Ironing out the Details for WWII Roleplay

Summer3ve · Jan 30, 2013

Alrighty....Let's start ironing out those details. I will put up a character page as well as soon as we get everything all set together for the plot and what not. I can always start a new thread after we get everything works out . ^^ Now, what Ideas do you have in mind? ((If I stop replying it is because my class started. ))

Duffy Bracken · Jan 30, 2013

Excellent! No worries, we've all the time in the world, so to speak.

Firstly, what age would you like the dashing young man to be? I'd be more comfortable role-playing a soldier roughly my own age, to get the realism right, and the attitude; 24-28. Younger would work just as well, but I'd need a little leeway with coming off a bit too bitter, hehe.

Summer3ve · Jan 30, 2013

Haha that age group is fine. I was looking at having my female character between the ages of 19 to 22, around my own age well. As long as you don't mind having the female be 2 to 11 years younger. Haha :P I understand the concept of having someone around your own age. Trust me. :)

Duffy Bracken · Jan 30, 2013

Excellent - that's a done deal, then. Age, after all, is relative (and it was perfectly normal to be considerably older or younger at the time). Below is a very basic outline of a character. I don't expect it to remain as is, but it's something to go off. It, at the very least, gives us a character profile to build off when we start at X location. What part of the world shall we have the incident/hospital be at?

Name: Lieutenant Brinson, William
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 29/01/1912
Place of Birth: Kent, United Kingdom
Current Residence: Eastern Europe
Next of Kin: Mother 54, Father 60, Brother 35

History: William Brinson was born in an age of war, and grew up living in a country driven to survive in dark times. From humble origins in the Kentish countryside, the Brinson family moved to London at the end of the Second World War, following his father's retirement from the army following a crippling injury. With his mother occupied with her husband's remedial care, and his brother, much older, remaining in Europe, William was left to his own devices.

Educated in an inner city school, he left at the earliest age, and took an apprenticeship in a garage, to become a mechanic. He remained entrenched in his work until war broke out, again, in 1935. A convenient and prepared age for enlistment, he was immediately posted as a private in the Royal Mechanical Engineers, and began the same horrifying initiation into army life that his brother had done years ago, and his father, too, in the war before that. Humbled by the experience, he remained without commission until his aid on the trek to the northern mountains earns him the notice of his platoon commander.

A swift promotion and good service on the lines with the advancing German tank lines in the mid-war period sees William become Lieutenant Benson, and encamped in the trenches, tending to the digging equipment, transport vehicles, and water pumping machinery, he comes face to face with the greatest threat on the frontlines; a mortar shell explosion. Aged twenty five, Lieutenant Benson, three privates, and the section Comms officer each receive extensive burns, broken bones, and a black eye or two as a triage of mortars strikes their trench region.

Three months have passed, in intensive care at the Royal Military Hospital in (Insert location here). Still in a critical condition, Benson and two of the privates (the others perished within the first few nights from septicaemia and shock respectively), remain under the watchful eye of American surgical personal stationed on aid missions within the region.

Summer3ve · Jan 30, 2013

Sounds good, what about Nazi Occupied France and Germany Border after the invasion of Normandy.

Name: Lieutenant Johnson, Ann Marie

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Date of Birth: 11/28/1923

Place of Birth: Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, USA

Current Residence: Eastern Europe (Battle Hospital in Nazi Occupied France)

Family: Mother, Clara (Deceased at age 47) // Father, Benjamin (50)//Eldest Sister, Michelle(21)//Younger Brother, Michael (17)

History: Ann Marie was born in the middle of the booming eras in America. Her parents were on the wealthier end of the pole of society. However, the only strong memory she has of her childhood was that of her family struggling to keep alive in the middle of the Great Depression. While the rest of the world was fighting off horrible dictators, Americans were struggling to keep food on the table. That was the world Ann Marie grew up in. The one of endless struggle, but nothing seemed like it could worse until the night her mother passed away. With the lack of money to take her mother and eldest sister Michelle to the doctor's, medicine was hard to come by. Ann Marie was then force to step up and help out around the house, seeing as her father was always gone trying to keep food in their bellies getting whatever job he could.
With her sister left handicapped and constantly sick from her illness, it was Ann Marie's turn to take it out to the world to help pay for Michael's schooling and the food. So, when America was forced into the war follow the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ann Marie took her chance to get a permanent job and jumped into the Army Nurse Field. Within 18 weeks of training she was sent off to the front lines after being ranked of Lieutenant. She put in charge of an entire area caring for the men not well enough to go back to the field, but not that bad they need to go home. Within a few months, Ann Marie was starting to become dead and tired, but her family was her driving force. Knowing she had to send them as much money as possible. As of her current situation, her and a small group of nurses had been moved to the British troops due to their lack of nurses to deal with the high demand of wounded soldiers.

Duffy Bracken · Jan 30, 2013

Excellent bio - short, sharp, and snappy - hopefully like Ann Marie herself!

The location is perfect, too - dynamic, action packed, and I dare-say plenty of easily available resources available to make it historically pleasing too for brownie points. I will amend my history entry in the morrow to suit, as it's getting late here.

I guess the next question is where do we want this to start? Flashbacks, and then hospital? Straight into the nitty gritty? A month or two down the line? I'm easy, really - your the instigator with the vision, tell all! :smile:

Summer3ve · Jan 30, 2013

How about starting it where William and Ann Marie are at the Royal Military Hospital. Flash backs sorta at the beginning to kind of catch up of how everything happened. Then were he has been in the hospital for about a month, month and half now.

Duffy Bracken · Jan 30, 2013

I expect an opening post in the morning *devilish smile.

Plot bunnies are afoot! :smile:

Summer3ve · Jan 30, 2013

Hehe well.....HERE IS THE THREAD! ^^ So Excited! http://www.iwakuroleplay.com/showthread.php?t=19234&p=503836#post503836

Duffy Bracken · Feb 5, 2013

Apologies for the lull, I'll have a post up if not tonight, tomorrow!

Summer3ve · Feb 5, 2013

Okay, it's fine. I know thing happen. Thanks for letting me know! I look forward to the post :)

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