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"Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very real. That is why there are night-lights." But even night lights cast shadows. Neverland is an island born of dreams, and yet people often forget that it is the stuff of nightmares as well. With the era of the Darlings passed by, Peter had to collect a brand new crew of Lost Boys to help him fight the new and dark forces that lurk in the shadows of the island. OPENING DATE: TBA

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Original Character Audition: Accepted!

ooc information:
name/alias: sam


preferred pronouns: she/her


age: 22

 
timezone: EST


url or blog where you can be reached: here or lostmermaidponyo

 Alvina Calkins is a Witch, whose loyalties lie with Witches. Her age is 26 years old and looks a lot like Emma Watson

△ What kind of magic spell to use
Slime and snails
Or puppy dogs’ tails

 The Past:
Alvina has always had a fascination with magic and history, both of her parents were archaeologists and had passed on their love of hidden history to her. Alvina would love spending countless hours in her father’s library studying his journals or looking at his fossils needless to say since her parents had the same job Alvina was fairly well travelled but always returned home to Ireland, often adding a new treasure to her family’s display. When Alvina was only 19 and in college she was informed that her mother and father who had been studying in South America were caught in a cave in and neither had survived. Alvina was devastated and cried for a week she loved both of her parents very much and with no brother’s or sisters she now felt deeply alone. Alvina decided then and there that she was going to continue her parents work, Alvina gathered all of her parents field journals and studied up on what they were looking for and when she graduated college she went to south america in search of what her parents had been looking for. following her parents maps and calculations Alvina stumbled upon a pirate ship that had run ashore, hidden away in the caves. Alvina boarded the abandoned ship and began to explore, while she was exploring the many artifacts she came upon a music box with some strange markings on it, when she opened the box the music played and was so beautiful and hypnotic that she passed out. When Alvina woke up she found herself in the green forests of neverland with nothing but her gear and the box. Alvina swore she would get to the bottom of this and try to get home, that was how she met the Witches in the black forest. They told her that the only way to understand what had happened to her was if she were to learn magic herself and so Alvina took up her studies in magic from them as well.

 Now:
Alvina still studies and lives with the witches, she’s also continues her research and studies of archaeology on the island as she tries to learn more of it’s history and has started making a map of the island in her journals. in her spare time Alvina explores and often draws or reads, she always has her nose stuffed in a book or her journals but she enjoys adventures and knows that every step she takes will get her one step closer to getting home so that she may perhaps report on her findings of both Neverland and the abandoned ship she unearthed hoping to give credit to her parents and honor their names.

 △ Her eyes are the stars in heaven
Watching o'er us all the while
And her heart it is in Ireland
Deep within the Emerald Isle

Personality:

+ curious, kind, intelligent

 - to trusting, head in the clouds, questions everything

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Chasz. He/They. 23. PST. howlertheexwolfboy.

A question isn’t answered, if an answer isn’t questioned…

The Past:

    Years ago, before he had known of magic and wonder, Ethan was a troubled only child in a very poor poor family. His father, a stern and abusive man of few words, crafted swords; which did not sell well. His mother, an emotionally vacant and passive woman, had sacrificed her work as a seamstress in order to raise him. Their home on the dark, dank streets of the East End in England, could run chills down the spine of any young passerby with any sort of an imagination. The ominous home set perfectly, the tone for the rest of Ethan’s young adult life. Due to these conditions, he grew up to develop plenty of mundane disorders such as: depression, anxiety. and of course the classic trademark of a child raised by the hands of careless and violent gaurdians, PTSD.

    Given these circumstances, it came to no surprise to him that on the day he was notified of their untimely death, he felt no sorrow. He did not cry, nor did he hang his head in grief at the news of their demise. What did end up bringing him some understandable level of dread, was the bit on information he was told next. Since he was still under the age of 18, and therefore a minor, he would be forced to spend his days at McKilroy Orphanage. It was there that he spent 4 years of his life, all the time wishing for a brighter tomorrow, though it never came. After those years had passed, and the year of his 18th birthday arrived, something very strange happened that would change his life from that point on. 

    In the dead of night on the eve of Summer, through a slightly cracked bedroom window, came a tinkling glowing fairy that flew right over an oblivious, sleeping Ethan. In doing this, the fairy inevitable shook off just the right amount of dust to send the boy slowly floating to the ceiling, all the while still fast asleep. He struck his head once he reached the top, and woke suddenly and violently, causing him to come crashing onto the bed, and sending the now terrified fairy right back out of the window. Despite having just been woken up, quite out the blue, Ethan was surprisingly oriented and caught sight of the small creature as it darted away. He followed it through the night sky for hours powered by the residual dust the fairy had lost when entering the room. And then, he discovered it. The land that time had forgotten.

    It was here that Ethan spent many years of his life, traveling back and forth between realms at will be stealing fairy dust when needed. He had many adventures, from unwillingly becoming a werewolf and earning his nickname “Howler”.. to falling madly in love with a Lost Girl whose unrelenting stubborn pride was almost as impressive as her ability to fight. And it is there, one could say, that everything went.. well, badly. To put it lightly. When one bad decision after another led his lover into the care of an evil pirate’s son, he once again left Neverland to follow her. The stubborn pridefulness that he had once disliked so much about her, he had adopted himself. He found her and her new love in Costa Rica, seemingly forgetting that Ethan had ever existed. Foolishly and unpreparedly, he fought the son of the Pirate King, and lost. The fight left him concussed and with an apparent irreparable case of amnesia. All that he is left with now are random and brief flashes of Neverland he sees as a part if his constant night terrors.  In a ditch effort to shake the nightmares, he turned to South American witchcraft. There he discovered that these dreams were visions of a place he’d been before, and that somehow, hopefully with the aid of a particularly curious witch.. he could get to again.

Now: Howler (who has almost completely forgotten his entire identity prior to Neverland) is now spending his time haggling and “working” for the local witches of the Costa Rican jungle. He hopes that he will discover the tool necessary to get back to this place that is still haunting his dreams, and remember who he truly is. At the crack of dawn each morning, he heads into the shadowed and annexed outskirts of the jungle to meet with a witch named Ayla, to do her bidding and earn her trust. After that, she promises, I will show you how to get to ‘La Tierra de Nunca Jamás’

In a land that time forgot.. you uttered sweet forget-me-nots.

PERSONALITY TRAITS:

Positive: unrelenting, loyal , hopeless romantic

Negative: temperamental, stubborn, impulsive

Relationships: Howler cannot remember anything after last leaving the island. Before leaving he was only friends to a handful of Lost Children and Wanderers. Hook was a great enemy of his, and Peter Pan himself wasn’t all too fond of him either.

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please make sure to go through the links on the ‘before applying’ section of the navigation page.  ooc information: name/alias: Chelsea preferred pronouns: she age:24 timezone: PST url or blog where you can be reached: http://brokenthimbles.tumblr.com (Main)

Living in London, in the Darling Family home it did not matter that her last name wasn’t Darling to all who knew her? That’s who she was: Wendy Darling. She was living in her grandmother’s shadow. She was raised as a proper lady, but her father’s Scottish heritage made her almost pixie like in her need to cause misheif and to distinguish herself from the legacy of her grandmum. She was an adventurer at heart and nothing could keep her tied down. Not even the threat of settling down and finding a family. Not that Wendy didn’t want one day to marry and have a family, she wants to marry for love not out of duty and she’s often described as to untamable to be a suitable wife to anyone.

She’s discontent with her life in London knowing, sensing that something is missing in her life she often dreams of Neverland, but unlike Wendy? She dreams of the freedom of being a pirate not a mother to the Lost Boys. Now: Wendy doesn’t know how she came to the island, she merely awoke halfway between the Underground and the Port. She knows she’s in Neverland based on the stories she was raised with, but all around her is darkness. This wasn’t the Same Neverland she had been raised to dream of. It was primal, and terryfing and the fact she didn’t understand how she’d even arrived on the island terrified her even more. She’s been on the island no more than two days, and somehow has managed to find her way to the pirates port… … now it was time to live her own adventure.

  △ Musical lyric… Personality: + head-srong, adventurous, motherly - impatient, nosy, head-strong Relationships: No current relationships in Neverland.

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TIGER LILY is a WANDERER, whose loyalties lie with THE WANDERING TRIBE. Her age is UNKNOWN, and she looks a lot like DEVERY JACOBS. TIGER LILY is currently OPEN.

△ Gone, gone as the daylight comes...  

The Past:

Once the warrior princess of a great and powerful people, Tiger Lily is currently the chief of the now wandering tribe of Neverland. Everything in her life had changed when the vampires attacked. Many of Neverland’s strongest, native warriors were slaughtered in a terrible battle, including the chief himself. Tiger Lily had been made chief after this, and decided to uproot her people to wander the island in an attempt to make themselves untraceable. She had been one of the few spared by the vampires, which left her alive to spend the rest of her days hating them. Her entire family had been taken from her in that blood bath, and she had seen how powerless they all were against the ‘Night Monsters’ as she calls them.

While out on a hunt, Tiger Lily discovered someone wandering in the woods unaffiliated with any tribe, crew, or coven, and decided to take them in. Thus began the new tribe of Neverland. It was to become a common occurrence, as new folks with nowhere to go began cropping up all over the island. The tribe became made up of people from all corners of the Mainland. Tiger Lily and her remaining people taught them how to defend themselves, and to make and drink a vervain based tea daily, and to hunt, and to protect one another. Her tribe grew, and with it her confidence to lead them. It didn’t matter that they weren’t all natives to the island; they embraced the culture respectfully, and showed the same respect, loyalty, and admiration to Chief Tiger Lily, and she loved them all the more for it.

A queen in her own right, Tiger Lily has decrees and laws for her tribe. They are not to grow attached to vampires, and should stay away from them at all costs if possible, and they are not to let their guard down around them. Vampires have a terrible bloodlust and are not to be trusted. Werewolves are an ancient race, and should be respected; children of the moon are always welcome in the tribe, as long as it is not the full moon, or if they are wearing a cuff to stop the transformation. Everyone must respect one another as well as the earth, and no unplanned hunts; animals deserve the same respect that the tribe members give each other, and Tiger Lily has taught everyone in her new tribe to give thanks to the animal for its sacrifice. Lost Boys may be permitted, but only when both tribe and Lost crew are on good standing (it changes so often).

Now:

Tiger Lily is a fierce leader, and would do anything to protect her people. She wants peace on the island, but is not willing to make compromises over her people with the vampires. She does not tolerate a single one, and would kill them all on sight if it didn’t contradict her desire for living freely and peacefully on the island. She’ll figure out a decent way to free the island of the Night Monsters if it’s the last thing she does.

△ And I’ll probably never see her again...

Personality:

+ Patient, Loyal, Protective

- Judgmental, Holds a Grudge, Hardheaded 

Relationships:

PETER PAN-  Although Peter has saved Tiger Lily’s life in the past, the two groups are often at odds, and have skirmishes here and there that often end in blood. Tiger Lily and Peter sometimes get along, but it truly depends on who lets whose cockiness slide. He doesn’t like that she takes in the Lost Boys who he’s kicked out, feeling as it is a mark of disrespect toward him on her part, as though she didn’t approve of his choices or leadership, but Tiger Lily will continue to protect the misfits of the island that have nowhere to go.

ZALTANA- Zaltana is Tiger Lily’s closest friend and confidante. Some have speculated that their relationship tends to the more romantic, but neither will confirm nor deny the speculations. The truth is, Tiger Lily sees Zaltana as close as family, having had her beside her from long before the vampire attack. They grew up together, teased the native boys who wanted them for their wives, and trained to be grand warriors side by side. All had been going good for them for a while, until Zaltana had been hit hard in a battle between the natives and the pirates. Afterwards, she was never able to run as fast, or fight as well, and was forced to stay behind during war times. Tiger Lily does all she can to keep her closest friend’s spirits up; only time will tell whether or not Tiger Lily will learn of Zaltana’s true feelings for her.

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WILLIAM THORPE is a VAMPIRE, whose loyalties lie with THE VAMPIRES. His age is UNKNOWN, and he looks a lot like SAM WITWER. WILLIAM THORPE is currently OPEN.

△  We don't deal with outsiders very well...  

The Past:

First impressions of an eighteen year old William Thorpe never gave suspect to his sordid personality. He was raised to behave like a gentleman, and he was very good at pulling off a normal appearance. However, this couldn’t be further from his true identity. Expelled from three schools in his youth, many thought his parents would give up the idea that he would receive a higher education, but the Thorpes were high society folks that liked everything to be just so, meaning their boy would attend private schools just like everyone else in their circle. Young William seemed so charming, and so when the reasons behind his expulsions came into the light, no one believed them. His parents claimed that each time he was expelled was because the true, evil culprit had blamed him instead, and William must have been too noble and kind to cause the trouble to deny it. Even when William confessed that it was HE that had hit a nun back with a ruler, or that he had created tiny explosives in chemistry class, or that he had dropped a heavy sedative in the headmaster’s morning juice and tied him upside down in the main hall, they still denied it. When he told the atrocities to their high class friends, his parents explained that he must have been bullied into keeping quiet about the culprit’s true identity, and that Mr. Thorpe would have a word with him. Mr. Thorpe’s words to William were “You. Must. Stop. Telling. Lies.” between hidings with the boy’s own belt.

It took William burning his parents alive in their sleep to get them to stop assuring their friends that he was a sane, normal boy. The murder took the whole house with them, and while the entire town came to the funeral to pay their respects and to offer condolences to William, he had taken off on one of the dozen horses he’d set free from the stables before setting the home afire. William had always loved animals, and would never cause harm to such honest and majestic creatures. From there, William fled and traveled the country, causing many ill fates to anyone he surrounded himself with. Fires followed in his wake, and many began to seem him as the villain he was. And in 1848, William might as well have made a deal with the devil for his tattered soul.

A witch in a small Jamaican village offered him a deal if he were to bring her the bones of several royal guards who had ravaged the young girls of her town. In return, she would grant him eternal life. The task was simple for Thorpe, and after dropping a bloodied sack on her floor, she gave him what she’d promised. Life everlasting. As a vampire. He became drunk with his new powers, roaming new continents and distant lands, becoming very comfortable with every type of wrong. It all ended in the early 1990s, when he met another vampire in England: Sebastian Sparrow. The two became grand thieves, partners in crime, although Seb seemed a little apprehensive of his methods. They made a good team, however, so Thorpe put up with any disapproving glances from Sparrow while feeding on man, woman, or child. And then, one day, he and Sebastian were sucked through time and space to an island called Neverland, by the same witch that had turned him for his sore misuse of his powers. It was meant as punishment, but William saw the island as his own kingdom, with plenty of humans to hunt and kill.

Now:

William follows no code of conduct, but lives in the Glen with the other vampires. The ‘leader’, Isaac Starkey, daren’t kick him out, finding it easier to keep track of this wild card if he stays in the Glen. He has a nice home, though decorated sparsely, with only a few odds and ends. Surprisingly, he doesn’t kill the pirates, although not because of the pact Starkey made with Captain Hook. He prefers to feed on them a bit, compel them to forget, and then drop them in the middle of the Black Forest, weak from blood loss and fatigue. He enjoys watching them try to escape the darkness that inhabits those woods.

△ They say newcomers have a certain smell...  

Personality:

+ Observant, Articulate, Perceptive

- Unhinged, Violent, Possessive 

Relationships:

SEBASTIAN SPARROW-  William enjoys lurking around the Glen when Sebastian is near, relishing in the way Seb reacts to his bad habits. They don’t speak too often, but living in the small village makes for many ‘accidental’ run ins. William picks on Sparrow for being so sensitive, and will often bring Lost Boys and other children to feed on into his house, especially while Seb is around to see. He has one goal, however, when it comes to ruining any chance of Sparrow’s happiness: he fiercely desires drawing Cora to his side. With his charm and knack for playing nice when necessary, he believes he is capable of it. All he needs is to get Sparrow riled up enough, to show Ms. Cora Dunne how violent his ex partner in crime can get. The reason for his hatred for Sebastian, boiled down, is that he feels betrayed by Sebastian’s turning away from him. 

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SEBASTIAN SPARROW is a VAMPIRE, whose loyalties lie with THE VAMPIRES. His age is UNKNOWN, and he looks a lot like JOSEPH GILGUN. SEBASTIAN SPARROW is currently TAKEN.

△ And what a scummy man, just give him half a chance I bet he’ll rob you if he can...

The Past:

All of his life, Sebastian felt useless. In school, his grades were always down, his number of relationships low, and he couldn’t keep a job down. It seemed that every aspect of his life was just pointing to his grave with giant, neon arrows. He actually tried to take his own life when he was drunk; he swallowed a bunch of pills and went to sleep. The pills, it turned out, had been tic tacs, which only resulted in minty breath. After that night, Sebastian realized that he must have been put on that earth for something. The universe obviously wanted him alive. For what, thought, Seb had no idea. Fate would have it to be to die, in the end.

In a dive bar outside of New Jersey, Bash found himself buying an American girl a drink with the last of his wages. He’d been sending travel articles to a local paper back home; he knew the newspaper always ended up either in the bin or similar, but they paid him to travel and to write, so it wasn’t a bad life. Why his readers would want to hear about this town was beyond him, but he did it anyway, as it was the first job he’d kept for over a year, and that was good enough for him. So he bought this girl a drink; she was all hands from the start, and very forward, (which was how Sebastian liked them). After a couple drinks, Seb went outside for a smoke, and the girl followed; what followed was a blur, but when Seb woke up, he was in bed with the bar girl, and had a stiff neck. There was blood everywhere. It turned out that the girl was a vampire; she’d turned him and had him feed on the bell boy. Seb apparently lost control and drained the poor boy dry.

Flash forward a few decades; Sebastian was back home for ages now, in the little town of Pinner. He’d learned to (mostly) control his cravings, filling up with booze, coffee, and the occasional mailman, (general snatch, eat, and compel the poor bugger to forget). In one of his many visits to London, Sebastian met the devil himself, William Thorpe. Thorpe had a certain arrogance and self-centeredness about himself, but picked Sparrow out of the crowd in an instant. Thorpe told Seb how great it would be to have a partner in crime, and the two began robbing stores. It was easy to do when you could compel the right people. All was fine, until one night, Sparrow saw William feeding on a toddler. The poor thing just stood there, pale lipped and distant eyed. He decided to break ties with Thorpe, but when he went to tell him off, something pulled them both through time and space to Neverland. Some force, or someone decided to punish them to live out their days on the island.

Now:

Sebastian and William rarely talk now, but both live in the Glen with the other vampires. Seb houses a traveler named Cora, and in return, she gives him and the others some of her human blood. He is a little protective of her, and feels a strange desire to keep her safe despite the harm he inflicts. Seb spends most of his days off exploring, wondering if there might come a day when he’ll get back home.

△ Can see it in his eyes that he's got a nasty plan, I hope you're not involved at all...

Personality:

+ Humorous, Empathetic, Merciful

- Unstable, Self-Loathing, Compulsive

Relationships:

CORA DUNNE- Cora is the woman who Seb houses in the Glen. He likes to keep her happy, sometimes internally playing at being the husband of the house. He’d never tell her this, of course, but he quite enjoys her company. He feels rather jealous when others feed on her, and so tends to lock himself in his room when she’s sharing her blood. Dunne is the one light on the island, in Seb’s opinion.

WILLIAM THORPE- Sebastian’s personal hell would be somewhere to be taunted by the ever present Thorpe. Sure, they don’t talk much, but living in a small village, they often cross each other’s paths. William picks on him for being sensitive, and will often feed on the Lost Boys to brag about it later to Sparrow. The man, it seems, gets off by upsetting people. 

ROBERT BLYTHE- Robert was the first and only person that Sebastian ever turned into a vampire, and it was completely by accident. He’d found Robert in the woods, bleeding out from a vampire bite. Seb had fed Blythe some of his blood to heal him, and ran off to find the attacker. Blythe then had had a run in with Thorpe, who drained him dry before snapping his neck, thus unlocking the vampirism curse. Seb checks in now and then to see how the pirate Blythe is doing, but feels awfully guilty for being a part of the man’s turning. 

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The following characters will be on hiatus from December 20-27: 

Grizz

Daniel Donata

Tinkerbell

The following characters will be on semi-hiatus from December 22-January 3:

James Hook

Aurora Smith

Fauna

Sean McGee

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Slightly Audition

Slightly sat in the grove of the trees, it wasn’t far from the entrance to the Lost boys hide out. A book sat at his side a copy of the play “The Crucible” a classic about Witches he had found and dried out on the beach though the writing was still a little smudged it was still legible. For now he was taking a break as he tried to fix the small clock that his friend had broken. 

Slightly knew that for the most part time was irrelevant here on Neverland but it was still nice to have as a decoration on the wall, once the hands were in place as best as he could make them he smiled feeling accomplished for the moment. Feeling more positive about himself for once he put the clock down he picked up his book yet again, but as he flipped through the pages that trickling of doubt continued to enter his mind  What if it wasn’t good enough? what if he didn’t fix it right? Slightly soon found he couldn’t focus and picked up the clock again and began tinkering with it again, maybe this time he could do better? character url (if desired): Don’t have one yet!

 “two is the beginning of the end.”

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For as long as Erza could remember, she was put between two homes: Her father’s home at a Smithy where he was a black smith and her Mother was a pirate who sailed on the seas. Ever since Erza was little she knew she wanted to go with her Mother and her crew even though she had been told time and time again that it was dangerous. 

When Erza was sixteen years old her father was diagnosed with Tuberculosis for several months Erza wrote to a friend of her mother’s who she knew would get her the letters and each time she only got the responses saying she would come home soon. A year later Erza’s father died, Erza became very resentful of her mother for not showing up to be with the man she supposedly loved on his deathbed and especially when her daughter had to watch for a whole year as her father suffered on her own. Erza set out on her own taking her few possessions and got on the next ship out of port. Erza stayed on the crew for eight years often using her talents she learned as a black smith to fix her crews weapons until a storm got them lost and they wound up on the mysterious island Neverland. Upon which they met Captain Hook, Erza watched as Hook killed her captain in cold blood for just saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Hook gave her crew two choices: to pledge their loyalty to him, or to die where they stood. Erza refused to die where she stood wanting to find her mother again some day so she shamefully pledged her loyalty to Hook. Now: Erza has a black smith shop in the Port where she fixes weapons and makes her own selling them to pirates for a good price and inventing new styles of hilts and other things though no one really appreciates her craftsmanship they just want a weapon that could kill a lost boy. 

Erza has tried very hard to build her business up and is continuing to try and track down her mother to give her a peace of her mind, or maybe even just kill her, Time has made Erza a little colder towards the world and a bit angry she hopes that once she can solve the issue with her mom that she can move forward in her life she isn’t sure if she’ll stay a pirate or call it quits and try to become an honest woman but for now she can either be found on the ship or in her shop And it’s not a cry that you hear at night,It’s not somebody who’s seen the light, It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah Personality: + 3 positive traits

Handy, creative, determined

-  - (3 negative traits)

Short temper, a bit cold, smart mouth Relationships:

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