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| You're living in America at the end of the millenia. . . and you're not alone. Alphabet City We're in the year 1994 (going into 1995) and the colorful residents of the East Village in Manhattan are facing the issues which challenge poor Bohemian artists in the mid-90s. Drug abuse, HIV, prostitution, starvation, death, life, and love. However, they find that they aren't alone, friends are all around, and there is always coffee to be drunk, issues to be discussed, and art to be created, good and otherwise. Come join our cast of canon and original characters, featuring a strong sense of community and creativity and find that you're not alone either. Other notes:Based on the Broadway musical RENT, set post-canon, though slightly AU to keep Angel alive. We have a great group of OCs who are keeping the plot moving and changing quickly. |
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Certantibus Gelu - Cold Rivals (click here) A long-established school near Land's End in the south west of England. It is situated on the coast near a seaside town and was built in the 1800s. Originally, it was a boys-only boarding school, but in 1956 it became a mixed school, allowing both boys and girls. The speciality subject at the school is Musical Theatre, although it isn't a compulsory subject and about a third of the school do not take this subject. This has attracted a lot of students from overseas, who are drawn in by the idea of getting such good dance training for free in England instead of having to pay in their own countries. This had seemed it would be just like any other year for the students of , but it was not to be. Over the summer, the world political situation has deteriorated, and the hostilities could escalate into a full scale nucleur war. The situation has a lot of people worried. Everyone knows that the UK would side with the US, putting them on the receiving end of attacks from Russia, Iran and North Korea. Most people are trying to carry on their daily lives and not worry about it, but they know that the day of judgement may come soon. The atmosphere within the school is also starting to deteriorate. Many people are reluctant to interact with the Russian students, as they believe Russia to be the enemy - after all, they would be the first to use nuclear force and start the full-scalle nucleur exchange. Fear is simmering beneath the surface of this previously calm-atmosphered school, and it's threatening to boil over. |
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worthington high. The name sounds rather bland, doesn't it? Makes it sound a little unexciting? Well, it's obvious you haven't been here before. Let me be the first to introduce you to worthless-town, aka worthington, MN. The city of nothing. To the youth, anyway. Worthington has a grand total of 10,000 people, young and old, great and small, angels and devils. At worthington high school, the kids are anything but nice. The majority of them would come off as nice and kind and good students, but behind every mask there is a monster. Every where you turn there are backs being stabbed, literally and figuratively. Of course, there are always the few angels in every city, but even they have secrets of their own. Every day of every year of middle school, it is pounded into your head that your highschool years will be the best years of your life. For some, yes they are. But for most, they are some of the most grueling years of their lives. Peer pressure, teachers pets, and senior pranks. Prep-fests, backstabbers, and choir concerts. Football games, pepband, and emo kids. They say that everything you learn in high school is what you bring with you into your future. Every person you meet and every back you stab will come back in the future and karma will have it's way with you. It's not Laguna beach, but we've got -30 degree winters and heaters that don't usually work. We don't have celebrities, but we have enough drama to drown out Hollywood. Love, hate, lust. We don't do the drama. It does us. And the 'best years of your life'? They're just carcrash chemistries that don't exactly fizzle out. |
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| Have you ever walked into a room and realized everybody was just talking about you? That just happened to me. Over fifty sets of eyes were suddenly gazing deep into my soul, scaring the living shit out of me. The rain poured down on the dreary still life. I walked towards the side, away from the class of '07. I listened to the minister preaching his sorrows to the heavens. I realized I wasn't much unlike those who died that day. I was willing to risk everything to be liked. I got into things that could kill me. I turned on the friends I'd known for years just to feel accepted. I got caught up in angst and desire, and so did those two. At 17, they died because of it. It was not my fault. I just can't convince myself of that. Let's have a flash back. Wildwood, New Jersey, 2005. It was the year of the Drama Mafia. The four juniors ruled the school. They were more popular than the seniors, and they were envied and loved by almost every person except the "rejects". They were vicious and cruel. They had a new target all the time, but there was one they always stuck with. His name was Mikey Marshall. All his life he'd put up with the torture, and things aren't going to change any time soon. Kay Ivory: the leader of the Drama Mafia. She is evil and makes all the final desicions. She is merciless, and all the girls follow in her foot steps. She's a backstabber and still they follow. It doesn't matter what she does to the other girls. They're too afraid of her to do anything, even her own best friend, Andromeda Marx, fears her more than she likes her. She hates when she doesn't get her way, and she believes that she built each and every one of her friends to where they are now. She's highly concieted. Shae Riley: Shae is not the brightest crayon in the box. She is very stupid, and her head is basically an unused cardboard box. Her grade point average could be described as a negative eight. She loves to dye her hair crazy colors. She's an all-star soccer player with a rich father who could get her everything she's always wanted. Shae constantly fails classes, but the school is forced to pass her because her father is a massive donator. Jinx: Nobody knows her real name. Supposedly, she was so smart that in kindergarden, she hacked into the school system and changed her name. Even the teachers are forced to call her Jinx because they don't know her real name. She is an evil genius, but she keeps her mouth shut. She tends to spend time alone because her family is poor. Her mother works five jobs, and her father is in prison for murder, waiting for death row. Andromeda Marx: Andy is the sweet heart of the group. She is everything somebody would want in a friend. She's very shy, but she's a good person to confide in. She tends not to talk much, but she has a rigorous schedule and is always falling asleep in class. She's known Kay since kindergarden, and the two do just about everything. Andy somehow puts up with the girl, even through the ridiculous fights. Nobody dare gossip about Andy. She could definitly beat a person up if she wanted to. Then, there are the losers. It's normal for them to be picked on by the drama mafia, but only one of them is excluded from the abuse. These sad emo kids can't escape everything that happens to them. The boys just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They have classes with all the girls. They try to ignore them, but because of their misfortune, they are hunted. Justin Marshall: He and his brother are different as night and day. They are complete opposite in looks and also in intelligence. Justin and Sonny are like the two stooges. They are ditzy, always coming up with half-baked schemes to pull on other people. He has an undying urge to become popular, and in this pursuit has fallen madly in love with Kay Ivory, the ice queen. Sonny Alexander: this boy is Justin's partner in crime. Their dads were friends in high school, so these two have known each other since the diaper days. He's very defensive of his friends. His girlfriend, Kay Ivory, constantly picks on them, and Sonny is forced to keep his mouth shut. He doesn't want to break up with her, but the torment is going too far for him to handle. Ronnie Blake: Ronnie is the hard-worker in the group. He likes to focus on school, and he often gets good grades with out trying too hard. He is quiet and rarely speaks up, but he is a very kind person. The only people he has ever grown to hate were the drama mafia. He thinks that they're idiots, yet he has never even spoken to the four girls. Sean Connors: Sean is a bit of a stalker. He's creepy to say the least. The boy is obsessed with Andromeda Marx. He watches her every single motion, studying her carefully. He watches her on her way home from school. He is a very unstable person. He feels that he will get to this girl even if he has to destroy anybody in his path. Michael Marshall: Mikey is the main target of the torment. He is always being picked on. The girls steal his glasses, break his woodshop projects, or draw rainbows on his shirts in permanent sharpie markers. He has just about had it until Andromeda Marx starts to take an interest with him... and Kay Ivory isn't happy about it. Over the next year, these two groups of friends will rip each other apart. Fights will break out as temperatures and tensions rise, all at the desire for one thing or another. Angst, pressure desire. They just have to remember: no one mourns the wicked |
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| Having been around longer then Las Vegas itself, Cyprus City is a small town on the back roads of Nevada. It was a old town that the Indians use to own, before the pilgrims pushed them out of it. At first, Cyprus use to bring in a lot of business, as there wasn't a main highway at the time and the back roads where used a lot for wagon travel. But when the state started developing more roads and high tech cars, Cyprus sort of become a vanished city. In 1931, Quincey Barton invested his own time and effort into rebuilding the city. Though he knew that it was never going to get as much business as its neighboring Las Vegas, since gambler was legal and all the hotels and casinos started to go up. But Quincey had a dream and that dream he was going to do. Around the time of Quincey's death in 1974, he had left the city to his nephews, Bart and Marcus Evans, his sisters children. Quincey wanted to see his dreams come true, but he picked the wrong children to do so. The boys let the town go to rubbish again. Boarded up windows on buildings and hardly any people in the town, the boys eventually gave it over to the state. The state wanted to turn the town into the large casino in Las Vegas, though a big conflict took place. In 1989, a couple by the names of Freda and Damon Parks, decide to by the land and turn it into their own little town. Though it took a lot of thinking and years to develop the city, the Parks were not going to give up. Turning the town into a place for people who didn't have enough money or didn't make enough money to live in Las Vegas. Being a neighbor to the hottest place in Nevada never came easy. But by the late 90's, Cyprus City had enough people living in and visiting it, to actually live this time. When the couple died, they left the town to their son, Corey Parks, who is now the Major of the city. Cyprus City has grown into quite a pleasant little town, with its one stores and clubs. It has something that Las Vegas will never have, a heart. |
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| The end of the school year is fast approaching, which means only one thing. Summer vacation. But there is SO much to be done before that glorious last day of school arrives. There have been problems with the opposing school, West High, and they are starting to make trouble. They believe that the sabotogue that occured during the winter events was the Wildcats CHEATING so that they could win. So they are asking for rematches...winner takes all. This means that the Jocks are busy practicing for their game, while the Brainiacs are hitting the books harder than usual. Meanwhile, the Thespians are making preperations for the Summer Dance - the biggest event of the year. There is so much to do: pick a theme, find musical entertainment, decorate...and keep West High away from their hard work! Now add on final exams and you've got one crazy end of the school year. Can the Wildcats handle the pressure? |



