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In short, I’m here for Fun, so in that regard I generally plot anything I find even remotely entertaining or amusing, and that can range from super intense action scenes to “Your characters put my character in a tutu” As long as it’s fun and it’s actually building up to something I’m down. I tend to get bored rather easily especially when it comes to threads that are just an excuse for two characters to meet “Someone bumped into someone else and conversation ensues” Yawn. Someone bumped into someone else, AND THEY HAVE TO SING KARAOKE. I’m all for it . i'm here for fun and I enjoy silly. Sue me.
ACTIVITY
► How often can you reply to a thread?
When I have time, I'm infamously spotty but I'm trying to curb that
► How long are you willing to wait for a reply to a thread?
Forever and a day. I understand people have other threads and lives and I know I take a long time from time to time. So I can wait.
► What about volleying?
Sure!
► Tagging
Sure!
► Contacting you?
I tend not to enjoy plotters so you can hit me up on Discord or Chatago
► Anything else?
I love you
LIMITS
► Godmodding
It depends on the situation, and I tend to judge it case to case, but feel free to talk to me beforehand
► Romance
Communication is key, but of course, you can’t force any romantic relationships, God knows I've tried for years
That kind of thing needs to happen Naturally If there comes the point where we plot two characters together and we’ve like “Damn, son these two have mad charisma” then we take it to PM’s and ask if we want to do this.
► Violence
Pretty much the same as everyone else, In a fight scene, it can be handled naturally as the thread goes, but obviously beforehand we’d need to talk about A) Whose winning said fight and What injuries occur. Communication is key
► Sex
Yes please.
But yeah no, sex is fine but I tend to fade to black
Well, so much for public transport Claire wasn't sure she'd ever get to experience one at this point. She'd been sat there waiting for maybe an hour. It wouldn't have been so bad if she'd actually showed up on time, but like the idiot she was, Claire had managed to miss the first bus. A couple of others had passed er by, but they were off to other parts of the town
"You try to take one trip away from the school," She muttered under her breath as she paced the outside of the building. The cool afternoon air had prompted her to bundle up with a winter jacket, a scarf, and some gloves. The green ones. She couldn't find her favorite black ones.
Was there a reason she wanted to head out to the heart of the town Not really. TO be honest, there wasn't much of a solid reason for anything she did It was all to keep herself busy. Distracted from-
These days she was distracted at best, withdrawn at worst. Time and time again she told herself she was used to being sober a, and that she knew this place and have been here far too long to let its all-too-common occurrences startle, or even upset her. But she had to admit….today was a day her withdrawals were getting to her
So it was a brooding walk back 'home' from the Med Center that evening, with her eyes fixed pensively to the ground when she heard the shouts. At first, she ignored it. The sky was awash with sunset watercolours, and kids had a tendency making the most of their remaining daylight around this time, with the yelling and the cursing...
That wasn't right.
Her head lifted, brows furrowing as her steps slowed to a still. There were about a dozen of them in the center of the asphalt, more stocky than lean and around the ballpark of twelve, thirteen years old. And one with a shock of orange hair with a face still plump with baby fat, looming over a child buzzed brown hair much smaller than himself.
"What did you do? What did you do, you little shit?!" she heard him say.
That was all she needed to hear. Heaving a sharp breath, she pivoted toward the gaggle of kids- this was probably the worst time for them to be acting out, even though she didn't need to butt in- and marched toward them.
"Hey!" she snapped imperiously, pushing her way past and shoving herself between the redhead and the smaller girl (boy? no, a girl). "Cut that out." Claire glared down at the ginger, leaving him no room but to shuffle a few steps back as she pressed forward.
Claire wasn't the type to have 'pets.' She could barely look after herself let alone some animal that would need her constant attention. This wasn't just an animal either, a cat who would need her constant attention for the first while of its life. Did it sound fun? Not really. Did she have a choice? Always. So why was she doing this? She really had no idea.
She did what she could, following the rules set forth to ensure the cat survival including stocking up her fridge with fish and milk
She was in the middle of walking her way to the mail she heard a sound from the alleyway, her curiosity aroused. she invested only to find a small and very dirty looking brown kitten crawling around in the trash.
Clare blinked at the cat.
The cat blinked back at her trembling slightly in the cold
"I'll name you Jess. That is non-negotiable." She smiled softly as Jess looked at her quietly
AGE: 28 GENDER: Female ORIENTATION: Bisexual. POSITION: School Counselor / Volunteer at the school choir
♦ THE ABILITY ♦
POWER: Suggestion (-With thanks to Gas for the idea) The power of “suggestion”, can also be referred to as “siren” like abilities. Simply by speaking an particularly pleasent warm tone that generally makes the person a lot more suggestable to her wants she’s speaking to. For example, while she cannot make a person outright tell the truth, or force them to do something, she can simply suggest to them that they want to do exactly as he says; and, due to the nature of her ability, they will.
LIMITATIONS: While she can extend her ability to address a larger group then one individual, her power’s strength is significantly weakened; only simple instruction works on mass grouped subjects.
The stronger she concentrates and focus on the subject, the stronger it's effects. Casual, offhand remarks spoken with her ability may have some influence, but far less then if she was in a full state of using her power.
While more casual remarks have little after effects on herself, the full state of subject manipulation (intense concentration, total focus on subject) will trigger headaches or migraines shortly after and are emotionally draining. The worst effects are triggered when addressing a large group of people with the full concentration and focus required for optimum effect; the effects of which are an intense migraine and violent nosebleed, which result in her collapsing. This is the source for her blood phobia since her mentally associates blood with that state.
HEIGHT: 5 ft 8 ins HAIR COLOR: Short bright blond hair EYE COLOR: Bright blue
MISC: N/A.
PERSONALITY: Simply put; she’s a woman that has a lot of demons that she hoped she has come out on the other side, having hopefully beaten, her biggest fear is the idea that she would ever fall back into old self-destructive ways of living So She relies a lot on the stability of rules, instructions and order, and often refers to these when confronted with a situation in which his ability could become a factor. She feels her power isn’t morally decent, and when asked specifically about it, it’s the only thing she’ll try and avoid directly addressing, and she tries to avoid using it when possible -even if it does….slip out every once in awhile- .She keeps to herself, finding comfort in quiet solitude, choosing to avoid social occasions in favour of time alone. She throws herself into her workload and often uses it as an excuse not to be involved with anything beyond it. She doesn’t suffer fools easily, Interactions with others are kept simple and straight to the point, so to attempt to avoid any further emotional attachment. Although not deemed by her to be completely unnecessary, it’s simply a safer manner in which to live.
When she’s not guarded she’s Light hearted and loving; Claire is fun to be around when she doesn’t have a drink in front of her. She is brave and loyal as well; She does rush into trouble too much sometimes, though, her curious nature and ambition causing her put the thought of danger aside from the wealth of discovery.
SECRET(S): N/A.
♦ THE HISTORY ♦
- Claire parents in their younger days lived a bohemian lifestyle, so when Nina gave birth to their first born, she surmised adapting.Growing up she lived in a small town house on the outskirts of New York and had a pleasant and loving upbringing. She was sheltered from the world’s problems and brought up in a privileged environment since his parents were socially and financially in the higher brackets. She was taught from a young age the importance of social connotations, rules and limitations, and rather than rebel against his Father’s lessons in manners.
- Once she entered education, however, life got significantly harder.
At 12 she was valiantly fighting her case against her principal and deputy teacher on a recent exam she’d failed, growing more frustrated as they were adamant they weren’t going to do anything against a group of girls that were bulling her suddenly her voice shifted, during which she suggested to them otherwise, and they agreed to take action against her bullies without further questions. While she thought this odd, she shrugged it off.
In the coming weeks, her ability grew more prominent, the velveteen control lacing his voice whenever she was frustrated or feeling intense emotion,
Her parents began to worry about her, as she became more reclusive to avoid accidentally affecting others with her ability; they were thankful when within two weeks representatives of a specialist Academy arrived, promising Claire help with the recent manifestation of her power.
And like everyone else she went to the Academy without too much of a fuss
For the first few years of her time in the school; was uneventful -Naturally heading the choir, until eventually thanks to a slow building dependency on sleeping pills due to her powers which lead to harder drugs, booze and just generally became a hot mess which continued well throughout her 20’s, she hit rock bottom and hit it hard, got into a toxic lifestyle based on the drug lifestyle…...until about the age of 27 where she did her up most to get out of the lifestyle slowly clearing up her act, she is now two years sober and after getting a minor degree in counseling, she got a job back in the school as a counsellor -On the provision that she has weekly therapy and drug tests
♦ THE PLAYER ♦
USERNAME: Robbo AGE GROUP: 23 EXPERIENCE: Long time! WHERE DID YOU FIND US? YOU FOUND ME
What injuries occur. Communication is key