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CHARACTER ALMANAC VOL. 3
This meme was written by our lovely JJ who based it off the Meddler's Almanac, by our equally lovely Aleena! Time to get into some serious Year 2 details about our darling children! Since the game's been slow with the holiday season, we figured this would be a good time for a meaty meme. :)
| 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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ARCHIE
House & Year: Ebonhide Soph
Hometown: Witchlyn, Keeweenaw Penninsula, Michigan
School History: He's been here since he was a freshman, but was suspended for two weeks last year due to that whole Amortentia debacle. Archie helped to give the upperclassmen Amortentia laced tea. His partner in crime was suspended. Prior to Gooseberry, Archie went to a one room wizard school in his tiny hometown, but his dad pulled him out when the teacher got critical about Archie's home life.
Class Involvement: Involved... but scattered. Archie's disorganized, curious and difficult to keep on task. He loves experimenting, and is often to blame for explosions during school hours. Flexible teachers might enjoy his zeal, while strict ones are irritated by his lack of focus.
Campus Presence: Evasive. Archie's quiet, sneaky and secretive. You can't find him unless he wants you to... or you have a good in with Hero & the sophomore girls. He prefers to travel in a pack if he's not creeping, and disappears in the throng of louder personalities.
Party Time: Archie attends parties to people watch. He doesn't drink or smoke currently, but probably knows how much you drink and smoke. No judgement, of course. He's only curious. (Okay, maybe a little judgement. He definitely fell out of love with certain Azurcrest graduates last year as a result of excessive partying.)
Best Friends: Archie's pretty obsessed with Hero, despite his tendency to be rude to him constantly. It's not hard to tell that Archie will do whatever Hero tells him. He's also notably close to Tally, loves Marie and Corrigan, and really likes Tuesday, London, Nisha and Dinah.
Cliques: Honorary sophomore hellcat. Archie runs with the bad girls.
Out-of-School Social Circles: None.
The Not Friends: He finds Quentin to be very Stressful and tries to avoid interacting with him at all costs. He also thinks Noel is an Irish philanderer who's not good enough for Tally, and is incredibly resentful about how much Hero likes Ursula. He's suspicious of Sy. BASICALLY IF YOU'VE CAUGHT THE EYE OF SOMEONE HE LOVES HE HATES YOU A LITTLE.
Sexuality: Bi or pan, presumably, but honestly, I'm not sure. A lot of Archie's infatuations are pretty insubstantial, even if they're intense.
Dating History: None, unless you count his dozens of one-sided obsessions.
Current Relationship Status: Single and looking for his next
targetpotential romantic connection.The Messy Bits: Archie's eccentric, but most people probably just think he's awkward and shy about relationships. HOWEVER, Archie's inner circle would know he's a stalker. He steals things from people, and has a binder full of labelled locks of hair, a box of blood samples, and an assortment of pilfered keepsakes. He does "tests" of questionable merit on these items.
Common Knowledge: Archie's a potions prodigy. He's pureblood and cloistered, with minimal pop culture knowledge. He's Finnish-American and speaks the language. His father is a very well known potioneer who's made several major medical advancements, but has grown reclusive in his old age. Archie drugged fellow students with Amortentia last year, and in general he has a bad habit of slipping people experimental potions. He doesn't use his journal outside of school.
Personal Stuff: His mom's no longer in the picture. He's actually extremely playful with a pretty wily sense of humor. Authority figures terrify him, and he hates being yelled at. There's something kind of off about his relationship with his father. His father's almost definitely a serious blood purist, although Archie tends to dance around that and make excuses. He's a lot more callous than his soft spoken demeanor suggers. Friends aren't allowed to send him mail at home.
The Secrets: He and his father live alone in a mansion in the middle of nowhere. While at home, his father overloads him with chores so he has no free time. His father's manipulative and paranoid that Archie will leave him like his mother did. His mother has been sending him regular letters at Gooseberry, but Archie never opens them. His father's planning on moving him and Archie to Finland after he graduates.
Rumors: Uhhhh, probably just general rumors that he's creepy, and maybe a little dangerous. Don't accept anything edible/drinkable he gives you.
Anything Else? My creepiest child needs a new True Love to pursue. Also, discussion comment.
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ARI
House & Year: Ebonhide Junior
Hometown: London Wizard Quarter, England. Formerly the Wolferton adjacent Flint home.
School History: Attended Hogwarts 1st-4th year, where she was a Slytherin. Started at Gooseberry as a sophomore/5th year exchange. She was a notorious bully at Hogwarts.
Class Involvement: More dedicated to her schoolwork than she has been in the past, Ari speaks up in class a little more often than she used to. She still prefers to know that she has the correct answer before she offers it, but can now be seen offering her opinions in literature and art class. When studying or taking notes alone, she is quiet and serious. When doing the same with Jade, she's prone to gossiping and giggling. She sometimes skips Outdoor Education, usually with Jade in tow.
Campus Presence: Ari doesn't get along with her roommate, so she's got several places on campus she usually escapes to. She tucks herself into corners in the library to read or work on homework. Sometimes she'll sit with Jade in the Atrium and judge people for sport. Getting her to participate in school spirit activities is like pulling teeth.
Party Time: Previously a strict non-drinker, Ari's been experimenting with alcohol this year and has found that she doesn't enjoy it. She'll be passing on drinking this semester. (And maybe passing on parties? We'll see.) She usually participates in kissing games, and has made out with a handful of girls (including Corrigan & Ruby) during 7MIH.
Best Friends: Jade Otterwell.
Cliques: She's still fond of Kenzie's Mean Girls, although she more frequently eats lunch with Lucas, Bash & company these days.
Out-of-School Social Circles: She used to run in purist circles at Hogwarts, but has lost contact with them since transferring.
The Not Friends: She doesn't like Issy. Or Ruby. Or Spencer.
Sexuality: A closeted lesbian, Ari has now made out with enough girls publicly that she probably can't pass for straight anymore. She still makes efforts to conceal her sexuality, though.
Dating History: She's very fond of Ramon and they went to Cotillion together, but that's more of a casual flirtation.
Current Relationship Status:
It's Complicated™Dating Jade, but only Lucas knows so far.The Messy Bits: She's doing the best she can.
Common Knowledge:
Personal Stuff:
The Secrets:
definitely knowsIS ACUTELY AND UNCOMFORTABLY AWARE of that by this point, but was brought up by some very intolerant and heteronormative people, so even in the welcoming environment that Gooseberry is, she's uncomfortable with this.Rumors: Skips it
Anything Else? DISCUSSION LINK.
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HAZEL!
House & Year: Coppertale Junior
Hometown: Anson, Texas, home of the Anson Ghost Lights! She was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, but moved stateside when she was four so she considers herself Texan and only really references being born in England to be obnoxious.
School History: Hazel started at Gooseberry as a freshman; prior to this she attended a local day school in Paint Creek, TX. She was pretty hesitant to go too far from home initially, because she's pretty attached to her family, especially her uncle. The draw of Gooseberry was enough to get her to leave home, though :,)
Class Involvement: Hazel is generally pretty engaged in classes, though she's been a little more restless this year because of her stress levels. Being a fairly confident person, she's not hesitant about answering questions in class, and she generally takes most subjects fairly seriously. She’s most into Potions and Pre-Healer Studies, but has more serious interest in Herbology as well because of its ties to the other two subjects. Groupwork-wise she's mostly a team player but can be a little bossy when she knows what she's doing, and she tends to prefer working with her friends (though not to goof off).
Campus Presence: Her favorite location is up a tree or doing cartwheels in a field when the weather is nice - she LOVES being outside. During the winter though she's probably bundled up somewhere when she's not messing around on the lake practicing hockey/skating, but honestly it's probably hard to keep track of her. She moves around a lot.
Party Time: Generally, Hazel loves parties. She's been kind of going overboard this year so far with the drinking because the Grotto still makes her a little nervous, but she'll probably get responsible one of these days. She'll always provide money for contraband, and would help to procure it if ever asked. Kissing games are one of her favorite things to do, so she's always up in Spin the Bottle and Seven Minutes in Heaven.
Best Friends: People Hazel likes best are probably: Susana, Micah, Calvin, Cole, Todd, Fern, Zach, and also she's decided Ari is her bro since she petted her hair that one time and she loves Bash because he braids her hair. She also views Rosy as a friend but in a different way - more someone to look up to than anything else. Hazel likes most people, though.
Cliques: No real solid cliques - she's probably pulled away a tiny bit, and since their class's hivemind has sort of died down she does more individual interactions than group things. Cheer also has lost some of its appeal without Ty (and with Casey becoming captain).
Out-of-School Social Circles: Nope, but she probably flirts a lot with local boys in Anson.
The Not Friends: Hazel very much dislikes Casey, and while she started out the year trying to give him a chance, she's gotten... less open to giving him a chance :(
Sexuality: Straight, but has no qualms with kissing almost anyone. There's probably a girl out there she'd be into, but she's only ever been interested in boys so far.
Dating History: Nada, but she was major smooch-buddy with Micah whenever he was single.
Current Relationship Status: Single and open to dating, but not aggressively looking.
The Messy Bits: This is more hilarious than anything else but for like a hot minute Hazel had a crush on Calvin and then was like: LMAO GIRL STOP and has since recovered nicely. It never really came up ICly so it's just mostly been hanging out in my head/that one time I made jokes about it with Katie. So far she's found herself a little frustrated with the choices at Gooseberry, mostly because she (subconsciously) is looking for someone she doesn't feel like she has to take care of :(
Common Knowledge: She used to regularly make out with Micah in public, and she's not really shy about kissing anyone. Her father is a Quodpot/Quidditch coach and is a surly British man; her mother is a nurse; her uncle (who she talks about constantly) is a wandmaker's assistant. She’s totally obsessed with Quidditch and sports in general. She's skilled in Potions. She is very very much from Texas. She's gotten very sloppy drunk at the past few Grotto parties :( She's got some beef with the ghost in the lake. She's started on her senior project already.
Personal Stuff: Zach is probably the most aware of the fact that she's still kind of wigged out by last year. There's probably also only a subset of people who know about what actually happened at the lake during endgame (I think most of them didn't talk about it??).
The Secrets: Her uncle is a werewolf! She has told zero people this.
Rumors: There was a lot of confusion about whether her and Micah dating for a while, but I assume now that Calvin and Micah are ACTUALLY dating that's been quashed a bit. I hope at least one person thinks there's some drama there between the three of them.
Anything Else? Discuss dumb child here.
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Hazel @ her parents when Micah came to pick her up on his motorcycle this past summer
RILEY MAE
House & Year: Azurcrest Senior
Hometown: Otter Point, Umnak Island, Alaska. It’s an island out on the Aleutian chain, and there’s a small no-maj town on the other end of the island, but they don’t tend to come out this way. There are some old military installations there from WWII, and wizards have pretty much all but taken over the buildings. Riley’s mom is the headmistress of the school on the island, her dad is the school’s librarian, and since it doesn’t really make sense to have an entire school for this tiny little town then the school also runs distance learning programs for magic kids in tiny towns all across Alaska. They have, like, a general store with outdated tabloids and three movies to rent, and Riley’s pop culture knowledge is woefully poor because of it, though she’d hate for you to realize that
School History: Started freshman year, and was at the Otter Point school before that. She fought with her mother constantly and it was a miserable time for all. Her mother tried to suggest she go to Ilvermorny and she threw a tantrum about being shipped off, then shipped herself off. Sophomore year she went to Hogwarts and had a miserable time in Slytherin being an immature American who refused to assimilate.
Class Involvement: Riley is happiest when she can spend the whole time looking at herself in a mirror. Whenever possible, she’ll glue herself to someone smarter than her and easy to push around. Help her with this art thing :(( Make her charm work :(((( Can someone hike for her in OE???
Campus Presence: Where is everyone currently? That’s where Riley is. She also sleeps in as late as possible, she passes out on a couch in the Atrium after any morning classes, wanders over to the weight room or dance studio to bother Casey.
Party Time: GET FUCKED UP. Riley shows up, drinks harder than you’d expect from a little thing like her, smokes at least one inadvisable bowl, gets carried home by someone forced to give a shit that she keeps breathing.
Best Friends: Casey is her soulmate, Cameron is upside down her.
Cliques: Senior Azurbabes are her bitches, cheer kids are also her bitches, drama kids are like 75% her bitches. And, of course, she’ll always have Trash Paris (Nia, Ursula, Addy).
Out-of-School Social Circles: Nobody can find that island.
The Not Friends: She’s so insanely jealous of Casper’s hair and sees nothing but red and hears Kill Bill sirens when he comes around. Everyone else walks a thin line of potentially being in the shit with her one minute, then being her newest best friend the next. That attention span is very fleeting.
Sexuality: g a y, not shy about it, and she’s been out since halfway through her freshman year. She only makes out with boys at Grotto parties for attention.
Dating History: She like kind of dated Casey for like a minute freshman year before declaring she was absolutely 100% gay as fuck.
Current Relationship Status: Watch the fuck out.
The Messy Bits: Riley hits on anyone with boobs and then moves on. She did tongue down with Phi during the kissing potion earlier in the year, but Phi rightly pretended Riley did not exist. Riley might go back to trying to get her attention soon if she gets bored.
Common Knowledge: She’s the youngest of six children, she does not get along with her mother, she is not above throwing a tantrum when things don’t go her way.
Personal Stuff: She got bullied a lot at Hogwarts (though also Hogwarts students also there her sophomore year would know that). Most of her immediate family (besides her dad) speaks Spanish fluently, but she’s kind of embarrassed by how shitty her Spanish is and has been taking tutoring from Mrs. Acuña. If anyone asks, she’s only taking it to ogle Mrs. Acuña.
The Secrets: She has had a sex dream about pretty much each and every one of you. And she’s probably ranked you based on your dream performance.
Rumors: I wouldn’t be surprised if anyone thought the Smooch Squad was in a happy and functional polyamorous relationship.
Anything Else? walking glitter std
A cute gif of your character: Riley’s mom was so happy when Riley told her she was gay because it meant she would never fulfill her destiny of not knowing how the fuck birth control works.
Calvin
House & Year: Junior Ribbonfin
Hometown: Bath, Somerset, England, in a low income wizarding neighborhood. Seven people are crammed into one flat over a shop that's probably been three different things since Calvin's been at Gooseberry.
School History: Calvin was a Slytherin until he came to Gooseberry and got sorted into Ribbonfin for his silver tongue and forgiving nature.
Class Involvement: Calvin's an academic try hard. School is very important to him, and it's always been how he differentiated himself from his brothers. He's the Clever One. The Good Child. A lot of his self-worth is tangled up in school. That said, he tends to work smart, not hard, and cares more about grades that comprehension. He puts his energy and cleverness into getting perfect marks. He's quietly begun getting more serious about healing, though, not for prestige... but because of one short conversation with Lucas where he had to reflect on the ethics of withholding magical medical treatment from Muggles.
Campus Presence: Reclusive. Calvin's easy to find if you're a friend or roommate, but all his spare time is spent in his cabin, where he does most of his studying and reading.
Party Time: Calvin's attendance was spotty last year, but he shows up more now that he's close with Micah. He drinks more than Micah, but that's not saying much.
Best Friends: Calvin went from really antisocial to adoring so many people. He'd hide a body for Ramon, Gwen, Micah, Hazel, Cole, Tristan, Essie, Cash or Todd. He's emotionally closest to Ramon, Gwen, Cole and, of course, Micah. He has a complicated soft spot for Ari, and would go out of his way for her even if he finds talking openly with her hard.
Cliques: He spends a lot of time with the junior Ribbonboys or the Azurjuniors, and sometimes studies with Cash which is actually a big step for them and counts as affectionate hanging out imo.
Out-of-School Social Circles: Not... much? He lives far away, and Hogwarts Calvin is not Gooseberry Calvin. He lives near Pippa Nightingale (Essie's close friend), and I think they might spend some time together.
The Not Friends: WELP. Sy Stoker used to bully him and Calvin isn't forgiving someone who hasn't asked for it. He dislikes Eve a lot, and isn't thrilled with Avery. He had some drama with Issy and Solo last year. He's incredibly jealous of Noel. He used to be really close to Regan, but due to Calvin's erratic behavior last year their friendship faded.
Sexuality: Exclusively interested in boys.
Dating History: He was secretly dating his old Slytherin roommate, Samuel Goyle, which was not a good situation for either of them. Calvin left for Gooseberry in part to get away from him. Then he dated Cole for a while last year, which Calvin broke off abruptly when he thought he was going back to Hogwarts.
Current Relationship Status: AS OF THIS MONTH, he's dating Micah St. Clair.
The Messy Bits: Micah was into him for years, Calvin soundly rejected him, and now another year later they're together. Cole miiiight not exactly be over Calvin. Calvin also pursued Todd for a while before deciding they were just too platonic. He also definitely had a crush on Cash for a bit earlier this year. Last year he had a thing for Ravi, a Ribbonfin senior, which ended Badly.
Common Knowledge: He's mean, but not as mean as he used to be. He's a British exchange student with an accent that has him dropping his g's at the ends of words and h's at the beginnings. He has a lot of brothers, and one of them went to Gooseberry last year and dated Sylla Borgin. He gets straight A's. He has an unusually high voice. Sylvester Stoker bullied him until the middle of last year.
Personal Stuff: He doesn't get along with most of his brothers. Some of them used to pick on him for being gay. He's not pureblood, but has a lot of relatives who are. His family line is not accepted by British pureblood society. They're lower middle class during a good year. He's unusually close to his eldest brother, Damon.
The Secrets: Calvin's nonbinary with an inclination towards presenting feminine but he's not equipped to deal with that. He's jealous of Hazel in part because Micah and Todd were/are so into her, and... in part because she's so petite and feminine. His relationship with some of his brothers is REALLY toxic. His parents are affectionate but a bit neglectful. He has multiple relatives serving time in Azkaban for war crimes. He was an awful, horrible bully at Hogwarts.
Rumors: ??????
Anything Else? Calvin went from my least active to most active character. Discussion.
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SYLVESTER
House & Year: Coppertale Senior
Hometown: Elysian Fields, Los Angeles, California. It's a magically concealed community much like Diagon Alley, but on the more upscale end. Lots of snooty rich wizards living there.
School History: Started freshman year, was previously at Port Prep in LA.
Class Involvement:
Campus Presence: Sy is a member of every outdoorsy athletic club, because he loves that shit. He has a very set routine that includes a run every morning and workout in the weight room every evening. Actually spends a lot of time chilling in the cabin. He likes that it's quiet and small. Well, sometimes quiet.
Party Time: The inventor of Quidditch Beer Pong attends every Grotto party. He usually drinks too much, for no reason? Every party, he swears he will drink less. Very glad he no longer has to play kissing games to prove his masculinity.
Best Friends: His BFF is Reid Wainwright. One (1) highly codependent relationship with his twin, Rosy. Childhood friends with Casper and Ursula. He leans a lot on Roxie, especially this year.
Cliques: The Coppertale Quidditch team, which isn't a clique so much as a group of people he was put in charge of. Sometimes they claim that Sy secretly loves them, and Sy doesn't argue. Sy is bad at making friends, honestly??? He's very fond of all the Ebonhide Senior Girls (Clem, Vee, Nia, Sylla), and sometimes hangs out with the Mean Girls (Kenzie, Riley, etc.)
Out-of-School Social Circles: He's part of the "children of MACUSA reps" crowd, but all his friendships back home are kind of shallow, because the Stoker twins are notoriously awful and no one likes them.
The Not Friends: He tends to be a huge dick to rival Chasers and captains, as he considers being a dick to your rivals to be de rigueur. He also loudly proclaimed to hate all of his roommates at some point, but honestly, he likes all of them? He's bullied a few people, among them Calvin Evercreech and Kurt Wolfhart, but he stopped when he was threatened with losing his captainship. (Important to note: he's not sorry about beating up kids! Only sorry he got caught.)
Sexuality: Probably perceived as straight and insecure about it, since he can be really defensive about his heterosexuality. He's actually insecure because he's asexual and only dimly aware of asexuality as a concept. Re: that, I don't think he's out to anyone?
Dating History: He's run through several relationships which lasted anywhere from two weeks to two months before he started getting hot-and-cold about it. Most of those people have graduated, but he did briefly date Ursula de Luca before they came to Gooseberry.
Current Relationship Status: Dating Clementine Decourt since junior year. Arguably since the Winter Formal, but they avoided putting a label on it for like forever. This is Sy's longest-running relationship, solely because Clem is remarkably tolerant of them doing very little to act like boyfriend/girlfriend.
The Messy Bits: Still completely oblivious to the fact that Reid used to have a crush on him, which, thank god for everyone involved.
Common Knowledge:
Personal Stuff:
The Secrets:
Rumors: he's not interesting enough for rumours
Anything Else? Discussion! i ended up copying things from my unfinished random facts meme which i also had saved in a text doc
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CASPER
House & Year: Ebonhide Senior
Hometown: Los Angeles, California (grew up in San Diego, California)
School History: Started at Gooseberry as a freshman. Attended Portiuncula Preparatory Wizardry School before that.
Class Involvement: Casper never misses class unless he's dying and is a serious, focused student. He gets irritated with people that are disruptive in class but predictably gives his friends a pass (for a while). Everyone else gets a glare. If he has to do group work, his partner of choice is probably one of his roommates.
Campus Presence: Casper is active and keeps himself busy (what is downtime?) but he also has a fairly predictable schedule so it's not that hard to track him down. He runs and works out every morning, he attends class, he attends dueling and fencing practice, he attends Quidditch practice, he practices his drumming, he performs his prefect duties. He sometimes misses Boating Club because he's mostly there to swim and doesn't actually care. He typically doesn't do his studying in the library unless he's attending a study group. He is a black hole for school spirit.
Party Time: Casper always attends Grotto parties but, as of this year, he only attends as a prefect and he doesn't drink or do anything else that would compromise his ability to be an overprotective asshole. He likely judges the music constantly. He always rounds up his roommates (and often other baby bears) at the end of the night to walk back home.
Best Friends: The other Ebonhide Senior Boys. They're his family, okay? Mackenzie and Nia are also honorary ESBs.
Cliques: Apart from his roommates (official and unofficial), Casper doesn't have many friends or cliques. He's decently close with most of the Ebonhide Quidditch team (especially Corrigan -- he will do right by her if it KILLS HIM), has a good relationship with a few fellow-prefects (most notably Phi), and he's friendly with Gwen (if she'll forgive him for recently being AN IDIOT) and Sy (it's complicated but they go way back).
Out-of-School Social Circles: Casper's friends outside of Gooseberry are mostly Gooseberry alumni (Asher, Rafael, Leo, Diego, etc.). Apart from them, he doesn't have a lot of non-school associates or friends. He filled in for the drummer in a band called Bad Rabbit over the summer and has a decent relationship with them. He had a brief friends-with-benefits arrangement with the singer during that time, though that's since come to an end.
The Not Friends: Casper has a well-known and probably unfairly vitriolic dislike for Casey. The fact that they had an intimate encounter at the beginning of the year because of Amortentia and that Casey has been flirting with him ever since hasn't helped that. He also has open disdain for anyone that shows reckless levels of sympathy toward the forest entities or ghosts because he thinks they're putting their peers at risk and this pisses him off. Ennis is the worst offender but there are others. You know who you are and he's judging all of you. Probably other people too. Lots of people annoy Casper. :(
Sexuality: Generally perceived as straight because he's only shown interest in girls and only dated girls. After the Amortentia incident with Casey, though, he wasn't so sure and he was questioning himself. He did a bit of experimenting with that during the Masquerade. For Science. He hasn't mentioned this to anyone.
Dating History: Dated Katya Ivanova (former Azurcrest and prefect) during his junior year but broke it off abruptly after winter break. He feels guilty about how things ended but it's very firmly in the past.
Current Relationship Status: Single. He spent the first part of the year making proclamations about how he was NOT interested in dating this year but has since shut up about it.
The Messy Bits: Casper thinks he's too much of a mess to be in a relationship and that he'll probably drag other people down with him. He doesn't often say this aloud but it's not difficult to read between the lines, especially if Katya is mentioned. There have been rumors this year that he was in love with Ms. Rhee (thanks, roomies) and that he was in love with Cameron (thanks, sophomores) but he doesn't have any serious romantic entanglements at the moment. He's still trying to figure out how to react to his (drunken) conversation with Gwen the other day, though. And, of course, there's Casey's frequent flirting.
Common Knowledge: Casper Kim is an aggressive, negative, serious, definitely-no-fun prefect. He loosens up some when he drinks but he doesn't drink at school anymore and he seems to be taking his responsibilities even more seriously this year. He may be a hardass but at least he's reliable? He's from California and will not shut up about the ocean but sort of hates nature otherwise (why do you even go here, Casper?). He's a skilled duelist, a talented Quidditch player (he was a reserve his freshman year but has been first-string since he was a sophomore), and very adept at Defense Against the Dark Arts and Charms. He's a Parselmouth. He left school for about a week last year for 'family reasons' but he doesn't actually seem to have any close family (he doesn't talk about any and he's never had anyone show up for PTC). He has obnoxiously perfect hair.
Personal Stuff: Casper's mother was an Auror but was cursed when he was young, leaving her in a state similar to a coma and forcing Casper into the care of his aunt. Last year, his mother's condition deteriorated and she passed away. He's still dealing with this. Part of dealing with this has been thinking more about his father; he knows who he is but has never actually met him. (Is it weird to Facebook stalk you dad?) He struggles with insomnia and bad dreams and doesn't sleep as much as he should, though he is making more efforts to take care of himself this year. He started seeing Dr. Perry as soon as he could and he thinks it's helping even if he hates going. The only person he's told about this is Nia. He's a little afraid that his roommates will see him differently if he tells them.
The Secrets: Casper doesn't have many secrets these days but he recently lied about going to the Masquerade, claiming he wasn't going to go and then attending anonymously anyway. Like a lying liar who lies.
Rumors:
Casper punched a kid last year during winter break.Ohwait he actually did that. The sophomores seem to think he's in love with Cameron and just can't come to terms with it because they're SO DIFFERENT and it's VERY TRAGIC. I don't know. I'm open to suggestions. :oAnything Else? Discussion!
A cuteAn OOC gif of your character:ROSEMARY
House & Year: Senior Ribbonfin
Hometown: Elysian Fields, Los Angeles, CA.
School History: Been a Gooseberrian since freshman year, previously a Port Prepper. She doesn't miss the school or the people there, but she can't deny that she's still a city kid at heart.
Class Involvement: Her notes are obsessive and detailed. She reads the textbooks from front to back, then asks for supplemental reading. She's the girl asking if the teacher forgot to assign them homework, and if someone is trying to disrupt her education she will snap at them. If you're in a group with her, you know you're getting a good grade because she'll take charge and do all the work herself, but she'll do it passive aggressively. Oh, you wrote a great summary! Rosy just edited it. A lot. She's obsessive and high strung, and her grades get a lot of that energy.
Campus Presence: If she's not in her cabin, she's in the library. Always check the library. Even after hours, apparently. During midterms she could pretty much only be seen popping into the cafeteria during mealtimes to grab a pitiful excuse for a meal before burying herself in the library again.
Party Time: She never went before junior year, but then somehow this school's obsession with competitions got her to drink, and drink too much. After last year, she hasn't been willing to let her guard down and drink, but she's replaced that with expensive champagne at snooty parties. It's not better.
Best Friends: Ferdie, Roxie, Reid, and a very codependent twin.
Cliques: Big Fish are family. Ursula is a childhood friend and the only one who's managed to eke something resembling girl talk out of Rosy. Thinks of Hazel a friend now, and a couple of the dearly departed seniors, but friendships has never really been Rosy's strong suit.
Out-of-School Social Circles: MACUSA baby and rich bitch. She can be found trying not to scowl through most society functions.
The Not Friends: She doesn't try very hard to get people to like her. She doesn't hold grudges for very long, but if someone else does she's not putting forth very much effort to change their mind.
Sexuality: Straight, and with questionable taste.
Dating History: Her first and only relationship was with Chris Park (Coppertale who graduated last year). They were dating at the end of the year, and she has really only explicitly told Sy and Hazel that they broke up. People can probably make some educated guesses after she and Hazel changed the hockey team names, but Rosy is not super into talking about it.
Current Relationship Status: Single, and not exactly looking. No matter how many chocolate roses you send her or how beautiful a Mooseman you are.
The Messy Bits: She made out with one of her rivals from back in California at Cotillion, while she was still dating Chris, and now he totally sends her original love poems and other embarrassing things. Honestly, any of her friends or roommates are free to notice this and give her shit, no matter how quickly she tries to destroy the evidence.
Common Knowledge:
Personal Stuff:
The Secrets:
Rumors: 😎😎😎
Anything Else? She definitely has some level of OCD because I was unable to keep that out of all my characters, but I'm not going to try and define it any further than that or else I'll fall down a rabbit hole and she'll probably never realize it.
Aaand discussion comment is here!
A cute gif of your character: Rosy's gifs are boring but she was in a movie recently where she goes into the woods to raise a demon to kill her mom and I could go for some gifs of that.
Cash
House & Year: Coppertale Junior
Hometown: Henderson, NV., the second-safest city in America.
School History: Cash-n-Todd went to Wislizenus, their local wizard-public, up through the 8th grade. They applied to Gooseberry, and were accepted together as freshmen.
Class Involvement: Dedicated to academics in an intensely focused, 99-and-a-half just won't do sort of way. Hardworking and precise. Does not enjoy group work and resents its very existence. Loves Hermeticism and is fighting uphill battle with Transfiguration. In class, Cash is definitely not a talker, although he does put his hand up when he's confident he's asking an important, relevant question.
Campus Presence: His most regular hangouts include the library, his cabin, D&F club.
Party Time: Last year, Cash would drop into Grotto parties to have two (2) quiet drinks on someone else's dime and check in with Todd. Very-to-no people are aware of that first part, because Cash really hates it when people know he's been drinking. Too vulnerable. This year, he pretends to be a good prefect by abstaining from drinking, but functionally is a bad prefect, because he basically never escorts anyone home. If y'all want to die in the woods, that's your business. He recently made a Big Party Mistake.
Best Friends: Toddyboy!!! Spencer, Ira, Heathcliff. Fern. Ruby. Calvin, Micah, Hazel. He has a real soft spot junior jays after they adopted him, although he wouldn't consider himself close to most of them.
Cliques: Mostly hangs with Coppertales, but shoutout to those atypical Ribbonfins for bringing the best salt into his life.
Out-of-School Social Circles: Nah.
The Not Friends: Cash doesn't see anyone as his enemy, per se, but he has his eye on Jade and Ari. He has definitely asked his cabin if Cole and Solo have some sort of intellectual disability. Actually, unfortunately, there are a lot of people he thinks are... kind of dumb,
Sexuality: He's.................. very gay, but also remarkably frigid and weirdly closeted, so some people probably assume he's asexual. Until recently, he assumed the same, and it's really only just now that he's starting to realise he's attracted to boys. Thinking about it makes him feel like he's being bitten by fire ants, so he... just... doesn't.
Dating History: No, thank you.
Current Relationship Status: Single, hopefully forever.
The Messy Bits: Honestly, his sexuality stuff is such a mess, that I'm kind of embarrassed to elaborate on it, even ooc. But anyway. God.
#1: Afraid of/repulsed by intimacy and the idea of being dependent on anyone other than Todd.
#2: Resents that he has to have a sexuality at all and is determined to shut that part of him off.
#3: Scared to let people see/touch him, lest they realise he's trans. Out of touch with his own body.
#4: Sees being trans and gay as "one too many" weird thing. Would probably see himself as "snowflake-y," and is put off by it.
Common Knowledge: That Cash is gunning for the top of the class. That he's a prefect. That he's laconic and poker faced, and yet, always up for a good debate. Excellent chess player, increasingly good duellist. Extremely and openly un-fun. Disinterested in dating. Best friends with Todd.
Personal Stuff: Cash can be quite mean, but he keeps his best comments as fun asides for the benefit of his close friends, so while most people probably see him as cold and maybe a little judgmental, only his friends know just how much of an asshole he really is. Friends may have gathered that he doesn't enjoy going home, esp. after this break. He would describe his home life as "fine" and his family as "... over the top."
The Secrets: Uhh, the gender and sexuality stuff. Only Calvin and Todd know he's trans. Only Todd knows his relationship with his parents is kind of nnnnnnnnyeah. The extent to which he doesn't like going home is a secret, because Cash is embarrassed by much the situation with his family gets to him.
Rumors: How should I know?
Anything Else? Kill me/him.
A cute gif of your character: Robot boy.
JEFFY!!
House & Year: Junior Jay, tweet tweet
Hometown: Newark, NJ. There's no hidden magic part or whatever, he and his family just live in a three-bedroom apartment and he shared a room with his super cool big brother until he went to GB and his super cool big brother went to college.
School History: Started as a freshman, and before that he went to some unnamed weekend magic school in New York. His mom's a muggle elementary school teacher and wanted him to have a strong no-maj education as a foundation.
Class Involvement: Jeffy! Loves! To talk!! He wants to participate in every discussion!! It can take some doing to get him to settle down and focus the fuck up on some deeper topics, and he's been known to forget to do his homework because he had SPORTS to do, but that energy is easily rerouted into his work with just a little bit of patience and encouragement. As a TA, he loves to get people talking and get a discussion going and he's disgustingly encouraging.
Campus Presence: Outdoors! By the Quidditch pitch! Anywhere he can run around and expend some energy!! Jeffy gets restless when he has to stay inside or sit down for too long, but bribe him with candy and he'll stay in the library long enough to finish his homework.
Party Time: Jeffy's there, especially because he has to help Micah set up and clean up and carry things!! But he's not a big drinker. If someone convinces him to play quidpong or drink for some other reason, it hits him like a ton of bricks. He's the anti-Riley, this giant child with the alcohol tolerance of a gnat.
Best Friends: Junior Jays! Tweet tweet, one of us.
Cliques: Candy Rustlers! Azurquid! Honorary Chickabros! Literally anyone who has made any indication that they would he his friend! He has a tendency to hero worship older kids a lot and kind of copies them, doing things like rocking a sweet Levi Shirt and following Quinn's lead in hydrating himself. He jacks the style of a lot of cool upperclassmen because he loves you :(
Out-of-School Social Circles: New York area kids maybe? His dad works for MACUSA, but as a bodyguard so he's not exactly on the MACUSA baby level.
The Not Friends: ????????????????????
Sexuality: Token straight friend.
Dating History: The Notorious Jeffy James has always had bigger things to worry about.
Current Relationship Status: Holds hands and raids pastry shops with Essie, don't worry about exact definitions.
The Messy Bits: “THESE ARE FOR ESSIE BECAUSE I LIKE YOU A LOT.” - The declaration heard across the entire momentarily quiet cafeteria
Common Knowledge:
Personal Stuff:
The Secrets:
Rumors: Jeffy Key is a cheerful robot put here to make the rest of you feel bad for your bad attitudes.
Anything Else? finger guns
A cute gif of your character: They might be playing musical chairs or they might just be dancing around a ghost who looked like they needed a friend.
SPENCER
House & Year: Coppertale Junior
Hometown: Born in Toronto, lives in Motreal
School History: Spencer started at Gooseberry last year as a Sophomore. Before that, he did a combination of day school and tutoring, whatever would fit into his aggressive training regimen and travel schedule.
Class Involvement: Spencer talks a lot during class. A loooot. Usually to Ira. He's an eager learner, but his eidetic memory makes him a lazy knowitall. It takes a firm hand to keep him on course.
Campus Presence: Spencer's very social and likes to be where there are people. He always wants to hang out, even if it's just following you around while you do your stuff. He rarely actually studies, but does like his clubs and shows up to those regularly.
Party Time: Spencer's always at parties, always drinks a lot, and throws himself into the party scene. He's a messy, rowdy, party boy and it gets worse the more inebriated he is.
Best Friends: Ruby's his best friend, but he's exceptionally close to his roommates, Ira, Cash, Todd and Heathcliff.
Cliques: He loves all the junior Coppertales, and he's fond of most people in his year, honestly. He and Micah made up a while ago and are trying to be normal friends again. He also really loves the cheer squad and thinks Casey is the best.
Out-of-School Social Circles: Just Ruby!
The Not Friends: He doesn't like Ari and Jade at alllllll. He also made things awkward with Lucas when he hit on Bash as part of an exceptionally stupid plan.
Sexuality: Bi, and very, very flirtatious. Spencer does tend to fall harder for boys, proooobably because his type (witty, smart, a bit of a jerk) is mostly found in a lot of guy friends he has. He was briefly into Fern, though! Spencer's the kind of person who catches feelings for his friends REALLY easily.
Dating History: Got into a pretty serious relationship with Micah over the summer that ended up becoming EXTREMELY DRAMATIC. They broke up right after getting to school.
Current Relationship Status: Single and ready to flirt with anyone who can tolerate a 30 second conversation with him! He's currently very down for making out and hooking up, no strings attached... or so he says. I honestly don't trust Spencer with "no strings" on anything.
The Messy Bits: Spencer has feelings for Cash and Ira, but so far has accomplished very little in that regard. His indecision is frankly debilitating sometimes, and he vacillates wildly between his extreme overconfidence and his anxiety. Sometimes he blusters that if he made a move OF COURSE they'd say yes, then he spirals and doesn't think they notice him like that at all. Ruby keeps advising him not to date anyone he doesn't think is disposable in case it goes bad... and Ira and Cash aren't disposable.
Common Knowledge: Spencer's loud and friendly. He wears a lot of leather and cultivates a bad boy look, even though he's actually... not that at all. He drinks, but doesn't smoke. He's an aspiring figure skater. He has an eidetic memory. He's quick to posture and incredibly confident.
Personal Stuff: His confidence is actually kind of manic. He rarely relaxes, and has a hard time sleeping regularly. His corner of the cabin is a disaster zone, and he's incredibly disorganized. He was raised by his grandparents, but his mom and dad are alive. He and Ruby are pairs skaters, but they might have to go solo because she got too tall and he's not tall enough. He once punched a competitor out at an event.
The Secrets: Spencer's got anxiety issues and is usually pretty convinced everyone finds him annoying. His stepfather was doing time in prison for the past ten years and Spencer barely knows him. He feels like his mother abandoned him when she gave him over to his grandparents to raise, and she's not very involved in his life. He thinks she doesn't like his company. Alsooooo if he decides to get serious about skating, he may voluntarily decide not to return to Gooseberry for senior year. He sometimes entertains the idea of going into academia instead, but thinks he's not up to it because technically he doesn't actually "get" what he knows.
Rumors: I don't knowwwww
Anything Else? Discuss!
A cute gif of your character:
DINAH
House & Year: Coppertale Sophosaur
Hometown: Parksville, BC, which is on Vancouver Island. It’s best known for its sandcastle-building competition and a lot of old people live there.
School History: Started as a freshman. Went to a day school in Victoria mostly before coming to GB, but also kind of bounced through a couple other schools in that last year. She was a weird, awkward kid who didn’t know how to talk to kids her own age because her parents liked dragging her around to Very Adult Academic Functions and showing off their Totally Precocious Child in the non-tourist seasons, and so she got teased a lot and did not fit in at all.
Class Involvement: When Dinah is into a class (Aesthetic Magic, Artificing, History of Magic), she is into a class. She often thinks her input is SUPER NECESSARY and will interject her comments, but she has a LOT of enthusiasm for the topics that interest her. If she doesn’t like a class… snooze. She sits in Transfiguration and stares blankly at the chalkboard, and is very easily distracted by one of her friends doing something more interesting. Can often be found doodling in the margins of her notes. Sometimes the doodles take over the entire binder and there is like a seriously bonkers storyline in her freshman Potions notebook.
Campus Presence: Doing super sweet skateboard tricks down by the docks, trying to die on her broom at the Quidditch pitch, definitely not burning down the Artificing shed on purpose.
Party Time: She goes and she’ll drink like a beer or two because it’s what all the super cool upperclassmen do??? But she honestly doesn’t really get it, and her interest in gross beer fades pretty quick. One time she tried to do her homework while buzzed. Maybe next time she’ll steal the aux and make everyone listen to her dumb dad rock. You guys are gonna love Split Enz and Yes!!!
Best Friends: Attached at the beard to Nisha.
Cliques: Sophomore bad kids club and Copperteam. She also causes problems at Gaming Club as Casey’s Apprentice DM.
Out-of-School Social Circles: I mean, if anyone else’s parents are Marine Magibiologists or have a reason to be at conferences about cryptids that might actually be magic animals, she might have seen you there.
The Not Friends: If you’ve ever implied that she can’t take care of herself, tried to obviously parent her, or told her to do a thing, you’re on her shit list and I’m very very very sorry. Her parents basically treated her like a perfect mini adult all her life and she doesn’t know how to reconcile that with the fact that she is not perfect or mini or an adult.
Sexuality: shrug emoji
Dating History: She! Is! A baby!!!
Current Relationship Status: Run for your life.
The Messy Bits: It’s hard to tell sometimes if she has a vague, goobery crush on anyone, or if she’s just a fucking weirdo.
Common Knowledge:
Personal Stuff:
The Secrets: ???????????????????
Rumors: She probably pushed that Lazer kid in the water herself.
Anything Else?
A cute gif of your character:
AUSTIN
House & Year: Medium Bear
Hometown: Mostly grew up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, but he spends more time in Cedar Knob, Kentucky these days. Cedar Knob is right across the border from Olympus, and is basically its lower middle class suburban neighbor. He’s not a fan.
School History: Started as a freshman, went to Lookout Thaumaturgical Academy in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, for middle school. It’s basically a STEM school for magic, and despite being a sensitive artistic soul, he actually did pretty well there. He’s a lot better at magic on paper than in practice.
Class Involvement: Quiet, unobtrusive, doesn’t get into a lot of discussions or ask a lot of questions unless he knows what’s going on. If he does know the answer to something and thinks other people are wrong, he sighs, raises his hand, and rescues them all from their ignorance. Come on you guys. He never skips class because what the fuck else would he be doing, but he sometimes just decides he doesn’t want to do his homework unless he finishes it in class, and will be furiously scribbling at the last minute as everyone else is passing in their work.
Campus Presence: The music room, or his cabin. Don’t look for him. He’ll find you if you’re in a group that needs serenading.
Party Time: He goes because that’s where everyone is, has a couple drinks because he’s way too anxious to be around this many people sober, then busts out that guitar and… after aaallllll, you’re my wonderwaaaallllll.
Best Friends: His cat.
Cliques: His cabinmates (though he tends to just take a step back and fade into the shadows when the medium bears start bickering), music kids, anyone who thinks guitar is cool. Pretends to ignore Essie because he’s fake Diego, except rude. He kind of seems to gravitate toward bitchy women and finds them funny and I can't explain why.
Out-of-School Social Circles: He’s like a satellite of the Olympus kids, and if he had more confidence he would be hustling them out of some serious ca$$$$h in high stakes games of Go Fish.
The Not Friends: He does not take teasing very well, and got super pissy with Heathcliff for the barefoot joke. Probably other people. He’s a sensitive jerk.
Sexuality: He's very shy and evasive about the topic of his orientation and claims he's letting other people draw their own conclusions because he doesn't believe in labels. But he's definitely gay and kind of hoping some latent bisexuality will bloom at some point in the very near future so he can just live the rest of his life in denial. He knows this is Gaysberry and It’s Cool, but he really doesn’t want to be almost 40 and trying to explain to his Alabama Gramma why he’s never had a girlfriend but he’s been living with this “roommate” for ten years, and maybe she’ll, like, die before that becomes an issue.
Dating History: He and his guitar have been together for almost four years now.
Current Relationship Status: In hiding.
The Messy Bits: He’s too clean. Someone mess him up so he can write melodramatic songs about it.
Common Knowledge:
Personal Stuff:
The Secrets:
Rumors: He’s been taken over by hookworms.
Anything Else? talkbox
A cute gif of your character: All his best gifs are from when he was a small child.
BASH
House & Year: Ebonhide Junior
Hometown: Canarsie, Brooklyn, NY
School History: Started at Gooseberry as a Freshman. Before that, he went to a "charter" school for children from mixed-magic families where he had to learn potions and calculus. Which is just plain rude. But also useful. Like - math is probably important, guys?
Class Involvement: Bash talks a lot! Bash probably talks too much. He probably even knows the answers, but definitely wanders off onto tangents way too easily and/or gets distracted and allows things to languish and explode. Whoops? Has definitely given blanket permission for whomever he's working with to punch him in the arm if he starts mentally wandering. He studies loudly, so he usually studies by himself.
Campus Presence: Usually found wherever Lucas is. Or unwittingly dragged into the middle of a gun-battle with Azurcrests. When the computer lab gives them access, he's often there yelling (quietly) about things with his sister. He is willing to walk into the library. Ish.
Party Time: Bash is definitely there when parties occur. Usually bouncing semi-anxiously at the treeline or making sure his friends don't actively give themselves alcohol poisoning. He doesn't drink, is honestly sort of nervous about doing so - and, anyway, if he did who would make sure that none of the Juniors get eaten by shrubbery.
Best Friends: Gabi's his main lady, Essie is a super buff genius, Jade's brilliant and deadly, Hazel lets him braid her hair a lot, and Austin's hysterical. He's very fond of Ari and she's probably one of the few people he actively sits still and quietly with/for. And Lucas. Lucas doesn't count because he pretty much gets his own category later.
Cliques: Candy Rustlers! (Seriously, he still has no idea how this happened. Still very quietly sort of considers them Lucas' friends.) Otherwise he isn't terribly cliquey and will happily talk to just about anyone.
Out-of-School Social Circles: Bash doesn't have friends outside of school, he has sisters. Which is a lot like being part of a very exclusive, genetically-based gang that likes to pick on him a lot.
The Not Friends: Not reeeally? You can hate him if you want, though. That's fine.
Sexuality: People probably assume he's gay. Which is pretty much accurate, so he's cool with it. (Bash has had many a crush on girls. But he's not remotely as actively interested. He'd rather braid their hair and discuss boys, if it's all the same to everyone else.)
Dating History: Nah, man.
Current Relationship Status: Dating Lucas Kowalski. Officially since last hellscape. Unofficially since some vaguely, wibbly-wobbly time before that? Maybe? What even counts as dating? Shit's confusing. Essie says they're gross. (This is probably because they're gross.)
The Messy Bits: No? Honestly, he's still enough of a spaz at his own relationship. He doesn't need further complication.
Common Knowledge:
• Youngest of five siblings, all of whom are sisters. The age-gap between Bash and his oldest sister is large enough that he's much closer in age to his eldest niece than he is to Beth. (Which is probably why he and Sarah fight so much.) He is absurdly proud of his nieces - he has three, currently - and talks about them constantly.
• His mom and his twin sister are both Squibs. His dad's a no-maj. (And also a paraplegic, due to a hit-and-run accident when Bash was ten.)
• Bash has ADHD and is very upfront about it. He's also been in therapy since he was a kid. Doesn't mind discussing this either.
Personal Stuff:
• Bash has a lot of trouble reading. This is more of a concentration problem than an enjoyment problem, but he's very embarrassed by it.
• Was a definite elementary-school delinquent. Had astounding grades, but lived in detention - both for getting
the shit kicked out of himinto fights and skipping classes. (Usually to attend his dad's therapy sessions.) Doesn't advertise this, but also doesn't exactly mind it.• His sisters and nieces still call him Guppy. This is a horrible nickname and he wishes it would die. He also wishes that he would grow half-a-foot. Neither of these things are happening.
The Secrets: He's not very good at keeping those for too long. (Oh, hey wait! Unless they aren't about him. He did a decent job of not very loudly yelling that Essie liked Jeffy when told. Aw, I'm so proud.)
Rumors: ???
Anything Else? this IS a link!
A cute gif of your character: That one time they polyjuiced Ariel.
WEBSTER
House & Year: Senior Azurcrest
Hometown: Braddock, PA. Small town outside of Pittsburgh.
School History: This is Webster's first year at Gooseberry. Before that he was at Beauxbatons, where everyone on his mom's side of the family went.
Class Involvement: Webster always attends class and pays attention, but his involvement depends on how much he likes the subject. So, he'll participate a lot in music, outdoor education, and artificing. And he'll be quieter in charms and history of magic in particular. At Beauxbatons he always preferred to work alone. At Gooseberry, however, he's started to enjoy working with his classmates, who for the most part he finds smart, supportive, and pretty down to earth.
Campus Presence: Webster is often in the music rooms or in his cabin. When the weather is nice, he loves being outdoors.
Party Time: He attended two grotto parties in the fall. He didn't have anything to drink. He's had wine at family events and stuff like that, but he's not really tempted to drink at parties. He doesn't succumb to peer-pressure... but probably would if a romantic interest pushed him. Webster really likes to dance?? He had a great time at Casey's 1989 party, Cotillion, and the Winter Masquerade. Dance with him!
Best Friends: Lilika is his best friend.
Cliques: He really likes his fellow Azurcrest senior boys. And probably all the Azurcrest seniors in general. Has a friend crush on Casey. We haven't really played these scenes, but he likes the other musicians and the Azurcrest cheer squad (let's plot!).
Out-of-School Social Circles: Tony Buttons! His steel-working cousin from back home. Also, a couple of musician buddies from Beauxbaton he keeps in touch with.
The Not Friends: Ehh, no enemies. But, Webster generally doesn't enjoy the company of negative people.
Sexuality: Straight
Dating History: Crushes? Yes. Ex-girlfriends? No. None.
Current Relationship Status: Single. But since the Winter Masquerade, definitely is developing a crush on Gwen.
The Messy Bits: Probably kind of apparent that he has a crush on Gwen. But nobody but Lilika knows that he didn't actually ask her to the dance... Lilika is the one who sent a Candygram from him. Ummm... he also definitely had a crush on Riley for about a week at the start of school but then discovered she was gay and was too much woman for him. I don't think anyone would know that?
Common Knowledge: Webster is a musician. A Beauxbaton transfer. And good friends with Lilika.
Personal Stuff: His dad is a no-maj, former steel working, Quaker. Webster has a fancy-boy side that doesn't come out much but that his mom's family instilled in him. He speaks Spanish and French. He really loves OE.
The Secrets: No secrets per se. He's not a very secretive person. But he's also a quiet person and won't be advertising himself. He is worried that Gwen will find out he didn't send her the candy gram. He also has started writing Spanish poetry and is pretty shy about that.
Rumors: No rumors circulating. But a few times in the journals people have wondered why he would leave Beauxbatons so not sure if there's speculating to be done there. Webster is also perpetually terrified of what Lilika has said about him... or more specifically, what things she's made up about him.
Anything Else? Discuss.
A cute gif of your character: If you DO manage to get him drunk at a grotto party, expect this...
CAMERON
House & Year: Ebonhide Senior
Hometown: Olympus, Tennessee. The largest all-wizarding city in the south, with a notable music scene. Like Magical Nashville.
School History: Attended Swan Academy, an uppity school that makes manners part of its curriculum, from K - 5. In middle school, he attended the Lookout Thaumatergical Academy, a magical equivalent to a STEM school that has a focus on practical types of magic and vocational training that leads to job placement, and a notably underfunded arts program.
Class Involvement: Since freshman year, Cameron has worked to maintain the reputation as someone who doesn’t care about his grades, while secretly making good grades. He frequently talks in class, though the amount varies by teacher. He’ll derail a lecture if it will get him a laugh without getting him into too much trouble. He rarely skips - just enough not to have perfect attendance without pushing the boundaries of getting in real trouble (though he talks like he skips more than he does). He does well in group projects, and likes to collaborate; he’ll always turn his part in, though he’ll play down the amount of effort it took.
Campus Presence: He has two modes, 100% social or mysteriously vanished. When he’s On, he tries to hang out in the highest traffic areas. He talks to absolutely anyone like they’re old friends (even if he can’t remember their name). He’s loud. He may burst into song. When he’s working, he hides out in the exact opposite places. Empty classrooms, lonely clearings, his cabin with the curtains drawn. He hides to work on homework or music, though he will emerge to “practice” pieces that are 90% done and polished.
Party Time: Cameron goes to every party, in school and out. It doesn’t always matter if he was invited, if there’s fun to be had, he’s there. He always drinks, and doesn’t mind providing, though if he’s not hosting he might not remember. He can easily be talked into doing almost anything else, too. If no one else has set up music to play, he absolutely will, maybe karaoke too.
Best Friends: His cabinmates are his ride or die crew. Kenzie is an honorary member of his cabin. Smooch Squad 4 Lyfe (Riley & Casey).
Cliques: Eboncheer. He’s very fond of most of the senior ebongirls (Vee, Clem, Phi, Nia). He’s also fond of all the senior azurbabes.
Out-of-School Social Circles: Has So Many cousins that he hangs out with on breaks to varying degrees. Knows the Youngbloods from middle school, when he befriended Robin, but doesn’t talk about it.
The Not Friends: That would disappoint baby jesus.
Sexuality: It would be easy to assume that Cameron was gay, what with all the colors and glitter and sequins, the mannerisms, the love of musical theater, and the lengthy time he spends on personal grooming. However, he insists that he’s straight and just so comfortable in his heterosexuality that he can do all these things!
Dating History: Multiple past relationships, but nothing serious or significant. Tends toward flings, not anything serious.
Current Relationship Status: Single and a kissing game fixture.
The Messy Bits: Better to keep it simple rather than messy.
Common Knowledge:
· LOUD and friendly with all people everywhere. It’s almost impossible not to know who he is, but very possible to find him annoying.
· Spent most of his time in high school intentionally pretending to be stupid, and though he isn’t putting as much effort into it anymore, he’s not trying to dispel the idea either.
· Cameron’s mom, Casey Carney, is a famous country singer who had him when she was pretty young. It was a tabloid sensation.
· His cousin, Austin, is also here and also an Ebonhide. He likes to call him other Texas cities when he wants to razz him a little.
· He’s an unashamed mama’s boy.
· Too classy for foul language
Personal Stuff:
· Casper has been tutoring him in DADA since the beginning of the year. It’s not exactly a secret, but he’s sort of embarrassed that he had so little DADA experience and that he wasn’t “useful” during the endgame events.
· He’s increasingly unsure of what he wants to do after graduation. His longtime plan has been to sell out as hard as possible and become as rich and famous as he can as fast as he can. Now he’s actually sort of concerned with… artistic integrity????
· Holds grudges against people who do his loved ones wrong. For example, he doesn’t have a close relationship with his grandmother, who he blames for using his mom and her sisters like cash cows, though his mom has forgiven her and urges him not to hold something from so long ago against her.
· Cameron took the acne attack very hard, harder than he let on with most people (even considering he was publicly very dramatic about it). He’s fine with people attributing it to him being vain, because he’d rather they thought that than realize it was giving him middle school war flashbacks. He was an unpopular dork in middle school who looked like this but with acne. Came to Gooseberry on a mission to be popular, and considers middle school a deep dark secret.
The Secrets:
· He’s worried that even if he did succeed at becoming a famous musician, it would only be because his mom being in the business gives him a huge advantage. He's equally scared of failing in spite of it.
· He's worried about graduating, that his friends will drift apart, and he doesn't know what to do without them.
· He’s increasingly aware of possibly maybe finding boys attractive, but lives in denial. He was made fun of as gay in middle school, and being aggressively straight and kissing lots of pretty girls was part of his planned image in high school.
Rumors:
· Someone (sophomores) apparently think he and Casper should be in Love, which he thinks is hilarious.
· It would be easy to assume the Smooch Squad is just a long term poly relationship.
Anything Else? Discuss!
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JAIME
House & Year: Senior Azurcrest
Hometown: Pueblo Mistico, a wizarding village on the edge of the Devil’s Drawer special reserve in Mexico. It's relatively secluded and is populated by the wealthy, with lots of spaces between houses (like, next door to Jaime's is a small ranch-like deal).
School History: Started his freshman year at Gooseberry – before that he went to a magical boarding school in the Yucatan peninsula called Coyopamienzo. It has a five house system, where Jaime was in the jaguar mascotted house Tabai (adventurous, cunning, driven), just like his older brother; he left for Gooseberry to get some space from his older brother (who his father liked best) and his step-sister (who didn't really like him).
Class Involvement: Jaime is not super smart, but he's been trying super hard this year now that he's Quidditch captain. He actually studies fairly frequently, listens in class, and tries his best to ask questions. His attention span is still somewhat lacking, but there's an obvious will to learn and try now that wasn't so obvious before. He prefers group projects to individual work; before he preferred it so he could play around with someone, but now he prefers it because he normally gets more out of the material that way.
Campus Presence: Currently, he's spending more time in the library or in his cabin studying than he ever did before. Outside of that, Jaime likes flying around on his broom, he likes running, he likes visiting the horses. He's definitely at all Quidditch games now to take notes, and spends a bit more time on the pitch trying to sort out practices for Azurquid.
Party Time: At all the grotto parties, but he's limited his drinking pretty seriously. Before Quidditch games he doesn't really drink at all, or will only have one beer. He'll normally participate in Spin the Bottle at least, but he's a wiener about kissing boys.
Best Friends: Lachlan, Ennis, Addy, and Oscar are his nearest and dearest. He's a super friendly guy, though, so probably considers most people some level of friend. He is really convinced that Sy picking on him is just friendship!!! Thanks for being such a good fellow captain, Sy!!
Cliques: He ♥ his cabin and Azurquid, his babies :(
Out-of-School Social Circles: Likely knows a few people from Coyopamienzo and from his neighborhood in Mexico, but he's not exactly a 'keep up with people' type of person so it's unlikely any of them are very close. When he goes home he just wants to spend all of his time with his little brother, anyways.
The Not Friends: They're not not friends, but Jaime is a little afraid of the unit that is Kenzie and Ulysses now.
Sexuality: Pretends he's aggressively straight, actually just bi. He makes a big show of being weird about kissing boys.
Dating History: A few flings here and there, but nothing serious.
Current Relationship Status: Single and oblivious.
The Messy Bits: Jaime thought grown up Ennis was kind of attractive and he's trying desperately to pretend like that didn't happen!!! But his whole sexuality denial is his biggest issue, really. He's currently crushless but we'll see how that goes.
Common Knowledge: Jaime’s mother died when he was born, but he has a step-mother now that he’s somewhat quiet around. He’ll openly talk about his family situation (lawyer father, lawyer older brother, artist younger step-sister, cutest thing on the planet younger half-brother), and is just kind of open about most things. He LOVES kids and animals. He talks about his time at Coyopamienzo, too (but Gooseberry is obviously way cooler.) He’s open about what happened at the end of last year, like helping to retrieve Ennis, Addy, and Lachlan. He hates studying but is trying.
Personal Stuff: He's still not really sure he's cut out to be Quidditch captain, and occasionally expresses this in vague terms to his friends. Also he's kind of sensitive - I have a feeling he thinks this is more secret than it actually is. Nice boy Jaime.
The Secrets: Bisexual stuff. Also he was flying around with his little brother on his broom while drunk between sophomore and junior year and his little brother fell off and was almost seriously injured. He's still pretty mortified by this.
Rumors: I assume there are some about the fact that he probs likes boys?? I know some sophs have decided he and Lachlan are meant for each other.
Anything Else? Talk about dummy here
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Gwen
House & Year: Ribbonfin Senior
Hometown: Asheville, NC, although her family farm is near the suburb of Candler. Candler and Enka are mixed wizarding communities.
School History: Gwen started Gooseberry as a freshman, straight out of Ilvermorny. She had a terrible first year and had few friends, because she was ill most of the year. She lived on Pepper Up potions that didn't seem to do anything. She petitioned to have her horse brought to the school but it was shot down and she was depressed about that for months.
Class Involvement: Gwen is pretty much a model student; she is there on time,
she listens and is not disruptive, and she turns all her work in on time. She doesn't usually ask questions in class, unless everyone is being shy, then she will make up something to ask so that other people aren't put on the spot (Helper Gwen). She loves Artificing, but she's started taking time to herself to work with just music and no one bothering her. She's happy to tutor, but she's gotten a little overwhelmed her senior year and is trying to recharge.
Campus Presence: Gwen highly prefers spending time in the stables or the main common area in the lodge. She doesn't always want to talk to people but she finds it comforting to be nearby. She loves riding and will go out on one of the horses whenever she has the chance.
Party Time: Gwen has never attended a Grotto party and has no idea what to expect. She's heard a lot of horror stories. However, she will be attending the next one because Casper said she should.
Best Friends: Calvin has been her best friend since shortly after she decided that (sorry, Calvin). Other than him, Gwen tends to be friendly with a large circle of people, rather than a few besties.
Cliques: The Big Fish, naturally.
Out-of-School Social Circles: Gwen is a MACUSA brat so she tends to at least know what's going on. Otherwise, she ends up hanging with a lot of the transfer students because her cousin Colin is a very outgoing Hogwarts student, in Hufflepuff.
The Not Friends: Funny enough, Gwen does not get along with or is close with any of her old Ilvermorny mates. Partly they just drifted apart, but also, she feels like none of them really stuck with her when she was first at Gooseberry, so maybe she's a little bitter.
Sexuality: Gwen is firmly hetero. She thinks girls are soft and pretty but she's not really into snogging any of them (she would, if they asked, but just to make them happy).
Dating History: For such an outgoing person, Gwen hasn't dated anyone before. Sadly, she's never had more than the most glancing of kisses from anyone who liked her (her cousin Colin has a Housemate who has been trying for three years to get her to like him). She is bothered by this (she wonders what is wrong with her), but she isn't sure how to address it.
Current Relationship Status: Utterly single. Torn between liking two people.
The Messy Bits: Gwen feels a little bit like she tried to take a drink from a water fountain and it turned into a fire hose, and she doesn't know what to do about it. She's had a crush on Casper since last year, which she didn't tell anyone about because seriously, having a crush on Casper Kim seemed like the Fashionable Thing that Everyone Did and she wasn't into being classified the same way. Nonetheless, she tried to ask him to the Masquerade, chickened out, was asked by Webster (secretly Lilika actually), had a great time, then confessed to Casper when they were both drunk a few days later that she had wanted to ask him out. Now she feels like an all-around jerk, because she put Casper on the spot (he let her down nicely at least) and Webster was a really cool date. Currently has no earthly idea what to do next (other than live in a box for the foreseeable future).
Common Knowledge: Anyone who doesn't know about Popplestone Honey probably also lives in a box. She also has no siblings, she has a lot of family in Ireland and vists them regularly.
Personal Stuff: Gwen loves Quidditch, but is uncharacteristically withdrawn about it this year. She doesn't smile much once they hit the pitch, and is taking it far more seriously than she did the prior year. She feels like she let Avery and the team down when she lost her balance and let North take the Snitch in their last loss. She's worried that she's wasted her school life being too cautious and safe (thus why she tried to act on her crush). She wants to break out of the rut but she's not sure how.
The Secrets: Gwen would love to be a professional Quidditch player, rather than just following in her dad's footsteps and working as an artificer, or seriously, anything more exciting, but she is resigned to being responsible and boring forever. She almost drowned once as a child and she's been terrified of swimming ever since, which is just exacerbated by being a Ribbonfin. She is afraid that if she goes to the Grotto, her House emblem will have words for her about her phobia.
Rumors: Gwen is actually a bag full of kittens. Also, she was seen with Todd in one of the sleighs at Masquerade (they both took off their masks) so maybe there's a rumor to be had there? She told off Kenzie and Uly at the Masquerade about their corn dog contest, so people can talk about that.
Anything Else? Gwen is very supportive.
DISCUSS
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ENNIS
House & Year: Ribbonfin Senior
Hometown: Originally from New Zealand, but has lived in Cindersap, Ontario since he was ten.
School History: Attended Ilvermorny (Pudwudgie) and came to Gooseberry as a Freshman. Prior to Ilvermorny, he had no formal education. Students may remember him receiving special help and accommodations in a lot of his classes because he was so behind his peers in just about everything but potions. He was unusually skilled at advanced potions and was leaps ahead of the curriculum for his year.
Class Involvement: Ennis is hard working and dedicated, but he's quiet and dreads being called on or having to raise his hand to ask questions in front of the class. He regularly attends professors' office hours so he can ask questions there and receive extra help.
Since Yancey's come back to Gooseberry and they share a ton of classes, he'd favor him as a partner unless a teacher separates them. Since he showed memes to Yancey at Cotillion, they've been pointing at pictures in their textbook and going "Mood." "Same." "About me."
Campus Presence: Ennis spends a lot of time in the Divination Tower even if he's just working on homework for a different class. He likes the cozy atmosphere and only other Divination students are allowed up so there aren't as many people around. When he wants to be seen and interacted with, he'll sit around the Atrium and people-watch.
He can also be found in the Rudiments classroom or Aesthetic Magic, usually working on some sort of project. He's been really into making costume pieces for LARP.
Party Time: Ennis really didn't party much at all until he started experimenting his Junior year. After playing Quidpong and earning the drunken affection of Cool Kid Chris, he's been partying harder and harder because he likes the way it makes him feel and he believes other people like him more when he's drunk.
He's experimented a bit with smoking weed last year and he's tried cigarettes, but there haven't been many more opportunities to smoke this year since most of the stoners graduated.
Best Friends: Yancey, Chloe, Cole, Lachlan, Jaime.
Cliques: Big Fish Family. He adores most of the Mean Girls. He also loves all the Azurcrest Seniors, though he doesn't really consider himself friends with Webster yet since he's new.
Out-of-School Social Circles: Ennis has a shitton of online friends and is way more popular and gregarious in his online communities, especially his dolling communities where he's well-known as an artist. He's never met up with any of them offline and as far as they know he's a scholarship student at a fancy boarding school for young artists and doesn't have access to internet.
The Not Friends: He thinks Casper is unncessarily negative and joyless and doesn't care for him at all.
Sexuality: Ennis self-IDs as "Queer" and finds it simpler that way. He hasn't experienced sexual attraction and has no interest in sex so he assumes he might be some flavor of asexual, but he's definitely not aromantic and has had at least one romantic thought about anyone who has ever been nice to him once.
Dating History: A very blank list. He has a history of pining after people who are unlikely to ever return his affections, which is ideal for him because it takes out the anxiety of having to be in a relationship but he still gets the thrill of butterflies.
Current Relationship Status: Single and looking in the wrong direction.
The Messy Bits:
Common Knowledge:
Personal Stuff:
The Secrets: Most of the details about his dad. He doesn't want anyone to know about the darker side of him because he doesn't want to hear any negative opinions on him.
Rumors: idk, but he's fair game if anyone wants to make shit up.
Anything Else? Plot/Discuss here!
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LUCAS
House & Year: Azurcrest Junior
Hometown: Atlanta, GA, I can’t remember if it’s stated anywhere, but he lives in Ansley Park, which is an affluent neighborhood east of midtown Atlanta. The inventor of the Super Soaker also lives there??
School History: Lucas went to a private no-maj school before transferring to Undernose Academy, a public magic day school in downtown Atlanta. He was bullied pretty mercilessly at both places. Started Gooseberry freshman year, was going to drop out at the end of his sophomore year, but after forest hell, resolved to stay.
Class Involvement: Shy but polite, prone to quiet sorts of distraction as soon as things start to get even a little boring, but working hard to manage that. Lucas is gifted with magic, but surviving academia does not come to him naturally. A straight A student, now, he struggled a lot during his freshman year and his overall GPA reflects that. The fact that he’ll never even have a chance at valedictorian is kind of a sore spot he beats himself up over from time to time. A lot of his self-worth is tied up in his academic performance. Lucas’ best classes are Charms and DADA – he is the Charms TA and is deeply invested in and dedicated to his position. In class, he usually pairs up with Bash, Ari or one of the junior jays, and when paired with people he’s not chummy with is kind of a disaster.
Campus Presence: The places Lucas doesn’t like going are probably more interesting. He won’t walk to the Grotto by himself, and won’t let his friends go into the Grotto alone. He dislikes being in the forest, but makes an exception to hang out at Ebonhide. He will not go into the fields around Coppertale and tends to avoid the Coppertale camp in general unless it’s daylight and he’s with friends because fuck ghost miners.
Lucas is predominantly an indoors kid, but in the coming months is going to be working on getting into some semblance of shape. So he’ll be outdoors, more. He spends a lot of time in the atrium, now, making himself visible to students who need help with Charms, but also enjoys being a lump in his cabin, the Ebonhide junior boys’ cabin or reading whatever he can get his hands on in the library.
Party Time: Lucas attends all parties and is usually involved in set up and tear down. Although he’ll never smoke and has little interest in drinking unless other people push him to, he genuinely enjoys helping Micah with parties where he can. As much as he’d like to be more of a cool party Azurcrest, he’s an introvert, and is most comfortable at low key functions where he can stay back out of the way.
Best Friends: Bash, Jade, the Chickabros, and Essie. Considers Ari and the rest of the Junior Jays good friends. He’s also very fond of Fern, Austin, Cash, Calvin and Casey’s D&D group, especially Chloe, whose fanfiction he has been reading since he was a freshman.
Cliques: Lucas comes from a background of being excluded and ostracized, so he tries his damnedest to never be exclusionary, himself. In terms of socializing, he is basically inseparable from Bash, is a freeform LARPer with the Candy Rustlers, and loves his Chickabros/Junior Jays more than life, itself.
Out-of-School Social Circles:
Lucas is one soft, sad boy with no friends outside of school.Lucas now has four sisters who are marginally less mean to him than they are to their actual flesh-and-blood.The Not Friends: Lucas tries to find something to like in everyone, even if he doesn’t voice those opinions. He tries to remember that everyone is going through their own shit, and doesn’t generally hold grudges. If he honestly doesn’t like someone, he mostly just doesn’t think of them at all. All that said, Spencer makes him uncomfortable because of the history with Micah, hostility with Jade and Ari (which, because he’s a dumb boy who doesn’t pay attention, he honestly Does Not Get), and the recent hitting on his boyfriend fiasco.
Sexuality: Lucas went out of his way to avoid showing unambiguous interest in anyone until Bash, and has expressed frustration with the ridiculous attractiveness of all his peers. So, it’s likely people probably assumed he was bisexual or ace. He identifies as gay. And is ...demiromantic/demisexual? Shit dudes I’m not even sure this fucko I tell you what.
Dating History: Ha ha ha, oh man.
Current Relationship Status: Writes Sebastien Lacroix in hearts in his notes when he thinks no one is looking.
The Messy Bits: I just remembered that Jade poured water on Essie during Dyngus Day and Lucas refused to outright refute that he’d done it and that is extremely funny to me. That wasn’t actually messy, though. It was just Jade and Lucas both being naughty kids. As they do.
Common Knowledge:
Personal Stuff:
The Secrets:
Rumors: I’m sure there’s something.
Anything Else? Makes this as long as possible so no one reads it. ;) NOW FEATURING: A LINK.
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ZACH
House & Year: Junior jay!!!
Hometown: A not-so-nice corner of Tacoma, WA., a city I actually have a lot of fondness for, so no hate when I'm like "Zach grew up in SQUALOR."
School History: The wizarding community in Tacoma isn't huge, and thanks to some weird zoning fuckery, Zach's local public was a super sad, run-down school in eastern WA., instead of being sent to Seattle. He was about to fall through the cracks, when his 8th grade teacher spotted his potential and called in some favours to get him into Gooseberry as a freshman. When he first got here, he was REALLY behind, but thanks to some peer tutoring and a liiittle special attention, by his sophomore year, he was caught up.
Class Involvement: EITHER his hand is UP and he's EXCITED to SHARE, or he's staring out the window, daydreaming about something only tangentially related to the topic at hand. Zach loves to learn, but sometimes, he gets lost thinking about things that interest him, instead of the actual... thing he's supposed to be studying. As a result, he's always good for a fun fact or a cool idea, but his grades can be hit-or-miss.
Campus Presence: LIBRARY REGULAR. He really likes to try to talk to Ms. Petrichor, much to her chagrin, I'm sure. He also hangs around the HoM classroom and the theatre.
Party Time: Always there and always babysitting! Zach rarely-never parties himself, because he likes to keep an eye on all his heavy-drinking friends and make sure they get home alright. A prefect is never off-duty!!!! Unfortunately, because Zach would maybe appreciate the opportunity to blow off some steam. He has a really hard time passing the baton to other prefects, though, because if something happened and he wasn't able to help, it'd haunt him until he died. He's also the OFFICIAL Quidpong Referee.
Best Friends: He feels the closest to the Chickabros, and to his endgame squad: Hazel, Ana, Sam, Cole, and Ari.
Cliques: Junior jays, maybe drama people?
Out-of-School Social Circles: He has old friends from home, but the two groups don't interact at all.
The Not Friends: Zach loves you all very much.
Sexuality: ???. Iiiii originally assumed he'd be bi, but now, I'm not so sure? If asked, Zach would say that he has so much affection for his friends, there's no room left inside of him for the kissing kind of love. Maybe he'll grow out of it, but actually, maybe he's aro/ace? Hm. Unlike my bad junior, he's not afraid of or repulsed by the idea, he just doesn't feel any sort of draw. REGARDLESS, his friends are probably a little ??? abt it too. When the Chickabros talk about finding Zach a date, he puts his journal away because it feels like snooping. They're always so nice to him. :(
Dating History: Zip
Current Relationship Status: Zilch
The Messy Bits: Pure as the driven snow
Common Knowledge: Zach endeavours to be an open book, so a lot of his life is common knowledge. Everyone knows he's a prefect, and that he cares about that stuff a lot. Everyone knows he loves to read and that his fave class is HoM (Mr. Merrill's #1 fan!!!). When friends struggle academically, he's quick to share his own issues getting caught up, and the fact that he's a scholarship student isn't a secret.
Personal Stuff: His baby birds might know that he's actually, genuinely quite poor; he doesn't talk about his home life much, just because it never feels relevant to him. Close friends also know he was involved in the endgame mission to rescue the heart of the forest, which is something he has a little bit of trouble discussing because of the weird, unreal, twilight feeling he associates with the whole thing.
The Secrets: Zach... is... a little... stressed. The start of the semester was marked by how out-of-control everything felt; he KNEW his friends were still struggling to process what happened, and the only way he knew to deal with it was to double down on prefecting — making sure he was always there, always available, always listening, and always watching. And... to a certain extent, he was rewarded for it, because nothing really bad has happened (yet). But he's burning out fast, and as the metaplot starts to pick up again, he's going to struggle with his continued fear that nothing he does, no amount of harm reduction, will ever truly be able to keep people happy and safe.
This concern really eats at him. He worries about his friends a lot and it can get overwhelming. Sometimes, he wishes he could talk about it, but the last thing he wants to do is put his friends off of coming forward and talking to him about their problems. He really values that, and losing his place as their ear would make him feel useless and small. He doesn't want to tell other prefects, because he's afraid they're full-up too, and he doesn't want to overburden them. So, he swallows it, which is working fine for now, but might blow up in his face. :^)
Rumors: ???
Anything Else? Chatter
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MACKENZIE
House & Year: Azurcrest Senior
Hometown: Three Willows, Connecticut
School History: She's been at Gooseberry since freshman year, but at Ilvermorny she was in Wampus.
Class Involvement: Kenzie's a dedicated student who prides herself on appearing competent and clever. However, she's definitely a bit of a nuisance in class. She tends to be a quippy kid who's always making jokes to people sitting next to her. Her haughty attitude, jokester can rub teachers and classmates the wrong way. Mazkenzie is especially gifted in wand repair and research, though. She also tutors Casey!
Campus Presence: This year, she spends a lot of time around Ebonhide. She's a regular in the atrium and library, and likes lounging around Azurcrest campground when the weather's warm.
Party Time: Kenzie is usually at parties, but doesn't indulge much. She's not a hard partier by any stretch of the imagination. She's way too cautious to let herself get wasted, even though she likes to present herself as this fearless femme fatale.
Best Friends: Iliya is her BFF.
Cliques: Senior Ebonboys and the senior Azurbabes! The Mean Girls! Sy sometimes! Although the Mean Girls have fallen apart this year, Kenzie still loves them and has their backs. She just isn't especially motivated to organize anonymous post terror campaigns anymore.
Out-of-School Social Circles: Anyone in Three Willows would know her, and she tends to be on the fringes of MACUSA society through Kurt's family.
The Not Friends: A lot of people probably don't like Kenzie much, but Kenzie herself doesn't have any particular grudges. The only person she doesn't care much for is Clem.
Sexuality: Bisexual.
Dating History: Less interesting than she pretends. Kenzie didn't date much, but would periodically kiss people, and isn't a virgin. She was known for aggressively flirting with boys and girls, but it seemed to largely be as a joke, or to make them uncomfortable.
Current Relationship Status: She's been seeing Ulysses Quayle for a year now!
The Messy Bits: There's some mild discomfort/concern because she suspects that Iliya might be in love with her, but she's been dealing with that by not dealing with it at all. She and Ulysses also tend to tag-team flirt with people, which isn't as cute as they think it is.
Common Knowledge: She's a Mean Girl Queen Bee. She likes playing the femme fatale. While fun and charming, Kenzie is definitely not a nice person and can be a bully. Her family's incredibly wealthy, and her father runs a large wander repair business. Kurt is her cousin, Tally is her little sister. She really likes horses and tiffany blue.
Personal Stuff: Her grandfather passed over all his older sons in favor of Kenzie's father and Kenzie herself, who's been named his heir. She's going to go overseas to Ollivander's for an apprenticeship. She's learning Bulgarian so she can gossip with Iliya more efficiently.
The Secrets: Her extended family resents her and her father for stealing their birthright. She worries a lot about people close to her getting sick, due to Tally's blood curse and her grandfather's dementia. She genuinely likes most of her classmates even if she picks on you. :')
Rumors: Sometimes she and Ulysses' antics are confusing, I guess??? They've both kissed Jaime and like to hit on Casper and Cameron.
Anything Else? Discuss!
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ALSO JEFFY
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ALSO DINAH
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ALSO BASH
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ALSO Cameron
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ALSO JAIME
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ALSO ENNIS
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ALSO ZACH
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MACKENZIE
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ALSO ROXIE
ALSO URSULA
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ALSO COLE
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ALSO ESSIE
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ALSO ULYSSES
ALSO NISHA
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ALSO LACHLAN
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ALSO REID
AND JADE?
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ALSO HEATHCLIFF
ALSO CHARLIE
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ALSO ADDY
ALSO LILIKA
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ALSO RAMON
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ALSO RUBY
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ALSO KAREN
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ALSO MADISON
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AND A WILDE
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ALSO ILIYA