Pre-Opening Introductions

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INTRODUCTIONS

Welcome to Gooseberry High! This is the catch-all post for all character introductions before the game's opening on September 1st. Please comment below telling everyone about your characters, respond to their comments, goof off, plot, all of it! ♥

Comments

[cygninae]

Hi Karissa!!! We're so excited to have you and Roxie here. I really loved Roxie, and I'm already loving the Copperteam's lineup. Anyway, I'm Meggie, one of the mods. I have thee characters: Diego, Reid and Calvin, who are described up here.

If Rox likes parties, she's likely ran into Diego plenty of times. Plus, he's friends with Sy, who's probably his cousin. Diego's the sort of guy just wants people to have a good time, although he also has a slew of really unpleasant traits that pop up every now and again. BUT Diego's not combative, and he's eager to please, so he does pretty well with aggressive personalities. Aaaand he's a flirt, so I'm certain he's tried that on Roxie.

Then there's Calvin, who might not interact with Roxie much. However, Sy picks on him a lot, and Calvin starts arguments with him at every turn. Calvin assumes Sy's whole little Coppertale Quidditch clique hates him, whether or not Roxie actually does.

AND MOST RELEVANT TO YOU: Reid! Reid's in her year, on her team, and they have a ton of classes together. If Rox can tolerate how uncomfortably cold and stagnant Reid's attitude is, he'll have no issues with her abrasiveness. He's passive and lazy 75% of the time, and will let her and his other assertive friends drag him around and tell him what to do. When he does make a decision, though, he's unyielding. But he's loyal, so Roxie will have no questions about his dedication if they're friends! Aaaand he's also kind of a lonely, isolated kid who's not so great at knowing what standard friendships are like.

[dominant.insanejournal.com]

Hey!! I'm so glad you liked her and THANK YOU and your co-mods for making this glorious game and giving me a chance to finally bust out that former-child-actress thing that's been banging around my head forever! You're totally right about the Coppertale thing, I see them being a barrel of bossy monkeys with Reid being a cat sleeping outside the barrel or something.

DIEGO: Yesss, parties! I imagine they'd get on well for exactly the reasons you described and she'd have been receptive to these flirtations despite how I imagine she's always been throwing hipster jokes around and making fun of his glasses. It's all in good fun, he is cool in her book. Note: She thinks his band's name sounds like a Christian band and has dubbed them The Holy Rollers but she does like the tunes.

CALVIN: I have to say that Calvin was one of my most favorite concepts as I was reading over the characters and I can't wait to see him in action. I haven't hashed out details with Sy's player just yet and given how strong his interactions with Calvin are I think it's best I wait a little before saying either way how heavily she'd jump on that bandwagon, if at all. I could see her joining right in if she's friends with Sy but if she and Sy are actually Not Friends At All then she'd be liable to take Cal's side even if she didn't really give a shit either way because of that spiteful thing she has going on. Girl will take any excuse she can get to give shit to someone she dislikes.

REID: AYOOO REID! I think she probably had a really hard time feeling him out at first and likely interpreted his coldness to be directed at her until she noticed he's like that with everyone aaaaall the time. Like you said, they're around each other quite a lot so it isn't something that would have escaped her notice for more than a month or so. I'm thinking that it took them (or at least her, haha) a few more months beyond that to understand each other and to form a solid friendship. I think at this point they're probably pretty tight, it seems to me like they'd just mesh well after they had each other sorted out. Not that she hasn't stomped her feet and screamed at the stars over his LACK OF GIVING A SHIT ABOUT WINNING probably a thousand times.

[indiefolk]

We're SO GLAD people seem to be excited about the game. We've been working on it for months. Also: That is an amazing description of the Coppertale team, Marin (the other mod and Sy's player) was cracking up with me about it. x)

DIEGO: She should make fun of him, he's a ridiculous hipster and his band is ridiculous. He's a (magical) Catholic school survivor, so he just couldn't resist that Catholic imagery. BUT Diego takes friendly teasing well. He can sense positive attention in any form, and he will bask in it. He'll think Roxie is very fun.

CALVIN: OH MY GOD, thank you!!! He was my last minute impulse character, but I liked the idea so much I went ahead and made him even though I only wanted to start with two. But yes! We'll wait and see how you guys think Sy and Rox get along before defining anything.

REID: I agree with everything you said!!! Reid is pretty easy to win over, even if it wasn't obvious for a while, but yeah understanding people is... harder for him. So it probably took him a few months to figure out what to do around Roxie, even if he started liking her earlier than that. HAHA Reid is a shit when people are mad at him, and he just turns up the sullen teen WHATEVER I DON'T EVEN CAREEEE. But I think the team has probably tried to dump him in the lake for it before. And he's tried to escape by climbing a tree or the scaling lodge to safety.