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Character Almanac 2.0



Just like the Meddler's Almanac, but more up to date and with some boring stuff in there, too!



Name:
House & Year:
Hometown: Where your character is from. If this is a wizarding town or neighborhood which you made up for this game, feel free to include some information that other students would probably know about their hometown.

School History: What year did they start at Gooseberry? Where did they go to school before? What was their Ilvermorny/Hogwarts/etc house?
Class Involvement: How do they behave in their classes? Are they talkative? Disruptive? How often do they skip? Do they have a favorite partner for groupwork?
Campus Presence: Where on campus do they spend their downtime? Do they haunt the library? Are they big on school spirit? Have they tried every club at least once?
Party Time: Do they regularly attend Grotto parties? Do they drink? Smoke? Provide the contraband, or freeload? Steal the aux and play their weird music?

Best Friends: Your bestest buds in the whole world.
Cliques: Other groups they tend to hang out with.
Out-of-School Social Circles: Does your character have any old family friends? Parents who know each other? Do they keep in touch with their old school friends? (For example, the children of MACUSA reps hang out together at MACUSA events.)
The Not Friends: Any ex-friends on the record? Messy friend break up, or did you just drift apart? Bitter rivals? Or even just people that annoy you a little bit?

Sexuality: How would the student body at large perceive their sexuality? It doesn't have to match their actual sexuality. But if it doesn't, are they out to a few people? Nobody?
Dating History: Significant past relationships?
Current Relationship Status: Are they single? Dating? On the prowl?
The Messy Bits: Would it be obvious to an observant meddler that your character has a crush on their bestie? Or has your character engaged in public flirting and/or fighting on the journals?

Common Knowledge: Stuff absolutely anyone on the campus would probably know about your character. (For example, Clem's father is a retired quodpot player and she has a very young baby brother who was born last year.)
Personal Stuff: Stuff close friends of your character would know about, but probably aren't common knowledge. (For example, Ariadne has been disowned by her parents.)
The Secrets: Stuff only your character knows about themselves.

Rumors: Anything untrue that might be circulating in the gossip mill? Put it here and it's fair game for other characters to speculate and elaborate on!

Anything Else? Whatever else you want us to know!
A cute gif of your character: It's a meme staple, but only post one.


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CASEY Patteron

[personal profile] sunsoutgunsout 2017-08-11 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Plot/Discuss here!

Name: CASEY Patterson
House & Year: Coppertale SENIOR
Hometown: New Beacon Hill, a hidden magical community in Seattle, WA. It's upper-middle class and that's all I've got bc I wasn't the one that made it up.
School History: Casey began at Gooseberry in freshman year. He was at Lake Union Preparatory before, a day school in Seattle.
Class Involvement:
  • He has a history of being disruptive, particularly in classes that are heavy on reading and listening. He'll pass notes to his friends and chuck small things at the backs of people's heads, while also pretending he never did anything of the sort.
  • He used to skip more than he does now. His favourite partners are his friiiends, particularly Riley Stamper and Cameron Carney.
  • Classes that involve more working with your hands (ex. Artificing, Magical Rudiments) see a more mellow and attentive Casey, one less bent on getting attention by being annoying.
Campus Presence:
  • Casey haunted the library a lot more in sophomore and junior year than he will this year, because he constantly pestered his friend and mentor tutor, Cricket Quayle, who has since graduated.
  • DANCE STUDIO DANCE STUDIO DANCE STUDIO! He was already there all the time, but now that he has The Extra Key, he's going to be there even more! Can be found working on his own projects and Coppersquad Cheer routines. Is always excited to help someone learn a specific move, or to help them work through a challenging choreography puzzle. He calms down a lot when teaching. (He's also always down for collaborations!)
  • Besides that, he might be in the atrium, or goofing off outside. You'll hear him before you see him.
  • & I ALMOST FORGOT THE WEIGHT ROOM. He didn't get J A C K E D by sitting on his ass, tyvm. He and Riley like to flex in the mirrors to admire themselves.
Party Time:
  • PARTY ANIMAL!!! There's a reason his birthday party included a QUIDPONG CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
  • Drinks a lot but doesn't smoke or do other drugs.
  • An unstoppable dance machine. He'll dance with anybody and everybody. He'll dance alone. He'll dance with a fox, he'll dance on a box. When standing still, he'll still be dancing.
  • Everybody is a friend of his at a party. He's never met you before but he'll act like you're his bestie.
  • There's a 90% chance he will not be wearing a shirt, unless he's playing at the kissing games.

Best Friends:
  • KEY BESTIES = THE SMOOCH SQUAD: Riley Stamper and Cameron Carney. (Named during the Mistletoe Crisis of 2013.)
  • Last year he had a BEST BRO, a Ravenclaw exchange named Jacob Wood that had been sorted into his cabin. Jacob did not return this year and Casey's looking to fill this spot. Auditions will be held with no warning to those who have not been notified that they are candidates. Current shortlist: Ulysses Quayle (because he's the brother of Cricket), Lachlan Galbraith (because he was a roomie of Jay back in Hogwarts and is Scottish, like Jay), and Phineas Bones (as the new exchange in the Senior Coppertools' cabin).
Cliques:
  • Kenzie's Mean Girls: Mackenzie Prince, Ursula de Luca, Riley Stamper, Ariadne Flint, Jade Otterwell, Charlotte Meer. Casey's drifting away from their meaner antics of yore, however, because that kind of behaviour makes him feel more bad than good nowadays.
  • Groove Committee/Dance Babies: As a denizen of the dance studio, Casey spends a lot of time with other dancers. He also teaches morning barre classes to those who are willing to learn. (TY to Alex for "Groove Committee.")
  • Dungeons & Dragons: While Ennis is the only returning member of last year's D&D campaign (the rest were seniors), it's going to take Casey no time at all to act like a Super Chum to all the members of this year's party.
  • Coppertale Cheer Squad: HIS CHEER BABIES. CASEY LOVES YOU ALL. He's SO PROTECTIVE of his Cheer Squad, it isn't even funny.
Out-of-School Social Circles:
  • Casey's parents own a company that makes bespoke brooms for professional Quodpot players — he may know the children of certain players if there was an endorsement deal?
  • He doesn't keep in touch with his Seattle friends much anymore because they make him meaner and he doesn't like that. :(
The Not Friends: HAZEL KEATING IS THE WORST. (She was the de facto little sister & protégé of last year's Cheer captain and the two were bitter rivals. They constantly try to one-up each other any way they can, even if they're making out. Both always seem to think they won. It's weird.)
A NOTE ON NAMING CONVENTIONS: Casey gives people nicknames a lot. These are usually a short version of the person's surname, pluralized. Sylvester Stoker is "Stokes," Hazel Keating is "Keats." Obviously this doesn't always work out (ex. Cricket Quayle was "Cricks"), but he tries. Too hard.
 
Sexuality: The most enthusiastic pansexual teen you've ever met. He's as out as out can be and encourages others to explore beyond their comfort zone and challenge traditional gender norms.
Dating History:
  • Tried to date once or twice as a freshman before he decided dating wasn't for him. The only named ex atm is Riley Stamper — he was the last dude she tried dating before she understood she's gay af.
  • He and HEAD GIRL Antonia Papadakis used to hook up and now she acts like she's not interested in him and he's like ????? confused?!
  • OH ALSO Tswift is his soulmate
Current Relationship Status: Hasn't been monogamous or in a traditional relationship since freshman year. He'll make out with pretty much anybody because he loves to do so and thinks it's all he has to offer. He has regular hook-ups (apply within!!!)
The Messy Bits:
  • "Public flirting" is like Casey's default setting, but if someone tells him they're not interested, he stops. Usually.
  • The one exception? Rosemary Stoker. They made out (aggressively!) during the Y1 amortentia event and she was disgusted with herself after the potion wore off. Also with him. Casey, meanwhile, developed weird feelings and has been trying to win Rosy over ever since in weird ways that have mostly been sending her anonymous gifts when the opportunity presents itself. He has a crush. He's not used to crushes, though, and doesn't accept that he has them, so it's more of a weird, secret obsession with the poor Lady Stokes.
  • It's worth noting that he never has a date to dances and that this is deliberate. He thinks it's related to exclusivity, and that being exclusive is so boring he might as well DIE.

Common Knowledge:
  • In freshman year he (1) tried to assert his dominance over his peers and (2) was a mean, although not bright, bully. He was unsuccessful. He has not actively/intentionally bullied anybody since freshman year.
  • Vain af, Casey takes his shirt off as much as humanly possible. He's lost Coppertale a lot of points for this. He's also extremely promiscuous.
  • He's fairly well-versed (in a manner of speaking) in topics of social justice — namely sexuality and gender. He's done a surprising amount of reading and does not hesitate to pull out the "bro check your privilege" card if he thinks someone is perpetuating harmful stereotypes. He doesn't always do a good job of it, and sometimes parrots what he's heard others say about it, but his heart is in the right place.
    [Example. While this occurred in an Anonymous post, he writes in a specific way that makes him easy to spot and didn't try to hide his identity.]
    (P.S. This is all thanks to Cricket Quayle.)
Personal Stuff: (Note that, because Casey wears his heart on his sleeve, this may not be as personal as he thinks. hmu if you ever want your character to take advantage of something here.)
  • Plays at being this big, buff dude but he's actually quite a softie.
  • Doesn't think he's smart and that's a sore spot — make a comment or joke about his lack of intelligence and he'll fight you so much.
  • While he hasn't been a super loyal friend to most in the past (Jacob Wood and Cricket Quayle were the only two exceptions), this year he's become much more protective of people he thinks he's close to. This includes the Coppersquad, his D&D party, his roommates, the Mean Girls, dance babies who attend barre, his sister Marie, and Natalie Prince (as his sister's BFF). Expect attempts to defend any of these people to be... misguided.
The Secrets:
  • Honestly... 99.9% of Casey is an open book.
  • He's ALL ABOUT THAT OVERFLOWING CONFIDENCE but it's his way of masking how low his confidence really is. He depends on the people around him to validate his choices and ideas — when they're happy he's happy, but if they're not, he can become combative and antagonistic.

Rumors: uhhhhhhh I don't think there's anything, tbh. People kept saying he kissed his bff Jay last year but he DIDN'T and he's really annoyed that people kept saying that because Jay had a boyfriend and was never into Casey and Casey would never force himself on somebody. :( STFU, PEOPLE.
Anything Else? Golly. I have no idea. It always baffles me that Casey turned out like he did. NOTE TO SELF: I CAN'T WRITE BULLIES.
A cute gif of your character:

Edited (important edit) 2017-08-12 03:57 (UTC)
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