character workshop

[Me, Myself, and I]

Ophelia -

• She appears to be a fragile cupcake, likely one of the first to wind up six feet under
• If nothing else, she's extremely resourceful and really good at running from her problems
• Not really well versed in what competition means

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σρнεℓια ωαvεяℓү яүcση

Age: Twenty
Gender: Female
Element: Earth, which is pretty evident in just about everything she does. It's intertwined in her DNA, in the way she's centered and finds peace when her feet are simply moving across the ground. It's a complex thing she doesn't really try to explain because most of the time, she doesn't understand it either.

Appearance:

eye color-
hair color-
height-
distinguishing features-
Faceclaim: Eleanor Tomlinson

Bio:
Reason for Entering Gauntlet: She's not really sure who this is about proving something to, -maybe she just needs to prove to herself- but Ophelia really wants to see what she's capable of. Her future has always seemed so mapped out for her, without her consent, and it seemed to mostly consist of helping her mother, providing medical services. And who knows, maybe that's what would be best for her. But maybe . . . Just maybe, there's this whole other realm that would have never been possible previously.

Other:

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Seth -

• Manipulative little shit no one should ever turn their back on - don't fall for that smile of his
• Loyalty lies in a grand total of basically six people, himself included
• The one likely to kill if it meant he'd win

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вяүsтση "sεтн" εscσт

Age: Nineteen
Gender: Masculinity - if proof is needed, he's more than happy to oblige to this request. Rest assured, there will be no question about it once he's done.
Element:

Appearance:

eye color-
hair color-
height-
distinguishing features-
Faceclaim: Bob Morley

Bio:
Reason for Entering Gauntlet: His family, if his history hasn't made that clear enough. Though he's set on making sure know one ever knows that because, after all, the dead tell no tales, right?

Other:

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Rowan -

• Powerful daddy wanted a son to carry on the Guardian legacy . . . Imagine his surprise when blonde little Rowan was born.
• She'd just as likely -and easily- break a kneecap as she would smile at you
• Bisexual, though she's so focused it's very unlikely anyone would know her sexual orientation

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яσωαη ∂αяια кιηgs

Age: Twenty-one
Gender: Female
Element:

Appearance:

eye color-
hair color-
height-
distinguishing features-
Faceclaim:

Bio:
Reason for Entering Gauntlet:

Other:

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[sucre'd fiend]

*chants* Seth

[Kathryn]

Me, Myself, and I wrote: "Ophelia -
• She appears to be a fragile cupcake, likely one of the first to wind up six feet under
• If nothing else, she's extremely resourceful and really good at running from her problems

Oh my gosh, I'm already in love with Ophelia.

[Mal]

^^ seconded xD

[Me, Myself, and I]

@Fiend: Nooooo, Seth is so bad ;n;
Little shit just needs to go home

Haha, thannnks Mal and Kathryn ^^
She's a harmless little chipmunk

[rose]

Mal wrote: "^^ seconded xD"

Kathryn wrote: "Me, Myself, and I wrote: "Ophelia -
• She appears to be a fragile cupcake, likely one of the first to wind up six feet under
• If nothing else, she's extremely resourceful and really good at runn..."

mine

[sucre'd fiend]

Me, Myself, and I wrote: "@Fiend: Nooooo, Seth is so bad ;n;
Little shit just needs to go home

Haha, thannnks Mal and Kathryn ^^
She's a harmless little chipmunk"

give him to me
i want him

[Mal]

jae is so cute i love him

[(╯`▭´）╯︵ ǝɔnɒꓷ]

Just gonna slap these on here right now.
No peeking.
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Bio: Abigail grew up in a family that worked hard for their comfortable life, but wanted for nothing. Abi appreciates the simple things in life but also has a taste for the elaborate, though she works for what she wants. She is incredibly feisty and speaks her mind when she feels it necessary to be spoken, even if she offends people. She can have a bit of a temper but holds no grudges, and she can be fiercely loyal even when it may not be in her best interest.
She has three older brothers and a younger sister, and she is incredibly protective. Her father had run in the Gauntlet when he had been a kid, and he had severely injured his leg and has walked with a cane and a limp ever since. Her oldest brother, Peter, perished in the Gauntlet three years prior, and her second oldest brother lost his sight due to head trauma. The third brother doesn't even want to attempt it, but Abi is determined to participate and win more for the ones who lost than for herself.
Other: Despite her determination to win, Abi is terrified of the dark/not being able to see her surroundings, so running while blindfolded is going to prove to be incredibly interesting.



Bio: Xander is the type of guy who definitely prefers the company of trees and daisies than the company of people. He has the ability to just blend into his surroundings and disappear, and he prefers it that way. He absolutely hates confrontation and will do anything to avoid it at all costs, even if it means being marked a coward by others. But Xander likes to talk things over than solve things with violence, which has always gotten him into a bit of trouble over the years.
His father died when he was still a baby, and his mother just mentally checked out. So growing up Xander had to learn how to be his own family and to be happy on his own. Being an only child with a mother who likes to spend her days locked in her room, Xander frequently takes long strolls outside and has constant conversations with little woodland creatures or the blooming flowers in spring. Even in the midst of winter, he prefers being outside, barefoot, daydreaming his dreams. He wants to win the Gauntlet not for any possible fame or honor, but just so that his mother will have a reason to finally come out of her room and really notice him.
Other: Xander is actually a really positive and funny guy, but because he stays away from society as much as he can nobody actually knows this. (hide spoiler)]

[Mal]

do you really think i didn't open that spoiler

[rose]

Mal wrote: "do you really think i didn't open that spoiler"

lol same, I was so disappointed

[Mal]

laughing

[(╯`▭´）╯︵ ǝɔnɒꓷ]

This is why I said no peeking.
But I knew people were going to peek.
Because I'm a troll. XD

[Kit]

I had plans to get ahead on homework and this all I have to show for it smh @ me


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Name: Karoline Ada
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Element: Water

Appearance:

eye color-Green
hair color- Red
height- 5'6
distinguishing features- A jagged scar from right under her belly button to the side of her hip.
Faceclaim: Sophie Turner

Bio:
Reason for Entering Gauntlet: [just curious, this can be optional]

Other:

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[[deleted user]]

min-kyu (view spoiler)[

❛❛ M I N - K Y U ❜❜ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ lee min-kyu ▬ twenty-three ▬ male ▬ earth



brown hair ▬ brown eyes ▬ five feet and nine inches tall ▬ lee howon ‘hoya’

Grounded. There's something about Lee Min-kyu — something solid and stubborn and immovable. Perhaps it's a virtue, or perhaps it's idiocy; either way, Min-kyu has always held a single-minded resilience.

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[kaya]

brainstorms (view spoiler)[

completed
hartley marsen // tyler young
[ 18 ; air ]
. gets drunk off laughter + falls over if he's laughing hard enough
. ‘don't you need to wear glasses?’‘probably’
. legit hardly ever wears glasses and doesn't have contacts yet his vision is absolutely terrible
. figures he's going to beat everyone bc he already can't see where he's going so there's no real difference
. honestly he's actually like almost legally blind and he kinda wants to point out that a vague grey blur is approximately equal to being blindfolded
. ‘how do you even know where you're going though?’ ‘ECHOLOCATION’
collabs;
. anything



completed
ángel castellano // diego barrueco
[ 24 ; water ]
. chill
. would rather sleep than run
. will not fight you
. complains about being tired but stays up all night
. \/(o.o)\/
. has been called a fish before bc he's good at swimming
collabs;
. friends with fiend's andrakas
. anything



completed
judah arthur hanstern // cole sprouse
[ 18 ; earth ]
. antisocial
. prefers trees to people
. asexual, possibly aromantic unless you want him that badly and can find a collab with enough angst to lure me away from making him ace-aro
. smiles either wryly or ironically, there is no inbetween
. ^when he does smile, that is
. why is he here? bc he likes proving people wrong
. also bc people underestimate him a lot
. then he got here and there were a ton of skilled people and he was like... ‘holy crap actual competition yikes’
collabs;
. something



completed
magnus saunders // ezra miller
[ 19 ; fire ]
. could fight you but is saving that for the gauntlet
. where he'll destroy everyone else by a mile
. is v cocky and will probs fail epically
. or trip over his shoelaces
. can be clumsy at times, esp. when he's nervous
collabs;
. romance w/ fiend's ebiza
. anything

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[kaya]

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────────────── MAGNUS SAUNDERS

─────── 19 • male • fire × ezra miller
× black hair • brown eyes • 6’1” ─────

why he entered : eternal glory? joining one of the most elite groups of people in the world? if you know magnus, you know that there's no way he would ever resist something like that.

×•× MAGNUS MEANS GREAT, and arguably he's tried a little too hard to live up to his name. He also seems to have a belief that the name on its own is enough to excuse his ego, and that anyone who wounds his fragile pride is wrong no matter what. The main difference between him and every other self-absorbed jerk out there? He gets ridiculously nervous.

Magnus Saunders is, first and foremost, a clumsy, introverted dork who is ridiculously in love with guys. The egotistical, arrogant facade isn't actually a facade (jeez, he's not that cliché), but he can be nice — when he puts the effort into it. Overall, though, he's a good friend who's easy to be around, because either you want to slap him or you can just sit there without talking to him and it won't be awkward.

Let's just say that his parents had high hopes when he was young. And that he managed to live up to all but one of those hopes, because something his deeply religious and extremely homophobic parents couldn't cope with was that their son might be gay.
So, for most of his life, whenever he was around his parents, Magnus pretended he was straight — or at least, didn't flaunt his non-hetero-ness. Being the cocky teenager that he is, he decided to enter the Gauntlet, where he's away from the scrutiny of his parents and is free to act as he pleases.

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[Mal]

lol ^ kindred spirits

[rose]

Does anyone want to collab with me?
I have an idea for my girl charrie Lyca
basically she is the middle child (3 older brothers, 2 younger ones)
And throughout her life her parents never gave her any attention, since why would they, she can't run the Gauntlet.
So basically all she has ever wanted is to please them and show them that she is just as good as the boys, until they finally get sick of it and tell her to just get over it, because she could never win and she's messing with her brother's training
fast forward to a few years later when two of the older brothers have died in the Gauntlet, and women are now allowed in the Academy
Lyca is finally like holy shit my family will finally think I'm important, I can win
so she goes to them and tells them she's applying to the academy, and they basically tell her she has absolutely no shot, and just because the academy is accepting girls, does not mean they should apply bc they're not meant to be Guardians
so being pissed Lyca enters anyways and is accepted
anndddd so is her last remaining older brother
which is where the collab would come in

[rose]

this is what i have for Lyca so far
it still needs some editing and whatnot but yeah
if anyone's interested in the collab idea mention above

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Name: Lyca Elizabeth Delacroix
Age: 23
Gender: female
Element: air

Appearance:

eye color- green af
hair color- brunette
height- 5'7''
distinguishing features- Her inability to control her facial expressions might as well be a feature -- she has an eyebrow quirk thing that she does, and it's completely involuntary. She does it when she's annoyed with someone, and it's one of her tells when someone is starting to get to her.
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Faceclaim: Alycia Debnam-Carey

Bio: In a family with three older brothers, and two younger ones, Lyca figured it out pretty quick that she was the disposable one in the family. Estalia is the epitome of a patriarchal society, so women are overlooked, and in that respect Lyca has grown up without too many rules. At first she thought it was great, her parent's were always only drilling her brothers, only planning down to the T their futures, only imposing curfews on them. And then she started to realize it's because her parents cared, therefore the lack of discipline they offered her was their lack of affection. It was a long and hard realization for Lyca that her parents couldn't care less about what she turned out to be.

That realization happened over a large span of her childhood. Her parents had an in-home nanny of sorts that took care of Lyca while they focused on the boys, and Lyca in the beginning thought it was for all of the children, not just her. It wasn't. So she kept trying to impress her parents, she kept trying to show them they she could do what the boys could do, and she could do it better. She didn't need the tutors that same of her brothers did, or the extra coddling and confidence boosts. She was self-reliant, everything they wanted their sons to be. That last for a few years, and after a while, her parents finally got sick of it. They were tired of Lyca outperforming her brothers, because it was only messing with their training. It wasn't helpful for Lyca to compete with them anymore because she wasn't motivating them like she had been in the beginning, it was just lowering their confidence that a girl was beating them. When she turned 14, they made it clear she should learn a real trade. One that she could use in life, because the Academy wasn't for girls.

Lyca did not go through the rebellions 'I'm going to act out so you notice me' phase, because she knew it wouldn't work... the phase she went through was more of a 'Well, I guess it's time to cut my losses' type of deal. She was down striving to be the golden child -- but it's not like she pinwheeled down a dark and depressing self-sabotaging history... she got over it. If they weren't going to care about her, she wasn't going to care about them. She turned her self-reliant personality and charisma into friendships, and she invested in people that she knew genuinely cared about her. Of course without having discipline, she became kind of wild and reckless. To her, in a way, the Gauntlet is another one of her crazy adventures. She is under the impression that she is invincible -- that Gauntlet can't touch her. She couldn't be more wrong.

She can act like she isn't looking for anyone's approval, and that she's just living her life the way she wants to live it, but that would not be entirely true. Lyca has been scorned in a brutal way, and to act like it has had no affect on her ability to trust and care for others would be a joke. She is most certainly the kind of person that would rather have a lot of so-so friends than a few really close friends. She doesn't like people to get super attatched to her, even if that is a exactly what she invites them to do with her extraverted personality. Lyca is incredibly flirtatious, and she just has that air about her that seems to invite people in. The real question is whether or not she really cares for anyone in return -- if she acts the same sweet way with everyone, how can you tell who is special to her? You can't, and that's exactly the point.

Family --
Mom
Dad
Nanny?
Oldest Brother
Older Brother
Older Brother
Younger Brother
Youngest Brother

Reason for Entering Gauntlet: Lyca was constantly told as a child that she would't really amount to anything, even though she believed herself to have that very capability. When the Academy opened to women, she finally thought her parents would invest in her like they did her brothers, and she came to them with that desire. Pretty safe to say they shut her down -- hard. Just because the Ainsley thought women could win the Gauntlet, didn't mean her parents did. So they'd rather keep throwing their sons into the death pit, knowing they weren't ready and didn't have a shot.

That's why Lyca's going to run the Gauntlet, and she's going to win. She doesn't need their permission.

Other: Lyca likes knives.

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[sucre'd fiend]

lemme holla @ all them characters, kaya

[kaya]

what do you want and who with?

[sucre'd fiend]

honestly
no plans when do i ever have plans
but i want them

[Kathryn]

rosehey wrote: "Does anyone want to collab with me?
I have an idea for my girl charrie Lyca
basically she is the middle child (3 older brothers, 2 younger ones)
And throughout her life her parents never gave her ..."

I"d be up for it!

[rose]

Yassss Kathryn! Message me on whatsapp

[Mal]

omg somebody give me inspiration i need more charas

[rose]

give meee the inspiration I still need another boiii

[Mal]

how can i give you inspiration i dont have any either

[rose]

don't be asking me the hard questions

[Mal]

we could collab and have exes that hate each other??? i mean idk hate and competition and sexual tension sounds promising.

[rose]

that does sounds promising I like it!

[Mal]

look inspiration wooo
so like do we need specifics or should we just make them and like idk see what level of hate develops ?? XD

[rose]

I think we're going to need a little bit of history haha
bc I literally have no idea what I want to do
like at all
I know it's going to have male genitals and that's basically all I got

[Mal]

well at least there's that.
text me and we can talk about it :P

[Me, Myself, and I]

Is anyone interested in a collab ?
I have a faint idea for a guy but nothing too elaborate

I mean
Can I entice anyone ?
Like, look at this cute little bitch
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[(╯`▭´）╯︵ ǝɔnɒꓷ]

Me, Myself, and I wrote: "Is anyone interested in a collab ?
I have a faint idea for a guy but nothing too elaborate

I mean
Can I entice anyone ?
Like, look at this cute little bitch


"

What kind of collab were you thinking?

[Me, Myself, and I]

@Dance: I don't really have anything in particular in mind ^^
I'm thinking he's gonna be a lighthearted jokester who's accepted the fact that like yo he ain't gonna win
So if you have anything set in stone, I'd be game.

[(╯`▭´）╯︵ ǝɔnɒꓷ]

Me, Myself, and I wrote: "@Dance: I don't really have anything in particular in mind ^^
I'm thinking he's gonna be a lighthearted jokester who's accepted the fact that like yo he ain't gonna win
So if you have anything se..."

Ahaha, I don't really have any definite plans. I have my character Xander (I can't link because I'm on my phone), but he's kind of a flighty person who doesn't talk to a lot of people. I don't know, we can try to do a friendship type deal (view spoiler)[or a relationship type deal I dunno (hide spoiler)], or maybe even just light-hearted, joking rivals or something.
So.
Basically I've got no ideas right now. XD

[Me, Myself, and I]

I'm so sorry, I totally missed this !
Maybe when I have a little more to him though, it might inspire us both for something more specific ? lol I'll post him as I'm working on him !

[Me, Myself, and I]

syd ♡ wrote: "(Marlon Teixeira) - SEXY water man - the love of my life idk - I'd have his babies probably - 20 something - down for big titties - very sure of himself - brave af

"

Aye yo so if I could just have him, that'd be grand ;n;
Please and thanks
Jk
Kinda

[Mal]

lol someone collab with me we can have a couple, but the guy doesn't believe his girlfriend is strong enough to compete much less win so she enters and gets into ainsley and they can train with each other and stuff and like they're kind of lowkey really mean to each other but also are kissy and stuff and its a very confusing realtionship but like oh well

[Mal]

omg do you wanna

[Mal]

I'll message and we can plot discuss

[(╯`▭´）╯︵ ǝɔnɒꓷ]

Me, Myself, and I wrote: "I'm so sorry, I totally missed this !
Maybe when I have a little more to him though, it might inspire us both for something more specific ? lol I'll post him as I'm working on him !"

Haha, no problem. And alright, sounds good. ^^ We can always move to spam once we decide to go more into detail, because spam and whatnot, I dunno.

[kaya]

sucre'd fiend wrote: "honestly
no plans when do i ever have plans
but i want them"

ok well andrakas and ángel would get along i reckon
and ebiza and either hartley or my ezra fc might work for a very angsty romance?

[sucre'd fiend]

Yes
Yes
Yes

[Mal]

look fiend ebiza might find love with someone who doesnt flirt with everyone

[sucre'd fiend]

right?????
he's still gonna pine on dae for a bit tho
also where are we rping them?

[kaya]

oh god sorry i didn't realise you already had something for ebiza don't worry ignore that part then

[Mal]

@fiend: aaaaafter jay is finished with him we'll know
....................... :3