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[FearlessFlight]

Hey I will have my form up in the next half hour, sorry it's taking to long

[Iliad]

No problem!

Hey, if you guys will, can everyone take a look at the character roster? I just finished changing the format because the post got too long, so I might have messed some stuff up in the wrangling. Let me know if I accidentally screwed up a link or a soulmate that you can see!

[FearlessFlight]

Sorry for taking so long again, I typed it up then my phone died when I was nearly complete and deleted it. Anyways here it is. The pic is rather large so I put it in a spoiler. Sorry about any spelling errors I will go in and edit them but I have to run right now.

Name: Aidreena Blair
Username: FearlessFlight
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Appearance: Standing at 5'5 she isn't the shortest girl around but definitely isn't supermodel hieght, not that she minds. Aidreena has a laid back appearance, she doesn't wear a whole lot of makeup (just enough to give herself a slightly more feminine look and accentuate her favourite features) and chooses comfort over style most of the time. This means she usually has on leather ankle boots, leggings and a sweatshirt or loose hanging shirt. Despite these two characteristics it would be a rare occasion to see this girl without her hair styled at least a bit. After discovering that doing her hair was a huge stress reliever she made it a regular activity and quickly learned many intricate braids. Despite having a more natural toned closet she loves colourful to have a little colour which often appears on her socks which have a habit of sticking out a tiny bit from the top of her ankle boots.
She hardly ever goes anywhere without a worn cross body leather satchel that normally has a book and so e random bits and pieces.
Her smile is probably her best accessory and she wears it on a regular basis. When she smiles it makes her cheeks round which makes her appear a bit younger than she truly is.

Spoiler

History: Aidreena Blair was born in New York to Mary Blair. Her actual father is unknown but the man her birth certificate is a bartender in Chicago who looks nothing like her but her mom can't remember who exactly she had sex with the night Aidreena was conceived.
After being born Aidreena was immediately surrendered because her biological mothers love for marijuana exceeded her love for her daughter but she still wanted her daughter to have the best life possible and not grow up like she had with a drug addicted mom. Somehow Aidreena never was adopted and grew up in various foster homes until she was five and finally was adopted by her current mom.
She was the only child of the people she calls mum and dad. Although she didn't have any actual siblings she always considered her close friends to be family and would fight for them no matter what.
Her mom was a huge book lover and although they moved around on a regular basis she never lived in a house without a library. Although packing up the hundreds of books was a painstaking task it was always worth it because they became her transitional objects, a constant in her life, well the books and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who just turned five. That was another passion of hers, volunteering to help animals in need. No matter what city she lived in she always found herself a local shelter. She currently is involved in a program that uses dogs and other animals to help heal people who are victims of abuse, have endured a loss, or are injured/in the healing process of a physical injury.
She believes this gives her life a little but more meaning.
Personality: Although she loves to read she isn't your typical bookworm and is a very outgoing and friendly person. This has made it easy for her to establish a huge network of friends. She may come off as a overly sweet person who couldn't hurt a fly but she is very loyal to those she loves and also very protective. She will not stand for anyone being picked on and will hold her own ground if necessary. She is one of the last people on earth who would ever cheat on her significant other.
Speaking of significant others she has had two boyfriends before but neither of them lasted long. For whatever reason she seems to attract the bad boy type who are in it to prove they can break the good girl in. But being demisexual prevented her from wanting to do the things they were in the relationship for because they didn't spend enough time really building up the strong relationship she needs in order to have a sexual attraction to someone plus she was forced to move around so often that it was very difficult for her to endure break ups with people time after time so she raised her walls when it came to becoming romantically involved.
Orientation: demisexual
Soulmate:
Other:

[Iliad]

Accepted!

[FearlessFlight]

Posting will need to wait until tomorrow...

[PastelPeach]

Oh hey Fearless, should we discuss how Cedrick and Aidreena will eventually meet? In particularly, their timers? Since Cedrick's is broken at the moment and all. Did you intend for hers to still reach zero when she finally meets him, or something else entirely?

[FearlessFlight]

Yeah her times will reach zero when she meets him. Did you have any ideas as to how they should meet? I don't mind either way. Aidreena is going to be going to school at the local college so they could eventually meet there.

[PastelPeach]

I have several ideas. There's a lot, so I'm putting them under a spoiler to take up less room.

Spoiler

I would rather have them not meet at the school, as Cedrick is pretty determined to keep his promise to his brother to the point of self punishment. If there's even a chance that he's met his soulmate before Kendrick, he'd never forgive himself and likely avoid her so much to the point of driving her away. The only way him meeting Aidreena before Kendrick's eventual wake up or demise would be if she met several people leading her to not know who her soulmate was and for her to openly (this is very important) decide that it can't Cedrick because soulmates are supposed to be reach zero together. Cedrick has to believe that there's no chance in being her soulmate for him to be okay with hanging out with her.

If this was a movie or book, then what would happen is Aidreena would take Diana's diary and read it whenever she's at work or having a bad day or has some time to herself. Then all the scenes would be of her imagining herself as Diana and Kendrick as the mystery soulmate. Kendrick would be chosen simply because of proximity (he's one of the patients she cares for at the hospital she has recently started working at) and the fact that he's one of the few patients close enough to her age that she knows little about which makes it easier to imagine. Of course, when Kendrick wakes up she finds out he's gay, but then his identical twin brother wakes in and the movie/book would end with Aidreena and Cedrick introducing themselves and a close up of their timers. I don't think this plot would work out so well in an rp though.

Another idea would be that she and Cedrick meet in some random place. Maybe they chat a little, maybe they don't. Either way, they depart and the next day Aidreena starts her first day working at the hospital. What she finds is a boy she believes to be Cedrick in a coma. Perhaps she panics at the fact that someone she had only met yesterday (that might or might not be her soulmate) could be in a state so close to death just the very next day. Then after about an hour or two of her trying to sort out her thoughts and handle it, Cedrick walks in to check on his brother. There's also the reverse of that, where she meets Kendrick first and then Cedrick later and believes Cedrick is actually an awake Kendrick.

There's the obvious where they don't actually meet until Kendrick wakes up or dies. Preferably with another male figure around to be revealed as Ken's soulmate if he should wake up.

There's this idea where Aidreena's timer never hits zero, since Cedrick's timer is broken. So whenever she gets closer to Cedrick it will decrease rapidly only to stop at 1, then to restart an hour or so whenever she and Cedrick depart. She could begin to think that it means her soulmate is close by but she simply hasn't actually met him yet, only to learn the truth when Cedrick's timer eventually starts working. This can be combined with any idea.

This one is the one I prefer most where they meet at the hospital when Cedrick's visiting his brother and Aidreena walks in to change Kendrick's sheets or something (with the male figure again). That way, Cedrick will be able to keep his promise to Ken without feeling guilty. He won't know that he just met his soulmate though, because his timer is broken and Aidreena never hits zero because her timer is responsive to her demisexuality perhaps. So what could happen is that she and Cedrick get to know each other more and become friends, only to venture towards more than friends. And the more feelings Aidreena develops, the further in the countdown her timer gets. This will eventually cause her to panic as she realizes she's falling in love, but the day when she'll meet her soulmate is getting closer and closer and she doesn't know what to do. It finally accumulates until she's panicking openly to Cedrick about it at the hospital and he's trying to calm her down and show her that her timer just hit zero (as did his). Literally minutes later, Kendrick coughs to announce his awoken presence.

...Kendrick is probably going to eventually become a character in here. When I first thought up the twins, I was originally going to kill Ken off. But when I started writing Cedrick's form and developing Ken and their relationship, I got way too attached. Hence why Ken wound up in a coma instead of dying in the accident until I decide what to do with him.

[Iliad]

Did someone say they needed another male character as a soulmate?
(Three might be pushing it a little for me but I'm enthusiastic enough to try.)

[PastelPeach]

Marth, that is exactly my reaction. I'm worried about taking on three characters, but I like Kendrick so much that I am finding myself very much willing to. If Ken gets a soulmate then Ken will definitely join. Then it'll just be a question of when he should wake up...