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A Timed Existence
If you could know the time of your death, what would you do?
Would you run from the truth
or would you try to find more time?
The people in this world are born knowing exactly how much longer they have to live through a tattoo-like timer embedded into their left forearm. From the moment they take their first breath, the timer starts, and it never stops, not until death. The timer will tell you how many years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds you have until you will meet your demise, and there is no way of avoiding it- only delaying the inevitable.
The timer can change, too, you see- the moment you step onto a plane doomed to fall from the sky, your timer will adjust itself accordingly, chopping off your seventy years to a measly twenty minutes in the blink of an eye. Or, two steps to the right while taking a walk on the street can change it from three months to three years. The people in this world don't believe in luck- they believe in skill, in a person's ability to maneuver through their life and avoid the reaching the end of their timer.
Of course, it's not always possible. But for many, it's much more desirable to have a chance at a longer life, rather than accepting whatever hand your given.
On your other arm, is a second, smaller timer. This one, too, brings as much dread as it does fortune- it relays the time you have until you meet the one, the person of your dreams, the love of your life. It counts down until the split second you will meet your soul mate, the person meant for you. Giggling girls prepare themselves for lovely meetings with their lover-to-be, but the timer is quite often finicky, changing, just as the 'death clock' does, as choices in life are made.
Perhaps if you didn't skip that girls night out, you would have met him sooner.
These are all just facts in your life, now, although many around you have tried to cheat the system, to avoid the fate foretold by those two, little timers.
But it's impossible.
You have a timed existence, and all that you can do is to count the days left.
Setting
This story is set in a large fictional city called Merth, in a world where all the residents have two timers on each arm- the one on their left reads off the time of their deaths, and the one on their right reads the time they will meet their 'soul mate', the person of their dreams (whether or not it is a romantic relationship or simply a close friendship). In Merth, things are quite similar to that of any other big city on Earth, with large skyscrapers, coffee shops, apartment buildings and more.
The characters are all college students, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-six, attending Merth University in central Merth. Merth University is a large school, with several different schools for any possible major. The campus is huge, with large dorms for freshman-sophomore students, and apartments for junior/senior and post-graduate students. Each school has its own area on the campus, with the dorms and apartments scattered about, as well as several University stores.
Surrounding the campus is off-campus housing, as well as entertainment, work, and more. Merth sits along a beautiful coastline, with miles of beach to the East, and on the other side to the Northwest is a dense, peaceful forest. Although the city is large, it is somewhat separated from the rest of the world, with only the highway and a solitary train station to link it to other cities. The city is, on a whole, a college town, with a large population being students and teachers.
Rules
1. All Iwaku rules apply, of course.
2. No godmodding/powerplaying/metagaming/powergaming, anything like that.
3. The only instance in which you may 'control' or play another person's character is to free your own from being stuck. In these instances, you may only use vague descriptions to describe the other character's actions.
I.E "Shay and Lewis chatted for a little while longer before Lewis mentioned having to continue on his way, the two parting from their conversation."
4. You must post at least once a week with a two-paragraph post.
5. No explicit sexual content. Romance is encouraged, but since this isn't in libertine/teen and all ages are welcome to play, sexual interaction must be prohibited. Sorry!
6. Your character is extremely likely to die. The entire plot circulates around a countdown to death. Don't feel as though your character must die immediately, though- spend some time with them first!
7. I reserve the right to decline/accept all Character Sheets. I will give a note of why not, but please don't persist if I say no.
8. I prefer players be able to write at least five sentences per reply, even in conversation. Other than that, I have no other 'post' requirements, except that you should run your work through spellcheck and re-read for grammar. I won't kill you for it, but it's polite :P
9. Up to three characters per person.
Character Sheet
Name: (first and last)
Age: (18-26, PM me if you'd like a younger/older character*)
Gender: (& sexual preference, if you'd like your character to be involved with a soul mate)
Year/Degree: (in college. Undergrad, postgrad, etc.**)
Major: (Freshmen may be undeclared)
Occupation: (if any)
Appearance: (text is required. One paragraph minimum)
Personality: (required. One paragraph minimum)
Preferences: (optional. Likes/dislikes, hobbies, etc. go here)
Brief History: (required. One paragraph minimum)
Current Time of Death:
Current Soul Mate Timer:
Other:
* In the case you wish to play a sibling of another character, a professor, etc. message me.
** Your character does not have to be in college, but if they are going to breach the age limit, message me.
Character List
Name/Age/Gender/Major/Year/Username
Charlize Kandell/20/F/Journalism and Media Studies/Junior/Rainjay
Izabela Sadowski/26/F/Fine Arts/Senior/Alexa Ray
Aryana "Ana" Whitacre/18/F/Hospitality Management/Freshman/sincere_and_silent
Harmony Korman/22/F/Undeclared/Freshman/Powerless_
Josephina Lorraine Anderson/23/F/Physiology, Anatomy, Forensic Science/Senior/F L Y
Brooklyn Frazier/23/F/Biochemistry, Genetics/1st year postgrad/Rainjay
Annabell Marcia/22/F/Cartooning/Senior/IceQueen
Clarity Benson/18/F/undeclared/Freshman/April
Koryana Lodil/19/F/Music, writing/Freshman/Madeline
Matilda Grace Ashwood/18/F/Visual Arts/Freshman/Sexybae
Lucine Liona Kandell/18/F/Music/Freshman/Whisper
Jack Marsicano/24/M/Musicology/2nd year postgrad/Spaceman Spiff
Marshall Leeroy/19/M/Pedagogy, Creative Writing/Junior/☆StarryNIGHT☆
William Winchester/23/M/Computer Programming and AI/Senior/☆StarryNIGHT☆
Trenton "Trent" Wallace/27/M/Marketing/1st year postgrad/sincere_and_silent
Adamo Bueschem Gagliardi/26/M/Cinematography/Graduate/F L Y
Eric Muldoon/18/M/Music performance/Freshman/Aqacia
Jayson Roberts/20/M/Writing, Photography/Junior/justice hunt
Bishop Augustine/23/M/Pre-med/Undergraduate/Princess of the Teacup
Jacobi Podorochi-Cordan/19/M/Photography, Animation/Madeline
Questions/Comments/Concerns
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write below in the OOC or send me a PM!
My Character Sheet(s)
Name: Charlize (Charlie) Kandell
Age: 20
Gender: Female | Bisexual
Year/Degree: Junior | Third year undergraduate
Major: Journalism and Media Studies
Minor: English Literature
Occupation: Charlie is a part-time barista at the local coffeeshop, Starry Skies, and also works erratic hours at her mother's bookshop, Look Books, on the edge of Merth University campus
Appearance:
Height: 5'6" (167 cm)
Weight: 117 lb (53 kg)
Charlie is a pretty young girl, with blonde hair like wavy wisps holding onto a darker blonde color near her roots and fading into a light, pale color at the ends, and clear blue eyes with a gentle gaze. Her eyelashes and brow are dark, typically accentuated with the lightest of makeup, although the rest of her face and skin is clear of cosmetics. She has no beauty marks, freckles, or otherwise notable features on her face, apart from her smile, notable for how it appears crooked when one side of her lips tilts up further than the other side. Her height is rather average, and she is a bit more on the slight side with her weight (although she still has a subtle curve to her body), although she appears totally unbothered by her weight and height. She has a dancers body, although never having really danced before in her life, and is light on her feet when she walks as though trying not to make a sound.
Charlize typically wears loose, clothing in pale or happy colors (soft blues and yellows, greens and whites, some faded grays) for comfort and style. She prefers blouses over T-shirts, often with loose sleeves and thin fabric, wearing an undershirt or camisole underneath. She's a girl that will sometimes wear skirts of the flowing type (never pencil skirts. Never!) or dark blue skinny jeans. She's never worn yoga pants or anything of the type. She has a favorite jean jacket and a black close-knit sweater, and often wears a pair of pretty dark brown boots that reach an inch or two under her knee. Around her neck, she sports a necklace consisting of a chain attached to a metal wire-wrapped crystal.
Outer Personality:
Charlize is best described as a free spirit. She has an uncanny habit of making the most out of everything, pulling at scraps and strings to make a smiley face. She has a smile for everybody and everything, and for the most part, seems to enjoy her life and what she does. Her dreams stretch far and she aims high. Her laughter is light and airy, sort of like bubbles in the wind, and her grin comes easily, as well as 'innocent' humor. She has a habit of brushing the conversation away from herself, directing questions and discussions towards her conversational partner instead.
Inner Personality:
Deep inside of Charlie's thoughts, there is a significantly darker theme to her character than one might expect from simply observing her. Although she seems happy-go-lucky and rather in tune with the world and earth around her, she harbors a disease in her mind. Depression, anxiety, whatever you wish to call it, it doesn't matter to her, it still itches in the back of her thoughts and heart, and doesn't go away. She can't help but feel like she should be better, stronger, and that it's her fault, all the time. It's a horrible stigma she's pressured onto her self that just won't go away.
Preferences:
Likes
Cat-lover
Writing and books (old literature, fiction)
Movies
Animals
Food, particularly gourmet
Dislikes
Fumes, cigarettes, smoke, gas and motorcycles
Hates reality TV with a passion
Violence, gore, and blood
Hobbies
Writing in her journal
Photography
Cooking and baking
Brief History:
Charlize was born in downtown Merth to a literature professor and an office secretary. The family, Charlize, her parents, and her elder sister and brother, lived on the fifth story of a high rise apartment complex. The children of the household grew up alone, with babysitters in the absence of their hardworking parents. To make up, the family often took vacations along the beach or camping in the dense forest bordering Merth, although as the children grew these adventures came to an end, Charlie's older siblings taking up part time jobs before fleeing the nest and traveling to different cities for college and university, even though their father worked at MU already. Charlie, the youngest, decided at an early age that she wished to attend MU and take their Journalism major, claimed to be one of the best in the country.
As a youth, Charlie never noticed the ticking timers along her arms, although her life was saved once when her older sister noted that her Time of Death read a measly two weeks- the family managed to catch a life threatening illness before it took hold of the young girl, only nine at the time, and she received medical care. Since, her Time of Death has been unusually high, rarely dropping down to an alarming number, but her Soul Mate Timer has, since she was fifteen, read 0d 0h 0m 0s. She doesn't like to tell the story of what happened, not even to her family or closest friends.
Her best friend as a child, Alicia Reyes, died suddenly when the girls were only 16 on a road trip along the coast. Their car was slammed by a semi, and Alicia's head slammed into the dashboard. Once was all it needed. Later, Charlie chastised herself for failing to notice Alicia's Time of Death, although there was little she could have been able to do.
Charlie took up photography after Alicia's death, a method of coping, and turned to reading instead of socializing. Her grades never faltered or dropped from straight A's, but she started to become depressed and dark, even though she still appeared the bright, happy person as before. When she graduated high school at eighteen, she immediately began classes at MU, majoring in Journalism and minoring in Literature, taking up several part time jobs to pass the time.
Current Time of Death: 22995d 5h 3m 36s (63 years)
Current Soul Mate Timer: 0d 0h 0m 0s
Other: Has a pet cat with dark, fluffy gray fur named Smokes
Name: Brooklyn Frazier
Nickname: Bryn
Age: 23
Gender: Female | Bisexual
Year/Degree: First year postgrad
Major: Biochemistry | Genetics (focus on Engineering)
Minor: Biomedical Engineering
Occupation: Bartender at Rhythm and Brews, working night shifts
Appearance:
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
Weight: 140 lb (63 kg)
Bryn is a girl average in most ways possible, with skin of a moderate tone, often with a blemish here and there, no above-or-below average height, and common chocolate-brown hair (although it is a little oddly died with a long crimson streak on the left side). Her skin is a slightly more olive-toned, reminiscent of faint Greek and Italian heritage, and she has unusual dark gray eyes framed by short lashes and covered in a black-rimmed pair of glasses that she only sometimes wears. She keeps her hair in loose curls or simply straight around her shoulders, and wears minimal make-up, believing it an 'annoying extravagance'. Her body is fit and curved in all the right places, although still shows out as nothing incredibly exceptional, or anything incredibly plain.
Bryn, smart girl that she is, dresses simply and well mannered, often in single-colored shirts or blouses, jeans, and slacks, however she is not one to pass up a pretty dress and heels on a night out. She has her stock of formal clothing that she won't hesitate to wear when needed, and her stash of party clothes accumulated from a few years of girl-shopping and money-sprees. She tends to wear darker colors, blacks, purples, blues, and reds.
Outer Personality:
To the general public, Bryn is a bit of a crazy college girl. She takes her work incredibly seriously, and works diligently and proudly, but she still has room for fun and excitement in her life- even while managing to maintain some of the best grades possible. She's very down to earth and modern, living as a minimalist (except when it comes to clothing and books!) and a realist (or, perhaps a pessimist). She is easily angered and set off, and can be quite violent when she is, but friends and close ones can restrain her quite easily. That said, she also is one to hold grudges for incredibly lengths of time, and is incredibly defensive. Despite all that, she prefers to be a generally happy, easygoing kid, with her life going to bright horizons and her choices made carefree.
Inner Personality:
The side of Bryn that she shows nobody is riddled with confusion. With a nasty habit of getting herself into big, sticky messes, Bryn often conflicts with the part of her that wants to be a knowing scholar, and the part that wishes to live in downtown Miami for the rest of her life. The words of her parents are a mantra that have clung to her thoughts for years, always imposing on her life and her choices, often in negative, menacing ways. It's a thing not let go of easily.
Preferences:
Likes
-Parties (particularly college ones)
-Clothing and shopping
-Books of the scholarly, educational type
-Studying
-Flirting (to a degree)
-Complete tomfoolery
Dislikes
-Common drunks
-Airplanes and heights
-Spiders. Insects.
-The color yellow
-Black coffee
Brief History:
Bryn grew up in Small Town in The Middle of Nowhere in a family home where practically her entire family (two aunts, three uncles, mother, father, five brothers, three younger sisters, two sets of grandparents, a great grandparent, and seven assorted cousins) either lived in, or spent most of their time at. There was no privacy to be found, not even in the bathroom ("There is a LOCK on the DOOR because I DON'T WANT YOU TO COME IN!" "So? I picked it.") or at night, in bed. It was loud, noisy, and most things were shared and reused, even though the family was considerably middle class and wealthy. Half of the children were home schooled, up until Bryn was the equivalent of a seventh grader in age, when they were all dumped into nearby (shoddy) public education. Bryn was eligible to skip a grade entirely, but her mother, not wanting her to miss out on making connections with her peers, forced her to remain in seventh.
It wasn't until highschool that she began to experiment with drugs, alcohol, and things associated, although always in moderation, and always safely. It is funny to say, but she really was smart about it, and her parents sort of let her do it. She never OD'ed, or had terrible hangovers, or missed class or anything of the sort. She was responsible, strangely so. She would sometimes ditch class early, or climb out her window in the middle of the night to drive miles away to the nearest house party, but never got in serious, life altering trouble. When she got to the age of eighteen, she quickly snapped up the offer to go to Merth University, and bought an apartment in the city for summer stays (as the alternative was returning home).
Current Time of Death: 8760d 23h 12m 47s (24 years)
Current Soul Mate Timer: 61d 2h 7s
A Timed Existence
If you could know the time of your death, what would you do?
Would you run from the truth
or would you try to find more time?
The people in this world are born knowing exactly how much longer they have to live through a tattoo-like timer embedded into their left forearm. From the moment they take their first breath, the timer starts, and it never stops, not until death. The timer will tell you how many years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds you have until you will meet your demise, and there is no way of avoiding it- only delaying the inevitable.
The timer can change, too, you see- the moment you step onto a plane doomed to fall from the sky, your timer will adjust itself accordingly, chopping off your seventy years to a measly twenty minutes in the blink of an eye. Or, two steps to the right while taking a walk on the street can change it from three months to three years. The people in this world don't believe in luck- they believe in skill, in a person's ability to maneuver through their life and avoid the reaching the end of their timer.
Of course, it's not always possible. But for many, it's much more desirable to have a chance at a longer life, rather than accepting whatever hand your given.
On your other arm, is a second, smaller timer. This one, too, brings as much dread as it does fortune- it relays the time you have until you meet the one, the person of your dreams, the love of your life. It counts down until the split second you will meet your soul mate, the person meant for you. Giggling girls prepare themselves for lovely meetings with their lover-to-be, but the timer is quite often finicky, changing, just as the 'death clock' does, as choices in life are made.
Perhaps if you didn't skip that girls night out, you would have met him sooner.
These are all just facts in your life, now, although many around you have tried to cheat the system, to avoid the fate foretold by those two, little timers.
But it's impossible.
You have a timed existence, and all that you can do is to count the days left.
Setting
This story is set in a large fictional city called Merth, in a world where all the residents have two timers on each arm- the one on their left reads off the time of their deaths, and the one on their right reads the time they will meet their 'soul mate', the person of their dreams (whether or not it is a romantic relationship or simply a close friendship). In Merth, things are quite similar to that of any other big city on Earth, with large skyscrapers, coffee shops, apartment buildings and more.
The characters are all college students, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-six, attending Merth University in central Merth. Merth University is a large school, with several different schools for any possible major. The campus is huge, with large dorms for freshman-sophomore students, and apartments for junior/senior and post-graduate students. Each school has its own area on the campus, with the dorms and apartments scattered about, as well as several University stores.
Surrounding the campus is off-campus housing, as well as entertainment, work, and more. Merth sits along a beautiful coastline, with miles of beach to the East, and on the other side to the Northwest is a dense, peaceful forest. Although the city is large, it is somewhat separated from the rest of the world, with only the highway and a solitary train station to link it to other cities. The city is, on a whole, a college town, with a large population being students and teachers.
Rules
1. All Iwaku rules apply, of course.
2. No godmodding/powerplaying/metagaming/powergaming, anything like that.
3. The only instance in which you may 'control' or play another person's character is to free your own from being stuck. In these instances, you may only use vague descriptions to describe the other character's actions.
I.E "Shay and Lewis chatted for a little while longer before Lewis mentioned having to continue on his way, the two parting from their conversation."
4. You must post at least once a week with a two-paragraph post.
5. No explicit sexual content. Romance is encouraged, but since this isn't in libertine/teen and all ages are welcome to play, sexual interaction must be prohibited. Sorry!
6. Your character is extremely likely to die. The entire plot circulates around a countdown to death. Don't feel as though your character must die immediately, though- spend some time with them first!
7. I reserve the right to decline/accept all Character Sheets. I will give a note of why not, but please don't persist if I say no.
8. I prefer players be able to write at least five sentences per reply, even in conversation. Other than that, I have no other 'post' requirements, except that you should run your work through spellcheck and re-read for grammar. I won't kill you for it, but it's polite :P
9. Up to three characters per person.
Character Sheet
Name: (first and last)
Age: (18-26, PM me if you'd like a younger/older character*)
Gender: (& sexual preference, if you'd like your character to be involved with a soul mate)
Year/Degree: (in college. Undergrad, postgrad, etc.**)
Major: (Freshmen may be undeclared)
Occupation: (if any)
Appearance: (text is required. One paragraph minimum)
Personality: (required. One paragraph minimum)
Preferences: (optional. Likes/dislikes, hobbies, etc. go here)
Brief History: (required. One paragraph minimum)
Current Time of Death:
Current Soul Mate Timer:
Other:
* In the case you wish to play a sibling of another character, a professor, etc. message me.
** Your character does not have to be in college, but if they are going to breach the age limit, message me.
Character List
Name/Age/Gender/Major/Year/Username
Charlize Kandell/20/F/Journalism and Media Studies/Junior/Rainjay
Izabela Sadowski/26/F/Fine Arts/Senior/Alexa Ray
Aryana "Ana" Whitacre/18/F/Hospitality Management/Freshman/sincere_and_silent
Harmony Korman/22/F/Undeclared/Freshman/Powerless_
Josephina Lorraine Anderson/23/F/Physiology, Anatomy, Forensic Science/Senior/F L Y
Brooklyn Frazier/23/F/Biochemistry, Genetics/1st year postgrad/Rainjay
Annabell Marcia/22/F/Cartooning/Senior/IceQueen
Clarity Benson/18/F/undeclared/Freshman/April
Koryana Lodil/19/F/Music, writing/Freshman/Madeline
Matilda Grace Ashwood/18/F/Visual Arts/Freshman/Sexybae
Lucine Liona Kandell/18/F/Music/Freshman/Whisper
Jack Marsicano/24/M/Musicology/2nd year postgrad/Spaceman Spiff
Marshall Leeroy/19/M/Pedagogy, Creative Writing/Junior/☆StarryNIGHT☆
William Winchester/23/M/Computer Programming and AI/Senior/☆StarryNIGHT☆
Trenton "Trent" Wallace/27/M/Marketing/1st year postgrad/sincere_and_silent
Adamo Bueschem Gagliardi/26/M/Cinematography/Graduate/F L Y
Eric Muldoon/18/M/Music performance/Freshman/Aqacia
Jayson Roberts/20/M/Writing, Photography/Junior/justice hunt
Bishop Augustine/23/M/Pre-med/Undergraduate/Princess of the Teacup
Jacobi Podorochi-Cordan/19/M/Photography, Animation/Madeline
Questions/Comments/Concerns
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write below in the OOC or send me a PM!
My Character Sheet(s)
Name: Charlize (Charlie) Kandell
Age: 20
Gender: Female | Bisexual
Year/Degree: Junior | Third year undergraduate
Major: Journalism and Media Studies
Minor: English Literature
Occupation: Charlie is a part-time barista at the local coffeeshop, Starry Skies, and also works erratic hours at her mother's bookshop, Look Books, on the edge of Merth University campus
Appearance:
Height: 5'6" (167 cm)
Weight: 117 lb (53 kg)
Charlie is a pretty young girl, with blonde hair like wavy wisps holding onto a darker blonde color near her roots and fading into a light, pale color at the ends, and clear blue eyes with a gentle gaze. Her eyelashes and brow are dark, typically accentuated with the lightest of makeup, although the rest of her face and skin is clear of cosmetics. She has no beauty marks, freckles, or otherwise notable features on her face, apart from her smile, notable for how it appears crooked when one side of her lips tilts up further than the other side. Her height is rather average, and she is a bit more on the slight side with her weight (although she still has a subtle curve to her body), although she appears totally unbothered by her weight and height. She has a dancers body, although never having really danced before in her life, and is light on her feet when she walks as though trying not to make a sound.
Charlize typically wears loose, clothing in pale or happy colors (soft blues and yellows, greens and whites, some faded grays) for comfort and style. She prefers blouses over T-shirts, often with loose sleeves and thin fabric, wearing an undershirt or camisole underneath. She's a girl that will sometimes wear skirts of the flowing type (never pencil skirts. Never!) or dark blue skinny jeans. She's never worn yoga pants or anything of the type. She has a favorite jean jacket and a black close-knit sweater, and often wears a pair of pretty dark brown boots that reach an inch or two under her knee. Around her neck, she sports a necklace consisting of a chain attached to a metal wire-wrapped crystal.
Outer Personality:
Charlize is best described as a free spirit. She has an uncanny habit of making the most out of everything, pulling at scraps and strings to make a smiley face. She has a smile for everybody and everything, and for the most part, seems to enjoy her life and what she does. Her dreams stretch far and she aims high. Her laughter is light and airy, sort of like bubbles in the wind, and her grin comes easily, as well as 'innocent' humor. She has a habit of brushing the conversation away from herself, directing questions and discussions towards her conversational partner instead.
Inner Personality:
Deep inside of Charlie's thoughts, there is a significantly darker theme to her character than one might expect from simply observing her. Although she seems happy-go-lucky and rather in tune with the world and earth around her, she harbors a disease in her mind. Depression, anxiety, whatever you wish to call it, it doesn't matter to her, it still itches in the back of her thoughts and heart, and doesn't go away. She can't help but feel like she should be better, stronger, and that it's her fault, all the time. It's a horrible stigma she's pressured onto her self that just won't go away.
Preferences:
Likes
Cat-lover
Writing and books (old literature, fiction)
Movies
Animals
Food, particularly gourmet
Dislikes
Fumes, cigarettes, smoke, gas and motorcycles
Hates reality TV with a passion
Violence, gore, and blood
Hobbies
Writing in her journal
Photography
Cooking and baking
Brief History:
Charlize was born in downtown Merth to a literature professor and an office secretary. The family, Charlize, her parents, and her elder sister and brother, lived on the fifth story of a high rise apartment complex. The children of the household grew up alone, with babysitters in the absence of their hardworking parents. To make up, the family often took vacations along the beach or camping in the dense forest bordering Merth, although as the children grew these adventures came to an end, Charlie's older siblings taking up part time jobs before fleeing the nest and traveling to different cities for college and university, even though their father worked at MU already. Charlie, the youngest, decided at an early age that she wished to attend MU and take their Journalism major, claimed to be one of the best in the country.
As a youth, Charlie never noticed the ticking timers along her arms, although her life was saved once when her older sister noted that her Time of Death read a measly two weeks- the family managed to catch a life threatening illness before it took hold of the young girl, only nine at the time, and she received medical care. Since, her Time of Death has been unusually high, rarely dropping down to an alarming number, but her Soul Mate Timer has, since she was fifteen, read 0d 0h 0m 0s. She doesn't like to tell the story of what happened, not even to her family or closest friends.
Her best friend as a child, Alicia Reyes, died suddenly when the girls were only 16 on a road trip along the coast. Their car was slammed by a semi, and Alicia's head slammed into the dashboard. Once was all it needed. Later, Charlie chastised herself for failing to notice Alicia's Time of Death, although there was little she could have been able to do.
Charlie took up photography after Alicia's death, a method of coping, and turned to reading instead of socializing. Her grades never faltered or dropped from straight A's, but she started to become depressed and dark, even though she still appeared the bright, happy person as before. When she graduated high school at eighteen, she immediately began classes at MU, majoring in Journalism and minoring in Literature, taking up several part time jobs to pass the time.
Current Time of Death: 22995d 5h 3m 36s (63 years)
Current Soul Mate Timer: 0d 0h 0m 0s
Other: Has a pet cat with dark, fluffy gray fur named Smokes
Name: Brooklyn Frazier
Nickname: Bryn
Age: 23
Gender: Female | Bisexual
Year/Degree: First year postgrad
Major: Biochemistry | Genetics (focus on Engineering)
Minor: Biomedical Engineering
Occupation: Bartender at Rhythm and Brews, working night shifts
Appearance:
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
Weight: 140 lb (63 kg)
Bryn is a girl average in most ways possible, with skin of a moderate tone, often with a blemish here and there, no above-or-below average height, and common chocolate-brown hair (although it is a little oddly died with a long crimson streak on the left side). Her skin is a slightly more olive-toned, reminiscent of faint Greek and Italian heritage, and she has unusual dark gray eyes framed by short lashes and covered in a black-rimmed pair of glasses that she only sometimes wears. She keeps her hair in loose curls or simply straight around her shoulders, and wears minimal make-up, believing it an 'annoying extravagance'. Her body is fit and curved in all the right places, although still shows out as nothing incredibly exceptional, or anything incredibly plain.
Bryn, smart girl that she is, dresses simply and well mannered, often in single-colored shirts or blouses, jeans, and slacks, however she is not one to pass up a pretty dress and heels on a night out. She has her stock of formal clothing that she won't hesitate to wear when needed, and her stash of party clothes accumulated from a few years of girl-shopping and money-sprees. She tends to wear darker colors, blacks, purples, blues, and reds.
Outer Personality:
To the general public, Bryn is a bit of a crazy college girl. She takes her work incredibly seriously, and works diligently and proudly, but she still has room for fun and excitement in her life- even while managing to maintain some of the best grades possible. She's very down to earth and modern, living as a minimalist (except when it comes to clothing and books!) and a realist (or, perhaps a pessimist). She is easily angered and set off, and can be quite violent when she is, but friends and close ones can restrain her quite easily. That said, she also is one to hold grudges for incredibly lengths of time, and is incredibly defensive. Despite all that, she prefers to be a generally happy, easygoing kid, with her life going to bright horizons and her choices made carefree.
Inner Personality:
The side of Bryn that she shows nobody is riddled with confusion. With a nasty habit of getting herself into big, sticky messes, Bryn often conflicts with the part of her that wants to be a knowing scholar, and the part that wishes to live in downtown Miami for the rest of her life. The words of her parents are a mantra that have clung to her thoughts for years, always imposing on her life and her choices, often in negative, menacing ways. It's a thing not let go of easily.
Preferences:
Likes
-Parties (particularly college ones)
-Clothing and shopping
-Books of the scholarly, educational type
-Studying
-Flirting (to a degree)
-Complete tomfoolery
Dislikes
-Common drunks
-Airplanes and heights
-Spiders. Insects.
-The color yellow
-Black coffee
Brief History:
Bryn grew up in Small Town in The Middle of Nowhere in a family home where practically her entire family (two aunts, three uncles, mother, father, five brothers, three younger sisters, two sets of grandparents, a great grandparent, and seven assorted cousins) either lived in, or spent most of their time at. There was no privacy to be found, not even in the bathroom ("There is a LOCK on the DOOR because I DON'T WANT YOU TO COME IN!" "So? I picked it.") or at night, in bed. It was loud, noisy, and most things were shared and reused, even though the family was considerably middle class and wealthy. Half of the children were home schooled, up until Bryn was the equivalent of a seventh grader in age, when they were all dumped into nearby (shoddy) public education. Bryn was eligible to skip a grade entirely, but her mother, not wanting her to miss out on making connections with her peers, forced her to remain in seventh.
It wasn't until highschool that she began to experiment with drugs, alcohol, and things associated, although always in moderation, and always safely. It is funny to say, but she really was smart about it, and her parents sort of let her do it. She never OD'ed, or had terrible hangovers, or missed class or anything of the sort. She was responsible, strangely so. She would sometimes ditch class early, or climb out her window in the middle of the night to drive miles away to the nearest house party, but never got in serious, life altering trouble. When she got to the age of eighteen, she quickly snapped up the offer to go to Merth University, and bought an apartment in the city for summer stays (as the alternative was returning home).
Current Time of Death: 8760d 23h 12m 47s (24 years)
Current Soul Mate Timer: 61d 2h 7s
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