Darkest London

I have done a THIS :D

And updated the friending code as well :D

I don't knooooooow but maybe it'll get me back into the London times. (But not the London Times. I've never been in that, as far as I know)

HEY YOUS

I made Renee!

So like. Add her.

I wanna make someone... Who has family/coworkers/something that can show up and worm their way into friendship groups?

Short placeholder filled! - http://asylums.insanejournal.com/darker_london/140597.html

I realised I should introduce some characters! Not that they're being particularly active in my head atm but...

Harisha Shah, or Hari (pronounced more like Hurry) is going to be starting her final year at London College come September. She was raised by a single mother and they had a BLAST until recently.

Now she’s living with her mother’s older brother Vivaan, and his family. He’s got some kind of job where he makes a lot of money and isn’t home a lot – long hours. POSSIBLY he's on RMMHs board? But isn't in the know if he is. He has a few kids to his first wife, Zayn (6) Sanjay, (7) and there’s room for some teenagers in there too!

His first wife died a couple of years ago, and he’s recently re-married – an arranged marriage to a younger woman who has moved over from Mumbai. She’s way more traditional than the rest of the Shah's but Vivaan has decreed that RIGHT, it's Family Group Effort time, and they're all putting in a lot of effort to make her feel at home. This has had been a bit of a change for Hari, who’s mum was a bit lax when it came to her cultural heritage. She does speak Hindi as well as she speaks English (though if you listen to her uncle, her English is abominable) and she did grow up in a large community of British Indians. She is interested in the culture, she's just also... pretty lazy.

Hari's openly gay, which her uncle does not know how to deal with and tends to go a bit pink and change the subject if she brings it up. Her missing mum was always super supportive and Vivaan does want to respect his sister's daughters choices but oh goodness he does not want to hear about them. Also, most of her friends are queer babies too. Hari's so proud of her generation being the gayest on record.


Tabitha Le Brac Carrington - she's the mother of one of Marie's friends. She had a couple of older teenage children (London College age, aaayyye) one of whom is dating one of Hari's friends. Tabitha Does Not Approve. While he older kids were growing up, she poured herself into work an was hardly ever around, but has since quit her job to focus all her attention on her youngest, Kestrel, who is in Marie's class. She's also WAY too involved in her teenage children's lives for their taste, since they had relative freedom until recently and now she's trying to make up for lost time, read: she's trying to make sure her son straightens up.

She was a Le Brac, and she's married to Mr Carrington, who is Marie's teacher, who is a big softie and Alan Davies in my head. Not much of a backbone when it comes to his wife, but he's a dorky kind of dad and an enthusiastic kind of teacher.

They're all just going in my NPC journal for now. Also LOTS OF SCOPE FOR OPEN CHARS HERE. But also no pressure cos I have a million other things to write and they're not so loud in my head at the moment.

Cos I started writing a thing at Uni and then went WAIT it's summer.

SO.

Primary school summer holidays in the UK are roughly: 23 Jul – 3 Sept. So Marie et al will still be at school during the day.

High school students would be done with exams and on holiday now I think (results day is sometime in August)

I think Uni students would also currently be on holiday and uni starts back September 24th-ish.

SUMMER HOLIDAY PLOTS TIME!

Cos terrible anniversaries can be totes relevant to plots

Also inspired this conversation:

Me: “All the Pat stuff happens in July!"
Leah: “He’s a Summer boy! And in the Autumn, we’ll ditch him, because he’s an arsehole.”

( Deaths and kisses )

So this started as me wondering how old all the Waterhouses were at the moment and ended in a kind of haphazard mess. I looked at the old birthday tag and pulled chars we still play and tried to work out the ages of mine at least. Please tell me if your characters are not the age I think they are.

( BIRTHDAYS IN 2018 )

Amy Acker is blonde now and it looks so good and I like she's actually more beautiful now than she was when she was younger and oh wow I want to make her into someone so much...




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Meet Zena! Here!

She's here to join Izmaylov eventually, wheeee!

Hey Joel, how's that super hero costume coming along?

( Because Nova is kicking your arse )

It's 2.40am and I have been very productive today.

If making character inspo boards is productive.

If you decide to make one remember this trick someone told me: always put 'aesthetic' after the thing you're searching. ( for example )

HI DUDES!

I made a bio for Danny and Cai's half-sister! here

I have THE BEST character bumping around in my head because of watching so much Exorcist, but it would mean changing the rules of magic and demons and angels in game just to make it work!

HOW DARE. How can I have my For Reals Exorcist??

I apologise that they're mostly my characters >_>

( the pat one made me almost die )

Hey all, tell me who you currently play (name, username, species) so I can make a cast list!

(And posting mine here as well so it's all in the same place)

Adrina
Astrid
Carly
Dasha
Flick
Helena
Isla
Jinx
Lucine
Marina
Mona
Nia
Nova
Val
Yvonne

This one's made with tags from AO3 tag of the day :P

( ... )

( HAVE SOME MORE TEXT POSTS, BABES! )

Okay, since we're back and I'm trying to get into brains I've had to shift my Astrid plot backwards a bit because there's way more I want to have with her state of mind before I can move her on. So while technically the fact that it's coming up to Christmas should mean it was almost a year ago that I had her kidnapped, I'm saying it is three months since she's been back (and will post a scene saying as much soon). This doesn't really effect any other plots for other people, I don't think, except that it means Josie and Jinx had been together less time and also that Lucine/Ko have been in the country less time.

As you were! Lemme know any thoughts/problems.