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“Smellin' and trackin' ain't enough. You gotta think nasty!”

FULL NAME: Hugo “Chief” Slade BASED ON: Chief FACE CLAIM: Charlie Hunnam  PRONOUNS: He/Him BIRTHDAY: 18 September 1991  CURRENT STATUS: Closed

Character Information CW: Guns

Swynlake Weapons Safety Course Third Thursday every month @ 1700 - Town Hall All Swynlake residents who own a weapon; to include guns, bows, or any propulsion items, are invited to attend the mandatory Weapons Safety Course. Please bring all registration documents for each weapon along with proper personal identification. Experienced hunters and outdoorsmen still need to apply and certification will last five years. If you have any questions please get with Hugo Slade Swynlake Game Keeper.  Purpose: To ensure safety, accountability, and regulation. Here in the United Kingdom it is illegal to carry a weapon without a valid certificate; if member does not have such documentation it will be drafted and certified on site. Firing of a weapon without valid certificates is also illegal; amnesty will be awarded to all who were not held accountable under prior Game Keeper leadership. Hunting Rules: The laws and rules for hunting and shooting are different in each country of the United Kingdom, so it is essential to check before going out on a hunt. England and Wales have no closed seasons for deer, game birds or hares, and wild boar can only be hunted with hounds between 1 July and 31 January.  Items to be covered during course: - Nomenclature of weapons, knowledge of firearm safety rules, and proper weapons handling to include practical. (this is part of certification). - Hunting times, hunting rules…with or without dogs, and proper ammunition to use. - Sport shooting and regulations - Permits and certifications - United Kingdom registry I would like to welcome all gun owners, hunters, outdoorsmen, sport shooters, and anyone who is potentially interested in owning or operating a firearm. This will be a fun course to share knowledge and create a safe and trusted environment in our town. All weapons owners are expected to re-register their weapons before July 14th 2024. Looking forward to meeting everyone and build good relationships with out communities outdoorsmen! It is an honor to follow in my father and grandfather's foot steps and fill the seat of Game Keeper for Swynlake. I am a Swynlake native and have spent my university years studying abroad in the United States at University of Wyoming. I have a BA in Agricultural Business and Natural Resource Science; the welfare of our environment and the natural way of life is a major priority. I am looking forward to following the legacy bestowed before me.  If anyone is looking to get into sport shooting or setting up a target decathlon please come visit my office at town hall. My door is always open. Thank You. Hugo “Chief” Slade Swynlake Game Keeper

✓ Loyal, Athletic, Tenacious ✖ Competitive, Ruthless, Devious

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“JOANNNNNAAAA………”

Full Name: Joanna Vane Face Claim: Maddie Ziegler Pronouns: she/her Birthday: May 30th 2004 Current Status: Closed

Character Information: TW: abuse, addiction, and police

Life was never really easy. Then again it wouldn’t be when you are born into a life like Joannas. For as long as she could remember she felt like a prisoner. The prison was her life. Something she felt was impossible to escape until now. Things were about to change for her but thats only if she didn’t get caught. Lucky for her she rarely got caught…rarely.

Most people would say her life was something movies were written about; and its not the lavish life of an it girl with cute boys and cute clothes. Her life was like a tragic drama where you were not sure if she was going to survive in the end.

Her first real memory was sitting outside a small one bedroom apartment on the outskirts of her small Australian town. Covered in dirt, clothes soiled and dirty, hair in tangles, and belly aching. The broken screen door slammed open and the sound of combat boots crunching rocks under pressure barreling towards her. The smell of cigarettes and stale beer lingered as this large man in cut off jean shorts and a wife beater wound up and kicked her across the dirt.

Screaming at her for being in the way… only way he took out his aggression. This was a core memory because as her father went to kick her again she changed. From little girl to a monitor lizard; small but still a lizard. Scaring her father and scared herself she scurried off under the fence to hide…and she hid there until she was herself again and her father was passed out in a lawn chair. Joanna was 5.

There was a long history of shifters throughout the outback; but it was always wives tales and stories. Her father was originally disgusted with this inherited trait - blaming it on her dead beat mother. As she grew older she learned to control the shifting. It only became a true issue when she was scared; and unfortunately for her she lived in fear. Fathers fist was raised, voice at top volume, covered in stale beer, and dragging her through their small apartment by her hair Joanna would shift. Thrown in a cage until she would turn back… her father made sure she could never run and hide again.

As she grew older she found herself spending more time at school, finding hobbies, and making friends with other troubled teens who were also running from bullshit at home. The ability to change into a monitor made it extremely easy to cause more mischief than as a girl. Joanna and her group of friends typically found themselves in places they shouldn’t be. Sneak in as a lizard and unlock a gate, a door, or a window and wreak havoc inside. Joanna found herself to naturally just have sticky fingers…break into the right homes you can steal just about anything and sell it. Steal one wrong ring from the wrong person and a mark is on your head though. Joanna and her friends took a single diamond ring to a jeweler to pawn it and in seconds flashing blue and red was outside the shop. Dragged away to holding in cuffs Joanna was released to her father.

Head bashed into the passenger side window Joanna took the brutal berating from her father. $1000 dollars down the drain for her bail.

Her father was smart though; most addicts were in their own right. If Joanna was so good at stealing and was untraceable in her monitor form - he would use her to foot their bill.

An abusive life of servitude - wake up scared… her father would use his anger to force her to shift. Their route started small; stealing from neighbors and then suddenly grew to political figures in Melbourne. The twisted reality was Joanna wanted to prove to her father that she could do a good job; maybe if she did as he asked he would give her a little bit of praise. A vicious cycle.  Most nights Joanna was locked away in their dirty apartment; if she picked the locks to sneak out with friends it was only a matter of time before her father would track her down and lock her in her cage.

This life was killing her and it was only a matter of time before someone fired on her as she slithered out of some estate; nobody would think twice about shooting a monitor lizard  - they are a predator after all.

She had to find a way out - she needed to leave the country. Her friends may miss her but her father was going to get her killed or worse kill her himself.

With money stashed from her heists she slowly saved up $50,000. She had one final job and her plan was to not hand any over to her father - she would take the money and a bag of her things and run.

PrideU in Swynlake; a town hidden away in the UK was her goal. A university with a magik history program…maybe she could find others like her. A new life where nobody knew her and her father couldn't find her. If anything she could fall back on sticky fingers to keep her bank full…anything to survive. That was the goal now…to survive.

✓ intuitive, cunning, talented ✖ vile, selfish, impressionable Character Suggestions:

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“I really have feelings for you, but we to spend some time apart.” FULL NAME: Rose Whitman BASED ON: Rose/Huntsgirl (American Dragon) FACE CLAIM: Kathryn Newton PRONOUNS: She/her BIRTHDAY: October 15th 1999 STATUS: Closed

Character information: || cw: implied murder ||

Rose Whitman appeared average in every way. She was just a normal girl living in New York City, a city full of magic and spectacular happenings. No one knew that she was a huntress though. A student and friend by day, and a hunter by night. She was raised this way.

The girl was born into a secret society that hunted Magicks and where better to hunt than a city full of them?

Somehow, her training failed her. She got too close to a particular werewolf in trying to gain intel. She knew what he was from the beginning, but she needed to befriend him to get closer to his pack. The pair quickly fell in love and that destroyed her. She wept for him when she realized what her duties were. Hunt him. Hunt the boy she loved. She couldn’t bear the look in his eyes when he was caged by her hand. If she didn’t she would have betrayed her family… but she already had betrayed him. A person she grew to love despite his affliction. She couldn’t fire the silver bullet. The boy made her weak.

The Huntsclan murdered the boy she loved and she dared defend him. They never treated her the same after the incident, but she was eager to prove herself once again. She was once their top hunter and now a pariah for showing weakness. An affection towards a Magick wasn’t expressly forbidden but it sure made their jobs harder… and it went against everything she stood for. Rose refused to show any weakness after her Kai was eliminated. Werewolves were beasts and she’d never get burned by one again.

So when the opportunity to serve came, she answered it. She volunteered to go to Swynlake to team up with their European sector, and prove herself one last time. She was no longer weak, she would never fall for the trick of a Magick again. She was a loyal warrior through and through.

✓ Compassionate to her cause, tough, quick-thinking

✖  Loyal to a fault, kills Magicks ???, serious

Character Suggestions

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Current Relationships

None

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Magical Abilities

“Do I have to be on camera?"

FULL NAME: Raine Whispers BASED ON: Raine Whispers (The Owl House) FACE CLAIM: Vico Oritz PRONOUNS: They/them BIRTHDAY: March 16th, 1979 CURRENT STATUS: Closed

Character Information

Ever since they were a child, Raine knew a lot would be expected of them. Their older half-sibling, a member of the Emperor’s Coven, high ranking, leaving big footsteps for them to follow in. Raine was enrolled in a prestigious magical school, there because of their promising power as a sorcerer. And although their methods for casting spells were a little… different, there was no denying their talent. Though from day one at the school, Raine didn’t feel like they fit in. They were different from everyone else by more than just their method of magic. As they grew, they found themself more and more, figuring out who they were inside and out. The only problem with any of that was the fact that Raine was at the school on scholarships. So anything that could be seen as rebelling or causing problems was a big no-no. Unfortunately, Raine wasn’t ever one to sit still and be quiet.

It was at a magic tournament, a place for the best and brightest students of the schools to first be seen by the Emperor’s Coven. And while Raine’s technique was different, their score still came out nearly flawless. Their whole scholarship rode every year on their performance here. And when it came time for a solo demonstration, Raine froze up, unable to cast even the simplest spell in front of the judges. Their teachers were disappointed, their parents were disappointed, but no one was more disappointed in them than Raine themself.

As they got older, now attending Hexside without their scholarship, Raine honed their magic even further. Bard magic was always so strange to anyone who’d never seen it before. And with Raine’s growing performance anxiety, people started to doubt more and more their power. Were they just lying about their abilities? Were they still at a child's level of spellcasting? Did they even have magic at all?

Raine would’ve been content to fade into the background and just keep their magic to themself forever, but it was expected of them to attempt to place in a Coven of some prestige. Just like their sibling had. And against the odds—once again thanks to the anxiety of performing in front of so many powerful people— they found themself a Scout for the Bard Coven. Low ranking, barely placing, but they had! Which was great for them.

It was great, until things started to change. Scouts going missing, strange things said about magic in meetings, the things children were being taught in school. There was something about all of it that just felt… off. It wasn’t until they were a bit older, a bit more known in their ranks, that the Emperor’s Golden Guard ‘retired’. Something about that was wrong. There were no answers about where he had gone or what he was doing or how to contact him. It was almost like Belos wanted them all to forget about him. All of these things piling up led Raine to dig deeper into Coven history than people—the Emperor— wanted anyone to. They started studying all sorts of magic, all sorts of history of the Boiling Isles, trying to find any information they could, spiraling down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and rebellious thoughts.

All of this culminated with a single goal. Get higher in the system, learn the system from the inside, take the system down. Raine had never been one to follow the rules, and now that they were seeing the tyranny unfold that so many others seemed so blind to, they knew they had to do something. So they trained, they practiced, they grew stronger. Strong enough that they found themself Head Bard. Being a Head Witch was difficult and a little scary—and involved a lot more public speaking than they would like—but it got them into that inner circle. It got them closer to all the secrets. And being that close to the secrets could be dangerous.

When Darius, the Abomination Coven Head, left to go to some small town in England, any eyes that could have potentially been on him now fell on Raine. They knew Darius must have some similar feelings about everything going on, especially with his old mentor. And those feelings were confirmed when the announcement went out that the current Golden Guard, along with several others, were now enemies of the state. Along with Belos kicking the non-citizens out of the Isles, Raine knew things were ramping up. Tensions were high, stakes were higher. They knew something had to be done to stop Belos, but they couldn’t do it alone.

So, they left the Boiling Isle, going to the last place they knew Darius to be. Whatever the Emperor was planning couldn’t continue. Leaving under the guise that they received an offer from PrideU to teach music studies and Bard magic for a semester, Raine made their way to Swynlake, knowing that the people there could be the last bastion of hope for all the people of the Boiling Isles. And they want to do whatever they can to help.

✓  Righteous, intelligent, empathetic

✖  Shy, easily worried, bad at puns

Character Suggestions

Latinx, nonbinary

Current Relationships

None

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Magical Abilities

"Worth a shot.”

FULL NAME: Camilo Castillo Madrigal BASED ON: Camilo (Encanto) FACE CLAIM: N/A PRONOUNS: Any (but primarily he/they) BIRTHDAY:  December 28, 1998 CURRENT STATUS: Closed

Character Information

A shawl that his grandmother left draped over a chair in the living room.

This is the first thing that Camilo takes. They don’t mean to, but later, when his grandmother asks him if he has seen it, he lies. 

It happens quickly after that: his brother’s comb, their sister’s ribbon, a few pound coins from his father’s wallet, their mother’s necklace. Lip gloss from Isabela’s vanity. Too many arepas to count. Some work documents from their tio. One of Mirabel’s crocheting needles. 

Casita makes a little place for Camilo to keep it all, under the stage in their room, but he can feel the house’s disapproval.

The stealing is nothing serious. It’s just a joke. Just a prank. Like everything else they do. He tells himself he’ll give it back one day, but it is better for him to keep it all in one place, right? They may have to leave again. (That’s what they tell themself when they feel guilty.) 

It starts to grow. 

Swiping a hair clip that a customer leaves on the counter in line in front of him at the supermarket. A shot glass from the Court. A bag of crisps from the market. A book from under the Acheron’s noses. There is a little thrill to it. It’s harmless, really. Nothing to worry about. So much has been taken from them, so why shouldn’t they take just a little something from other people? (That’s what they tell themself when they steal from other people.) 

Besides, they help people all the time. Need someone tall? They can become someone who is over six feet. Someone small? Camilo can become a little fairy. Calm an upset kid? Camilo’s there as their favourite person. They were always helping--and they liked helping! That is their family’s whole thing. Everyone knows the Amazing Madrigals are so helpful and wonderful. 

But sometimes, they want to do something for themself. Is that really so bad? 

✓  Charismatic, easy-going, theatrical

✖  Silly, mischievous, absolutely chaotic neutral energy here

Character Suggestions

Afro-Latino (preferably Colombian)

Current Relationships

Julieta Madrigal (aunt) Pepa Madrigal (mother) Bruno Madrigal (uncle) Agustin Madrigal (uncle) Felix Madrigal (father) Isabela Madrigal (cousin) Dolores Madrigal (older sister)  Luisa Madrigal (cousin) Maribel Madrigal (cousin) Antonio Madrigal (youngest brother)

Possible Relationships

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Magical Abilities

Shapeshifting (can change form, but not voice; needs to have seen the person before if he is doing an exact full-body replica; the better he knows the person, the longer he can stay in the form; the more transformations, the more energy it takes) **

“Show me what you got!”

FULL NAME: Cruz Ramirez BASED ON: Cruz (Cars 3) FACE CLAIM: Lee Rodrigez PRONOUNS: She/Her BIRTHDAY: Up-to-Player CURRENT STATUS: Closed

Character Information

Ever since Cruz was a little girl, she would wake up before the sun to run laps around Swynlake. At first it was just to get all her energy out before she went to school so that she didn’t end up bouncing off the walls, but then it became a part of her workout routine. One she made of her own design, after her favorite athlete: Lightning McQueen. The bolt of red that dashed across her screen, fast and fearless. She wanted nothing more in the world than to be like him. 

So, she decided that she was going to be. 

Everyday she trained, everyday she researched, everyday she watched a race from years past to learn everything she possibly could. Cruz ate, slept, and breathed the Grand Prix because one day she was going to compete in it. 

When that opportunity finally came, the nearest try-out being all the way in London, Cruz begged her mother to let her go. Now, her mother was a kind woman who had raised her daughter to be the same. But she denied her the trip, not wanting Cruz to get her hopes up only to see her get hurt. 

Against her wishes, Cruz went anyway. All by herself she took the trip to London and showed up at the Grand Prix try-outs. Along with all the other Magicks who were trying to qualify for the race. Sorcerers, Gifteds, Shifters, Fairies. They were all there, decked out in their expensive clothes, sponsors already talking to them like they were good friends. She looked down at her hand-me-down clothes and beat up old trainers, wondering what she had been thinking. In the warm up area she had watched them, bigger, stronger, more talented than she could ever hope to be, and knew right then and there that she did not belong. She may have been fast, but she was not fearless.

Cruz left before it even began. 

But while they could take the girl out of the sport, they couldn’t take the sport out of the girl. In an effort to fill that empty space in her heart Cruz decided that just because she couldn’t compete didn’t mean that others in her neighborhood couldn’t. She started the club for fun but quickly realized that there was some real potential among those in Swynlake and now wants nothing more than to give them the chance to shine in the big leagues.

✓ Optimistic, driven, hard worker

✖  Intense, insecure, clumsy

Character Suggestions

Latinx

Current Relationships

None

Possible Relationships

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Magical Abilities

“They say every story has a beginning–except mine. My story has two…“

FULL NAME: Princess Elena Flores of Avalor /  Ximena Delejos BASED ON: Princess Elena (Elena of Avalor) FACE CLAIM: Adria Arjona PRONOUNS: She/her BIRTHDAY: November 16, 1994 CURRENT STATUS: Closed

Character Information || cw: discrimination, displacement, kidnapping ||

Elena’s childhood was idyllic until her parents were the victims of political assassination upon a diplomatic visit to neighboring Venezuela when she was fifteen years old. It was supposed to be fine after that. The murders of her parents was supposed to be her big tragedy. She was supposed to become queen and rule her kingdom with a fair but leading hand, but that came crashing down just under two years ago. An evil sorcerer attacked Avalor and Elena fled the country with her assigned guard Lieutenant Gabriel “Gabe” Núñez, sister Isabel, and friend Mateo De Alma.  She hoped that the attack on her country would be the end of their troubles - or at least signified a period of respite - but Elena couldn’t have been more wrong.

None of the countries bordering Avalor (Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and Colombia) were willing to take the royal family in as refugees, nor were the rest of the governments on the continent. Even the pro-magic Peru, although to Peru’s credit, they took in hundreds of displaced citizens of Avalor. The reason behind Elena and Isabel being unable to find asylum on their own continent, was their popularity among their own people. Avalor being a friendly but reclusive magic country scared the leaders of South America and they feared an uprising from their magick populations and being usurped by the Avalorean royals. Elena and the rest of the grand council tried and tried to reason with them, to explain that usurping anybody and taking over anywhere wasn’t at all what they had in mind, but to no avail. Elena’s possession of a magical item that the evil sorcerer was after was an additional mark against them - they feared an invasion of their own countries as well.

A princess without a country and the steward of a sought after magical item, Elena needed to find safety and find it fast. The Dominican Republic, South Korea, Serbia, Nepal, Switzerland, Germany, and Uzbekistan all granted them temporary asylum for a short period of time each, but bouncing from country to country just wasn’t cutting it. So while hiding in a small abandoned cottage by a German forest, Elena insisted Gabe go ahead and investigate Western Europe, to see if it’s really dotted with settlements as Magick safe as they heard from an old Serbian woman. “Send word and Isabel, Mateo, and I will join you when you find a place to live.” Reluctantly, Gabe went on ahead but trusted Elena’s safety to Mateo.

Gabe and Elena communicated through scattered phone calls for the following months, until on Elena’s end the correspondence suddenly stopped just under three months ago, at the end of May, without any explanation. Without any indication to Gabe that something was wrong…how was he to know?

A group of German magick-hunters nearby suspected Elena and Mateo of being hexendämonen - witch demons, their slur for magicks - and broke into the cottage while the three were sleeping to abduct them. It took them two weeks to find a chance to escape the basement of the home they were held in, and once they made a quick stop to the forest cottage to salvage any belongings and retrieve the Scepter of Light that Mateo and Elena hid inside of a wall and masked with anti-discovery magic, they fled Germany. They’ve been bouncing around Western Europe for the past month and a half.

Unbeknownst to any of the trio, the English town Mateo has inexplicably led them to has just what they’re looking for. Safety. But more importantly? Gabe. Elena’s lifelong friend and personal guard. They’ve been separated since November, and Gabe is unaware of their time in captivity..

Gabe must be worried sick - if he even cares at all. Which is a cruel thought, because Elena knows her friend worries about her, but she can’t help but to be a little bitter and angry. Why hadn’t he come to look for them, did he not think something was wrong? What could possibly have preoccupied him? Did he find somewhere to live happily and forget all about them? Did he think Elena was too much trouble so he just…ran off?

Elena doesn’t want to be angry. She knows that she really doesn’t have a right to be angry. It was HER idea he leave in the first place. And it’s not as if HE had a way to contact HER. Elena was only able to call when the she, Mateo, and Isabel had gathered enough loose change found on the streets or in a wishing fountain to use a pay phone, and after escaping Germany they never stayed in the same country with the same currency long enough for gathering to be any use. And more than anything she misses her dear friend and just wants to see him again. See him safe, and happy, and thriving. And he’s been away from her for so long… he must be enjoying the freedom.

Even if he doesn’t want to be her bodyguard anymore, which would suck because she’s never not felt safe with Gabe…but if her life has taught her anything it’s that nothing good ever lasts for her.

✓  Brave, determined, family-oriented

✖  Bossy, impatient, reckless

Character Suggestions

Latina

Current Relationships

Lieutenant Gabriel “Gabe” Núñez (assigned guard) Princess Isabel Flores of Avalor (sister)

Possible Relationships

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Magical Abilities

“My gift wasn’t helping the family, but I love my family, ya know?“

FULL NAME: Bruno Madrigal  BASED ON: Bruno (Encanto) FACE CLAIM: Fonseca PRONOUNS: He/Him BIRTHDAY: July 23, 1971 CURRENT STATUS: Closed

Character Information

This character is currently closed.

✓ Selfless, kooky, determined

✖ Superstitious, overly cautious, misunderstood

Character Suggestions

Latinx, preferably Colombian

Current Relationships

Julieta Madrigal (oldest sister) Pepa Madrigal (older sister) Agustin Madrigal (brother-in-law) Felix Madrigal (brother-in-law) Isabela Madrigal (niece) Dolores Madrigal (niece) Luisa Madrigal (niece) Camilo Madrigal (nephew) Maribel Madrigal (niece) Antonio Madrigal (nephew)

Possible Relationships

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Magical Abilities