• 6 PERSOS CHALLENGE ─ Votre tout premier personnage rpgique
(merci pour le challenge @corvidae-challenge I @mysterious-corvidae )
rosie mackenzie
Impossible de commencer ce challenge sans parler de mon premier personnage. Pour cela, on remonte en 2007, j’suis une collégienne qui n’a jamais entendu parler des rpg’s et qui au final, ne sait pas trop à quoi s’attendre. J’étais sur mon skyblog (vous aussi vous l’avez l’coup de vieux?) quand on m’en parle et j’sais même plus pourquoi, je m’inscris. On notera l’originalité du pseudo et l’avatar très en vogue (riez svp). En tout cas, en ce juillet 2007 (le 16 ou l’17, si mes souvenirs sont bons), je ne savais pas encore que ça allait changer un bout d’ma vie. Ce forum c’était Return To Tree Hill (RTTH pour les intimes), forum inspiré de OTH. J’y suis restée plus de trois ans, j’ai été membre (à débuter les rp’s qui font deux lignes, où “elle sourit” faisait une réponse.), j’ai passé des nuits blanches entières à parler avec des copains québecois sur la CB, j’ai débuté l’administration aussi sur ce forum. J’ai rencontré des personnes formidables qui ont fait un bout d’chemin dans ma vie irl également.
Le personnage de Rosie en lui-même? Je ne m’en souviens plus vraiment. Personnage bateau probablement, dont les love interest ont été nombreux et que j’ai joué un moment. (même si je ne suis pas sûre d’avoir terminé l’aventure de ce forum avec elle). Mais même si je ne me souviens plus de grand chose en ce qui concerne ce personnage (si ce n’est quelques bribes de liens/situation rp..), je ne pouvais pas ne pas en parler. Parce que c’est grâce à elle que j’ai débuté.
ps; on s’doute bien qu’à l’époque, les avatars ressemblaient pas à ça, parce qu’ils étaient fait sur photofiltre (et souvent emprunté sous obsession, avec des gifs fait avec des images qui terminaient par un brush “coeur” ou “so sweet”). mais je n’ai pas retrouvé de pépites de l’époque, j’suis presque déçue.
kali: get in loser, we’re going to mcdonalds
lani: is that a mean girls quote or am i losing my mind?
kali: you had a mind?
lani: i’m coming i’m coming
kali drummed her fingers against the black leather steering wheel. highway to hell played on the radio, booming through the speakers. she pulled her hair back into a messy black ponytail and smirked at the irony of the song.
it was more of a bumpy, pot-hole-filled, back alley to hell, but the point stood.
“it’s almost midnight,” lani said as way of greeting. she climbed up into the passengers seat and shut the door.
“hello to you too,” kali rolled her eyes, “it’s barely ten, so quit whining.”
she started the engine and sped off thirty miles over the speed limit.
lani wasn’t sure that kali knew what a speed limit was.
“i get to put my feet up on the dash if you’re gonna be rude.”
kali shrugged and kept driving.
after that, time blurred together in a haze of music and shitty radio presenters. lani let her eyes unfocus on the streetlights and watched them twinkle, the road behind fading to black.
then-
“ow,” lani yelped. a bump in the road flung her head hard against the window and brought her back to reality. she looked around and furrowed her brow at the sight of a dual carriageway. she glanced at the clock and watched it blink ten thirty in little red lines.
“this isn’t the way to mcdonalds.”
kali raised a brow.
“lord god almighty, i hope you never get kidnapped.”
“where are we going?”
“not to mcdonalds, that’s for sure,” kali muttered. “thirty minutes, angel. that took you thirty minutes. you’re lucky it’s just me and not some, well-” was there anything worse than her? “no. you’re just unlucky.”
lani flopped back against the seat and switched the radio off.
“tell me where we’re going or let me out.”
kali hummed. “i think i’m gonna go with neither, but you’re cute when you think you’ve got a choice.”
“kali,” lani snapped, shooting a glare in her direction.
not that angels could really glare, at least not with any weight behind it. it was more of a look, really.
so lani looked in kali’s direction.
she sighed and turned off at the next gas station. “if i buy you snacks - chocolate, ice cream, whatever you want - will you come with?”
“throw in a magazine and you’ve got yourself a deal.”
kali killed the engine and quirked a half smile. “let’s go, then.”
lani hopped out of the car and dragged kali into the store.
meanwhile..
“why’d they stop?”
“i don’t know. they’re not even gettin’ petrol.”
“maybe she needs coffee? kali can’t survive without coffee.”
“she wouldn’t drink petrol station coffee, doofus. not if i’ve learnt anythin’ over the past month.”
“i’m not a doofus, you’re a doofus.”
kenzi sighed.
“maybe if you stopped bickering for five seconds and got out of the cab, we’d find out?”
they looked at each other.
“ohhh-”
“yeah, yeah, okay-”
“not your worst idea, not your worst idea-”
harlow rolled her eyes. “that’s right. everybody listen to saint kenzi.”
“shut up.”
one by one, they clambered out of the car. kenzi paid the cab driver - with phillip’s money, mind you - and sent the cab driver on his way.
“what now?”
“we can’t all go in the store and follow them-”
“kali has extra demony sense, i swear.”
“are demony senses even a thing?”
“i dunno, but did you see that thing she did with the coffee cup?”
“guys,” kenzi snapped. “what did i just say about bickering?”
“to.. keep doing it?”
“toby,” kenzi gave him a pointed look. he relented.
“fine, fine. just me and kai then?”
“none of us are going in the store. you’re right- kali would sniff us out in two seconds, and then we’ll never find out what she’s up to.”
“i don’t see why we even need to find out what she’s up to,” harlow groaned. “kali’s kali. what does it matter?”
“it matters, harlow, because there’s no way she would step foot in monster house, asking dad for advice, if she wasn’t up to something cool and or life threatening,” kenzi explained. toby visibly cringed at how patronizing her tone was. “and if she’s up to something cool and or life threatening, i want to be there for it. but you’d know that if you ever listened to a word i say.”
“oh, here we go again.”
toby and kai glanced at each other.
sometimes it was hard being the best couple around.
“what’re we doing, then?” kai piped up, wringing his hands and chewing his lip. “i mean- we stay out here too long, they’ll come back and- even without kali’s demony senses, they’ll see us for sure.”
kenzi raised her eyebrows.
even kai knew that that was her you’re an idiot look.
it was quite similar to kali’s, although they would both kill you for making that particular comparison.
“get in the boot of their car. she didn’t lock it.”
“nu uh,” harlow stepped back, ”not a fuckin’ chance, princess.”
“now is not the time to be a wimp, harlow.”
she narrowed her eyes.
“you know what? fine. but when this all blows up and kali tries to kill us, remember that this was all your idea.”
harlow sauntered off and climbed into the backseat of the car. she held her middle finger up in the window.
toby whistled under his breath.
“well then. best get going, huh?”
kenzi glared at him.
“not. a. word.”
“i didn’t say anything!”
toby walked off with a grin.
…
lani stumbled out of the store with two hands full of snacks.
“i don’t like where you get your money from, but i sure like what you spend it on.”
kali smiled. “eat your chocolate and shut up.”
“sir yes sir.”
lani jumped into the passengers seat, but kali hesitated. something didn’t feel quite right.
harlow and toby held their breath as kali peered into the back of the car. she crossed her fingers and he tugged the blanket a little further over his head.
kali didn’t notice a thing.
seconds later, the engine was rumbling and they were off at ninety miles an hour.
“okay- you know what a speed limit is, right?”
“a what?” kali shot lani a smirk out of the corner of her eye.
“do you even have a driving license?”
“no, actually,” kali shrugged, “never felt like taking the test.”
“wha- KALI!”
a rare burst of laughter erupted from the drivers seat.
and then, a sneeze.
kali swerved the car over to the side of the road and stopped.
“what the fuck was that?”
lani undid her seat belt and twisted around to look.
“well this is awkward.”
toby poked his head up from beneath a blanket. harlow followed suit a second later.
“kenzi’s in the boot. kill her first.”
she pointed over her shoulder.
kali narrowed her eyes and glared at the two of them. shivers ran down toby’s spine.
she slammed the car door open and stormed round to the boot. lani, toby and harlow slipped out of the car to see what would happen next - and to call the cops/ambulance if need be.
kali pulled the boot door up and stared down at kenzi and kai curled up in the back.
kenzi sat up and stretched her arms over her head.
Okay I really do love Brulian but this sass is why Robert Buckley is the love of my life, in all honesty Clinn mean so much to me that I always forget Brulian broke up right when Clinn started dating in season 7. Till kingdom come baby!
