#now leaving the chocolate factory [ooc]

[okashi-candyman]

Update

// Alrighty, friends. I’m still on hiatus, but here’s an update on what’s been going on with me:

So the last post I made about this was about how we were going to be warning my boyfriend’s parents about us moving out in December. That happened, but resulted in a huge fight with my boyfriend’s mom (who is honestly the worst person I have ever met oh my god) where she basically screamed at us about how moving out was “immature” or something. She literally started screaming and making shit up (like how apparently it was going to cost us 2-3 thousand a month to live in an apartment. um...this is fucking iowa? an expensive apartment is like 1000 a month. also, we’d be splitting it 50/50 so that’s still even more wrong?) and so to shut her up we basically said ‘okay never mind, we won’t move out.’

But we’re doing it anyway. In secret. We’re going to be moving out the first weekend in December and going to an apartment, where we’ll live with two of our friends (which was ALWAYS our plan, his mom just didn’t like it), and our expenses will be really low. I’m hoping that after that point, I’ll be able to be a little more active on here again. No guarantees or anything, but I’m going to try.

I do also have a full-time job now. I got it recently, despite the pandemic and my boyfriend’s mom basically wanting us to wait to get jobs until AFTER our loans are already coming due (which is a bad idea, by the way). So I work week-days 7-3:30 and sometimes 9-1 on weekends. My point is that if I do find myself able to come back to rping in/after December, I will be pretty limited thanks to my job.

This has been an incredibly stressful and trying time for me, and I am really hoping to get back into doing the things I enjoy again.

I hope you’re all doing well. Thanks for reading this.

[alternislatronemhq]

Congrats, Niamh, you have been accepted to AL for the role of Ted Tonks (FC: Richard Madden). Ahh, I am so excited that we got both Ted and Andromeda, and played by such excellent writers! Ted is in such a hard place of having to choose between fighting for what he believes in and protecting his family, and I’m excited to see the way that you play that out as things begin to heat up again. Ted’s backstory is just truly heartbreaking and yet it’s so beautiful the way his relationship with Andromeda and Dora grounds him. I’m so excited to have you here! Please send in your blog (no sideblogs for first characters, please) in the next 24 hours and be sure to take a look at our new player checklist.Welcome home, we’re so excited to have you join the family!

OOC

name — niamh age — 18 pronouns — she/her timezone — gmt+1 activity level — i’m on lockdown atm with no major commitments until uni starts so i can be a solid 9/10 ! i’m always lurking and i tend to do replies as they come or when the dash is a bit more active

IC Overview

name — Edward ‘Ted’ Tonks age — 31, born 8th September 1955 gender — cis male sexuality — heterosexual

patronus — golden retriever

boggart — it used to be his mother, cold and alone without anyone, but it’s now changed to the lifeless forms of his wife and child

IC In Depth

personality traits —

STEADFAST : as an eastender, ted grew up keeping his friends close and everyone else at as far a distance as he could. there was a sort of code of honour around the council estates, and you stuck by your own, stayed wary of anyone who would have cause to harm you, and look after those who needed it. it was probably his easy loyalty that sorted him into hufflepuff, and it’s given freely and fiercely to those who prove they’re worthy of it.

ALTRUISTIC : as well as his loyalty, ted’s friendship and care were easy to come by for those who earned it. he likes to feel the upstairs rooms of his pub have become a bit of a home for waifs and strays. while he decided not to join the order himself, that doesn’t mean he won’t help out where he can, offering members the rooms to sleep in, hold meetings if needed, and he’s more than willing to help patch up wounds after hours if needed. he knows that it could be dangerous for his family, but as long as he keeps it quiet and discreet, he wants to offer help wherever he can, the consequences be damned.

BOISTEROUS : ted’s mum has always called him a ‘man’s man’, and while he doesn’t exactly like the sound of that, he’s known enough of them to know what she means. he’s loud, he’s always up for a laugh, but he can be quick to anger and slow to soothe when he wants to be, and that rowdiness can often be mistaken for immaturity, rather than the well meaning gregarious nature he tries to give off. while he knows more often than not he does come off that way, friendly and open and lively, it can also be seen as cockiness or overconfidence, and he’s not always the best at toning it down.

INSECURE : a muggleborn, born to a family barely surviving on the breadline, with a past that included a tendency for violence and petty crime. despite ted’s overwhelming sense of goodness, he believes that, some days, the badness and inferior background will one day catch up with him, and his life will fall down around his ears. in his mind, ted isn’t deserving of the life he has. sometimes, he feels like he isn’t enough for his wife, and never was, and that one day, especially now that narcissa is back in her life, andromeda will truly see what she’s been missing out on and leave him, realising that he’s just a nobody with a poor family with nothing to offer her or their daughter. and what will he be then? he knows the answer: a man with no place in the war and no place back in the muggle world with no place to go.

character biography — 

edward tonks took his first breath as the last of the summer winds blew through london. michael and maggie tonks wrapped their son in the only good blanket in the house, and a mere four hours after his birth, while he was sound asleep in a bedside drawer turned crib, the new parents were fixing the same leaking tap they were before their son decided to make an appearance. living in the east end of london meant that there were too many people, too many mouths to feed, but not enough money and not enough jobs. the tonks’s twenty year old council house was crumbling down around them, and ted’s parents job at the local biscuit factory meant that they were the lucky ones, and they seemed to be the only people in peckham who managed to hold down a steady job and keep their dingy dwellings.

ted was never at home much. one of his parents would work during the day while the other slept and this would swap during the night, so his time was much better spent outside. it’s not that his parents didn’t want him milling around the house, but rather that wherever ted decided to roam was never a quiet place for long. indeed it seemed that ted had the whole of london in the palm of his hand, and he intended to roam every alleyway and slip road, even if it was just to ensure his mum and dad got some rest.

ted was a good kid, truly he was. he was polite, and he never brought any trouble to his front doorstep, and he held open doors for people and helped anyone who needed it. yet despite this, his quasi-nomadic tendencies often offered a less than savoury pathway, and once ted took one wrong turn down it, it seemed he couldn’t get off it. he quickly turned to petty crime, yet he was never sure if it was out of necessity or boredom. he would pinch food from local shops at first, but then it turned to toys, sheets, soap and other things he could slip into one of his dad’s old jackets. he’d then trek the long walk to portobello road once a week to flog his wares. (the extra couple of pounds he made a week were stored in an old wine bottle his grandma had gifted them one christmas, and when it was filled it was left for his parents.) it was at the age of nine he witnessed his first fight, and he ran home soon afterwards. the image of the boys he looked up to, the misguided idols of his youth, bloodied and bruised scared him stiff, and the faint wail of police sirens was the final push to send him running. it dawned on him, under the scant safety of his rough duvet, that this was the way his life would go. he would loiter and steal his way through his teenage years, and if he was lucky, he’d spend adulthood behind bars instead of six feet under. the realisation lay heavy on his shoulders, and the first time he ever prayed the same way his mum did every night, he wished and wished for a way out, for some miracle to come to him to save him from the backstreets. this miracle came two weeks before his eleventh birthday, in the form of a tall man with a grey beard sitting on his couch, sipping cheap tea from a chipped mug and eating the good biscuits with the chocolate on that his mum saved for when the priest came round.

he hadn’t even batted an eyelid, and then ted found himself sat on the hogwarts express, in the first new uniform he had been bought since he was eight, fitting almost perfectly, but there was still some room for him to grow into his jumper. tears sprang into his eyes when he saw the castle, his new beginning, and he was quickly sorted into hufflepuff. within a few weeks, he had proudly garnered a reputation as being loud, happy-go-lucky, and in one rare slip up from one professor, ballsy. a small part of him knew it was too good to be true, but ted drowned it out with potions, gobstones, and pumpkin juice. that was, until, his third year, when his perfect illusion was shattered beyond compare. he was called out of his astrology lesson and was asked to make his way up to dumbledore’s office. when he got there, he found dumbledore, mcgonagall and his head of house, a mixture of pity and hurt present on their faces. when dumbledore stepped aside to reveal his parish priest, rosary beads in hand, dressed in black, he fell to the floor, tears streaming down his face, a scream caught in his throat. his father had been killed in an explosion at the factory, dumbledore explained, caused by faulty, cheap wires. his tears had just about dried when he got to his mother; the portkey from hogwarts didn’t reach his house quick enough in his opinion. for the first time in forever, ted was silent. he felt like a chunk of his heart had been wrenched from his chest, but he still couldn’t find an excuse for the feeling that something was wrong and that somebody wasn’t telling him something.

he returned to hogwarts sixth months later, and there was no denying that ted just wasn’t ted anymore. he didn’t want his grief to change him, and he let on that everything was fine, but his laughs were forced and the twinkle of amusement seldom lit up his blue eyes anymore. he was barely going through the motions, and his whole life was a dull cycle of eat, sleep, pretend, repeat. life got easier for ted. his grief, as grief does, faded from a sharp pain to a dull ache, and eventually, the light returned to his eyes and his days became a lot easier to get through, and meeting the love of his life helped him too, and his thoughts were then consumed with life after school, bringing andromeda home to meet his mum, maybe putting a ring on her finger one day.

he bought his pub when he was 20. an old friend of his dad’s had been selling it, right on the corner of diagon alley ( not that they knew that ) and ted had jumped at taking over as landlord, extending the back so half of the pub served exclusively muggles and the other half, heavily guarded by magic, served wizards and witches and wix. it’s funny, how he feels embarrassed about it still, at 31, feeling he should have a more noble profession to provide for his family, but he’s all but cut his shifts, leaving it in the capable hands of his staff, and it makes a steady income, enough and more for the three of them. still,  he thinks that sometimes his mum wished he had become a plumber or had some sort magical office job, but ted supposed he was never one for convention.

it wasn’t until his 25th birthday that his mother told him the truth. his mother, looking the strongest she had in months, relayed the events, her voice detached and unwavering, and as soon as the word mudblood left her lips, ted punched a hole in the kitchen wall. there was a war brewing, and the urge to fight had never been stronger in him, but he had a wife, a mother, a baby girl. if he was eighteen, he’d have his wand at the ready and blood already on his hands, but he wasn’t, and so he bit his tongue and clenched his fists and did what he had to do to keep his family safe. now that it seems voldemort is on the rise again, he doesn’t know if it’s going to be easier or harder to do the same again.

plot ideas —

i think it would be cool to explore ted’s restlessness about the war, especially with the person who’ll play andromeda, and how that paired with narcissa coming back into her life could place strain on their relationship! i’d also looooove to see how narcissa & lucius and ted get along when they’re forced to share space. alsohis dynamic with the order, how much he sympathises and wants to join and yet distance himself at the same time, i think that would be really interesting

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[cartoonfan7]

Has anyone thought of these yet?

Camp Camp by Rooster Teeth has become a haven for AU crafting, but as far as I know, no one’s thought of certain ones that I honestly thought would happen be now. Or maybe someone has thought of them already and I just never came across them for some reason. Regardless, I will list my fleeting AU ideas and leave up to the rest of you to figure out the full basics. Anyone can use the following….. 

 Portal AU: This one seems so particularly obvious, to the point I’m not sure I’m *seemingly* the only one who thought it up. I don’t particularly have any ideas for an AU like this outside of CC characters as Portal characters. My current roster is Max as Chell, Daniel as GLaDOS, Mr. Honeynuts as the Companion Cube, Jasper as Wheatley, Cameron Campbell as Cave Johnson, David as Caroline, Space Kid as The Space Core,  Nikki as The Adventure Core, and Neil as The Fact Sphere.  It’s slightly weird that technically David turns into Daniel in this AU, but I wasn’t too sure of just having OOC David for most of the AU. I did figure that David would be perfect singing “Still Alive”, “Want You Gone”, “GLaDOS’s cut song”, and “You Wouldn’t Know”. I could use some help figuring out the rest of the roster I still need to fill Doug Rattmann, The Morality Core, The Curiosity Core,  The Cake Recipe Core, The Anger Core, The Announcer, The Turrets, The Defective Turrets, Atlas & P-Body, and Greg.  Any help figuring these guys out would be tremendous.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory AU:   The same kind of AU as above only expanded and I actually have a few ideas for this one: It’s meant to combine elements from the original book with it’s two cinematic adaptations (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory). Campbell Inc. has become one of, if not, the richest companies on the planet, effectively on the levels of Megacorporations, but strangely enough, it seems primarily known and famous for what would, under other circumstances, be considered kids stuff, like toys and candy. But everyone agrees that, somehow, someway, they are top of the line, the best of the best. The head of the company even gains more publicity when he took in several kids from less than stellar backgrounds and adopted them, including Davey and Jasper. But the Campbell Inc. seems to be falling into hard times as the world rolled into the 21st century. Rumors began abounding about the illicit and downright illegal activities of CEO, Cameron Campbell, including unconfirmed allegations of abuse, exploitation, and even one of his kids dying horrifically in an industrial accident in Campbell’s combined primary factory/mansion/theme park. On top of that, competitors who wished to discover Campbell’s money making secrets in all things sent spies into Campbell’s factories around the globe and managed to make a few sizable discoveries before Campbell was forced to lay off a majority of this workforce and try to rebuild the company from the ground up. Campbell himself became a recluse and gave control of the company to one of his adopted kids after some of the previously rumored illicit and illegal activity was confirmed, many speculating that Campbell did this to have a scapegoat to deal with this mess while he went into hiding. For a good few years, Campbell Inc. began to loose money, both by the diminished workforce and by the fact that Campbell went into so many directions in the past that the successor had no idea how to continue. (The successor was a recluse as well who did everything humanly possible to remain anonymous to the world until the main factory/mansion/theme park tour, but to answer the question of the people reading this, yes, the successor is David.) That all changed one night when the main factory and several others around the world started up and began production again despite no one ever leaving or entering the factory in the years before, the night of “reopening”, and in the few years after until the Golden Sparrow contest. Afterward, the company seemingly starts again from scratch, selling the best goddamn candy and toys the world has ever known, allegedly because the successor wanted to return the company to it’s roots (but it’s also partially because David’s a kid at heart and wanted to go back to that). A few years after the mysterious successor inherits the factory, a contest begins that almost ends the world with it’s hype: multiple Golden Sparrows are sent out, promising that the people who show up with one will get a free tour of the refurbished factory, as well as a small portion of the company’s stock (which in and of itself promises for thousands, if not millions of dollars in annual income) and a lifetime supply of any products produced by the company, including food, candy, toys, makeup, certain brands of clothes the company owns, etc. Some rumors even went out about a secret prize, although until the weekend tour of the factory, no one can confirm or deny the rumor. And here enters Max, a young, jaded boy who lives a very shitty, poverty stricken home life (that I unfortunately can’t fully describe since we don’t know what Max’s parents are like [all we know now is that they’re kind of shitty] and there’s a possibility that we’ll see the campers’ parents in the season 2 finale, so if that’s true, I don’t want to potentially date this post with speculation, needless to say that Max’s home life sucks in this AU). Max seems unable to fully grasp the hype about the Golden Sparrow contest at first since “his generation” wasn’t around when Campbell Inc. pretty much ruled the world, although many experts note that they’re getting back up there again and might ACTUALLY rule the world this time now that Campbell’s is being run by a new person who seems to have learned from his predecessors mistakes. Max partially blames Campbell Inc. for why the world he lives in is so shitty, since he understands, in basic economics, what’s liable to happen when a workforce a large as Cameron’s is laid off almost all at once without being replaced by other people. But Max eventually starts giving into the hype as more Golden Sparrows are found and he realizes that the contests prizes could get him out of his shitty life and into a much better one (whether he’ll take the rest of his family with him is anyone’s guess, but I’d say it’s very unlikely). Like Charlie before him, it takes 3 tries to get a Golden Sparrow (should I include the forged one, I don’t know who I’d attribute to in this AU, maybe the Quartermaster, but I feel like he should be somewhere in the factory, should he be the forger or the baseline for the Oompa Loompas, or should I just go the book route about the OLs only being described as little people and seemingly not clones of each other, given how similar individual Oompa Loompas look to each other in the movies?) and, noticing that the Sparrows allow bringing plus two, Max decides to bring a local woman he’s kinda friends with with him (my original plan was for this to be Bonquisha, but I noticed that I haven’t made a place for Gwen in this AU, I don’t know, maybe Gwen is one of Campbell’s adopted kids and she makes friends with David, or maybe Max brings both Gwen and Bonquisha together as his plus ones because Max doesn’t like Bonquisha’s boyfriend. Note: David doesn’t get with Bonquisha in this AU, but they do surprisingly make good friends.) All of the other Campers in the main series, including the Woodscouts and the Flower Scouts, win the contest and bring their parents (except the woodscouts and the flower scouts who go as their respective trios, well, I guess the Woodscouts would try to use the free tour as an excuse to infiltrate the factory to steal secret formulas for their popcorn sales, I could even see them stacking Jermy onto Petrol to do the whole kids in trenchcoat=adult shtick so they can have more hands to steal things with or they could fill the role of a character that was actually cut from the book, Miranda Mary Piker .) The Flower Scouts would, collectively (I guess), fulfill the archetype of  Veruca Salt, all of them being highly successful spoiled brats who feel very entitled, possibly playing into Tabii withtwoIs’s hardcore crush on Neil, who would probably be Mike Teevee, including elements of his 2005 Film character. Ered would fulfill the archetype of  Violet Beauregarde, a cool, somewhat competition freak who likes being cool and winning. I’m not sure about any other Campbell Campers filling the roles of the other “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” kids, but I guess that the factory could have things that could appeal to their vices as well, hell, there are chapters that got cut out of the original book, like Spotty Powder, The Vanilla Fudge Room, The Warming Candy Room, and The Children’s-Delight Room (Info taken from Wikipedia and Lost in Adaptation.) Daniel will be in this AU as Arthur Slugworth, although he’s more like how Slugworth was in the book, actually a corporate rival to Campbell as apposed to secretly being in league with David. Max actually starts internally freaking out at how similar David and Daniel are in appearance (especially after the freaky-ass tunnel scene, which is in this AU, David visually turns into Daniel while reciting the “There’s no earthly way of knowing” poem, Max is kind of traumatized and tries bringing it up again later and gets exasperated with everyone pretending like it didn’t happen, eventually he just gives up trying to rationalize it), but eventually concedes that he actually kind of likes David. Other Camp Camp characters will appear, like the town residents, Jasper (who was the factory’s OG dead kid), the cop (Sal,I think, from the first episode), the federal agents, I guess Jen could appear, but I wouldn’t know how to insert her in, the forest squirrels as the Nut Checking Squirrels, the campers and counselors David went to Camp with could appear too, probably in flashbacks.

Because I’m personally kind of hyped for the new movie, I kind of want there to be a Stephen King’s It AU. I don’t know how exactly It would work, but the internet will find a way.

[okashi-candyman]

// Right, so I know I’m on hiatus, but if people could check this out and reblog this post, it would mean a lot to me. My store is mostly nerdy and lgbt+ content.

[okashi-candyman]

Update

// howdy howdy, y’all

So I haven’t been as active on here or @kaz-sunspot as I had hoped I would be. Things have been really stressful recently. I’m a recent college grad with no current job, living with my boyfriend’s parents (and paying for that), and unable to even look for a job right now because his parents are old and high risk for the virus so we don’t want to put them at risk.

So now we maybe have a different plan that involves moving in December (it’d be sooner but his parents will insist that he’s home during Christmas). But also that’s gonna be a hassle because we have to warn his parents about us leaving and they’re not going to like it and there’s going to be a lot of screaming and such. And then there’s going to be months of still living with them where we are planning to leave. 

Anyway, my point is I’m stressed and busy dealing with all this shit and so my activity is going to be incredibly sporadic if present at all. And I’m thinking it might be more like none at all for at least a while. Sorry about this, guys. I really would expect to have more time for this right now, but instead I’m just stressed.

[okashi-candyman]

// week has been busy. hopefully i’ll get to replies tomorrow

[okashi-candyman]

// announcement, I guess?

I think I need to go on hiatus for a little while.

sorry to anyone who actually wanted to rp with me, but im just...tired of getting excited about things that other people aren’t interested in doing. I don’t want people to rp with me if they don’t want to, but it still kinda stings when it feels like my partners aren’t actually interested in our threads. Like no one really cares about my characters and they’re just rping with me to appease me. It messes with my head and then I question everything and I don’t end up enjoying what I’m writing either.

anyway, that’s where I’m at right now. I’ll probably sleep on it and make a decision tomorrow, but at the moment taking a break seems to be the most likely outcome.

[okashi-candyman]

// Hey, sorry for my inactivity recently! Finals are next week and I’m super busy with studying and final projects, so I will be basically silent until at least Thursday next week. But I should be back after that!

[okashi-candyman]

// Hey! So I’m back (sorta). My activity is still going to be pretty low, and I’m going to be dropping all current rp’s and starting fresh (sorry about that).

[okashi-candyman]

// I love being force to sit in a chair while a man insults my bones

[okashi-candyman]

// Oh my god, I’ll be active again someday, friends. Promise.

[okashi-candyman]

// so I know I have replies to do on both my blogs, but I just got back from the fair a little bit ago and I’m kinda burnt out and lazy right now. I’ll write things up tomorrow, and if anyone wants to they can like or reblog this post for a starter!!

[okashi-candyman]

// i’m so sorry for being slow. school is kicking my ass and when i get free time i just want to sit around or sleep =.=

[okashi-candyman]

//oh god wait could you imagine okashi coughing up metallic flowers tho???

i know that’s not usually how hanahaki works but fuuuuuuuuck

[okashi-candyman]

//haha I totally forgot how I intended to play this muse and have not been doing it the way I originally wanted. I’m so sorry if Okashi seems really inconsistent right now, please bear with me. I’m still trying to figure out how to write him. 

[okashi-candyman]

//expect very low to no activity today and tomorrow. I’m hanging out with family  today and tomorrow is my birthday, so I’ll be busy.