back at it with the terribad request but basically, i (like everyone else in the world) have come off of s2 of stranger things with a great need!! so here i am!! i’m thinking the gang grew up together in staves on the same cul-de- sac and were essentially, the “nerds”. sometime during eighth grade, “the will” went missing in the woods for just over two weeks. it was front page news - you couldn’t turn a street corner or a shop window without seeing his face. the whole town of staves breaking up into search parties and they even went as far as holding a funeral. to the whole world, will was dead.
then one day he appeared on his mothers front step on the verge of hypothermia with no recollection of where he’d been and the town collectively moved past it. i’m thinking he suffered from some sort of ptsd and it kind of put a strain on the relationships between his family and the town.
however, they tried to collectively move past it and it’s been virtually forgotten especially now that they’re older and in college now!! i don’t want to dictate too much of their lives bc we can translate so much of the spooky elements into a rl setting but they’re the best of friends and they have a wolf pack mentality. you never see one of them without the others trailing behind and their old asses probably still try to fit themselves into the old tree house headquarters. they protect each other tooth and nail, fight like cats and dogs but at the end of the day they are bonded together by this traumatic event (and who knows ,maybe the will can have an episode and trigger a hot mess)
soooo yeah!!! they don’t have to be EXACTLY like their show counterparts bc they are children after all but it’d be fun to see them have some similarities and quirks that fit in with who they are on the show!! also dynamics and romantic entanglements and those sorts of things don’t have to align with the show if thats not your thing!!
the tiny tots (mike, dustin, lucas, eleven, will, max) should be around 21-23 since i want to keep the same sort of age dynamics they have with the rest of the gang!! people like the nancy, jonathan and steve (and billy i guess lol) i figure would be mid to late twenties and the joyce + hopper would be in their thirties!! pls take them pls and thx!!
just so we’re all up to date tomorrow, november 5th at 10 AM PST/1 PM EST/5 PM GMT we will be opening up free reserves for everyone who posted an introduction! everyone can steal one for the time being and we will close them the end of the night pst time just so everyone can have the time to get their face claim in. before we open them up we’ll post the format so you’ll know when you can submit. we’re so excited for this site and thanks everyone thus far for participating.
on an end note: what would you guys like to see next: more locations or the member groups?
margaret “maggie” walton, twenty-one, jessica sula
five feet of sass and britney spears’ curious marc jacobs’ daisy. always happy to find something to argue about. the least enthusiastic salesperson at sweater haven. big dreams of moving to new york city and becoming the irl miranda priestley. married to her sewing machine. the bratty younger sister to one marcus walton, and a continual thorn in her brother’s side. thick skin because she needs it. will mock you endlessly for calling her ma’am. way too much confidence for a salesgirl at a place called sweater haven. can’t out-drink you, but will try her damn near best.
needs: she spends a lot of time sitting around and judging her brother and his friends (aka she’s the erica to the stranger things group), but she needs friends, enemies, and love interests so everything. i might put up a req for a friend group for her in a bit!!
victoria arlington, twenty-four, madelaine petsch
former high school teen queen. spent all of those four years pretending like her mom wasn’t constantly drunk out of her mind and looking out for her younger sister. now, she just doesn’t have any contact with her mom at all. went to duke on a cheerleading scholarship, and came back after graduation with a busted knee and no discernible future. secretary at the local pediatrician’s office and hates kids (or so she says). sarcastic, judgmental, superficial. trying to be nicer and failing, most of the time, but might give you a drive home if you ask nicely. the rumors about her aren’t true - it was only a few handjobs she gave under the bleachers. spends all of her savings on new lipsticks.
needs: please give her friends and ex-friends from her high school days, also locals around her age who she probably tormented during high school. exes, flings, nemeses, whatever??
clarice st. james, twenty-one, tba
adopted by a local family from vietnam. call her clara, if you must. obsessively in love with film and her camera, which is named scully. believes that it’s fate that she was named clarice like the queen clarice starling. currently spends 90% of her time working at pins and needles, which is a glow-in-the-dark bowling alley, not some kind of crack dealership (she’s put change the name in the suggestion box five times), to save up for film school. a loser in every sense of the word. she was wearing overalls before they became cool again, and her backpack is covered in pins and badges. freezes up during any kind of confrontation. can correctly guess your shoe size by just looking at you, after years at the shoe rental counter.
needs: friends pls!!! regulars at the bowling alley? i might put up a request for other coworkers at the alley, so if you have a desire to throw your character in go 4 it.
genevieve “gen” reyes, twenty-nine, tba
used to be the family scandal/black sheep until her dad left her mom for his business partner. now, nobody cares that she works at the local superstore. got pregnant in high school and had the baby, alexa, who is now the biggest 11 year old diva you will ever meet. briefly married the father and dumped him after he tried to take the alexa waterskiing when she was three. is now a bitter divorcee at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, with a floor manager’s badge to show for it. hardworking, independent, incredibly stubborn. won’t take shit from anyone or anything. regularly fights with inanimate objects when she’s had a long day. definitely not in love with her work husband.
needs: coworkers at her store and friends her age from outside of work!! maybe her ex, if someone is interested? other young moms who get together and have wine and complain??
a human on fire trash can. his parents are eccentric™. jk they all are. his name is fucking bartholomew. but lawrence couldn’t say that as a child so they just called him bear. or idk something equally as cute. the living embodiment of shane madej’s fear that someone is gonna walk up and stab u with heroine and then ur addict. except like def just rolled with the wrong crew and did those weird prescription pill bowl thing at a party that u see on law and order. got heavily into drugs. knocked up a girl. pretended he wasn’t in love with said girl. freaked out and went to rehab. only to come out to find his dad is in love with business partner and not sure what the fuck is going on.
needs: grace and frankie?? honestly pls don’t look at me i’m not sure.
henry sheperd, twenty-two, cinnamon roll, tba
died once. people think he might be possessed. he’s not. his face is just looks like that. still struggles with that thing that happened to him. you know the thing. has seen his own gravestone. was actually found like fifty miles from town without shoes and any memories??? with like pneumonia and maybe the will to live. not sure still very pure. believes in the good in people. definitely shouldn’t believe in the good in people.
needs: lucas!!! people who like know of him as the kid who came back from the dead??? actual friends?? people there for the novelty of it??
leo blackmore, twenty-five, rich kid asshole, tba
hella rich. daddy issues. mostly just a dick. doesn’t do feelings. maybe cuz we never learned to properly emote??? it’s fine. it’s easier to repress shit. still hung up on a girl. works at his family’s bar. has three other brothers who also acted out cuz that’s the blackmore aesthetic. isn’t here to do much of anything. going nowhere fast but like as a choice so it’s fine. would punch a bee in the face, doesn’t care.
needs: the rest of his brothers. friends that might actual see him emote. some exes probably?? maybe people he’s trying to move on with??? rich people cuz why the fuk not
elias mooney, twenty-nine, pretty boy, jai courtney
beauty school dropout. except, ya know, business school. mostly cut ties with his family cuz they think he’s still in school. just couldn’t cut it. so he’s taking time for himself. but has been doing so for like five years now. wound up staves by accident cuz he’s car broke down. also he was sleeping in his car and needed a job. works at the local superstore type thing. idk. lowkey in love with the floor manager and his bff. jk it’s highkey. has nice hair. will talk to you about french pressed coffee.
needs: a superstore req that i will eventually put up!!! idk like an gf or ex that is convinced he’s hung up on his “”work wife””” cuz he is. maybe some other friends outside of work???
alias: mickey
pronouns + timezone: she/her + eastern
what ideas do you have brewing: uhm. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i like angst and exes and imma look at requests soon to see what people want bcuz i’m a people pleaser. (idk it’s quarter to eight and the kid has already been up for an hour, i can’t function this early.)
what do you want to see: more previews? is that what you mean? but also a chill community. lowkey, no stress sorta thing.
favorite vine: yikes. i’m actually that person who... never had vine? never really watched vines? y i k e s. i’m secretly like eighty-three years old.
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what does the tag need? another huge family request? you’re welcome xoxo
tw: parental death
so this is a request for siblings for my john krasinski - hope you saw how creative i got with his surname. they’re kids of an irish mother, maura, and the son of a large polish, jewish immigrant family, bartholemew. so my john is called cormac dubanowski cos… all the heritage.
buuut, when mac was seven, maura and bart were in a car accident and maura died and bart was severely disabled from that point on. so the kids all moved in with their paternal grandparents. and it was kind of crazy - great but crazy. they owned a restaurant (which all the kids worked at, at one point or another) and they were all crammed into a tiny little town house where they all shared rooms and their aunt’s family lived next door and their other aunt’s family lived a couple of doors down, and their other aunt sometimes needed a bed so one of them had to sleep on the floor, and basically they were this huge, crazy, busy family.
imagine the polish-jewish version of my big fat greek wedding. no privacy, expectation to stay in the family business, and marry and produce great grand-babies, and to always be home for all holidays. and to be gossiped about by their gran and all her friends who would over-zealously feed all the kids and their friends whenever they had the opportunity to. like …violent feeding. and be prepared to be whacked by a dishcloth if you said the wrong thing at family meals - whether the kids were 10 or 30… their gran isn’t gonna hold back.
so enough of me rambling on but please make siblings!! ages are a rough guide and if anyone wants to just add someone i’m open to it! just please give me a mix of genders!
as for mac, he went to college and studied and had a reputable job, but then he quit it and joined the army, which his grandparents aren’t keen on, but you know, whatever you wanna do. i’m flexible!!
—– dubanowski, 37-40, open
—– dubanowski, 34-37, open
cormac dubanowski, 33, john krasinski - emma
—– dubanowski, 30-32, amber heard - reserved for jem
—– dubanowski, 28-30, sam claflin - reserved for derek
—– dubanowski, 26-28, open
the devil on your shoulder / strawberry crush addict / don’t try to fix me / late nights / leather and motor oil / engine revving / djarum black clove cigarettes / police sirens / don’t be a baby / why are you crying? / butterfly knives / take out cartons / random tattoos / jasmine and sandalwood / matte chrome / charcoal eyeliner / devilish winks / messy hair / beer thief / motorcycle boots / worn jeans / i don’t have a problem / thrill-seeker / keep feelings out of this / i’m dead inside but i’m fine / whiskey / 90′s rock / black velvet / broken promises / lock the door and drown the world out / gone with the wind / let’s play a game / it wasn’t me officer //
needs: trash pals, exes, criminal friends, her twin brother!!!11, cops to annoy, biker pals, people to ruin, people to try and fix her and fail bc lmao lets be real
01. some sweet former students surprised me today before school!
02. 🍂☕️🍂
03. my handsome brother and my handsome husband 😍
04. ❤️
05. a little tbt for y’all
06. happy november!
