Lovely Ladies // deadly women of the night // MATURE THEMES // 6/6 - CLOSED

Daw okay.

Great! WritingGale gets back on Saturday, So is everyone okay to have their characters up by then? (If your template isn’t already posted)

Ye I can get mine up. Will we start before they get back of after?

After, so that everyone’s here

Kk

Bumping~

Aw thanks!

Name: Nicolette "Nicole/Nicky" Beauregard
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bisexual
Role: One of the ladies
Appearance: Nicole is 5' 11", with fair skin, a snub nose, glittering blue eyes and curly dark brown hair that falls to her shoulders, normally tied up to keep out of her eyes. She has a small mole at the corner of her right eye, a pear-shaped form, heavily muscled. A small scar on the back of her right hand from a fencing accident. Don't worry-she beat the ever-living crap out of the guy who gave it to her.
General Attire: A blue frock coat with gold embroidery and black inner lining and brass buttons, cream coloured trousers, a red cravat, and leather boots secured by silver buckles.
Personality: Nicolette is an adrenaline junkie, always going out and doing extremely dangerous stunts. A heavy drinker, she has even less self-awareness when intoxicated. Flirtatious and a skilled seductress, she has a history of bringing home lovers of any gender for one-night stands. Is practically allergic to commitment, so far having no lasting relationships. However, when it comes to advice on how to stab some asshat who insulted your friend, she can most definitely provide, and is very loving and supportive of her fellow Ladies.
Flaws: Hot-headed, rash, not the best at relationships, extremely reckless, and a bad follower of orders.
Backstory: Nicolette had quite the piece of work for a dad. Her father would fence nonstop during the day, and hit up gambling dens, bars, and brothels in the evenings, and was highly abusive to her mother, whom Nicky loved very much. Given the seedy circles in which he ran, it should be little surprise that his main ideas for father-daughter bonding time were a) teaching her how to use deadly weapons, and b) using said weapons to drive off any potential suitors. At the age of fifteen, she was sent off to spend some time with a wealthy uncle. By the end of the day, he was fed up with her outlandish behavior and sent her home, only for Nicole to find her mother dead of "unknown causes". At eighteen, she earned her living through singing and dueling demonstrations, usually dressed as a man, since fencing in a dress would be considerably more difficult. She was already so skilled with the sword at this point in her life that audiences sometimes would not believe that she was actually a woman. In fact, when one drunken onlooker proclaimed loudly that she was actually a man, she tore off her shirt, providing him ample evidence to the contrary. The heckler had no comeback. Another singer started talking shit about a number of women, including Nicky. She responded by ambushing him, pushing a sword in his face, and demanding a duel. When he refused, she beat him with a cane, stealing his coin purse. The next day, she caught him complaining that he had been assaulted by a gang of thieves. She called him a liar and a coward, threw his purse at him, and declared that she, alone, had architected his ass-beating.However, after beating up some shits and saving a woman from sexual assault, she had to run. Apparently, the assulters were sons of an upper-class gentleman, who had no qualms with sending hitmen after her for a painful lesson. She ran away, finding the Crimson Order and joining it for a life of crime (stopping) and adventure.
Other: The previously mentioned "unknown causes" that killed her mother just might come up again…. (meaning: still unbeknownst to Nicolette, her father beat her mother to death, but nobody ever found out. If it's alright, could this point come up in the plot sometime later?) and also I'm terrible at characters sorry.

Side note: Nicolette may seem familiar, and that's purposeful! She is heavily based off of historical figure Julie d'Aubigny, the infamous swordswoman and opera singer. I even based some of her backstory off of Julie. However, Nicolette is an actual character from one of my novels, fret not! I've spent quite some time developing her. Hope you like Nicky, and if I need to change anything at all, just say the word. I can do whatever works best for you.

She looks amazing! The only thing I’d say is be a bit less bold with the whole fencing without hiding the fact that she’s a woman thing because of sexism at the time. I get that there was an actual woman who did that (awesome idea, by the way), but for the sake of this rp, and the fact that she’d probably be recognized by ‘customers’ at the Flower, would you mind being a bit more subtle? Love her tho

I can make her character act more subtle, but we're also taking into account the fact that she ran to a place where people will have probably never heard of her. Also, due to being sort-of on the lam, Nicky would most likely be keeping a somewhat more low profile. Don't worry, she won't be all that open about her fencing habits, acting more ladylike for the sake of the pretense. I can keep her a bit less open about things like that for you, don't worry!

Awesome!

Eyy yeah

Les mis is one of my favourites, I couldn’t resist, plus the storyline I based this off didn’t have a title (the storyline was by me)

Just a friendly reminder for everyone to have their templates up by the end of the day tomorrow! I think that means Emi and Lotus if I’m not mistaken
I will have my second up by that time

hhhHUuguhuh I WILL I PROMISE

No pressure, I just don’t want this to die before it’s begun

Name: Joseph William Allen
Age: 24
Gender: male
Sexuality: straight
Role: Unsavoury man
Appearance: Short, red hair cut close to his head, soft and thinning slightly. No discernible hairline, bushy sideburns fading into light, wispy stubble, more concentrated around his chin, pallid, almost sickly, veined skin dotted with large moles and gaping pores. Watery, washed-out eyes, a pale grey that was once a much more pleasant green but faded over time, short, sparse eyelashes and thinning eyebrows, a more circular face shape as opposed to ovular. Short, 5’5”, average weight, slightly stocky, with small hands and feet. Dirt constantly under his fingernails, red-rimmed, almost bulging eyes, shaky hands, slightly bent posture.
General Attire: Slightly crumpled clothing, usually a few years out of fashion, murky shades of brown and green, colours never completely matching.
Personality: Snappish, easily angered but easily frightened, skittish, goes through sudden mood swings. Lashes out, blames others for things that are wrong with him, a lot of pent up anger that he uses as an excuse for.. well, everything he does. Trusts his gut instinct as opposed to his logic— but that’s not to say that he rushes in to situations blindly, he’s much smarter than that. Doubts and second-guesses everything, has little to no self control.
Flaws: Won’t hesitate to manipulate people to get what he wants, isn’t above bribing, blackmailing, or threatening, a very jumpy and overly anxious person, untrusting and untrustworthy, little to no sense of loyalty, broken moral compass, overly sly, never accepts responsibility for his actions.
Backstory: His father, Lawrence Allen, was a chemist and apothecary, and Joseph grew up working and helping out in the shop. In Victorian England, drugs that we consider harmful and illegal were part of everyday use, whether recreational or potentially dangerous ‘medical’ uses, and it wasn’t difficult for little Joseph to filch a few pills here and there, becoming addicted at a young age. He was aware of the potential dangers, so at first he used them sparingly, but by the time he was nineteen his cravings had surmounted to a need higher than water in his sick mind.
His father had always been a hard man, and his mother withered away into a shadow of herself, meek and almost never talking after the death of her twin brother. Joseph always blamed her for the cruelty of Lawrence and how the neighbourhood children stayed away from him, rendering him lonely and friendless. He was an only child, and when he was old enough, he inherited the family shop. One night after the while street was asleep, when he was under heavy influence of ‘medicine’, his father came downstairs drunk and tried to attack him. A fight ensued, and Joseph came out on top…. with a broken piece of glass stuck in his father’s throat. The deranged man threw the body out onto the street and terrified, hid in his room. The police came the next day, chalked it up to a runaway drunk, and left, leaving Joseph safe, but with an awful, burdening guilt.
Other: Left-handed, always has some sort of addictive substance on him.

We need someone to play the Unsavoury woman, who’s up for it?

We need someone to play the Unsavoury woman, who’s up for it?

(bumps)

(hey i'm back!)

heyo! how'd it go?
we've still got some people who need to post their characters, and an empty slot)

oK so I’m getting started on my guys now

I’ll touch up on them eventually since I am extremely tired and won’t be on tomorrow (because my parents insist that they clean my room for me. Very stupid).

Kk