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▌ Dear Cast Member,
Welcome, cast members, to San Francisco, California. You all are from across the United States and you all are here for basically the same reason. You’ve all been in a relationship with someone who was/is addicted to something. Things were probably a walk in the park until their addictions came out to play. Some relationships being two years strong, ended two years weak as the one left the other. Addictions are a nasty little thing. No one ever said you had to be addicted to drugs, or alcohol. Oh no, there is many more addictions out there but they all seem to waste away people and relationships. Here in the mansion in San Francisco we have the seven exes. The ones that left their significant other due to their addiction or in some cases some that were left by their addicted exes. All cast members knew that their exes would be joining in the mansion. The non-addicted ones have been in the mansion for a week and a half now and have learned about the others they’ve been living with. All our lovely addicts have been finishing up last minute counseling and treatment for them to go out and brave it in the real world. Most are flying into California and for those who live in California already are heading to the house. It’s up to them to live with the person they love or loved knowing that their addiction made them leave. It’s their first time seeing each other after their breakups. Emotions will most likely run high, and hopefully that’s the only thing high. As tempers flare, and love rekindles the ones with the addictions are going to have their own struggle of being out in the real world again with their old lovers, hoping that they don’t relapse. The catch to all this? Once they relapse they are asked to leave the house and stay overnight in a hotel and the person they were with decides whether they should go back to rehab, not come back to the mansion at all or give them another chance to be sober and come back to the mansion.
- MTV™ Crew
It's just medicine. It's just medicine. xxx
You could still be, what you want to, What you said you were, when I met you. xxx
You've got a warm heart, you've got a beautiful brain. But it's disintegrating, from all the medicine. xxx
You could still be, what you want to, What you said you were, when I met you. xxx
You've got a warm heart, you've got a beautiful brain. But it's disintegrating, from all the medicine. xxx
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▌ GENERAL
Obviously, following the Gaia ToS as well as these rules. Romance is going to happen. Time skip when clothes start coming off because those are the rules. Don't god-mod anything, be courteous to your fellow roleplayers in here, and don't start drama outside of the roleplay. I love some good drama in the storyline of roleplays. Outside of that? Not going to deal with it. Fighting is bound to happen - but don't auto-hit or do anything ridiculously stupid like miss every punch that's thrown at you. No one can actually do that. Fight, swear, whatever. Just be decent about it.
▌ LITERACY
I'll try to keep these short and sweet. This is a literate - advanced literate roleplay and I shouldn't have to explain what that means. I want at least four to five good, decent paragraphs with something for everyone to work from. Your posts can be as long as you want, it doesn't really matter to me. But keep your posts at least four meaty paragraphs in length. If you can get at least 500 words out, that'd be awesome. I understand s**t happens and you're not always into it - I get it. Just try to make an effort to give your fellow roleplayers something to work with, please.
▌ COMMITMENT
This is a big one for me - I want everyone to post at least once a week. I understand that real life happens and you aren't always able to make a post every few days. Believe me, I totally get that. If something comes up, let me know. But if you can't handle making a commitment to at least posting once a week / staying active in the OOC thread, then do me a favour and don't even bother joining. I'm serious. I don't have a problem kicking people who aren't being active enough in the OOC and in the main thread. I hate to do it, but I will.
▌ CHARACTERS
One of my biggest pet peeves for roleplays is when characters don't feel like real people. So, with that in mind, make your characters realistic and not flat - flesh them out! With that said, make sure your characters act appropriately to their given addiction. Addiction, relapse, rehab - make it at least seem like you know what you're talking about. People have flaws and no one is perfect. You can make their personalities and histories be however you'd like, but stick to the character relationship histories when doing so. For face claims, use models. I'm not a big fan of celebrities, but so long as they aren't uber famous, then whatever. Can't find a face? Try Model Mayhem, Tumblr, Lookbook, etc. Also, please make your characters look their age.
▌ POSTING
I like to see pretty posts and layouts in my roleplays. You don't have to do anything extremely fancy - a simple picture and a name will suffice. Try to throw some semblance of coding in there. It doesn't have to be anything spectacular, just make them not look boring. It shouldn't be super cluttered or anything... Use font sizes 10-11 because they're nice and neat. There are shops around Gaia that offer posting layouts if you can't make your own - that or i'm sure someone would be willing to help you out if you ask nicely.
▌ APPLYING
The reserve form and profile code can be found in the OOC thread. I can accept / decline anyone for any reason. Don't get butt-hurt if I don't accept you. There could be a variety of reasons I do so. Do not PM me your reserve, but instead post it in the Application Thread. Quote me when you do so and include a link to your sample thread. If you don't, I'll just ignore your application. Profiles will be in their own individual test thread, I'll provide base guidelines for the posts within the thread, but for the most part, you can add whatever you'd like to the profile thread, so long as it includes the guidelines provided. Once you've finished the profile, please post the link in the app thread and quote me.
It's just medicine. It's just medicine. xxx
You could still be, what you want to, What you said you were, when I met you. xxx
You've got a warm heart, you've got a beautiful brain. But it's disintegrating, from all the medicine. xxx
You could still be, what you want to, What you said you were, when I met you. xxx
You've got a warm heart, you've got a beautiful brain. But it's disintegrating, from all the medicine. xxx
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ALCOHOL
▌He's an alcoholic and became a very angry drunk over time.
▌She was supporting his addiction - she was a partier anyway, but didn't drink as much as he did.
▌They were together for two and a half years.
▌After a physical altercation where they put hands on each other, she ended things with him.
▌He has been six months sober.
She is open || He is taken by Seremela_Tiwele
DRUGS
▌She's been addicted to cocaine and pills since she was eighteen years old.
▌He'd suspected she was doing drugs, but didn't think it was anything serious.
▌They had been dating for three years.
▌After an overdose that nearly killed her, he left her.
▌She's been in and out of rehab, but has been clean for a year now after relapsing once.
She is taken by Zaggy_butt || He is taken by Sexual Remedy
GAMBLING
▌He is so deep in debt, he won't ever be able to afford a wedding.
▌She would use half of her paychecks to pay off whatever current debts he had.
▌They were living together until he ended up with so much debt they started losing things in their apartment.
▌She finally got sick of his habits and kicked him out, changing the locks on the doors.
▌He is still working on paying off his debts, but he hasn't gambled in over a year.
She is taken by a wild chezabear || He is taken by Zaggy_butt
SEX
▌He is addicted to sex and has cheated on her over twenty times.
▌She didn't think anything of him ever wanting to constantly have sex.
▌They were together for three and a half years.
▌He ended it because he didn't want to hurt her anymore by cheating.
▌It's rumored that he got one of the girls pregnant - it's neither confirmed or denied.
She is taken by Sexual Remedy || He is open
SHOPPING
▌She has more maxed-out credit cards than she knows what to do with.
▌He was fed up with all the things she bought and having to pay off all of her credit card bills.
▌They were together for a year and a half before he ended things.
▌After having one of her credit cards declined during a trip, she stole one - she never told anyone.
▌She's become a bit better at spending money and shopping all the time.
She is taken by a wild chezabear || He is taken by Eoko
WORK
▌He works for his father's law firm and is a massive workaholic.
▌They had recently become engaged when his father promoted him.
▌She became a trophy fiance, being there for office parties, but beyond that he was always in the office.
▌They were together for four years.
▌His father didn't like her and he didn't want to disappoint Daddy Dearest.
She is taken by Seremela_Tiwele || He is taken by a wild chezabear
INTERNET
▌She lives for social media and has thousands of followers on twitter, instagram, and youtube.
▌He supported her because it made her happy.
▌She tended to flirt with quite a lot of people over the internet and he didn't like it.
▌They were together for two and a half years.
▌He got fed up and told her he'd leave if she didn't delete everything - she refused.
She is taken by Eoko || He is open
It's just medicine. It's just medicine. xxx
You could still be, what you want to, What you said you were, when I met you. xxx
You've got a warm heart, you've got a beautiful brain. But it's disintegrating, from all the medicine. xxx
You could still be, what you want to, What you said you were, when I met you. xxx
You've got a warm heart, you've got a beautiful brain. But it's disintegrating, from all the medicine. xxx
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- bailey ann morgan ▌ twenty-four ▌ the clumsy gamer ▌ firebrick
dumped ▌ not addicted [ work ] ▌ Seremela_Tiwele
well, i was raised by my single mother and my grandmother. i grew up in a pretty loving environment, in a middle-class household in colorado. my mom worked really hard to make sure that my childhood was awesome, and it was, honestly. so, anyway, i grew up, met this really awesome guy in college, and fell in love hard and fast. there's no in-between or slacking in the amount of love i provide with someone i'm in a relationship with. it's all or nothing for me. too bad he couldn't feel the same way about it. i don't doubt that he loved me, just that he didn't love me as much as he probably should have. i'm getting ahead of myself, sorry. his father was a big-shot law firm guy, which was totally cool. except that he didn't like me because i wasn't "good enough" for his son. which was bullshit and it shouldn't have made a difference what-so-ever, but whatever. we dated regardless of his father's wishes and then he proposed and we were going to get married and it was wonderful, no lie. until he pretty much just stopped coming home altogether and spent all of his time at the law office. we were together for four years, he got a promotion, and suddenly i'm expected to sit around the house doing nothing all day for the rest of my life? no thank you. i'm not a trophy and i refuse to be. i was okay with it for a while - it made him happy and i got good at smiling and being friendly and not falling all over myself. but then he decided daddy's wishes were more important than either of our own happiness and he ended it. which is fine with me... our relationship stopped being a relationship. you can only deal with that for so long.
- dakota leanne mallory ▌ twenty-two ▌ the lively aerialist ▌ #ab4d86
dumper ▌ not addicted [ gambling ] ▌ a wild chezabear
i honestly can't tell you how i ended up in this position. i always thought of myself as a down-to-earth ranch girl from montana; i had a good head on my shoulders and i'm pretty damn smart. i have my dreams and aspirations--including, but not limited to, touring with cirque de soleil and getting aerial performing on the map as a recognized form of gymnastics--and i've always strived to achieve them. i guess things changed when i met my ex-boyfriend. he was a smooth talker, you could say, and i fell hard. but i guess it's easy to woo a nineteen-year-old girl into a three year rollercoaster of a relationship. things were great in the beginning (as always); we got along and the chemistry was definitely there, but he had secrets. those secrets didn't come to light until we moved in together. he was a gambler and often found himself in debt that i would bail him out of. why? because i loved him, of course. after things started disappearing out of our apartment (presumably because he was selling them to support his habit), i had had enough. i kicked him out of the house and to the curb. the locks were changed and his name was off the lease the next day. i've been doing a pretty good job of getting by on my own ever since, despite having to pick up a second job at the local, ah, "gentlemen's club". i can't imagine my life being any better and now i'm in this weird place with a bunch of other people in similar situations being thrown together with our past flames. i can't help but think this is ******** to the highest degree, but i guess we'll see...
- juniper winifred gale ▌ twenty three ▌ the aspiring makeup artist ▌ #cc99cc
dumped ▌ addicted [ drugs ] ▌ Zaggy_butt
what do you expect me to tell you. oh a girl hooked on drugs she must have had such a hard life. sadly your assumption would be correct. wish i could break out of the stereotype with that one but i just can't. i grew up in an abusive home. when my father wasn't pummeling me with his fists he was slipping into my room at night. i will spare you the gritty details on what he could possibly be doing in a twelve year olds bed. i am pretty sure you get the picture. don't feel to bad for me, my mother eventually caught on to what he was doing. and she put an end to it. by throwing me out of the house. she called me a slut and told me it was my fault. at first i didn't mind. however it didn't take me long to realize that a sixteen year old on the street didn't have much of a chance. i discovered i could make a quick buck by turning a trick... not my happiest of choices but i had heroin to drown out my conscience. eventually i got what you would call a more appropriate job as a show girl. which helped turn my life around. i eventually started dating someone. a first for me. we were together for a long time. but my relationship with crank was stronger. i had known a love of drugs was everlasting. and one day when i woke up in the hospital alone i discovered that i had been invested in loving all the wrong things.
- myra lynn elise ▌ 22 ▌ the creative artist ▌ #9BD7D5
dumped ▌ addicted [ internet ] ▌ Eoko
Myra learned beauty and makeup at an early age, and that's one of the main things that made her sky-rocket into internet stardom. Along with a pretty face, and very different clothing, she quickly gained lots of facebook likes, followers on instagram and twitter, and subscribers on her youtube channel. Besides her makeup, she draws rather strange things-but she doesn't like to publicize them. Every once and a while (who am I kidding? On a regular basis, more like it) she may have (pfft. She did. A lot.) flirt with some of her cuter fans. Once her boyfriend found out about this, he was furious. She thinks this is one of the many reasons that he told her to delete everything, or he was leaving her. But she couldn't! It would be like she was dropping off the face of the earth. And who knew her better than her fans? Well, Miss Myra doesn't get on any social networking sites anymore, and barely uses her cell phone or computer. She actually sold her computer and decided to take her self-training self to beauty school, so she could help other's in crisis of bad make up and hair styles.
- danae jacqueline rembrandt ▌ twenty-two ▌ the flirtatious heiress ▌ #ba8e9f
dumped ▌ addicted [ shopping ] ▌ a wild chezabear
i've always had a relatively good life. and i say relatively because where i was never wanting for anything material, i was always wanting for emotional connections. my parents are both extremely successful: dad's the editor in chief of his father's fashion magazine and my mother runs their website. i never had to beg for anything as a kid; i just got it. when i turned sixteen was when things started to get worse because i got my own credit cards. they were all shiny, black, and limitless. i could get literally anything i wanted and daddy would just pay it off for me. this went on for years; even until i met my boyfriend. after i moved in with him, though, daddy decided that he'd had enough of me spending his money and cut me off. it sucked hard because i had some serious addictions to brand names that a minimum wage retail job just didn't satisfy. eventually boyfriend got tired of bailing me out. it took him two years to finally kick me to the curb, but he did it. after that, i tried to get back into mommy and daddy's good graces, but they had never really loved me to begin with (at least that's what i think) and just told me to suck it up and get help. i found a specialty rehab through mtv's the real world that would help me and promptly signed up in hopes that i could win back both my boyfriend and my parents. now i'm on this show and i just hope people can see that i'm not some airheaded shop-a-holic.
It's just medicine. It's just medicine. xxx
You could still be, what you want to, What you said you were, when I met you. xxx
You've got a warm heart, you've got a beautiful brain. But it's disintegrating, from all the medicine. xxx
You could still be, what you want to, What you said you were, when I met you. xxx
You've got a warm heart, you've got a beautiful brain. But it's disintegrating, from all the medicine. xxx