D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable}

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D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 12, 2015 1:17:16 GMT -5

Post by Muffinface on May 12, 2015 1:17:16 GMT -5

We are broken- but useful.

Cast aside- but found again.

We are intelligent and cunning predators.

We are your last chance for survival.

Chase your dreams

Things happen. Things beyond our control. Things that anyone would take back if they possibly could. Training has never been safe; some lose life, some lose limb. Until recently, those with no hope of ever bringing glory to the district have been shoved aside and disregarded as usless sacks of wasted talent and severed flesh.
They finally see our use now, as trainers for the 'lighter' survival skills, things that have saved many a tribute in many an arena. We are not, after all, as useless as they say we are. Precious few ever get the opportunity we had, and even fewer expend themselves on the games.
Most of us have lost something from ourselves- limbs, eyes, entire senses in a few cases, though we can still find a purpose for our districts, ghosts of our former selves never to fight in true life-and-death battle.

Hey so Muffin here~ I got a plot thing and I think it'd be cool to see how much interest I'd have in a muffin-ran plot! Anyone who has any questions can feel free to PM me. c:

Fire Starting; (Weasel) Gender does not matter here. This person is legitimately nice, and not angry about their injury, as it was caused by their own stupidity, or some kind of accident. Specifically, this teacher is missing a good portion of their nose, and an eye at the very least- they used to be a knife thrower, but the lack of depth perception caused them to lose their natural talent.

Navigation; (Open) I would prefer this role to be filled by a female, missing an entire arm. She is noticeably depressed about her injury, and knows she will now never live up to the harsh expectations her family and friends have put her to. She lost most of her friends when the accident happened, but she is slowly warming up to the other trainers.

Plant Identification; (MamaKay) Poppy EpoxyThough I would prefer this role to be filled by a male, I am flexible. This person is normally quiet, and shies away from any sort of attention now. He himself never wanted to be in the games, but everyone around him pushed him past a breaking point. He caused his own injury, whatever the player chooses it to be, though he's never revealed this to anyone. It would absolutely ruin him if anyone ever found out.

First Aid; (Muffin!) A male who lost his leg to his thigh in a particularly nasty fight. He used to be a prospective when he turned eighteen, and turned pretty bitter after his accident. He acts like a drill sergeant now, when he used to be happy-go-lucky. His manner of training is to scream at the kids to go faster, using the excuse that 'If you can't do it with me in your face, how are you supposed to do it in a life-and-death situation?'

Trapping; (Marree) Mizel Osric

Improvisational Weapons; (Lalia) Send me a small, condensed blurb!

Endurance; (Kire) Rolex Ghram

Camouflage; (Grim) Send me a small, condensed blurb!

Light Step; (Cosetty) Send me a small, condensed blurb!

Student; (A Million Arrows) Send me a small, condensed blurb!

I am allowing those of reaping age to play as students as well. Simply use the form below to alert me to your interest. You may post, or PM it to me. Please note, this is not first come first serve. I will no longer take applications as of May 22nd

[b]Your name[/b]: (User name/what we should call you on site) [b]Student, or Trainer[/b]: [b]Ideas[/b]:

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ghosty Mentor 2,134 POSTS Pronouns: he/him last seen Dec 5, 2022 12:52:02 GMT -5	D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 12, 2015 2:07:01 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ghosty on May 12, 2015 2:07:01 GMT -5 Can we use pre-existing characters for this?

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D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 12, 2015 21:55:14 GMT -5

Post by admin kay on May 12, 2015 21:55:14 GMT -5

Your name: mama kay
Student, or Trainer: Plant Identification Trainer
Ideas: oop, I started to ideate on this and came up with a 30-something female, but I think I could switch it to a male, if you'd like! Anyhow, s/he grew up a little smarter than athletic and had a difficult time translating that skill into Career status. Probably also she spent a lot of time in a garden as a child. S/he was certainly of a qualified pedigree, but something never quite fit. After s/he turned eighteen, it was time for Peacekeeper bootcamp. There, at least, s/he could focus on the forensics track, after basic. Or at least, that was the plan. Turns out there's a lot more physical training when becoming a Peacekeeper, including rotations in the district. That's when she realized how far she'd gone. The first day out, her training partner killed a citizen in a scuffle. The next week, she watched her mentor gun down a woman who had stolen a loaf of bread. She wanted to grow things, preferrably in a lab, not kill people. She tried to quit. That wasn't an option. She asked for a transfer, and ended up back in One. It was quieter, if only because her fellow district mates were used to their privilege. But she still had to oversee people being hauled off to the Detention Center. She still had to level her weapon at bystanders. The only way she was ever going to be removed from duty was retirement or disability. That's when she started dosing herself with aresenic. It was slow, painful, a year's worth of suffering to induce tremors, and then seizures. They dismissed her, but she'd already burned up her insides. The left side of her face sags, her right cheek twitches. She can't speak properly, and her left side aches when it rains. She takes a bevvy of medicine to reduce the pain. She works as a trainer to afford it, and she's worth every coin. Even if you can't always understand her through the tics, she knows every plant, mushroom and tree.

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D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 12, 2015 22:00:00 GMT -5

Post by Kire on May 12, 2015 22:00:00 GMT -5

Your name: Kire
Student, or Trainer: Trainer [Rolex]
Ideas: Well, you know about Rolex so really the ideas are just that he's in a bad place and so he's trying to do something to beat himself up with so he pushes himself beyond his breaking point and thus endurance. Someone suggested he could be a good role model and basically forced him into becoming an endurance trainer so he did that. He is twice as hard on himself as he is on his trainees and that's saying something because he's gotten really cold and indifferent. Anyway, that's pretty much the gist of it. I could spit out a whole new life story but I'd rather it develop by itself, ya feel?

He really needs something like this.

On hills and waves on stormy days.

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D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 12, 2015 22:07:23 GMT -5

Post by cosetty on May 12, 2015 22:07:23 GMT -5

Your name: Cosetty // Cos
Student, or Trainer: Light Step Trainer
Ideas: female, 20, has a scar across her scalp and no hair grows there anymore, so she just shaves that side and it's very capitolesque punk (i.e. Natalie Dormer's hair especially in Someone New video tbh). tall. she's very blunt and to-the-point. "Beating around bushes is a quick way to get yourself killed. Wonder why that bush was so convenient? Because it was a trap and now you're dead." She's very detail oriented, if a little paranoid. If a trainee doesn't show promise, or impress her, she doesn't put as much effort into their training. It may not be fair, but nothing is. There's something about avoiding traps that is very difficult to teach, a lot of it relies on instinct. How is this landscape suppose to look, how is this situation different--there's the trap. She falls into a slight depression during training years where trainees just plain lack the talent or instinct for light step.
She likes to come off aloof and untrappable. She mostly succeeds due to her ability and sharp attitude. But, she's not perfect. She's been caught in her fair share of traps. (How do you think she actually got so good at avoiding them?) In fact, one of them crushed her left hand, causing the fingers to be stiffer than they should. Her pinky is also bend slightly at the wrong angle, and her thumb is definitely not as flexible as it should be. It's also painful, the joints ache most of the time, but she hides this pretty well. (Pain meds help too, which she may or may not be a little addicted to?)

Last Edit: May 12, 2015 22:08:51 GMT -5 by cosetty

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D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 12, 2015 22:10:50 GMT -5

Post by grim. on May 12, 2015 22:10:50 GMT -5

Your name: (griffin "Grim")
Student, or Trainer: Trainer-Camouflage
Ideas: The crimson fluid bursts from my right eye as I feel my body crash against the stone floor. I watch my vision fog, I feel my breathe shake. The sensation of his knuckle crippling my pristine face causes streams of burning tears to seep from my eye beds. I taste blood that has surfaced from my throbbing jaw. My father was standing on the rooms edge, pacing like a madman. I see the look of disgust in his eyes, and that's the last face I remember. The only face I am greeted with, because...I have failed. The large boy that had ruined my face, shattered my cheekbone into shards of shredded glass. I watch him raise his boot, pressing toward my knee with such force, with such angst. He wanted me dead, and...I wish I would have been.

My father only saw me as an instrument. An instrument to play as his symphony, a symphony of hell and boastful distaste. I hate him, and it wasn't until he abandoned to pay me medical bill to fix my broken parts, that my hatred was as relevant as it was now. "It was my punishment" he said. "I deserve to grow disfigured" he said. Well fuck him, and fuck the blood that courses through my veins that matches his. I was blind in my right eye, being told that I look normal, but only seeing the world as a half. My broken knee healed crooked, causing me to walk bowlegged, and stumble over my own footing. I looked like a clown, so I learned to hide. I learned to avoid those I hated, which that number seemed to grow day by day. I learned to disguise myself into something that I wasn't. And learned that the best way to camouflage yourself, was to simply not give a damn. They couldn't hurt me, if I showed no pain. Years of avoiding torment have caused me to want to share my skills, give those the talent of finding a home in the shadows. I was a broken marionette puppet, so why not fit in with the island of misfit toys?

(19 years old, I can PM some possibly FC)

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D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 12, 2015 23:44:09 GMT -5

Post by * on May 12, 2015 23:44:09 GMT -5

Your name: Krylik/ Marree (Grandmarr)
Student, or Trainer: Trainer - Trapping
Ideas: Mizell Osric, 25.

Mizell is the latecomer to the games only starting when he was around eleven. Often lazy by nature and not one to partake into the highs of the games, he was the one to stay behind and become the mastermind behind tactics and goals. Mizell found that despite how horrid the games were, he found the particularly enlightening. He loved how each year, people found creative ways to catch their, more or less to say, prey. He found that physically fighting was suppose to be for those that had the bodies for it and the strength and pure stupidity to actually run head on into their opponent. His idea is devising a plan and creating a path to achieve ones goals. Creative genious by nature, he often found himself to create traps and snares and such plans were ruined when he was around sixteen.

Mistakes happen, and while putting together a rigorious trap that involved both blades, ropes and tree branches, landed him a first place trophy for pain. The rope that got entangled around his leg ended up pulling ligaments that connect his femur bone to his hip joints all the while slamming him head first into a tree. The injuries he aquired left him deaf on the left side and a permanent limp where the nerves were damaged and the ligaments never healed, cursing his future as a tribute. He didn't mind all that much though.

Since then, he wants to make sure no one else suffers from miscalculations in traps and snares and will ensure that whoever wants to learn the art of trapping, that they come to him for advice and further training. Knowledge is best shared.

Possible FC: On hold until further notice

Last Edit: May 14, 2015 18:31:21 GMT -5 by *

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D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 13, 2015 9:55:57 GMT -5

Post by Arrows on May 13, 2015 9:55:57 GMT -5

Your name: kay's bby...jk XD amillionarrows
Student, or Trainer:student
Ideas:so I have a career who is obsessed with knowledge so he would be all over this stuff. Especially plants because they have a lot of knowledge within them also with Kay as its trainer applicant how could I not apply I mean talk about a fun time!

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D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 16, 2015 15:17:41 GMT -5

Post by L△LIA on May 16, 2015 15:17:41 GMT -5

Your name: Lalia

Student, or Trainer: Endurance trainer (or maybe Improv Weapons?). Ella Dahl-Moreno. (I've been planning to age her up a few more years, I'm just not sure how many yet, if that affects anything.)

Ideas: Ella is one of my oldest characters — a murderess turned runaway wanderer turned shame of the District One Careers turned prodigal daughter turned... she doesn't even know now, but she's trying to sort it out. She was Reaped for the 61st Games, but stepped down after finding out that the brother she thought she'd accidentally killed was still alive. Since then she's stirred up enough controversy to start a gang war and has been working as a Career trainer in a lesser known training center on the wrong side of the tracks.

If she only knows about one thing in life, it's survival. She has a tendency to end up the accidental advocate for the downtrodden (all hail Ella Dahl, Queen of the Streetrats!) and doesn't believe in feeling ashamed — not for being poor or a whore or a runaway or for stepping down from the glory of the Games. A lot of people accuse her of being a hypocrite, especially for becoming a trainer after giving up the opportunity to be a Tribute, but she's spent her whole life fighting and, truly, there's no one who knows as many ways to wield a knife as she does.

I love the idea of her being part of a group of trainers instead of her usual loner habits. She's — cough — rough around her edges, so I imagine she'd still have more enemies than friends, but that it'd be really interesting for her to be looked down on even within a group of people who had lost limbs, etc. (AKA — That stepping down from being a Tribute would be worse than being prevented from stepping up because of injuries. That this too would become further proof of her ability to endure.)

(P.S. — Kay, if it could work timeline-wise, there could potentially be history between Ella and your ex-PK? She's spent some time in the DC and has caused enough trouble over the years that even though she's fairly well behaved lately, the local PK force probably still keeps an eye on her. She'd probably have a conspiracy theory that your girl works there just to spy on her to see if she's still a gang leader or trying to stir up a rebellion again, etc, that she hasn't really left the force. Hilarious paranoia and many false accusations would ensue. Bromancey/friendship/whatever things too though? If for no other reason than that Ella would be jealous of her having the guts to ruin herself with arsenic like that, since too many of Ella's life problems have been caused by her own face and she wishes sometimes that she could do something like that herself.)

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D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 21, 2015 21:38:37 GMT -5

Post by Muffinface on May 21, 2015 21:38:37 GMT -5

Congrats! Hopefully everyone got the slot they wanted- there was very little overlap for this plot! If you're unhappy with what position you have, go ahead and PM me, or Skype me, and we can figure something out!

Someone should still fill Navigation! If you would like a second character in this plot as either the Navigation trainer, or a student, I am still accepting apps for those.

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D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} May 22, 2015 8:47:10 GMT -5

Post by ghosty on May 22, 2015 8:47:10 GMT -5

Your name: Ghosty
Student, or Trainer: Trainer
Ideas: I just have the feeling that she's going just to want to prove herself to others, and maybe just want to have a chance about making other people happy with her, and just have someone else to talk to really. Also, possibly, having to teach someone with the skills that she learnt, but had never put into practise for the games would make her willing to be in society, no matter of the injury that made her family almost disown her.

Also, this plot is amazing <33

Muffinface Tribute 470 POSTS Pronouns: She/Her last seen Sept 9, 2017 13:10:56 GMT -5 Let me show you my true colors ☆☆☆	D1 :: {Chasing the Unobtainable} Jul 13, 2015 14:22:42 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Muffinface on Jul 13, 2015 14:22:42 GMT -5 YO I'm finally back from camp and I'm super excited to start threading with all of you guys! c: If you could PM me or slack me links to your bios, I'd be more than happy to update the thread!
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