Starfield_Scribe

You could join us in the Workshop, I'd be happy to get a thing going with you there

Captivating

Shiri! I'm so excited you're joining us. I'll be on AIM in a bit to chat more.

Here are three of mine. I'm possibly taking a fourth (Randi's fraternal twin sister), so please save me Dianna Agron. PM me if you want things. Or I'll try to send out some messages later tonight/tomorrow.

I'm assuming Nick/Virginia/Deacon/Randi are still in a band together?

Name: Amanda Gates
Age: Thirty-Six
Previous RPG: N/A (original character)
Year: Fourth year professor
Teaches: English Lit
Personality: Determined, Garrulous, Meticulous, Sympathetic, & Discreet
Five Fast Facts:
- Amanda's father died when she was sixteen, an event that dramatically shaped her future. Her desperation for male comfort caused her to unwisely cling to the first boy who showed her interest. On a surface level he appeared to be the perfect gentleman, a white knight able to save her from her grief. Despite her mothers objections Amanda married at age eighteen and left town without giving her decision a second thought.
- Amanda began to battle guilt six months into her marriage. She had not only left her mother, but her little sister Mallorie. Amanda worried for her well being and realized how selfish she had been. When she expressed her concerns to her husband and suggested moving close to her loved ones, he immediately rejected the idea. Something in his tone of voice caused Amanda to drop the subject indefinitely. Three years passed before Amanda's perfect wife routine shattered. Exhausted from walking on eggshells around her moody husband, she gave him an ultimatum: counseling or divorce. Her husband gave her a black eye in response.
- Amanda stayed in her abusive marriage for thirteen years. Not having gone to college, she had no way to support herself and felt trapped. In a way, she believed she deserved the poor treatment she received. This twisted mindset lasted until a neighbor witnessed her husband backhanding her in their garage one evening. The neighbor, as it turned out, had been in an abusive relationship in her twenties before finding the strength to break free. She told Amanda about community college classes and a self defense course in town. Amanda earned her teaching degree and black belt in two years. She taught night classes and saved money for a full year before serving her husband with divorce papers and a restraining order. She moved to New York City to teach full-time shortly after.
- It has been four years since Amanda left her husband and took charge of her own life. To her relief, he has not tried to contact her. The fear of him returning still looms in the back of her mind but she refuses to dwell on it. Amanda refuses to acknowledge that part of her life at all. Denial is a powerful, albeit unhealthy, coping mechanism. No one in her new life knows about her past and she prefers to keep it that way.
- Amanda's world was shaken a few months ago when her younger sister called after two years off the grid. Mallorie asked for money, but Amanda offered her a place to stay instead. It is her sincere hope to use this opportunity as a way to finally get to know her sister and make up for lost time.
Taken By: Captivating
Played By: Sarah Paulson


Name: Spencer Cassadine
Age: Thirty-Five
Previous RPG: General Hospital: The Next Generation
Year: Professor | History of American Law
Major: N/A
Theme Song: Angels or Demons by Dishwalla
Personality: Complicated. Proud. Manipulative. Determined. Intellectual.
Three Fast Facts:
- Being a Cassadine meant a life of luxury for Spencer. He was born into old money and never wanted for anything. The only void in his life was the absence of his mother who died shortly after childbirth. Fortunately, Spencer's childhood was filled with enough candy and toys to heal his young mind from the terrible loss rather quickly. By the time Spencer's father Nikolas remarried, Spencer was a teenager and uninterested in his stepmom Emily's attempts to win his love. She tried too hard and it just made him like her even less. How his father could replace Spencer's mom, a tough and sassy blond (or so he'd heard from his mom's best friend and his pseudo aunt Carly) with someone as weak and soft-spoken as Emily was unfathomable.
- Spencer lashing out at his stepmother caused his relationship with his father to fracture severely, and that's when his notorious great grandmother Helena Cassadine entered the picture. After being MIA for years, she visited Spencer during his junior year of high school and filled his mind with visions of unimaginable power. She would get rid of her worthless grandson, she said, and Spencer was too naive to know what she actually meant. He just told her he wanted his father off his back and the next week, Nikolas and Emily were targeted at one of his father's extravagant balls. Emily was murdered in cold blood and Nikolas nearly lost his life, but doctors managed to revive him. Nikolas was paralyzed though, and upon finding out about Emily's death, depressed beyond the point of help. Nikolas blamed the incident on an infamous mobster by the name of Anthony Zacarra, but deep down Spencer suspected Helena was behind it. His fears were further confirmed when a second attempt made on Nikolas' life a year later left him brain dead. Life support was eventually turned off, making Spencer the sole heir of the Cassadine fortune.
- After his father's 'accident' Spencer was desperate to get away from Port Charles, N.Y. He ran from his great grandmother and the guilt that plagued him only to end up at Berkley college in California. Spencer spent most of his undergrad getting drunk and sleeping around. He wanted to feel anything and everything other than the pain he harbored deep inside. Spencer somehow managed to graduate with a degree in business and finally toned down his boozing and whoring long enough to attend law school. He excelled at the vocation and successfuly practiced criminal law for seven years before accepting a professorship at NYU. Returning to New York was an unnerving but necessary step in moving on with his life. Spencer is facing down the demons of his past, or so he hopes. Time will tell. Although Spencer hasn't heard from his great grandmother Helena since the day his father died he has always assumed she's not finished with him yet. There had to be a reason she wanted Spencer to inherit his family's millions and she'll come to collect one day after the "assistance" she gave him. Spencer lives in constant anxiety over it. It's why he struggled so long to make a name for himself professionally and has never, will never, settle down personally. This way, if his grandmother finds him she'll be hard pressed to pull his strings or blackmail him since he has nothing to lose.
Taken By: Captivating
Played By: Matt Bomer


Name: Deacon Reed
Age: Twenty
Previous RPG: The Cape
Year: Third
Major: Photography
Theme Song: Everything Changes by Staind
Personality: Brooding, Sarcastic, Reckless, Passionate, & Meddlesome
Five Fast Facts:
- Deacon's birth parents were anything but responsible and loving. He spent his first six years of life living in a grimy trailer park eating canned vegetables for two of his three meals (cereal was the third). His mother was an ex-beauty pageant queen turned junkie, and his father was a playboy cop kicked off the force for drinking on the job. His father eventually left his mother for a stripper, and Deacon was handed off to child services when she couldn't cope. He was adopted by a wealthy family but failed to connect with them despite their attempts to earn his affection.
- Deacon uses photography as a coping mechanism. He's been taking pictures daily for the past twelve years. He can't imagine pursuing another career. To even talk about it would be blasphemy.
- Deacon drinks heavily. It started off as innocent teenage fun, but eventually alcohol became a necessity. Deacon really lost himself in the bottle once he abandoned his high school girlfriend without so much as a goodbye. After dating Maya for three years and promising to go to LA with her, Deacon's insecurities and selfish fears led him to buy a one-way plane ticket to New York City. Although he has not spoken to Maya since breaking her heart, the guilt is constantly beating in his head. Vodka is all that quiets the noise.
- Deacon volunteers at a homeless shelter on the weekends. It reminds him of the filth he was initially raised in. He wants to give back in a small way, although he shares this activity with no one. It would damage his rebel without a cause persona beyond repair.
- Deacon's adoptive parents cut him off over the summer after he refused rehab. He has one hundred dollars in the bank and has been living on random classmates couches while he searches for a job. The money he gets from band gigs helps, but it's not enough.
Taken By: Captivating
Played By: Milo Ventimiglia

winter soldier

Um. Yeah. Band awesomeness.

AtomicEmpress

Teachers:

Name: Gwen Veer
Age: Thirty
Previous RPG: Fables
Year: Professor of Folklore and Mythology
Major: N/A
Personality: Complicated. Passionate. Loving. Sexual. Flirty.
Five Fast Facts:
- Married her High School sweetheart when she was 19 and was married for two years until she caught him cheating - the first time with her skanky cousin, and the second time with their gardener, Brian.
- She had given up college for marriage even though she had good grades and a passion to follow her love of the stories in various cultures. When she divorced, a friend of hers helped her get scholarships and grants to go back to school.
- Ever since she was serially cheated on, Gwen has had a strong fear of committment. No matter how much she cares about someone she still can't fight the fear. She is currently in theraphy.
- Professor Veer along with several other professors take their students to a country with history, folklore, literature, etc. that they have studied and can better study by being in the country for a brief period. She has quite the collection of keepsakes from her travels thus far.
- Is not only so pretty she briefly modeled to make money while in college, but she also happens to be a bit of a gamer and movie fanatic.
Taken By: AtomicEmpress (Pammie)
Played By: Doutzen Kroes


Name: James Hancock
Age: Thirty-Five
Previous RPG: St. Cyprian's University
Year: Professor of Literature
Major: N/A
Personality: Passionate. Creative. Strange. Obsessive. Blunt.
Five Fast Facts:
- Became a writer as a young man, but much of his work was rejected, so he turned to drinking. When he finally became sober 4 years later he devoted his life to learning to be a teacher, and never seriously wrote again.
- Has a hard time developing healthy relationships with people, when he was drinking it was because of that...but now that he's sober he has a hard time connecting approiatly.
- Goes to regular AA meetings.
-Has an overweight cat named Hemingway.
- Is considered to be the House of NYU.
Taken By: AtomicEmpress (Pammie)
Played By: Michael Fassbender



Undergrad. Students:

Name: Bridget Finley *Finley*
Age: Nineteen
Previous RPG: St. Cyprian's
Year: Second
Major: Music, with a minor in History
Personality: Lonely. Masked. Controlling. Skilled. Focused.
Five Fast Facts:
- Her father was a classical violinist and her mother was a singer and guitar player for a rock band, so they have always tugged her in two opposite directions musically, which was her passion as much as it was their's.
- By the time she was fourteen she knew how to play the acoustic and electric guitar, the violin, the cello, and the drums.
- When she plays music unless it is in a casual setting like a party, she gets upset when all attention isn't on the music, and her - who is making it. It is disrespectful to her, and that is something she will not tolerate.
- Doesn't have alot of friends outside of the musician circle.
- Is trying to use her time in college to find out what type of music she actually wants to pursue for her life's career - the kind her dad loves, the kind her moms loves - or something ele?
-Has a huge collection of cd's and records everything from jazz, the Beatles, Du wop, classical, hard rock, southern rock, blue grass,etc.
Taken By: AtomicEmpress (Pammie)
Played By: Candice Accola


Name: Duncan Rossum
Age: Eighteen
Previous RPG: St. Cyprian's
Year: First
Major: Dramatic Literature with a minor in Cinenma Studies
Personality: Unique. Over-the-top. Nervous. Charming. Friendly.
Five Fast Facts:
- Duncan's mother died during childbirth and his father always suspected Duncan was the product of an affair on his mother's part. He still raised Duncan, but was very strict and at times abusive.
- Very into pop culture, old movies,etc. Also has a thing for hats. Often seen wearing a top hat he bought at a thrift store.
- Has always been the 'weird kid', some people are put off by his odd behaviors but others like it. He is often the life of a party.
- His father was an alcholic and so Duncan has never really drank, afraid the same afflication would befall him.
- Has Epilepsy but it is generally well controlled.
Taken By: AtomicEmpress (Pammie)
Played By: Jackson Rathbone


Name: Oswald *Oz* Padgett
Age: Eighteen
Previous RPG: St. Cyprian's
Year: First
Major: Philosophy with a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Personality: Protective. Intelligent. Freespirited. Worrisome. Sexual.
Five Fast Facts:
- he and his twin brother were abandoned as newborns at a hospital and put into the foster system, they stayed together until they were 9 and then were placed apart. They didn't see each other again until they were 15, Oscar, his twin came out to him as a homosexual and Oz was very okay with it even going on oscar's first date with him as a double date with his girlfriend at the time.
-6 months ago a woman who had checked up on both of them in the foster system passed away and left them her small house, Oscar is living in the house just outside of New York City and Oz visits regularly.
- Oz has been in an open relationship before, as well as a type of threesome relationship.
- Is extremely bright but sometimes plays dumb until he has a full grasp on a situation.
- Has been in his share of fights in the system.
Taken By: AtomicEmpress (Pammie)
Played By: Tyler Blackburn


Name: Ruby Weston
Age: Thirty
Previous RPG: N/A (Original Character)
Year: Student for life (on her families money).
Major: Working on her third degree - Psychology.
Theme Song: Blank Space by Taylor Swift
Personality: Addictive. Moody. Intelligent. Sexual. Unforgettable.
Three Relevant Life Facts:
-Ruby was raised in upstate New York, to rich parents who were childless into their late forties and had a 'miracle' happen when the wife became pregnant with Ruby. Of course, they worried about abnormalities in the birth but everything went well. Ruby was a very needy child, and grew into a angsty teenager. When she was 16 she was caught having an affair with an assoicate of her father's. She was always an extremely intelligent person and adapted to any situation.
- After the death of her parents she sold the family home and bought a penthouse in Manhattan. She has attended NYU off and on since she graduated. Ruby tends to be a relationship addict and loves having someone on a string. She will date men older or younger than her as long as they spark her interest.
- One of her exes (who has left the state now) had a retraining order on her after she slashed his tires and took a tire iron to his car. She can go completely insane when she thinks a guy is cheating or not spending the right amount of time with her.
Taken By: AtomicEmpress
Played By: Alessandra Ambrosio



Grad. students:

Name: Genesis Cooper
Age: Twenty-One
Previous RPG: LDC
Year: Grad. Student 2nd year
Major: Computer Science
Personality: Quirky. Protective. Genius. Adaptable. Idealist.
Three/Five Relevant Life Facts:
- MENSA Level IQ, when she puts her mind to a hobby or skill she goes at it until she masters it and almost always excels at what she starts.
-She started building and advancedly using computers when she was a teenager, when most kids would have been in high school, but Genesis was beginning NYU.
- She doesn't have many close friends and her family, who she doesn't easily relate to, are all back in the deep south. Genesis is by no means a social butterfly, even being a bit awkward sometimes in conversations, by not noticing when her oddness is making someone else uncomfortable. But she would like to leave school with at least a few friends. It seems like everytime she connects to someone they get homesick and leave or in the case of when she first arrived at NYU, most of the people who 'adopted' the teenage Genesis were upperclassmen who graduated and left.
- Genesis has done some hacking, mostly harmless stuff but she has been recently approached by a organization that wants to 'mold' and 'use' her in the hackivist community. The words mold and use bother her alot. But the idealist in her kind of likes the idea of being able to make a difference from a computer.
Taken By: AtomicEmpress (Pammie)
Played By: Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Captivating

OOC: Here's my last one (for now). Please save me Willa Fitzgerald as a possible future PB.

Name: Rae DeMoss
Age: Nineteen
Previous RPG: The Cape
Year: First
Major: Dance [Tisch]
Personality: Ruminative, Tenacious, Compassionate, Spontaneous, and Graceful
Three Fast Facts:
- A fraternal twin, Rae was born first, beating her sister by one minute flat. This ‘leader of the pack’ mentality carried over into adolescence. Wherever Rae went, crowds followed. She had a hot body, hot friends, and a hot attitude. Randi never seemed to mind the arrangement. The social butterfly and the wallflower played well together. Their closeness doubled when Randi lost her sight. Initially, at least. Rae eventually grew envious of the attention her father bestowed upon her counterpart. She channeled her hurt into dance team and academics. A model boyfriend was thrown into the mix for good measure. Rae hoped, if she was popular enough, her father would take notice. What he did was pull the rug out from under her. Rae’s charade crumbled once her dad accepted a principal’s position in Rockport, Maine. He made the move for Randi, to be closer to better physicians, and it wasn’t fair.
- Though Rae loved her sister, she had a difficult time adjusting to their new life. She joined the ‘in crowd’ but was no longer the Queen Bee. No dance team existed, so she was relegated to cheerleading. When Rae finally thought she’d found solace in Johnny Evans, he dumped her for his ex. This perfect storm of disappointments led to a monumental mistake. Rae slept with her sister’s boyfriend Dexter. She was drunk and stupid, so she hid the indiscretion. But, soon, real feelings formed. Dexter and she were about to confess when Randi discovered their secret. Her twin was (understandably) unforgiving. She banished Rae from her life and never looked back.
- Losing Randi devastated Rae. Her last year of high school was spent with her head in a bottle. Dreams of Oxford and Princeton quickly dissipated, along with her pristine GPA. Rae attempted to run from her demons after graduation. She left Maine without a word and hitchhiked to New York. Her spontaneous, vagabond ways eventually landed her in Europe. Rae moved there with ‘friends’ and tried to be someone else. Anyone else. What she became was HIV positive. Now she’s returned to New York for treatment and schooling. Her parents are funding her education and, unknowingly, her medication. Rae has no idea Randi is also studying at NYU.
Taken By: Captivating
Played By: Dianna Agron

winter soldier

Just dropping by to reserve Penn Badgley. Profile hopefully to come tomorrow night when I'm not working.

Starfield_Scribe

Here comes one! I can't upload the picture and make it smaller

Name: Shirley Anne Wisnoski
Age: 18
Previous RPG: Loners Dinner Club
Year: 1st
Major: Dance [Tisch] (Minor: Psychology)
Theme Song: Optional
Personality: Unassuming, active, motherly, resourceful, perfectionist
Five Relevant Life Facts: * In her earliest years, she only had her mother. Her father had left before she could make any kind of memory of him. He never returned, and Shirley tried not to tell her mother that she might have wished to know him. The two of them alone, they got along just fine. Her mother wanted her to have all she could want, but Shirley never wanted much. Her best memories were of sitting in their tiny apartment at night, snug in her mother's arms while she read the adventures of Anne Shirley, for whom the girl had been named.
* She was eight years old when her mother met Brian, nine when she married him, and by the time she was thirteen she had two young sisters. In the beginning she had trouble with the change. She did not want to share her mother with this man, didn't want to leave her home. But Brian was good to them, was never thrown from trying to be a worthy presence in her life, and in time she grew to love him as a father without realizing. And with her sisters she was even more in heaven.
* She started ballet when she was four years old. Her mother had taken her to see the Nutcracker at Christmas, and she was so taken with the magic of what she saw that she had not stopped twirling around the apartment until her mother had signed her up for lessons. She did not tire of it, only grew more impassioned with each year, and more skilled as well. This was all she needed to be happy in life, and she would not stop.
* She came out to her mother and stepfather when she was sixteen, after her six-year-old sister Sarah walked in on her making out with Grace Wheelan and ran to tell their parents. They didn't so much as blink, and her 'big secret' became no more than her reality. Shirley dated Grace for two years, up until she left for school. The break was rougher on Shirley than it was on Grace, but Shirley is putting on a brave face.
* Coming to NYU, being accepted at Tisch, it was all she'd worked on for a long time, which might have factored into her break with Grace. But she was not going to be made to regret this choice. Dance was her life, her future. She wants to be just like her idol, just like Sydney Jordan. And now she's in, and it's harder than she thought it would be, but that's alright. She thrives under pressure.
Taken By: Starfield_Scribe
Played By: Emily Bett Rickards

Shiri S

I'll do it and edit it in here

EDIT: Here you go

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Starfield_Scribe

Thanks! Now here's the second

Name: Michaela Staples
Age: 19
Previous RPG: N/A
Year: 2nd
Major: Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance with a Specialization in Classical Voice [Steinhardt] (Minor: French)
Theme Song: Optional
Personality: Independent, private, soulful, soft spoken, artistic.
Five Relevant Life Facts: * Michaela does not ever speak of her childhood. She doesn't talk of where she came from, about her family... As far as anyone would know, she came on to this world a ready made human being with no origin. If even asked a question as to her life before, she shuts down, or she changes the subject.
* She began her voice training in high school, and it was her teacher there who made so that she even got the audition for NYU. And the even bigger helping hand came when, realizing she would not be able to afford the tuition, her teacher chose to foot the bill. Michaela would have graciously turned her down, but her teacher would not have it. Just like that, she was headed to college, and as far as the school was concerned, her tuition was paid, so they had no question or complaint.
* Michaela does not live in the dorms. She doesn't have an apartment in New York. She doesn't have an apartment anywhere. Her precious few belongings spend most of their time in her locker at the university library where she works. Some nights she'll get away with sleeping there, but other nights she sleeps where she can, which is either in the park or in an all night movie theater. If not for her access to showers, to washing machines, or her work wages, everyone would know her for being homeless.
* She's not going to give up; she never has. She is willing to go through rough times so long as she sees the light at the end of the tunnel, and for her the diploma from NYU and her future as a singer is worth all the discomfort.
* She lost her job at the library when she was found sleeping there one morning. She's been trying to find another job, to keep herself afloat, but her wages have dwindled, and if she wants to make them last, she has no choice. She has to go by the shelter.
Taken By: Starfield_Scribe
Played By: Alycia Debnam Carey

Shiri S

And here it is resized:

Starfield_Scribe

Bless you! And a third I've never knocked them out so fast, but need to hurry

ETA: AND A FOURTH, DONE! PM me for stuff!

Name: David Suarez Sr.
Age: 27
Previous RPG: N/A
Year: 2nd
Major: Nursing
Theme Song: Optional
Personality: Caring, patient, lively, contemplative, fiery.
Five Relevant Life Facts: * He grew up at the mercy of his two older sisters, who used him as their dress up doll, their scapegoat, their servant... David didn't care. He was a solid brat, and he gave them hell. His father told him time and again that he would not amount to anything. His mother tried to set him right, to be as encouraging as one could, but he could not change who he was, nor did he try to.
* He didn't turn things around until high school, when he joined the baseball team. He had something to strive for now, and he gave it his all. His one regret was that his father never got to see it; he died when David was thirteen. He was well on his way to a full ride scholarship when he was injured in a game, at the start of his senior year.
* His dream ripped from him, he fell very close to losing his way. He might have done that, too, if not for Isabella. They'd been in school together all their lives, but they'd never spent more time together than regular school life brought on, until his baseball career ended. Suddenly she was the only friend he had, the only friend he wanted. They only slept together the one time, after senior prom, but that was all it took to change their lives. Weeks later, Izzy told him they were having a baby.
* Neither wanted to get rid of the baby. But Izzy's dreams were not dead like his. They were big, and they were within her reach, but not with a baby. David made the choice: he would raise the baby. And months later, their son was born: David Suarez Jr. Soon Izzy was off, and it was just him and DJ. Suddenly he had a new dream, and it was to give his child the best life he could have, even if he had to work three jobs to do it. He would always be there for his boy.
* Izzy comes to visit, every so often, but it's for DJ, not David. They were never a couple and never would be. Meanwhile, David knew he had to do something drastic to give DJ a better shot. He'd put a cross on college, but he had to go for it, and he did. Long ago, before baseball had come into his mind, he had wanted to be a nurse, like his mother.
Taken By: Starfield_Scribe
Played By: Ryan Guzman


Name: Ilya Derby
Age: 13
Previous RPG: N/A
Year: 3rd
Major: (double) Mathematics + Russian and Slavic Studies
Theme Song: Optional
Personality: Logical, closed, clumsy, uncoordinated, nervous.
Five Relevant Life Facts: * He lived the first four years of his life in London. His father was an artist, his mother a professor of Russian literature. The way his father told it, theirs had been the greatest love story ever told. And he, Ilya, was the greatest product of that love.
* From the beginning it seemed clear Ilya was a particularly bright boy, but it wasn't until the Derby family relocated to America that they realized how much. He was a mathematic genius.
* While most children were out playing, making friends, Ilya was in his room, hovering at the far wall, which his father had turned into a massive chalkboard. The room perpetually smelled of chalk, and his hair, clothes, face and hands were more often than not sprinkled with a helping of the white dust. He had no friends, and if his parents were artists and romantics, he was logical and closed.
* He was eleven when schools started courting him. In the end he chose NYU to follow his mentor. And perhaps in an effort to do what his mother had always wanted him to do, to balance his focus, he had taken on a second major, along with mathematics. In her honor, and in honor of his roots, he chose Russian and Slavic studies.
* He is now in his third year. He is hardly a social butterfly, but compared to the boy who first came on to the campus, he has improved some. But he is growing, and he needs to broaden his horizons even more. He might need help.
Taken By: Starfield_Scribe
Played By: Levi Miller

Shiri S

The pic for David doesn't work.

Starfield_Scribe

Mmmm dang... How about this one?

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Shiri S