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@everyone I think I’m finally ready for a return!

@merieshenanigans @mamaauthoress I think it’s lees chaotic in here by now, so I’m going to be focusing on my characters in here!  Feel free to drop in some of yours too!

Unfortunately, I’m giving Basil and Saskia a break and a long nap (in other words, I’m taking Basil out of the Castle before he has a meltdown).  I’m going to be dropping two new characters in!

Valencia Page:

Age – around 19

Appearance – tall (about 5’10”), slim, dark brown eyes, pale skin, and wild black curls (around shoulder length).  She wears wire rimmed glasses, and wears dark academia in the most practical sense of the word.

Personality – Valencia is an extremely wary, guarded person.  I’m pretty sure she’s autistic, and I know that she has some family trauma.  She’s very practically minded, intelligent, and extremely observant, but often lacks the social graces necessary to act upon these observations without ruffling feathers (in some ways like Basil minus the incessant whining).  Valencia comes from an extremely wealthy family, but was raised frugally and developed a strong work ethic.  As a result, she has little patience for waste, frivolous spending, and vapid people.

Valencia is introverted, but has a number of social connections (many shallow and socially necessary, a seldom few close).  One of her closest friends is Rosemary, the eldest daughter of another one of Spire’s elite families.  Rosemary was a mentor figure to Valencia, and provided her with the emotional safety she could never find in her family.

Valencia also has an unfortunate connection to a rival family’s younger son, Kit Carlisle.

And before I start on this next description, please accept my sincere apology for the chaos I’m going to wreak on this poor unsuspecting cast.  Namely, the chaos that is named Kit Carlisle.

Kit Carlisle:

Age – around 19-20

Appearance – tall (6’0″), slim, dark eyes, tan skin (Kit is of East Asian decent, but has dark skin).  Kit has an undercut, and the bulk of his hair is dyed pastel pink.  He has pierced ears and likes wearing shiny gold rings, patent leather boots that click obnoxiously on marble floors, and a long fur coat that swishes dramatically when he walks (which may or may not have been a gift from his stylish older brother Jasper, who is both equally chaotic and also eccentric to the point of borderline insanity.)

Personality – Kit is extremely extroverted and thrives off of attention and large crowds.  Contrary to what Valencia may choose to believe, Kit is also very intelligent, but often times acts on impulse instead of thinking things through (I’m very certain by now that he has undiagnosed ADHD.)  He’s chronically bored and understimulated, and has a bad habit of provoking and needling people for “interesting” reactions.  Besides this, Kit is carefree and often concerningly unbothered with life’s up and downs (as opposed to Valencia, who is high strung and often overly stressed).  He can be frequently seen with a sly, off kilter grin.  His favorite catchphrase is “That’s nice” (take that as you will – it’s meaning changes with the breeze) and his favorite color is of course, pastel pink.

Kit was adopted into his family as an infant, against the wishes of the family patriarch (who vehemently opposed including “outsiders” in the family inheritance.)  As such, Kit always felt displaced in this clan (he’s commonly referred to with his middle name, Carlisle, rather than the family name).  Although Kit’s immediate family is healthy and loving, he and Jasper are especially close because of this shared sentiment and experience.  Like Valencia, he has connections to Rosemary as well, and he’s also recently become an older brother to another (informal) adoptee – a strange boy named Basil who accidentally broke into he and his brothers’ shared apartment.

Kit’s extended family has been locked in a power struggle with Valencia’s extended family group for decades now, and the fight has only become more bitter as an international cold war threatens the peace of the very city they’re striving to control.  However, Rosemary’s sudden disappearance has forced Kit and Valencia to start collaborating in secret, a partnership that has slowly started to change their perceptions of each other for better (or worse XD)