#astortalks

Who are you?

Hi, I’m Zolo. I’m 24 and I work as a copywriter which is really cool job on most days but sometimes really annoying! My timezone is GMT+6 and Astor marks my return to the RP world after about 4 years so I’m super excited about this. 

What do you live for?

I love debating and acting - I’m a part of a drama troupe. I also really enjoy cinema and books and my taste ranges from super high brow shit like Tarkovsky right to the funniest commercial comedies like Zoolander - same goes for books. Basically if it’s well written, and has a good plot/narrative, I’m into it. So hit me up if you want to talk movies or books or even music, I love discovering new stuff to watch, read and listen to!

Do you have any pets?

Nope, not a huge animal person though most people in my life have been trying to get me to warm up to dogs for as long as I remember! Don’t get me wrong, I have rescued pups and I think they are super cute, I just don’t feel responsible enough to have a pet, really mainly because I’ve been living alone for a while now.

If there was another you, who would it be?

This is a really strange question, I thought quite a bit about this and I think it would be whichever muse I’m currently playing. I think it might be a negative point for an RP-er and I really respect people who can play characters starkly different from themselves but I usually paint shades of myself into my muses and often see them as a reflection of something inside me. If I had to see myself from an outsider’s perspective I think I would find different aspects of my personality in my many muses.

Favourite piece of dark academia, if any?

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, Dead Poet’s Society (both, the book and the movie), The Class by Erich Segal, If we were villains by M.L Rio

Which type of dark academia are you?

I’d say I’m a mix of classic and casual dark academic. Yup.

Is there a particular skeleton that caught your attention?

Ah yesss, I loved The Tempestuous right off the bat. I envisioned her a deeply flawed but morally sound character and I feel with people misunderstanding her and the layers of complexities that is her personality, she could be a great character to explore this roleplay through! 

Do you have…

Favorite faces to play? Not really, but I generally like getting an essence of a face through gif hunts when I choose faceclaims.

A character trope that you find yourself always writing? Ugh, the misunderstood snarky and mean outwardly but actually good character or the out and out angsty and reckless rebel. I usually give them subtle ticks and I write them very very differently from each other but yeah these are the broad tropes I usually go for.

A role play-related pet peeve? Clique RP-ing and when roleplayers are wayyy too focused on romantic connection and ignore plot progression of the group as a whole in the process.

Would you rather…

Would you rather be famous when you are alive and forgotten when you die or unknown when you are alive but famous after you die? One of my favourite movie lines is “I want to become immortal, then die.” So yeah I think I’d like it if I lived on even after death as a part of humankind’s history.

Would you rather never use social media sites / apps again or never watch another movie or TV show? Never use social media sites for sure because if I stopped consuming good cinema and book I’d have a creative block and lose my job lol.

Would you rather be completely invisible for one day or be able to fly for one day? Be able to flyyyyy! Imagine the free PR, I’d be famous for the rest of my life hahah!

Would you rather have everything you eat be too salty or not salty enough no matter how much salt you add? Not salty enough because I anyway like food slightly less salty than the usual amount.

This or that…?

Iced or hot? Iced coffeeee for sure, living on that stuff.

Cake or pie? Cake, eating a slice as I write this.

Antique or brand new? Antique, I think it’s more charming.

Call or text? Call, I’m a very lazy texter

Online shopping or going to the mall? Going to the mall, I can’t trust online shopping for clothes and things.

Ocean or mountains? Oceans, I’m a total water baby, used to live by the sea the first 10 years of my life.

hello, official introduction time. my name is, i’m twenty-two, and i’m currently wasting a lot of time playing animal crossing. don’t ask me how much. it’s a lot of time. a lot. 

anywho, this, my dear friends, is beatrice rose galloway-klein. her mama is the only one who uses her full name because most people just call her birdie ( much to her mama’s chagrin ), and some call her gallo, but only if they’re feeling frisky. she’s aiming to be the president of the united states one day, and honestly ? she could get there. but for now, she’s only twenty. she’s escaped from southern belle hell but the accent and taste for pecan pie hasn’t left her. she has a drawl thicker than fog in the spring, and she could charm the birds out of trees. currently, she’s a part of house machiavelli, and she’s studying political science and political theory. honestly, she’s just a delight, and i’m peachy keen to start plotting with everyone ! 

below the cut is a full bio & ideas for plotting.

Lucia, she/her/whatever, I'm 19 (i’ll be 20 in may), I'm a taurus, a Slytherin, an INTP. I’m Argentinian but I live in France since I'm a child. I’m a student in a Film / Sound school, I want to be a sound engineer for films or concerts (it’s sooo not the same job but I’m both in love with live music/events and film production....) 

What do you live for?

Before the confinement, i would have say my passion, which is sound in film and music. I was so busy before confinement I had no time to think about something else. But right now, I’ve fallen again in this weird obsession I had when I was 10 for historical figures, people of power especially during the Renaissance, and especially women. All that because of Reign (the tv series), that I started watching at the beginning of confinement (actually I've seen episode 1 a long time ago but I didn’t buy it because of the soundtrack and the fact that it’s a series for 13 year old girls,,), anyway now I’m thinking about buying one of these weird medieval coat-cloak on vinted and making a belt and scabbard for the dagger my aunt bought me when we were visiting a castle when I was twelve.  But it will pass ahah

Do you have any pets?

Yes, a dog, a coton de Tuléar named Sammy (because when we adopted him, my little brother and I were obsessed with Supernatural). He’s six and cute.

If there was another you, who would it be?

Since I really stated reading books when I was around eight or nine yo, I always identified with the strong female lead, kinda warrior, fighting for something... I think I somehow still do ? Or the alternative kid in the movies. But I couldn’t say a name. Well, actually I’d be pleased to say Elizabeth Swann from Pirates of the Caribbean maybe ? 

Favorite piece of dark academia, if any?

The Secret History really, it’s still one of my favorite books. Also I’d like to name a book series that I’ve read when I was twelve that was never mentioned anywhere as dark academia but I think can make the list: the Night School series; and I think it’s really the books that made me like all this dark academia atmosphere. 

Which type of dark academia are you?

I’d say casual (i’m not a youtuber tho), with bits of classic obviously, and a part of me wanting to be music-obsessed, but I’ve always been too punk rock for piano or violin ahah (and I cannot focus with music on, I always end up listing to the music more than the thing I'm supposed to do). 

Is there a particular skeleton that caught your attention?

The Contrarian, I mean, that’s the type of character I like to see anywhere! Also I’m more comfortable with playing boys. But I like all the strong ladies here, the overachiever, the tempestuous, the deviant...

Do you have…

Favorite faces to play?  I like choosing a new face for a new character, but it sometimes happens that I recycle. Elle Fanning, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Fionn Whitehead, Timothée Chalamet, Kaya Scodelario, Kristen Stewart, Amandla Steinberg... People I’d like to play again would be Sonny Hall, Dagsen Love, Benjamin Wadsworth, Finn Wolfhard, Taylor Lashae and Lydia Graham.  

A character trope that you find yourself always writing? I don’t know, I like diversity. But I always find something for my character to look for, like they miss something and they want to find it. So they’re all kinda, either frustrated or sad ? Also, the Asexual. 

A role play-related pet peeve? I don’t remember what’s the Name to call it but when someone makes 0 flaws to their character, like they have it all, everything turns out great for them, their character is better than yours, you’ll never beat them etc, etc.... 

Would you rather…

Would you rather be famous when you are alive and forgotten when you die or unknown when you are alive but famous after you die?  I’d say famous after I die. It’s a shame I won’t know it tho

Would you rather never use social media sites / apps again or never watch another movie or TV show?  Never use social media again. First It will do me some good to go off social medias, but also movies or TV shows are culture and I can’t quit culture.

Would you rather be completely invisible for one day or be able to fly for one day?  Flying, because I just made the pros and the cons and fly gives you more pros than invisibility I guess

Would you rather have everything you eat be too salty or not salty enough no matter how much salt you add? Not slaty enough, I’m used to eating without too much salt. Also I’m a slut for sugar, not salt, I don’t care about salt

This or that...?

Iced or hot? Iced

Cake or pie? Cake

Antique or brand new? I’m fascinated by antique I guess

Call or text? Text, or audio, I try not to call, but if it’s really urgent, then I’ll call.

Online shopping or going to the mall? The mall, even if I don’t like the mall because it gives me headaches. I’m always scared that the items I buy online are not what I expect or don’t fit me.

Ocean or mountains? Mountains without snow on it. Like I don’t like skiing, I like nature.

Lou, 24, GMT+8, She/Her

What do you live for?

I have such a soft spot for k-dramas and honestly, with quarantine and all, it’s all that I’ve been watching. Would 100% recommend Crash Landing On You, if you haven’t watched it yet, as well as my all time fave: Scarlet Heart Ryeo! I also love period dramas and movies, and my current fave would have to be Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. 

As for music, my all-time favorite albums are Arctic Monkeys’ AM, and Melodrama by Lorde (my soundtrack while I worked on Astor tbh). 

Do you have any pets?

I have a little shih tzu named George! I used to foster a pet turtle named Tallullah but her owner took her back.

If there was another you, who would it be?

I would say Chidi from The Good Place because UM stressing over the morality of actions? Having stomach pains constantly? Yep, me. I also aspire to be Gina Linetti but I’m not half as cool as her. 

Favorite piece of dark academia, if any?

The Secret History will always be my fave. I also just recently discovered The Dead Poets Society (I know, I should be ashamed!) and loved it. 

Which type of dark academia are you?

Yo I did not expect this but I’m a classic dark academic?? Really thought I’d be more of the music-obsessed dark academic, but man, the aesthetics(?) for the classic dark academic just screams me tbh.

Is there a particular skeleton that caught your attention?

I’ll actually be playing the Sovereign, Daniel Choi Jong Hyuk!! 

Do you have…

Favorite faces to play? So many omg. My top faves would be Charles Melton, Nana Komatsu, Lucy Boynton, Park Jinyoung (obvi), Park Sooyoung, Courtney Eaton, Moon Ga Young, Woo Do Hwan, Vachirawit Chivaaree, Kaylee Bryant, Halston Sage-- those are just the ones that I can think of right now.

A character trope that you find yourself always writing? Ugh I’m always inclined to play the dark brooding guy™ who’s soft for his loved ones but I’m kind of hoping to switch things up, expand my repertoire, if you will. So I’m definitely trying to play the opposite with my character for Astor. 

A role play-related pet peeve? Godmodding. I think it can’t be helped to include the other character in a para, but as long as you make sure that the other writer is comfortable with it and has knowledge about it, should be good.

Would you rather…

Would you rather be famous when you are alive and forgotten when you die or unknown when you are alive but famous after you die? Famous after I die. It’s always caused this sort of anxiety for me, the thought that no one will remember me once I’m gone and just disappearing completely... Damn.

Would you rather never use social media sites / apps again or never watch another movie or TV show? I think I’d rather never use social media sites or apps again. I love my movies and TV shows too much to give them up. 

Would you rather be completely invisible for one day or be able to fly for one day? Fly! Gosh, think of all the places I can go to!

Would you rather have everything you eat be too salty or not salty enough no matter how much salt you add? Too salty. I can’t imagine eating something and always feeling like there’s something missing. At least I hope I can remedy the too salty situation?

This or that...?

Iced or hot? Iced

Cake or pie? Cake!

Antique or brand new? Hmmmm brand new, I think.

Call or text? Call, if I know the person. But if it’s an unknown number, they should just text ‘cause I’m not picking up that call. 

Online shopping or going to the mall? Online shopping!

Ocean or mountains? Ocean!