[RPG • EN • 200 • Writing] Springfield University - Speeltopics

In this RPG we'll follow a couple of students attending Springfield University– a university only willing to accept the best students, or the richest. Springfield is an university with a high reputation as well in sports as in grades. Students come from all over the world to attend and almost no one starts or ends in any other year than the first and last year. To get in Springfield University students will need the best grades and motivation       • Studies Students can follow a wide variety of studies at Springfield, of which all include a lot of colleges and work you have to do on your own. The students we follow follow either of the courses on this list. Most of those studies include some kind of separation in the higher years. — Architecture — Graphic Design — Politics — Physiology — History — Science — Biology — Engineering — Art — English literature — Law       • Dorms Springfield University has a roomie plan, which means that at the beginning of your first year, you get paired up with someone else from your own gender, and you guys will have to share a dorm room for your coming years. Your dorm includes two one-person beds which you can set to almost any height and can also pair up, two desk, two closets, two chairs, two nightstand and two dressers. You are allowed to move your furniture around in any way you like, but it has to stay in your room. Cleaning your room is your own responsibility. Boys and Girls are not allowed to be in each others dorm room while the door being closed and not allowed in at any time between 19.00 and 7.00. The dorms are checked every evening so there is no way of students sneaking in or out. In the evening there's a patrol at the doors, except between 1.00 and 4.00, but there still is an alarm on the building. The list of roommates will be made at the opening of the writing topic with a randomizer.       • Sports Sports are high-valued at Springfield University, though not a must. Athletes are well-known and most of them are populair. The cheerleading and football team are above all, most valued and most populair. The selection process for those includes a lot of work, and the only person secure of their place of the team another year is the person who was captain. Others all have to re-audition, and don't always get in the team again. Below is a list of all sports available at Springfield. — American Football (Boys Only) — Cheerleading (Girls Only) — Swimming — Track and Field — Show Jumping       • Dress Code The university has no uniform, but a dress code, as that is what students prefer. During classes, students have to obey to the dress code, or they'll be sent to their dorm to change. A list of items not allowed: — Headwear of any way. If there is a reason you must or feel safer to, your parents have to have contacted the university's principal. — Any suggestive graphic on clothing. — Skirts, dresses or pants shorter than 15cm above the knee. — Suggestive clothing. — Heels over 8cm high. — Pants or shorts worn below the waistline. — Stretch lycra, spandex or nylon tights, leotards, biker pants, pajama/sleepwear pants or shirts, or underwear worn as outer garments. — Bare-feet or flip-flops. — Long coats (inside) — Pyjamas — Showing underwear.       • Years Students can enroll at Springfield directly after high school, or after a break-year. In the RPG we'll follow second year students. 1 — 18/19 or 19/20 2 — 19/20 or 20/21 3 — 20/21 or 21/22 4 — 21/22 or 22/23       • Grades, Tests and Essays The year is split into three trimesters. At the end of your last trimester, you'll have an exam to determine whether you can go on to your next year. The other trimesters end with a big test, that counts 20% or that years exam, which counts 15% on your graduation exam. Students are allowed to get three tests pro subject every trimester, and two essays.The grading goes on a percentage-scale. This percentage builds up, so at the end of your year you could reach a maximum of 1800%, though no one ever was able to reach that.       • Rules — No fighting, bullying or any way of harassing fellow students or Professors is allowed. — Never destroy or do harm to any of the University's possesions or the University itself. — Do not skip classes if you haven't got a valid reason to do so. — Any form of fraud is strictly forbidden and you will be punished severely for it. — Normal society rules also apply at the University.       • Roomie plan       Girls • Lieke Bregtje van Diepen and Elza Delilah Morrow • Averly Ann Daemor and Lexi Amelia Everest • Lucy Cho Fitzgerald and Faelyn Bree Ahearn • Alexis Mae Boyer and Camilla Sydney Marissa Fernandes • Charlotte Qais Teller Joneson and Probie's character • Ellipsism's character and ?       Boys • Elijah Valentijn Valencia and Finley Sebastian Rutherford • Flyn Levi Thatcher and Sam Brian Moores • Ellipsism's character and Aurelian Narcisse Ainsworth • Luka Ábel Petrovic and Wallen's character • Sebastien Javier Dominguez and Cain Timothy Acardi • Joshua Niall Teagan and Reynald Donatello Bowen Sports       • American Football Captain — Offense Guard (2) –– Tackle (2) –– Center (1) –– Quarterback (1) –– Running back (3) –– Wide receiver (2) –– Tight end (2) –– Defense Tackle (2) –– End (2) –– Middle linebacker (1) –– Outside linebacker (2) –– Cornerback (2) –– Safety (2) ––       • Cheerleading Captain –– Reserve Captain/Under Captain –– Other (12) –– • Alexis Mae Boyer • Charlotte Qais Teller Joneson • Lexi Amelia Everest       • Track and Field       • Swimming • Luka Ábel Petrovic • Lucy Cho Fitzgerald       • Show Jumping • Joshua Niall Teagan Roles Name — Study — Faceclaim — User — Page [Girls/Boys: 12/11] • Lieke Bregtje van Diepen — Graphic Design — Holland Roden — Deamus — 1.12 • Averly Ann Daemor — History — Emilia Clarke — Anemoia — ? • ? — ? — ? — Probie — ? • Alexis Mae Boyer — Physiology — Danielle Campbell — Dysthymia — 1.3 • Lucy Cho Fitzgerald — Law — Jenn Im — Daggers — 1.2 • ? — ? — ? — Ellipsism — ? • Charlotte Qais Teller Joneson — Cara Delevingne — Science — Dinkleberg — 1.3 • Rhea Alyx Metaxas — History — Amanda Steele — Sempre — 1.4 • Lexi Amelia Everest — Architecture — Lauren Cohan — Caprice — 1.4 • Elza Delilah Morrow — Science — Vanessa Moe — Malfoys — 1.6 • Faelyn Bree Ahearn — Politics — Alexis Ren — Vellichor — 1.9 • Camilla Sydney Marissa Fernandes — Biology — Cindy Mello — Xanthopoulos — 1.12 • Elijah Valentijn Valencia — Law — ? — Anemoia — 1.12 • Flyn Levi Thatcher — English Literature — Sean O'Pry — GusWaters — 1.3 • Luka Ábel Petrovic — History — Alessio Pozzi — Raccoon — 1.3 • ? — ? — ? — Ellipsism — ? • ? — ? — ? — Wallen — ? • Aurelian Narcisse Ainsworth — Law — Jordan Barett — Xanthopoulos — 1.3 • Cain Timothy Acardi — Art — Francisco Lachowski — Vellichor — 1.10 • Finley Sebastian Rutherford — History — ? — Dumbledore — 1.5 • Joshua Niall Teagan — English Literature — Finn Harries — BenjaminSolo — 1.9 • Sam Brian Moores — Biology — Nick Bateman — Necessity — 1.11 • Sebastien Javier Dominguez — Graphic Design — Andre Hamman — Atlas — 1.11 RPG Rules • Posts are at least 200 words. • Post regularly. • Be nice to each other. • Posts are in English only! OOC is allowed in Dutch. • Make a full post, meaning a picture, a name, your post and the study of your character • 16+ is allowed, but warn in the top of you post in red so people who don't want to read it don't have to. • Quizlet house rules. • Only Deamus and Anemoia make the topics, unless stated otherwise. • There's no character limit - but don't take more than you can handle. • When you want to reserve another character, please pay attention to the amount of boys and girls and keep that in mind when deciding on the gender. If there's a stop there's a stop. There is no wait-list, so first the first to actually claim the role gets it. • You only have to write English in your Character Sheet and in the Writing topic. • If you aren't writing with fun anymore, you can quit the RPG but not before you write a post where your character leaves the conversation/gets send off to another school/etc. • Read the whole topic! The Start We'll start on October 19th, around 13.00, a saturday. On the 31st of October, there'll be a big halloween ball for the whole school in costume. It's a regular saturday, without any big games. Just two weeks ago the football team won a big game. Trainings on saturday: Cheerleading: 10.00-12.00 Football: 16.00-18.00 Track and Field: 9.00-11.00 Show Jumping: 19.30-21.30 Swimming: 15.00-17.00

[ bericht aangepast op 2 feb 2016 - 19:49 ]

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take me back to the basics and the simple life

Reynald 'Ren' Donatello Bowen
History || Swimming
It was terrible to see Sam like this. I never meant to loose him, let alone hurt him. He was so important to me, far more than I'd ever dare to admit, though I never wanted him to be hurt, ever, and still I was the one who kept hurting him time and time again tonight. I truely started hating myself. When he broke our eyecontact, my heart broke in two. I never wanted to see him like this, and I was the person who kept hurting him over and over again. His words broke the two pieces of my heart in an uncountable number of fragments. It hurt so much to see him like this, to hear his voice full of emotion and pain. I knew I needed to make my decision, and I knew it wasn't going to be easy. My heart screamed for him, to love and to hold him. I had acted on my heart to stay with him, to be hurt by him, to feel insecure because of him, to be and become one. My heas meanwhile screamed to protect myself and stay away, to hurt him to save us both, to spare us more heartache, to wait for someone who can forfill my physical needs, instead of just my psychological needs, and just sleep around until then. It was an imposible decision. My eyes were watering, completely involuntairily, but I couldn't hold it in any longer. I tried to wipe them away furiously, but it didn't help one bit. "I just don't know, Sammy. My heart wants to be with you, but my head is telling me to stop this before we get more invested in eachother and end up even more broken than we are now." The desparation was very clear in my voice. "I just don't know Sammy. I hate seeing you hurt, and here I'm the one who keeps hurting you. We're like a lion and a lamb trying to make this work. If this is going to be it, you'll have to teach me what I can and can't do, how to be gentle and romantic. I want to choose my heart, Sam. I want to choose you, but I'm not sure I can be the man you need me to be." I kept my distance, though my heart screamed for me to hold him tightly to me. "I don't want you to be the one who got away. The impossible and fatal lover. I want to have you as my one and only. I want to be with you. I just don't want to hurt you ever again and I'm terrified that I will." I sighed and held out my hand to him. I hoped he would take it, take me in, but I was almost sure he was going to choose for himself, which would probably be walking away from me and closing himsef off from me.

[ bericht aangepast op 13 juni 2016 - 20:42 ]

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Bowties were never Cooler

I was trying to build a wall between us, trying to shut him out and spare us the pain, but for some reason I just couldn’t. No matter how high I had build it, Ren always seemed to be able to jump over it, find a hole or just tear it down. I just couldn’t shut him out, no matter how hard I was trying. Ren wasn’t the only one whose eyes filled with tears. I tried to blink them away. I didn’t cry. I never cried. Since I had been a young boy, I didn’t cry. The only time I had cried, had been the moment I had left my home. I had felt so vulnerable, so hurt, and now I almost felt the same. Once again I was pushing people who had cared about me away. Ren’s words didn’t make it better. Yes, he chose me, but I could hear his doubts. But he chose me. And now it was my turn. Did I want this with everything I was? Yes. Did I want to try this, be with him, love him? Yes. Did I want to get hurt? No. And this was going to end with one of us completely broken. But I knew, even before I took his hand, that I would do it anyway. Even if it killed me, I would do it. I just couldn’t say no to him. “ But who’s going to end as the lamb?” was my soft answer. Of course, he wanted more than I could give him, but in the end it would be my needs – or missing needs – that would drive us apart. In the end I would be the one who would be the reason of our breaking. I took his hand. “But we can try. We can try to be together. I can teach you what you can do. We’ll figure it out. And if we can’t…” I paused for a moment. This was the thing I didn’t want to say, but I had to. “…then we’ll break up then.” I didn’t want to tell him we could end it any moment, but that was the truth. That was the only way we could try it, when we both knew it could be ended any moment if it didn’t feel right anymore. And that it would be okay if one of us decided he was not able to handle it anymore.

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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.