<ul class="bbc_list"></ul><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Neela Roland</strong></span><br/><strong>Player Name</strong>: Rainy High<br/><strong>Description</strong>: Starting age is 16. Neela is an Eastern Indian raised in America from a young age. She has long brown straight hair, brown eyes, and light caramel colored skin. She starts in the story as being 4'11" tall and 120 pounds.<br/><br/><strong>Clichés  </strong><br/>Basketball<br/>Soccer<br/>Hair and Make-Up<br/>Cooking<br/><br/><strong>Tools</strong><br/>Wallet, mascara, lip gloss, cell phone.<br/><br/><strong>Hooks</strong><br/>Neela is a optimistic person. She believes as long as your body and mind are healthy your life is good. Neela's greatest fear as the story sets out is that she will not make the starting line for her basketball team because she is too short. Neela's religious views are Christian as the story sets out. She is raised Christian by her adoptive family. In the classroom, Neela is serious about her studies; she will joke from time to time but not as often as she would outside the classroom. At school (not inside a classroom), Neela is chatty with her close friends and smiles at most people including kids that growl at the sight of anything moving. Friendly is how most people would describe her. She is shy when meeting people but once she knows them; she can talk their ear off.<br/><br/><strong>Tales</strong><br/>Neela was born in India and given up for adoption at the age of two. The Roland family took her to America shortly after and her home has been with them ever since. As a child Neela was bony had braces and huge eyeglasses. It was not until she was 13 that she began to wear cool eyeglasses, her braces were gone and she finally stopped looking like skin and bones.<br/><br/>When she was 6 years old, Neela went to the lake with her family. She was sitting on the shore watching strange scorpion like bugs crawling around. When she told her mother about them, her mother told her she was seeing things. One bit Neela the same day and her mother told her she must have mistaken the scorpion like bugs for something else. Scorpions did not exist in their area of the country. However, Neela was not faking the burning sensation in her foot after being bit.<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Maggie Foss</strong></span><br/><strong>Player Name</strong>: Ixy<br/><strong>Description</strong>: At age 15, Mags is a long-limbed, slender girl with coppery hair and pale skin.  Tomboyish and self-conscious, she goes to great lengths to avoid being the center of attention in class, social events, and in the streets.  She carries her thin shoulders low, frequently dons a worn-out ballcap low over her eyes, and hugs a denim jacket close to her when she sleeps through class, lingers in the back of the bus, or glances up uncomfortably between sentences as she passes you in the hall.<div class="floatright"></div><br/><br/><strong>Clichés</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Outdoorsy</li><li>Street-smart</li><li>Music: guitar, voice (rock) </li><li>Vocational: shop, repair, improvement </li><li>Cross-country runner</li><li>Sneaky</li></ul><br/><strong>Tools</strong>:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Sharpie</li><li>Boots</li><li>Denim Jacket</li><li>Walkman</li><li>Gym bag/shoes</li></ul><br/><strong>Hooks</strong>:<br/><br/>Maggie picks up the slack for her deadbeat mother and incarcerated father, working hours after school to provide for them and cleaning bottles from their two-bedroom apartment by herself before her kid siblings get there.   She's a teenage girl in most ways-- she gets crushes, she listens to music, she is self-conscious and she's impulsively emotional-- but in a lot of ways she has had to grow up quickly, forfeiting free time, self-development, and much-needed socializing.  Still, she carries it silently, stays to the fringes and gets by as best she can.  Cross-country is a big 'escape' for her, and she loves to lose herself in the music through her headphones as she runs, tuning out the world, disappearing into her own head while the world glides by one stride at a time.<br/><br/><strong>Tales</strong>:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Before her father was incarcerated, Mags' family camped out often, and she was often expected to tag along on his hunting trips.  She learned that she was sneaky enough to 'lose' her step-father eventually, and finally did so successfully at age 11.  Her father had drug her along on a particularly bad autumn trip in early deer season (her least favorite, as she loved deer), so-- under-supplied and miserable, she took her father's ammunition and disappeared into the forest one night.  Forest rangers were combing the woods and were prepared to alert authorities the next day when it was discovered that Mags, comfortable and safe, was at the family's apartment in the city, thirty-seven miles away from the woods where she'd left the hunt.</li><li>Mags joined the cross-country team last year as part of an agreement with a few faculty members at the school, who convinced her mother that the frequently-suspended girl needed to participate in an after-school activity to appease social workers who were threatening to take her from her home due to her truency and low academic performance.  In truth, Mags joined the team because it is the only break she gets from home.  She is avoiding her alcoholic mother who, without her husband's income since his 4-year sentence for assault and drunken/disorderly conduct, has increasingly demanded that Mags step up her hours at an after-school job to help 'make ends meet' (though she refuses to seek employment herself).  Mags still works between 20 and 40 hours a week after school and on weekends at a grocery store (her work permit is, actually, in jeopardy) and is occasionally paid 'under the table' to help overnight at a local garage... as such, she sleeps through most of her classes.</li><li>Her favorite place to go with her friends is a stretch of railroad-owned land, mostly just empty fields and a creek, she calls 'the barrens'.  She know where a break in a fence can be found and, on warmer nights, has even camped out there.  She met Grace, a homeless woman, there early one Spring.  She told Mags stories about her life, about working in a store in the rural South, about how her husband had locked her in an asylum until Reagan shut them all down and she was on the street, how she'd had a dog named Lad when she was a girl.  Then, one day, Mags returned to the barrens and found police there, so she stayed clear. A newspaper blurb the next day indicated that the homeless woman, Grace Carver, had been found dead at that spot.  Apparently, she'd been dead most of the winter, and was only found because of the smell when the thaw came.  Mags distinctly remembered conversing with her only two days prior.</li></ul><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Alfred "Al" Birche</strong></span><br/><strong>Player Name</strong>: TheHangedMan<br/><strong>Description</strong>: 14. Short brown hair (crew cut), sad brown eyes. Somewhat short, slightly chubby.<br/><strong>Clichés</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Video Games  </li><li>Reading  </li><li>Writing   </li><li> Music (Plays the flute) </li><li> Loves animals</li></ul><br/><strong>Tools</strong>:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Pan Flute (kept in a small carrying case) </li><li>Playstation Portable </li><li>Paperback of Lord of the Flies </li></ul><strong>Hooks</strong>:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Shy, and tends towards solitary activities. </li><li>Tends to freeze up like a rabbit when frightened.  </li><li>Fairly precocious. </li><li>When he speaks, it's often with a surprising degree of eloquence and sharp intellect for one so young. </li></ul><br/><strong>Tales</strong>:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Originally born into an abusive family. Wound up in the foster care system at the age of 8. Currently living with his third 'family'. Because of his constant moving around, and being subjected to new environments full of new people, Al has a tendency towards shyness and isolation. He's always expecting to be uprooted once again, so why bother sticking roots in the ground?</li><li>Once stood up to a bully at the age of 13, who was picking on someone else. Wound up with a broken left arm during the altercation, but broke the bully's nose and blackened both of his eyes. Consequently, he has earned a somewhat undeserved reputation for violence, which is further enforced by his loner tendencies. </li><li> Recently took in a kitten off the streets he found. It was half-blind and nearly dead from starvation, the mother either killed or having abandoned it; he wasn't sure which. However, he nursed the kitten back to health, with permission from his foster parents, and continues to take good care of it, finding much in common with the animal. </li></ul><br/>Read the oath. I think it's kind of silly that people actually need an oath, because I believe in self-accountability... but yes, "I agree to and understand The Oath of the Drake".[/list]<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Jeong Soo-Jin</strong></span><br/><strong>Player Name</strong>: Lithium<br/><strong>Description</strong>: Jin is fifteen, of full Korean descent and has brown eyes and hair. She's relatively short and petite but has already developed some curves which help her to look maybe a year or two older. She's not obsessed with her appearance, but she does generally try to look nice, and may even try to impress on a special occasion.<br/><br/><strong>Clichés</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>School, especially physics, math and chemistry</li><li>Chess</li><li>Gaming</li><li>Soccer</li><li>Playing piano</li><li>Reading</li><li>Movies</li></ul><br/><strong>Tools</strong>:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Smartphone</li><li>Laptop</li><li>Soccer goalkeeper gloves</li><li>Whatever latest book she's reading</li></ul><br/><strong>Hooks</strong>: Jin is a very focused, determined girl with rather high standards. She's smart, learns quickly and is naturally talented in several areas, so she tends to be condescending to others pretty often, usually not even intentionally. She just expresses herself quite directly most of the time and doesn't really consider the feelings of those that she's talking to until it's too late. She's sarcastic, cynical and pessimistic a lot of the time, thought that's not to be confused with always being serious, because she does like to have fun as well. She can also be quite bossy and controlling. All in all, Jin's personality has made her a polarizing personality at school. Some people who enjoy having somebody to follow rather than leading themselves like her, then there are others who fear and/or love and/or worship her for how seemingly amazing she is at a lot of things, and finally there are also those who dislike her to varying degrees for a number of different reasons.<br/><br/>She's very proper when she speaks and doesn't like to swear. Also, Jin kind of likes attention even if she pretends to not really care.<br/><br/><strong>Tales</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>When Jin went to sign up for the soccer team, the woman handling the registrations told her that she wouldn't make a good keeper because of her size, which is precisely why she insisted on the position just to prove her wrong. She's really vocal on the field during games and in practice, often acting like the captain even though she technically isn't. If not for the fact that the captain title was always given to one of the older girls, however, she probably would have already gotten it.</li><li>Her parents are devout Catholics and raised Jin to be one too, but at fourteen she had a huge debate with them when she admitted that she hated it and didn't believe any of it made any sense. It ended with her coming out about her atheism and her parents barely speaking to her for weeks after she refused to continue going to church.</li><li>Jin's most traumatizing experience was when she pissed off a bully at school by picking apart something that the other girl had said...which lead to her getting beat up in the locker room after gym class (luckily it was just the two of them so nobody else saw). She did get her revenge by getting the other girl expelled, though.</li></ul><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Robert Long</strong></span><br/><strong>Player Name</strong>: London<br/><strong>Description</strong>: Starting at age 14. Standing 5’3” and weighing 123lbs, Robert is a thin teenager with dark black hair and deep emerald green eyes. Normally dressed in an old army coat, it’s hard to tell much about him. He looks like most teenagers that live on the street.<br/><br/><strong>Clichés</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Gaming</li><li>Skateboarding</li><li>History Club</li><li>Drama Club</li><li>Sneaky</li></ul><br/><strong>Tools</strong>:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Skateboard</li><li>Old Army Jacket</li><li>Smart Phone</li><li>Backpack</li></ul><br/><strong>Hooks</strong>:<br/>Although impossible to tell just from looking at him, Robert comes from a very wealthy family. Being the youngest of four children, he has always been left behind and felt forgotten by most of his family. Even though he comes from money, he is nothing like his older sibling and flashing it around. Although he always has money in his pocket, he would be more likely to buy something for someone and give it to them without them knowing. Having always been independent, he has grown into a teen that feels like he doesn’t need anyone. This is far from the truth. Robert stays in the shadows most of the time, but truly enjoys acting in the Drama Club.<br/><br/><strong>Tales</strong>:<br/>When Robert was ten, he had met a group of skateboards that took him under their wing. Teaching him how to ride a skateboard at first, he also learned how to sneak out of the house. It wasn’t until he came home in the early hours of the morning and ran into his father that he realized that no one even missed him. Over the years, he became so skilled in sneaking around he started staying out more and more until he was barely home at all.<br/><br/>Going on vacation with his family one year, Robert slipped away from the others to ride his skateboard. Rolling down the boardwalk, he kicked his board up to walk under one of the piers. Seeing a girl around his own age playing in the sand, he moved closer to talk to her. Laughing with her for the longest time, he looked up when he heard his older sister yelling his name. Watching her walk over, his sister asked him when he had started making sand castles. Looking back to the castle the girl had been working, she had disappeared. His sister pulled him away telling him that everyone was waiting for him to go to dinner. As they walked away, Robert looked back over his shoulder, seeing the girl smile at him before vanishing before his eyes.<br/>