New Cards for November! (updated 11/18)

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This post is to be used as CR development and introduction post! New players can introduce themselves and new characters can work out everything out.

They are split between Suits only because that seemed the most sensible way to divide them up ♥♣♦♠

Will be adding to this post as the month goes on and this post will remain stickied to the top of the comm until apps close on the 25th to make it easy to see when new people are added. :)


Spades

	Emily Smythe-Jones aliasinfacie 9 ♠ Played by Muzy, approved at the very end of October so included here :)
	Michael Brennan i_machiavellian 10 ♠ Played by Scy

Clubs

	Carlos Jose Ruiz Ramos chiqitobaston 2 ♣ Played by Ky
	Tess Bowen grrranimals 9 ♣ Played by Song
	Carmella Montenegro keeping_faces Q ♣ Played by Felicity
	Elani McCartney elani_songbird J ♣ Played by Ana, not new but just got accepted as Jack so included

Diamonds

	Felicia Eden Harper likemarilynsaid 7 ♦ Played by Ty
	Melinda "Minnie" Pan rarelight 4 ♦ Played by Violet

Joker

Cynric hamelinic Joker Played by Qi

Hearts

Oyotunde Obi heartylaughter K ♥ Played by Ky

Comments

[chiqitobaston.livejournal.com]

o/ I cannot stop all the madness

Carlos Jose "CJ" Ruiz Ramos.
JP's nephew, 11 years old.

adorbs. cute. smart. etc.
teen/YA! account is jovencitobaston

All the tyler posey loves.

Must needs I say naught else?

Emily Smythe-Jones

[aliasinfacie.livejournal.com]

Emily is, in brief, an accomplished con artist with law training (Princeton Law). She ran straight into the Deck a full decade ago after an argument with her fiance (over the fact that her current identity, Sarah LeClerc, didn't actually exist) turned fatal.

She's been a Nine for a year and a half, and runs legal affairs for the Spades, as well as doing the occasional con/blackmail operation off-Deck for the Suit.

Cynric

[hamelinic.livejournal.com]

It's a Joker! CR with Jokers is made of candy!

Cynric has been popping in and out of the Deck for about a decade now, and is finally settling in for a proper stint as one of the Jokers. He's pretty migrant, and has probably popped up in most people's lives here and there now and then. Spades from circa 30 years ago might recognize him faintly, and Hearts from the last 20 years might recognize his twin brother {history here (http://hamelinic.livejournal.com/925.html)}.

That is all. o/

Terese "Tess" Bowen

[grrranimals.livejournal.com]

Say hi to Tess, a veterinarian to the various and sundry animals on Deck!

Tess has five stepbrothers/sisters, seventeen nieces and nephews, ten cousins who between them have twenty-eight kids. Some people might think the Bowens are trying to take over the Deck through assimilation! Her biological father, Marc Bowen, is a Diamond with an eye for the ladies (and gents). Tess has seven other siblings that she's aware of besides the five stepsiblings.

Hobbies: animals of all sorts, her bicycle, making paper airplans and flying kites, dancing, board games of all types, pool and darts.

She's been around forever. Give me all the CR? Old flames/spurned lovers/bffs are a go!

[likemarilynsaid.livejournal.com]

Hello again, darlings! I give to you Felicia Eden Harper, Seven of Diamonds and fashionista extraordinaire. She's 29 and an Army Brat from Outside who grew up all over the place--most notable being ages 14-18 in London, 18-21 in Boston, and 21-23 in NYC. She's been on-Deck for about 5 years now and has likely tried to coerce every one of you into an outfit that would be just perfect for you at least once. I welcome every flavor of CR, as she's a total social butterfly. Friends! Models! Ex-boyfriends! Ex-girlfriends! One night stands! Serial flirters! She gets around.

Carmella Montenegro | Q ♣

[keeping-faces.livejournal.com]

Just thought I'd pop round to stir things up as a Face. Most in Club castle will have seen Carmella in the background. She was the Clubs' housekeeper and Argine's lady-in-waiting. She kept a low profile so people from other Suits will not have any idea who she is, unless they are among her maternal relatives working in the castle households. The Chives' family may know of the Rhubarbs (her mother's maiden name).

Carmella wavers from prim and no-nonsense to motherly. She's a bit like those special teachers who you remember for years afterwards. You know, the ones who are fair and have the correct approach in dealing with individual personalities within a class.

I may bring her sister out NPCly. I could possibly be enabling for her husband, Jonathan. I imagine his PB as Jack Davenport but I've not written too much about his history and personality so you can have some creative freedom with that.

Elani Claire Deirdre McCartney - Jack of Clubs

[elani-songbird.livejournal.com]

So, Elani isn't a new character but since she got accepted as Jack of Clubs, sticking her in here too if anybody has CR they'd like to state or discuss developing further or...whatever.

Anyway, she's 21, she's been Eileen's musical-type tutor for the last....almost two years, I think. She's gotten in to arranging a lot of various events for the Deck which is presumably how she caught Elisha's attention for this.

She won't actually be ICly announced until tomorrow, I believe.

She has a pretty good idea of what Jack entails since she was close to both of the previous Jacks, Tegan and Lancelot. And of course she's on good terms with 99.99% of the Deck, so presumably that will help. :)

[heartylaughter.livejournal.com]

tunde-Tunde-TUNDE!

A few of you lovely people voice tested this K♥ with me.
Oyotunde is a mirthful man, who works hard, believes that earning respect is important, and wants to help his suit excel as individuals and that will allow them to excel as a group.

He's 38, Nigerian by way of Egypt, been in the deck 17 years, he likes classical music, any food probably, and he has 'face card Casual Fridays' at Heart Castle, where at least HE wears jeans and a comfortable polo, instead of 'fancy office wear'. (Thank you Avery. Blythe, Annie)

all the CR for me please :D

[rarelight.livejournal.com]

Introducing Melinda Pan, nicknamed Minnie. Comes from a family devoted to service of the Suit. Wanted to become a teacher, but instead offered to rectify the lack of Head Butler in Diamond Castle. Suffering an identity crisis between her usual bouncy, loving self, and what she believes a Butler must act like. Hit me with your best shot?

[i-machiavellian.livejournal.com]

So hi guys, I'm new, the name is Scy and this is Michael Brennan. I didn't really talk about myself in the chat so I'll say something brief. I'm a Masters student in the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, working on a thesis at the moment - or I should be, anyway, but I've been procrastinating a lot. Actually while I'm here I can be shameless. I wonder if you guys could spare me half an hour to do a survey about Facebook and death (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M6C6NCW), the results of which will feature in my dissertation =) I need like 93 more participants so I would really, really appreciate it if you could help, but don't feel obliged or anything.

Shameless advertising aside, I guess I also split my time between work, making bases/icons and gaming. I can't promise to be doing stuff here daily but I'm hoping you lot can be a little more patient with me as I pursue this mysterious elusive work-leisure balance.

Back to the RP, Michael Brennan is a 10 of Spades and is Julien's biological father. Outside of that I don't really know anyone and don't have any lines in mind. I'd love to work stuff out with people.

I'm bad at summarising stuff so here's a wall of text. He was born into the Spades when it wasn't a good time to be in the Spades, and he left for like 20 years. He came back into the fold like around 17 years ago and leisurely worked his way up the ladder to 10. He might not be so approachable at first but he's a nice guy once you get to know him. He's quite a bit older than most of the other cards so he's probably more, sort of... laid-back, patient, doesn't get riled up easily, takes things slow, etc. Not very Spade-y I suppose but I guess that means he'll be easier to get along with? =)

I'm on AIM a lot as long as I'm not on Guild Wars 2 but if you never see me on AIM, it's because of timezone differences. Flick me an e-mail and I'll get back to you ASAP. Cheers!

EDIT: I don't really watch the Blast group so much either so it would be nice if you could message me in a separate window. Otherwise I might miss stuff in the chat. It moves kind of fast >_>