THE BIG EASY RP WEEK 2016 [day four] ↳ plot that you are proud of (yours)
The New Orleans Royals est. 1999
this was actually a year that was pretty easy for me to pick a plot i’m proud of. i’m going to be fucked next year if plot is an option for tbeweek20. anyway, i love everything that i do on the big easy but this one holds a special place for me. which may be in part because i’m canadian and this is hockey but god i’m proud of where elle and i started with this and where these hockey hunks (as i label them in every group thread, look at them and tell me i’m wrong) have ended up. one of the things i love about it is how realistic it feels, new orleans is a football city, its home to my favourite football team after all. and we could have made the royals something to rival the saints but i think that would have taken some of the magic away from this whole team. the members of the team know this but it does not stop them from playing their hearts out for their city, for the fans they know they have and for themselves.
boy did they do that this year. i got to play through the end of their season last year where the team got to the third round of playoffs loosing out before making it to the final round and my poor boy was devastated. not only did he miss out on a chance for the cup but he’d missed out on going for gold at the olympics, it was a rough year. this year though they win the cup, with an impressive record coming out of the regular season but its not easy for them. they only swept one round, the other three have gone to five, six or seven games. the scores are close, they play hard and they stay true to who they are as a team.
we’ve got an entire first line of players, the forwards, the defence, the man in the net. we’ve got a captain who parents the team, a player that takes it upon himself to make sure everyone is doing okay like the grandfather he is. we’ve got jokesters, protectors, a golden boy of great character. and someone that makes them look damn good on social media who is still made to feel like a part of the team. they are a brotherhood. they all have their own lives, highs and lows, they’re going through different situations with their personal and love lives. they are a complex group of men, and interesting group. they have even garnered a little bit of a fanbase and i’m so pleased with that! i love how they rally around their team mates (shout out to #playwithpride and vince taking a stand, don’t get even get me started on that brilliance because damn!)
i think what i’m also proud of is what goes on behind the scenes that makes this work. they have a goal song, thunderstruck. they have an instagram account run by gabriel (haley) who came up with my favourite hashtag ever. the graphics for the team and score templates are all elle and they’re utterly fantastic. i created an entire schedule based off the actual nhl schedule fitting in royals games so we know when the team is in new orleans and when they’re somewhere else, when they have free days and when they have game days. every member of the group accommodates that, works it into their characters and what they’ve got going on, which goes back to giving it that realistic feel i mentioned.
i’ll also forever be grateful the royals gifted me tomas, i love and adore him so much. he might actually be me if i was a hockey player. i also get to live vicariously through one of my characters being involved with a hockey player which i’m 99.9% sure is the canadian dream ¯\_(ツ)_/¯








