Hello!

[protagonized]

Hi there! I'm Emily and I am brand new to undergrounds. I'm bringing in Simon O'Neill, an original character. He's a Redbright Institute-aligned shapeshifter and is kind of a neurotic wreck most of the time. He's also not totally zen with his transformation, so he views the magical world with confusion and some suspicion. That needs to be changed! Or reinforced, depending on your character's alignment. Also, he's totally not okay with other shapeshifters so I would love him to meet some.

Simon is a student at University College London and lives in a tiny, cramped flat near its main campus in Bloomsbury. He's also a part-time barista at Starbucks in Covent Garden, so he can do a lot of interactions that way as well.

Anyway...hi! I'm super excited to be here. :3 I can be reached via PM or on Plurk at colotheory.

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[knightscode]

Hey, welcome! My name is Jack and I play Lancelot here, who happens to both love dogs and own one -- so if you wanted an awkward doggy friendship he might be good for that. He's also normally pretty much as zen as they come, so you know. There's that too!

Lancelot is a meta-human and an ally in Circle Daybreak, as well as a part of the Night Council team! He's a Guardian there which is basically like Supernatural Police kinda thing. He's also a normal policeman by day c:

I also play Gilbert Norrell, hurtfew, who is a witch in Circle Daybreak who is the opposite of zen and thinks London would be better if he was in charge of everything and things he didn't like were banned. I look forward to seeing Simon around!

[protagonized]

Ooh, Lancelot. And Mr. Norrell! So happy. Love both canons that they're from. 8D

An awkward doggy friendship sounds great. Simon needs more friends, period, so it will be good to have one.

And pff, Norrell. Simon might actually begrudgingly get along with the guy. He's a scientist who tends to like things when they're a bit more logical and more tightly regimented.

[constantprisoner]

Hello, I'm Megan and I play Sirius Black here, who is also a shapeshifter and totally cool with it so he can help.

I look forward to playing with you.

[protagonized]

Sirius! Hello, older doggy.

I'd love to plot with you sometime, if you've got the time this month.

[stauncherhearted]

Hey Emily! I'm Shea, great to meet you and welcome to Undergrounds!

I play Nancy from Oliver Twist. She's basically the nicest person in the world. She's also a circle midnight witch, raised by fae, and currently works as a prostitute. SO.

We should do some sort of threads.

[protagonized]

Yay Nancy! They definitely need to thread. I think Simon might find her a bit overwhelming. He was very sheltered. XD

Maybe she can come to Starbucks?

[stauncherhearted]

hellz yesssss. oh yeah and she also lets vampires drink her blood for a fee. So overwhelming is a good way of putting it.

Heck yeah. She knows Convent Gardens well, and probably has been in a few times before they close, fully decked out for work.

[wolfmarked]

Hi Emily! We've already met IC and OOC. But!

I'm Lynn. And it's wonderful to see Simon in the game. I'm looking forward to seeing him around.

[protagonized]

Most excellent. Let's do it.

[protagonized]

Simon and Skip need to meet up again. She can ask why he never called.

[wolfmarked]

They really do. She'll tease him mercilessly.

[stauncherhearted]

faaabulous

[constantprisoner]

Absolutely! I'm a little busy this weekend, but should be able to find the time to get the ball rolling at least. I'm urbaninja if you want to add me there.

[protagonized]

Great! Friend request sent.

[protagonized]

As well she should.

[hurtfew]

I AM SO GLAD YOU LIKE BOTH THESE CANONS.

Norrell really fits the setting, particularly! And they're a lovely contrast, with Lancelot being easygoing and friendly about everything while Norrell DISLIKES everything.

As long as Simon agrees with him on everything he might be acceptable 8| NORRELL ENJOYS YES-MEN agree with him that fae are bad and everything should be controlled and possibly licensed and limited and he will tolerate Simon's presence. He's terribly prickly but you know, people grow on him with enough exposure!

Lancelot is way easier, of course. He'll probably have less going on this month ICly (since Norrell has his territory claim) aside from a little investigating for Sylvia (flush out the Midnight witches!! FIND OUT ABOUT THEM!!) so it'd be easy to have him run into Simon some time, either with or without his dog c: (he has a fluffy white Samoyed, Simon could befriend her -- team white dogs.)

[protagonized]

Team white dogs! Yeah!

Simon won't be a strict yes-man, but he's like "dude this is weird why aren't we studying the scientific basis for all this magic." So it somewhat works.

[reticence]

Hello and welcome! My name is Teresa and I play John Childermass (knowstheworld) from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and a character here by the name of Faolan from a book series called The Bridei Chronicles by Juliet Marillier. In the process of modernizing him, I gave him the surname O'Neill -- O'Neill's represent!!!

Childermass is a Circle Daybreak witch and basically Norrell's go-to for just about everything, begrudgingly. Faolan is a regular old human hunter in the Hillingdon clan, as well as a Night Council Guardian -- supernatural police essentially! Faolan would be sort of like the bad cop, he's the one who's good at spying, doing the dirty work, following the orders no one else wants, etc. But he has a secret squishy center, once people dig through the armor.

TL;DR THOSE ARE MY CHARACTERS welcome to undergrounds, I look forward to playing with you/seeing you around! :)

[protagonized]

O'Neill pride! Maybe they can be long-lost sort-of relatives, since Simon was adopted.

[reticence]

APOLOGIES FOR THE DELAY HERE the work week is killer for me

but perhaps they can be yes! faolan's family is actually canonically supposed to be super big and far-reaching, and sort of an off-branch of the same family as the high king of tara in ireland??? BUT here in game, his whole immediate family is dead and beyond that he doesn't know

BUT THEY TOTALLY COULD BE THOUGH want a grumpy irish hunter somewhere in your family tree simon hahaha