Sugar and Spite

Pines Holler [Not Accepting]

Bruh.

@Kuro

Loggin' on feelin' like 2016 again

Pines Holler [Not Accepting]

Heeeeeeeeeeey!!!!!

Silvester Rafael Belasco || A quiet storm; a year without sun

<sub>Faceclaim: Pedro Pascal // Color Code: BC8F8F

do i know when the day ends
and the sun dies away behind
a fistful of clouds?
it's too late for me
chains for hands
and lead foot
sinking in the river</sub>
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_{Full Name:}

Silvester Rafael Belasco

_Nickname(s):

Lasco, Esther (jokingly), Sal

_Age:

48

_Gender:

Male

_Sexuality:

Closeted Homosexual

_Occupation:

Owner of Belasco's Antiquaries

_{Place of Residence:}

154 Miners Street

_{Family and Close Connections:}

Mother - Silvia Cruz Belasco
Daughter - Anya Belasco
Ex-Wife - Daniela Whittaker

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_Appearance:

𐂂 Height: 6'1"
𐂂 Hair: Lightly curled brown hair that looks perpetually like he runs his fingers through them.
𐂂 Eyes: Dark Brown
𐂂 Body Type: A wide shouldered man wrapped in flannel with the sturdy sinew of practical strength, muscular but not overly so. Age is tough to deal with, but he keeps his bodied well maintained in spite of the stressors ever present in his life. Long trail runs have especially kept his legs, as some older ladies have catcalled "wide like tree trunks."
𐂂 Clothing Style: Appalachian dad describes Silvester a little too aptly. He switches between flannels with denim jackets and antiquarian chic with his old tweed sweaters and old man sweater vests. He's very prone to muted, earthy colors like dark browns and burgundies and dark mauves. He will very rarely, almost never even, wear short sleeved tops.
𐂂 Body Markings: On his shoulder, there's a large raven tattooed gripping the body of a snake that wraps all the way down to his forearm where it sinks its fangs on the inside. He refuses to talk about when and why he's gotten this. He also has his ears and left eyebrow pierced, though that's kind of a bit of a secret too. He just mentions he got the ear piercings when he and his wife were very young, which isn't at all true.

_Personality:

A quiet, almost soft presence. Silvia, his doting mother, has always described Silvester as a boy eager to blend into the weeds and the thickets than to ever have even one set of eyes upon him. That has never really changed, simply solidified into the gentle rumbling of a man more willing now to be a pillar than a voice. A man who now takes on more than his shoulders can bear when already that weight was too much to begin with.

Unwilling to ask for help. Too willing to compromise. Folds under guilt like a can crumpled underfoot. Too many secrets hidden inside his thick skull he is so unwilling to share. Words like venom from his wife. Ex-wife. Divorced wife. Wife he no longer talks to. And she's right. Silvester will admit to that, maybe too quickly. He tries too hard to maintain the peace that his peace is so easily shattered.

He loves and is too willing to let that love control him. Unsteady in the desperation to be stability for the people he cares. That is Silvester, a quiet thunderstorm beholden to an inevitable twilight.

_History:

It is perhaps with a quiet melancholy that Silvester remembers where he came from. What he wished for and where he ended up are very much on two very different extremes of a spectrum he is very unwilling to label.

Failure and Dreams.

Does anyone know, truly, when they realize how different they are? Spring of his senior year in high school in the smallest, most nowhere town in all of North Carolina (and there are a lot), Silvester fell very steeply in love. Or, maybe, he simply found out something his body already knew from the beginning. More truthfully, he'd already known a long time ago that he felt unequivocal love for a boy he knew since kindergarten with head full of tight curls and the brightest, most infectious smile he'd ever known. Danny Davis from across the street with the ratty tire tied to a sturdy oak that, today, looks worse for wear but stands like a phantom from where he can still see it from his bedroom window.

All the plans set in stone from his birth—graduate high school, take a few business classes, marry his high school sweetheart, have a child, and take over the family business—faded away the instant Danny smiled at him. Asked him to crawl out onto his rooftop with a pilfered case of lukewarm Bud Light (or maybe a shared bottle of Hennessy if Danny could get away with it). Leaned in drunk and stinking of cigarettes to steal a kiss in the wild shadows of branches and leaves hiding the illicit picture of two young boys discovering something they could never share.

He was too scared. Pulled taught between obligation and desire that, though he nearly stepped through the door to trail after Danny in his escape of this shithole of a town, Silvester ultimately couldn't. Even when he told himself that maybe next year. Or the next. Or maybe never. Maybe once this thing with Daniela was over. Or until he sold the family pawn shop. Or once he felt stable enough to care for his little girl. Or maybe once she grew up.

Silvester knew it was never. And eventually, Danny stopped trying, stopped coming back, shit he stopped texting after a while. Eventually, Silvester just sort of forgot. In the turmoil of bills, a messy divorce, an aging mother, and a resentful daughter, it seemed so much less important to have freedom. Maybe there was comfort in the chains that held him to this town even as everything crumbled to dirt around him.

_{Extra Facts // Headcannons:}

𐂂 Many things are too good to be true. Silvester knows that very, very well in fact. Like too white teeth over too wide of a mouth. Nothing good can come of whatever corporate shill spills out of their too deep pockets. Silvester also knows that some things are an inevitability. Death and taxes or whatever. So, it's hard to fight against the expansion knowing how little freedom he actually has in all tape wrapped around him.
𐂂 Owns three dogs, all mutts: Rosa, Mariska Hargitay (teenage daughters are fucking hilarious), and Sock Puppet (referred to as Sock)
𐂂 Drives around in a rundown Ford truck, very much on its last legs.
𐂂 If he had gone to college, he'd have wanted to either be an archaeologist (Indiana Jones is a childhood crush) or a museum curator. He still kind of wishes he could do the latter.
𐂂 He is absolutely not clued into what the kids are into musically these days, but he has a huge soft spot for Sza and Hayley Williams. And, well, he's hispanic so Bad Bunny and Selena are a fucking given who's surprised?
𐂂 He loves and will never part with antique book ends or insect displays. He adores nature anthology books and is regularly called a boring old man by his daughter any chance she catches him reading one.
𐂂 Belasco's Antiquaries is a very old run store passed down through many generations of which Silvester has certainly lost track of. There's a book in the shop somewhere that could probably tell him, though he's much too frazzled and scatterbrained these days to know where it is. It's quant and tucked away downtown and incredibly, incredibly tight spaced and claustrophobic. It smells like musty wood and wet books most of the time, which often rubs off on Silvester.

@Pumpkin Jackdaw

Also approved!!

Pines Holler [Not Accepting]

@Fabricant451 Theresa is approved! Excited to see how people react to her coming back home.

@Moon Child Mollie seems pretty damn chill. Move her over when you get a sec

@Tae Jolene seems like a good addition to the family and the RP. Approved!

@SonnetNSunbeam Lee's an interesting dude. And sure, we can assume there's the existence of a VFW. He's approved.

Wow, this is moving fast!

I wanted to pop in and run my character concept by you before moving ahead with fleshing out the CS.

@Sugar and Spite, I saw that your character's father (Waylon Shaw) is the preacher of the Baptist church. I was toying with the idea of a youth pastor who works alongside Shaw – he sees him as a sort of mentor or father figure in his life (I'm assuming he wouldn't know about the abuse). He is also tasked with conducting funerals and providing counseling sessions for anyone in need of those services. He lives on the church property, perhaps in the former church secretary's house or something like that. I envision it as more of a shack than anything elaborate. Would something like that work?

@Skelm

The character sheets have been coming in pretty rapidly. I do still have a loose deadline of Jan 27th for all character sheets though, so I wouldn't sweat it *that* much.

anyway.

I'm cool with the character concept. Waylon is old, and his children are estranged, so it makes sense for him to have some sort of apprentice. I'm not sure about the living on property thing, as I was only planning for it to really be the church and the graveyard. We could compromise with perhaps the old grave keepers shack? I doubt it's anything fancy at all though, and probably needs a lot of TLC that may or may not have already been done - I'll leave that one up to you. I'm imagining one of those places that you look at like 'damn, it's free, but is it worth it?' Dunno if that makes sense. But ye, the concept checks out.

Pines Holler [Not Accepting]

Locations have now been updated to include:

• Magnolia's Salon
• Lou's Diner
• Pines Holler Park
• The Community Center
• Pines Holler Baptist Church
• Paradise Falls

Once again, please let me know if there's any locations you'd like to see added to the list <3

Pines Holler [Not Accepting]

@SalemFlame Blind kid in Pines Holler is still pretty bold imo xD Lucas is approved. Just switch 'Holler Pines' to 'Pines Holler' in the first Extras bullet point for me before you move him over.

@Fabricant451 I fuckin' love waffle waitresses. Move her over when you're ready!

@princess Willow seems so sweet <3 Put just a quick little TW over the history section for brief mentions of child neglect/abuse & drug abuse pretty please. I know we're all cool with heavy things, but I don't want any shocks for anyone who may choose to read along. Anyyyyway, she's approved!

@Apoalo Ellie is such an awesome addition to the community, and we're lucky to have her <3 Rowan is also a very solid addition, and I can't wait to discuss his and Callie's relationship further. Both are approved.

Pines Holler [Not Accepting]

@Sugar and Spite Updated Caleb's employment! (https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5645621) Let me know if this is alright and then I'll post him. Are there already plans for the background around Lou's Diner? If not, I'd be happy to come up with something. Thank you!

@HylianRose

Yeah, I'm totally chill with him working at the Diner - or Huskers, either way.

I just wasn't going to approve any characters with a Huskers occupation besides the ones that had already been posted (including Caleb) because so many people had that listed under their occupations already with the few characters that were up for approval. So you're good to go either route.

There is already a background for Lou's, I'm just still working on our locations.

Pines Holler [Not Accepting]

@Sugar and Spite Edited, sorry bout that.

@Inertia

You're totally fine! Like I said, it's my fault really. Move the sheet over when you want.

Pines Holler [Not Accepting]

_{EVERYONE: If you have no already put your CS in a hider, please do so before tossing it in the CS tab, thank you! I forgot to add an actual hider for it in the code. Please wait patiently as I send you all the discord link <3}

@Apoalo: Very impressive first villain! as long as we don't give him a bat, we should all be fine Feel free to move him on over to the CS tab.

@Oso: Nicely done on Boone! I appreciate the glimpse that it gives us into the biker gang. Go ahead and move him over to the CS tab.

@HylianRose

Caleb absolutely has a pain kink. Fuck him up, sis.

This one made me actually laugh, can't lie. Move him over when you have time.

@Inertia Forgive me, there are still some minor edits that I need to make to the locations I already have listed. The official street for all of the trailer park addresses is `Shady Pines Drive`. If you wouldn't mind editing that for me before you move Noah over, I'd greatly appreciate it.

@Loveless Crown I'm gonna help you fix that coding super quick if that's okay with you? Also the same deal with the address for the trailer park that I was explaining to Inertia, I apologize. I also believe there's maybe some confusion with the FC? Google is telling me that Elena Michaels is a fictional character played by Laura Vandervoort, who I do believe should be listed as the FC. Once that's all fixed, Emery is good to go!

Pines Holler - A Small Town SoL Sandbox RP [NOT Accepting]

@IAmTheIsland @Ezekiel

I'm so sorry folks, I forgot to post it here in the interest check, but we are no longer accepting interest for this RP. I've already had roughly 20 something people claim a stake in this, so I had to cap it for my own sanity. I'm really sorry, and I hope you guys understand.

Pines Holler [Not Accepting]

Damn y'all really wanna write, huh?

im reading sheets rn just gimme a bit

Edit: just with a quick glance, I can already go ahead and tell you guys that I WILL NOT be accepting any more characters that work at Huskers going forward. The character Willow was mentioned in Noah's sheet, I believe, as a coworker, so that one is good to go. Everyone else from here on out will have to work somewhere else for realism's sake. The characters that have been posted so far are good to go on this note, I just need to read the whole sheet before approval.

Edit 2: Jennings Automotive is also full on mechanics.

Edit 3: I was half asleep when I wrote this after waking up this morning. That being said, Mollie and Willow are the only other two characters that will be accepted with Huskers listed as their occupation.