The Not-So Austen Bookclub discussion

NOTE: NO POSTS OR ROLEPLAY STARTING UNTIL THE 20th of JUNE. ANY QUESTIONS ARE TO BE MESSAGED TO BOOKNUT

Every YA villain imaginable has teamed up for the ultimate apocalypse - seeing as their separate schemes have never earned them any victories, they have come up with the ultimate plan, together, to end the world (and its heroes) once and for all.

But the heroes aren't going to give up just yet. Will good triumph over evil? Will Team Good be able to save the world in time? And what does each team have planned?!

These are the rules:

1.) When starting your roleplay please state:
- Your created name (Pick any name of any YA hero/villain you have read of and know well. You will have to choose one and no double ups PLEASE)
- What book/book series they are from
- Your team (Good/Evil. NO fence sitting!). Try to pick the one your character belongs to.

2.) Team Good must work together - each person must contribute to the downfall of evil. Only use abilities or skills belonging to the character you have chosen (For e.g. If you are Jace Lightwood, do not use the Killing Curse as he is NOT a wizard!!)

3.) Team Evil must work together - each person must contribute to the downfall of good. Only use abilities or skills belonging to the character you have chosen.

4.) NO stealing of the other team's ideas. (For e.g. If Team Good decide to raid the meeting place at the stroke of midnight, Team Evil can't suddenly say that 'Hey, we knew all about that'. Let the roleplay play out!)

5.) You cannot switch sides. Once you choose a team, you stick to it.

6.) I will post updates on who is in what team.

7.) NO character is invincible.

7.) THE CONFLICT ENDS AT EXACTLY on the 21st JUNE @ 9:00pm EST. SO WHOEVER MANAGES TO HAVE FOLLOWED THE RULES AND EITHER SAVE/DESTROY THE WORLD THE MOST will WIN!

(We need people on both Team Good and Team Evil so try and choose a variety of characters please!!)

Do the characters have to be specifically YA, or can it be a little more general?

Rachel wrote: "Do the characters have to be specifically YA, or can it be a little more general?"

It's all up to your interpretation - for e.g. I consider Lord of the Rings as YA because it can be read and enjoyed by young adults.

That's Awesome! I thought it was only limited to like paranormal romance stuff, but this is gonna be so fun :D

This is wonderful!
I choose Juliet from SHATTER ME on team GOOD!

I choose Skulduggery Pleasant from the Skulduggery Pleasant series on team GOOD

ROLEPLAY START!!

I choose Valkyrie Cain from Skulduggery Pleasant (TEAM GOOD)

Valkyrie Cain:

Normal teenagers get to spend their holidays doing normal stuff - shopping, watching television...procrastinating on schoolwork and eating plenty of chocolate to tide them over to the next term of school and endless boredom.

With me, there was no such luck normally - and this year, it got worse.

"What do you mean I can't sleep in?" I demanded of Skulduggery. I was on the phone, sitting upright in my bed amid a swirl of bedsheets whose warmth was more appealing than the sound of Skulduggery's voice.
"I thought the meaning was perfectly obvious," was Skulduggery's reply.

I sighed in exasperation. "You know what I meant."
"There's an emergency."
"No emergency is big enough that it disturbs my beauty sleep."
"Valkyrie you don't need beauty sleep."
I shrugged. "I know I'm gorgeous but a little R&R never hurt anyone."
"The world is ending."

I yawned, frowning as I did so. "Is it ending as in 'like all the other times it was supposedly going to be blown up by the disciples of the Faceless Ones' or is it ending as in 'war, fire, blood and guts'?"
"War, fire, blood, guts and a lot of swearing most likely."

I hopped out of my bed and began searching through my uni-coloured wardrobe (the colour in question = black). "Fine. I'll get up."
"Good. Because I'm outside your house as we speak."
"So you weren't going to give me a choice?" I said in disbelief.
"No. I was going to give you the choice of coming voluntarily or being dragged by your hair."

I hung up with a sigh. Skulduggery - he was so melodramatic for a guy who, for all his skeletal appearance, was sadly lacking a funny bone.

Skulduggery Pleasant:

" You're so melodramatic for a guy who, for all his skeletal appearance, is sadly lacking a funny bone."
Valkryie Cain , my partner or accomplice should I say said.
Trust Valkryie to be complaining when the world is going to end in about a day or so in war, fire, blood and guts, and of course a lot of swearing.

"Oh, did I tell you we're going to go over to a very special friend of mine who spent most of her time in an asylum and who could more or less likely be crazy, so please shut up or else my face will sag again "
Skulduggery explained.
Skulduggery as you will have learnt is a skeleton detective who is more or less a good guy. Being a skeleton people get creeped out so by the help of China Sorrows he has a fake face, though sometimes it tends to sag down to one end.
"Alright, alright, though tell me is he/ she really crazy," She asked.
" Nope, Juliet isn't crazy at all."

*Wanted to be bad so desperately, but I couldn't find anyone really interesting :(*

I choose Renn, of the Raven Clan (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness)She's god, so I am too :)

Juliet:
I was tapping my foot anxiously and staring the door to my hotel room. Skulduggery Pleasant and his parter Valkryie Cain were supposed to come any second now, and we were waiting for them. It must be nice, to have a person always by your side that way. I managed to get Adam and James in a safe place, so that they won't be involved in this war. It will be bigger than all of us.
- I wish he was here -
I looked over to my right and I saw Renn checking her bow again. She didn't talk much and that's fine with me. She seems to be a brooding type, and I think that her past must have something to do with that. I should know how much the past can affect us. I am having nightmares again.
- I wish she would talk -
It looked like I had been daydreaming for quite a while while staring blankly into space, when Renn poked me with her arrow and said, "We've got visitors."

Renn

I'm the type of girl that can be lost in thought, but can notice any change and be ready for it in a heartbeat.
Two figures walked through the door, they didn't seemed to have noticed us yet, and it seemed that Juliet was oblivious to their arrival. We were awaiting our friends, but as soon as I saw these strangers, I knew they they weren't allies of ours.
"We've got vistors." I whispered to Juliet, pulling her into the shadows and taking an arrow from my quiver and positioning it on the string of my bow.
I was fast, I had to be. I'm a hunter, one of the best in the Raven Clan.

Juliet looked at me in confusion, "They're our friends." She whispered back. She was about to step out of our hiding place when the voice of one of the strangers hissed. They seemed to be looking for something or someone. From our hiding place, we could only hear snippets of the conversation.
"Kill Skulduggary.......New HQ...... World..... War.....Otto.....Rule........ We're building an army."
The strangers were drawing nearer. I began to bite the side of my tongue, knowing that my bright red hair was like a beacon, even in the shadows. Torak always laughed at it saying 'Lets people know that you're coming.' Then we'd start laughing, with Wolf jumping around us, excited by the sudden change of mood.
Even then, hiding in shadow, I missed them. I hated this strange new world. I was brought here due to an incantation gone wrong, and was transported 10 000 years or something into the future. I wonder if life back home is still running, if Torak was doing something stupid without me, he probably was, it's inevitable with him.
I was lucky enough to come across Juliet, who welcomed me and showed me the 'Modern World', saying that she adored my 'tribal' style, I didn't know what she meant. She also loved my tatoos, commenting on their originality. I then progressed to tell her everything.
I hate this 'Modern World'. It's disgusting! I can barely breathe! The clothing is rediculous, I miss seeing everyone in fur parkas and hide skirts, sitting by the stream, cleaning salmon like usual.

The steady footfall of the strangers brought me back to the strange reality. But this was what I've been doing my whole life, so when the strangers did finally notice us, I did what I usually do in these situations. I put an arrow in both their knees (Skyrim reference) and, when they doubled iver in pan, bound them like elks with the rope on my belt.
Juliet looked at me in shock, just as a girl about our age and a strange skeletal man ran onto the scene.
At the sight of them, I said a silent prayer to the Raven Spirit and readied my bow for another shot...

YA book character: Zeraphina

Book: Blood Song by Rhiannon Hart

Good or Bad: BAD!



“The world is polluted; corrupted and filthy consequently its end cannot come soon enough. I am just so exhausted that I wish now to sleep”

I turned to face my father’s advisor Rodden who was standing to attention hanging on my every word, whilst concealing his true feelings with a blank unreadable expression. The stone chamber was dimly lit and which contained an empty, cold fireplace that was concealed behind an inch thick layer of soot and mucky grime. The blood red, velvet curtains had only been partially opened therefore a tiny ray of light penetrated into the otherwise dimly lit room.

“But my Lady, your father the King has already sent out the city’s army of soldiers to defend our people. Will you not join him and stand by his side and support our defenses?”

I glanced up at the young man before me who was heavily clad in ceremonial armor and chain mail, which was poorly concealed beneath his long flowing robes and cape. I had thought that Rodden was the one person in this world who had understood me, for he was the only person with whom I had confided in about my secret and yet with this new remark it seemed almost certain that I had been completely & utterly mistaken.

“No I will not!”

I smirked whilst sharply and abruptly turning around to begin pacing around the small, confined room with the long flowing, cream nightdress trailing along the floor; depicting the train on a wedding dress.

“I am old and tired, and sick of living in this world. I am sick of trying to hide my cravings and to restrain overwhelming feelings so that I don’t hurt anyone…the world MUST end and you shall see to it with me that it is destroyed, down to the very last human.”

Rodden could hear the vicious hatred and spite within my tone of voice, which culminated from years of pent up bitterness, anger and resentment. He loved me with an almost obsessive desire that was completely forbidden, and not just because of his social status and rank but also because I did not want him to get hurt. This invisible barrier between us that I could never cross even if my heart so desired, weighted down on me daily like a lead weight hence draining all feeling and emotion from me.

“I am going out to meet with Otto Malpense and hopefully then will I be able to do something, preferably before my father and his tin soldiers act stupidly.”

Instantly I spun around to hastily then make my way over to the dressing table, where I sat down and extracted from its surface a horse-haired brush. I then began to comb through my long, black waves that were the color of ebony whilst I glanced up at my reflection within the murky, aged mirror to see Rodden out of the corner of my eye standing like a frozen statue.

“But Princess, it is sunlight!”

I waved him away with a quick flick of one hand to dismiss him and his remark, thus not replying to his impertinent statement. I was about to exclaim that he should not address me in such a manor and to remember his ‘place’ when I felt a hand lightly rest on my right shoulder. Suddenly my father’s head advisor bent down to kiss the left side of my neck where pale white skin showed, as I had pulled my hair round to comb that was draped over the right side of my torso. Within a blink of an eye he was gone, leaving me alone to dress and prepare to meet Otto where we would ultimately discuss how to end the world.
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Finely Jayne from The girl in the steel corset (team good)

Sadie Kane (The Kane Chronicles) Team Good.

Finely

"Come out, come out wherever you are." I muttered to myself. I was currently on assignment tracking down some of the more nasty villains. My darker side enjoyed the excitement and violence this entailed but the other part of me couldn't help but miss London and my friends,Griffin, Emily, Jasper, even Sam. I hoped they knew I was ok and Griff wasn't beating himself up about it. Even if it was his fault, we had been helping him experiment with the aether but something went wrong and I blacked out. When I woke up it was the 21st century.

I sighed and focused on tailing the mark. The thing they called a cell phone starting vibrating and I cursed under my breath. "Little busy here." I whispered into the phone. "Is that anyway to treat a new friend?" Came amused voice of Skulldugerey Pleasant. "Oh bite me, the mark might hear me so keep it quick.""Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hurry up with your assignment Finely we need information soon so report back ASAP."

Skulduggery Pleasant

Busy, busy, busy I thought. Fighting/ capturing bad guys well mostly Valkryie fought them, I had more important matters. I strode up to Juliet and Renn in their hiding places dodging one of the arrows Renn had fired.
"Is that any way to treat a friend" I told her
" Excuse me, you're the one walking through the target area" Renn argued.
"True, true anyway while Valkryie has that covered we have important matters to discuss oh and Renn, please tell Valkryie to not kill them, we kind of need them."
"Why do we need them for, Their villians for gods sake." she asked me.
"Yes, yes but we can get some useful information off them about Otto oh and the order to kill Skulduggery." I told her before giving her a look which said please just do what I say and it worked because she strode down the steps muttering angrily under his breath.
I opened the door of the hidden place and then stared at Juliet "Well, then come on" I added to get her out of her dream state.
"oh, right" She replied before following me in.

*Haha Isabelle? Renn's a girl XD*

Finely Jayne (team good)

I watched as my target Otto Malpense escorted a young woman into a car. I couldn't tell who the woman was but I did see the family crest embroidered on her jacket. I was focused on trying to get the details of the crest and I almost didn't hear the footsteps approaching stealthily.

My head snapped to the door and I quickly grabbed the essentials to my assignment. The door slammed open and five men barged through the now open doorway. My dark side stirred, anticipating the danger. All five men wore black from head to toe, though one man had a small radio attached to his hip. he must be their leader I thought and got in a fighting stance, the men didn't say anything they just silently raised their guns at me as one and pulled the trigger. I dodged to one side as quickly as possible but a couple of the bullets still grazed me.

I stiffened as I felt the organites start working, fixing up the damage much faster than it would take without them. I quickly lunged at the leader and knocked him out with a left uppercut that hit his chin. The lackeys didn't seem to know what to do without him, but reorganized quickly. In different circumstances I would have been cracking jokes or at least saying something defiant but I sensed that these henchmen weren't quite human.

I knocked out a couple more of the henchmen before making my escape. I assessed the damage I had taken and determined that I would not need any kind of treatment, but I felt angry that I had allowed them to hurt me I the firstplace. I tried to hurry to the meeting place where I could get transport to the temporary hq where I could divulge the information I had recovered.

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This is Renn

Renn

Friend? Ha! I've had too many people call themselves my friends to only later prove to be nothing but my foes. Where I am from, enemies were killed, their souls forced to face the consequences of the life they had lived.

Ugh, I'm starting to sound like my mother. That was a scary thought. She was pure evil, a Soul Eater- outcasts of all tribes and more feared than any other things on this world, well, at least MY world.

Seshru, The Viper Mage- beautiful yet horrid. The epitome of grace and hate. My mother, she was getting to me, I don't know how, but she was. I just knew it. I never want things dead unless it's needed, and now these people probably think that I'm some merciless, primitive Neanderthal!

I'll make it right. I grasped the raven feathers on my parka, prayed to the Guardian and went over to the man they call, Skulduggery.

"Sorry. I'm a little... displaced. I'm Renn, of the Raven clan." He smiled, saying that all was well. I thought of Torak, knowing that he'd trust them all in a heartbeat so, I told him my story, hoping that maybe he'd offer more council than Juliet ever did.

Maybe I could go home...

- Your created name: Artemis Fowl II
- What book/book series they are from: Artemis Fowl
- Your team: BAD~! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHH!

Artemis lifted a fragile china teacup and took a long sip. He impatiently tapped his pale fingers on the soft couch. The white painted HQ was home to eleven angelfish(pterophyllum leopoldi) and four various marine snails. Exactly seven cameras were in the room, including the ones hidden in the chandelier and teapot. Very clever. But not as clever as the one's he'd gotten installed in the Fowl Mansion.

"The meeting time was exactly three o'clock, was it not, Butler?" He asked, knowing full well that it was.
"Yes Artemis." The muscular bodyguard replied. He once again patrolled the room, keeping the thirteen year old boy in view.
"And the time right now is...?" Artemis asked, even though there was an elaborate clock on the wall and two digital clocks in the room.
"Four thirty-two."
"Quite."

Artemis sighed. For him to make a good plan he would need a complete idea of the situation. And to have a complete idea of the situation, he needed to meet with Otto Malpense and Zeraphina. he was being paid good money to hatch a master plan.

But with the right amount of persuasion he could make it double the amount.

Valkyrie Cain:

Skulduggery could be quite the boring old man when he wanted to be. I crossed my arms over my chest and leant against the Bentley - a BIG no no - whilst I waited for him to finish speaking with Renn. Who was I kidding...I couldn't be bothered to wait! I dialled the first number that came to my head and waited for the other side to pick up.

"Hello?" came a familiar British voice. I'd forgot that I had a new phone and so the person I was calling didn't know who it was from the number.
"Hey Fletch."

There was a heavy sigh at the other end.

No surprises. Things hadn't been peachy between myself and Fletcher Renn, especially since I'd dumped him (not without reason, but still...) and then enlisted his help in disposing of my not-boyfriend Caelan the Vamp who was no more. We'd been speaking to each other, but he had been avoiding me like the plague.

But, like trying to avoid the plague, trying to avoid me was no use...I'd find a way. "Ah...Valkyrie." He didn't sound as ecstatic as I had hoped. "Why are you calling me?"
"I need your help." Four words that killed me to admit.

He laughed. The idiot LAUGHED. I gritted my teeth. "Valkyrie Cain 'The Invincible' asking for my help?" he asked sarcastically. "That I find hard to believe."
"The WORLD is ending, Fletch. This is not the time for your bad jokes."
"Number one, the world is forever 'ending' in some way or another. And number two, there is always time for bad jokes."
"Ah, no and definitely no."
"Why do you need me?"
"Because..."
"Yes?"

I fought back the useless emotions that threatened to overcome me. "Because I need you." My voice cracked. Shit. "YOU Fletch. I need you to be with me this time in case it's the last time we bloody well do anything together and I'm sorry for whatever it is you still hate me for and I know that I hurt your feelings but it's the end of the world so please don't stay mad at me and I'm worried that we're all going to die and then I'll never forgive myself if I-"

"Whoa- slow down, Valkyrie." Fletch's voice was kind. "I'll be there, ok? Don't worry about a thing."
"We're at Higglebottom Bridge."
"Alright. I'll be there in a sec."
"Fletch?"
"Yes?"
"I love you. Be careful you idiot."

And I hung up, pocketing my phone...a ridiculous grin spreading across my face. Skulduggery came back to where I was waiting and paused...staring at me with empty sockets, his head tilting slightly.

"You look...happy."
"Yes." I didn't elaborate.
"Good to see that the end of the world is agreeing with you," said the skeleton. "Now get off the Bentley."

I straightened, sighing. Some things never changed.

Skulduggery Pleasant

I stepped into the drivers seat of the Bentley of which I adore along with Renn and Valkryie.
"So, explain to me again why we're leaving Juliet and her folk to take care of the hideout" Renn asked.
"Please, keep up Renn or else I'll have to leave you behind. The hostages told us that there is a hideout or HQ where the end of the world is being prepared to be exact and that that is the key point. Now, all of you shut up and don't ask questions when we get there just be prepared because it seems from what I have heard we have 3 of the greatest villians on our tail" I explained all in one breath whilst driving still

Zeraphina

After I was dressed and ready to leave I strutted down to the main entrance hall, where I was confronted with my father who seemed to be waiting for me. I continued moving towards him whilst cursing his advisor under my breath. The King was clothed in luxurious red and gold expensive cloth, which was covered by a velvet cape that trailed along the floor and which was embellished with our kingdom’s crest; a silver goblet and serpent with a large letter ‘C’ for the house of Camuloid.

“You are not to leave these premises, I forbid it”

He shouted up to me across the black and white marble entrance hall, as I glided down the grand, impressive grey stone staircase. He was bright red in the face with pink ears to match, possessing a furious expression of anger as if he might explode any minute.

“I am going to meet Otto with or without your permission, and if I were the King then I would not address the next successor to my throne in such a manor!”

With that remark I received a hard slap around my face that was done with much force and effort behind it, hence the entire left side of my jaw and cheek went pale white and began to tingle. He was the King and monarch, head of the throne of the kingdom but he was also my father and until I was twenty one I would not take his crown; therefore until then I was technically under his authority.

“Go then”

Without looking back he abruptly and sharply turned, storming off with his golden silk cape billowing behind him; his boots clanking on the cold marble black & white diamond floor with its sound reverberating and bouncing off the walls.
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Lucinda wrote: "Zeraphina

After I was dressed and ready to leave I strutted down to the main entrance hall, where I was confronted with my father who seemed to be waiting for me. I continued moving towards him w..."

(your really good at writing)

Dear Isabelle,

Oh, thank you! I'm not sure why but i am really liking this character a lot and the 'twist' with her being of Royal blood but who is quite dangerous with a deadly streak...fun!

Lucinda x

Moved the roleplay to this folder - this way it can continue past the party date (the folder for the party is at the bottom of the home page)

Artemis Fowl II

Artemis sighed and took out a small laptop which was enhanced with the latest technology-human and fairy alike. He tapped his pale fingers against the keyboard, quickly hacking into the satellite system. Pictures flashed on the screen and he found the two people he had been looking for.

Otto Malpense was on his way in a small airy car with fake leather seats-sewn with a simple cross stitch- and tinted glass windows. He was close by, about a street away from the base.
Zeraphina was in the same car, wearing a blindfold and earmuffs. Artemis knew vampires had sharper senses than humans and it would be wise to block her from knowing the exact location.

Butler filled a glass with tea and drank quickly- finishing the beverage in one sip. He didn't take his time with refreshments, as he had to be constantly on guard to protect his charge-Artemis.

Valkyrie Cain:

Got to give it to Skulduggery. He doesn't let you get a word in edgewise.

"We have three villains on our tail?" Fletcher repeated, looking rather pale all of a sudden. His hand flew to his hair, fixing his spikes nervously.
"Yes, Fletcher. Three. Good to see that your numeracy skills are intact." Skulduggery's eyes stayed fixed on the road.
"But you said they're the greatest-"
"No. I said 'three of' the greatest. They are not the greatest because that position can only truly be fulfilled my one person, alone, which would have to be Evil Incarnate. But unless we have It on our trail, I suggest you stop your blubbering and shut up."