The World of Shannon Hale discussion

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Name:
Age:
Gender:
Speech(s): (Please be reasonable)
Appearance:
Personality:
Origins:
History:
Other: (anything not mentioned above)

Okay so do you want to be the male or female recruiter? I'm fine with either of them.

Um, well I'm usually the boy, and I really dont' mind being a boy again, but if you want to shake things up we can do that too.
I think I'm going to make myself a renegade, on the run people speaker as well if that's ok.

So, we both start with the main recruiters and maybe one or two unstable characters each?

Yeah all of that sounds good :) And I'm happy to take the girl since you're used to (and good at) playing the boy.

lol, alright :) I'm not sure if I should take that as a compliment or not. Somehow I'm always the one that ends up being the boy :P
Ok, so I'll try to a charrie either now or later on today :)

Name: Cleo Jacobs

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Speech(s): Fire

Appearance: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly0... Lighter brown hair, somewhat narrow face, medium brown eyes, slender, about 5' 6" or 5' 7", moves with grace, hair length lands a couple inches above the bottom of her ribcage

Personality: Cleo is an observer. She watches first and then acts, and that has been her main method of survival. She, however, is a good leader, and can make quick decisions when needed. She is reasonable with her trust, but sometimes she ends up trusting a person faster than she meant to. She isn't very uptight and can definitely let go in order to forget about what is stressful. However, she stays focused on a goal until it is reached or well in her reach before she relaxes.

Origins: She is from the country that they are in but her brown eyes show her descent from some Bayern people at some point. She has traveled some inside the country but she has yet to cross the border into other lands.

History: Cleo grew up in a smaller town quite a distance away from the capital, so she hadn't been until she ended up with the special missions group. Around age 10, she slowly started discovering her fire speaking but her balanced parents didn't notice the skill until she was about 14. They were both water and wind speakers, so they knew next to nothing of fire speech and did not know how to balance her or ease her growing desire to burn. She eventually ended up on her own in the mountains not far from her town, burning more and more each time. Just when the burning was starting to take over her, she was found. (and then if we decide on the Lee teaching her thing. Or if someone else teaches her.)

Other: She was chosen as a recruiter along with Lee by the military leaders because of their opposite speeches and skills with their original speech.

Okay, does this sound okay? now we just have to fill in a few blanks.

Name: Lee

Age: 20 (Or should they both be a bit older?)

Gender: Male

Speechs: Water (can I take wind too?)

Appearance: Short crop sandy blond hair, sea green eyes, short and stocky, very strong and well built, not what you would call handsome but he looks good enough.

Personality: Sees everything black and white. there's good and there's bad. There's what needs to be done, because the king said so, so that's the right thing to do, no matter the cost. Everything has to be perfect in his job. Sometimes he does let his guard down and relaxes, but he's usually dead serious when it comes to doing the king's orders. He puts himself fully into his work and doesn't even consider having his own life outside of work. Completely devoted.

Origins: Other country place which we really should
find a name for. His parents were poor and threw him out at the age of seven when he started showing signs of being unbalanced early because his water speech is very very very strong.

History: Not sure yet, but I think the king rescued him, or one of his men did. He was unbalanced and abandoned by his family when he was found and the king's people are the ones who figured out how to balance him by accident and took him in because they were grateful for him for helping them find out about unbalanceness. I think also that he grew up in the castle as the prince's playmate or something, so he has a personal connection to the royal family as well. He is very grateful for what the king did for him, which is what makes him so devoted, up till the point of not using his own judgment. He would willingly give his life for the kingdom and king.

Other: I feel like it was the prince's idea to start the recruiting special unit thing after spending time with Lee and that's why Lee was chosen to be in charge of it. I think they're both very close, but Lee always remembers that he is in the presence of the prince. I think this is also the prince's first big project, so it's really important to him that this secret unit succeeds because he wants to prove to his father he is a good ruler or something.

Hmm yeah maybe we should make them like 20 and 21. But yeah I still think they can have good experience as young as they are. Okay for the speeches, should they both have wind as a balancing speech? Because I don't think tree really makes sense to balance either, and if it just balances people speech, then do they even know about tree speech? Especially since it's not an aggressive speech and they don't take the time to learn about people speech.

Or I would be willing to have fire and water (water to balance) if you wanted water and wind and then maybe Lee even was the one to balance Cleo with water...? Just an idea.

I think the water makes sense. Maybe Lee found Cleo one day when he was out and he taught her the speech and also brought her to the prince when the prince decided he wanted to make the speaker group.
We really need to find a name for the prince. I think he will be quite a main character, but both of us should RP him, not only one. Unless you think one of us should take him?

Okay sounds good with the water. Then they can have sort of a history :) And yeah, I think we can both rp him. Maybe... Prince... I don't know, I'm really rusty on the old royal sounding names haha.

edward? We seem to be going for non fantasy names anyway. Or james? Christopher?

So, now we need some other rebels. Do they all live together in some sort of refugee camp (with some scattered around, of course) or all they all scattered?

Mmmm Maybe Christopher. Or James.... Haha oh gosh. Okay, so by rebels, do you mean the people speakers in refuge? Or the crazy unbalanced people outcasted from society?

Oh, I meant the crazy unbalanced people. I think the people speakers just aren't acknowledged- no one knows they even exist.
But do the unbalanced people all live together in refugee camps or not?

K, so Christopher?

Sounds good for the people speakers. As for the crazy people... Do you think they would still form groups together? Maybe there's an old mill or an old estate with outbuildings or something that they have often ended up living in. And then it's sort of a refugee camp but kind of not. Would something like that be good?
And yeah, Christopher sounds good.

I feel like there would be a few main bases in overrun mills and such, but a lot of people are also scattered and dead. How long does it take to go completely off balanced and die?

Hmmm.... Probably a while. Because you can be completely insane before necessarily being driven to die. Plus, we need people to be pretty crazy before we recruit them, but not at extreme risk of dying off. Hmm, but I'm not sure. What do you think?

But can they organize themselves in a group? How do they live?

Yeah I kind of thought about that. Well, I think it's human tendency to at least gather with other humans, even if they don't actually live as a group. And I imagine that instinct would keep them alive until their speech takes over that too, but I imagine that would be like right before they end up dying. Or they have like waves of slightly less craziness occasionally and during those waves, they can care for themselves and everything. And the waves just get less and less? What do you think?

The waves is a really good idea. We should definitely go with that. Ok, so is there a leader of their group. he/she can be someone who can be against Lee and Cleo.
ooooh, idea. What if that person really isn't unbalanced/has people speech and is trying to use the poor, unbalanced people to take over the kingdom and fight everyone, because they are in an easily manipulated position?

Ooooo that's a good idea! And if a person is going crazy with people speech, they can still sway a crowd and basically function normally, more or less. And the whole fighting with unbalanced people is somewhat unrealistic for that leader to want to do BUT the people speech could make them feel like they can control everyone and get anyone to do their bidding for them.

Does people speech have anything to do with balance? As in, can it balance another speech? And did we say if they were aware that people speech existed or not?

Hm... I don't know, isn't people speech just related with tree speech? So I don't know if tree speech or people speech can really balance another speech. But I think it's possible for tree to balance other nature speeches maybe because reflecting on yourself through the tree probably helps you control your first speech.
And then, they probably don't know what people speech is. They might just see it as an inclination towards skilled speaking or something, but not really realize it's a speech.

I think it's cooler if they aren't aware it's a speech :)
Ok, so what other characters do we need? Will the people speaker person be like the prince or should one of us take him? (where's Klyme when you need her?? lol)
What other characters do we want? How many unbalanced people should we each make?

Okay sounds good for the people speech.
Hahaha oh my gosh, yeah. Klyme! But I think the people speaker should be a separate random person from out in the villages or whatever so then he/she could be like against the prince, sort of. And then I imagine the prince would be a relatively absent character since I'm imagining a lot of the rping taking place out while recruiting people, while training, or while fighting possibly, and the prince probably will just be like a distant guiding force in those situations. And then maybe we should start with just like one or two unbalanced people and see if we need more people from there. Does that sound good?

Sounds great :) I was imagining more castle with prince scenes, but what you say makes more sense. Maybe we can start with them at the castle, starting up and getting instructions and stuff, and move to recruiting from there? Or would you rather start straight in the middle of things?

OKAY SO I AM JUST GONNA POP IN AND BE ALL LIKE HIIIIIII!!! SIA and MISSY gonna rock the RPing! Woot! Wassup guys? I've been insanely busy lately! This sounds like an awesome RP actually. Me likey.

HEYYYY!!!!!!!
We all have, don't worry ;)
So you gonna join????? Please join!!!!!

No, that sounds good. Because it would be good to have some castle scenes to establish the basis of everything and then go out into "the field" I guess haha.
And yay Hannah!! Maybe another person to RP with us....?

Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease????

Hehe. I do miss these RPS. Talk about the good old days. I won't be super frequent but sure I'll totally do the RP! <33

Yayyy! We aren't really keeping up with this super frequently anyway. So, I'm guessing you read what we're planning to do?

YAY! This makes me very happy :)

Missy wrote: "Yayyy! We aren't really keeping up with this super frequently anyway. So, I'm guessing you read what we're planning to do?"

Um well I may have skimmed so not completely. Lol.

Ok, to sum up (and Missy please feel free to correct me when I get it wrong) the RP will take place in a country where everyone has a Speech ((wait, idea, what if the people speaker one only has people speech, and she thinks she doesn't have any speech whatsoever and tries to pretend she does so that no one finds out?)). The thing is, they don't understand the concept of Unbalanced, because most people have two Speeches. The few that only have one are considered crazy and are outcasted.
Then along came a wonderful prince (I think) named Christopher who found a boy with one speech and found that teaching him another speech balanced him. He also discovered that said boy (Lee) was very very good at his original speech, because he had only ever practiced it. Then Lee found Cleo and taught her a second speech so that she also balanced out. The prince decided to make a group of unbalanced people who he balanced to be a sort of 'special unit' group, because they were all so good at their original speech.
So basically the story is of Lee and Cleo going on a recruiting mission and maybe doing some other missions.
Also, there is a girl who has started gathering up the rebels around her because she has people speech. In that time (I'm starting to think it makes sense if this RP was like the early history of the world), no one knew what people speech was, so they didn't realize what she was doing to them. She is trying to get the rebels to go against the prince and stuff, and is naturally against Cleo and Lee.


Did I miss anything?

No I think that sounds good. I don't remember though, was the special missions group already a thing before the prince realized the unbalanced speakers were the best? I guess that wouldn't make sense if everyone was a speaker though, so what you said sounds good.
As for the people speaker, I think it's fair that they could have faked their way through not knowing a speech. After all, if you were balanced from the very beginning, you wouldn't necessarily be that strong with either speech so I think you could fake it if you didn't know a speech. And maybe the people speaker could have like one friend that helps them out with faking this? Not sure if you want to add that but that't a thought.

I feel that the people speaker would be very independent. Maybe less of a friend, more of someone who she convinced to help her using people speech.

Yes, that would also make a lot of sense. I don't know if we explicitly need that person, but if someone questioned the people speaker's ability, should we have the people speaker use someone to prove otherwise? Or just say the people speaker talked themselves out of it because after all, a people speaker is very convincing, especially to those who don't even know people speaking exists. So do you want them to use people or be on their own? Either way would be fine with me.

I think we shall have to wait and see according to the scenario?
Hannah, wanna take the people speaker person?

Ooo. Okay. Okay. So to recap what I just heard...it's before the time of BAYERN, when speech is still new and more common? Maybe there's even a group of people that don't like the speech and so they separate themselves, and like don't use it, possible eventually losing the craft which will in time bring about more non-speakers until we get to Bayern time? I know that information won't really do much for the story but I need at explanation or my brain will burst. Lol.

Anyway, I like the plot. Sounds interesting. So this speaker(villain perse) DOES know about the people speech and is willfully using it to band up some rebels against the prince? Or she doesn't know what it is.... I think it's her that I'm most confused about. And this other one..like a sidekick kinda thing?

If no one's being her, then sure! Who's playing Leo/Christopher/Cleo?

WAIT. I see the charrie forms. Lol. DUH. Okay. I'll start thinking about this villainous people speaker. This should be FUN.

Okay yay! Yeah, maybe the people speaker has an idea of it but may or may not actually consider it a "speech." So I guess you can decide how they think of it. And the people speaker doesn't need a sidekick, I was just saying that maybe the people speaker has conned someone into helping him/her prove general speaking abilities? But it's probably not necessary.
As for that explanation, something like that sounds good. Maybe the trait sort of fades away with time for some and maybe some families/groups of people decide to exercise restraint with their speeches and so over generations, the speeches would eventually be gone. I mean maybe you could even argue that everyone still has the ability for a speech but it is so far gone and lost and forgotten and it can no longer be accessed. That's not really important to the plot, but yeah, speaking can fade so eventually there are non-speakers. :) I understand that inconsistency.

I think the people speaker just thinks she doesn't have any speech, and knows she's good at convincing people, or just uses it without realizing what it really is...

Okay. I can do that with her.