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Kid Entering For: 2
Personality of Kid: Sable can be hard to get along with at times. She has a tendency to be slightly frightened of people, but instead of hiding, for the most part she can be rather confrontational. She comes off as rather snooty and full of herself, but the truth is is that she actually has self esteem issues. She grew up on the streets as everyone thought she was a sign of bad luck, even her parents had abandoned her. Bad things always seem to happen to her, even little things, so much so that she's starting to believe everyone around her when they tell her that.


Scariest Experience: TW FOR ALLUSIONS TO GORE.

Kid Entering For: 2
Personality of Kid: Somewhat stoic, perfectionist


Scariest Experience: Since she was interning at the haunted house, the last thing Xandena expected was to end up scared herself.


Her job was to maintain the lights and ensure they were all working the way they were supposed to, and she performed her task with due diligence, which partly involved walking above on the beams in the ceiling attached to a safety harness that ran on a rail. She had just finished replacing a bulb and was heading back along the rails when she lost her balance. Now this itself wouldn't be a problem, since she was wearing the harness, but she didn't anticipate how far it would drop her and she ended up dangling down in the house itself. Still, she wasn't very concerned and she flailed out to try and find the wall or something she could grasp so she could find her feet in the gloom, intending to undo her harness--which would spring back up once released from her weight--and walk to the nearest staff door to return to her job.


Just as she got her harness undone however, someone dressed as a creepy clown came around the corner and snuck up on her; one of the employees who walked around inside the house to startle guests so no matter how many times they went through the house they got a unique experience. This sight was what Xandena was faced with when she turned around. Taken off guard by such a terrifying sight, she shrieked and shoved them reflexively, then ran for it. The creepy laughter that followed her made her forget all about the staff exit and she just kept running until she found the guest way out. It was only once she was out that she remembered it was all pretend, and mortified, sincerely hoped that she never crossed paths with that co-worker lest they realize she hadn't been a guest.

Kid Entering For: 4
Personality of Kid: Pronouns- Zhe, zer, zerself


Main defining traits: prankster, cowardly, visually intellectual (observant), self-doubting


A little trickster who is always coming up with pranks to pull on others, but in all honesty is a scaredy vespercat. Zhe tries to pull pranks on everyone, but goes running whenever someone pulls one on zer. Zhe is able to determine when a prank is coming zer way, but those who do manage to slip through zer judgment are terrifying to zer, and zhe will not recover from it for quite some time. Due to zer always pranking others, zhe doesn’t get along with almost anyone zhe comes into contact with. It would appear to many that zhe is full of herself, viewing others as not worthy of zer time, but zhe is honestly just very self conscious about zerself, and pushes others away as to not get zer feelings hurt. This is due to the fact zhe is not like everyone else, having a third eye and heart pupils. Due to this, zhe is always trying to hide zer third eye with zer hair, and always tries to not keep eye contact with anyone in fear of them seeing zer heart shaped pupils. Zhe is really protective of zer title of Trickster Elf, doing pretty much anything to protect it, even facing something zhe finds scary.


Scariest Experience: The little elf had heard many of the other freshlings calling zer a coward for not going into the haunted house earlier with all the others, not wanting them to know zhe was really scared to go in zerself. Many claimed that someone like zer who was always pranking everyone else all the time shouldn’t be scared to go into just a haunted house, the group then calling zer a scardey vespercat. Well, zhe would show them wrong! Zhe was going to go through the whole haunted house and not come out screaming or crying. That was right, zhe was going to show them that zhe was not a coward! Zer reputation as the trickster elf was on the line, so zhe had to defend it!


Not long after entering, zhe took in zer surroundings to see if zhe could tell what jump scares would be coming out at zer, or any scary scenery taking place. Not even a few seconds in, and zhe was already face to face with the most terrifying looking nightmare zhe had ever seen! Zer eyes began to water as a scream emitted from zer lips, rushing away from the scary beast. At every turn she came across something else, like a clown with bowling pins as a large bowling ball came toward her, or a lady falling into a hole in the floor as she was backing away from someone with a baseball bat. Before long zhe had found the exit, tears screaming from zer face as zhe rushed to get away from the laughing freshlings that saw zer so scared. Zhe tried zer hardest to keep zer hair in front of zer third eye, tears streaming down from it as well as the wind from zer running tried to move zer hair out of zer face. Never would zhe realize that the first thing that scared zer was simply someone entering the house themselves to see what was inside, dressed up in a terribly made Nezubat costume.

Kid Entering For: 4
Personality of Kid: Orphe is a very loyal little kid. He doesn’t take casual or superficial relationships and it takes him a lot to open up to people since he throws all of himself into loving or liking a person. He tends to feel things intensely and has extremely strong emotional reactions to most situations. It’s hard to verbalize his feelings to others and so Orphe doesn’t cope with things well.


He holds up his feelings keeping them tight to his chest until they get to be too much and then they suddenly burst forward often against his control. This is due to the fact that he’s afraid if he shares people will find him weak or hate him and leave him. This is partially due to the fact that his parents left him after telling him they just couldn’t deal with having a mutated kid. Luckily he seldom gets angry but his feelings tend to cause him to brood a lot and end up trying to move quietly to the background.


However if you can get through his shields, you find an insecure, quirky, and prideful little kid that just wants to be liked. He’s constantly studying and learning about different crafts often being seen making things. Whether this is learning how to knit or carve or do pottery. He just enjoys making things. He also loves exploring and figuring out mysteries or leaning about anything supernatural or magical in nature.


Scariest Experience:
October always brought complicated feelings. It was the month he was awakened in, thus resulting in Orphe being a hallowed. It was the month his parents had decided they didn’t want him, and it was the month that everything seemingly went wrong. Still it was the month that Orphe was born in and he wanted to love October. It was the month that everyone loved spooky stuff. It was the time of costumes and candy and everyone having a fun time. He felt like he wasn’t so weird in October.


So in all that made today a typical October day. He had gotten tons of candy, but it had been stolen by a bunch of bullies who had then turned around to make Orphe feel as little as possible. They made fun of his little costume among other things. Even worse Orphe had ended up crying in front of them as he helplessly beat against their legs. However that was enough, he wasn’t going to put up with this anymore. He’d show them he was worth something. He would.


The idea had come to him while he had been sitting there on the bench going over the candy he still had left after the bullies had pilfered his bucket when he noticed them coming out of a haunted house. They ran out totally white, shaken, and even a couple were screaming. Orphe quickly hid behind the bush to make sure they didn’t see him and looked over at the building. It was an old looking mansion, and appeared to be decaying in places. However that was just clever decorating right? They wouldn’t actually let people into a structurally unsound building… right?
He had heard from the kids at school that apparently a family had once lived in the house when one of them had gone insane and murdered the rest of the family. In fact it was a rumor that people kept seeing ghostly figures and other supernatural phenonemom at the mansion on the off season hours. Orphe loved that sort of stuff, but when they turned it into a haunted house, well it was supposed to be the best in the town. Way too scary for freshlings, or so his caretakers said. So Orphe somehow slipped away and joined what looked to a tour.


Walking into the haunted house they were given a tour guide and each given a glowing lantern. The tour guide explained they would be telling the history of the house and the history of some of the rooms. They were even explaining some of the more supernatural events that people had seen. Orphe was kind of excited.
Entering the hallway, things weren’t so bad. It was dressed up like a typical room from the period, or at least rooms that Orphe had seen from textbooks. The room was covered with dust and cobwebs though and everything seemed to be in an old sepia tone. From there they entered the kitchen where there were giant cockroaches scurrying around and flitterats chewing on familiar shaped bones; from familiar shaped skeletons (Orphe supposed they were just props… right?). Then they went through a library and a couple trap doors. All the while with things scurry around just out of the corner of your eyes or things would pop up and scare you and it only got progressively worse from there as the tour guide faithfully gave the history of the place. They were then eventually chased by clanging noises and lights and doors flickering and shutting into apparently this secret entrance. Orphe did badly with closed tight spaces so crawling through the dark with his lantern was the start of when Orphe realized he wasn’t doing so well and maybe this wasn’t a good idea.


It was then they came to most scary room, even though at the time Orphe didn’t realize it. It was a mostly normal and somewhat empty looking room. It looked like one of those extra storage rooms you walked in to get to the back door. Suddenly the lights dimmed and shadows emerged from the base of the ceiling light fixtures, and from the air vents. They then pooled up to form figures that advanced towards the group. One of them even grabbed the tour guide who disappeared with a scream.


It was just a shadow trick on the wall right? Right and then there was a trap door that the actors would use as they wore shadowy figure like costumes so it looked like the shadows where glomping together to form people. He knew that had to be the case, but with the flashing eerily lights in the room with the low scary ambience sounds and the way they kept scrapping against the floor as they inched towards the tour group, who was now guideless. It was almost like long forgotten souls of people who had died and been trapped in the house seeking to drag down others with them. Well no matter what it was Orphe just wanted to get out of the haunted house. The exit was just right there and they would emerge safely in the garden. However as he tried to make his escape suddenly something cut him off and he bounced off them landing on the ground, as if some unheard signal passed between the shadowy figures they converged around him blocking him off from the door. Orphe wasn’t going to cry, even if his eye sight was getting blurry from the tears welling up. His breath starting hitching and catching in his throat, hiccups caught in his throat trying to fight their way out and his eyes burned from the tears. They were too close, and they wouldn’t let him out no matter how much he pushed. It felt like cold fingers were clawing at him, caging him. Suddenly his little lantern went out and the room flushed into darkness.


Orphe didn’t care he was supposed to be in there to prove he was more than those bullies. He just wanted out. He wanted out. He wanted out. He wanted out and they wouldn’t let him out. Why wouldn’t let him out.


Suddenly light suddenly broke through the darkness as the back door was shoved open again and an unfamiliar white hand grabbed Orphe’s before yanking him out of the cage of figures around him. The shadows tried to attack the owner of the hand but no matter what they did the white hand kept pushing through them never once letting go of Orphe.


“He is just a bloody…. Kid” the owner of the hand practically spat. “Next time, pick on one of the damn hot headed teenagers,” and with that the door to the outside was thrown open and Orphe was free. Orphe limply stood there trying to get his lungs to work again.


“It’s okay. It’s okay to cry, that was scary and I promise I wouldn’t tell anyone” They told him getting down to his level. Orphe finally ended up bursting into tears and throwing themselves against the stranger’s chest. Why… why had he ever thought that was a good idea? It was the stupidest idea ever. All the while he was beating himself up, the arms kept steady and comforting.

Kid Entering For: 4
Personality of Kid: Tries too hard to impress others, is secretly insecure.


Scariest Experience: Ankhet was having sooo many regrets right now. She had boasted too loud about how she was totally not afraid of the haunted house in the earshot of some other kids she was hoping to make friends with, so they had dared her to go in by herself. Her mother was going to be so mad at her, but here she was and she was gonna do it! She was gonna show those kids how tough she was and then they'd totally want to play with her!


Clutching her stuffed doll tight, she just made herself keep moving forward even when she was jumping halfway to the ceiling (or so it felt) every time there was a loud noise or a sudden flash of light. Surely it had to end sometime!


She thought she saw the exit and headed straight for it when she turned a corner and came face to face with a spider as big as a grownup. She screamed and threw her toy at it, then ran past it and kept running, tripping, falling, catching on her costume, it wasn't until she got outside that she realized she'd left her toy behind and her mother found her wailing outside in fear of the spider, worried that it had eaten her toy but too terrified to go find him.