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BDRPWriMo Task #9: Petition To Town Board
Facts the Board Isn’t Privy to: Elena spent hours, hoooours working on her petition presentation. She had Naomi, Goliath, and Nala proofread everything. Goliath lowkey ghostwrote some of the really fancy sounding clauses at Elena’s insistence. ‘I want to sound like I speak English with my father’s vocabulary, I want it to sound like I am as smart as I am in Spanish,’ she said, while holding up a dictionary. She practiced her verbal presentation for a total time of four hours, purposely chipping away at her accent like an actor so make sure she’d be understood clearly. Naomi had to shove hot tea into her hands to make her nurse her throat and stop practicing.
Petition Subject: A petition for the Swynlake Town Board to allow Elena use of the Town Hall ballroom to host a charity event benefiting displaced Avalorans.
Petitioner: HRH Crown Princess Elena Castillo Flores of Avalor
Other signers: Nala Calame, Goliath Calaban, Shere Khan, Mirium Midge, Naomi Turner, HRH Princess Sofia Alvarez-Hagebak of Enchancia, Celia Gorgon, Aurora Briar, Irma Lopez, Belle Acheron, Simba Lyons, Jake Long, Fu Dog, Will Vandom, Jim Hawkins, Ralph O'Reilly, Donald Mallard, Tiegan Winchell, Adella Triton, Bridgette Durand
Petition Presentation Excerpt: “Buenos días, esteemed members of the board. Tudo bem? I am here today to present my petition to be granted use of the Ballroom to host a charity event. The charity event will benefit Avaloran refugees and internally displaced persons - hereafter referred to as IDPs.
While I am lucky enough to enjoy the safety of Swynlake, many of the people my family has been honored to be stewards of since the seventeenth century are not experiencing this reality. Their lives have also been thrown into chaos since the coup of 2015, subsequent dictatorial regime, and civil conflict the country is now mired in. Much of the international community has looked the other way, or blatantly slammed their door shut to Avaloran fleeing violence, political imprisonment, and persecution.
Countries that haven’t shut my people out, then, carry more than their fair share of the weight of their duty to humanity. Humanitarian aid groups work under the radar inside of Avalor with what funds they have available to help IDPs. It is both of these efforts I aim to aid with this event.
Budget: No funds required from the Board, only their blessing to use the space. InterPride has been working closely with Princess Elena to iron out funding. Additionally, charitable funds have been pledged by anonymous donor G.V. and Avaloran-born American singer Bianca Castillo Vargas, paternal aunt to the Crown Princess.
#bdrpwrimomckala#bdrpwrimo2018mckala#bdrpwrimo#// I'm gonna work out the specifics of the event and submit an official event to the main later#// this is an event elena and i WILL host in early 2019 wooooo
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BDRPWriMo Task #25: 10 Swynlake HCs
There is a friendly ghost in the park named Joey who plays with wandering children to keep them from getting any more lost. Their parents will find them on the swingset or going down the slide, perfectly safe.
There is a wishing well in an abandoned field, but beware! What you wish for may not be what you actually want.
A few helpful ghosts haunt the halls of Swynlake Secondary. If you leave an assignment due in your locker, sometimes they’ll get it out for you and slide it under the crack in the classroom door for you to turn in.
In the olden days, telegrams would often get misplaced like texts do today.
Screams and crying can be heard from the abandoned Crestwood Manor on anniversaries of particularly tragic nights in its history. February 20th, March 11th, June 3rd, September 8th, and November 17th.
There used to be a sizable vampire coven in Swynlake, but that was around the time of the town’s founding. Many of those vampire were killed while outside of town or simply dispersed.
There’s a wall in an alley hidden by bushes on the Pride U campus that, if you remove a few bricks in the wall, students use to stash cheat sheets and notes of encouragement, and sometimes handwritten gossips.
The Rock. Pride U has one.
There’s a longstanding myth at Pride U that if a student spot an albino squirrel before an exam ,they’re sure to get an A
Conversely, there’s an arch students avoid walking under. They will always make an effort to avoid walking under it, for it is rumored students who walk under it will never graduate.
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BDRPWriMo Task #22: Floor Plan of the Second Floor of the Snuggly Duckling Inn
So I had like three panic attacks trying to do this one lmao. But basically, the Snuggly Duckling is like. An old mansion converted to an inn. Rooms are...only barely drawn to scale. Like they ARE diff sizes. But there’s bathrooms of course and more than JUST a bed.
The Inn has three floors, plus a basement level. There’s three two bedroom suite rooms in the basement level. The ground level is administration, laundry, the kitchen, the lil cafe for guests.
The top two floors are guest rooms. On each guest floor, near the elevator and stairs, is a floor lounge with vending machines for snacks and sodas.
So yeah I’m never doing a floorplan AGAIN omfg but yesss general. General idea
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BDRPWriMo Task#1 - The Secret Keeper
Day 1: Design an advertisement for a magical product that would be sold in a Swynlake store
Fadela’s sales pitch
Loose lips sink friendships, so why keep a ship with a leaky bottom in the fleet? If you’re sure somebody is going around spilling your secrets, you’re in luck, habibi. I’ve designed a product that you can use to catch a blabbermouth redhanded - literally!
This little pouch is charmed with a spell that will make the rat’s hands glow red when they’ve betrayed your secret. Simply fill the bag with hair from their hairbrush, whisper the secret or small collection of secrets you wish to remain kept into the bag, and pull the strings shut.
If the secret has already been circulating, you can tell if your trusted friend has been helping it spread. If it has yet to, the Secret Keeper is excellent insurance- with or without your friend knowing.
The red glow will disappear from your friend’s hands within minutes of them spilling the secret, however, until you burn the pouch, the glow will return if they lie to you about spilling the secret.
Don’t let loose lips ruin your reputation again!
#bdrpwrimo#bdrpwrimomckala#bdrpwrimo2018mckala#reza's sister's the one who like hashtag aggressively sells magic products and potions
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How I’m Annoyed By Thee, Let Me Count The Ways by Huey Mallard
BDRPWriMo Task #14: Write a poem in character
Dedicated to Louie and Dewey Mallard
How I’m annoyed by thee? Let me count the ways.
I am annoyed to the depth, breadth, and height
My patience can reach whene’er we fight
For every time you won’t get out of my face
I am annoyed by thee to the level of
Most severe aggravation by sun and laptop-light
I am annoyed by thee daily, as you always be stealing my things - Dewey
I am annoyed by thee purely, as you take a million years in the shower - Louie
I am annoyed by thee with a fervent energy, fueling my desire to
Run away to Saskatchewan, where you will surely bitch about the cold
(I could not come up with one more stanza, but I think you two get the point. Give me back my DS or I will write more mean poetry) - Huey
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BDRPWriMo Task #21
I did one part of this task already, 10+ characters I’d like to play. Now this list, will be 10+ I’d love someone else to play!
Any fc ideas I put are ofc hypothetical lmao
SO HEEERE is a list of 10+ characters I selfishly want to see here! Yes all o fthe open Elena of Avalor characters are on the list but! That’s not all!
1. Arista Triton (fc suggestions by McKala: Loey Lane, Johanna Braddy, Iskra Lawrence)
Someone bring me my twiiiiin! Complete the Triton family, y’all! We’re so close! And really don’t take my fc suggestion too serious - as in, serious at ALL. I just like making fc idea lists when I’m bored. I wanted to attach potential fcs to all my Wanted Characters in case somebody was considering the characters but were stumped for ideas.
Ask Avarick, Sam, Lauren, and Kiara- I am always down to make a fc list.
2. Haley Long (fc suggestions by McKala: Chou Tzuyu, Wong Viian, Cao Lu)
Another teen! A dragon! HOW COOL. Give Pet her baby sister 2k19
3. Jafar (fc suggestions by McKala: JOHN ABRAHAM omfg, Omar Lofti, Adrian Pasdar)
Now that Arawn’s dead (rip), Swynlake needs a new evil sorcerer! And it’s a chance to do some cool worlbuilding for Agrabah, like Team Avalor’s done with Avalor!
4. Jasmine (fc suggestions by McKala: SO MANY. including Njoud Al Shammari, Dalal AlDoub, Adila Sedraïa, Sonita Alizadeh, Claudia Doumit)
I’m honestly shook Jasmine’s not taken yet y’all! She’s a great character, you can go so many diff directions with her and HEL-LO worldbuilding!
5. Star Butterfly (fc suggestions by McKala: Prilly Latuconsina, Kiana Lede, Rola, Liza Koshy, Normani Kordei, Anastasia Tsilimpiou, Zara Larsson)
Y’all, again. The worldbuilding! Potential! Here! you can make her a magical princess from a another dimension how DOPE
6. Alonso Cordoba (fc suggestions by McKala: Taylor Zakhar, Diego Tinoco, Maluma, Carlos Valdes, Rafael De La Fuente)
Come play the snobby Avaloran noble turned refugee, childhood frenemy/pain in the ass of Princess Elena! Join Avalor Squad and get a piece of Avalor worldbuilding. Help me develop the Avaloran nobility, the pop culture, the youth culture. Being from Avalor is a cool enough plot, with the coup and civil conflict now, but being nobility? With a potential connection to the princesses? Woooo!
7. Armando Salinas (fc suggestions by McKala: tricky, bc he has to be Latinx and body diverse, but I have three possible ideas in mind and I can make gifs for them! They’re Harvey Guillen, Andrew Garcia, and Erik Griffin.
Wow there HAS to be more body diverse Latinx men out there. But!!! Join the Avalor party y’all!
8. Taranee Cook!!!! (fc suggestions by McKala: Karidja Touré, China Anne McClain, Sammi Maria)
H O W are the guardians still just me and Silv? Come grab Taranee, Cornelia ,and Hay Lin for a w e s o m e plots, woooo!
9. Hay Lin!!!! (fc suggestions by McKala: Janice Wu, Lauren Tsai, Brianne Tju)
Join me and Silv! Play a Guardian! Travel across diff dimensions, weeeeee! Have the power of WIND, WOW
10. Cornelia Hale !! ! ! (fc suggestions by McKala: Ludovica Martino, Lulu Antariska, Zara Larsson, Liana Liberato)
Again! Come play one of the remaining three guardians of the veil. Corny has the power of EARTH, how NEATO is that!?
11. Professor Guadalupe “Lupe” Mendoza (fc suggestions by McKala: Rosario Dawson, Charo Bogarin, Jessica Alba, Velina Hsau Houston, Lana Parrilla)
COME PLAY A COOL AVALORAN WOOOO
Join me in Avalor world! Lupe Mendoza is so cooool, she’s a professor, a scholar, a genius, a really cool lady forced to flee Avalor because of the new dictatorship. I wrote her, Armando, Alonso, and the other upcoming Avalor skeletons wooooowooooo
12. Aladdin! (fc suggestions by McKala: Derrick Monasterio, Toni Mahfud, Jade Hassoune)
Y’all again! Think of the worldbuilding you’d get to do with Agrabah!
13. Li Shang (fc suggestions by McKala: Shawn Dou, Lewis Tan, Osric Chau)
Y’all how do we not have any Mulan characters yet??? But I would pay someone physical money for a Li Shang ahhhhh
Free URL for you - thetimes-theyare-ashangin
14. Olivia da Silva (fc suggestions by McKala: Marina Nery, Bruna Marzenique, Bruna Tenorio, Barbie Ferreira, Cierra Ramirez)
I made this skeleton woowoo! Come play an Avaloran character! A young sorceress honing her craft! Worldbuild Avalor with me, yaaaay! I put Brazilian-preferred on the skeleton for fc suggestions because the Avalor we’ve crafted in game is a bilingual society in South America with Portuguese and Spanish influence about equally. It’s not requiiired, like you can change her last name to be Spanish and not Portuguese, but! I tracked down a ton of Brazilian fcs with resources so!
#bdrpwrimomckala#bdrpwrimo2018mckala#bdrpwrimo#here's the promised list of 10+ characters i selfishly wanna seeee
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BDRPWriMo Task #10: Tigg Goes Grocery Shopping
So Tigg was never allowed to this again, she’s decided. And it was absolutely going to be Shere’s verdict when she came home with what she intended to be groceries to surprise him with dinner.
Intended to be. Didn’t actually end up being.
She’d tried! She really, really tried, but she’d never cooked anything before in her life soooo. So she’d just picked up a bunch of things she knew she liked to eat. There were shrimps, asparagus, oranges, several kinds of cheese, cream cheese, and pasta now strewn across the kitchen counter.
OH...dear.
After browsing the internet to see if anything could be made...well, she gave up rather quickly.
Tigg stomped her foot in frustration and grabbed for her cell phone, scrolling through her contacts for Imperial Palace.
“Um, ‘ello there. Order for delivery, uh please?”
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BDRPWriMo Task #26: Elena’s Phone
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S9, because she’s partial to Samsung cameras for selfies
Contacts Sampling:
Jaws [Naomi]
Guy From Pixie’s Who Was Terrible In Bed [she’s pretty sure his name was Tom? Or Tim?]
Mi Vida [Isa]
Conejito [Belle]
El Jefe [Adam]
Makeup God [Alana]
Querido [Mateo, for now]
Papá [Goliath]
Jackass [what she has the number for Esteban’s proxy in Avalor saved as]
Free English Lessons [Jim]
The Best Most Awesome [Sofia, who changed her contact name to this]
Queen Irmaaaaa [Irma]
Last Five Messages:
Outgoing [Papá]: All men are trash including Mateo and except you, I’m coming over to cry now
Incoming [Jaws]: Elena if you don’t stop leaving your underwear in my bathtub
Outgoing [Makeup God]: I’m drunk but hi, Babette and I are doing drunk makeup and your foundation is the best covering longest lasting ever, never stop
Outgoing [Free English Lessons]: Honestly, I’ve been scrolling through the English music on my Spotify and my taste explains a lot about me. Calm down, angstlord Elena
Outgoing [Papá]: Only having one working wrist is a trash existence, if you need me I’ll be laying in the street waiting for a bus, b y e // [immediately after] yes, this is because I can’t fucking cut vegetables
Four Apps:
Duolingo, used to learn English when she moved here, now she’s learning Turkish on it for funsies
Memrise, which she still uses for English to expand her vocabulary
FluentU - again, for English learning
WordScapes - it’s fun and she feels smart when she levels up because its English words, and she’s learned new ones!
Background: Until recently, it was a picture of Mateo reading she snapped one night at bedtime. Now that he broke up with her while she was in the hospital (or at least tried to, depending on how that thread ends) it’s a cute picture of her cat, Shadow.
Lock Screen: The last picture taken of her, Isa, and her parents together.
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BDRPWriMo Task #11: Create Your Own Pride U Class
Read below to learn about a course taught by Guadalupe “Lupe” Mendoza about Avalor!
Course Name: LATI 321 - Latin American Studies 321 - Modern Avalor II: Concentration on Social Change, Pop Culture, and Youth Movements
Instructor: Guadalupe Mendoza
Email: [email protected]
Office Location: Pride Castle, West Wing 202
Office Hours: Monday 3:00-5:00, Tues. & Friday 8:00-10:30, 1:00-5:00, any other time by appointment
Course Description: This course aims to provide insight into the modern history and current times of Avalor with a focus shift from the political to the cultural. We will shift from the primarily political lens of the fall semester, and explore how the world’s most populous magick kingdom has developed culturally and socially during the same time period, spanning the reigns of King Francsio and Queen Lusia, Queen Lucia and King Raul, and Crown Princess Elena, and the 2015 coup.
Credits: 10
Semesters: Spring
Prerequisites: LATI 320 - Modern Avalor I: Concentration on Immigration, Politics, and Magick-Mundus Relations
Co-requisites: none
Preference: Initial preference given to Political Science, International Studies, International Relations, Global Development, Sociology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies concentrations
Class size: Maximum 40 students
Method and Frequency: Lecture (M, T, W, TH) and seminar with TA (F)
Method of Assessment: 4 exams (40%), final paper, presentation, or project (30%), reading responses (15%), class participation (10%), other assignments (5%)
Assignments:
Exam One – Last week of February - materials learned, combination of multiple choice and short essay
Midterm – Last week of March - group presentation in any format of any topic from the approved list or from a pre-approved topic discussed with me - Midterm groups can be formed by students by second week of February, students left unassigned will be grouped by me
Exam Three - Last week of April - paper on your chosen topic from a list, or a topic approved by me - 5 pages minimum
Final Exam - First week of June - materials learned, combination of multiple choice, short answer, and short essay
Reading Responses – Due the Sunday night of weeks posted (geenrally every two weeks), must post a comment on the discussion forum and respond to at least one other student. One bonus point added to an assignment of your choice per every student responded to after that.
Final Paper, Presentation, or Project – You must propose a topic for your final by the end of the second month of class. Students who choose to write a paper (12 pages minimum) are required to attend class for presentations. Students who choose a presentation must speak on their presentation for at least eight and no more than ten minutes. Students who choose a final project must present on their project for no less than five minutes.
Reading Materials:
Dr. Josefina Gomez - Her Majesty: An Analysis of Social Change and Movements Under Queen Lucia
Edited by: Lorena Machado - Selected Essays and Articles on Pop Culture in post-Franciscan Avalor
Martin Howard, Suzette Picard, Guadalupe Mendoza, and Humberto Paiva - Mi Magica: An Exploration of Magick Cultures and Practices Across Avalor
Additional readings will be posted on the class portal, and announced in class.
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BDRPWriMo Task #28 Elena’s Closet Part 2/2
Elena’s style, basically, is she dresses how I would if I wasn’t poor and insecure about my body. Elena flits like a hummingbird between quirky and sensible, and sexy and classy. She has no one set “aesthetic.”
Her closet is full of leather jackets, and vintage-inspired dresses. Rompers and jumpsuit, and crop tops and shorts for going out. Cute sundresses, and classy cocktail party attire that she’ll sometimes just wear because.
The green dress in the bottom row, is the dress she was wearing to go to Duchess Le Blanc’s fashion show when the zombie apocalypse started. It was from Modcloth, because unlike me, she can afford to shop there [*gross sobbing*]. It’s the dress the zombies ruined in the to-be-posted on dash thread where she and Mateo and fighting zombies. It’s in the Discord chat, but I’m compiling it to post on dash when it’s done!
Elena is trash for nature print clothes. Not like, cheetah or zebra print clothes, but like. Clothes with jellyfish, dinosaurs, succulents, and flowers on them.
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BDRPWriMo Task #28 Elena’s Closet Part 1/2
Elena’s style, basically, is she dresses how I would if I wasn’t poor and insecure about my body. Elena flits like a hummingbird between quirky and sensible, and sexy and classy.
While neutral colors are a staple in Elena’s closet, she wears bright colors and statement pieces more often. See: mushroom top, hot hair balloon shirt and bold colored skirt combo.
The necklace pictured was one of her mother’s favorite necklaces. Elena happened to be wearing it when she escaped the palace, and she’s held onto it tight ever since. After Queen Lucia’s assassination, Elena would wear her favorite pieces of jewelry to feel close to her.
She prefer skirts and dresses over trousers, and in the winter months will often wear fleece tights and wool skirts with boots to avoid wearing pants. The second row, first image, is an example of that.
Elena also loves to wear hats to complete an outfit. One of her favorites is the hat in the bottom left picture.
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BDRPWriMo Task #16: Throwback Playlist
Songs That Take Elena Back To Specific Points In Time
Nada Personal - Soda Stereo
Nada oh-oh-oh
Nada personal
Soda Stereo, in general, makes Elena think about her father, the late King Raul Castillo of Avalor. Her father was a Soda Stereo fanboy, hardcore. The Argentine rock band was one of his favorites. Nada Personal, though, has a special place in her heart because one of her favorite memories of her father is him dancing and singing along to it at one of the Soda Stereo concerts he dragged her to.
Raul’s love for Soda Stereo, part out of nostalgia for her late father, and part because she really likes them, has passed to Elena. You can often find her jamming to Nada Personal while she’s doing chores.
Tus Besos- Juan Luis Guerra
Tus besos me enamoran, me cubren de bien
Besos de ternura, besitos de miel
Y tus besos que me arrullan, me dan la ilusión
Bálsamo y perfume para mi corazón
Sometime before Mateo disappeared, Elena was making dinner and listening to music and Mateo walks in and was all "oooh whatcha makin?” The song came on her shuffle as they were talking, and after about a half minute of her kinda dancing in place, she gave up on talking and she pulled him into bachata dancing with her to the song, and she softly sang bits of it against his ear because she can never stop JUST SHORT of absolutely killing him.
Linda Juventude - 14 Bis
Nossa linda juventude
Página de um livro bom
Canta que quero cais e calor
Claro como o sol raiou
King Raul’s stepfather, Adão Machado, was a Lusophone Avaloran. Even after his mother’s death and Adão’s marriage to his new wife after his late mother, Raul was closer with him than his biological father. Raul mainly swore in Portuguese- his primarily Spanish-speaking mother never really said swear words, and since his biological father didn’t have much influence on him, Portuguese it was.
So both official languages of Avalor were part of Elena’s life, and she grew up listening to a lot of Portuguese 80′s music. This was one Raul would sing to her when she was little.
Because the song is so special to her, when Elena competed on an Avaloran show similar to King of Mask Singer, it was the song she chose to sing as her round two solo song, after defeating Avaloran footballer Juanpa (Juan Pablo) Ramos during their duet performance of Tres Palavras.
Como La Flor - Selena
Como la flor
Con tanto amor
Me diste tu
Se marchito
Lucia loved Selena. Elena grew up listening to Selena. Como La Flor does more than take her back to one specific place and time, because it’s really one of Elena’s favorite songs ever. However, it’s the song she chose to sing during her elimination reveal on the show she appeared on after being defeated in round two. She took off her mask during the instrumental break and the whole arena lost their collective minds, it was wild.
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BDRPWriMo Task #15: Elena Disaster Response Team
Task #15: Write a story using either Tweets or entirely in texts between characters
Or: In Which Naomi, Sofia, Isa, and Goliath make a game plan to keep Elena #chill after her breakup with Mateo
Sofia: You might be wondering why I gathered you here today
Naomi: Nope, pretty obvious
Isa: to stop elena from going loca
Goliath: Isabel, that’s not polite. But exactly.
Isa: Goliath, you were never in Avalor to see Elena after a breakup
Sofia: Did you ever see that Avaloran telenovela with uhhhh Clara Cisneros yyyyy ese actor con el culo
Isa: OH OH se la respuesta!!!! es meme alvarado que guapisimooo
Sofia: si, si, and you know the scene where meme’s character dumps clara’s character to pursue a romance with Lucia Boyer’s character because she blackmailed him
Naomi: sofia, the point
Sofia: YES. so, Naomi tells me Elena’s spirals/freakout/whatever are worse than Clara’s character in that novela sooooo
Sofia: [YouTube link of the aforementioned scene]
Goliath: Oh. Oh, this is. Hard to top
Naomi: EXACTLY.
Naomi: And that was Elena after splitting with men she wasn’t near as attached to as Mateo
Isa: naomi already made me get rid of elena’s liquor stash
Naomi: good job, baby
Goliath: ...how big was it
Naomi: oh don’t worry, it wasn’t, but too much to let her binge drink in her newly single sadness, which. the great breakup of 2014 taught us not to chance again
Sofia: ay, didn’t you narrowly avoid elena stripping at a club
Naomi: SOFIA ELENA’S FATHER IS IN THIS GROUP CHAT
Sofia: ope [img]
Isa: ELENA STRIPPED????
Sofia: Goliath, this is you rn [img]
Naomi: NO. Isa I’ll explain later, not in front of Goliath
Isa: Good call, good call.
Goliath: yes, please
Naomi: okay so here’s the things we have to keep Elena away from, are you all paying attention?
Goliath: yes, dear
Isa: si!
Sofia: [img]
Naomi: K.
Naomi: 1. Alcohol. I cannot stress this one enough. Elena + unsupervised access to alcohol + a broken heart = some shit that’ll end up on the internet.
Naomi: I’m not putting a 2007 Britney Spears meltdown past her to be QUITE honest
Sofia: [img]
Isa: Elena’d still look hot with a shaved head
Sofia: It’s true, it’s impossible to make her ugly, have you seen pictures of any member of the Avaloran royal family
Naomi: ...right.
Goliath: Next, Naomi?
Naomi: 2. Tinder. Tinder, Tinder, Tinder. OH my god Tinder.
Sofia: [img]
Sofia: Aren’t rebounds good?
Naomi: No, not when she’s still in love with Mateo. She’ll have sex and then cry to us about how awful she is for three hours
Isa: My eyes!!!!
Sofia: [img]
Sofia: You’re going to traumatize Isa and Goliath
Goliath: Elena’s an adult
Sofia: mm, cool dad
Goliath: And what else, Naomi?
Naomi: 3. Under no circumstances are any of you to allow her to listen to Luis Fonsi.
Sofia: [img]
Goliath: That’s like asking Elena not to breathe
Naomi: Well we’re going to have to do it, soldiers
Isa: Does Despacito count?
Naomi: ESPECIALLY DESPACITO
Naomi: Despacito is the slippery slope to Elena’s tears
Naomi: One second it’s Des...pa...cito and the next it’s
Sofia: [img]
Naomi: you know what sofia, yes. yes.
Goliath: Sofia, how fast are you googling these
Sofia: [img]
Sofia: How dare you inSINuate
Sofia: that i don’t have a meme album or TWO on my phone
Naomi: okay focus
Isa: There’s more????
Naomi: Oh Isa. Isa, Isa. You were so young and naive before. The mess we know and love as your sister is...
Goliath: A piece of work that we love
Naomi: Yes, Goliath.
Naomi: 4. You also have GOT to keep 90s hits like Linger and Torn away from her. I don’t care if you’re dining at a 5 star restaurant, if you hear The Cranberries come on you take her and you fucking BOLT. Am I understood?
Goliath: Got it, so just. Keeping feeding her
Isa: uhhh yeah?
Sofia: [img]
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BDRPWriMo Task #8: Magic Creature Aesthetic (Xana)
The forest of Enchantra is home to a tribe of Xana, though they are far less menacing than legend would have one believe. The xana live by the Kohaku River and are a matriarchal society like mermaids. Despite Asturian legend, not all xana are female, however, male xana are born far less often than female xana. In fact, many xana males have more than one mate because males are so scarce. Xana women often resort to mating with humans, fairies, were-creatures, or merfolk. Half-xana do not maintain all the xana powers, but are born with incredible beauty. It is rumored that Japanese figure skater Yzuru Hanyu and Croatian model Lorena Relja were born to xana mothers and human fathers.
Centuries ago, the xana tribe by the river would care for orphaned humans from Swynlake and Besydus. With the advent of a developed foster system, the xana have fallen out of favor as collective mothers to orphaned children, but to this day when children get lost in Enchantra, they come home with stories about forest women bringing them to their wooden huts, feeding them, letting them play with their children, and then guiding them out of the forest.
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BDRPWriMo Task #19: flip the script
Task: #19. Flip The Script: Change one DRASTIC trait about your character and write a one-shot.
AU where King Raul was killed in the assassination attempt in Venezuela, but Queen Lucia who was four months pregnant, wasn’t.
Elena discreetly spit out the bitter taste of blood into her linen napkin as she set her fork down across her dessert plate for the staff to collect later. Tea and in her mother’s suite passed by in near silence, hers and Goliath’s attempts at conversation met with stoic one-word answers. Any progress Elena’d made in the five months since her father’s death had been turned on their head with the birth of her mother’s child the previous week.
A girl, a third princess of Avalor, Caterina.
She was to tiny, and beautiful, and Elena wanted so badly to adore her the way she adored Isabel but with every passing day her anger only burned hotter. Until nine days ago Elena had thought she’d be the child of her mother and her late father.
That was before she walked past her mother nursing her three days following her birth, and had to do a double take. Who else in their family was quite that blessed with melanin? And before Elena realized what had been happening right under her nose when, months ago, she spotted one of her mother’s bras on the floor of Goliath’s guest suite, not shoved quite far enough under the desk for her not to catch.
Her eyes watched the adults across the table from her carefully as Lucia wiped her mouth with a napkin and Goliath set his cup down on its saucer, and she pretended that she hadn’t been biting her lip so hard it broke the skin.
How interesting. Lucia and Goliath carrying on like normal. Sitting there like everything was fine, like she wasn’t now fully aware of their betrayal of her late father.
Fuck this, she thought, throwing her napkin down as she rose from her seat glaring daggers at them.
“Okay. How long are you two planning on acting like I’m fucking stupid!?” Elena couldn’t decide who she hated more. So her eyes darted between both of theirs.
Lucia startled at the sudden jolt of the table (she’d been jumpy since the assassination of her husband. Understandable, considering his blood had splattered across her face that day) and Goliath pursed his lips as he watched Elena carefully. His reaction made Elena want to laugh; because he knew exactly what she was talking about.
“Elena, language,” Lucia hissed, motioning for her to sit back down. “Elena, list-”
“No, you two listen to me, Mami. I cannot believe either of you would do this to our family - to Papi. Mami, he threw his body past his bodyguards and in front of you so you wouldn’t die-”
“Elena.” Goliath began, holding up a hand before letting it fall back to his lap as Elena’s icy glare landed on him.
“-but you’d been having an affair! How could you do that to him? Both of you...Goliath, you were his best friend, he trusted you.”
Goliath said nothing, maybe he couldn’t, maybe he was just upset he got caught. Elena couldn’t tell and didn’t really care because she wasn’t done yet. No, she was just getting started. The anger inside the fifteen year old’s petite body was almost palpable and god help whoever tried to stop her.
Funny how nine days ago Elena was so thankful for Goliath’s presence at the palace, and today, Elena never wanted to see him again. It all made sense to her now, and it hurt so much.
“That’s why you stayed after my quince, isn’t it, Goliath? Y-you didn’t miss me and Isa, it w-was to stay and have an affair with my mother. And the entire time I actually thought you l-loved me. I th-thought you were as good as a second father to me, and I w-was so happy that at least I still had you, even if m-my dad died.” Elena wiped the furious tears that sneaked out of her eyes and sniffled as Goliath only looked down at his lap.
“I w-want you to leave. I never want to have to see you again for what you did. You’re a liar!” Elena hiccuped a couple times and wiped at her eyes again before continuing to unleash what Goliath deserved. “I can’t believe you. You held me for hours as I screamed and cried about my father being gone, you carried his coffin, you held onto my hand behind behind my back as I spoke at his funeral, I’ve cried myself to sleep wrapped up in your wings countless nights since he d-died, but you were betraying him far worse than Lionel Castillo ever cou-”
“Elena, ENOUGH!” Lucia shot out of her seat, the forced of her legs bumping the table sending silverware flying. “You will sit down. You let us explain. You will apologize to Goliath for the horrible things you’ve just said.”
Elena scoffed at her mother and folded her arms across her chest. “You’re one to talk, Mami. You’re just as bad as he is, except maybe worse. Papi was your husband. What’s there to explain about having an affair? I don’t want to hear it.”
She turned on her heel to leave, only stopped by the audacity of her mother to say what she said next.
“A lot, Elenita. A lot. But let me start with your father...it never was an affair, mija."
“Never an affair? You were pregnant with another man’s baby while he was still alive, how is that anything but?”
“I understand how it looks. But please, let me explain. Sit down, please,” Lucia pleaded with her, sitting back down herself.
“I’d rather stand, thanks.” Easier to leave when she couldn’t take the bullshit anymore.
Lucia sighed and didn’t try to argue more, simply gathered her nerves to begin the story. “Mija, your father and I were deeply in love until the day that he died. He was the love of my life, and I will mourn him until my last breath. Your father and I enjoyed a warm and devoted marriage, and the sixteen years I had to be his wife were the happiest. However, for the past five years of our marriage, our relationship wasn’t entirely between the two of us.
“Elena, your father and I both - both - developed strong feelings for Goliath starting around six years ago. Together. Yet, at the same time, we were still as devoted to each other as ever. We wrestled with our feelings individually for about eight months before we shared them with each other, and found the other felt the same way. For your father, it was particularly hard because…”
Here, the queen paused and took a deep breath, one of her hands moving to grasp at Goliath’s. “Your father hadn’t even been aware he was bisexual until then. He struggled with his feelings terribly for a while, but once he shared them with me, and found I’d been having them too- Elena, it was like a weight had been taken off of your father’s shoulders. So we mulled over our feelings for another two months before we shared them with Goliath, and-”
“-as it turned out.” Lucia squeezed his hand and smiled lovingly at him, though Goliath’s expression was still blank and his gaze fixated on his lap. “He’d had the same feelings for both of us for some time himself. For the last five years of Raul’s life, he was doubly loved, Elena.”
Slowly, Elena shook her head in disbelief. Her eyes moved from her mother to Goliath, who was still avoiding look at her. Her legs shook as she lowered herself into her seat.
Lucia gently brought the hand not squeezing Goliath’s down onto the table, reaching for Elena. When Elena did not reach for her hand in return, Lucia continued with her story, unfazed. “Our feelings for Goliath were driven, in part, by how much and how purely he loved our daughters. Raul would always talk about how happy he was that our little girls had Goliath to count on. If only you could see the way the two of them would look at you when your back was turned, Elenita. Your father and I truly felt as if we were raising our girls with two fathers and a mother.
“You can think what you want about the relationship between the three of us, but don't you ever doubt how much this man here-” she moved her hand from his and pressed it against his upper arm “-has always loved you. Goliath loved you long before he loved Raul and I. You were the entire reason he introduced himself to your father and I in the first place when there was the position open to be your tutor. He adored you and wanted to be able to watch over you, and guide you, and protect you.
“So don’t you ever insult him, or me, or your father by doubting Goliath’s love for you again, when it was his dedication to you girls that made us trust him, let alone fall in love with him.” She met Elena’s eye as she stretched her hand toward her again. “Elena, please. I can show you love letters we exchanged while Goliath was in Japan, journal entries from Raul, I can show you the small handful of photographs I have hidden of Goliath and your father looking like two college boys in love.”
“If I need to, for you to believe me, I can. Mi vida, por favor. Please believe me. There was no torrid affair, but a healthy, loving relationship between the three of us. We both are still mourning your father just as deeply as you are, baby.” Lucia tentatively leaned forward to brush Elena’s hair behind her ear, and nearly cried in relief when she wasn’t swatted away.
Elena looked over at Goliath, who blinked as tears slid down his cheeks and looked up from his lap just barely but still couldn’t bring himself to speak. Her heart jumped painfully in her chest as she watched him. It was as if he was glad Elena was angry. As if he felt he actually deserved it.
It was like he blamed himself for Raul’s death even though he’d been in Guatemala at the time.
“Goliath…” Elena began to address him, when a question for her mother popped into her head and she turned her attention back to her. “If you’re telling the truth, why didn’t you say anything earlier?”
Lucia nodded, probably having expected the question. “I didn’t tell you earlier because I - because your father had just been assassinated on international live television. I was pregnant, and we were all mourning. Still are mourning, but it was so fresh...and Elena, I wasn’t even sure who Caterina’s biological father was, between the two of them. I’d just kind of assumed she’d be Raul’s, Goliath and I had only - well around the time I had to have conceived, maybe two or three-”
“Mami! TMI, oh my god.”
“Sorry. Point is, Elenita. That I did not want to smash your perception of your father at the same time that everyone would we talking about him and all of his skeletons, true or made up, while you were also mourning his loss. I don’t not want to confuse you at a confusing enough time.” Here, Lucia paused and squeezed Elena’s hand. Elena squeezed back. “If Cati were Raul’s biological child, then I could have waited another couple years to explain this all to you. But she is Goliath’s biological daughter.”
“You could have told me.” Elena said, feather-soft in between sniffles.
“I know.”
“You should have told me.”
“I know.”
“I-I’m a t-terrible p-pers-”
“Elena, no-”
Lucia was cut off when Elena practically through herself across the tea table and onto Goliath, who’d been silent this whole time. The princess was half-standing, half-leaning on Goliath for support as she hugged onto him and cried. Tentatively, as if he were afraid he’d offend her by doing so, Goliath slipped his arms around her in return and carded his fingers through her hair.
Elena sobbed and hugged the gargoyle tighter, sniffling as she pulled back bit to curl up in his lap like when she was a small child. “I’m- I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so terrible Goliath. I didn't know, I'm sorry I was terrible, p-p-please don't hate me for saying those th-things to y-y-you, I sh-should have known you were a better p-person and f-friend than to ever hurt my Papi and I just. I'm s-sorry. Do you s-still love me? I'm really sorry. Please don’t h-hate me."
“Oh, joya,” Goliath sighed, hugging Elena tight and pressing a kiss to her forehead. “I could never be mad at you, you didn't know. You still are the light of my life, mija.”
“I was s-so horrible to you just n-now, I- I’m sorry.”
“That won’t change how much I will always love you, no matter what. Raul and I...Raul asked me to think of you and Isa as my own years ago, but I confess I’d already been loving you like you were.” He wiped Elena’s tears away with the pad of his thumb and grabbed the blanket folded on the back of the couch to wrap her up in.
Elena snuggled into his warmth and let him wrap the blanket around them, relaxing more when he went back to playing with her hair. God, she felt like a monster. How could he forgive so easily?
“I love you unconditionally. That’s how parents are supposed to work, joya.”
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BDRPWriMo Task #21: 10+ Characters You’d Like To See [Part 1/2]
For task #21, a list of 10+ characters you’d like to see in the RP, I am doing two versions of it. One, on Elena’s blog, a list of characters I’d like to play, and two, on Rama’s blog, a list of characters I’d like to see played but that I personally don’t have muse for.
10 Characters McKala Would Like To Play
[not included will be the character I plan to pick up next, let that be a surprise]
1. Lena De Spell from Ducktales (my fc: Ziruza Tasmagambetova)
I hadn’t watched Ducktales until Silv picked up Donald, and I was like “okay but now I wanna play a nephew, though. And I fell in love with Huey and Huey became my seventh character. As I was binge watching Ducktales and writing my Huey app, Lena’s skeleton was posted on the main. I was absolutely floored with the skeleton, and just as I was messaging Sav to ask her if Lena was in season 1 of Ducktales, the episode introducing her brought her on screen. As I continued watching, the character of Lena De Spell also grew on me fast, and I got two big ideas for her depending on what the future Magica player wants to do.
Then I found a gif pack of this Kazakh singer and I immediately was like “found Lena!”
Full disclosure, unless she gets picked up by someone else first, she is one of the top contenders for character number nine.
2. Chihiro from Spirited Away (my fc: Iitoyo Marie)
Say it with me- McKala is trash for Miyazaki!I have a few ideas for Chihiro and they all start with her parents going missing (of course) but the manner in which they go missing will then affect what I do with her backstory from there. Did they go missing en route to moving for a job transfer because they were actually sorcerers and an unknown sorceress (couldbe Zeniba,could be someone else) got rid of them? Was it some freak accident and bodies were never found? Did they fall into a portal to another dimension? Is she now protected by the RAS because her parents’ disappearance warranted it?
Does she work at Zeniba’s bathouse because she’s a prisoner there? Or if she’s protected by the RAS, is it just a part-time job she innocently isn’t aware is sinister?
Basically I have a lot of half formed idea for her but none solid enough to apply for her yet.
3. Karen “Voyd” Busch from The Incredibles 2 (my fc: Emily Sera)
Okay so I need to actually watch the movie first, but. Her skeleton is calling OUT to me and I immediately thought of Emily Sera as her fc. Her fc is German-American irl, so she’d a mixed Native-white girl from Germany who’s dropped out of uni in anti-magick Germany to come to Swynlake and be #free.
4. Reed Fisch from Chicken Little (fc: Chella Man)
So I wasn’t originally trying to let my Reed muse live. I already play Tigg as autistic, but then! I started watching Chella Man videos and I was like “wow, he’d be a good Reed.” And then it’s inda spiraled and now if I picked up Reed he can’t be anybody but Chella Man. Chella is genderqueer and uses he/him pronouns, and is deaf, so I’d play Reed as all of that as well as autistic non-verbal to not erase the fc’s identity, but! All of that has me really jazzed about Reed if I ever get around to playing him.
5. Penny Wiggins from The Rescuers (my fc: Vajèn van den Bosch)
Another teen? Yes! Getting involved with the RAS? Also yes. Getting to use this adorable Dutch actress as an fc that I’ve wanted to forever? Hells yes. I might change her last name to something Dutch just because, but. Either way, I have SO many ideas for Penny, but again, my list is honestly so long w ow.
6. Marlin from Finding Nemo (my fc: Gong Yoo)
I’ll level with y’all here - I basically just really want to play a Gong Yoo fc. That’s it. And I apparently have a thing for playing dads because Marlin would be my third dad in this rp w o w. Anyway! I love Gong Yoo and if I don’t use his as Marlin I may use him for Zeus or Thomas O’Malley, or Lord Milori if I can come up with a good story. But! Marlin’s in my head right now pret-ty darn loud and I have so many possible ideas to pitch for Nemo and asdfgjkl; basically, someone plot a Marlin and Nemo storyline with me and lets go ham
7. Queen Clarion (my fc: Maggie Q)
FC may be subject to change, but as of now Maggie Q is my Clarion 10/10. I just, wow, what a potentially badass character! The nicest badass ever ofc, but badass nonetheless. I just have. All the possible ideas, u g h
8. Aphrodite from Hercules (my fc: Elodie Yung)
Similar to Gong Yoo, Elodie Yung is just one of the great loves of my life and I’d love to use her as an fc. For Aphrodite, I have! This idea to make her a sorceress born to a sorcerer father and perhaps a xana mother. (Xana will be my magical creature task woohoo). Or just a plain sorceress, or something else magickal, we’ll see. But yes, I love Elodie Yung and will use her evnetually. Someday! Another character I have muse for that would be a good Elodie Yung fc is Colette, but Aphrodite is calling my naaaaame.
9. Marian May from Robin Hood (my fc: Jameela Jamil/Hannah Simone)
I’m in between the two fcs, but! They’re both so great!
10. Evangeline Starr (my fc: Marina Diamandis)
Okay but a fallen star just running around all wheeeeee I’m human and granting wishes? Uhum, YES PLEASE.
11. Vidia (my fc: Anitta)
Just give me Anitta as a badass fairy who runs around ridic proud of being fairy, and
There’s honestly so many more characters but!
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