#acup: task9

[haleyface]

TASK 009 →

Haley’s been tested for ADHD three times, but every time, it was felt she didn’t have it. 

She loves succulents and has them all over her bedroom. Of course she names them; the one on her nightstand right now is Marty McFlyTrap

She’s seen the third season of Digimon at least eight times. She could write an entire dissertation on its emotional impact and implications of childhood trauma, if only she had that kind of patience and knew what a dissertation is.

Her favorite Studio Ghibli movie (and movie in general) is Howl’s Moving Castle.

Her sun sign is in Virgo, her rising is in Capricorn, and her moon is in Cancer. (Born 09.17.95 @ 4:37pm)

Haley is surprisingly organized. The only thing that’s really a mess is her though content, but her actual living space is very neat and somewhat minimalistic. She doesn’t do well if she’s surrounded by clutter.

She loves things with her name written on them.

She makes sure people know it’s Haley. Not Hailey, not Hayley, not Haileigh. Haley.

Her favorite dessert is strawberry shortcakes.

She thought she had a cat once. The first day she moved into her apartment right after moving to New York, there was a cute fat orange cat roaming around her apartment. She assumed it was a house warming gift and the cat came and went through her fire escape as it pleased for months. It wasn’t until she was getting ready to move out that she learned it was actually the landlady’s cat who frequently snuck out. She also learned the cat was named Tater Tot, which sort of fit since Haley had taken to calling him Hashbrown.

Because she’s a gymnast and mostly competed with people who were averaging at 5’0” for years, Haley is super insecure about her height.

She’s a Connect Four champion.

Jemma convinced Haley she was adopted for a solid two weeks when they were kids.

When she found out Fruits Basket was being rebooted, she cried.

Haley was almost arrested when she was 17 because some local kids had started a fight club behind the local Walgreen’s. The cops came to break it up and haul all of them off to jail. All Haley wanted was to buy some skittles at 11pm, and was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The only reason they didn’t arrest her was because she started crying.

She cries a lot.

Like…. a lot.

She sleeps with socks on.

She’s very bad at remembering her keys, so she had a bunch of spares made and keeps one in her purse, her wallet, her gym bag, and at Jemma’s apartment. She has not told Jemma that she has a spare key at Jemma’s apartment. Coincidentally, since moving out of her sister’s place months ago, she’s never lost that apartment key.

She went as Cinderella for Halloween five years in a row.

She doesn’t believe that Denmark is a country.

Haley doesn’t understand Snapchat.

[notthatharperlee]

TASK NINE - HEADCANONS 🧠

It’s no secret that Harper is a massive true crime fan. One thing she does not stand for is the glamorization of criminals. She’ll crack jokes or repeat all of the fascinating facts she knows but will immediately speak out the moment someone starts idolizing a criminal or talking bad about their victims.

Harper had a goth phase that lasted from 6th grade until her Junior year of high school. She still prefers darker colors and morbid accessories but knows that her personality is spooky enough to make up for it all.

Because of the home she grew up in, Harper has never had a pet of her own. This applies to Hunter’s place as well. They moved around enough that it was never practical. Harper dreams of hitting up the local shelter some day and finding the animal in most need of a home to adopt.

Harper grew up in a secular home and really has no base spiritually. The closest she gets to religion is dabbling in witchcraft and hunting for ghosts.

When she’s at home Harper wears socks constantly. This includes when she goes to bed.

Despite her rough childhood Harper hopes to have a family of her own someday. She could see herself having her own kids but is much more interested in doing foster care and helping kids in need.

Harper became fascinated by ghosts because of the movie Casper. Before her parents burned all of their bridges a family friend gifted them the movie and Harper watched it almost daily. That is, until it joined the grave of worn out VCR tapes.

One of her favorite family traditions is one she shares with Hunter. Every Saturday morning they would pour themselves a big bowl of cereal and watch cartoons. 

Some of her favorite animals include sharks, snakes, bats and alligators. Do they have a bad reputation? She probably loves them. 

She loathes microwaved food. 

At the end of a long day her favorite thing to do is throw on some pajamas and play video games. Assassin’s Creed is her favorite franchise. 

Harper carries at least two books on her at all times. She finds nothing more annoying than being out reading somewhere and finishing a book before she’s ready to go home. 

The sound and visual of someone creasing paper between their lips sends shudders down her spine.

Despite her name she’s never read To Kill a Mockingbird. 

Her dream date involves laser tag and kissing in dark corners. Oh, and shooting her paramour right after the fact.

Had she not gone into the field of education Harper would have attempted to follow her dream of becoming a storm chaser. 

Harper’s favorite color is blue. 

Harper is right-handed.

One of her nightly rituals is drawing her daily tarot card and reflecting on it’s meaning over a warm drink.

[theoreprise]

TASK 009 →

After Hamilton’s popularity burst onto the scene, a lot of people started assuming Theo was short for Theodosia. Now, if there’s one thing she hates more than being called Theodora by anyone other than her mom, it’s people calling her Theodosia.

Similarly, one of her favorite shows is Haunting of Hill House because it’s the only time she’s seen a tv character with her name who she enjoyed. 

Her favorite musical is Little Shop of Horrors. She watched the movie for the first time when she was five and then declared she wanted to change her name to Audrey. She also sang the Dentist song everywhere she went for a solid month.

Her sun sign is Cancer, her rising sign is in Aries, and her moon sign is also in Cancer (Born 07.03.91 @ 12:58am).

She doesn’t cry during movies often but there are three cinematic moments that always gut her: the scene where the old lady leaves Todd in Fox and the Hound, Mufasa’s death, and Littlefoot’s mom’s death.

Her mom went on a business trip for two weeks when Theo was nine, and during those two weeks, Theo made her dad and both her brothers learn how to French braid hair in her mom’s place. She herself does not know how to do French braids.

She’s allergic to bees. Not anaphylactic, but the way she talks about it is so dramatic that most people assume one bee sting will kill her.

*Theo hasn’t been to Arizona since she was eight, but she’ll trash talk it all day long.

She’ll tell anyone who asks that her grandfather is a cult leader. He is, in fact, a cult leader.

Three separate people paid her to take their SATs for them when she was 17. She earned $375 and used that money to buy Three Days Grace concert tickets

She’s never not had a pink phone case.

Her younger brother was four and didn’t speak any English when he was first adopted, so the family was taught very basic Vietnamese phrases while he took ESL classes. Theo only remembers how to say hello and how to count to twelve.

Her weekly self-care routine is painting her nails and watching The Nanny, every Sunday evening. She has the complete series on DVD. She also uses this time to fill out her weekly bullet journal spread.

The only non-traditional academic subject Theo was passionate about growing up was music, and the one thing she regrets about having graduated early is that she didn’t get to be in her school’s chamber chorus that students could only audition for in their senior year

Theo is arthritic in her knees and hips.

She’s 28 years old, has had two middle names her entire life, and still has no clue how she’s supposed to write them both out on paperwork.

She’s never had an avocado in her life and doesn’t plan to change that anytime soon. 

There are very few people she’ll admit this to out loud, but Theo wants children. She doesn’t care about marriage and considers it to be archaic, but she wants to be someone’s mom instead of just being someone’s daddy.

She RSVP’d to raid Area 51. Don’t tell Jemma.

Theo believes the United States faked the moon landing. 

She started wearing glasses when she was five, and then got contacts when she was 14. The reason for this is because she also got braces when she was 14, and she refused to be the cliche of a nerdy smart girl with both braces and glasses. 

She hates the taste of alcohol.

[mikhailacey]

TASK NINE →

When Lacey’s mother found out she was pregnant with her, it was when she took a test in a strip club bathroom during a friend’s birthday. The first person she told was a gal working that night, whose stage name was Lacey Bitz. Yes, Lacey was named after a stripper.

Her grandfather gave her a Russian name, Yevgenia, and usually called her by its diminutive, Zhenya.

She’s left handed.

Lacey has one tattoo on her right wrist: the longitude and latitude of Yekaterinburg, Russia.

She also has her ears pierced twice, and had her belly button pierced as a teenager but took it out after a year.

She hates storms but loves the sound of rain.

Faith is very important to Lacey. She was raised Russian Orthodox and still identifies herself as such, but she’s much more spiritual than religious at this point.

She has asthma and has had two severe asthma attacks in her life.

Her sun sign is in Scorpio, her rising is in Libra, and her moon is in Aquarius. (Born 10.30.95 @ 6:14am).

Lacey has no problem leaving the house with an almost naked face, but because her eyelashes are so light and pretty much invisible, she feels most confident when she has at least mascara on.

Her favorite Disney movie is Oliver and Company.

In the days leading up to her grandfather’s passing, he was in and out of senility. During this time, he called Lacey by her mother’s name on two separate occasions. Those are both moments she refuses to think about, and she’s never told anyone about them or how much it hurt to be compared to her, even just by name.

Pancakes are her comfort food.

She doesn’t correct people when they mispronounce her last name, but always makes a point to ask people how to say their name if she’s unsure.

Drops of Jupiter is her favorite song.

She prefers watching tv shows more than movies.

The accessories she wears every day are a silver cross that she got for her thirteenth birthday, and a watch. She has a bunch of different watches that she switches out between, but she wears one on the daily.

Elephants are her favorite animal, and she has a stuffed animal that she got as a child which she still sleeps with every night.

If baking wasn’t an attainable career, Lacey thinks she’d have liked to be a vet.

She has absolutely no grace when wearing heels and has resigned herself to a life of tennis shoes and flats. It’s safer for everyone around her.

Her favorite holiday is Christmas, and she starts saving up extra money starting in September to make sure she can spoil her family and friends.

Lacey is the youngest employee at the bakery she works out, but due to the fact that she’s basically an old lady, she gets along splendidly with everyone and attends a monthly brunch and bingo date with the gals.

[acuppellarp]

TASK 9: HEADCANONS

Who knows your characters better than you do? After all this time playing together, we all feel like we know the rest of the characters populating April’s little constellation of stars, but everyone has their secrets, right?

This task isn’t about modifying your original bio or making up new things about your character. This is about sharing those little things all players know about their characters which never come up for some reason or another. 

Maybe your character’s favorite fruit is the papaya, or they broke their leg when they were four. Maybe they have a secret bedtime routine or you know their childhood imaginary friend was named Bartholomew but it’s just never come up in-game. That’s what we want to know!

You can use playlists, moodboards, written explanations or literally anything you can think of to share these little tidbits about the characters we all know and love. There’s no limit as to how many headcanons you can share! 

Some topics you may want to consider include, but definitely aren’t limited to:

Childhood

Dreams

Family

Fears

Health

Home

Love

Religion

School

Sex/sexuality

Teenagehood

Traditions

Work

While we’d love to read anything and everything you want to share, we’d like the focus of the task to be on things we don’t already know either from their bios, or from gameplay.

But most importantly, be creative and have fun!

If you choose to complete this task, please tag your post with the following:

acup: task9

And finally…

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