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hello everyone ! 

sad announcement: due to personal reasons, we will be stepping back, and for the time being the rp will be closed. we know this is disappointing, but please know we appreciate you all giving this rp your time and commitment---and maybe in the future, it will reopen, or revamp ( and we will contact all our current players if that happens ! )

for now, we want to thank you all for being involved with newt spleen & bananas, and we apologize for this. you are welcome to take your characters anywhere you please in the meantime, and we wish you all the very best. 

— admin ottery & the house elf

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okay so it’s been a quiet week, and i’m in desperate need of tea, but i’m undeniably around ! let’s get the ball rolling on a few new things, how about it, gang? squad? hoard? denizens. denizens is good.

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evening, everyone ! it’s been a rather busy week for me, but i’m hanging in there. or in here, more accurately, on the rp. lurkers should feel free to drop me any questions they have, about anything, nsb-related or otherwise. ( i saw a sweet video of a very dapper raccoon the other day, so you could ask me for that. i’ll happily share it with you. )

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please unfollow:

alvaro sanchez

elena richmond

morgana guerrera

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the following characters have exceeded activity:

alvaro sanchez @snakesanchez

elena richmond @lionrichmond

morgana guerrera @mcrgana​

please post a thread or contact the main within twenty-four hours, or you will be unfollowed.

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the link to your specialty characters page doesnt seem to work from the navigation page, just thought you should know! :D

oh, thanks so much for the heads up ! should be all fixed, now.

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good evening, gremlins !

just popping by to add a few alterations to the main — namely, there is now an entry on music and music players in the ( canon world-building alterations ) page, as well as a page expanding on the rp’s guidelines for ‘specialty’ characters---part-humans or others with rare abilities ( which you can find here ). please let us know if you have any questions, regarding either of these additions !

hope you’re all doing well, motoring along <3

— admin ottery

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name: vivienne carlisle pronouns: she/her age: twenty-eight year: seventh blood status: pureblood classes: alchemy, ancient studies, apparition, care of magical creatures, charms, defense against the dark arts, latin, potions, transfiguration clubs: magical creatures club positions: prefect additional note: animagus ( angora cat ), unregistered

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She seems like a prodigy. Hard-working with a talent for transfiguration and Latin, Vivienne truly belongs at Hogwarts. With hair of spun gold and the face of an angel, Vivienne is blessed with a nearly ethereal beauty that she’d been taught from a young age that her pure blood was responsible for. But that resemblance to such a holy, guileless creature was where it ended. A Slytherin through and through, from the very second the hat had been placed upon her head, the majority of the students and teachers could hardly believe she was placed in the correct house. There are some, however, that can sense her true nature. That are fully aware that someone else entirely exists beneath that angelic facade. But she’s taking on more and more and as she enters her seventh year here at Hogwarts... that facade is threatening to crack.

— played by molly

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name: kiran thakkar pronouns: he/him age: thirty-one year: third blood status: muggleborn classes: alchemy, charms, defense against the dark arts, herbology, history of magic, latin, magical law, magical theory, potions, sign language, transfiguration clubs: herbology club, potions club positions: slytherin quidditch keeper

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— drug use tw

Born and raised in a very religious Gujarati-Indian family, Kiran lived a very sheltered life. His parents always tried to protect him and his two sisters from the temptations of British social life. Never allowing them to go to parties or school trips or to mix with other cultures. His parents married him off at 18, just before he went to college in London. After having lived under their strict rules, London meant freedom. He went to parties every other day, slept around, did drugs, and attended classes either stoned or drunk. He was heartbroken when he heard that his wife, her parents, and his brother in law had died in a car accident. Kiran fell deeper into a depression and deeper into his vices to keep his mind away from the idea of death. After missing his sister’s birthday again, Kiran was found by his parents in a drug-addled state and forced to check himself into rehab, with little effect. When his magic first manifested Kiran thought he was hallucinating. Two months later he received a letter from a place called Hogwarts, which he figured was just another rehab center, until four days later when he was relatively sober, he started to believe the place was actually “REAL!”. And he had been invited to become a wizard. Which sounded like a good way of getting away from reality. Maybe even better than drugs. And it was, or at least it was a whole new experience, despite it not changing his ways. He still regularly does drugs, drinks, smokes, parties, but at least the whole idea of Magic hasn’t become boring yet.

— played by nico

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kiran thakkar

vivienne carlisle

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to the following characters, welcome to hogwarts !

kiran thakkar ( manish dayal )

vivienne carlisle ( amanda seyfried )

we’re excited for you to be joining us ! be sure to review the ( checklist ) and send your account within twenty-four hours.

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+1 application for amanda seyfried ! 

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+1 application for manish dayal ! 

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good evening, school ! the dash is positively flourishing, and i have so much affection for all these new characters, already. 

one quick heads up, sweets n’ sours — i received an informal inquiry today asking if we had any wanted connections from players — so ( here’s the link ) to submit them if you do ! someone is actively looking to fill one of those if they exist, so now’s a great time to think through if your muse needs a friend/lover/ex/sibling/arch-nemesis in their life. 

to anyone lurking the tags, we’ve just opened, so it’s a great time to check us out and join in our 18+ hogwarts adventures ! what’s holding you back? tell it to... stop doing that.

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Hello admins! I was wondering, are there curfews in place? Or any kind of rules involving leaving dorms at night or not being in certain areas at night? Thanks!

thank you for the great question, ‘non ! and to answer, there is no official curfew ! however, most people do sleep at night, we assume. after hours, classrooms will be locked, and the same rules of conduct apply as during the daytime. prefects still have night patrols ( which they do on scheduled rotations ) so anyone roaming the halls will be expected to behave themselves. but we don’t kid ourselves, we know some wild shenanigans probably go down in the midnight hours. just remember, you still have class in the morning ! 

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name: erik grimshaw pronouns: he/him age: thirty-four year: sixth blood status: muggleborn classes: apparition, care of magical creatures, charms, defense against the dark arts, history of magic, latin, magical law, politics clubs: n/a positions: gryffindor quidditch beater & captain, prefect

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Life was difficult for Erik because he wanted to believe in magic but he always knew better than that, he had too many reasons not to believe. Father Christmas was bullshit told to kids whose parents could afford to buy everyday essentials let alone an excess of gifts and food. The tooth fairy was another lie told to kids who didn’t lose their teeth from their father’s fist rather than the usual sandwich. He was the kid from the ‘bad’ family, the kid who caused too much trouble at school, the kid wasting his potential. He could’ve been a lot of things. He tried his best but he always had too many problems at home to ever succeed at school. It only took one night of pent up, adolescent rage to derail his life completely. One year in prison for assault and petty larceny made it nearly impossible for Erik to get a job, even if it partly lead to him finally finishing secondary school thanks to an education in prison where he had nothing else to do and no distractions. In the years since he’d been in and out of jail for petty crimes and was, very slowly, giving up hope. He wanted things to be better but he never seemed to get a chance to make things right — at least in the muggle world. At twenty-seven years old, he opened a lock without touching it and spent every waking moment trying to make it happen again. Days later on his twenty-eighth birthday, he received a letter that finally gave him a reason to believe in magic. Six years later, he might finally have found what he needed to reach that ever out-of-reach potential he was always told he had.

— played by cola

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name: fernley park pronouns: she/her age: twenty-five year: fifth blood status: muggleborn classes: astronomy, care of magical creatures, charms, defense against the dark arts, divination, herbology, ghoul studies, transfiguration, xylomancy clubs: book club positions: n/a

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Throughout Fernley’s life, she’d grasped onto the one mote of possibility that her story was going to lead her to a great destiny. She stoked her dreams with books and movies of heroes from humble beginnings, but as she grew older it became more of a silly game to her. Playing the odds by checking strange doors for hidden portals, or willing the remote to fly across the room. Until one day came the start of her great adventure. Fernley dropped everything to study at Hogwarts. Soon, though, her plucky determination deflated in the face of the harsh reality—that she was just one, in a sea of many chosen. Divinations was the only subject she had a natural talent for. Fernley could divine when you’d splinter your ring finger, what assignment you’d spill your ink on, and the date minted on the sickle you’d find after dinner. She was a seer of little happenings. Fernley just wished that her gifts could actually do something that mattered. Not that she’d ever tell anyone of the naive, childish hopes she clung to.

— played by mars