Welcome to DNA Doesn't Make A Family, a roleplay for the ABC Family show, The Fosters! Please check out our basics page, open characters, rules, and application, and consider applying today to join!
We would appreciate if everyone available could meet in the OOC chatroom tomorrow at 7pm CST. We understand that it is short notice but we appreciate everyoneâs efforts to be there. If you are unable to get there right at 7 but are able to come on later, we ask that you do so.
We ask that RP members not post about or discuss episode spoilers either on Tumblr or on the OOC chatzy until 24 hours have passed since the episode airs (meaning 8pm CST on Tuesdays). This allows international members and those without cable or without televisions a chance to watch the episode.
After that, we ask that you check in with folks on the chatzy before discussing and make sure itâs okay with everyone, and use the tag âs2spoilers' on Tumblr posts, for the good of all the fandom. Of course, you're always free to communicate privately with individuals via asks, texting, or whatever, and it's up to those involved to decide if spoilers are okay.
Thanks Tay!Players, please follow Mariana.And remember not to unfollow Mary's Mariana. The account will stay open in case it is ever needed again. (But we hope it won't!)
We are pleased to welcome Taylor to our team here at DNA Doesnât Make a Family! Taylor will be playing Mariana. Tay, please create a Tumblr account for Mariana and submit the link to us ASAP!
OOC:
Name: Taylor, but please feel free to call me Tay.
Pronouns: She/HerÂ
Age: 19.
Timezone: PST.
Activity level (1-10, with 1 being inactive and 10 being very active): My active will be anywhere from eight to ten.Â
IC:
Desired character: Mariana Foster.
Second choice: Iâm unsure at this time.Â
Ships: Mariana/Zach, Mariana/Matt. I also would be open to her being in a relationship with a female.Â
Anti-ships: Brallie, just ew.
Character bio/background: Mariana Adams-Foster is the twin sister of Jesus Foster and now the adopted daughter of Stef and Lena Adams-Foster. Sheâs a sophomore in high school and an excellent student. Dancing is a passion of herâs and sheâs recently started her own dance team, an activity that is semi-helping some of her insecurity issues. These issues have stemmed from her difficult childhood and confusing feelings about her birth mom whom has caused her to have severe abandonment issues. Though self-centered at times, Mariana can also be very compassionate when a situation calls for it. Family is very important to her.Â
RP Para sample (can be any writing sample of 10 sentences of more; does not have to be from the point of view of the character youâre applying for):
To Allison, it felt like it had been months since sheâd last fogged up her car window to see when and where Scott wanted to meet. Really, the girl had just done it out of habit, on some frayed string of hope that there would be a message waiting for her in his writing. She hadnât expected to see anything but her own breath obscuring the clear glass. But there it was, his note appearing on the window with a sigh.Midnight. At the rock. it read, and Allison couldnât help the schoolgirl of a smile that lit up her face. Shifting the Mazda into drive, she hastily pulled out of her driveway and sped to the entrance of the Preserve.
She knew they shouldnât, not with them no longer being able to call each other their own. Scott had kept his distance, just like heâd promised, and Allison had fought herself day and night to keep her resolve. But she missed him, so much.Â
More than anything, she just wanted to feel connected to him again, instead of the constant suspension she found herself in. Now, that unwinding thread seemed to tie itself back together as her feet carried her through the damp leaves of the woods, toward the one thing she wanted most.
It wasnât long until she reached him, spotting him so easily even in the darkness; he sat on their rock, his old message almost completely washed away from rain and other elements, but still holding on, just like she was. Allison tried to suppress the wide, bright smile on her lips when he looked up at her, but the smile he gave her in return only made her heart flutter faster. He was really here, waiting just like heâd said he would.
There was so much she could have said, so many thoughts that could have spilled out during that moment, but desperation for his touch again won out over anything else. All Allison could manage to say was a breathless, âHi,â before she knelt in front of him, taking his hands in hers and clutching them tightly.
Before Scott could say anything back, Allison leaned up, her nose bumping his lightly when she closed the space between them. The girl could practically hear her heart banging inside of itâs bone cage, and she knew he could hear it too, because he smiled against her lips.
The kiss she gave him was almost desperate, as if she were afraid it would never happen again. Her lips brushed his and her hands went up to tangle his hair, pulling him closer still. Years could have passed and Allison wouldnât have minded, so long as they stayed connected. When she finally had to pull back to breathe, she rested her forehead against Scottâs and met his chocolate brown eyes with another smile.
We have one apps in at the moment, which weâre waiting for the third admin to take a look at before we make a decision. We also have one that weâve responded to via email.
We're very sorry for your wait but please understand that we have three very busy admins who all make decisions together. Because of that, sometimes things take a little bit longer than usual. We do usually try to let applicants know that we are reviewing their app but had a bit of miscommunication, which we apologize for. Your app is currently being reviewed and we will get back to you with an answer soon. Thank you for your interest and your patience.
Leigha's availability will be very limited through February 13th. She expects to be back to regular activity by the 14th. Please be patient with Lillie related plots/posts.
Mary's school schedule is taking up a lot of her time and she is also going through some personal things right now. She will continue to be an active player but her activity level on the whole will be less for the length of the school term. The RP remains a priority for her but for the time being it needs to be a little lower on the list. She appreciates everyone's understanding and hopes that the summer will bring about more time for the RP.
Also, please note that Mariana is still open and Mary is continuing to play her only until we have interest expressed in the character. Thus, as Mary prioritizes school/personal life, Mariana will be played secondary to Lena and mostly used as needed to further other plots. Please feel free to interact with Mariana as much or as little as you like. Her involvement will just not typically be initiated by Mary at this time.
If you are interested in playing Mariana, or any other open characters, please submit an application here.
Amara will be busy and unavailable to RP tonight and tomorrow. She expects to be back on Sunday and we appreciate your patience with Becka/Callie related posts.
We need to fill the role of our other Adams Foster twin! If you love The Fosters and want a chance to explore the characters you love in unique way, weâre interested in hearing from you! Check out our Basics page and our Rules, and then send in an app! We are most interested in casting JesĂșs and Mariana but we are accepting apps for most other canon characters as well!
We need to fill the role of our last Adams Foster family member! If you love The Fosters and want a chance to explore the characters you love in unique way, weâre interested in hearing from you! Check out our Basics page and our Rules, and then send in an app! We are most interested in casting JesĂșs but we are accepting apps for most other canon characters as well! Check out the list of open characters to see if your favorite is still open!
We ask that RP members not post about or discuss episode spoilers either on Tumblr or on the OOC chatzy until 24 hours have passed since the episode airs (meaning 8pm CST on Tuesdays). This allows international members and those without cable or without televisions a chance to watch the episode.
After that, we ask that you check in with folks on the chatzy before discussing and make sure itâs okay with everyone, and use the tag âs2spoilers' on Tumblr posts, for the good of all the fandom. Of course, you're always free to communicate privately with individuals via asks, texting, or whatever, and it's up to those involved to decide if spoilers are okay.
Thanks for sending in this application, Sam! We are pleased to accept your second character, Charlie Sawyer. Please make an account for Charlie and send the link in ASAP!
OOC:
Name: Sssssam (lol)
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Age: Old (Okay, 27)
Timezone: EST
Activity level (1-10, with 1 being inactive and 10 being very active): 6-7ish (I dunno, whatever I am now, that same amount)
IC:
Desired character: Charlotte âCharlieâ Sawyer
Face-claim: Caroline Dhavernas
Second choice: -
Ships: Whatever
Anti-ships: I dunno
Character bio/background:
Charlotte âCharlieâ Sawyer is a 39 year old ecologist who currently works for the Environmental Protection Agency. If asked, people would generally describe her as kind, patient, and calm (most would attest to never even having heard her raise her voice).
Charlie met Ben Sawyer, a funny, charming, mechanic, who stole her heart, when she was twenty-four years old. Theyâd been dating all of 6 months when Ben was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkinâs Lymphoma. Despite him urging her to leave, she chose to stick around, chose to kiss him in elevators on the way up to chemo floors, and to hold his hand tightly while poison raged through his veins destroying cancer cells, his appetite, his hair, and his energy level, but not his sense of humour. In those six long months of treatment, where others might have grown apart, they grew together, and, a year to the day of his last treatment, they got married surrounded by their closest family and friends.
Four years later, happier than ever, they celebrated Benâs five year âcureâ mark and turned their focus to the next chapter of their life â children. This next step, however, proved more difficult than theyâd hoped. Chemo had left Ben sterile and the alternatives were expensive, especially given the lingering medical debt that made the balance in their savings account never quite high enough. After considering all of their options, they decided that the best choice for them was to become foster parents â Benâs enthusiasm for that particular idea was contagious. Over the next three years they fostered a number of children, the last of which was a 9 year old boy named Max. It was because of Max that Charlie and Ben met Lena and Stef, who were fostering a set of twins in the same therapy group as Max. Bumping into each other frequently at therapy and at other events for foster kids eventually extended to the occasional play date. Then, after 10 months with Max, just when Charlie and Ben were starting to allow themselves to dream about adopting him, the state deemed his birth parents fit to be parents again and, just like that, he was gone.
It was less than two months later that the next crushing blow came, Ben, despite having surpassed that âcureâ mark, was relapsing (a rare, but not unheard of, occurrence his oncologist explained somberly). There was no âcureâ to be had this time - not that they didnât try one grueling treatment after the next, leaving little room for friends and certainly no room to bring another foster child into their home (neither could stand the thought of subjecting a child to the slow death march they were on). Within two years Charlie was burying Ben and trying to figure out how to live in a world that didnât include him. Because living, not just being alive but living a full life, was what sheâd promised him, both before heâd become a shell of himself, existing half in this world and half in whatever came next, and then again on that horrible night in the hospital room where âliveâ became the last word he would ever utter to her.
At first, when literally everything, even simple things like watching a movie (what was the point without Benâs ridiculous, unnecessary, commentary?), were hard, it seemed like the promise might be too difficult to keep. But then, slowly, things got better. The pain didnât go away but it became bearable. It started with work, her leave of absence ended and a funny thing happened, she went back to work and she remembered that she loved her job, remembered that she could be passionate about things like conservation. And then more time passed and she started volunteering with a cancer organization that supported young adult cancer survivors and their caregivers (an organization that had once helped her and Ben) and it gave her some sense of purpose that she hadnât realized was lacking.
Now, three years after saying goodbye to the man who stole her heart, sheâs ready for something new, to try and give more purpose to her life and to keep living it to its fullest, like she promised Ben she would (and, okay, maybe also to add a little noise to a house that is always just a little too quiet). She knows that, of everything sheâs done since his death, this newest idea, to start fostering again, is the one that Ben would love the most. When she happens to mention this idea to Lena (who sheâs kept some casual contact with all of these years), it sets a ball in motion. Once she hears about Lillie, a teenager who could certainly use a break, her mind is made up. She knows she can provide Lillie with at least some of the things she needs, like a stable home, and access to the people the girl calls her family.
RP Para sample (can be any writing sample of 10 sentences of more; does not have to be from the point of view of the character youâre applying for): Skipped (second character)
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