Jumping Trains [Newt's bbys]

[margaret]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,5,true][atrb=style, background:#e1e1e1; width:350px; padding:3px, bTable][cs=3] Margaret Taryn Teuiski SENIOR - AVERAGE - HIPSTER - SOCCER CAPTAIN - BLUNT - APP
[atrb=valign,top] [style=background:#e1e1e1; font-size:9px; line-height:12px; text-transform:uppercase; float:left; padding:0 3px; padding-bottom:1px; margin-right:5px;] BROS Friends? More like acquaintances. Teu is super outgoing, despite claiming that she hates it, but she isn't outgoing with friends. She can chat easily with people, make small talk, but she is slow to give herself to people. Over the years her friendships have probably been rocky at best, but crooked loyalty is something Teu is good at. I suspect she has a couple very close friends whom she confides in and shows her vulnerabilities to, but other than that, she restricts 'friendships' to those in her extracurriculars. [/style]	[atrb=valign,top] [style=background:#e1e1e1; font-size:9px; line-height:12px; text-transform:uppercase; float:left; padding:0 3px; padding-bottom:1px; margin-right:5px;] ANTI-BROS With her blunt nature and her ability to piss off any person in just five minutes, Teu is bound to have enemies. People in the town, those she's pushed away constantly, even people who just catch her at a bad time. Margaret is a force to be reckoned with, and when she's under the influence of anger, you better beware. She's also too stubborn to apologize, so wounds she inflicts and wounds that were inflicted on her would last a long time. I'd love for her to have some soccer rivalry. [/style]	[atrb=valign,top] [style=background:#e1e1e1; font-size:9px; line-height:12px; text-transform:uppercase; float:left; padding:0 3px; padding-bottom:1px; margin-right:5px;] BELOVED BROS oh my gosh she'll have some drama llamas! Though she's not exactly a 'catch', Teu's had two or three relationships in her four years, one of them being her experimentation with other girls. That didn't work out, and there could be some wounds. Also, with her steady boyfriend before that, she basically pushed him away and ended it without any reason why. While in relationships, she's basically cuddly or standoffish, and with her moody nature, someone's gonna have to try real hard to keep her adventurous and impulsive nature in check. But, if they do manage to win her over, they've got one heck of a prize. [/style]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,5,true][atrb=style, background:#e1e1e1; width:350px; padding:3px, bTable][cs=3] Phoebe Amelia Dashiell SOPHOMORE - AVERAGE - MUSICAL -OUTGOING - FORGETFUL - APP
[atrb=valign,top] [style=background:#e1e1e1; font-size:9px; line-height:12px; text-transform:uppercase; float:left; padding:0 3px; padding-bottom:1px; margin-right:5px;] BROS Definitely a lot of bros here. This sophomore girl is extremely outgoing, friendly, and a bit on the hyper-active side. She's overly affectionate, a bit too ambitious about things and can definitely get a bit crazy and enthusiastic when something goes her way or she's really into a conversation or an activity. You love music? Great! She'd love to talk to you for hours about everything from theory to obscure indian duduk techniques. Get her a mountain dew and you've found a french girl willing to talk your ears off. It's not hard to be her friend, you've just got to show you care. [/style]	[atrb=valign,top] [style=background:#e1e1e1; font-size:9px; line-height:12px; text-transform:uppercase; float:left; padding:0 3px; padding-bottom:1px; margin-right:5px;] ANTI-BROS Phoebe hopes there isn't a lot of people she's not friends with, but it's definitely going to happen with her stubborn and proud personality. Not to mention the fact she's overly emotional about things and also doesn't know when to take a hint about shutting up. She doesn't like backstabbers or those who mess with her older brother; she can be a bit too much to handle for some people, and then there's just people who wouldn't like her kind of spazzy behavior. Really, Phoebe wears her heart on her sleeve, that's the eternal optimist in her. It'd be hard to get on her bad side, unless you do something to really piss her off.[/style]	[atrb=valign,top] [style=background:#e1e1e1; font-size:9px; line-height:12px; text-transform:uppercase; float:left; padding:0 3px; padding-bottom:1px; margin-right:5px;] BELOVED BROS This is tricky. She's young enough still to have the ideal of a perfect disney relationship, falling in love once with a prince and just having it all be fine and dandy, but it won't work out that way. She's ambitious and not afraid of taking the first steps to date a guy, even if it gives her older brother nightmares. Phoebe is a bit quick to judge and may not know what she's getting into, but I definitely want to ruin that 'disney' relationship she believes will happen. And if her new beau doesn't like how she lives her life, she'll turn him away. She's steadfast in her ways, and doesn't like someone trying to change her. [/style]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,5,true][atrb=style, background:#e1e1e1; width:350px; padding:3px, bTable][cs=3] Simon Atticus Erroll JUNIOR - OUTCAST - NERD - MEDIA CAPTAIN - HUMBLE - APP
[atrb=valign,top] [style=background:#e1e1e1; font-size:9px; line-height:12px; text-transform:uppercase; float:left; padding:0 3px; padding-bottom:1px; margin-right:5px;] BROS Simon is reserved, but good-natured. I think he'll have a good group of friends, usually of similar interest, but not always. Simon isn't one to dislike someone just because of looks or social status. He generally believes that he can get along with anyone, patience is one of his virtues. He is humble and a dreamer; Simon's just a well-meaning nerd. He's imaginative and a hopeless romantic sort of guy, just a general sweetie who'll go to lengths to help people out, whether it's being a tutor, or carrying boxes, being a listening ear, etc. [/style]	[atrb=valign,top] [style=background:#e1e1e1; font-size:9px; line-height:12px; text-transform:uppercase; float:left; padding:0 3px; padding-bottom:1px; margin-right:5px;] ANTI-BROS I don't know how this sweetie could anger you. Maybe it's the weird way he kind of brags about his intelligence, he doesn't mean to. Maybe he got the wrong impression about you, or stayed quiet for too long. He normally doesn't condone the usual populars behavior of drinking, partying, sleeping around. He think they aren't good role models, and doesn't understand why he might yearn to be one of them when he can be content with chess... so him putting that out there in front of the populars in a burst of confidence might gain some enemies. [/style]	[atrb=valign,top] [style=background:#e1e1e1; font-size:9px; line-height:12px; text-transform:uppercase; float:left; padding:0 3px; padding-bottom:1px; margin-right:5px;] BELOVED BROS Say hello to the hopeless romantic. Poor guy has never had a girlfriend. It's not that he hasn't been interested in people, but it's his confidence factor. Every girl he's liked either was completely out of his league, already in a wonderful relationship, or seemed to drop hints that he shouldn't pursue. He's also deathly afraid of stepping over a friend boundary, or ruining some relationship. Who knows if he'll be a good boyfriend? Not even he does. That scares him a bit too. [/style]

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[ISABELLA MARIANA DIAS]

ISABELLA&MARGARET
With her being so standoffish Isabella would have tried but I don’t see too deeply set of a friendship between them. However, I believe I read that her adoptive mother is into Charity and so is Isabella, doing a bunch of local stuff and even in Junior League so I would think that Isabella and Margaret’s mother would be pretty well acquainted. Maybe that has the two of them in situations where they have to keep trying to be friends. It could be interesting.

DOMINIC&MARGARET
He’s got a few traits like your girl here and in completely unapologetic about his uncivilized behavior in most cases. Dominic has almost zero empathy so they could go head to head with the emotional stabs and he wouldn’t hold it against her the next day. The boy doesn’t really do that whole sharing your feelings thing in the traditional sense, when he talks about what’s on his mind it tends to be in pure pessimism. Still, they seem likely candidates to be quasi friends.

[margaret]

ISABELLA&MARGARET

Oh man, the charity idea is a good one. I could see them getting thrown together on committees her mother heads or something like that, then they'd be forced to work together, and Isabella would probably have to work to get Teu to be open, but I could see them getting into awkward situations for charity events trying to make them work. I don't know.. Probably from working together so much (possibly Isabella being at her house to work as her mother's prodigy or something, they'd learn how to work together and Isabella could gain more information about why Margaret is the way she is.

DOMINIC&MARGARET

The uncivilized/uncouth part would definitely garner both a slight respect and anger from Teu, who can't venture to be so okay with herself as he is. Of course, she'd still probably get angry if he acts like a jerk. I bet they could go head to head in heated debates of sarcasm and hateful words, He might actually get her to be violent. On the flip side of that, the strange almost talking about their lives would be like the calm in the storm. So like, complaining buddies and screaming partners I don't know

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[Dominic Bryson West]

ISABELLA&MARGARET
Patience isn't her biggest virtue but she's doing her best to grow up and become more well rounded so being around Margaret and the pressure of acting acceptable around her mother will be really good for Isabella. She wont fake it too much because she wouldn't want to be two-faced to Margaret or anyone else, but she will try not to snap at her when she's being especially difficult. It makes for some good character development on both parts I think.

DOMINIC&MARGARET
It sounds like we're on the same page with these two. Nice an complicated relationship that is somehow soothing to the both of them and unbridled giving them the opportunity to get things out in the open and better understand one other. I like it.

Who would you like to thread first?

[TARIQ IBRAHIM ARAIN]

tariq & teu - hipster girl? let me love you. tariq may be involved in fewer extracurriculars, but he's very committed to his clubs - and even though they only share film, i think they'd probably see each other as ally overachievers. the fact that she isn't into drinking or drugs would be another rare plus in tariq's book. orrrr, otherwise maybe tariq is the past steady boyfriend, if you're looking for a character to take that role.

lorelei & teu - lorelei would definitely know who teu is very well - i imagine she'd be pretty known around the school, given her strong personality and how much she does. but lorelei, being a) popular and b) owner of an ego the size of a planet - she probably would act a liiittle snide and disdainful of teu, hidden under a very obviously sarcastic layer of ~chumminess. she definitely would have been a little watchful of teu during her experimental period - because that's certainly the way she leans - but having been burned by lita already, she probably would've stayed away.

branch/cal & teu - i don't know which name to post him under here because he calls himself cal but he'll always be ~~branch to me. i can't give out a name that awful and not stand by it. anyway, branch is a too-old-to-be-a senior and an outcast. he also has accidental hipster in spades. he doesn't really do extracurriculars or get involved any more than he has to, so they might not see eye to eye on that front. i'm not quite sure what kind of association these two would have, but i feel like they would know each other - possibly well - so i've posted here anyway. just let me know what teu would think of him and i'll try to come up with something.

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[margaret]

ISABELLA&MARGARET
I think we're all set here. Eventually, once Teu realizes that Isabella isn't out to y'know, kill her or mock her or generally be a jerk to living things, she'll probably start to warm up to her. (Though them getting into little catty arguments would be neat because they both don't want to act bad in front of Teu's mom but obvious uncomfortableness would be y'know, apparent. Yay for character development.

DOMINIC&MARGARET
Okay, we're definitely set on Dominic and Teu, I'm in love with their relationship. THey are either at each other's throats or like, accidentally confiding in each other and both extremes are kind of balancing out their relationship. I imagine they grow closer than they realize, so when she graduates, it might be an eye-opener that they don't at least hate each other.

Because I'm terrible at thinking of plot ideas for Isabella and Teu, how about an explosive first thread with Dominic complete with 'in your face' yelling and stuff? I don't know, do you have any ideas?

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TARIQ&MARGARET
(Oh god let me just say the avvie icon is presh and makes me love Tariq even more.) *cough* Anyway, I think they fit nicely together as friends, possibly a sort of besties route if he doesn't end up being the boyfriend (or if he ends up being a new boyfriend huehue don't mind my shipping mind) No seriously don't mind my mind because it's crazy. Okay, off topic again.

Uhm, I think that they would probably have similar classes since they are both in the same grade, plus film and the fact that the both don't drink and stuff would be like the eye of the storm for Margaret. Overachiever buddies is also good, she needs someone to do homework with who would actually possibly understand.

On the flip side, I am looking for a character for that part, so he could be that, but if that was the case, she'd be more wary and distant because she's stubborn and stuff. (I was actually thinking that there would be plots with old boyfriend where he might become new boyfriend or at least she lets him back into her life sort of deal - very vague, as I'm tired.)

LORELEI&MARGARET
Unfortunately for Teu, she would be one for people to know since she's so involved, and that gets in the way of her 'friends aren't all that necessary' deal and not liking most of the populars because she's not in that crowd/has that mindset. Oh man, would Teu have things to say about her ego. Teu hates cockiness/ego/self-centeredness so that wouldn't go well. (Can't think of anything else.)

BRANCH&MARGARET
I bet since he's not that involved, Teu would drag him to film or latin or poetry, because she knows the importance of getting out there, but not too much because she knows what's it's like to be pulled around by someone to places you don't want to go. I think she might go the slight mother hen route, or at least being friendly to him because hey, he hasn't pissed her off yet, and try to make him less of an outcast or at least meet more people (part of me wants her to try and set him up, but that's a bit ooc for her.) Uhm... anything else?

[TARIQ IBRAHIM ARAIN]

tariq & teu - god, newt, don't. be still my shipper heart. don't tempt me, i'm awful. because i just think these two could be a total ~power couple~ in their almost-nerdy academic circle. not only is tariq the type who prefers to be in a relationship, but he also is specifically on the lookout right now (though he won't admit it), basically because he feels like everyone is paired off and he's lonely. he'd see teu as his female counterpart. she's exactly his type. BUT THEN ON THE OTHER HAND i've been looking for an ex (or more than one) for tariq since i joined the site and no dice, so i really wanna throw myself at this past boyfriend plot.

lorelei & teu - i like the idea of these two butting heads kind of publicly on a semi-regular basis, if that's ic for teu. neither of them would have any regard for the other - and what lorelei has over teu in social status, teu has over lorelei in intelligence (though lorelei is by no means dumb), so i think they'd be pretty evenly matched. there'd also always be a very slight subconscious undercurrent of interest on lorelei's side, due to teu's past female relationships. would teu pick up on that?

branch/cal & teu - yes, yes, yes, perfect. he'd definitely humour her by turning up to poetry or film from time to time (and the latin), because they do at least line up with his interests, but it's likely he'd probably just sit around and listen and take everything in than actually participate. he's a lost cause. but it's valiant of her to try. the mother hen would amuse him, because he'll be twenty by the end of the summer and definitely feels it - but he'd take it in his stride. i think he'd go along with her attempts quite easily when it suited him, and then at other times he'd be stubborn as a mule about it.

then on his part he'd regard her as interesting, but tightly wound. she'd seem so serious and old beyond her years to him. i think he'd try to get her to chill out a bit and just slow down, take a looser hold on her commitments. i don't know how well that would go down with her! then another point of contention between them would be that he is a casual drug user. he doesn't publicise that information, especially as he's a scholarship student, but i can see him absentmindedly inviting teu to smoke up with him as part of an attempt to get her to relax. overall, i think they'd kind of have an... almost-friendship-but-not-quite. like, maybe teu makes more of an effort than he does - what with the mother hen and trying to include him in social circles thing - but he just doesn't really reciprocate, and it begins to annoy her over time? he's too unreliable and hard to pin down.

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[Dominic Bryson West]

Thread is here

[margaret]

TARIQ&MARGARET
Our shipper hearts want one thing, our plotting hearts another. Okay, I'll do whatever you want to do with Tariq, so if that's the past boyfriend she just kind of shut out (I bet this was during a rough time in her life, and after their breakup, she would've went on to have her one girlfriend for a short amount of time before taking herself off of the market for 'personal' reasons.) You're right they probably could be/were (if we're doing past boyfriend) that seemingly meant to be couple, which would only confuse both parties more as to why she just terminated it all and pushed him away for the longest time. It would've been awkward but stubborn Teu wouldn't quit clubs she was in with him (which I think is just film), but she definitely gave him the cold shoulder for the longest time. She could either still be doing that, or, slowly moving past herself, she'd start to kind of talk and rekindle shadows of that relationship they had before their relationship progressed further. After all, he was probably the only guy she had been with ever, so he both set higher standards and made a lasting impression on her, etc. My shipper hearts wants him to find her at this vulnerable state and be comforting and shit, but that doesn't have to happen because I'm a hopeless romantic and well... I'll just stop here.

Where they end up is also to you. Just throwing out vague ideas.

Now I feel like I'm rambling, so do you have any ideas?
LORELEI&MARGARET
Butting heads is so IC for Teu it hurts. You got her on the head there. Teu, if she was in a bad mood when she met Lorelei, would just dive into trying to piss her off because she needs her ego taken down several pegs, and she'd continue to have Lorelei as a partial target for taking out stress on, because in Teu's mind, she deserves a wake up call from her little twisted world. Teu is blunt and stubborn, but I don't know if she'd pick up that kind of social cue, since she's been out of the 'scene' of relationships with both males and females for basically a year and a half now. If she started to give it more thought (providing she knows how Lorelei's boat floats), then there could be some awkwardness there, but other than that, I don't think she'd pay it much mind. Teu can be fairly one track minded with hating people, like tunnel vision.

BRANCH&MARGARET
Yay for perfection! I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them, and the idea came at the last minute, but hey, it worked! Plus it's IC for Teu to kind of act like a 'cool aunt' sort of character, but as a hipster soccer playing blunt senior with a love of cats. She wouldn't mind if he just sat around (though she'd be like, BRANCH WRITE A HAIKU I DARE YOU at some point). Teu would just be happy that he tagged along and isn't sitting in his dorm all alone with whatever he does for his hobbies. The fact that he's stubborn too would piss her off because that's her job to force him to go to things and him bein' like, 'No dude Teu you're ridiculous gurl' wouldn't go over too well, but through that she'd learn maybe a shred of patience.


Well, he's definitely right about the tightly wound thing (Though Tariq would know ALL about that wouldn't he?) and most people would get that vibe when they see her hectic schedule plus her hobbies. She kind of takes her own self-esteem down, being caustic to herself, so if he ever once mentioned she seemed wise it'd definitely catch her off-guard, because she feels so young and vulnerable. She needs someone to help her chill out, like the prankster freshman/soph girl I'm having her become friends with. Drugs are a huge no-no for her, since she (and probably part of the world), watched how her adoptive uncle was in and out of rehab, but she doesn't acknowledge the politician turned ex-senator drug addict is her uncle and most people wouldn't know that. If he did invite her without knowing her views on drugs, oh boy, he'd be in for it. She'd probably either go deadly silent or just flip out. That could be the start of the annoyance between Teu and him. Teu still wants to help him make senior year enjoyable and get out there (though she's not the best person for that), but him being elusive and stubborn, it would go from friendly acquaintances to her pushing him away just like she does everyone else when they become too complicated.

[melissa]

MELLIE & TEU
wow, okay, this should be really interesting. these two have been stuck together as roommates - thanks mayview! - so i figured it was necessary for me to try to get some idea of how they interact, etc. the dorms are set up where each of them has their own bedroom, but everything else is communal. first off, so you don't have to go hunting for a description of mellie, she's a party girl. she drinks. a lot. she sleeps around a lot. she's loud, childish, and possibly the silliest person you'll ever see. you probably think i'm over exaggerating her or something, but... just wait until she actually has a thread of some sort going. basically, these two would most likely clash, but mellie wouldn't let that bother her. mellie isn't the type to hold grudges or anything. however, mel might ask teu for some sort of guidance homework wise. yeah that's all i have right now!

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[margaret]

MELLIE & MARGARET
Roomies? Alright! (And yes, I love the FC so hard right now.) Anyway, we totes need to figure out how they act around each other because roomies generally come in three forms, good friends, acquaintances and let-me-avoid-you-as-much-as-possible. Everything that Mellie is, Teu isn't, besides being loud. They both can be that way. Definitely clash, since Teu is also a bit anal about her stuff/neatness/order, so if Mellie messes with her things, her computer, homework, she won't get off without getting an earful about it. Unfortunately, Mellie will also see her when she's scared of the thunderstorms, or frustrated about guys/social aspects. She'd begrudgingly help with homework, as long as she has time to spare. Thoughts?

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[phoebe]

Bumped with Phoebe added!

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[lorelei raquel cabral]

Tariq & Teu - Right, that's it, Tariq is the past boyfriend. One minute they were the overachiever ~*~power couple~*~, all serious and exclusive and academic, and then suddenly she terminated it and Tariq still doesn't know why. If it was right before she had the girlfriend, he'd probably assume that was the reason. And then if she hasn't had a boyfriend since, he'd probably still assume that she was only into girls and he was the experiment. He probably felt it was a bit of a blow to his self-esteem. The cold shoulder would make it worse still - he's all about ~*~straightforward open communication~*~ and just wouldn't get it. He'd probably have tried hard at first to win her back round, and then tried just to find out what the hell was going on, and then finally given up and just left her alone, writing her off to his friends as passive-aggressive and incomprehensible. SO DEFINITELY A FAILED RELATIONSHIP.

And then, in terms of what's going on now... I think maybe it's got to the point where they'll be civil to each other (not that they were ever hostile, I expect) and speak, but only really about superficial things -- like their clubs and schoolwork. Sort of treating each other like new acquaintances, with a bit of awkwardness to it. Maybe something can happen to bring them into a more personal context in each others' lives - some situation, idk - and then we can see what happens from there.

They really have so much common ground, tho. Tariq gets equally frustrated as Teu does with people who try to get him to ~loosen up~, because his seriousness is JUST THE WAY HE IS.


Lorelei/Branch & Teu - great!


So, do you want a thread or somethin'?

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[simon]

bumped with simon! [if I don't get to these posts before my disney trip, I'll do them after.]

[mavy2]

EMMY&SIMON
Okay so these guys are both in science club together, which obviously means they can be sort-of friends. Kinda. He could be one of the few people that knows she's a crazy nerd at heart. Now I imagine she was reluctant even sitting near him at first, but since no one few people are in the club she ended up talking to him and partnering up for science stuff ("look i'm only talking to you because you're the only good looking person here"). But after that she realised that he's a pretty awesome and sweet guy, and starts talking to him about real things (you know, video games and superheroes) instead of being an uptight bitch. Though he gets her being nice to him for a few hours a week, when she's back in the school with the populars, Emmy will be cold to him and refuse to even acknowledge him.

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