#NPHC

[divineninelover]

Hi! I was wondering how many events would be an appropriate number to attend before expressing interest?

--Uncle Rashid

[themultifacetedmusee]

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102 years of greater service, greater progres

[marvalouslynerdish]

[4evahaka]

As far back as the 1970s, students involved in #BlackGreekLife at The #OhioStateUniversity were advocating for some kind of a gathering space for programing and special events, said Rayonna Booth, a member of Zeta Phi Beta who was instrumental in planning the project. Dr. James L. Moore III, the vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the university, said "Today, we dig deep to mark the beginning of the #NPHC Plaza, a new campus icon sure to take its place alongside the great landmarks of The #OhioState University like #OhioStadium, the Oval and Hale Hall.” Added Moore: “This plaza will represent a wonderful tribute to the ongoing vitality and influence of “The #DivineNine” on Buckeye student life. We hope, in the very near future, that a renovated and expanded Hale Hall will follow, and it surely will complement the new #NPHCPlaza." 🖤💛💕💚❤️👌🏽💜💛❤️🔺💙💙🕊️💙💛🏹🏹 #ΑΦΑ #ΚΑΨ #ΩΨΦ #ΦΒΣ #ΙΦΘ #ΑΚΑ #ΔΣΘ #ΖΦΒ #ΣΓΡ #APhiA1906 #KAPsi1911 #OPPF1911#PBS1914 #IPT1963 #AKA1908 #DST1913 #ZPhiB1920 #SGRho1922 https://www.instagram.com/p/CoYZXYVrvwj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[malcolmrei]

Posted @withregram • @kapsi1911 What a special day for the ladies of @officialzeta1920 #foundersday #nphc #unity @howard1867 👌🏾 #DivineNine #AlphaPhiAlphaFraternity #AlphaKappaAlphaSorority #KappaAlphaPsiFraternity #καψ #φνπ #OmegaPsiPhiFraternity #DeltaSigmaThetaSorority #PhiBetaSigmaFraternity #ZetaPhiBetaSorority #SigmaGammaRhoSorority #IotaPhiThetaFraternity #achievement : : : Malcolm from #Breuckelen @compass 😉🏠🤎 License Associate #RealEstate #Broker🗽#Buying #Selling #Leasing#Investing #USMCVet #PrattGrad #KappaMan Τελειωοις (at Howard University) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnev1H-OlqN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[phillysoulfes]

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[ivorypiano]

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[adivamedicinewoman]

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[divineninelover]

if i went to rush and am no longer considering submitting an application, do I need to let the member know? Or should I just proceed as normal? 

--Uncle Rashid

[candlecove-weaintdeadyet]

Random-ass Laughingstock crew headcanons because why tf not

Will I do this for the other main crews? Who knows. Not me.

hc's under the cut because this thing is LONG

Percy

Around 12 years old. Before Janice showed up, he was the baby of the crew. That is to say, he was less 'hired' and more 'adopted'.

Has a simultaneous crippling fear of and intense fascination with fire. Like on the one hand if a fire were to get out of control, he'd immediately start panicking, but if it is controlled (a campfire, contained inside a lantern, etc) he'll just stare into it until someone actively gets his attention. He's been caught multiple times trying to touch burning candles or dropping various substances into campfires to see the colors change.

Borderline-obsessed with ghost stories, fairy tales, and silly, badly-written adventure novels. He'll do whatever he can to get his hands on a new book and sometimes tries writing his own short stories.

On that note, despite his anxiety, he LOVES things that are typically considered 'creepy'. He'll sit and listen when one of the others is telling a scary story, almost entranced. Also, he thinks spiders are cute.

His coat was stolen from an Imperial Navy soldier, specifically one working for the NPHC branch. He wears it like a badge of honor, even if it is a bit too big for him.

Mimics some of Poppy's mannerisms (getting people's attention/figuring out where they are by calling their name at the top of his lungs, picking Janice up and spinning her around when he's happy/excited, things like that).

Owns a small box full of wanted posters for more famous pirates that he admires. He has a bit of a celebrity crush on Milo for a while.

Janice

Older than she's stated to be on the Wiki. Like 10-11 when she gets Isekai'd.

Kind of a weird kid. She's REALLY into horror, urban legends, and 'creepy' things (much like Percy), and enjoys poking around in abandoned buildings-usually with a camera in hand. Tends to drag Melrose into her antics.

Turns into a battle junkie the longer she stays in Candle Cove. Like, she has to be physically held back from charging into a fight unarmed. She's eventually given a sword.

Ends up working with Nathan and Edward (OC, master-at-arms) a lot. Nathan may or may not have contributed to her battle junkie gremlin tendencies.

Diehard Rolling Stones fan. She decided to teach Percy a few of their songs at one point and quickly regretted it upon having to hear an awful sea-shanty rendition of 'Paint it Black'.

Didn't spend much time with her dad prior to getting Isekai'd, since he threw himself into his job to avoid thinking about the whole dead wife thing.

Poppy

Used to be in a relationship with Horace. It was a mess and he wants to forget it happened. Dr. Heartfelt is his rebound and their relationship is significantly less toxic.

Always wanted to have children, but was more enamored of the idea of being a father. Man's in WAY over his head.

Makes insane bets when gambling. He once bet a member of his own crew in a game of Lanterloo.

VERY physical in how he shows affection. He'll pick people up and twirl them around (something Percy started doing as well), his idea of a friendly greeting is a hard clap on the shoulder, any romantic partner of his will very quickly get used to having their entire face peppered with kisses, things like that. He has very nearly cracked people's ribs by hugging them too hard.

Has a very bad habit of assuming that if he has good intentions (like trying to protect his loved ones), then that justifies anything he does in the name of said good intentions, no matter how horrific. It's how he was able to justify flaying Thade/Skin-Taker alive-he convinced himself that since his actions were spurred on by Thade being dangerous, then that meant what he was doing was good. And besides, the punishment fits the crime in this case, doesn't it?

Doesn't understand Percy's love of adventure novels in the least. He can't for the life of him figure out why (in his mind) such a smart, mature boy would be so invested in what he sees as nothing more than bedtime stories for much smaller children. Percy's given up on trying to explain it to him.

Dr. Heartfelt

Given name is Alois. That said, most people don't actually call him by his real given name-most of the crew just calls him 'Dr. Heartfelt', Sea-Dog gave him the nickname 'Herr Doktor' (which Milo later started using), and Poppy calls him 'Al' or 'Allie'. Percy will sometimes call him by his real name, but more often defaults to 'Dr. Heartfelt' or, in moments of extreme stress, 'Vati' (an older German equivalent to 'Dad' or 'Daddy')

Used to work as a medic for his home country's military. He does NOT like talking about it.

His soft, sunshiny demeanor is about 50-60% his genuine personality and 40-50% a coping mechanism/stress response. He doesn't usually display 'negative' emotions around others, preferring to wait until he can cry or vent his anger/anxiety/etc. in private.

Gives extremely good hugs. Being a ragdoll (which means he's incredibly soft) very much contributes to that.

Around Poppy's age-so mid-late 30's-but looks more like he's pushing 50.

Taught Percy German (or rather, the in-setting equivalent thereof). He will sometimes call him 'kindchen' (dear child/sweetheart) when comforting him.

I know the wiki says that when he does fight he uses like. Needles. But I thought it'd be fun if he primarily uses a rapier in combat. It's basically a bigass needle with a hilt. Close enough. Where'd he get it? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't know so he doesn't remember.

Sea-Dog

Has a nickname for basically every single one of his crewmates, including Poppy. Of note are 'Sugar Cookie' (Janice), 'Guppy' (Percy), 'Ms. L' (Laughingstock), 'Bossman' (Poppy), Herr Doktor (Dr. Heartfelt), and 'Casanova' (Milo). The others tend to start using these nicknames for each other after a while.

100% sounds like Keith David.

MASSIVE alcoholic, often seen carrying or drinking from a hip flask.

Can be distracted by things that ordinary, non-sapient dogs would be, such as throwing a stick. Or salt pork. This is used against him by Horace and co. on at least a few occasions.

Along with not believing in sea stories, he's also agnostic, being of the opinion that there probably aren't any gods out there, but if there are they have a sick sense of humor.

Tends to rest his head on other people's legs when tired or stressed.

Smol. As in, he only stands at 3 feet tall. He also weighs like 5 pounds and HAS gotten flung around due to high wind/choppy waters. Poor guy has straight-up had to tie himself to the rigging in order to keep working during storms for fear of ending up overboard.

Banana King

Comes up with some creative, often incredibly wordy insults/profane statements, Karkat Vantas-style. I can imagine him saying something to the effect of 'what in the wet bag of horse shit to the face am I looking at here'. Yes I stole that from 'Karkat Sings Opera', fight me.

Doesn't just hate bananas as a food item. He genuinely can't be anywhere near them after his death, and even the smell of banana is enough to make him lose it. One of the others once saw him huddled in the hold muttering about banana peels and teeth.

Owns a female African Grey parrot named Guava. Guava is somehow more crass than her owner. Guava is also represented by a little hand puppet and sounds like Gilbert Gottfried.

Gets along well with Milo. Like, scarily well. They pretty much share a brain cell.

Can be invisible like any other ghost, but you can still tell he's there by the smell of cigar smoke and-you guessed it!-banana flowers.

Calvery

Some flavor of Eastern European (again, in-universe equivalent). I can't put my finger on why, but his name just sounds really aggressively Slavic.

Pretty much EXCLUSIVELY targets Horace during skirmishes/run-ins. He would wring that man's neck given half a chance.

Actually has a soft spot for children (directly contradicting the Wiki ik ik), but is veeeeeerrry twitchy about Janice working with Nathan and Edward specifically. He'll occasionally make comments about how one of these days the poor girl's going to get herself killed.

Drinking buddies with Sea-Dog.

Milo

He's had many faces and gone by many names over the years (a reference to the SEBTAW weirdness with his hair color and his abundance of conflicting fanon designs). This effect is usually achieved with the power of facial accessories, makeup, and Ye Olde Hair Dye (that is to say, henna and squid ink). His most recent persona before he joined the Laughingstock crew was the first time he'd used his real name since childhood.

Once got ahold of a hurdy-gurdy and actually learned how to play it.

Actually, I hc him as musically talented in general, and having a singing voice that sounds a lot like Aurelio Voltaire, aka this guy:

Basically he kinda has DnD bard vibes.

Treats Danny (his dragon) about the way you'd treat a cat. He coaxes the little guy out of enclosed spaces with treats and goes 'pspspspspspspsps' to get his attention and baby-talks at him, all that fun stuff. He used to play with him with a homemade feather-on-a-string toy until Danny got too excited and set it on fire.

He's lost track of how many times he's been arrested/imprisoned. Putting him in Tartar Prison was a desperate last resort. You may ask, 'why not just have him executed?' but he has to be kept SOMEWHERE before his death. He once managed an escape minutes before being hanged, which he counts as his greatest achievement that he doesn't think he'll ever be able to pull off a second time.

Massive liar. He will just make shit up to make himself look more impressive if he thinks it'll get people to pay attention to him.

Plays five finger fillet when he's bored, and is sometimes seen with bandaged fingers as a result.

Occasionally seen smoking what look like cigarillos.

Nathan

Significantly older than his Wiki counterpart, at around 16-17 years old. Obviously doesn't have the feelings for Janice that his canon self has, but does enjoy her company (he likes that someone looks up to him, it makes him feel special).

Idolizes Schott Weiss (Percy's father). Percy doesn't exactly know how to feel about that.

Grew up on the Firelight Islands (Burnt Wicks equivalent of the Candle Islands) as the son of a dockworker. He's never properly explained how he ended up working for a pirate crew, but has alluded to the fact that it involved a hostage situation and a changing of hands by way of being auctioned off in Goldshore (a location in the Burnt Wicks version of the Cutlass Islands). He jokes that he was taken in because Poppy and Anne (the previous captain) took pity on him.

Bites as a fight-or-flight response in combat.

Mixed-race, with one parent being effectively white British and the other one being the equivalent of Southeast Asian

Salty Jojo

Real name is Joseph Blaine. Not that anyone knows that. He was 'Salty Jojo' for 30 years before meeting the Laughingstock crew and he will be remembered as 'Salty Jojo' when he dies.

Often pulls the 'when I was your age' card, including on the adults (which he can feasibly do because he's old as hell). He did it to Poppy once, leading to the first time any of them had seen the man at a loss for words.

He's just...so used to weird shit happening at this point. His reaction to seeing the Skin-Taker for the first time is mild surprise, and during an encounter with Gorger/ManBearPig, he responds to it roaring in his face with a casual 'Sorry, what was that? I don't speak feral."

Idk I haven't got much on this guy, sadly.

Ms. Laughingstock

I do not CARE that the Wiki retconned her to be male, that boat is a woman. This is the only character I'm willing to misgender.

Possessed by the spirit of the former captain, Anne Davies.

Has a voice that sounds like Angela Lansbury around the 1980's-90's. My specific point of reference is Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd

Just as stubborn as Poppy, leading to the two often arguing over what course of action to take.

Doesn't speak through a face on the prow, but rather a figurehead. Yes this directly contradicts both the Wiki AND the original creepypasta, but I didn't know how to make it work from a structural standpoint.

Had a habit of hiring people on who are at their lowest-the running joke among the crew is that she pitied them. It's not clear if that's really the case, but it is a pattern she's displayed. This trait carried over to Poppy, leading to the crew including a traumatized "orphan", a preteen Isekai protagonist, a child hostage, a literal ghost, a military deserter, and Milo.

Jesus Christ that's a lotta words.

[candle-cove-character-requests]

Hi yes yes hello do you got any general headcanons for starson I need content of him he's so underrated raaaaa

Starson General Headcannons

Yesss my dude!! Love the star pirate

I personally headcannon him as an abyssian who can use light magic!

He/It pronouns

Knew and was close to Bloody Kimothy before joining the Jolly Hounds crew. The two had a previous streak of honestly kind of wacky crimes together and he seems to be the only one to understand Kimothy's gibberish (which is actually just abyssal tongue).

Looks really put together and, for a lack of better term, pretty for a pirate. Cares quite a bit about it's appearance.

Grew more and more dissatisfied about how Milo was as captain and was the most vocal about it. Muttered once or twice about a mutiny to Kimothy even.

Was the youngest of the Jolly Hounds crew, which is strange since most abyssians are quite old.

I personally think it'd work better if Starson was the navigator for the Jolly Hounds instead of Roger Rogerson given his whole star motif.

When he first saw the sun and stars (since there are none in the abyssal kingdom) it absolutely fell in love and sought out to learn everything he could about them (Starson might be the name he gave himself not a real one).

Writes sappy poetry which the crew would poke fun of him for.

Sings quite well! Would sing for the crew time to time.

I headcannon all abyssians resemble sea life to varying degrees and by extension that includes Starson who's head is in the shape of a starfish (another reason it fell so in love with the stars, it's like they were made for him).

Was the last to be killed by Milo as he used light magic to make illusions and trick him and was also the hardest to physically kill being an abyssian.

It's expression is stationary but his overdramatic way of speaking makes up for it.

He and Blackchin had a fling while on the crew but nothing serious.

Never cared much about the treasure, mostly enjoyed traveling freely and doing as it pleased. Though it would take interest if something twinkled enough.

When the crew would raid NPHC ships Starson would often leave the crew while they actually worked to over take the ship to go look for any star charts or maps in the captains cabin. This isn't the only case of it neglecting his duties in turn for his own interests and Milo would threaten him often because of it.

A little arrogant and cocky, and on a different page from its crew, but would always pull through for them when push came to shove.

[4evahaka]

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[malcolmrei]

#HFD2023 💚💗 Posted @withregram • @kapsi1911 Taking a moment to celebrate the ladies of @akasorority1908 #foundersday #nphc #unity @howard1867 👌🏾 #DivineNine #AlphaPhiAlphaFraternity #AlphaKappaAlphaSorority #KappaAlphaPsiFraternity #καψ #φνπ #OmegaPsiPhiFraternity #DeltaSigmaThetaSorority #PhiBetaSigmaFraternity #ZetaPhiBetaSorority #SigmaGammaRhoSorority #IotaPhiThetaFraternity #achievement : : : Malcolm from #Breuckelen @compass 😉🏠🤎 License Associate #RealEstate #Broker🗽#Buying #Selling #Leasing#Investing #USMCVet #PrattGrad #KappaMan Τελειωοις (at Howard University) https://www.instagram.com/p/CncJ6K_un2J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[emerson-grimes-apologist]

Ya got any ocs?

I have a few, but they’re pretty underdeveloped. I still love them though <3

DR. SPENCER

Because some pirate crews don’t have ship doctors, and also because some procedures are just too complicated to perform on ships, there’s a clinic in the Cutlass Islands (or the Pirate Village as I call it in my interp). Dr. Spencer is the head surgeon there. Unlike Drs. Heartfelt and Mort, she was a pirate before she became a doctor (instead of the other way around), so she’s self-taught and kind of seems like a quack. Her methods are pretty nontraditional, but they always work. Personality-wise, she's casual to the point of coming across as unprofessional (which contributes to her "quack" image) and friendly towards everyone (almost uncomfortably so). Also, I may change her name. Spencer is just the first name I came up with and liked.

MARIN/“THE LADY OF THE LAKE”

A kind siren who lives in a saltwater lake in the middle of a small island. She loves gold coins and jewels and will help passing pirates if they give her some. How, you may ask? I'm not sure yet. Maybe she uses her siren mind powers for good somehow.

THE TARANTULA CREW’S COOK

The wiki mentions there being an unnamed cook in the Tarantula Crew, so I decided to develop them. Her name is Gwen and she’s a no-bullshit old Irish woman. I don’t have anything else interesting to say about her tbh, I’m not really that invested in her.

THAT GANG OF IDIOTS FROM THE NPHC

The gang is made up by a beefy guy, a skinny guy, and a short gal. I don’t have anything to say about them except that they’re idiots (or at least they act like idiots when they’re in a group). But they’re MY idiots.

JASPER

I have a fanfic idea that I will hopefully actually write someday about the Tarantula Crew wrecking their ship near this island, and on the island there's this cult made up of other wreck survivors and formed around this guy (Jasper) who is seemingly able to take away all of somebody's negative emotions. He initially comes across as caring and almost parental, but wouldn't hesitate to cut off cult members and stop using his powers on them (which is ESPECIALLY bad for them because they wouldn't have experienced sadness or anything in a long time, making the feelings stronger and more painful) if they threaten the cult's existence.