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[yourcupoftea]

Hey, everybody! I'm Dee. I'm completely new to the game and DW role-playing in general, so I hope you'll be patient with me while I get the shape of things. I'm really excited to dig in here, though, and to start writing with all of you. HoC's concept is fantastic.

I'll be bringing in Meera, a Four of Spades. You can read more about her here, but I'll give you a quick rundown. Her mother was something of a wunderkind in her day. People expected a lot from her. But, around the time that she met Meera's father, her interest in the game started to dwindle. Her competitive spirit was passed down to Meera. Meera is incredibly motivated and determined to one day be the Ace of Spades. Keywords: one day. For now, she's perfectly happy to run errands for her betters in the castle. You never know what you might overhear changing the linens, after all.

What else, what else. She's extremely chatty and is less socially graceful than most other Spades. She's still very courteous, but if she sees someone, no matter their rank or suit, chances are she'll try to talk the ears off them.

Meera was born in the Deck to a Spade mother and (though Meera herself doesn't know it) a Club father, so she's bound to know a lot of people. I love all kinds of CR, so just toss anything at me. And apologies in advance to the Spades. She is going to pester the socks off all of you.

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[cutslikeaspade]

Hi, Dee! At the risk of sounding like everyone else so far, welcome to the game! Glad to have you with us!

I'm Emma and I have four kids in play:

Juliette (jokeswithknives) who is one of the Jokers, or those oddballs who sort of run around doing their own thing and don't have any allegiance to any of the Suits. Her history's a little...rough, thus she's a little "off" and has an affinity for apples, sharp pointy things (ie: knives) and is absolutely head over heels in love with her horse, Dutch. She drifts from Castle to Castle, stealing apples and whatever leftovers she can filch from the kitchens, but all in good fun, really.

Theo (holdsmyheart) is the recently appointed King of Hearts. He was a Ten of Hearts previously, born on the Deck, but educated Outside in medicine, only to return after losing his family and became the Suit's medical practitioner. He's an EMT as well as King now, and is basically everyone's big brother ever. Although the Kingship is bringing out the "daddy" aspect of his personality, I'm noticing.

Claudia (makeminerubies) is a Nine of Diamonds and--a bitch, really. She's the only daughter (and family heiress) of Martine Chareut, matron of a very old, very prestigious Diamond family. Also educated off Deck, she was nevertheless born and raised to be "queen", more or less, so she doesn't have anything even resembling a warm and fuzzy personality. A workaholic, she's the Assistant Director of HR in Diamond Castle, and half-sister to Pierre Chareut (hommesadique), who's a Ten of Clubs.

The only Spade I have in play is Ethan, with this account name. He's a current Seven of Spades and the Suit's weaponsmaster and combat instructor. He's also the former Spade King's (David) adopted son, as well as foster brother to Amy Sinclair (bitchwithabite). If Meera really wants Julien's job, she's going to have to fight Ethan for it, because he's had his eye on that office ever since forever. David started grooming him for it way back when, but On-Deck events led to the estrangement of their relationship (and Ethan's mental breakdown, more or less), resulting in him leaving the Deck for about a year, only to return and take over the armory. He still has the reputation of the "Black Sheep of the Spade Suit", which is rough, considering all the Spades are insane anyway. Ethan, Jordan, Amy, Declan Chives and a few others were all raised together, the last generation of Shea and Medea's (the old bad Spade monarchs) reign. Ethan and Jordan are good (sometimes best) friends and both were trained under Jordan's mother Lauraline to be weapons of the Suit, basically. (Ethan took it a step further and made a very good living Outside killing people before he came back home.) So it's highly probably that Meera's heard tales of that bunch's exploits from their wild younger days, ect.

/stops rambling now

Anyway, don't hesitate to ask if you have questions, that's what we're here for! Looking forward to playing with ya!

[yourcupoftea]

Hiya! Thanks so much.

This could go disastrously, but Meera would definitely try to get to the bottom of Juliette. Why apples? For that matter, why knives? There's got to be an interesting story there.

Theo and Claudia both seem like lovely characters. I don't see any preexisting CR between them and Meera, but maybe they can bump into each other sometime.

She will fight you tooth and nail, Vampire Diaries. Meera is completely in over her head when it comes to all this killing business (read: she has no idea murder is something that Spades do in the name of the Suit), so it could be fun to play with her trying to face off against Ethan.

I'm gonna hold you to that. I tend to have a lot of questions. Looking forward to playing with you, too!