houseofcardsooc | July's Voicetest and Enabling Post [a twofer!]

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July's Voicetest and Enabling Post [a twofer!]

Here be rules and explanatory things!~
1. Taking part is not mandatory! If you wish to test-drive a new muse, here's the place, but if you'd rather app them without testing - that's perfectly legit, too. :3

2. There are suggestions for scenarios behind the cut. You can use the RNG to roll a relationship and a situation, but you are absolutely free to come up with a scenario of your own. It's more like a friendly suggestion/bit of inspiration from out side.~

3. You may voicetest as many characters at once as you like, and testing them here doesn't make apping mandatory. It's supposed to help you get a hold on the character's voice and to help you decide whether they would fit into the setting or not.

4. Please, keep the following in mind:
a) nothing that happens in this meme is canon or has to be taken into the game. This applies to both the CR and the situation at hand - though if you like it? Talk about it and make it canon once your muse got in.~
b) taking part does not assure that your muse will get into the game.
c) it's just a meme. It's here to help and to have fun, nothing more, nothing less.

5. For the voicetesting characters only: please fill out the short form below:.

Player name: Your name/online alias
Character name: Your character's name.
Character Rank/Suit: The rank your character holds and the suit they are in.
Short description: Three to five short sentences that will give some basic information on your character. This could include their occupation (or whether they are new to the deck), mention existing relationships to characters already in the game (as long as that has been discussed with the character's muns) and maybe a few words on the character's personality. Don't link to an already written app/the character's whole history/an essay on their personality. It's just supposed to be a synopsis.

The information given here is not yet set canon, so you are perfectly free to change it for the actual app.~

6. You can also post a character that is already in the game so people can bounce their voicetesting characters off of you! Actually, this is very much welcomed. Do it! :D If you want to.

As stated above, here is a list of the relationships and scenarios you can roll out in case you don't want to come up with something else or just like randomness a lot.

Relationships
1. Acquaintances - You have seen each other around, but rarely exchanged more than a couple of words. Time to chance that!
2. Friends - What it says on the tin. Maybe you've known each other for a long time, maybe not - whichever works best.
3. Colleagues - For some reason, you two work together a lot - be it cross-suit work or inter-suit things, you keep ending up doing important stuffs together.
4. Lovers - What it says on the tin. Secret or not, just crushing or close to married, it's The Wuv between you two.
5. Exes - When No. 4 went bad. This may or may not get awkward.
6. ENEMIES - You hate each other. That's all there is to say.
7. ??? GO WILD!

Situations
1. Surprise!assignment - For some reason, your King/Queen/whoever decided you two should work together on a ~~gloriously random~~ project. Even crackier when it's off-suit.
2. Suddnely, date. - Can be a blind date, an assignment taking a funny route or an Actual Date (or whatever else, really). Go out, have fun. Wheee.
3. Challenges! - Either that person challenged you, or you challenged that person, or you are going to challenge soon or ... whatever challenge-related scenario you want to have here.
4. Morning After - What happened last night? Where are we? I have no idea, you play it out.
5. Party, PARTY! - It's time to celebrate a thing! IDEC what thing! Maybe it's a masquerade or a fun evening at the Four Suits Pub...
6. Bad Day - For all your emo needs. One person has a bad day, the other comforts them. Or makes it worse. Or anything else.
7. ??? GO WILD.

ALSO: If you would like to be enabled into creating a new character or if you have a requested character (or character type or face or whatever) you'd like to see in the game...post them under the comment thread titled "enabling requests". :) OR if you just want to see them put in a

musemostwanted post in a few days before we open apps, we'll be posting some descriptions of wanted characters there. :)

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I would like a P.A. for Elisha. I'm not picky as to PB, rank, gender or age, just someone efficient, personable, and secretive. Probably with a rank between Two and Five, but it's totally up to the player.

I'd also like to enable for Jordan's best friend. Probably a Spade, likely with a calm personality to offset the temper Jordan had as a child. Male, 25-26, mid-to-upper ranked. Chace Crawford would amuse me, but it's totally up to the mun.

Bren would be totally cool with having an apprentice. Either just for the piercing/tattooing, or for the acupuncture as well.

Same with Maeve. Maybe someone else - a coroner's assistant.

Age/gender/pb is totally up to player.

A ten of Hearts, Male. Someone that can be the next King of Hearts that Ceiro can possibly appoint to the rank Granted, you still have to app XD BUT It would be nice to just see some male Hearts in general. There are a lot of females up in there. ripe for the pickings.

Any pb, though older would be preferred. Someone mid 30s- mid 40s. <333

Player name:Ana
Character name:Justin
Character Rank/Suit:Three of Hearts
Short description: Justin started out getting brought into the Spades by Julien to be his go-fer. He previously was apparently living on the streets and quite a skilled pickpocket with a big mouth. Which was just fine until he finally pushed Victor too far and he "accidentally" skewered one of Justin's hands in a sparring session. While not exactly permanently maimed, he was at least unable to actually keep up the nimbleness of his fingers that he was used to. That, combined with an offer to go to the Hearts where he might be treated better means that's where Justin's been for the past some-odd months. Presumably, he's grown up a bit in the intervening time and learned how to be a real boy.

One imagines.

I kind of think it might be interesting for Julien's biological father to show up. Possibly be a member of the (extended) Bernard family, even. Obviously, they don't know each other and I don't know yet how they'd even discover the connection but. It's a thing. Nagging in the back of my mind.

I would actually love for someone from Johnny's past to show up. Preferably the girlfriend he left behind when he lost his memory and stumbled into the Deck but an alcoholic redneck father is also a possibility if somebody wants to be mean. Or, you know, just somebody who was friends with him at the time. Or a sibling. Basically a person connected to him who will be like, "wtf do you mean you don't remember me?"

I missed the switch from Julien to Johnny and was left wondering how on earth Julien (raised in a Ukrainian orphanage) could have an alcoholic redneck father. XD

Player name: Muzy
Character name: Briony Williams
Character Rank/Suit: Nine of Clubs
Short description: Briony was born a Spade, the youngest daughter of Sean and Medea. After an unsurprisingly less than delightful childhood spent being raised by an increasingly unhinged Medea, Briony watched Athena kill her mother at the age of fourteen. She was sent away from the castle, and when she turned fifteen, she joined the Clubs instead.

Briony is a trained pharmacist and runs the pharmacy attached to the Town medical center.

Player name: EJ
Character name: Leona Matthews
Character Rank/Suit: 6 of Clubs
Short description: Leona is that charming alcoholic in charge of Club Accounting Office. She's also is like a sister to Elisha, and they are pretty close. In someways they think of each other as the only family they've got left. She hails from Manchester England, originally, and prefers the Ladies over the men. Not to say she hasn't or won't sleep with a guy, but she has only ever truly dated females. She's fun, peppy...and...just a doll. Really.

[Leap. Pounce? A little.]

So....when do I get one of those t-shirts? I figure it might help with the revue recruiting.

Player name: Muzy
Character name: Darien Eliot
Character Rank/Suit: Ten of Diamonds
Short description: Darien Marlowe Chauncey Eliot is a Deck-born Diamond of two old, wealthy Diamond families. The eldest of three boys, he fulfilled familial expectations by excelling at his studies and training, including a stint off-Deck at Cambridge University, and then rising to Ten by his thirtieth birthday. Openly gay, Darien possesses a razor-sharp, often cruel wit and a lack of patience for idiocy. He's the Head of the Department of Information Control, responsible for squashing rumors about the Deck on the Outside.

More High Diamonds in general, age/gender/PB up to player. We need those. :|

Annie's mom and/or brother.

Lily Riordan is a 6 or 7 of Spades who may have been higher-ranked in her younger days but has slipped since. Roughly in her mid-forties to mid-fifties. She's a rather apathetic parent, which was fine for Martin but not his siblings. PB up to player, but obviously has to bear at least a little resemblance to Eliza Doolittle.

Martin Riordan is 20 and a low-ranked Spade but ambitious and aiming high. He resents his sister for (a) coming back and (b) without Jimmy, their deceased elder brother. However, Annie's kept trying to make peace with him. PB up to player.

Lastly, enabling for Säde's on-Deck family, the Winstons. Säde married into the branch that went off Deck, but as she still uses her husband's name, the on-Deck Winstons consider her family. The Winstons are an old family, but one whose members have rarely made it to a high rank. They tend to top out at Four or Five, occasionally Six. So having a relative for an Ace, even if only by marriage to a distant cousin, is a matter of some conflict. She's using their name, but her husband died under mysterious circumstances (of a stroke, but it's commonly guessed that she poisoned him or something). But she's a Face Card, so they get to boast about that. Säde herself mostly treats them with neutrality (but this is CR that can be hashed out). There are no specific characters in mind for this branch; age/gender/PB is up to the mun.

ETA: PB requests! Lili Ji, Sunna Gottshalk or Jenny Shimizu would be wonderful.

Edited 2012-07-26 15:06 (UTC)

Now? Now works, babe. But I have to tell you- Some of them are a bit more colorful than others. Q decided that he was an art director- walking through the paint and theeeen all over the shirts.

I can't let it go to waste. He worked hard.

[But really, have all the hugs you want darling.]

Color's good.

[She grins and will hug again for good measure.]

And you know, let no one tell Q he isn't creative.

Andrea:

- Any Cruz! It would be nice to have some family members. Well for me at least. The branch (http://www.familyecho.com/?p=TR09E&c=pzl73ssm2b&f=622244304248039521#view:Q9RZB) she's from would be wonderful but it can be from the other three branches that exists. The PB and bits of bio for Andrea's family is there but it's completely up for change for any prospective players. Anyone out of the family is a wildcard (geddit? geddit?) so any PB, personality, history is a go.

- Anyone interested can read up on this (http://houseofcrack-rp.livejournal.com/209275.html?thread=5912187#t5912187) to get a general idea what the family is like. For those who can't go through four pages worth of words, a TL;DR: The Cruz is a Spades family that settled into the Deck a 100 years ago and made a name for themselves through shady deals, playing the politics of the Deck Court and not being a afraid to backstab (figuratively and literally) others or even each other. They're a secretive, sneaky family and are not afraid to do dirtier things to get what they want. They're currently in a tense situation among each other since there isn't really a clear successor for Head, my character is the technical heiress for the position but doesn't truly qualify for it due to stipulations, and want themselves or their children to be on top.

- Her mother, Dao-Ming, Seven of Spades. Dao-Ming's PB is Joan Chen but this is up for change for any prospective players if they wish to use another PB.

- A quick brief of Dao-Ming: Originally a nice Club, Dao-Ming fell in love with Shing K. Cruz and married him. She toughened and sharpened up to keep up with the then environment of the Spades to the point she willingly rallied behind King Sean and Meade, until they both fell of course. A stern, icy woman thanks to her years in the Suit and hates being seen as weak. Has a tense relationship with Andrea due to bad blood that occurred in the past (and recently.). Is currently the Head of the Cruz since Shing's death and is having trouble holding the position as of late, struggling to keep hold of the family. Will give more detail to any interested players if they want and because this got long already. Willing to also change her personality and history with the cooperation of the player if they wish to do so~

- Frederick Stewart-Jarrett (name is up for changing, just needed to put a name on the idea I had), Any Rank from Any Suit. PB is but can be changed by the player if they wish to do so~

- A quick brief of Frederick: Originally raised in the Spades and from a family that consisted mostly of low ranked Cards, Frederick was soon assigned to become a servant for the Cruz staff, specifically Andrea's. He and Andrea struck a friendship and were thick as thieves. But then he created the Valentine's Incident and not only made Andrea break off her friendship with him out of fear but have him eventually transferred to another Suit by the pressuring of the Cruz who were enraged by what he had done. Whatever happened to him next after these events, and what he's like now, is up to the player and willing to give more detailed information about him and his then-relationship with Andrea if they wish to have more idea on what to do~

Edited 2012-07-26 03:34 (UTC)

You're looking well.

[Which is a terrible shame. He was so hoping Justin would just fall on his head.]

[Oh. It's you. Nobody's killed you yet?]

Amazing what a few months of not gettin' stabbed can do for a guy, isn't it?

I find that being stabbed builds character.

But then again- you have to have something worth building on, don't you?

[Many of tired, and they've all died for it.]

Guess that depends who's doin' the evaluating.

[Read: not you.]

Player name: Marie
Character name: Vasiliy Zaslavsky
Character Rank/Suit: Seven of Diamonds
Short description: The eldest child of the Zaslavsky family, Vasiliy is a forger and document specialist on the Deck and is considered the best among his limited peers. Vasiliy went to Stanford University and majored in Law and Political Science and dabbled in creative writing. He criticized the practices and professional performances of the Face Cards and other high ranking Diamond Cards and was knocked from a Nine of Diamonds to a Seven. Dry, somewhat crude, but not entirely unkind, Vasiliy is honest and purposely unpolished. Friends may call him Vasya.

[If Mary will be here with Danielle until things have been resolved she might as well be useful. That must have been what Sir Gregory Jones, Head of IM, thought when he decided to just hand her a thick file just filled with papers out of the blue. He patted her head, smiled sweetly and pointed to the direction of that 'meddling Diamond.' He didn't bother to lower his voice. He must have thought she had no grasp of English.

He's very mistaken.]

/Here is papers, Mister... Zaslavsky. You must sign them. Very important./ [She lifts the file to be taken. After it is no longer in her hands, she looks around in caution and ends up biting her bottom lip nervously as she debates telling the man or not about the rude person. Wouldn't she like a warning? Yes. She would.] /Be careful of Aunt Danielle's boss, Mister Zaslavsky. He is not liking you./

Edited 2012-07-26 05:02 (UTC)

So, do you want them all in one place...or should I just corner people until they put them on?

Player name: Aura
Character name: Rowan Justice. Ro for the friends. Never Miss Justice.
Character Rank/Suit: Eight of Hearts
Short description: Comes from an Old as Hell Deck family. Rowan is not your stereotypical Heart in the sense she's been a tomboy for a great part of her life, and she got to the rank she is now by challenging people to fist fights. And won every single one of them to boot. Ro is an event coordinator, especially centered around the security of said events (anything from a large meeting of people within the castle to formal meetings between the Face Cards, either her or all the Suits, as long as they happen in Heart Castle). She also ~~tortures~~trains a few selected ones in a number of martial arts, all unarmed.

Yes. Because the Hearts are very good at evaluating people in their suit.

[Read: ailing king.]

For Calypso I would love, love, love for someone to bring in her husband Galen, preferably PBed by Josh Duhamel. He was serving in Afghanistan and went MIA about two years ago and has since been determined to be KIA, but that doesn't need to have been how it actually went down. He wouldn't necessarily have to be a Spade, since Callie and co. are currently living in Town.

For Rachel, I'd like for someone to either pick up her father, Caleb Caustello (Clubs), or one of the Givenchy brothers (Diamonds) who tormented her back when she was still rising up the ranks. I think I had PB ideas for all three, but I can't quite recall right now who.

Finally, PB/kinda character-wise, for metalulz I'd love a Diamond played by Eric Bana. My thoughts are that he could have been living/helping defend the Outposts, possibly a single father, and of relatively high Rank. ~~He may also be a potential love interest for Rachel if you're so inclined, but ssh~~. Also a PB plug for Chris Pine and Evan Rachel Wood, if we don't have them yet?

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Melly: Enabling post for Andrea because this got worringly long. :T ETA: QUEEN OF THE TL;DR!

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Vasiliy Zaslavsky

1-1. /rolls with it /and sneakily edits /spelling fails everywhere

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voicetesting~

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