#im guessing they did it so that the fringe team would have access to all the fancy science stuff

[antoine-triplett]

I’ll always be just a little bit bitter that William Bell left Massive Dynamic to Walter and not Nina. 

[maggotmouth]

          hillo sexthy legends !!   i’m nora and i’ll be writing margo colby n probs sm1 else bcos lets be real, i lack self-control. u can find her pinterest here n some info abt her sexy self below the cut. plot with me on discord ( hot girl midsommar#8664 ) or in my ims !!  x o x

     * CAMILA MORRONE, CIS WOMAN + SHE / HER  | you know MARGO COLBY, right? they’re TWENTY-THREE, and they’ve lived in irving for, like, ELEVEN YEARS? well, their spotify wrapped says they listened to SCRAWNY BY WALLOWS  like, a million times this year, which makes sense ‘cause they’ve got that whole BLEACH WHITE SNEAKERS POUNDING ON A GYMNASIUM FLOOR, USING THE SAME BLUNT SCISSORS TO HACK THE SLEEVES OFF AN EXES T-SHIRT THAT YOU USE TO CUT YOUR 3AM FRINGE, A WALNUT-SHAPED ACHE IN THE PIT OF YOUR STOMACH FOR THE PERSON YOU COULD HAVE BEEN thing going on. i just checked and their birthday is AUGUST 8TH, so they’re a LEO, which is unsurprising, all things considered. ( nora, 25, gmt, she/her )

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bullet point summary of margo.

—   born margaret but NOBODY calls her that. its colby, coach or margo, and go to the privileged few. margo grew up in the creek commune n then dropped out of school cos of a teenage pregnancy so she was a bit of a cautionary tale back in’t’day (said tht in my yorkshire accent). she now works for summer camps coaching pee wee soccer and pee wee cheer, as well as helping out her beekeeper dad on his honey farm, which is jst north of abernathy creek, and working at scuba on the off seasons.

—  its just her and her dad, and has been for as long as she can recall !! everything she knows about her mum could fit on the back of the weathered passport photo she keeps in her wallet of a stranger who shares her face - her name’s melody, or at least tht was name she used when working as a dancer, she’s from argentina and dropped mag’s dad as soon as someone w more money came along.

—  margo’s father is a beekeeper with his own organic honey company. margo and her dad moved to irving in the early 00s, the summer between grade school and middle school, because her dad had heard about the communal living in abernathy creek and wanted to lend his skills there and live off the fatta the land in a very lenny from of mice and men kinda way.

—  for a few years of middle school margo was bullied for living with the ‘freaks from the creek’, but when they realised how chill her dad was with underage drinking, margo ‘keg-bringer’ colby soon gained popularity among the more renegade students. every so often, the high school parties would happen at her end of town, occasionally with members of the commune even offering the high schoolers a spiritual experience they’d never forget (often in the form of mushrooms) which meant people tried to stay on her good side. to get an invite to a margo colby party handed you a free pass to make up the most ridiculous shit about the commune you liked and nobody else could say anything, because they’d never been to the creek.

—  at school, margo had a lot of ‘behvioural issues’ bcos of undiagnosed adhd, she found it difficult to sit still for hours n write down huge chunks of information n her restlessness was seen as laziness. she was encouraged to do sports, as were most of the kids who weren’t that academically inclined, but she turned out to be pretty hot shit at sprinting, because she grew up surrounded by bee houses and he who runs slowest gets stung, baybeyy!! so yea, in school sports became her LIFE. she was gonna get a sports scholarship to college but ended up dropping out of school in senior year n becoming one of those kids who could have had it all but lost it.

—  she had sex with sutter at a house party when she wasnt really ready because it felt like the right thing to do at the time and everybody else was doing it. she’d attended health class, she’d seen the corny videos. she knew about all the statistics, but she also knew that it had never happened to anyone she knew and the pull out method was basically safer than the morning after pill and way less expensive.

—  a teenage pregnancy knocked her out of the runnings for prom queen and meant she had to leave school early. she didn’t go to college when her friends did, instead she spent the time interviewing potential foster candidates and eating her weight in lindt chocolate while marathoning love island in her room.  

—  she had a son, who she passed off to someone else a couple of towns away.  it was a closed adoption which seemed like the best idea at the time, but she now wishes she had access to his life.

—  after peaking in high school and jumping between jobs for a few years, she got a more permanent role at scuba which she loves with all of her heart and soul, but unfortunately a bar job doesn’t pay the rent.  

—  she works at summer camps coaching  junior soccer and netball on the side. she’s extremely competitive and takes it very personally if her team lose. the kids all call her, coach colby n write her longwinded letters about how they’ll never forget this summer camp before they go back to their suburban picket fence houses n she keeps all the letters in a drawer n takes them out to read when she’s feelin depressed.

—  enjoys surfing and worked for a number of years on resorts like mila kunis’ job in forgetting sarah marshall. she went on to work 18-hour days as a stewardess on luxury yachts which is a part of her backstory i added after watching season one of below deck because i guess i really am that fucking impressionable. met most of her surf friends doing tht but said she’d never in her life do it again bcos it was mostly just picking up after rich white ppl for shit pay. she came back to irving n thats when she started doing the summer camp jobs so she could move out of the creek n get her own apartment. 

—  she never actually finished senior year so she’s currently going to night school at the community college to get through her exams and is trying to save to go to college or open university. she wants to major in criminology. she’s super ambitious but also super adhd so she fluctuates between thinking she can achieve anything to just feeling like a failure n thinkin whats the point

—  used to shoplift to feel joy and as an act of resistance to her hippy commune routes, but now sees herself as a reformed, bin-diving freegan (sims 4 eco living can i get a hell yaaaa). also she thinks it’s totally wrong to steal when you have enough money and clearly don’t need to steal to survive, ppl risk imprisonment for basic necessities, so for her to do it for a brief thrill and some new shades felt a bit derogatory

—  was raised jewish. became a vegetarian as a child because it seemed, at the time, easier than having to explain which foods she was and wasn’t allowed to eat together, so she just cut out meat entirely. still a vegetarian now and dabbles in veganism, although its become less about not eating certain meats in the milk of their mother and more about her global impact / carbon footprint

—  nurses little animals to health in her garden. has a hedgehog name OJ short for orange juice not the other one filthy pig. her and her dad have always been huge animal rights activists and existed on a vegetarian diet. the only one in their house who isn’t vegetarian is their cat, auggie. (short 4 augustus gloop)

—  has a lot of stupid ass stick and poke tattoos. there was a phase during her years as a barmaid where she wanted to train as a tattoo artist n would mostly practice on herself or any friends who would let her

—  she doesn’t form many long lasting friendships cos she tends to be super excited when she makes a new friend and just see them all the time but then it wears off and she can ghost a bit. she’ll always coming pinging back but she’s not the most predictable or loyal friend, sometimes she’ll sleep in your house every night for a week and then you won’t even get a text from her for a month. her best friends are elderly neighbours and houseless people she meets when volunteering at the foodbank. she thinks they’re more authentic than most of the ‘fake posers’ she meets down the vela pier

—  calls herself a butch lesbian but still has sex with men when she wants validation. sexually attracted to some men, especially effeminate men, but only romantically attracted to women. very possessive of the gals in her life.

—  stopped giving a shit about getting older or adhering to anyone elses bullshit standards, realised it was all fake p much as soon as she dropped out of school and one by one her friends just stopped texting her

—  lives in one of the lofts in port apartments. it’s open plan with rugs and lava lamps everywhere. she has a palette bed. its all very ‘sustainable chic’. like, oh wow, a pallet bed that im supposed to think you made from scratch but i KNOW you got it  off ebay because you thought it looked trendy

—  constantly says shes poor but still buys clothes from urban outfitters. sus.

—  frequently found at fannies flirting with the cute bisexual bartender with a choppy black bob.

general vibe / personality

vibrant, vulgar, self-absorbed, tenacious, veers bewteen apathetic and dogmatic, temperamental, flighty, unreliable, magnetic, charismatic, passive aggressive, likes to play devil’s advocate, takes the moral high ground. estp and a leo

likes:��70s music, john wayne movies, black mirror, philosophy, cowboy chic culture, dc comics, the smell of locker rooms,, deep red lipstick, lacrosse sticks, smoking weed from a bong, dogs, karaoke, pet rats, kate moss, late-night strolls, hawaaiian shirts worn open over a bralette, skinned knees, thai food, picking the apples at the very top of the trees, zip-lining, cigarettes, the idea of pegging but not the practical application of it, decorative lamps, LGBTQ+ pin badges, worn-out furniture, twangy electric guitars.

dislikes: girls who call other girls ‘pick me’ girls, woody allen movies, mental mathematics, wealthy children, quentin tarantino, ironing, institutionalised misogyny, the imaginary future, french literature, ‘dump him’ feminism, wes anderson films, spoken word poetry nights, college-educated bar staff who act like they’re better than you,  indie softbois, the general mentality of cheerleading squads.

aesthetics

orange peel, the smell of bleach, skeleton drawings in the margins of a journal, thumb holes poked through the cuffs of your sleeves, bleach white sneakers pounding on a gymnasium floor, setting dumpsters on fire for the hell of it. a hit flask of vodka decorated with hello kitty stickers, split knuckles, alien conspiracy theories and sci-fi paperbacks, doc martens with fraying laces, a child in an oversize bee keepers suit, scabbed knees, not eating your greens, smiling with a mouthful of blood, and piercing your own ears with a safety pin when your dad wouldn’t take you,  a tennis racket you punched through in a fit of temper, feet pounding the earth until your soles bleed crimson, sleeping in a cherry lip balm and scrunchies to keep the wild locks from your eyes.

hoo boy this is getting LONG AS FUCK but here are my wanted plots

wanted plots

ok margo’s been in irving since she was like 10. she’s quite a vivacious person?? she dresses completely instinctively without any sense of cohesion so she stands out. a guy once told her she was wearing the ugliest outfit he’d ever seen and he thought that was so cool and brave of her. but anyway where was i going.. she grew up in the abernathy creek so stuck out like a sore thumb,,,, maybe ppl who were super interested in the creek or maybe poked fun at her bcos of it idk.....

b4 she dropped out, margo used 2 b in with the cool kids at school bcos her dad would buy them booze and rarely ask for the money. maybe a fun plot cld b with some of the ‘it girls’ she used to hang around with b4 she got pregnant n dropped out and they all went off to college n stopped texting her.

frinds !! unlikely friends !! toxic friends !! some1 she feels like she knew before irving ???

since margo literally can’t differentiate between romantic and platonic love, she’s got off with so many of her mates, so i want awkward friendships where they nearly dated, or exes that have now just turned into weird friendships. fwbs. enemies with benefits. all the angst. all the slow burn mutual pining we hate each other narratives

locals who play sports. margo wld be all over community soccer n take it way too seriously. maybe ppl she plays hockey with. girls who she’s like, weirdly intimate with but its not a thing cos the other girls straight !!! what do u mean !! aha just fun !

she works part time at scuba. i want a mate that just goes and sits in there talking to her until her manager gets angry.

she's also a surf instructor and occasionally works as a lifeguard!! gal has like 7 jobs ik but regular swimmers hmu

ppl she coaches at the gym !! she wants to be a personal trainer

i reckon she might have recently started meditating to try and calm down her mind cos its always bustling with thoughts, n i think she’s p interested in buddhism so if anyone’s a buddhist hmu

someone she’s trying to make a zine with on female empowerment and women in film and art, etc. just a very feminist zine. 

TLDR:  angry sports gay, former high school track prodigy turned drop out, who likes feminist literature, wearing leather jackets over slip dresses, and smudged red lipstick.

this was so long !!! im sorry !! if you’ve read this far have a biscuit, love x

[isaacathom]

i like to think if codename seren had a sequel, like bw2, thered be a series of changes. which i wanna explore because setting these up would improve the original, even if the sequel never existed, if that makes sense.

though i suppose the issue is, where would you start from? the east? would be kinda neat. then, having Bronwyn be a grass gym makes sense - she would be a natural first gym for the player. but im gonna keep referring to them in the order of the ‘original’, so bronwyn is 8.

gym 1 is no longer run by the Lady, and is instead run by one of her former students (one of the orphans specifically, since she DOES teach other kids). its probably still normal type.

gym 3, which is Will, has likely been completely removed and relocated. im thinking out east. as such, naturally, Will is not present as its gym leader - it would be a local. as for WHERE east, i think it depends how many towns are added - the theory is that after the org falls, the barriers to truly improving the east’s standards of living are gone and a bunch of towns pop up. so, one of those. thatd be fun.

gym 5, the original gym leader has been removed and is nowhere to be seen (you can hear of him though, mostly from locals talking about how much better the new guy is). the new guy is someone from that northwestern town with the mayor (that 5 sends you to before you can fight him), and probably has a different type. not sure what, exactly. yknow what would be fun? dragon. just cause i dont have one, anywhere. ice could be nice, if one of the e4 isnt ice. or ground. idk.

gym 6, which is Sonya, is now way better. for a start, she has an actual gym building (the original gym building was made into like, housing? like a shelter. she ran her gym out of the old gym leaders house, next door). and the town itself is way better, having started to properly rebuild. shes still very much her town first, but now that shes set up safeguards she can devote more time to her gym. the way this manifests is that you can actually challenge her straight out rather than having to do something for her, lmao.

gym 7 is also way better. 7 is still there and running it, but the difference is that he is properly supported. the town is starting to thrive a little more, now that 7 has more resources to use to help them. yay!

and then gym 8 is bronwyn and the town is this case is also positively booming. its now a City, and is the proper eastern hub, rather than just the ‘defacto’. not as big as melbourne, of course, but its thriving on increased accessibility. this also manifests as there being an easier route through the mountains, connecting east and west far easier. im thinking trains. whose down for trains? i am. the old routes are still there or you can just get the train. and you cant take the old routes at the start because you dont have rock smash and strength n shit. there’d be goodies in those routes for you when you come back for them.

as for elite 4, Rhia is firmly entrenched as a member, and maybe she’s moved up a spot or two, but she is NOT the champion. not because she couldnt be, but because she devotes her spare time to running the Urica police. she’s also possibly a member of the international police :3c nice.

there would also be SOME variables. think how if you used that uh... dream radar? thing from bw2 that synced your stuff from bw1 (mostly your name but on a bigger scale), some stuff would be different. like, for instance, if [Sam] was org, theyyy could be found helping people out east. if they were team, you could find them in their home town, having been released a little while ago and having not quite progressed since then. you can walk into their room and chat to them. if they were neither, its probably the same, except with different dialogue and maybe an item, idk. though i also like the idea of Sam taking that Team idea to the extreme and being a part of whatever villain rears its head.

uh, Zeke, id have to figure out his fucking routes to tell you, but my guess is he’s either travelling all around, acting sorta like Elliot, or he’s doing something specific. idk.

Elliot would be retired and living at his home back in the old hometown. the main difference would be minor dialogue changes.

i suppose this all hinges on how far in the future it is. like, if its a ways, there’s the possibility that other e4 members may have retired. the Champion is still there, because shes probably closer to Cynthia than Diantha in terms of age, so she can keep trucking. some of the others mightve lft, but that depends on WHO they are. and in that instance, who would replace them? OOH, maybe thats where Will comes in! Will could upgrade, sorta like how Koga did from kanto to johto. so after Rhia has settled, another elite 4 announces their intention to retire, and the Champio starts asking around. a lot of the current gym leaders are very mcuh supporting their localities, but Will isn’t as phased. he offers to become e4, and he tries to find a successor. he doesnt, theres a LONG discussion, and eventually his gym is relocated from ‘Geelong’ to the east, to bolster its growth. where his gym used to be is probably replaced with some sort of, lets say art gallery. i know Will is a cartographer (of course ID know that, hes my character!) but something LIKE that. something to do with the study of the region and the world. culture, i guess. so you could probably still meet him, in the building where his gym used to be. he’d meet you at the front and would offer to give you a tour. there’d probably be a story segment here anyway and he’d be really fucking peeved about it. again???? AGAIN???? fuck. he’d be livid. my guess is this time the evil team is motivated by the information he has, especially regarding the legendaries that supposedly inhabit the fringes of the region. nice.

oh yea, fucking variables! the tourists! the tourists either appear or they dont. youd basically just be able to meet them in the city, all grown up and adults. they’d chat to you about how lovely this region is, have a bit of a laugh, ask if you’ve seen [your player from the first game], and when you say no (because your player from the last game isnt present) they’d be sorta sad, give you an item for your troubles, and then thats it. thats all they have. and thats only if you befriended them. if you pissed them off, they would not be present. nice going, jackass.

idk. itd be fun. moving wills gym probably makes the pacing a /little/ smoother but thats not really possible in the original region layout. but with boosted east, you can shove it in. nice. and Will being e4 is nice. idk who would leave though. maybe the foreigner? the idea was maybe the ice specialist was a foreigner, from a region with some actual fucking snow (also a sequel would include snow, like, some high mountains w snow and shit. maybe it’d take place in winter just to contrast. hmmmmMMMM. nice. i like that too) so maybe they’ve returned home. yea, probably. we’ll see who is who in the e4 anyway. i still wanna be there. i could be the elec gym leader. which means, from game 1 to game 2, the only change to ME is that my design would update to reflect that i’m different, lmao. that’d be fun. sorta like Elesa except with 0 narrative justification.