forum Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. // OxO // ClOSED

Started August 24, 2022 by @EtherealDreamer

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ILOVEHERSOMUCH

I love her too!

so now, our own personal characters!
We can make the Character form more detailed for these ones–

Ok

Name: Aspen Rotario
Age (both physically and mentally): 16.
Pronouns: she/her
Hair color/type long slightly curly dark hair (black) with streaks of Midnight blue throughout it.
Eye color: chlorine blue with flecks of cloudy day blue.
Appearance: Aspen is tall and curvy, she stands at 6'1. She is pale and has a spatter of freckles across her cheeks and the bridge of her button nose. She is considered muscular and strong, as she spent middle school playing select softball. She has thin, long, elegant fingers and bony hands and ankles as well as knees.
Personality: Aspen is socially anxious and withheld. She has spent her whole life trying to branch out, but has always failed or put it off. She strives to prove herself worthy to everyone she befriends and also wants to constantly show them that she is a good person by being overly funny or talkative.
Ability: levitation (towards objects and other living things)
Background: Aspen has lived with her parents happily until about three months prior, as her Father also had the power to levitate things. He died from brain cancer and she ran away from her mother, who took all her anger out on her daughter.

Name: River Rodriguez
Age (both physically and mentally): 16
Pronouns: he/him
Hair color/type: Messy dark brown hair that is impossible to tame
Eye color: Chocolate brown with bright golden flecks
Appearance: River is lean and he's 5'7 1/2". He has bronze skin and his nose is slightly crooked since he broke it at a young age when one of the older kids punched him in the face. He's agile and quick both physically and mentally since he's been bullied for most of his life. He has various small nicks and scars all over his arms and hands, and because of this he usually wears long sleeves and gloves to not only cover them up but it gives him a sense of security. He gets really bad anxiety when he's not wearing his gloves because he feels vulnerable and that someone will attack him.
Personality: Charismatic, uses humor as a shield to deflect the trauma, insecurities, and loneliness, dramatic, sarcastic, clever, sly, ambivert, friendly, loyal, observant, compassionate, forgives but never forgets
Ability: Fluid Kinesis (can manipulate any type of liquid matter; water, blood, poison, oil, etc.)
Background: River never knew his parents and has lived in an orphange for his entire life. The orphanage was more like a hellhole since the adults always turned a blind eye to whenever the older kids beat him up. It took him 16 years to finally figure out that he should leave, and that's what he did. He's been trying to convince himself that not everyone is like the people at the orphange, but he still chooses to live on the streets instead of asking for help/an actual place to stay.

I'm asking this because I'm a dumbass but does the time loop take place in 1981 or is 1981 going to be like the modern time for our personal characters?

good question, I was planning on the time loop being 1981, and the modern time being like late 2000's? Like around 2002-2006.

Alright, sounds good

mk, here's the starter.

Aspen squinted into the morning sun, she adjusted the backpack full of her belongings and kept walking, her bony ankles were coated in a thin layer of dirt and dust.
She had been walking for three days, stopping only to rest and sleep when she found a secluded enough area.
She had seen another person, who looked about her age, a few hours prior, heading in the opposite direction. She took a small swig of water from a canteen and put it back into the side pocket of her bag.

She began to hum, though she could not remember exactly what tune it was, but she remembered it was something from her childhood.

River slumped up against the side of an abandoned building, exhausted. He didn't know exactly where he was, but he was getting farther and farther away from the orphange with every step he took and that's all that mattered to him.

He took a shakey breath before forcing himself to get up and keep moving. The last time he had water was a few hours ago, when he saw a girl who looked his age go towards the place he was escaping from.

He kept his head low as he walked, ignoring the sharp pangs of hunger he felt. With any luck he'd find some food soon, but he did his best to not dwell on the thought.

Aspen decided after a quick meal of dried cranberries, that she would instead double back to the orphanage, where she decided to head back, following the trail of the young man she had seen previously. After an hour and a half of using her fastest walking speed, the young man came into view.

Due to her elegantly long legs, she was able to easily speed up, and within two minutes he was near enough for her to reach out with her equally long arms and touch his shoulder.
"Uhm excuse me?" She said timidly, keeping her voice low as to not scare the stranger to much by trying to speak to him.

River whirled around, his body tense, but he relaxed slightly when he recognized the stranger he saw only hours before.

"Oh, hi," he said, his voice sounding hoarse due to lack of hydration. "Didn't I see you go that way a few hours ago?" He indicated to the direction she came from, a polite but weary smile on his face.

"yes" Aspen responded warily.
"I was—" she paused and looked down, a blush creeping into her cheeks.
"I was wondering if I could go with you? It's better to travel in pairs."

River blinked in surprise. "I honestly have no idea where I'm going, but uh, sure."

He suddenly started coughing, his throat burning in irritation from talking.

"Hey…do you happen to have some water on you?" He rasped, forcing back another coughing fit. "I've been very dehydrated lately for some reason."

"oh! Yes! Here–"

Aspen's eyebrows shot up, almost touching her hairline in a rather comical way, she stopped, swinging her back to the ground, where it hit with a muffled WHUMP and pulled her canteen out of the side pocket, handing it to him.

She then unzipped the biggest pouch, where all her food was stored and handed him a mini bag of beef jerky and blueberries.

River took a long sip of wtaer from the canteen, sighing in relief.

"Thank you so much," he said to her, his eyes shining with gratitude. He took some of the beef jerky out of the bag and took a small bite from it, savoring the taste.

"I completely forgot to introduce myself," he said once he swallowed the food he was eating. "I'm River."

Aspen smiled shyly and tucked a wavy strand of her black, midnight blue streaked hair behind her ear.

"Aspen." She said, her eyes flickering from his face, then away, then back again.

"Pleasure to meet you Aspen," River grinned, feeling more like his old self.

"So, where are you- or I mean, we, heading off too?" He asked, popping a few of the blueberries into his mouth.

Aspen looked up and then shrugged.

"I don't exactly know, but I'm getting this feeling that I– we— need to continue going East." She said quietly "I don't know why, I can't really explain it, but it's this feeling that I— we—- have too."

She gently removed the canteen from under his arm, where he had unintentionally put it, and took a sip, placing it back.

"Perfect," he smiled. "I was kind of heading in that direction anyway."

He unconsciously fiddled with the black leather gloves on his hands, staring thoughfully into the distance.

"What do you think we'll find there?" He asked curiously, turning his brown-gold eyes back to Aspen.

"I don't know." Aspen admitted. "I've been having a reoccuring dream since I ran— started off I mean— about a woman with beautiful long golden hair and matching golden eyes."

She rubbed the back of her neck shyly, as if she knew admitting this was ridiculous and that the idea that she might be heading towards the woman was laughable.

"Sounds fascinating," River said earnestly.

"I haven't had any dreams of this beautiful mystery woman but you seem nice and I trust your judgement," he said once he finished eating the rest of the blueberries.

He placed the bag of beef jerky back into the pocket of her backpack and smiled at Aspen. "Shall we continue East?" He asked.

"yes." Aspen said, a little too loudly, then cleared her throat "I mean, yes."

She eyed the small bag on his back.
"Do you have enough clothes and stuff? Your bag seems very small." She said in earnest concern.
"I can give you clothes if you don't have enough, and we can share food and water, obviously."

"I have enough clothes," River said quickly, not wanting to be a complete burden to his new traveling companion.

"It's fine, really," he assured her, already walking down the path. "We should get going before it gets too dark."