Wayward Children Roleplay

There is a school -- Miss Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children -- where those who have returned from impossible journeys can rest, recover, and remember... and wait for their doors to return. [Mobile Navigation]

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WAYWARD CHILDREN IS A NEW ORIGINAL CHARACTER ROLEPLAY INSPIRED BY PORTAL FICTION THAT ASKS THE QUESTION, “WHAT HAPPENED TO ADVENTURERS LIKE WENDY AND SUSAN AND DOROTHY AFTER THEY CAME HOME?” BECAUSE THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DOORS THAT LEAD TO STRANGE AND IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS, AND THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN CHILDREN WHO FIND THOSE DOORS.

BUT SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK . . . AND BACK IS NO LONGER HOME.

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Samaira Patel || 18 || High Logic / High Wicked, Undocumented

As the oldest of three, Samaira was used to being the sensible and responsible one. She was often trusted to look after her younger siblings while Doctor and Professor Patel were busy rewriting scientific theories -- so when her baby sister fell down that hole, Samaira didn’t think twice before jumping after her. Finding that Prisha was a whole world’s chosen one and she was just a tag-along hurt, but she still had her responsibilities; the only difference was that now keeping Prisha safe meant helping to free an entire world from bondage. It even started to be fun after a while, fighting for her life against the forces of the dread Kaalee Verkesh and his monsters of rock and bone. Samaira excelled at battle and strategy and she threw herself into the war with enthusiasm. Unfortunately Prisha’s glee in playing hero waned fast, and Samaira was too preoccupied to notice her deepening despair until it was too late and Prisha had given herself over to the enemy as a gemstone drone; to save the world, Samaira had to kill her sister and shatter the Verdisal Gem bound to her heart. It should have worked, and maybe it did -- but murdering the Chosen One is a good way to anger a world. Coming back babbling about rock lords and a dead sister’s blood on her hands didn’t make returning go any smoother.

Samaira knows she’s lucky that her parents blame their “kidnappers” for Prisha’s death; at least they’re hoping she’ll “get better” enough to home without frightening her precious brother, rather than hoping she’ll spend the rest of her life in jail. This airy world is prison enough already, compared to Stoneheart.

TRAVELER STATS:

cis-gender female (she/her)

lesbian

eighteen (in respective time)

WORLD STATS:

High Logic - High Wicked - Whimsy

Netherworld: The Stoneheart Caverns

Travel Duration: nine years subjective time, four years relative time

FACECLAIM: Naomi Scott                       PLAYED BY: open

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Akiko Watanabe || 15 || High Logic / Moderate Wicked, Documented

Always out-of-place as the studious, stoic son that her parents wanted, Akiko found solace when she was sent away to her grandmother’s; it was meant to knock her into shape, but what it gave her instead was an escape. The door in the woods led to a world where chosen names had more power than the one you were born with and nobody stopped her from dancing with other girls, or told her that her preferences meant she must really be a boy after all, so stop pretending. She never had to pretend in the Lonesome Lands, and while there were dangers there -- banshees roamed freely and the night wind could strip your soul from your bones -- she learned charms and rituals to protect herself, and made a home there. She fell in love (several times, once for true) and forged a destiny of silver swords and velvet shoes. She unlocked the Cask of Ghosts and was on the brink of marrying her beloved duchess when the vengeful duke she had overthrown had her banished back here -- but not to the world she remembered. Akiko left a world in the middle of the 1990s. She returned to the cacophony of the next millennium: suddenly comedians were newscasters, everyone had a computer in their pocket, and the entire landscape of language had shifted.

Her parents had long ago stopped looking for her; her grandmother was dead. Akiko had nowhere to go, no one to seek for. Even in the relative sanctuary of Eleanor’s school she remains an outcast, separated from her peers by the gulf of generations more than by the hungry winds that stole half her heart.

TRAVELER STATS:

transgender female (she/her)

lesbian

fifteen (in respective time)

WORLD STATS:

High Logic - Moderate Wicked

Fairyland: The Lonesome Lands

Travel Duration: six years subjective time, twenty-three years relative time

FACECLAIM: Iitoyo Marie                      PLAYED BY: open

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Richard Hamilton || 13 || High Logic / High Virtue, Undocumented

A life of comfort, privilege, and indulgence should have been an ideal childhood for Richard Hamilton III, but he always felt like there was something missing. His restlessness led him to poke around places he shouldn’t, including the attic, where he found the battered trunk with the staircase inside. Those stairs led him to a world of rules and regulations, a world that prized virtue above all -- but virtue is not always nice, as he quickly learned. It can be cruel and cold and heartless, and Richard suffered many punishments for his own infractions. He was perhaps subject to more of those than most, because being taken-in by the Chief Inquisitor of the Grinning God means one ends up under a more exacting microscope than the general populace, but he didn’t mind. Things were harsh there, but they also made sense. Every rule was followed to the letter, every citizens was held to the same standards, and no one would even dream of trying to bribe, beguile, or bluster their way out of a reprimand. For the first time, Richard saw a world that was fair, and he loved it. Even when his punishment meant banishment, he still loved it -- and he tries to hold to its ideals now that he’s back in this ugly, messy, hypocritical world.

That’s easier said than done, although getting out from under his family’s wing helped some; they still want to fix things for him, but since that means leaving him here, Richard can live with that. He isn’t sure he can live with how soft this world is, however; being comfortable is nice...but it isn’t right.

TRAVELER STATS:

cis-gender male (he/him)

questioning; as yet undetermined

thirteen (in respective time)

WORLD STATS:

High Logic - High Virtue

Gothic: The Land of the Grinning God

Travel Duration: three years subjective time, three years relative time

FACECLAIM: David Mazouz                      PLAYED BY: open

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Claudia Wilson || 17 || High Nonsense / Moderate Virtue, Undocumented

Being ahead of the curve used to matter so much to Claudia. Growing up, she was never fashionable enough, never hip enough, to be good enough for the people she wanted for her friends. Smothered by the shadow of her popular older sister -- cheerleader, student council, salutatorian -- Claudia was relegated to the role of a dweeb. That all changed one day, when the fitting room door she opened led not back into the store, but rather into a world of clouds and colored light and bright white plastic -- or something that seemed like plastic, anyway. The beings who lived there were lightyears ahead of anyone Claudia had met before: tall, colorful, clever, and all utterly without divisions of gender or ethnicity. And yet -- none of them judged her for being “a girl,” but instead treated her like a novelty: something new, something interesting, something they had never seen before, a little brown girl with her hair in curls and her mouth full of old-fashioned words. Suddenly Claudia was the one at the cutting edge, learning to race rainbow rockets and live on stardust and drink raw light right out of the air. She was in a world of constant evolution and change and every day was better, brighter, than the last. For once, keeping up was a pleasure, not a chore.

Then she landed back here, where people were supposed to fit in stagnant boxes and the world plodded along with snail-paced progress. Claudia was a thousand years beyond the things that used to matter to her, and everyone she knew was too slow to keep up -- especially her dull, dead-end sister.

TRAVELER STATS:

cis-gender female (she/her)

pansexual (preference for androgyny)

seventeen (in respective time)

WORLD STATS:

High Nonsense - Moderate Virtue - Linearity

Mirror: The Bellwether

Travel Duration: fourteen years subjective time, two hours relative time

FACECLAIM: Brittany O’Grady                  PLAYED BY: open

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Diego Hernandez || 17 || High Logic / Low Wicked, Documented

Never happy as the pretty doll his parents wanted, Diego was prone to lashing-out, sulking, and avoiding home whenever possible. He didn’t hesitate when the blood-red door in the back of the gym showers opened and led him into a world of might-over-right and living corpses. None of the dead people seemed upset about being dead, though; for the most part, everyone Diego met was delighted to have a chance to fight in the pits in order to earn a positive reincarnation, and even those not deemed worthy of the fights enjoyed cheering from the stands. It was better than any soccer match he had ever seen, certainly better than the girls’ league competitions that were all his parents would grudgingly allow him to join. Here nobody stopped him; they just handed him an axe and helped him choose some armor, and the only time he was censured was when he wasn’t swinging his weapons right. He learned fast, though. He had to: as the only living boy in an arena of the dead, losing a fight would do a lot more damage to him than that suffered by anyone else. He did lose some -- but never fatally, not until his last fight, which should have earned him his beloved shield-maiden’s hand at long last but instead ended with a sword through his heart and a sudden, sharp awakening back in the world he’d left.

Unfortunately his parents were no more pleased with the boisterous warrior they got back than they had been with the “tomboy” they had lost, so it wasn’t long before Diego and his hot temper were sent off to cool down at Miss Eleanor’s. It’s a good thing the gym here has lots of punching bags to vent with...

TRAVELER STATS:

transgender male (he/him)

heterosexual

seventeen (in respective time)

WORLD STATS:

Low Nonsense - Low Wicked - Reason - Mortis

Underworld: The Bone Pits

Travel Duration: two years subjective time, two years relative time

FACECLAIM: Jake T. Austin                    PLAYED BY: open

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Susanna Montgomery || 14 || High Nonsense / Low Virtue, Undocumented

Growing up, Susanna never liked labels -- maybe because people always tried to give zir the wrong ones. They looked at Susanna and saw a sweet, pretty little girl, but that’s not what Susanna saw in the mirror. Zi saw a person bursting at the seams with the urge to talk, to argue, to talk back. That was never allowed in zir house; silence was golden there. It wasn’t until Susanna opened the washer at the local laundromat and saw a rainbow world of bubbles and babbling on the other side that zi found somewhere zi could speak zir mind without censure. Zi didn’t hesitate at all before climbing in and swimming through into freedom. Breathing liquid took some getting used to, and learning to communicate by trading words back and forth in bubbles held a steep learning curve, but eventually Susanna realized zi had found a home. Too bad bubbles always burst; a decade of bliss gave way to months of torment when zi washed-up on the shores of the creek outside zir old home after being blown off-course in a terrible storm. Susanne almost drowned zirself before zir family heard the commotion; breathing air felt like swallowing daggers after so much time underwater, and while silence hurt zir ears, speech was almost worse without the insulating buffer of bubbles.

When zir parents realized that none of the old admonitions would silence Susanna any longer, zi was packed-off to Miss Eleanor and told not to come back until zi could “act more ladylike.” Susanna hopes they aren’t holding their breath for that.

TRAVELER STATS:

non-binary (zi/zir)

asexual, panromantic

fourteen (in respective time)

WORLD STATS:

High Nonsense - Low Virtue - Whimsy

Lake: The Clamshell Queendom

Travel Duration: ten years subjective time, three months relative time 

FACECLAIM: Elle Fanning                      PLAYED BY: open

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Aneesha Washington || 16 || High Nonsense / High Wicked, Documented

The middle child of three, Aneesha always felt overshadowed by her siblings’ successes in athletics and academics -- fields that impressed her parents because they could understand good grades and high scores. Aneesha is an intelligent girl but she could never get the hang of standardized tests, and sports held no appeal. A musical girl and a gifted actress, she liked performing in plays and skits and in her filk band with her friends. When they moved away -- twin sisters, whose dads got better jobs in a faraway town -- Aneesha was left lost and lonely, until the day she opened the brass cupboard in her high school’s music room and stepped through into an impossible garden. It was a world of music and artifice, a world ruled by a capricious and unforgiving prince with a keen ear and keener appetites for punishment and revenge. A world based on rhyme and rhythm, on lyrics and lies, on constant motion and catchy tempos. At first Aneesha excelled in the Garden; she was new and the kind of music she brought with her was novel. But everyone displeases the prince eventually, and when Aneesha dropped the wrong note she was stripped of her place among the Court Flowers and banished back here to a family even more clueless than before.

The worst part is that we don’t have the same marvelous, miraculous instruments here that she fell in love with during her time on the other side of her door. She tries, composing constantly, but without them she can’t recreate the melodies that now haunt her memories.

TRAVELER STATS:

cis-gender female (she/her)

bisexual (female preference)

sixteen (in respective time)

WORLD STATS:

Moderate Nonsense - High Wicked - Rhyme

Fairyland: The Garden of Perennial Stanzas

Travel Duration: eight years subjective time, two years relative time

FACECLAIM: Ryan Destiny PLAYED BY: open

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