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Your Friend to the End! Hidy ho! Ha ha ha!

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Hello I need relationships that are mostly/semi functional for my child(s?).

Aidan 'Danny' Hill
- Danny to mostly everyone in his life, incl. friends and family. Aidan is just for government forms and the very occasional weirdo.
- Plays ice hockey with local team; plays right winger (he is left handed)
- On the dance team - used to do ballet but got told his 5' 7.5" ass wasn't tall enough to stick with it; now he does mainly jazz dancing but he'll try anything once.
- Bitchy - but mostly it’s cause he has no patience for fools. If you don't say stupid shit he won't be mean to you.
- Isn't afraid to throw down if you insist on saying stupid shit. Hockey experience etc.
- Not a huge social butterfly - he's happy with the friends he already has and isn't afraid to offend people who don't like what he's saying. Sorry not sorry.
- Pretty stressed about trying to be both good at dance and hockey.
- Favourite colour is orange
- Gay - family supports him, but not totally out at school cause he has a casually homophobic friend and that is not OK.
- Family is pushing him into picking between hockey and dance, cause they want him to get a good scholarship, and it pisses him off cause he doesn't want to only do one. But he'll probably wind up having to stick with hockey cause it feels more likely to turn into a scholarship.
- Lower-middle class background, lives in a rougherish but not horribly rough part of Vegas (written before area reveals). Family doesn’t have a tonne of money which is why a scholarship is important. Not dirt poor but he has two older sisters so it's a bigger family on not a huge income.
- Not actually sure what he’d want to study in college, just thinks going is important. Can’t really articulate why or plans outside ‘dance more’ or ‘hockey more’.
- Grades are pretty mediocre - academics isn’t very interesting to him. Likes cultural studies cause he likes learning about it in relation to sports and dance, but he doesn’t get to do that much in high school sadface 🙁
- He likes slasher movies and grizzly comics cause he finds it super cheesy and hilarious. <-- Tentative detail may change.
- Has two older twin sisters who work low-wage jobs in Vegas after doing community college. Already moved out full-time/moving out soonish. Two older sisters means he got babied a lot growing up which he resented, but now he’s bigger than both of them so jokes on them.
- Secretly afraid he’ll get stuck working dead end jobs in Vegas if dancing or hockey doesn’t work out but doesn’t want his sisters to think he’s criticising them so he doesn’t say anything.
- Very conscious of his appearance and what he wears. Just don't point out his crooked teeth.
- Fantastic posterior.

What we're looking for:
- Hockey/dance friends/rivals
- Friends he already has who won't say stupid shit
- People who say stupid shit and piss him off - consequences be damned
- He's pretty (don't call him that) so maybe some girls he's dated before he realised he only liked dudes
- Some dudes he's dated on the down-low. Seriously if you try to say anything in front of his unaware friends he will deny it then text you later to say he already said not to say anything

What we already have:
- Some weirdo named Buck who he plays hockey with and is 'technically' friends?
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LEt's go

Manuel "Mañana" Hernández

In the "says stupid shit and pisses him off" category. The first time, probably by accident, but on purpose every time after that. It's markedly funny for him.

...Uhhh that's all I got
The V9 Children themselves:

The Machininst
[+] Raya Loux
Tall, muscular, attractive mechanic girl. Part of a metalworking club and a confident, protective and and friendly personality.
The Petite
[+] Sylvie Rattray
Extremely tiny (4'7) soft girl and flyer for the cheer squad. Exciteable, peppy personality with a latent hidden layer of insecurity.
The Forlorn
[+] Céline Sharpe
Strange-named and stranged-clothed girl, ostracized and bullied for essentially being an advertising board for her "psychic" mother. As a result is extremely withdrawn.
The Tough Guy
[+] Manuel Mañana Hernández
Tall, stocky tough boy, member of the basketball team, nicknamed Mañana by his friends. Kind of a bully jock who treats his close friends with protectiveness and hearty, tough love.
Read all about them in detail in my pre-planning thread! viewtopic.php?t=9024
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Does Tomorrow enjoy getting his ass kicked? Cause that's what's gonna happen if he's saying stupid shit on purpose just to annoy Danny.

The first time anyway. If he keeps doing it then Danny's gonna catch on and just ignore him cause he's got better things to do.
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look at this man!!! I love him dearly

Lilliana met him when she tried out for dance and failed the audition miserably. Someone had to get her an ice pack and I’m guessing it was Danny. I would like to say they dated at some point, before the whole realization set in? She doesn’t know why they broke up, but she respected it and still wanted to be friends.

Kiandra would be such a funny case because introducing a trans woman into his life when he’s friends with a homophobe is so….I don’t know if she would be a friend or in the stupid shit category, because the first time the two of them are alone she’s gonna be like “my question is why are you friends with (TBA) when you’re as straight as a zigzag”….the gaydar is crazy
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Liliana Monroe
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Yusup Almas
The hothead who’s scared of falling behind.

Bak Ga-eul
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Lopaka Akana
The wrestler who’s a ray of sunshine.

Kiandra Davis
The high fashion doll whose dream is to be a supermodel.

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WE'RE BEST FRIENDS
[+] V9
Amber Barnes
Dennis "Buck" Buckley
Patty English
Alejandro Garcia de Teresa
[+] The Past
V8
S009 - Trinity Ashmore - DECEASED - Sasumata - Embrace the dark you call a home, gaze upon an empty white throne - overlords! > Zeus > Road > Recycle > Clarification > Now? > Dodge
Pregame - Annabelle > Light > Treasures

S019 - Robin Valenti - DECEASED - Bowie knife - And if you don't love me now, you will never love me again, I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain - Lights
Pregame - Tears
The Past - like > You
It's Media - awry

S038 - Jess Kawazoe - DECEASED - MAC-11 - What's going on? Could this be my understanding? It's not your fault, I was being too demanding - Veridis > Lines > Circuit > Human
Pregame - Voyager
It's Media - ALERT

S054 - Beatrice Briggs - DECEASED - Broadaxe - Calling for the hero, here comes a big rush, if only for tomorrow, hold on and push up - Prison > Healing > father > Flowers > Beautiful > Gentle > Sing > Ordovician > You > Permian > World > sunflower > universe
Pregame - Sunset

Left Behind (Pregame)
Poppy Fontaine - Here comes the sun, here comes the raging sun, and it's raging on and so we rage as one, on until the day is done - Pregame - door > Fight!
It's Media - neighbors

Ada Bentley - Stranded on an island made of glass, trapped between the future and the past - Pregame - Intro
It's Media - Typo! > Neighbourhood > everyone

V7
B006 - Stepney Cruz - DEAD - Dynasty decapitated, you just might see a ghost tonight - Mountain Bike - Localised - Catastrophe - Inferno
Pregame - Chill - Loss - Realm
Trip - Loved

G035 - Katie Agustien - DEAD - There's only two ways that these things can go, good or bad and how was I to know that all your friends won't hold any grudges, I got the final judgment - The World's Sharpest Knife™ - Dread - Skin - ieatnothing - Satisfaction - Tempest - Zero
Pregame - Vend-etta - Flames - Fleet - Monachopsis - Glitter
Trip - G҉ A҉ N҉ G҉

B028 - Aurelien Valter - DEAD - When everything's lost, they pick up their hearts and avenge defeat, before it all starts, they suffer through harm just to touch a dream - Spiked Mace, Glock 19, Min-Jae Parker's Crossbow - Nightmare - Bubbles - Neighbourhood - Tragedy - Make It - Fiend - Sleet - Love - Walls - Friends - Key - Everything - Gotta - Ghosts - Alone
Pregame - Shark - Heart
Prom - Link - Gradation - Ballare
Trip - Inferis - Scusare

B052 - Garren Mortimer - DEAD- Cut up and I can't feel my hands, no need to chase, can you relate, can you keep up the pace like you're dying for this? - Bryan Calvert's SPAS-12, Alligator tooth sword - Sky - Geek - Nation - No - Dilemma - Mauerbauertraurigkeit - Struck - Punishment - Énouement - Pain - Learn - lamb - Moves
Pregame - Rain
Trip - Life

Meanwhile
Lyra Doyle - Let's live tonight like fireflies, and one by one light up the sky - Pop!
Pregame - Evolution - Life - Lo Mein
Memories - Forward - Odds

Dean Puchero - By July you'd made a whole bunch of brand new friends, people you used to look down on, and you'd figured out a way to make real money - Phone - Angel
Pregame - Generation - Prince
Memories - Star
Prom - Sun - Luster

V6
Bryony Adams - Burning bright until the end, now you'll be missing from the photographs
Astrid Tate - So what became of loving man, and what became of you?
Mia Rose - You can't understand that I won't leave 'til we're finished here, and then you'll find out where it all went wrong

V5
Owen Kay - I fold my tie and ribbon to hide my scars, that's how it starts
Amy Bachelor - Can you whisper, as it crumbles and breaks, as you shiver, count up all your mistakes
Francis St. Ledger - So a day when you've lost yourself completely could be a night when your life ends

V4
George Leidman (Adopted from Blastinus) - Now if we jump together at least we can swim far away from the wreck that we made
Tim - Freddie - Kendra
[+] The Future
Boyd Adkinson - Ain't no surprise that I can't sleep tonight, my only vice is standing by your side
Redd Quintero
Melissa 'Lissa' McCree
Jamie Mittelman
Tabitha 'Tabby' Sun
Natalie McGuiness
Takumi Tsunoda
Ophelia Wright
Anna Montgomery
Jordan Rush
Patton Tesser
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Slam wrote: Wed Nov 20, 2024 8:22 am Hello I need relationships that are mostly/semi functional for my child(s?).

Aidan 'Danny' Hill
- Danny to mostly everyone in his life, incl. friends and family. Aidan is just for government forms and the very occasional weirdo.
- Plays ice hockey with local team; plays right winger (he is left handed)
- On the dance team - used to do ballet but got told his 5' 7.5" ass wasn't tall enough to stick with it; now he does mainly jazz dancing but he'll try anything once.
- Bitchy - but mostly it’s cause he has no patience for fools. If you don't say stupid shit he won't be mean to you.
- Isn't afraid to throw down if you insist on saying stupid shit. Hockey experience etc.
- Not a huge social butterfly - he's happy with the friends he already has and isn't afraid to offend people who don't like what he's saying. Sorry not sorry.
- Pretty stressed about trying to be both good at dance and hockey.
- Favourite colour is orange
- Gay - family supports him, but not totally out at school cause he has a casually homophobic friend and that is not OK.
- Family is pushing him into picking between hockey and dance, cause they want him to get a good scholarship, and it pisses him off cause he doesn't want to only do one. But he'll probably wind up having to stick with hockey cause it feels more likely to turn into a scholarship.
- Lower-middle class background, lives in a rougherish but not horribly rough part of Vegas (written before area reveals). Family doesn’t have a tonne of money which is why a scholarship is important. Not dirt poor but he has two older sisters so it's a bigger family on not a huge income.
- Not actually sure what he’d want to study in college, just thinks going is important. Can’t really articulate why or plans outside ‘dance more’ or ‘hockey more’.
- Grades are pretty mediocre - academics isn’t very interesting to him. Likes cultural studies cause he likes learning about it in relation to sports and dance, but he doesn’t get to do that much in high school sadface 🙁
- He likes slasher movies and grizzly comics cause he finds it super cheesy and hilarious. <-- Tentative detail may change.
- Has two older twin sisters who work low-wage jobs in Vegas after doing community college. Already moved out full-time/moving out soonish. Two older sisters means he got babied a lot growing up which he resented, but now he’s bigger than both of them so jokes on them.
- Secretly afraid he’ll get stuck working dead end jobs in Vegas if dancing or hockey doesn’t work out but doesn’t want his sisters to think he’s criticising them so he doesn’t say anything.
- Very conscious of his appearance and what he wears. Just don't point out his crooked teeth.
- Fantastic posterior.

What we're looking for:
- Hockey/dance friends/rivals
- Friends he already has who won't say stupid shit
- People who say stupid shit and piss him off - consequences be damned
- He's pretty (don't call him that) so maybe some girls he's dated before he realised he only liked dudes
- Some dudes he's dated on the down-low. Seriously if you try to say anything in front of his unaware friends he will deny it then text you later to say he already said not to say anything

What we already have:
- Some weirdo named Buck who he plays hockey with and is 'technically' friends?
Rita and Danny probably had a couple dates before Danny realized he was gay, but Rita was very supportive of him and now they're close friends. She is absolutely dragging his behind to the dance club if he isn't in it already.
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Pippi wrote: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:32 pm Image

WE'RE BEST FRIENDS
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Lilliana met him when she tried out for dance and failed the audition miserably. Someone had to get her an ice pack and I’m guessing it was Danny. I would like to say they dated at some point, before the whole realization set in? She doesn’t know why they broke up, but she respected it and still wanted to be friends.
I think you might be overestimating Danny's kindness and willingness to provide ice. He is not the 'hey at least she tried' kind of guy when it comes to the dance team, he is the 'stop wasting our time' member of the judge panel. I don't see why they couldn't have dated but I think she would've had to make the first move.
Kiandra would be such a funny case because introducing a trans woman into his life when he’s friends with a homophobe is so….I don’t know if she would be a friend or in the stupid shit category, because the first time the two of them are alone she’s gonna be like “my question is why are you friends with (TBA) when you’re as straight as a zigzag”….the gaydar is crazy
I am not sure that Danny would intentionally seek out spending time with someone as out and proud as Kiandra due to not wanting to raise questions amongst his hockey/homophobe friends, but I don't think he would actively avoid her either. Hard to gauge whether she falls into the stupid shit category without dialogue.
Rita and Danny probably had a couple dates before Danny realized he was gay, but Rita was very supportive of him and now they're close friends. She is absolutely dragging his behind to the dance club if he isn't in it already.
Grl Danny does not need you to drag his ass to dance club, he was there before signups opened. The wealth disparity between the two may cause some conflict, especially if Rita is insensitive about it. Dating is plausible.
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hi I hope ur having a good day!! I don’t usually respond again but I thought the relationships changed enough that I should.
I think you might be overestimating Danny's kindness and willingness to provide ice. He is not the 'hey at least she tried' kind of guy when it comes to the dance team, he is the 'stop wasting our time' member of the judge panel. I don't see why they couldn't have dated but I think she would've had to make the first move.
Okay so this does change things actually! If he had made that comment about wasting time….Lilliana would’ve gotten upset, like REALLY upset, and that would solidify not going there. I could see her as she’s leaving behind like “it’s not that serious….” yeah….dating might be a problem then
I am not sure that Danny would intentionally seek out spending time with someone as out and proud as Kiandra due to not wanting to raise questions amongst his hockey/homophobe friends, but I don't think he would actively avoid her either. Hard to gauge whether she falls into the stupid shit category without dialogue.
Kiandra would probably be the one who would have to instigate conversation then, and probably only IF the two of them are alone then. I literally could not tell you if the two of them would click? Kiandra is brutally honest to everyone and I don’t know if Danny would take it kindly if she was making negative comments about the team.
HI LOVELY!
[+] MEET THE FIZZSTERS
Liliana Monroe
The hopeful girl who is just trying to find the right pathway.

Yusup Almas
The hothead who’s scared of falling behind.

Bak Ga-eul
The ex-homeschool who’s trying so hard to fit in.

Lopaka Akana
The wrestler who’s a ray of sunshine.

Kiandra Davis
The high fashion doll whose dream is to be a supermodel.

Celestino “Les” Koh
The hippee who is 100% high right now.

....oh girl you want more? okay now we're doing a bit too much....just go to THIS LINK and leave me alone AAHHH
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Hey there, here are some ideas I have for your character Danny:

I think Thomas Shaw and Danny could have known each other. I say "known" because Thomas likes to say random thoughts; some are interesting but others could be seen as stupid. So Danny tells Thomas to shut up the first time but Thomas (being Thomas) doesn't remember Danny telling him to shut up and does it repeatedly.

Based on your description, Thomas would eventually get beaten up, but Thomas is a snitch, so he snitches on Danny, and Danny gets punished (not expelled, maybe suspended or just detained?) So the two now hate each other.

Then my other character Chester would know Danny since Danny is in hockey and Danny would at least be aware of Chester.

That's just my overall idea, let me know what you think!
V9 characters:
Thomas Shaw - The Nerd
Chester Mullivan - The Kindhearted athlete
Kaede Miller - The Charismatic Theater kid
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Okay so this does change things actually! If he had made that comment about wasting time….Lilliana would’ve gotten upset, like REALLY upset, and that would solidify not going there. I could see her as she’s leaving behind like “it’s not that serious….” yeah….dating might be a problem then
qq cry harder Liliana, come back when you've got some actual rhythm. Probs no dating then.
Kiandra would probably be the one who would have to instigate conversation then, and probably only IF the two of them are alone then. I literally could not tell you if the two of them would click? Kiandra is brutally honest to everyone and I don’t know if Danny would take it kindly if she was making negative comments about the team.
Well Danny is critical but he's still a team player, so he won't be chill if Kiandra is making pointless shots at his teammates. As for them clicking I think we just need to get some a better sense of personality in some scenes and go from there later on in pregame.
I think Thomas Shaw and Danny could have known each other. I say "known" because Thomas likes to say random thoughts; some are interesting but others could be seen as stupid. So Danny tells Thomas to shut up the first time but Thomas (being Thomas) doesn't remember Danny telling him to shut up and does it repeatedly.

Based on your description, Thomas would eventually get beaten up, but Thomas is a snitch, so he snitches on Danny, and Danny gets punished (not expelled, maybe suspended or just detained?) So the two now hate each other.
Danny isn't going to beat up Thomas just for being annoying, only if he's deliberately antagonistic. If he's that kind of guy then sure but I get the impression he's more just oblivious?
Then my other character Chester would know Danny since Danny is in hockey and Danny would at least be aware of Chester.
Mutual awareness sounds fine and dandy.
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Danny isn't going to beat up Thomas just for being annoying, only if he's deliberately antagonistic. If he's that kind of guy then sure but I get the impression he's more just oblivious?
So would they be friends, or just partially know each other? Thomas is oblivious only if he hasn't been told about it before. If Danny told him Thomas would be more careful. It was just that based on your description Danny would seem like the sort of guy to beat him up for acting like an idiot every now and then.
Mutual awareness sounds fine and dandy.
Sounds good

Also, I made a new character named Kaede Miller, whose on the dance team, so they would know each other. Maybe they dated before having a mutual (or messy) break up?
V9 characters:
Thomas Shaw - The Nerd
Chester Mullivan - The Kindhearted athlete
Kaede Miller - The Charismatic Theater kid
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