forum Reboot of the Selection RP! (New peeps are cool too)

Started January 31, 2020 by @gracehustle

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Name: Cassandra Parks
Nickname(s): Cass, Cassie, Karma
Age: 19
Caste: 6
Sexuality: Bisexual
Appearance: Cassie has surprisingly glossy black hair despite all odds, not to mention stunning Egyptian blue eyes that are near impossible not to love. She has very fair skin dotted with freckles. Food is stretched pretty thin so she's very skinny for a girl her age.
Personality: She's been through hell so she's tough and very much a fighter. She's extremely sarcastic and has no problem standing up for herself even if it's smarter to just keep her mouth shut. She can be rather impulsive which can get her into trouble. But she can also be super sweet and caring since she's pretty much the mother of the house.
Background (Optional): Cassie is the oldest of 5 children and is pretty much the boss. Her father died when she was 4 years old and since then, her mother turned her love of her husband to a bottle of whiskey. Her younger brother Vincent is 17 and her younger sister Mariah is 15. However, her mother did go out and get knocked up by a man she wasn't married to so in order to not make her mother an Eight, they took on the twins that Cassie had to midwife at 6 years old as blood siblings even though they're technically stepsiblings. Luke and Reina are 13 with Luke being 4 minutes older as he loves to remind his twin sister. The only reason she entered the Selection was so that maybe she could get her family out of the hole that their mother dug them into.
Family: Her mother, her brother Vincent, her sister Mariah, and her technical stepsiblings Luke and Reina.
Other: She's a writer so she spends most of her time inside and has developed a rather wide imagination.

Name: Luxa Harper
Nickname: Lux
Age: 18
Caste: Caste 5
Sexuality: Pansexual
Appearance: Luxa is of fairly average height, around 5'5," and moderately athletic. Her skin is lighly tanned, but a rather pink colour, so she often looks embarassed for no reason. She has short, curly white-blonde hair that flies in all directions unless otherwise tamed, and startlingly blue eyes. Also, she wears glasses because she's very blind. https://pin.it/36hcolt4kabxu5
Personality: Luxa is an iNtElLeCtUaL with a healthy dose of social ineptitude. Her main "emotion" is sarcasm, and she has to struggle to take anything seriously, because she usually makes jokes about all serious issues, rather than actually facing them. But she's… great at reading, so… there's that.
Background (Optional): Most of her family are musicians, and Luxa, herself, learned to play the piano from a young age, but she really wants to be an author. She's exactly the middle child in her family of five children.
Family:
Mother: Not Applicable
Father: Thomas Harper
Siblings: Alicia, Lennon, Lynna + Alden (Lyn and Al are twins and are the youngest)
Other: Lemme know if this character works lol

Name: Nikoleta Rossetti
Nickname (If any): Niko, also open to anything else
Age: 19
Caste: Five
Sexuality: Straight
Appearance: She's white but fairly well tanned and wears her dark blonde hair in space buns a lot. Similar to a half-up half-down look. Her eyes are a greenish hazel with thick lashes. Her face is diamond shaped, body curvy and delicate. Usually, she wears a more casual dress, her favorite being a yellow one she was given for her birthday last spring.
(I believe in the books they make girls from lower castes put on a fancier dress, so she'd probably wear something like this.)
Personality: She's a sweet girl, she can be a bit timid among large crowds, but can do just fine with a smaller group. She has a cheery disposition about her, but despite everything, she feels it's unlikely for her to be chosen. She mostly came for the experience and if somehow she did win… her family would be able to have anything they ever wanted. (In short: Still developing)
Background (Optional): If anything, Niko feels fairly happy with her life. Yeah, it would be nice were she able to buy a new ukulele that wasn't desperately in need of new strings. It would be wonderful to see her parents in a nice, big house.
Family: Mother and father, and a little brother at age 6
Other: Since she's a 5, she's part of the performer caste. She occasionally performs dances, but mostly sticks to playing instruments, one of her favorites being ukulele. Niko was also a spring baby, which probably explains why she gets cold easily.

Talin adjusted his suit one more time as he looked out the window in his room. The girls were arriving at that very moment, and he would be meeting with them for the first time in less than a few hours. First they would have lunch and then after his mother gave the official introduction into the palace, he would meet with them, something that made him very nervous but also excited. Hopefully things would go well, and he hoped all of the girls liked it here. It was the start of one of the biggest moments of his life, and he was very ready to keep the family line going.

Cressida pulled her jacket tighter around her body, as if by doing so, she was blocking the clicks and flashes of the cameras aimed at her blocked. She hated all the attention, and wished that she was anywhere else.

Cassie sparkled at the attention, not really used to getting it from her own home. She followed along the path, trying to keep moving although she did occasionally stop to talk to people. This was so strange for her. As the lowest caste there, getting so much attention was unusual but highly welcomed.

Zaera kept her head high as she made her way towards the palace. She was used to the attention and camera clicks. That was one benefit growing up surrounded by the media she supposed. Her attention didn't go to the press though, oh no it went to the people there to see her, not the people who were going to turn against her for a good story.

Zia blinked and hesitated a little as she approached the palace. She didn't know what to do. She ran her hands over her hair nervously. She wasn't used to stuff like this. To being watched. Unlike many of the other girls, she was wearing pants and a shirt. Nice ones, but she hated dresses and didn't want to wear them unless she had to.

(The palace looks similar to the Spelling Mansion if you want to look it up, though it has an extra floor of the girl's rooms, and also the report room, the banquet hall, safe rooms and a few more rooms (I'll go into more detail about the added rooms if anyone asks))
Eventually, he made his way out of the safety of his room, slowly making his way towards the great room, where he would be meeting the girls. It was near where the ladies were going to be, in the ladies parlor, one of the only places in the palace that he wasn't allowed to go. Talin made sure he took the longest path there though, wandering through the hallways and studying the paintings and pictures hanging out on the walls between each of the large windows looking out on the gardens.

Zaera stepped into the main palace entrance. She had been here a few times already, but this time was for an entirely different reason. Taking a deep breath Zaera entered the palace assuming a guard would bring her to where she was supposed to be, and luckily for her. One indeed did.

(Sorry, forgot I had singing practice tonight lol)

Nikoleta forced her plush lips into a smile as she walked forwards. As soon as the flashing of cameras were blocked by the walls of the palace, the girl allowed herself to bite her lip. She felt so small here behind these other girls in their fancy dresses and petticoats. All she had on was a dress from home, looking dull in comparison. Looking around, Niko noticed one of the other girls wore simply what was comfortable. Still, it looked professional and proper. Peeking around the shoulders of a few other girls in front of her, she noticed they were being lead to a large room. The guards escorting them averted their eyes and stood at the door once they all arrived at their destination. Were they not allowed inside? Looking around, things became more clear. They were to be made what Caste One members saw as presentable. That, Niko supposed, especially applied to herself. Soon, she found herself being plucked from the mix of girls and spun around to sit in a chair. An older woman peered down at her, examining her every feature. After a few more moments of uncomfortable silence, the woman smiled politely at Nikoleta. Thus began her makeover.

As Cressida was violently dragged over to a changing room - and I say violently, she was clucked over by a woman only about a decade or so older than her.

"Nice features," the woman said, as if she was unaware that Cress was in the room. "A little bit bland, though. We'll need to spice things up a bit, yes we will. And so tiny, too! I'll try heels. May make her seem more sure of herself."

Cress looked alarmed. "Excuse me? Um…what's all this about heels? I don't need any heels! I'm fine, really!"

(Shit, sorry, my rehearsal ran long yesterday and my phone doesn't work during the school day)
Luxa pushed up her glasses up nervously, glancing at the crowd leading towards the palace. Which was where Luxa now had to go. Into the crowd. Luckily, she made it to the doors with a minimal amount of wincing. She rushed inside the building, following a group of girls she had to assume were the selected. She was almost immediately herded into another room, where she was stared at for an uncomfortably long amount of time. "Sorry, er, is there a plan for - " Luxa was quickly shushed as the three - three! - other people in the room muttered quietly to each other. Well. What else could she have expected, really?

Zaera was very patient as the maids began to meddle with her hair and face. She would rather they not, but doubted she had a choice in the matter. The only time she would contest is if she looked like a clown. Which with how they were going she was worried that was going to happen with how they were going. She internally sighed with plans of staying just a little bit later, fashionably late was always acceptable, to fix herself up.