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forthsofar) wrote2019-03-22 04:00 pm
forthsofar) wrote2019-03-22 04:00 pm
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Okay, I so rarely do these BUT I have some things coming down the pike for Rosie so now seems like a pretty good time to throw one out there! Here we go:
State of Me: Pretty good! I've been trying (and...mostly succeeding? maybe?) to keep on top of tags as much as possible the last few months while things have been quiet-ish at work, in part to establish it as a habit for when things get bananas, which they are about to do very soon because the spring and summer are terrible times to be in admissions. When work really kicks into gear in, like, July, we'll see how well all of this preparation actually works.
Also none of this has decreased the amount of time I spend writing a tag, because probably nothing ever will, but eh.
State of Rosie (now): In some respects, she's been better! Everything with Creepy Tim has set her on edge (to the point of snapping at Guy at Mardi Gras, who didn't really deserve it but maybe also deserved it a little because he's still Guy Burgess, after all), so she is very much looking forward to whatever the hell Jamie is about to do, even if it involves her kind-of-but-not-really being involved in yet another creepy dude getting killed. (edit: or maybe not, now that I have seen that Jamie's new EP is up, thank goodness nobody needs to die this time) Not that anyone would miss Creepy Tim anyway, though.
In smaller-stakes bad things, she also now has Choir Audition Drama happening with her Darrow frenemy. She just wants to sing a song, Irene, she never asked for any of this.
Other than [gestures vaguely] all of that, she's honestly been having an okay time! She and Neil Perry went out to a club where she got a guy's number and while it didn't go anywhere, it was still a fairly good experience; she's doing well at school and with her petsitting business; she's been going out to parties and gatherings and meeting people (including a cheerful drunk girl at the St. Patrick's festival who's currently accosting her with a stolen novelty headband)...lots of stuff.
Also, both Neil and Guy have now floated the idea of her moving out of the Home, so now she's thinking about that a little bit again--she hasn't wanted to abandon the other girls while Creepy Tim's around, and I had a plan to keep her there through the summer (more on that later), but the more I think about it the less certain I am that my reasoning on that last part is a good one.
State of Rosie (later): OH BOY. Okay, remember how I just said I was gearing up for how busy things are going to be this summer? Obviously this means that's the perfect time to launch into something I've been plotting/getting excited about for months: Rosalind Wilson's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Summer Romance. I mean, considering 'summer' is in the name, there's really only one season I could've done this. That's what I'm telling myself.
I'm wanting to start things up probably at the end of next month in a likely very cliche way: Rosie's gonna get asked to prom! Rosie's a sophomore right now, but the NPC at the center of this (David, who has cameoed in a handful of Rosie's threads due to my own hamfisted attempts at laying down early plot groundwork) is a junior; I was planning to use that to get her to prom, but considering the number of teens we have in Darrow anyway...would folks be open to, idk, a combination Darrow High/Petros High all-school prom or something? I feel like mid-May is usually Prom Season, so we could do a gathering then, if people would be into it.
Because my summer is usually so hectic, I'm trying to be a little free with how things go plotwise with this, but there's going to be fun dating and makeouts (some of which may also involve her being a little bit terrible while at the summer job I'm also planning for her) and things moving maybe a little too fast...until it all comes crashing down in August or early September, when she'll need all the breakup help anyone can provide.
Also because literally none of us are capable of giving those kids a break, apparently, the end stages of this are also going to involve some 'you know what Those Girls at the Children's Home are like'-flavored bullshit--hence why I'm now so torn about moving her out of the Home until after this wraps up. It's not like rumors care about facts anyway, and I do think she'd be happier living somewhere else; some of her friends have already made the transition out or will be soon (I think), so there's an argument to be made that things at the Home have been changing anyway. Basically, it's not a bad time to have her appeal for emancipation or something and move away this summer, but would it be the right time?
Okay, I'm done and now remembering why I never do these (and so are you, probably). I only have the one character, and yet I write so much. Congrats on making it to the end, let me know your thoughts, all that good stuff. <333
State of Me: Pretty good! I've been trying (and...mostly succeeding? maybe?) to keep on top of tags as much as possible the last few months while things have been quiet-ish at work, in part to establish it as a habit for when things get bananas, which they are about to do very soon because the spring and summer are terrible times to be in admissions. When work really kicks into gear in, like, July, we'll see how well all of this preparation actually works.
Also none of this has decreased the amount of time I spend writing a tag, because probably nothing ever will, but eh.
State of Rosie (now): In some respects, she's been better! Everything with Creepy Tim has set her on edge (to the point of snapping at Guy at Mardi Gras, who didn't really deserve it but maybe also deserved it a little because he's still Guy Burgess, after all), so she is very much looking forward to whatever the hell Jamie is about to do, even if it involves her kind-of-but-not-really being involved in yet another creepy dude getting killed. (edit: or maybe not, now that I have seen that Jamie's new EP is up, thank goodness nobody needs to die this time) Not that anyone would miss Creepy Tim anyway, though.
In smaller-stakes bad things, she also now has Choir Audition Drama happening with her Darrow frenemy. She just wants to sing a song, Irene, she never asked for any of this.
Other than [gestures vaguely] all of that, she's honestly been having an okay time! She and Neil Perry went out to a club where she got a guy's number and while it didn't go anywhere, it was still a fairly good experience; she's doing well at school and with her petsitting business; she's been going out to parties and gatherings and meeting people (including a cheerful drunk girl at the St. Patrick's festival who's currently accosting her with a stolen novelty headband)...lots of stuff.
Also, both Neil and Guy have now floated the idea of her moving out of the Home, so now she's thinking about that a little bit again--she hasn't wanted to abandon the other girls while Creepy Tim's around, and I had a plan to keep her there through the summer (more on that later), but the more I think about it the less certain I am that my reasoning on that last part is a good one.
State of Rosie (later): OH BOY. Okay, remember how I just said I was gearing up for how busy things are going to be this summer? Obviously this means that's the perfect time to launch into something I've been plotting/getting excited about for months: Rosalind Wilson's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Summer Romance. I mean, considering 'summer' is in the name, there's really only one season I could've done this. That's what I'm telling myself.
I'm wanting to start things up probably at the end of next month in a likely very cliche way: Rosie's gonna get asked to prom! Rosie's a sophomore right now, but the NPC at the center of this (David, who has cameoed in a handful of Rosie's threads due to my own hamfisted attempts at laying down early plot groundwork) is a junior; I was planning to use that to get her to prom, but considering the number of teens we have in Darrow anyway...would folks be open to, idk, a combination Darrow High/Petros High all-school prom or something? I feel like mid-May is usually Prom Season, so we could do a gathering then, if people would be into it.
Because my summer is usually so hectic, I'm trying to be a little free with how things go plotwise with this, but there's going to be fun dating and makeouts (some of which may also involve her being a little bit terrible while at the summer job I'm also planning for her) and things moving maybe a little too fast...until it all comes crashing down in August or early September, when she'll need all the breakup help anyone can provide.
Also because literally none of us are capable of giving those kids a break, apparently, the end stages of this are also going to involve some 'you know what Those Girls at the Children's Home are like'-flavored bullshit--hence why I'm now so torn about moving her out of the Home until after this wraps up. It's not like rumors care about facts anyway, and I do think she'd be happier living somewhere else; some of her friends have already made the transition out or will be soon (I think), so there's an argument to be made that things at the Home have been changing anyway. Basically, it's not a bad time to have her appeal for emancipation or something and move away this summer, but would it be the right time?
Okay, I'm done and now remembering why I never do these (and so are you, probably). I only have the one character, and yet I write so much. Congrats on making it to the end, let me know your thoughts, all that good stuff. <333
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ALSO YAY PROM looking forward to any and all teen shenanigans this engenders
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Sabrina in particular will be very worried when she finds out that some guy harassed Rosie. She's also not above using magic to deal with mean girls.
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also YES I want so much Sabrina for this plot (and for always)! Ill-considered magical revenge once everything explodes, yes, but after their conversation on Valentine's, also maybe for a teen girl 'how do you know you're ready to go all the way' heart-to-heart at some point. I love these two together.
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Meanwhile, Sabrina is there every step you want, and having gone through a lot of thought and such about her own first time, will happily talk about it. And even try to make it so Rosie can still look Charlie in the eye. XD
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Eponine is going to be so quietly jealous of Rosie's summer lovin' and is going to come up with all sorts of excuses for herself why that is. Which is to say, 2) I LOVE THIS PLOT. Although poor Rosie! *I* want to give her hugs too. And BOTH my girls would like to punch anyone spreading rumors.
(I should really introduce her to Blue! Tangentially.)
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OH NO EPONINE, so confused and so jealous, Rosie will feel so bad for equally confused and unknown reasons.
Rosie and Blue have met briefly before, but they should absolutely meet again! Rosie also sometimes comes by the cat cafe to do homework or just hang out with the cats (I've decided one of the cats there looks a lot like her neighbor's cat from back home, who she misses a lot), so they've likely also seen one another since then too.
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I was going to say, I kind of like the drama that it being junior/senior prom causes! And yeah, everyone will crash. Last time there was a prom, too-old kids crashed, so this can be the reverse.
WHAT DORKS. And I mean, we know from her canon that Eponine is perfectly capable of swallowing down her feelings to be helpful (and would rather be needed than not be jealous), so she probably will be around for advice and general hanging out if Rosie isn't too wrapped up. Even if she feels strangely good about hating the guy afterwards.
Dammit, I really need to keep a better log of who has met and who has not. I should start doing that again, ha. But yes! We can definitely thread with her at the cat cafe (feel free to use it for EP settings, naturally), and I might have an EP with Blue out and about around Barton campus so Rosie's friendship with Guy and Anthony might bring her around that way.
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I mean, I am planning an EP for her this month, but it's likely going to involve ~prom dress shopping~, which could be either hilarious or awkward (or both) for a first meeting.
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And as for moving out, Guy will encourage that in every possible way, even financially if need be (or couch-ally, if she needs a place to crash).
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As for moving out: since I wrote this SOTP, she and Neil have been talking more and more about getting a flat together once Rosie's able to get out of living at the Home. As part of that, Rosie's putting things together to apply for emancipation, including thinking of adults she knows who might write reference letters or something to attest that she's responsible enough to live on her own...which could very well include Guy, considering he knows both Rosie and Neil (in different ways, sure, but even so).
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And I love that! Will and Grace Darrow style! Guy will write the best and most florid letter ever. He's a good friend like that.