intent was that she's generally popular in the school sense of the word, like she's part of the 'it' crowd, but she gets talked about a lot behind her back because she's not that smart, and she definitely doesn't act like somebody who's going to be a successful businessperson one day. She doesn't worry a lot about the social norms, clique boundaries, etc, and doesn't really even recognize that they exist. I figured that would make her an easy target for potential bullying, etc. She'd definitely be an easy mark, as somebody who wants to help people all the time, or somebody who steps on peoples' toes by accidentally forgetting their name or face.

Let me know if that cleared anything up. If you still feel it's a stretch, I don't mind shifting some things around, I'll just need a bit to think on how I want to approach it. I'ma start working on a relationship sheet now as well, so I should get that up in a couple hours or so.

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Sorry, I'm really not big on face claim stuff. Never really got into it and I try not to look at people more than I strictly have to~

Apologies if I end up just being another blank CS in a sea of them. I sorta thought I'd be in the minority, personally, but I guess not this time.

Corrected and Connected

Job hunting can lick my popsicle. That's all I'm sayin' about that. Also there's been a whole ocean falling on Vancouver this last week or two, so the rain can also shove it.

Guessing we've hit an impasse again? This is the simultaneously the single most cursed and also most resilient RP I've ever seen, and I've never been in an RP that came even close to concluding, so that's saying something. If you ask me, the whole site's been cursed since the reroll.

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@Undine

Without really planning it or realizing, I may have actually made a character who will piss off half of the other characters in this RP. Oh well, nothing wrong with some drama in high school.

Maie-Marie Malveaux

Maie-Marie Malveaux

"When you feel bad, run. And when you've run as far as you physically can, if you still feel bad, just keep running until you leave those feelings in your dust."
-Marie Malveaux

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Name

Maie-Marie Malveaux

Nicknames

Mal (Semi-formal, taken from her last name. It means 'bad' so most people close to her don't use it, but a 'casual' teacher or someone in a similar position might pull it out.)
M, "Trois-emme" (From her name having three M's in it. She hates this one, and it's used only in ignorance by a well-meaning stranger or else when somebody's actually trying to aggravate her.)
She doesn't mind being called either Marie or Maie. Most people default to Marie because it's more common.

Age

16

Gender

Female

Sexual Orientation

Bisexual

Grade Level

Sophomore

Appearance

Despite her tomboyish personality, Marie's appearance is very much that of a girl. Shoulder-length blonde hair, occasionally dyed or tipped some exotic color, hangs down over her pale skin and 'cute' facial features (big round eyes, small nose, etc.) Her body, likewise, is rather petite, at a whopping 5 foot even and around a hundred pounds. She's toned, athletically, but not very muscular, even when she flexes (which is more often than is probably appropriate.) Even though her frame is small she tries to make up for this by wearing loud colors or just generally being loud herself.

Her fashion sense is peculiar. Because she looks cute and doll-like, she can pull off strange fashion choices without really trying. In casual situations she is often seen wearing men's gym attire (tight t-shirt and shorts or sweats,) and these serve as her general outdoor clothes as well ("Never know when you've gotta run!") She hates dresses because she doesn't like the way they usually fit her, and she refuses to wear skirts because she has a constant irrational fear that everybody can see her underwear at all times. Formal wear doesn't really exist in her wardrobe. Instead, she has a large selection of active-wear (both men's and women's) and a single blue dress that never gets worn.

She doesn't touch makeup, which has made a lot of her peers jealous in the past because of her relatively clear skin. Because of this she gets baffled easily when other girls start talking about their morning routines, and all she can say is "I shower a lot."

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Personality

Marie is easy to get along with, but equally easy to hate, because of her simplistic personality. She is friendly and approachable, and likes to talk to 'unpopular' kids just because they interest her, but this habit sometimes ends in bitter feelings from popular girls who think she's a joke, as well as even unpopular kids who think she's taking pity on them. She is the type who likes to listen to people ramble on about whatever they're passionate about, and will then ramble herself about the things she's passionate about: fitness, food, anime, and the vastness of the universe, which she doesn't know anything about.

She isn't perceived as particularly intelligent, because she really isn't. She loves learning new things but can't retain information well at all, often forgetting things by accident, including people's names or past meetings. She means well, and easily rolls with the punches when somebody calls her stupid, but she does have a bit of a hidden complex regarding her intelligence, often being the first person in a room to put herself down over how stupid she is. This is also the first thing people usually attack when they want to put her down, and she just laughs it off every time.

Marie doesn't put up with people who put themselves down or attack others, and will reflexively try and shift any and all blame onto herself. While not a true martyr complex, it's not that far off either. She likes to think she is saving people by taking on all the pain herself, even if she logically knows it doesn't work that way. People don't often pay it much mind, because she is so upbeat all the time, but it's a habit that can easily get on everybody's nerves. She is working to try and change the way she acts because she has alienated friends in the past, but changing yourself is hard, so it's slow progress.

Likes

• Anything that gets her body moving (sports, exercise, etc)
• Loud music (Usually old school rap/hip hop or electronica, but anything with a strong beat will do.)
• Energy drinks
• Thunderstorms and Natural Disasters
• Bruce Lee
• Anime
• Everybody

Dislikes

• When people are down on themselves or others
• 'Lazy' days
• Skirts, dresses, jewellery
• Politics

Fears

Aside from her bizarre paranoia involving skirts, Marie is terrified of being lost. Lost in a new place, in the middle of nowhere, lost in a crowd, it doesn't matter. If she doesn't know where she is or where she's going, she gets the cold sweats. Thank god for GPS technology these days, right?

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Strengths

• Actual physical strength and fitness
• Her naivete means she's never scared or lost in a social situation
• She's one of those girls who can look good in anything without trying

Weaknesses

• Completely socially oblivious. If people are talking behind her back or subtly insulting her, she will never catch on. Like, never ever.
• Information retention
• Poor impulse control

History

Originally hailing from Quebec, Marie's family moved to Manhattan Island halfway through her elementary school career due to her father's position as a well-respected business consultant. Her father became a permanent on-call consultant to the CEO of Jam! Energy, one of the highest-grossing soft drink conglomerates in the country. Marie was sent to a private school and their family was never hungry because of all the money her Father took in, but Marie herself wasn't a fan of inner city life. There just weren't enough ways to expend her energy, and there were only so many times you could run laps around Central Park before the scenery started getting repetitive. Her grades began to slip and she was diagnosed with ADHD and put on various kinds of pills to help regulate her poor attention span and energy levels.

This worked for a while, but her energy had little to do with her brain chemistry in the end. It was just her personality. She was pulled from private school in grade seven and received home-schooling instead in hopes that she would do better in a more comfortable environment. And again, for a while, this seemed successful. Her grades rose and she stopped seeming so frustrated all the time. But even this had an end. The CEO of Jam! Energy suffered a major heart attack and passed away in his office, sending the company into a bad PR spiral (did he die because he drank Jam? That stuff will kill you!) The cash stopped flowing, and Marie's family could no longer afford her personal tutor. Her father was hired on as interim CEO of Jam! but honestly he was just hired as a scapegoat so that nobody within the company had to take the fall in the media. Even so, he was able to pull the company's accounts out of the gutter and back into the black, but Jam! Energy never could wipe away the dark smudge on their reputation, and the only people who were drinking their products were high schoolers and college students who didn't care about their supposed health concerns.

What the company needed wasn't better management, they had that part covered, they needed a better image. To that end, the new CEO turned his eyes on the brightest shining star he knew - his own daughter. Maie-Marie was sent to Ashbury to continue her schooling and to get the pedigree that would be needed for the new face of Jam!

Favorite memory

One time while still living in Quebec, after watching the movie Forrest Gump with her family, she decided to run as far as she could, for no particular reason. She didn't tell her family anything about where she was headed, just "I'm going out for a run." Five hours later, she was in the middle of nowhere, completely stranded. She had to knock on a stranger's door to ask to use their phone. It took an hour for her parents to figure out where she had gone, and another two hours to actually come pick her up. She was grounded for two weeks afterward, but the memory is still dear to her, because she finds it hilarious.

Least favorite memory

Once and only once was Marie ever sent to school in 'girly' clothes, in grade 3. It was her parents' idea, against her will, but she agreed because they insisted on it, thinking she looked incredibly cute. They were right, but not even a minute before she got there, the usual boys she hung around with had flipped up her skirt and one boy tried to kiss her as a joke. She ran home without even attending her first class. She cut up her nice clothes and yelled at her parents when they tried to scold her. The issue was never brought up again.

What corporation sent you to Ashbury?

Marie was sent on behalf of Jam! Energy, who hoped to use her image to pick their name up out of the gutter. While not technically an heiress (she doesn't even remotely have the business mind and everybody knows it) she is still the daughter of the CEO. She has the pedigree to attend and a real purpose for being there, even if others look down on her because she won't actually inherit the company (although her father secretly hopes that she will gain the business sense to actually follow in his footsteps.)

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Birthday

May 1, 1999

Astrological Sign

Taurus

Twitter Name

@MMMMMMMarie
She has a tumblr called "F___ Shoujos Get Yencoins" (not censored, that's how it's written) but she only uses it to reblog anime/rap song mashups.

Ashbury Academy: Not your typical high school roleplay

Interested. Be nice to get in something larger once in a while.

Of Gods and Men - A Deity RP (CLOSED)

I's just chilling on the sidelines. Don't have too much important to do before stuff starts progressing.

Of Gods and Men - A Deity RP (CLOSED)

Watching the spectacle brought mixed feelings, once he knew what to look for. Seeing old friends and rivals reunite brought back memories of his own kin, who had largely secluded themselves from the world (they were not all quite so social as he was, or so fond of humans.) It was nostalgic, and neither pleasant nor unpleasant. Beyond that, it confirmed his suspicions. Something was going to happen here, for better or worse.

For someone who spent many hundreds of years studying the Greek pantheon at their prime, it was clear to him what he was witnessing. It was Hermes who had been waiting for everyone here. A suitable position for a messenger, though there was probably something more to the fact that he had been here before anybody. Apollo had come, as one of the most revered deities at the time, he would have felt the pull quite strongly. He was also in a similar standing to Enki himself, so Edgar felt a small amount of solidarity towards him. How mortal life had changed him, however, Edgar did not know. It would simply remain to be seen. Off to the side was Aphrodite and Hekate, a rivalry that must be quite bitter. Still, they approached on friendly enough terms... women were truly a mystery.

Edgar could see traces of their power within them. Flashes, perceptions of their former glory, their divine forms. It made sense that this was a power spot for them, he had occasionally paid visit to some of his own power spots in the past, but it was too late for him now. Those spots held very little of his old prestige, and his mortality had brought new meaning to his life that was missing in the old days.

He had taken stock of the situation. Several deities, all Greek, had gathered here. None of his peers were to be seen, but that was natural. Which meant that his lot was to be thrown in with the younger folk. As the apparent leader, and perhaps the only person who knew what was going on, he made very deliberate eye contact with Hermes. Not wanting to interrupt his greetings with old friends, it was simply a way for Edgar to establish himself on the scene if he had not been noticed. He would join in when it was appropriate, it didn't need to be any sooner than that.

Of Gods and Men - A Deity RP (CLOSED)

Got half a post in the oven, need to go out for halloween stuff but I'll polish it off when I get back. Hope everybody has at least a half decent day today (I have low standards)

Of Gods and Men - A Deity RP (CLOSED)

Fair enough, boss. I'll get something out tomorrow for sure. Been busy with family stuff this week else I might have pushed harder to post sooner, but I'm going home tonight.