degausser

| New York University |
Another turning point a fork stuck in the road
time grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go
So make the best of this test and don't ask why
its not a question but a lesson learned in time

“A tradition of excellence. A legacy of innovation.” New York University is by far one of the most distinguished and notable institutions of higher learning in the United States. Centered right in the heart of New York City, Greenwich Village, studying at New York University does not just pit you in the hands of the school, but of the entire city itself.

Students of New York University don’t just prepare for life during their four year stay, they embark on a new life the second they step foot on the expansive campus. Vibrant and lively, NYU is constantly changing, constantly evolving, and naturally it encourages its students to do the same. Consisting of a total of fourteen colleges and Universities, NYU offers something for everyone and it’s wide variety of educational majors draws in people from all over the world.

While our story centers around the students involved vigorously in their studies at NYU, it’s main focus is their lives, and how both the school and the city weave their ways in and out of their lives. When you live in the city that never sleeps and you study at one of the finest and most reputable of institutions in the world, life never stands still, and more importantly, the people never stand still.

This story is about the relationships and the connections formed during college. It’s about the keg parties and the sororities. It’s about the classes and the professors. It’s about friends, and lovers, and adversaries. It’s about the ups and the downs, the heartaches, the challenges, and the changes. It’s about the good and the bad, the right and the wrong, the mistakes and the opportune chances sometimes taken and sometimes not.

Most importantly, it’s about life, and the choices that come with it.

Its something unpredictable
but in the end is right
I hope you have the time of your life

Additional Information:
The inspiration behind this game was always to bring back characters from previous games that have gone defunct that we enjoyed playing in the past. People are not limited to bringing back old characters, so if anyone wants to create brand spankin' new characters, feel free to do so. This is also a bit of a sandbox game. I won't necessarily be organizing "events" for all characters to attend. Any events I suggest in the first post will be entirely optional as the whole city is pretty much at our disposal.

Rules:
- I won't enforce a boy/girl rule unless I notice we are getting a larger ratio of one over the other.
- This is a mature game. Mature things will happen (Yes, I borrowed that from Mandy!)
- Death happens in life. If you feel like abandoning a character, let us know and we may be able to arrange something fantastically tragic to happen to them.

Informational Links:
Majors and Minors offered at NYU.
Greenwich Village - The neighborhood the main campus is located in.

Faculty:

Name: Amanda Gates
Age: Thirty-Six
Previous RPG: N/A (original character)
Year: Fourth year professor
Teaches: English Lit & Art History
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 ways, 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: Christopher Graham
Age: Twenty-Eight
Previous RPG: Players 9: Boston
Year: Graduate Student; First Year
Major: Environmental Law; teaching and research assistant for Environmental Studies in the undergraduate program.
Theme Song: Jesus Christ by Brand New
Personality: Amiable, Charming, Candid, Impulsive & Psuedo-Cynical.
Five Fast Facts:
- Despite the unconventional circumstances that led to his existence, Christopher Graham could not have lived in a more well-adjusted and loving household. Mirabelle Graham and Eleanor Rios desired only two things in life: to have the law recognize and legitimize their love for one another, and to have children. The latter was realized early on in their relationship. Christopher and his younger sister are biologically related through their father, a mutual friend of both Mirabelle and Eleanor, who is a father in only the strictest definition of the term: he provided the sperm. In the summer of 2004, twenty-two years into their relationship, their first dream was at last realized when they were married before family and friends at a courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Having grown up in the company of women, Chris has always had a certain affinity for understanding the fairer sex at least to some degree better than most men his age and thus counts a significant number of the opposite sex amongst his closest of friends. Yet in other regards he is impossibly dense, sometimes requiring a swift knock upside the head by a well-meaning (and potentially jilted) friend to get the message through. High school had been a blur of curious hands and daring sexcapades in uncomfortable places with varying degrees of discretion being employed. Chris never once so much as entertained the notion of entering into a serious monogamous relationship until he was eventually railroaded by a lithe brunette dancer who might have been enough to convince him to settle down had he not realized the full extent of his feelings for her when it had already been too little, too late.
- Having absolutely no desire to continue his education, Chris elected to instead back-pack across Europe with a couple of friends from high school. The first eight months were a blur of strobe lights and illicit substances and he might have been content to carry on another eight months in much the same fashion but for a couple of American girls recently coming off a two year tour with the Peace Corps in Macedonia. For the first time in all his underachieving nineteen years, Chris had been inspired to do something and a year later began his own two year tour in the Philippines teaching English as a secondary language.
- Chris emerged from his two years in the Peace Corps a changed man. Okay, a slightly changed man. Although his social life in college was much the same as it had been in high school, he found himself more focused and involved in his education than he had been before, his experience in the Philippines inspiring him to pursue a career in Environmental Law. Four years later Chris graduated with honors from UC Berkley and an internship opportunity awaiting him in New York City.
- The bachelor lifestyle to which he had grown accustomed to was unexpectedly upended by a fellow Environmental Law major his junior year of college. For the first time in his twenty-five years, Chris found himself committed to a monogamous relationship. The two dated for nearly two years and were engaged for several months, but his girlfriend’s unwillingness to move across the country for his internship coupled with doubts he’d been nursing throughout the entire duration of the relationship resulted in a mutual desire for separation. And thus Chris has officially reentered bachelordom, the transition being smooth and seamless … almost as if he never left it in the first place.
Taken By: degausser
Played By: Jesse Lacey


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 ****ty 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


Name: Lucas Hughes
Age: Twenty-Seven
Previous RPG: Players 10: Las Vegas
Year: Grad Student; 3rd Year
Major: B.A. in Comparative Literature; currently working on a Master’s degree in Classical Civilization and Hellenic Studies
Personality: Acerbic, Cynical, Observant, Reticent and Resolute.
Theme Song: "Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have to Do Is Die" by Brand New
Five Fast Facts:
- Lucas’s parents, happily married twenty-eight years now, had a fairytale romance that inspired a hopeless romanticism in their eldest son early on. His fairytale bubble was callously destroyed by a philandering trollop named Delaney Jennings. Nine years later and Lucas is still not over his two timing high school sweetheart, his perception of the opposite sex was forever and irreversibly colored with skepticism and mistrust.
- Apparently not having learned from the first time, Lucas found himself the source of curiosity and entertainment from another heartless wench evil sorceress. The last thing Lucas ever expected was to meet his intellectual match in the form of Noelle Stratford, whose unwavering persistence proved to be more formidable than his deliberately off-putting disposition. She managed to slowly whittle away at him until he was all but completely enamored with her and for a time they were actually happy. So of course it makes sense that she would go on to crush his pathetic little heart beneath her stilettoed heal.
- From his mother, a successful book publisher, he inherited a love for literature and from his father, a now retired colligate scout, an unbridled love for college football. Consequently his bookshelves are chalk full of a seemingly contradictory assortment of old hard cover books and USC memorabilia. Lucas is not one to be pigeonholed, and deliberately so. Such is the way of the pretentious pseudo-intellectual hipster.
- Earned his B.A. in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California and would have continued on with their graduate program if not for yet another messy and tragic heartbreak. This time it was not enough for him to move several states away; he had to move clear across the country. Never has it once occurred to Lucas that the problem may in fact fall with him. That would require far more self-reflection than he’s willing to engage in.
- His ideal night involves a quiet night in with a home cooked gourmet meal, a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, a good book and only The Smith’s The Queen is Dead album and his dog, Jean-Paul (Sarte), for company. On one of the rare instances when he forces himself to socialize, it usually involves a small group of friends as equally pretentious and obnoxious as he is debating various life philosophies, current events and films over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine at a trendy wine bar. Because, well … reasons.
Taken By: degausser
Played By: Joseph Gordon-Levitt


Name: Morris Reeves.
Age: 36.
Previous RPG: Dangerous Lives.
Teaches: Art History.
Personality: Unpredictable, moody, focused, controlling, abstract.
Five Fast Facts: - Morris had a normal childhood until the age of five then his bi polar disorder began setting in. No one took his acting out seriously because they thought it was just a little boy being a little boy. His mood swings got worse as he got older, causing him to lash out in violent ways. The only thing that seemed to soothe him was painting. His mood swings were never nearly as bad when there was a paint brush in his hand.
- His mother babied him and let him get away with his moods, which almost cost her her life on many occasions. One such occasion, landed Morris in juvie when he was thirteen because he lashed out at her so badly and stole a car to run away when a neighbor called the cops. He spent the rest of his childhood in juvie, getting therapy for his "anger management" issue. He would have been out sooner than he was if he had not kept acting up and getting into trouble.
- No longer a juvinile, he was thrown into the world when he was eighteen and Morris decided to try and turn his life around. He became as a starving artist, working at a gallery to pay and selling paintings to pay for his studio apartment. He seemed to grow out of his violent mood swings and traded them for both manic and depressive ones. He never did get diagnosed for bi polar because no one ever considered that might be what was wrong with him.
- Bored of the artist life in his 20s, Morris decided he needed to do more and enrolled in college. Because Art had always been his passion, majored in Art History with a minor in Education, thinking he could maybe teach it to others one day. He continued to sell paintings to help put some money in his pocket and became pretty well known in his own right in the art scene. He had a reputation for being a moody artist and for good reasons. Upon finishing college, he went on to teach a night class of Art History at a local gallery for those interested.
- It was in one of those classes that he met his wife. He was 30, she was 18 but the connection was instant and too strong for them to ignore. Due to his disorder their relationship was up and down quite a bit. When he first proposed, she said no, which caused him to try and kill himself. He really loved her and he couldn't imagine his life without her taking the 'no' as much more than it was. She saved him from jumping off the roof and agreed to marry him. Right after their wedding, Morris got a chance to work at NYU teaching Art History and the newly weds moved to NYC without a second thought. Morris is currently in his third year teaching there and he's enjoying it. For once in his life, he is truly happy.
Taken By: Shiri S.
Played By: Jason Behr.


Name: Noelle Stratford
Age: Twenty-Five
Previous RPG: Players 10: Las Vegas
Year: First | Teaching Assistant, Contemporary Art | Institute of Fine Arts
Major: B.A./M.A. in Modern Culture and Media (Brown University)
Theme Song: Drifting In And Out by Porcelain Raft
Personality: Imaginative. Polished. Delicate. Mosaic. Ardent.
Five Fast Facts:
[-] The only daughter of an advertising tycoon and a jaded boozing former debutante, Noelle Daveigh Stratford was brought up in a world not of her choosing but almost always used, whether directly or indirectly, for her benefit. Everett and Carrigan's mutual lack of discernment when it came to what a parent does and doesn't allow their child to do most likely stemmed from the same conveniently lazy attitude exercised by their parents, and their parents before them, and so the vicious cycle continued. For the better part of her life, Noelle lived in NYC, attending school by day, meaningless parties and gatherings for her parents' easily acquired amusement usually by night. A business decision caused the move to Las Vegas, where Noelle attended Chaparral High School for her Junior & Senior years and graduated with honors.
[-] One of the many ways Noelle kept herself entertained amongst all the droll adolescent boredom was through picking her teeth with eager high school boys. It was only when she finally met her match in one of her targets that she called "the one with stones" (since he was the only one to refuse her) did she actually change her tune and become truly interested in someone for the first time in her life. He had been the toughest of nuts to crack but eventually she won him over with persistence and dimples and being completely in love with him, and the pair stayed incredibly serious for all of Senior year.
[-] While her relationship with "the one" helped her turn over a new moral leaf, Noelle's familial struggles took a turn for the worse. She had a catastrophic clash of wills with her parents over her professional future, being told on no uncertain terms where she was going to college (Harvard) and what she would be studying (Law). Her parents also had some uniquely bastardious opinions on who she should be involved with romantically and how that factored into them continuing to provide her with financial support. Under insanely unfair amounts of pressure, she ended up lying to "the one" and said she cheated on him more than once during their relationship so he would dump her and stay away from her. Of course the crippling depression that followed gave her the opportunity to find her strength and finally flip her parents the bird, accepting a full academic ride to Brown University studying Modern Culture and Media. Unfortunately, she found herself too scared to go back to "the one" and explain everything that happened with her parents, even after she cut them out of her life. The loss of him shakes her to her core to this day.
[-] Somehow able to retain her focus on school, she received her B.A./M.A. in MCM from Brown as part of their integrated 5-year program. The degree and a need for another change in scenery sparked Noelle's next move to work at the Art Institute of Chicago as a contemporary artist and sculptor there for the next two years. Meeting and starting a serious relationship with her current boyfriend was nowhere in the plans, but she knew she had to come out of sack cloth and mourning at some point and try to regain some emotional currency in her life.
[-] Noelle felt the familiar draw of New York City soon after and she applied for a teaching assistant position at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts in the Contemporary Art department. Upon receiving and accepting the job, her stock broker boyfriend immediately jumped at the opportunity to move to NYC with her and be so close to Wall Street, the two of them currently sharing a loft-like space in the Village together. While having a new job on the horizon seems thrilling, she has no idea whether settling down with her current is actually something she's capable of, "the one" still on his pedestal where he's always been, even years later.
Taken By: sumiregusa
Played By: Nora Zehetner


Name: Rowan Bright
Age: Thirty-five
Previous RPG: Blood of Raziel (sort of)
Year: Adjunct Professor
Teaches: Economics
Personality: Contrary, impulsive, versatile, worldly, roguish.
Three Relevant Life Facts:
- An only child, raised by a single mother and living hand-to-mouth, Rowan grew up in a world revolving mostly around his own imagination. Toys were an expense his high school drop out mother couldn’t readily afford, and friends were a luxury just out of reach for a boy who spent no more than 6 months in any one place. He and his mother lived like transients, couch surfing for weeks at a time in between economy apartments but they were never genuinely homeless, she made sure of that. Rowan’s mother cut a convincing, pitiable figure, beautiful and blonde and just the right amount of vulnerable, there was always a man willing to open his home to her and her young son. When Rowan was old enough to catch wise to her ingenious little schemes, she invited him into the fold—a partner in the grift. Together, combined, their game was exponentially better and then it wasn’t just about surviving anymore. By the time Rowan was eighteen and ready to swindle independently, his mother was set up in a lavish beach house in Miami, tossing back mojitos and charming lonely retirees out of their life savings.
- Released from his mother’s training wheels, Rowan would go on to seek greatness in his own right—amassing for himself not only a small fortune, but a veritable card deck of identities, each meticulously thought out and developed with unique personalities and mannerisms that might convince the world at large that Rowan was not actually one person, but in fact just one of an identical litter, each sporting suspiciously fabulous hair and rapier wit. But Rowan was never really all about the money, like his mother and many other notable con-artists before him, for Rowan the real thrill was getting away with it, swindling insane sums from wealthy people who really ought to know better. With nothing more than effortless charm, a bit of trickery, and the world’s best poker face. The thrill of the chase, and all that.
- To date, Rowan has been ‘almost caught’ once. Just once. As a personal rule, Rowan doesn’t operate often in the United States—the EU is easier, safer, and permits more variety in Rowan’s portfolio of identities. But the silicon valley venture capitalist had practically fallen into his lap, and Rowan was taught not to squander an opportunity. It was sheer bad luck that the San Francisco DA actually had a solid head on his shoulders, and what lackadaisical slip ups that might’ve flown under the radar in the EU swiftly rose to bite him in the ass. Fortunately, Rowan’s latest victim had been as malleable as play dough and through some hasty maneuvering was convinced to botch the fraud cause in a rather spectacular fashion, resulting in a dismissal of the charges and some tragic consequences for the prosecutor. Which wasn’t really enough, in Rowan’s opinion, and his current position at NYU was motivated entirely by the notion that maybe that lawyer deserved to be fucked with personally, as well as professionally.
Taken By: winter soldier
Played By: Chris Pratt


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



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: Celinda Garrett
Age: Twenty-Eight
Previous RPG: Players 9: Boston
Year: Second | Tisch School of the Arts
Major: B.F.A. in Dance (Classical & Contemporary)
Theme Song: The Greatest by Cat Power
Personality: Effervescent. Magnetic. Alluring. Determined. Guarded.
Five Fast Facts:
[-] From the day she was born, Celinda Adrienne Garrett had gotten everything she wanted. Not because of her parents loving her more than themselves. No, Michael and Estelle Garrett loved themselves plenty, and she just reaped the benefits from the overflow. The perks of having your father own half of one of the largest communication enterprises in the country. She left her parents' mansion in Los Angeles the summer before her Junior year in high school and planted new roots in Boston. All she had left to do was plan her future on someone else's dime.
[-] Weston High provided an interesting foray into the world of super duper awesome sexual awakening for Celinda. She had always been the focus of male attention and tawdry fantasy as long as she could remember but she wasn't the type to just whore around. She chose her intercourse buddies very carefully and managed to keep all scenarios casual and beneficial to her lady needs. Of course she never anticipated being shoved onto the path of many love feelings by a certain addictive intellectual miscreant who had no grasp of the concept, effectively ending her reign as sex kitten supreme and shoving her into a shame spiral for the rest of Senior year.
[-] Even though her grades had been more than satisfactory, academia didn't mean much to Celinda after high school. Dance provided the only paradigm for stability in her life. She had powered through years of slaving away to master her Senior solo piece and receive a Corps de Ballet position at Boston Ballet in lieu of attending a four-year college. Despite the competitive nature of performing arts, she managed to work up to the rank of Soloist at BB within her first three years.
[-] Being scouted by American Ballet Theatre in New York City had been Celinda's dream since she first donned tights and she happily accepted the Soloist position there, finally leaving Boston and everyone else who might have kept a piece of her heart behind in their possession. It was easy to adapt to city life as she wove in and out of the social scene and the occasional "relationship" that her few hours of free time afforded her. Sadly, no one was ever able to get past the surface with Celinda and she doubted anyone would ever again.
[-] Her relentless work ethic at ABT set her on the fast track to becoming a Principal Dancer by twenty-five. She could have rested on the laurels of success but she still felt like part of her professional career lacked depth. It took her two more years to find the time and work up the [expletive]s to give in order to enroll as an undergrad at the Tisch School of the Arts and pursue her Bachelor's there. Coming up on her Sophomore year at NYU and already disillusioned with her widespread recognition, she has become a creature of habit more than anything else.
Taken By: sumiregusa
Played By: Mary Elizabeth Winstead


Name: Deacon Reed
Age: Nineteen
Previous RPG: The Cape
Year: Second
Major: Photography
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 over to child services when she could not cope. He was adopted by a wealthy family but failed to emotionally connect with them despite their various attempts to earn his affection.
- Deacon uses photography as a coping mechanism and has been taking pictures daily for the past twelve years. He can not image pursuing any other 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.
Taken By: Captivating
Played By: Milo Ventimiglia


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: Kristina Corinthos-Davis.
Age: 29.
Previous RPG: General Hospital: The Next Generation.
Year: Fourth Year Grad.
Major: Law.
Personality: Rational, stubborn, loyal, outspoken, caring.
Three Relevant Life Facts: - Kristina's parents are a lawyer and a mob boss, which gave the girl a very interesting life. She didn't know her father or brothers for the first few years of her life because her mother kept her away from them for her safety. The truth came out when Kristina got sick and she has been attached to her father's side of the family ever since. Being a mob princess wasn't easy because Kristina had been kidnapped many timed throughout her child hood but what really effected her was when she saw her older sister, who was with her father's hit man, shoot a man. She went mute for a few months and to this day still has nightmares about it.
- When Kristina grew up into a teenager, she was a mix of everyone that raised her and she often gave her mother a run for her money. Because her father put more attention on her brothers than her, she often acted out to get him to notice her. Her mother would try to keep her close in hopes that she would stop but it only made Kristina rebel even more. Her bratty phrase ended when she found herself in an abusive relationship. She was no longer acting out but crying for help. After Kiefer was taken care of ( run over by her mother no less ), Kristina's behavior calmed down quite considerably.
- Kristina spent her junior and senior year concentrating on school and her new boyfriend Cameran. The two grew up together but never really connected in a deeper way until he was there for her when he needed her. Only then did she realize that he was perfect for her. Though it displeased her mother, she differed college for a few years and got married to Cameran right after high school. It was wedded bliss for the young couple for the first two years then it all came crashing down when Cameran decided he wanted to get involved with the mob. That wouldn't have been a problem for Kristina had Cameran not decided to join her father's rival family. That was enough for her. She filed for divorce and headed off to NYU to do what she always wanted to; become a lawyer.
Taken By: Shiri.
Played By: Sophia Bush.


Name: Mallorie Gates
Age: Twenty-Six
Previous RPG: New York University
Year: Seventh First
Major: Drama
Theme Song: Lover to Lover by Florence + The Machine
Personality: Temperamental, Fickle, Self-Centered, Sensitive and Selectively-Devoted.
Five Fast Facts:
- Mallorie was only six when her father passed away, and for all intents and purposes was raised by a single mother for most of her life. Her older sister would go on to marry two years later, unintentionally abandoning her younger eight-year-old sister to their emotionally absent mother and her string of casual boyfriends.
- Left home for college immediately after graduating from high school following a misunderstanding with her mother. Mallorie entered into a sexual relationship with one of her (very married) college professors during her freshmen year of college. The affair lasted the duration of two terms until she was unceremoniously set aside for another doe-eyed, blonde-haired, fair-skinned freshmen girl. She dropped out of school two months later following a string of poor marks and a restraining order from the aforementioned very married college professor.
- Mallorie wasted little time moving on to the next relationship in her life. It had the same short life-span and doomed flare to it. Mallorie soon fell into a familiar pattern: she would attach herself to older, professionally established and emotionally unavailable men, who abandon her as soon as the novelty wears off and her investment in the relationship becomes too intense.
- Her last relationship found her stranded just outside of Vegas with only the clothes on her back and fifteen dollars to her name. After nearly two years without having spoken to either her mother or her sister, Mallorie placed a Collect call to her sister in New York City, pleading for a money transfer. She turned up a week later on Amanda Gates’ doorstep and has been crashing with her sister ever since, meditating on bad habits and past mistakes, and reluctantly struggling to turn over a new leaf and get her life back together. Cohabitation between the sisters has had its share of on and off days but Amanda’s positive influence is slowly (and we’re talking snail’s pace here) rubbing off on Mallorie, most notably in her decision to reenroll in school.
- Over the course of seven years Mallorie has the equivalent of four and a half semesters of college under her belt from five different colleges around the nation. Mallorie has at one point or another in her life declared several different majors for herself including History, Philosophy, Gender and Sexuality Studies and English. Each major was largely a reflection of the man in her life at the time, as Mallorie has a tendency to completely lose herself in her relationships and adopt the interests and traits of the person she is dating. The only thing definitivelyhers that she has retained over the years has been her love of musical theater, her guitar and her insatiable hunger for frozen desert treats and junk food.
Taken By: degausser
Played By: Elizabeth Olsen


Name: Nick Grimsby
Age: Nineteen
Previous RPG: N/A
Year: Second
Major: Music, with a minor in Business Studies
Personality: Pragmatic, single-minded, competitive, innovative, dauntless.
Three Relevant Life Facts:
- Though technically a middle child, one of four boys, Nick has lived most of his young life being treated like the baby of his (modestly generous) household. Much to his chagrin. An overachiever and nigh-maniacal perfectionist, Nick learned early on to despise pity, resent special treatment, and yearn to be taken seriously—never to have his mistakes 'excused' or 'overlooked' just because of his childhood illness. At age five, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia; suddenly his snotty entitled behavior was acceptable, even expected in light of his condition, and Nick was rewarded and coddled for the mediocrity he’d been inherently born to rally against. He was a brave little soldier. A fighter. A hero. For getting up every morning on his own, routinely taking his handful of debilitating pills, for dressing himself and brushing his teeth and using the restroom correctly and basically functioning like a mentally deficient toddler.
- What got him through the chemotherapy, the appointments, the tests and the constant inundation of pity was, directly, his obsession with music, and indirectly, his older brother. Nick took to music like a bird to flight, a natural prodigy from the moment his hand touched his brother’s beaten old guitar and suddenly he had a channel through which to focus his hyper-obsessive behavior. He’d spend days at a time working at that guitar, then the violin, then ultimately the keyboard which would become his true love. Meanwhile, his older brother essentially nannied him from afar—the only person Nick would permit to do so, including his parents—taking care of him during his lowest points and even going so far as to donate the bone marrow that would save his life. The two of them became inseparable, and between them, they formulated an idea to milk Nick’s musical talent for all it was worth. Roping in their eldest brother, they’d go on to form a family band.
- Said band had a modicum of success, mostly among the tween girl set who were permitted to enjoy the Grimsby boys’ brand of harmless catchy pop-rock. They even produced a CD, took a nationwide tour, and opened once or twice for Avril. Eventually, their popularity would fizzle out as the boys grew older and less interested in entertaining twelve year old girls, though Nick himself still regrets not pushing them a little harder, playing their music a little better and making a genuine career out of their lump of mostly untapped, shapeless talent. Attending NYU is his second choice of professional paths, though it’s his hope to diversify into the music management end of things to hopefully give overeager kids like him a better shot at stardom.
Taken By: winter soldier
Played By: Evan Peters


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: Penelope *Penny* Reeves
Age: Twenty-Four
Previous RPG: N/A (Original Character)
Year: Third
Major: Pre-Med.
Personality: Sweet. Trusting. Caring. Anxious. Perfectionist.
Three Relevant Life Facts:
- Penny's parents were two high school sweethearts that married right out of graduation. Her father worked a blue collar job and her mom took photos at the local walmart photo studio. They had almost given up trying to have a baby when they had Penny and they were so happy to be blessed with a baby. Unfournately it meant Penny's mom had to quit working and so they had much less money and her dad had to take extra shifts. When Penny's dad was home her mother always stressed the importanance of making his time there easy and nice for him or else he might go away and not come back. Needless to say this was a lot of stress of a seven year old so she was always trying to be her best self and be perfect when her dad was home. As she got older her mother was finally able to go back to work but the habits of walking on eggshells around her father were still there for both Penny and her mom. And for good reason at times, when her father would drink he could get mean and although he never touched Penny he did throw things and verbally abuse her and hurt her mother.
- Penny started working when she was out of school and decided to take an Art History Class where she met her future husband. At first she was cautious, he was her teacher after all - but the attraction was hard to deny. Soon they were dating and then he proposed. She turned him down, thinking they should get things together and slow down some first but Morris took her no the wrong way and tried to kill himself. This was the first time she realized that something wasn't average with him, but she was already in too deep. She talked him down from the roof and said she would marry him. By the time she was nearly 21 they were about to walk down the aisle.
- They moved so he could teach at NYU, and she's very happy with the chance she has to take pre-med. there. She has yet to convince Morris to see a doctor about his moods but she hopes to convince him soon. As far as Pre-Med. goes she is interested in studying neurology.
Taken By: AtomicEmpress
Played By: Emily Kinney


Name: Randi De Moss.
Age: 19.
Previous RPG: The Cape.
Year: Second.
Major: Anthropology and Linguistics.
Personality: Unforgiving, honest, independent, bull headed, sassy.
Three Relevant Life Facts: - Randi was born a twin and for the first few years of her life, she and her twin sister Rae were equal, no one twin got more attention than the other. However, that changed when the girls were six and Randi began complaining of headaches and blurry vision. By the time they got her to the doctor, it was too late; the tumor that was on her brain had already taken away her eye sight. No longer was the attention to the twins equal but it was more focused on Randi. That put some strain between the once close twins.
- Randi had adjusted to her disability quite well by the time she was in high school; she had learned to read braille, figured out how to use speech to text on every electronic device that had it, recorded all of her lessons to play back later, she was even playing the bass guitar. She was a pro at acting normal and most people didn't even know she was blind unless they got a good look at her. The strain that was caused earlier in their life was still present for the twins, manifesting in a lot of argument and a love hate relationship as they got into their teenage years.
- Their already fragile relationship was even more damaged when Rae slept with Randi's boyfriend. It was only one night and they were drink but to Randi, it was unforgivable act and she didn't hesitate to cut both of them out of her life. She couldn't possibly keep them in her life after they betrayed her. It didn't even matter that one of them was her twin sister. Biology be damned when it came to betrayal. Distancing herself from Rae, Randi moved out of the home they shared with their parents and in with their older sister, living with her for the remainder of her high school years. As soon as she graduated, she left town for college and she hasn't gone back since. She probably never would, not as long as Rae was still living there.
Taken By: Shiri.
Played By: Levin Rambin.


Name: Rebecca *Becks* Cummings
Age: Twenty-One
Previous RPG: N/A
Year: Third
Major: Sociology & Environmental Studies (double major)
Personality: Jocular, Bohemian, Affectionate, Benevolent, & Blunt
Five Fast Facts:
- Rebecca is a free spirit in every sense of the word, often citing conformity as the world’s greatest oppressor. Her parents joke that she questioned the status quo before she was even out of diapers. Rebecca is not a pretentious snob or a grungy hippie. She simply believes variety is the spice of life and encourages those she encounters to be true to themselves.
- Social justice issues hold a large piece of Rebecca’s heart. Being raised in the city of Detroit meant daily encounters with the homeless, juvenile delinquents, etc. Many recoiled from such sights but not Rebecca. What she witnessed during her youth unquestionably convinced her that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities. The spark inside of her cannot be quenched. Rebecca is known around NYU’s campus as the girl who champions a new cause every couple of weeks.
- Compliments of her French-Canadian mother, Rebecca is fluent in French. She regularly uses her bi-lingual abilities to confuse professors and ward off unwanted suitors. She also tutors her peers in the language of love to earn extra cash.
- Rebecca is a virgin. A rare breed, but she is unashamed. She has dated plenty of men but has yet to find one she feels deserves all of her. It is for this reason her relationships rarely pass the six month mark. Most men are not keen on waiting. Rebecca is not a prude, but she is a romantic. There is a reason sex is referred to as making love.
- Most people possess one hidden talent, if that, but Rebecca is not most people. She can hold her breath for two minutes, and she’s also been known to sing a mean karaoke rendition of “American Pie.” Touch her twice.
Taken By: Captivating
Played By: Lyndon Smith


Name: Shane Lewis.
Age: 26.
Previous RPG: General Hospital: The Next Generation.
Year: First.
Major: Undeclared.
Personality: Naive, Quiet, Child-like, Kind, Determined.
Five Fast Facts: - Born Shannon, her childhood was not easy. She was raised by two druggies who could barely keep clothes on the back of her and her sister, let alone feed them. She never really knew what a real home was like because all she knew were shelters. The only place she felt at home in and got a decent meal every day was school, when she attended that was.
- When she was thirteen, her parents owned money to a drug dealer. He meant business and threatened to kill them if they didn't pay. Desperate to stay alive, they did the unthinkable to save their own skins; they sold their daughter. The man had had his eye on the pretty young thing for years and decided that she was good enough trade. They never did business together after that and he kept their daughter. Happy to have one less mouth to feed, they didn't even try to get their daughter back.
- The man, whom she only knew as 'Sir', was not very kind to the young girl over the years. He mistreated her in every way possible. By the time she reached adult hood, she had learned to let him do whatever he wanted to. If she didn't protest, time passed by more quickly. She could have just as easily taken off when she was no longer under his guardianship legally after she turned eighteen but fear paralyzed her from ever leaving. She was afraid of what he would do if she tried to escape and never even thought about attempting.
- By some miracle, ten years later she was found when the cops were doing a drug search in the house. Her rescue had made the news, which helped her find her sister. After a trip to the hospital for a physical examination and maybe therapist visits, she was released into the world and reunited with her sister. Though it had been ten years since the two saw each other, their bond was as strong was ever and she clung to that as she got used to being in the world again. Wanting to get away from her past, she left Shannon behind and changed her named to Shane.
- She spent three years adjusting to being a functioning member of society again and she worked on getting her GED. Being so far behind in her studies, she worked her butt off to be ready for the test. When she took it, she passed with flying colors and she went into take the SATs, passing those too. To her delight, she was accepted to NYU with an undeclared major. She may be the oldest freshman in her class but she didn't care. She wasn't going to let what happened to her stand in the way of what she wanted and she wanted to go to college. She wanted to learn all that she could and get a good job some day and nothing was going to stop her.
Taken By: Shiri S.
Played By: Jenna Dewan.


Name: Vada Jennings
Age: Nineteen
Previous RPG: Players 1
Year: Second
Major: Comparative Literature, with a minor in Creative Writing.
Personality: Benevolent. Quirky. Akwkward. Friendly. Trusting.
Five Fast Facts:
-Helped her mother run her New Age store until she moved to New York on her own at the age of 18.
-Fell in love with a guy in high school who had a bad reputation and although he kept trying to get her in bed with him, she wouldn't sleep with him without a commitment of some kind, which he would never give.
- Has been writing since she was a pre-teen and her dad died, her ideal job would be to work at a publishing company.
-Before her dad died, her mom was for a span of two years, hooked on prescripition drugs - some of which were prescribed to her father who was dying of cancer.
- Since she spent a portion of her growing up years, taking care of her parents instead of being taken care of - she is very maternal to others, or who need someone stable in their lives.
Taken By: AtomicEmpress (Pammie)
Played By: Maiara Walsh


Name: Virginia 'Don’t Call Her Ginny' Kidd
Age: Twenty-one
Previous RPG: Blood of Raziel (sort of)
Year: First
Major: Psychology
Personality: Brusque, mercurial, disparaging, selectively doting, unabashed.
Three Relevant Life Facts:
- Virginia’s childhood was like a progression of clichés. Born The Pastor’s Daughter, a good decent God-fearing girl she clung to the vestiges of decency long past the age most children of religion would shed them for more hedonistic pursuits. She swore her undying devotion to Christ, donned a purity ring and avowed to save her virginity for marriage but the wiles of teenage boys wasn’t something she was altogether prepared for, even with her bible-thumping father breathing down the modest collars adorning her neck. At fifteen she ended up pregnant, terrified and confused, but ultimately resourceful and her parents never found out about her convenient subsequent miscarriage. They’d be too busy disapproving of the girl Virginia became, immediately after.
- Religious convictions fully shed, Virginia evolved from The Pastor’s Daughter into The Goth Chick, having turned her interest from bible passages and crucifixes to alternative rock and heavy, garish eyeliner. Though she never quite made the jump to full on devil-worshipping, blood drinking vampire fetishist, her wardrobe became entirely black, mesh, and indecent, and her sweet innocent naiveté progressed into sour, grim-faced cynicism. It was all her (genuinely good) parents could do, to keep some form of leash on her until she finished high school, though the leash snapped not long after graduation and Virginia left home, intent on exploring her options beyond the safe suburban bubble of Dallas, Texas.
- A burgeoning musician and less than cordial human being, ending up in New York City seemed almost inevitable. Enrolling in NYU was something of an afterthought, the result of a music career that failed to take off immediately and with minimal effort and being a student was something she could do, with the help of her estranged parents who were overjoyed to reconnect and channel their funds into what they hoped would become the ‘resurrection’ of their first born.
Taken By: winter soldier
Played By: Aubrey Plaza



Others:

Name: Sydney Jordan
Age: Twenty-Two
Previous RPG: Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
Year: N/A
Major: N/A
Theme Song: Shake It Out by Florence + The Machine
Personality: Poised, Intuitive, Sanguine, Passionate and Tenacious.
Five Fast Facts:
- Raised just outside of Los Angeles in the city of Santa Clarita, Jennifer and Edward Jordan enjoyed the moderate comfort afforded by their upper-middle class tax bracket. Having come from a world of outrageous opulence herself, it was Jennifer’s desire to see her family well-provided for without losing touch with reality and taking their good fortunes for granted. Sydney was raised to believe that nothing in life was unattainable so long as a person was willing to put in the work, and thus was instilled with a strong sense of diligence and perseverance from an early age. Each of the three girls were encouraged to pursue and explore their varying hobbies and passions. For the youngest Jordan sister, that passion was ballet.
- With the exception of the occasional sibling squabble or adolescent driven temper tantrum, the Jordan’s were happy. Everything changed the summer before Sydney’s senior year of high school when a freak car accident claimed the lives of both Jennifer and Edward. Enter Elizabeth Donahue, wealthy Virginian socialite and entrepreneur. Upon assuming guardianship of her grandchildren, Sydney and her two older sisters were forced to completely uproot their lives from Southern California to Richmond, Virginia. Their arrival attracted a good deal of attention and scrutiny from Elizabeth’s circle of stiff-upper lip friends and her sisters found different ways of coping with the uneasy situation as one retreated inwardly and the other aggressively rebelled. For her part, Sydney attempted to mediate the tension between her siblings and their estranged grandmother as best she could having found it was easier to resolve other people’s troubles rather than mediate on her own.
- Sydney adjusted to life in Richmond with relative ease, making friends quickly and even engaging in a brief courtship with the son of a family friend. Her adaptability being mistaken for pliability however, Sydney quickly realized Elizabeth’s interest in her was largely motivated by a desire to succeed with her where she had previously failed with Jennifer. Not content to let her life be molded by the ambitions of other people, Sydney began to proactively take charge of her life. In exchange for allowing herself to be paraded around as a prize debutante, she was afforded a number of social freedoms and allowed to pursue her dancing ambitions undisturbed.
- On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Sydney disappeared into the night, gone from Richmond as suddenly as when she had first arrived onto the scene. Speculation and gossip ran rampant in the wake of her departure, some claiming the impossibly high standards set forth by Elizabeth as being too great for Sydney to endure while the more colorful rumors cited imagined tensions between Sydney and her older sister over the attentions of the aforementioned boy from earlier. The truth was far less sensational; Sydney had been accepted to the Tisch School of Arts in New York City several months prior and planned her departure in the months that followed. That few people knew of her intended plans to leave had less to do with existing tensions with her grandmother or a supposed broken heart and more the fact that Sydney Jordan was, for once, thinking of herself first before anyone else.
- With her tuition covered by a savings account set aside by her parents before their deaths, Sydney found work waitressing in the city for two years to cover her rent until receiving a Corps de Ballet position with New York City ballet at the age of nineteen. Attending school full time while dancing left little time to socialize outside her immediate social circles, and though she dated a few people here and there in college, none of them ever to anything serious for the simple reason that she didn’t have time for them. The sacrifice to her social life eventually paid off when Sydney was scouted by American Ballet Theater upon graduating from NYU. The last year has seen much of the same, with her near inhuman work ethic earning her quick acclaim within the company and the newly elevated rank of Soloist.
Taken By: degausser
Played By: Kaya Scodelario




Character Reservations:
sumiregusa: Liam Hemsworth and Nora Zehetner
Wayward Melody: Emily Bett Ricards and Mark Ruffalo
Ms Evil Regale: Nina Dobrev and Lana Parrilla

Profile:
Name:
Age:
Previous RPG: The original game this character was involved in.
Year: Year in college
Major:
Theme Song: Optional
Personality: Five adjectives
Three Relevant Life Facts: Information about their history, any important events from the previous game they were involved in, random useful information, etc.
Taken By: You
Played By: Name and picture.

sumiregusa

Waaaaa yaaasss!! I scurry back for thee, my dahlink.

Save me Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Liam Hemsworth.

winter soldier

I can't really afford to NOT join a game when we're so slow, so looks like I'll be making another attempt to try this again.

Having SLs would probably help. So if someone wants me to bring in someone for a line, please please please tell me.

Janine, stick around this time.

sumiregusa

UGH. I know dude I'm so sorry... School + work + no sleep = ????

degausser

I'll try to hit you up for some SLs, Em. I was thinking of bringing Mallorie back in even if Libby's not joining this time around because she is 100% open for things. But I might still go through all my old profiles and see if I have anyone who would work well as far as open things go.

I knew I could get Janine back here with Jesse Lacey, so she'll probably stick around at least for a while.

Shiri S

I think I've decided! Save me Jenna Dewan and Leven Rambin.

degausser

I should also add that I am only starting with two characters but if anyone would like me to bring back any old characters they remember, I can probably be persuaded very easily.

Also: I added theme song to the profile and changed the 5 Fast Facts to 3 Relevant Life Facts. If people want to do five though, that's fine.

winter soldier

I might just be doing new characters.

Edit: Save me Evan Peters.

Shiri S

Snagging Sophia Bush also.

Captivating

OOC: I lied. All my characters are totally open so shoot me a PM if you need/want something.

Name: Amanda Gates
Age: Thirty-Six
Previous RPG: N/A (original character)
Year: Fourth year professor
Teaches: English Lit & Art History
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 ways, 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: Deacon Reed
Age: Nineteen
Previous RPG: The Cape
Year: Second
Major: Photography
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 over to child services when she could not cope. He was adopted by a wealthy family but failed to emotionally connect with them despite their various attempts to earn his affection.
- Deacon uses photography as a coping mechanism and has been taking pictures daily for the past twelve years. He can not image pursuing any other 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.
Taken By: Captivating
Played By: Milo Ventimiglia


Name: Rebecca *Becks* Cummings
Age: Twenty-One
Previous RPG: N/A
Year: Third
Major: Sociology & Environmental Studies (double major)
Personality: Jocular, Bohemian, Affectionate, Benevolent, & Blunt
Five Fast Facts:
- Rebecca is a free spirit in every sense of the word, often citing conformity as the world’s greatest oppressor. Her parents joke that she questioned the status quo before she was even out of diapers. Rebecca is not a pretentious snob or a grungy hippie. She simply believes variety is the spice of life and encourages those she encounters to be true to themselves.
- Social justice issues hold a large piece of Rebecca’s heart. Being raised in the city of Detroit meant daily encounters with the homeless, juvenile delinquents, etc. Many recoiled from such sights but not Rebecca. What she witnessed during her youth unquestionably convinced her that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities. The spark inside of her cannot be quenched. Rebecca is known around NYU’s campus as the girl who champions a new cause every couple of weeks.
- Compliments of her French-Canadian mother, Rebecca is fluent in French. She regularly uses her bi-lingual abilities to confuse professors and ward off unwanted suitors. She also tutors her peers in the language of love to earn extra cash.
- Rebecca is a virgin. A rare breed, but she is unashamed. She has dated plenty of men but has yet to find one she feels deserves all of her. It is for this reason her relationships rarely pass the six month mark. Most men are not keen on waiting. Rebecca is not a prude, but she is a romantic. There is a reason sex is referred to as making love.
- Most people possess one hidden talent, if that, but Rebecca is not most people. She can hold her breath for two minutes, and she’s also been known to sing a mean karaoke rendition of “American Pie.” Touch her twice.
Taken By: Captivating
Played By: Lyndon Smith

Shiri S

degausser

I totally won you over with Mallorie, yes? Yes.

Captivating

I shall neither confirm nor deny this assumption.

winter soldier

Letty knows her audience.

Shiri S