Gooseberry High - OOC

Hi Guys!

It's been a while since i've done one of these, so if i'm super awkward bear with me. I promise I get better with time. Anyways, you can call me Oddy. Roz introduced me to the game concept and I was sold once she got to American Wizarding School so I just had to take a break from my break because muses get loud when they're persistent.

Basics about me: I'm 25, currently attending college for a computer science degree (so you'll probably hear me squee about technology at one point if/when we talk outside of game) and I get super awkward in new places (obviously). I've been RPing on and off for the last... oh ... lets just say I've been around since the days of AIM rps. Currently my fandoms include a great many things that I'm horribly outdated on but I'm cool about spoilers.

If you want to contact me for pottage, Roxie's drop box is probably the best place to start. Otherwise, you can email me at xmary.greenmanx@gmail.com. Just make sure to include that you're from the game and which character you play because I'm horrible at keeping up with who plays who (sorry, please don't take it personally).

Also just a small note, but I'm not allowed to take on anymore characters until after December, when this semester ends. So mods, if you could do me a favor and help me keep that promise to myself I'd appreciate it (because I'll no doubt get more muses as time goes on).

ANYWAY. ONTO THE IMPORTANT STUFF.

I bring you Roxanne Barringer (but call her Roxie, the only people who actually use her full name are her grandfather and mother. sometimes her dad if the conversation is a serious subject matter).

She's a half blood who hails from Los Angelus, CA . She grew up in the muggle world hearing stories about the Wizarding World from her mother. Her father is a stage magician (muggle magic, not the "real" kind) and her mother is a pureblood. The family currently lives in the hotel where her father performs under a sort of Employee Discount. Basically, they're a close knit family of con artists. Cross one, and you cross the whole lot.

Roxanne is the only other family member who is a witch. Her grandfather is sponsoring her education in the hopes of producing someone he can proudly call heir. She puts a lot of pressure on herself because of this and nearly everything she's active in is to further her chance of procuring the wealth that he's offered.

Most people probably see Roxanne as a friendly, amiable, approachable person but she's quick to twist things to her advantage. She's a bit of a loud mouth, who hates losing. At this point in her education, she's probably too preoccupied to deal with new people on the chess board.

She sings, but it's her money-maker not her passion. She's performed on stage at the hotel where her family lives before, and it's definitely something she cultivates because a girl's gotta eat right? That said, Quidditch is the one thing she does for herself, for the sheer fun of it.

She's extremely passionate about Quidditch and is taking the recent loss pretty hard. Which really translates to staying out as late as possible for her own, independent training (which she'll likely drag her partner into at some point).

She's running on empty fumes at this point, so between classes, Quidditch Practice and Choir, if you see her without caffeine it's going to be ugly.

It should be noted that Roxanne tried out for Quidditch every year, at first trying to snag the spot of Seeker, then eventually landing a spot as a Beater.

Plotwise, there's a couple of things i'm interested in.

SY: I really feel like these two would have met at some point before Gooseberry high. And if you're cool with it, I can totally see a frenemies sort of thing happening here because they have potential for a really interesting dynamic.

CHRIS: Roxie's probably pestering you to join her after Quidditch practice, so that'll be fun. She's really hard to scare away (something both Sy and Chris have probably seen throughout their time at Gooseberry). Other details can be sorted out I'm sure. I'm game for just about anything, so if you have any particulars, let me know!


So this was really long and awkward but everything you need to know about Roxie can be read here at her profile.

Don't mind the journal itself please, it's still under construction. But yeah. nice meeting you all!

I promise I'm not always so freaking ramble-y