forum Take Me Down To Paradise City (4/4) (OPEN)

Started May 29, 2022 by @CWPoofToxicRush

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Okay, so I know I'm referencing Guns n Roses in the title, but this is actually based more on the album American Idiot by Green Day, and my own ideal rewrite of the musical adaptation because the vibes have been floating around my head rent-free.

Three teenagers each escape their own suburban hellhole for the city. While there, they find themselves clumsily navigating the Underground, until they catch the eye of the mysterious, respected, and sometimes feared, Saint Jimmy, who decides to take these lost little misfits under their leather wing.

Saint Jimmy is obviously based on the song St. Jimmy, the other three are based on different parts of Jesus Of Suburbia

(I basically copied and pasted my general vibe for each character from the doc I'm using to write this, you're very much allowed to change details such as backstory, gender, etc as you see fit, this is me throwing spaghetti at the wall)

City Of The Damned- A sweet and fairly soft-spoken girl, who has developed the unfortunate habit of making sure no one else knows what she's feeling. Her plot focuses mainly on learning to trust more. TAKEN BY me

I Don’t Care- He wants you to think he is a glam metal, unshakeable rock star. He is not. He’s a dork who is so desperate for love, that he doesn’t actually know how to enforce his own boundaries. Most of his plot is trying to unlearn all of that. He’s good for faking vulnerability to others TAKEN BY @imNOTdenki

Dearly Beloved- He tries to hide his exhaustion as a hangover, but it’s really from being made to take on a paternal role when he was way too young, and being shoved aside for the younger kids when someone did come to relieve him of his duties. If he is visibly tired, he jokes he headbanged too hard to whatever thrash metal he was listening to so whoever asks shuts up about it. Half his plot is just trying to get him to actually focus on himself for once. TAKEN BY @Tired-but-passionate

Saint Jimmy- A mysterious figure in the underground, Jimmy is equal parts feared and respected. No one really knows what the hell they are, gender-wise, but they slip between any role easily, taking on whatever they think is most comforting to the person they are with. They can play the part of comforting and affectionate mother, stern protective father, and weird older cousin who told you about lavender town syndrome when you were nine equally well. While generally well-meaning, they can easily lead someone they want to help down the same self-destructive paths they walk. TAKEN BY @FanfictionFanatic

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Name: Frances "Frankie" Conners
Age: 17
Gender: Female, she/her
Sexuality: Bisexual
Appearance: Messy brown hair that is curly, but poorly maintained (she usually throws it in a ponytail), fair skin from hiding indoors most of the time, with freckles dotting her cheeks and brown eyes. She stands at around 5'5, with a fairly lanky frame. She tends to dress in second-hand, grungey clothes that hang loosely off her body.
Personality: Often very shy and quiet, and usually somewhat content to stand or sit back and listen to what's happening around her, as opposed to actually participating, seeing as she usually gets spoken over anyways. If you do manage to get her to talk, though, she won't shut up-she's excited and wants to get everything out before you lose interest. She is very kind and fiercely loyal if she decided she likes you.
Backstory: (optional, doesn't even have to be very detailed) Specifics, N/A, she got sick of her life back home, packed up her shit, and left at midnight one night.
Other: Plays guitar, it's her most prized possession. Suggest selling it and she'll end you.

Name: Alister Storm
Age: 17
Gender: male
Sexuality: gay
Appearance: he stands at about 5’8, but his wild, mahogany hair makes him look taller. His body is slim, with only a little muscle to define his limbs. You might call his body looking malnourished. His face is also slim, but round, with an olive complexion and warm undertones. Freckles also splatter across his skin. He has silvery eyes, and to make his wild hair look more presentable, he likes to put little braids in it. It’s also just something about his appearance that he likes. He has a scar on his forehead, and more scars on his legs and wrists. You’ll often find him soft flannels and loose pants. Generally his clothes look a little big and loose.
Personality: Alister likes to joke that half of his personality is just symptoms of his mental illness. His anxiety, depression, and PTSD all cover up and prevent him from being who he truly is, but over time he started to absorb his issues into his identity. This made him afraid of healing from his mental illness, as well as forget who he was before he developed these conditions. Deep down, his is a very loving and caring individual, and altruistic. He is extremely protective of his younger sister, and anything that happens to her is one of the few things that can make Alister angry. Taking care of Noel has been his main focus for the majority of his life, but this has fed into his trust issues and inability to deal with his own inner emotions and needs. He is actually pretty honest about why he appears drained or exhausted, but he plays it off as a joke.
Backstory: Alister and his sister Noel are survivors of child abuse. Their alcoholic father would hit and scream at them, accuse them of being demons infesting his house. Now, Alister suspects he may have had schizophrenia. The siblings had been born with strange abilities, which may have been a part of why their father has this delusion of demons about them. Alister could control the air around him, and Noel always had a knack for speaking to birds. They didn’t quite understand it, but would often use their powers to protect themselves. However, this would only reinforce their father’s delusion of them, and thus make him more aggressive. After a few months within them discovering what they could do and causing strange occurrences, their father kicked them out of the house. They went through a bunch of foster homes for a few years before running away. Sure enough, they ended up in the Underground, but sticking together has kept them alive so far.
Other: he used to sh when he was younger, but he stopped once he and Noel were put into the foster system. One of the families they stayed with got them into therapy, but the expenses proved too much and they stopped going after a couple of months. Both Alister and Noel have also been suppressing their abilities, as they are afraid of them. This makes their abilities incredibly stunted and unstable.

Name: Finnegan Wesley Rickey François
Age:17
Gender: male
Sexuality: all the love
Appearance: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/817987811276750868/980702750503493642/f9e394759668550b2f9b784621ba54a3.jpg
Personality: very extroverted and loud, they tend to have humor as a coping mechanism along with just making passing jokes to make people smile. He tries to cheer people up a lot of the time as he's not super emotionally intelligent when he needs to be. He's very loose with boundaries, which leads to him not really letting you know if something bothers him or if he's uncomfortable. He would just laugh it off if you made him upset. He's just a huge loveable and caring dork. He Cares a lot more then he shows.
Backstory:he's been neglected a lot by his family, very much feeling like his family didn't really love him for who he was, Which probably had to do with his ability. Since he feels the neglect at home he's decided to out a superficial personality at school to get people to accept and like him, saying thats a total Rockstar and a jokester and thsts really all he has too him.. let's just say he's had his fair share of toxic relationships all the while.
Other: besties ability is well his hair lights on fire when he's pissed, though his eyes start to glow if he gets frustrated, along with his hair glow. He can also become the fire he creates, leading his external body temperature to be way over the heat index that's normal.