#elliot gray

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Constantine is silent for a time. "Your goals are altruistic, and yet hold a note of arrogance and pride in them. Do not look me in the eye and tell me there are no selfish intents in your plan, Elliot Gray. You are a Gray, a creature of perverse self entitlement. You do nothing unless it benefits you as well, no matter how kind your actions."

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Elliot Gray - Accepted! Make your account and send it in.

Your Name: Jamie Your Age: 20 Time Zone: Central How active will you be?: Am I ever not on? How did you find this RP?: This is an RP? What? Character Name: Elliot Gray

- Inherited the werewolf gene and triggered it less than a year ago.

- Ran into Klaus only a month or so ago and was turned upon their meeting.

- Doesn't fully understand what he is and followed Klaus to Mystic Falls to find out.

- Generally a social guy but changes the subject when it comes to conversation about himself.

- Though he has a strong bond to Klaus, he's still unsure what side he should take.

- Is normally confident, but finds Rebekah attractive and often becomes flustered and awkward around her.

- Staying with Maya and their aunt and has a very close relationship to his cousin.

Any desired friendships, crushes, enemies, etc?: (These aren’t guaranteed either.)

Link to one of your RP accounts: I don't RP. Writing Sample (at least three paragraphs):

He woke up alone. Well, he thought he was alone. Elliot Gray had passed out, and now that he was awake, he wasn’t sure what time of day it was or where he was. Slowly he sat up, his head pounding. He felt dizzy, but the sensation quickly went away. His surroundings weren’t familiar. There were trees everywhere he turned; he lived in the middle of suburbia in a normal-sized Pennsylvania town. There weren’t many trees there, though he supposed in some part of Pennsylvania there must be. From the best he could tell, the sun had yet to rise. Or maybe it had just set. He had no idea. He closed his eyes and opened them once more; then again, hoping that whatever had happened was all a dream. It wasn’t a full moon; he hadn’t turned, had he? No, he most certainly hadn’t. That wasn’t possible on normal nights, and he always kept up well with the moon cycle. Why couldn’t he have been lying in his bed, or in a friend’s bed, passed out after some crazy party? Was that it? Had they had some party last night? Was he so gone that he didn’t remember a thing, even traveling to these woods? No. His friends wouldn’t leave him there. They could be crazy sometimes, sure, but they were loyal as could be.

So what could it be? Elliot did another take, looking around more slowly and carefully this time. It was then that he began to realize things were different. Not things that had to do with his surroundings, but things about himself in general. His sense of hearing was much better than before, which was saying something. Since he was a werewolf, he had enhanced senses. He could hear better, smell better, see better than any human could. But now it was even greater, if that was possible. He could hear a highway not far from here, the sound of a car racing by every minute or so. He could smell the wildflowers popping up more than a few yards away. And he could see. It was dark out and he could see. It was as clear as daylight. To normal humans, this was a crazy idea. To a werewolf, not so much. Still, he couldn’t figure out what it was. What was it that made him feel so different than he normally did in the past year since becoming a werewolf? Soon after that, he began to smell it.

The scent was strong, and close. Why could he tell how close it was? Almost down to the exact inch. About a foot away. He turned his head in the direction of the scent and was surprised to find another person unconscious next to him; a human. He could tell by her scent. She was blonde and petite with a pretty face, dressed in jeans and a simple v-neck. She wasn’t familiar to him, and he had no idea why she was out here too. Maybe she would be helpful in figuring out what was wrong and why they had both been sent out into these woods and woken up alone. Oh God. Had he slept with this girl and seriously not remembered it? He had never been this disoriented after a one-night stand, even though he wasn’t usually big on them. Still, he always remembered the girl, especially her name. He was certain he had never seen this girl before. Elliot was about to wake her when his hand touched something cold and obviously metal. A ring. A quite big ring, something Elliot would never wear. He picked it up and looked it over, soon noticing the small piece of paper underneath. “Wear me,” it read. He was hesitant. Maybe it would be lined with wolfsbane or something harmful to him. He inspected the ring and finally deeming it safe, he slid it on.

And just in time. Before he had put it on, Elliot could feel the sun rising. The streams that managed to break through the foliage of the trees burned his skin, as if the sun was hundreds of times closer than it really was. But as soon as the ring was on his finger, the burning stopped.

There was another note. This one was lying on the girl’s chest. Carefully he picked it up, holding it at eye level. “Drink me.” Okay, this was all too Alice In Wonderland for his liking. His eyes ventured over the girl. What did the note mean? Did she leave it? Did someone else? Then the flashbacks started. Being taken from his truck and dragged out quickly to these woods. Having a younger man feed him his blood before effortlessly snapping his neck. This man had been strong; stronger than Elliot or his father was. When he had woken up once more, he was fed a different kind of blood before the man managed to knock him out once more. And now he was here. The feeling in the pit of his stomach was all too familiar. He could put a finger on it now: he was hungry. So he did just what the note said. Elliot bit into her neck at an alarming speed and drank. 

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Weekly Update #3: New members & Lessons Learned

So first I want to let you guys know we've got all the shows until Sound Off set up, and they look like this:

- Jan. 8th - 8pm at Bop Street Records - FREE - Jan. 15th - 8pm at KTUB - $5 - Jan. 23rd - 7pm at The LAB with Teo Crider of Candysound and A Cozy Kitchen - $5  If you're at all interested in Sound Off, be sure not to miss this one because it has a band from each semi-final and should be a solid show all-around. - Jan. 30th - 8pm at Ground Zero - $6/$5 with a can of food As I talked about last week, the initial reaction of us getting into Sound Off was "HELL YEAH!!!", but there was another reaction we had, one that was more oh less "oh crap...we got into Sound Off. What are we gonna do?" We have been a 4-piece band for so long, but we didn't want to limit ourselves in the studio things we could perform live, so it was an uneasy realization that we simply couldn't play some of our songs by ourselves. Also, we are recording two weeks after Sound Off ends so it's hectic trying to look forward and figure out how we're going to accomplish it all. Luckily, Ashley has some really talented friends so we're proud to announce two new members to the live band: David Bahr and Elliot Gray. You may recognize David from our "Flume" video and he played violin on Konza Plains as well as sung backing on TMATG, Untitled, and Konza Plains. He's a great player and singer and we're happy to have him aboard. Elliot was a real diamond in the rough. We posted something on the EMP Soundboard trying to find someone who could play piano and/or guitar, sing, and write, but we didn't really get a lot of responses so it was looking bleak. But as luck would have it, Ashley had been taking piano lessons from Elliot and he seemed enthusiastic about playing some shows and Sound Off with us. We had him come jam with us last night, and well...it was quite impressive. The parts we taught him (so far) haven't been too difficult but the real kicker was when I tried to film a video for our YouTube page - more on that later - and Ashley selected "Sail to The Moon" by Radiohead. "Do you know the song?" Ashley said. "Yeah, I've heard it a few times, but hold on let me listen to it and then we can do it" he replied. Now, I admit I scoffed a little at that. One listen and you're good? OK buddy. Elliot then proceeds to take out a pen and paper, turn on the song, and transcribe it perfectly the first time through. It was pretty legit, even Will and Paul were impressed and sometimes I think another musician has to walk on water to impress those two. Definitely a great addition to the band. Unfortunately, Ashley wasn't really ready to run through the song (not her fault, it was spur of the moment) so we bagged it. Now this is where I got a little frustrated, as we had agreed to do weekly videos and we haven't been as consistent as I would like. We tried to knock out another one the next night with just Paul and Ashley and again we were unsatisfied with the results, and through a band vote it was decided to put a hold on videos until after Sound Off. Now, I wasn't pleased (to say the least) at this outcome and so I kinda blew up and in retrospect, overreacted. To understand why I overreacted, it's probably best to do a little history on myself. I've spent essentially the last two years reading and researching what it takes to make it as a band in this new era of the music industry, and I believe that the best way you can be a successful band is to have a expansive online presence and update that content regularly - in terms of strategy of course, obviously making good music is the best thing you can do to be successful (which brings up another thing: I've gone to a few conferences and read about 20-30 music and industry blogs daily, and it INFURIATES me every time some keyboard jockey says something like "either be great or get out" or something along those lines. Yes it's true, the only surefire way to make it in the music industry is to be exceptional both in the studio and on stage, but guess what? Everyone knows that! Everyone is trying their best. No one is going "hmm, should I make the best music I can this time? Or just half-ass it like I have been?" NO ONE DOES THAT! Everyone's working their asses off to make the best music they can, to berate those who are coming up short despite their best efforts is cruel and unhelpful. Music is such a personal and emotional thing for those who make it, what's the point of shitting on them? If you go to a music industry "expert" and the only they advice they can give you is "be great", then they didn't have any advice to give in the first place. But I digress.) is to connect with fans the best you can, and that is going to be through blogs, Twitter, and video content. So I was getting frustrated at the fact that I was doing all those things - we have a Twitter, we have a blog, we have video - and it wasn't really making a difference. I know it's a slow process, but I couldn't really refute Will when he said that "no one watches [our videos] anyways", because he was right! I guess I got caught up in the stories of YouTube sensations that I forgot for every Julia Nunes there are literally millions of nobodies whose videos stay unwatched. There's so much content being made now, it's harder than ever to break through the white noise of tweets, blogs, and YouTube ukulele covers. The only thing you can do is put your head down, work hard, and try to take care of the fans you have, because they are the ones who will carry you to success. I keep expecting magic to happen simply because we're doing what's required for bands these days, but it doesn't happen that easy kids. Another lesson learned (cue inspirational music). That's about it for this week. We got our shots back from the photoshoot so we'll be posting some of those later today. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

- Ryan