Red String of Fate (OOC) (OPEN) (Courting)

[The Frozen Forest]

Ara ara, just one accepted? I seriously should post up those bios, then. Especially Sengoku's -- especially in Moscareinas, she's something of a serial casualist (has had many, many flings since her teens; has had three kids out of wedlock, her first at the ripe old age of 15).

Interesting, I'm curious to see how she'll interact with the court. I'm just waiting on those bio's before i give the remaining two a proper look over.

[Brettenwald]

in the event anybody needs a ref for Sandor

[Moscareinas]

Done with the bios. I think.

Dredging from sources last written in 2018 is unexpectedly hard, hm.

[A m e n r i a]

I agree, problem solved.

how am I supposed to get to class if I can't walk ;_;

Unironically, I'll try to have a post up soon enough. Probably over the weekend.

Virgin walking versus chad handstand.

[Brettenwald]

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edit: don't think I didn't see you delete that, brap

[The Frozen Forest]

:bleak:
edit: don't think I didn't see you delete that, brap

I have no idea what you're talking about

[Moscareinas]

:bleak:
edit: don't think I didn't see you delete that, brap

I have no idea what you're talking about

Eh, while you're here, you might wanna look into the two other apps I made up. Dunno how to insert myself yet, but I'll find a way.

[Brettenwald]

:bleak:
edit: don't think I didn't see you delete that, brap

The Alkdorian Empire posted an app here earlier and then deleted it. Just teasing him about it at the time, that's all.

[The Frozen Forest]

:bleak:
edit: don't think I didn't see you delete that, brap

The Alkdorian Empire posted an app here earlier and then deleted it. Just teasing him about it at the time, that's all.

Unfortunate that they deleted it, there is always room for more.

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Name: "Akira Sengoku."
Title(s): "Just 'Miss'".
Nationality: "Moscan."
House/Family: "I'm not a member oof any rooil or nooble hoose. Yet."
Family Crest: "We doon't, um, really have one."
Place of Birth: "Wellekind Hospital, Desroches Avnue, Genvette Ditritt, Hemmeville, Aurora Islands, Moscareinas."
Age: "Twinny-six."
Religion: "Rooman Cattlitt. Not in prattice, in theery."
Languages Spoken: "I can speak English an' Nihongo."
Travel of Note: "I usially travel for bisiness; my Sengoku Foods & Sweets has ooverseis brinches in fifteen countries on foor contnents. And as far as I'm concerned, wedship is exattly like bisiness, meaning it's ennirely up my alley."
Personality:
Likes: "I like boys; I've ha'them. I like chocleet; I have a fact'ry. I like bisiness; it proospers. I like kids; I have three. Mixeem allup an' y'gett --"
Dislikes: "Boollybogs. Liers. Dimetotts. Scups." ("Scalawags. Liars. Demagogues. Paparazzi.")
Fears: "Running oot oof mooney. Dying afore my kids. M'kids dying. Scups. D'usial."
Bio: The love child of a first-generation teenage Japanese Moscan and his paramour of Anglo-Indian ancestry, Akira Sengoku is the founder and CEO of Sengoku Foods & Sweets, Incorporated, a Moscan-based multinational manufacturer of artisanal confectionery and beverages and the largest of its kind in the insular Indian Ocean. Called both the "choco queen" and "the iron-jawed, iron-blooded, iron-bosomed" for her advocacy of the Sengoku Special All-Chocolate Diet and her boardoom negotiating skills, reminiscent of 19th century Moscan industrial titans Abramurthy, Seleemi, and Wellekind, she's well known for having founded the company while still in her early teens, using a small legacy her paternal grandfather left her. She's also notorious for her hookups, having had three children out of wedlock with three different men (whose identities were concealed, to the frustration of Moscan paparazzi), the first when she was fifteen, the latest in 2019. Needless to say, her sojourn to the Frozen Forest is twofold: to improve her matrimonial reputation by marrying into royalty, and to expand her company into fresh territory.

What will you be bringing with you: "What any decent woomin m'age must broot, oof coorse. Scups will call me sandloose, but I willn't mind; what matters is the results."
What gift will you be presenting to the King: "King-sized artisanal chocleet, fit foor a king. If he asks foor more, I can make more. If he wants his cuttycroo to make it, I've a book an' a link to m'site, where he can maintain an all-natural, all-artisanal, Sengoku Special All-Chocleet Diet."
Miscellaneous Information: This latest attempt to butcher the English language to bring forth a variant is brought to you by yours truly. To anyone contemplating violence upon my person for this travesty, please mask up and vaccinate before you beat the shit out of me. Thank you.

Accepted! Sure to be a character worth remembering.

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Name: "Hakase Satomi. H-A-K-A-S-E S-A-T-O-M-I. Satomi Hakase in Western order, Satomi's my personal name, Hakase's the family name. Would you like the Arabic and Indian renditions as well?"
Title(s): "Technically, only the kami have titles befitting their station, buuuuuut 'Mistress'. Will 'Mistress' do?"
Nationality: "Dahoni."
House/Family: "Haka-- oh you mean royal house? Still. Not that the kith and kin are technically counted as royals where I'm from."

Family Crest: "It's a real stumper -- the crest is the standard kanji-on-a-circle thing, but for the life of me or people before me, I don't know why my forefather would choose the kanji for 'grave' and 'mound' for his name. 'Ha-Qassim' into 'Haka-se'. The family joke was that the night he chose them was the night he had hookers and sake on a joke bar at the Comic Alley. Which would be weird, given family stories talk of him as a devout Muslim Arab, but."
Place of Birth: "Yumiko City, in the capital of the Asunaro Adminis-- owait, it's no longer the ASAT. Sis now a kami in herself. How could I forget?"

Age: "I'm a fully mature 21-year old woman! With a funny hairstyle and modest chest, but who's counting? That's right, prospective royal husbands!"
Religion: "Dahoni Budhist. Don't ask me, don't care. Just don't ask me to convert. I'll nod along, but Saga -- the Hakasekami, my twin sister -- doesn't like the PR."
Languages Spoken: "Dahoni Japanese and Indian English, among others. Can also understand Moscan English, though the accents and terminology can be... how do I put it... physically taxing. Especially the Comorian subset."
Travel of Note: "Haven't traveled for a bit due to the pandemic, but I did use to go to India to do some lectures, and to Moscareinas for scientific conventions. Oh, and to countries with excellent railway systems, as I like riding trains, and because we don't have those in Dahon. Queendom loves being down home and rustic."
Personality: "How can I describe myself? I can say I'm smart, I can say I love science, I can say I'm inquisitive, I can say I'm fickle, I can even say I'm YOLO! But if you choose me, I'll make sure to... turn your castles into labs while I raise our kids to be exactly fifty percent me! Half scientifically inquisitive, half... royal? Saga has the royal thing down pat, I don't have it, but that's why I'll have you!"
Likes: "I like cakes and ale. I like kids; have you seen them grow before you? I like walking long distances; I find it jogs my mind real nice to slowly pace through changing scenery. I like scientific experiments, especially when you know what's gonna happen next. I like assembling and dissasembling little contraptions, like this Freeplay -- hand cranks this reliable were deemed impossible before Sir Baylis came along. Then he figured out how to make that spring small enough yet be able to store fantastic amounts of potential energy with a complete revolution of the dial..."
Dislikes: "The ignorance -- not of the merely stupid, but the proudly stupid. Ah, just look at the West, its democracies riven by demagogues thirsting for... but that's more Saga's forte, not mine. Politics? Another thing I don't like."
Fears: "Drowning. For the longest time I was really afraid of swimming, though I used to be a decent swimmer. Then on December 26 of that year..."
Bio: Younger twin of the Hakasekami Hakase Saga, the first kami of the Asunaro archipelago, Satomi enjoys -- and more importantly, plays up to -- her reputation as a footloose eccentric genius (between 2016 and 2019, for example, she stayed in Dahon for a total of four months). Unlike the contemporary she's often compared to, the similarly talented Suzumikami Watanabe Kiako, though, she's disavowed politics and diplomacy for scientific pursuits, once declaring herself "married to science" in an Indian radio talk show. That said, young as she is, Satomi's life has had its share of tragedy: the same 2004 tsunami had wiped out the Suzumikami's entire extended family apart from her mother (the previous Suzumikami, a delicate figure busy with her obligations at the time) and her successor also washed away the twins' parents and their older brother Satohru and very nearly killed 4-year-old Satomi herself -- she was found 8 days after the tsunami hit, seriously dehydrated from exposure as well as from drinking seawater, swimming furiously in a vain bid to find her parents and brother, and unaware and quite unbelieving that her twin sister was safe and sound back ashore.

What will you be bringing with you: "The usual: a change of clothes, toiletries, what have you. I may or may not look ever so slightly dorky in a backpack, though."
What gift will you be presenting to the King: "A scooter roll! Of course I assembled it myself, though I based it off those Razor models from the double-noughts. It's got a tamper- and-shockproof compass, a digital clock, GPS, it's lightweight enough and it's foldable enough that it can fit into a decent-sized backpack..."
Miscellaneous Information: Hopefully I can finish this by tomorrow morning. Man, I forgot writing apps is tiring!

Accepted!

[Moscareinas]

... yeah, so trying to sneak into this RP has proven itself harder than it should perhaps be. While I'm sure my relative rustiness is part of it, another reason is that I can't be sure who else is active after the RP went inactive for so long.

So, just to test: apart from the OP, Amenria, and Brettenwald, who else is waiting in the wings, hoping to engage? I might as well opt for some character to notice one of mine, who in turn must be busily dramatizing the life cycle of a successful wallflower, OOC issues aside, but that would paradoxically need a partner to notice them.

[Rivienland]

As we discussed over telegram, here is my application for the RP. Trying to get back into RPing and in the middle of reforming the lore of Rivienland. I quite enjoyed your first courting RP and from what I can tell this RP might even outshine the last!

Name: Alexandra Wilhelmina Frederika Elisabeth Van Riviendorp
Title(s): Princess of the Grand Duchy of Rivienland
Nationality: Rivienlander
House/Family: House of Van Riviendorp
Family Crest:
Place of Birth: Adrianuspaleis, Hindeveen, Rivienland

Age:27
Religion: Roman Catholicism
Languages Spoken: Rivienlander (Dutch), French, English
Travel of Note: Besides traveling to several neighboring Forest nations, nothing of note.
Personality: Princess Alexandra is known by many for being quite reserve and formal. Unlike her father, who was loud and crass, the Princess is far more quiet and polite when in the presence of new company. Underlying all of this, is her deep devotion to Roman Catholicism. While she might seem remote and cold to strangers, the Princess's warmth is seen when in the presence of children. With her recent re-commitment to accept suitors, it is clear she is ready to form a family of her own.
Likes: Reading, Horse Riding, Art (specifically still lifes from the 17th century), stews, little dogs, kids and the Season of Winter
Dislikes: Loud Chewing, Seafood, Smoking, Drunkenness, and anything yellow
Fears: Large dogs and bugs in general
Bio: The Princess was born on September 3rd, 1994 at the Adrianus Palace in Hindeveen. Like her mother, Alexandra became deeply religious from a young age and many were surprised that she never joined a religious order. Being privately toured since birth, the Princess never attended university. For her 18th birthday, Alexandra decided to tour across Forest and Europe in a Grand Tour. In those years, she found a deep love for Art and foreign cultures. Following the untimely death of her father, the Late Grand Duke Willem-Alexander III, her brother, Grand Duke Willem XIV, and the Princess have been seen spending a lot of time together. Coming from a small, tight-knit family, Alexandra and her brother have always been close. Sharing an interest in Art and the Catholic faith, the Grand Duke requested Princess Alexandra to travel to the Frozen Forest to seek the courtship of King Ivan Bjork.

What will you be bringing with you: Besides traveling supplies, her two Rivienlander Dachshunds, Sophie and Otto.
What gift will you be presenting to the King: A Wijchen Rivienlander foal named Royal
Miscellaneous Information: While Princess Alexandra will be courting King Ivan, Grand Duke Willem is seeking to have tighter bonds with Frozen Forest through marriage.

Edit: Made some minor edits to reflect my current revision of Rivienlander lore.

[Polish Prussian Commonwealth]

Will post soon I swear

[Munkcestrian RepubIic]

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Name: Sumaya al-Sulaiman
Title(s): none
Nationality: Azadistani
House/Family: al-Sulaiman
Family Crest: none
Place of Birth: Azadistan

Age: 21
Religion: Christian
Languages Spoken: Arabic, English
Travel of Note: Azadistan to Munkchester
Personality: Diligent, eloquent, talkative, needy
Likes: Riding, painting, calligraphy, flower arrangement
Dislikes: Being set aside
Fears: Being set aside
Bio: Brought as a slave to Munkchester in 2018 following the war with Azadistan. Was freed by George Fenwick II, who subsequently became her lover.

What will you be bringing with you: n/a
What gift will you be presenting to the King: 1,000 slaves
Miscellaneous Information: n/a

[Brettenwald]

Oh gawd, not you.

[Munkcestrian RepubIic]

Oh gawd, not you.

What, scared of the competition? Well, you should be.

[A m e n r i a]

Uh oh

[Munkcestrian RepubIic]

Is my character too OP? What changes would people recommend to level the playing field?

[Brettenwald]

Oh gawd, not you.

What, scared of the competition? Well, you should be.

LARP

[A m e n r i a]

Hey, FF? If you need someone to punt unwanted visitors to the moon, Yali's your gal.

[Munkcestrian RepubIic]

What, scared of the competition? Well, you should be.

LARP

Well, first of all, that makes no sense, second of all, I don't think this RP is live-action.

[Polish Prussian Commonwealth]

Is my character too OP? What changes would people recommend to level the playing field?

Increase the amount of slaves.

[Moscareinas]

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Name: Sumaya al-Sulaiman
Title(s): none
Nationality: Azadistani
House/Family: al-Sulaiman
Family Crest: none
Place of Birth: Azadistan

Age: 21
Religion: Christian
Languages Spoken: Arabic, English
Travel of Note: Azadistan to Munkchester
Personality: Diligent, eloquent, talkative, needy
Likes: Riding, painting, calligraphy, flower arrangement
Dislikes: Being set aside
Fears: Being set aside
Bio: Brought as a slave to Munkchester in 2018 following the war with Azadistan. Was freed by George Fenwick II, who subsequently became her lover.

What will you be bringing with you: n/a
What gift will you be presenting to the King: 1,000 slaves
Miscellaneous Information: n/a

Out.

[A m e n r i a]

Is my character too OP? What changes would people recommend to level the playing field?

Increase the amount of slaves.

If Munk's getting accepted imma pull a King Solomon.

[Scornerse]

Oh gawd, not you.

What, scared of the competition? Well, you should be.

I don't think a country so intellectually undeveloped as to maintain chattel slavery and have their suitors attempt to provide slaves as a gift, could be any sincere competition.

[Moscareinas]

Look, serious roleplays can be designed under the assumption that slave societies are tolerated or even the norm. It's just that you're not a serious roleplayer, you're a one-line shitposter, Munk, with a reputation as bad as your frequent playmate Azadistan round these parts.

So OUT.