Hunt-Putley Family Plot // D7

Your Name: Cici

Character's Name: Napoleon "Leo" Hunt

Character's Age: 16 (ugh just realized yours is 16; I can age him down to 15 if you want...)

Character Ideas: When Leo wants something, he will have it. He's always been controlling and can often get pretty obnoxious. Yet, he never feels like he can walk away from a situation without proper conclusion. He always has to win, always has to get the last word in, always has to conquer. He may have a little OCD, as he has many odd obsessive habits that no one really knows about. For example, he won't fall asleep unless the minute hand is on a number that ends in seven. :07, :17, :27, and so forth. One thing out of place and he's gone wild. This boy has no limits whatsoever and gets angry easily. Very easily. Doesn't deal with people too well, especially girls, but as long as he feels he has control, he's good.

Plot Ideas: I could see a lot of tension between him and Madelina, with the whole "winning" factor. maybe even twins ok idk Possibly bullies Annalise around a lot. etc. etc.

Also, though not the kind of boy you'd think to hold a secret, he does have one. Seeing as how likely it is you'll find him wandering around on the other side of the district making trouble with whoever he really can, he already knows Cygnus Putley. It was one night really, two years ago, when he tried to kiss her but she didn't want any of it. She probably doesn't even remember his face, but oh, he remembers hers. And now they're part of the same family and he still wants her. ok idek, but like, basically, I want Leo to be likin' Cygnus. a little too much. > but I don't know about the seeing her before thing or whatever--we'd have to work those details out. I just need. family drama.

Anything Else: IDEK ok sorry I can change anything you want me to, I promise!!

Your Name: Rachel Tice

Character's Name: Israël Malcolm? Hunt

Character's Age: Eighteen

Character Ideas: Israël's best friend is blind. Unjudgemental, trustful, the boy couldn't wish for anyone else. He can take him by the hand and lead him, always telling him whatever he wants is round the next corner. That trust is something that Israël craves, that knowledge that someone will unfailingly listen to him and agree with him. When his family, step-siblings and the people around him see him as only a hazard, this friend is always there for him, to believe what he says, and only know what Israël wants him to know. Though it may seem cruel, to use somebody like this, Israël is sure that as long as he keeps his friend away from other people, who might disagree with him and enlighten the other boy, he need not feel guilty. Guilt and shame have never been a concern for him. Not in such a family, where everyone is as obscure as each other, and where anyone could be the culprit for the happening.

Israël's closest companion is deaf. When Israël keeps his back to everyone else, so too does his friend. While Israël can hear what they say, their whisperings, their doubts, that is not a problem for his friend. Other people may speculate about Israël's innocence, how he's acted in the past, the crimes he's committed, the hearts he's burned, but as long as Israël himself doesn't choose to share these secrets, whether they be true or false, with the boy by his side, he need not know. Anyone else who he befriends, but doesn't choose to share his close-guarded memories with, can easily find things out from his family or his acquaintances. That makes the world as untrustworthy as they see him. But with his friend, his true friend, it's different. He never hears what Israël tells him not to hear. This obedience, this cluelessness, delights Israël, who is always so paranoid about what people say behind his back and in his hearing.

Israël's dearest ally is mute. No arguments, no lies, no reason to mistrust him gives Israël a relationship which he sees as mutually beneficial. Because isn't that what it always comes down to? One mistake, one complaint, and suddenly it becomes clear that a relationship is no more than a weak façade and an illusion. To save himself this love loss, Israël indulges in the silence of his follower. Perhaps, if he could talk, he would tell all the others what goes on in Israël's head, what he shares with only this one boy. Seeing as there is no risk of that, it allows Israël to share whatever he wants, and therefore get it off his own chest. That way, it's no longer a secret, and it means that he himself has nothing to hide.

Israël's friend is incapable of anything without two things: Israël himself, and light. He thrives on light, feeds on it like a thorned plant, turning it into something black, ominous, twisted. And Israël revels in that. The beauty of that transformation - good into evil, innocence into corruptness, omnipresent day into unpredictable, everchanging night - captivates him. He spends all his time away from the other Hunts and Putleys, in the attic, drawing blinds over the windows and summoning his one true friend into the light of a circle lantern. Because Israël's only friend is his shadow.

The only person that never protests, no matter what Israël screams or promises or begs or curses to him, is simply the result of the obscuration of light. But to Israël, that isn't sad or pitiful. It's ethereal. And Israël has developed this idea, morphing his friend from simply being one form on the wooden wall and floors, legs stretching from his own, shoulders heaving in time with his, into a plethora of characters. Crudely crafted wooden and paper dolls (for paper and wood come easily in District Seven) form an array of puppets, representing family members or other children or fictional characters from Israël's own darkest wishes and memories. He'll know when he finds a real person, a tangible human being with eyes and ears and a mouth too, who can replace his timeless twin, because they'll be the one who can live within, and around, the shadows, just as he does.

Plot Ideas: Teaching his siblings shadow puppets, particularly Annalise who won't laugh at him or complain about his impatience. Basically trying to become a shadow himself around his family and weeeird stuff like that.

Anything Else: click

why didn't you apply then Wheee I'll get to work on him right away <333333