#halfmoonrp

RUSSELL "RUSTY" LASTNAME

24, farmhand, idiot in jorts

me: this isn't a real character you: ok but is this not a character blurb? me: like i said he's fake

if you looked up every cowboy and redneck/hillbilly meme and/or stereotype and you mashed them together to try and make a shape you would have rusty

no he doesn't have a last name because he needs a family /: more on that later

whose to say where it all went wrong for rusty, or if this was truly just the way it was always meant to be. it's entirely possible he got kicked in the head by a horse or cow too many times as a kid, because it certainly happened at *least* twice.

born and raised in miriam's well, spent most of his life on the back of a horse which led to him being a proficient rodeo kween until he fucked it up, broke too many bones and lost too much money and any dignity he pretended to have. came back to town embarrassed and hell and found out his gf had been cheating on him for a long time. when it rains it pours as they say

literally lived that new girl moment where he got arrested for cock fighting as a person in mexico and duke bailed him out

the other half of the dairy queen mafia, someone drove their bike into a dq sign while he was just "minding his business" trying to get a blizzard thru the drive-thru on his horse, which is apparently not allowed????? in this economy?? honestly this "law" or w/e should really be brought up to the mayor but you won't catch rusty doing it because authority and authority figures make him nervous //: was he drunk? well yes but that's besides the point, a man just wants his ice cream

he wasn't even supposed to be there the night the factory burned down but he somehow ended up there and now everything's sort of coming back up and rusty is truly just :| but he is *not* a snitch so you won't catch him fessing up and actively avoiding the cops in the meantime

does ride his horse or atv just about anywhere, installed a car alarm on both (don't ask)

he's always been a bit of a walking disaster tbh, not detrimentally-irresponsible but yikes dude. a lovable mess who is currently very cynical and whiny mood and will most certainly complain about something but his heart is very full of love!!!

king of "huffing" it tbh.....peach fields, goat yards, he's passed out pretty much everywhere

alas, always the cowboy & never the cow

WANTED –

1. a family - no seriously, rusty isn't fit to be the main character of the family and would serve much better in a supporting role, so consider this a reverse sort of request for any families - most likely permanent/long-time miriam's well residents - where he could fit in! he most likely did not fit the mold his parents/family wanted for their son so if anyone would like a true dipshit cousin or even a brother who embarrasses them at every turn please let a girl know

2. he works as a farmhand so the farm owner who just really loves charity cases and has decided to employee him. surprisingly rusty is handy? who would've thought honestly but he'll mend a fence or milk a cow without batting an eye. is he late sometimes? yes. annoying? yes, but what he lacks in punctuality he makes up for in gusto and his strange ability to calm any animal that's in front of him.

3. his ex-girlfriend of a significant amount of time (think high school "sweethearts") who left him for his best friend after cheating on him with said friend for a long time without rusty having any idea. tbh, rusty was a bad boyfriend so he's not 100% free of sin in this situation but he's not a cheater!!! bonus points if she's named natalie because he wrote a zinger of a slam poem in his rage

4. said ex-best friend who was his ride or die and now, since he cannot ride....he must die...no but i would love to explore rusty, king of stunted emotions, to try and go through the process of dealing with some Ultimate betrayal.

5. someone, let's call it a friend, who will take rusty places he needs to get to when he a) gets in a fight with boondock, his horse (they're going through a rough patch rn, no he doesn't want to talk about it) or his atv is out of gas.

about: est, she/her, 23 but like i fully forgot that 22 even happened the other week and time is not real

things you love to write: found families, broken aces, bittersweet endings, platonic soulmates, angst plots that make me say sTOP even though i would like them to keep going im just dramatic, things that feel nostalgic even though they’ve never happened?? does that make sense we don’t know, exes and complicated histories of different kinds

things you'd love to experiment with re: writing: i read a short story recently that had stage instructionts for the reader and it has not left my little rat brain since.  honestly i really would love to experiment with writing styles generally i think i sort of have a vibe and stick with it so new things would really be 👀

what would you want to see on the site: listen i’m just Excited and would love some pals to be excited with

garrison "grady" oliver knox jr.

thirty two. podcast host. amateur sleuth. casey deidrick.

grady: [looks deeply into your eyes; pats your knee, sympathetically.] grady: “i don’t care.”

content warnings: mentions child neglect, parental abandonment, missing parent, (suspected) death of a parent, alcoholism.

penny beaufort, 24, baby spice —

yes this is her graphic no i don’t take anything seriously yes i was inspired by word art for this 

24, hot girl, biggest role model is nicole richie but specifically on the simple life ? she’s cute or whatever

one half of the dairy queen mafia, drove her bike drunkenly into a dq sign and got a dui for it and probably would’ve gotten her license suspended if she didn’t fail her test in solidarity with her best friend bc shes #loyal babes. hot girls can’t drive anyways

literally has never had a coherent thought in her life, please, you’re asking a lot of her ? 

was homecoming princess her sophomore year of high school and (unsuccessfully) led a campaign to make her friends call her princess for the rest of time. OTT to say the least, but in a fun .. sexy .. sort of way ..

likes being a big fish in a small pond, not the other way around. she's loud, and quite dramatic, and likes being known etc etc. Small town famous, probably would've been the subject of a pop punk diss track if she were of age in 2006. 

stage 5 fuckin' clinger! needs to feel needed, but gets weird when people try to cling to her, so it really doesn't make sense. she gets attached to everyone so easily: talk to her at a party for four minutes? you're her new best friend. once she drunkenly convinced herself that a fire hydrant she was sitting on a curb next to was her newest friend and cried when her friends told her she couldn't take it home. 

doesn't have regrets because honestly she probably forgets her bad decisions 2 seconds later bc she's distracted by smth shiny! hopeless romantic, literally would fall in love a wall if it told her she was pretty ok .. the bar is so low !!! 

lit never has any idea what she's talking about. a fuckin' ditz but she's cute and always well-intentioned so like.. whatever she can get away with it. 

neeeeeeeeeeeeedy! And loves being the center of attention ( not that she'll ever admit it ). hates it when she introduces two people and they get closer to each other than they are to her. easily made insecure by small "slights" like that, and in response, instead of talking it out like an actual human being, she either gets very clingy or will ghost entirely to see if you ever really cared about her. 

like half of her family is dead LMFAO and she thinks it’s a curse so she’s just out here acting reckless bc “it could be me next” or something like that 

falls in love fourteen times a day and falls out of love fifteen ! has a group text with all her exes just to ask if they still think she’s pretty and when someone is like “why am i still in this chat” she cries .. 

wanted plots:

yung messy things from miriam’s well baby ! she’s a 4 lyfer (except for the few years she spent in LA trying to be an influencer but really just spending way too much money and getting a minor dr*g problem) and probably has a big group of friends that she’s known FOREVER? all messy and in each other’s business 25/8 u kno what i’ll write a request for this eventually 

exes like so many exes .. please .. she’s dated everyone in town that’s remotely in her age bracket .. dumped someone for having nicer hair than hers and then cried even harder because she was like oh my god i should have shaved it off .. she’s a bicon so pls ex gfs and bfs and non binary partners .. all here .. yeehaw baby 

an ex who hates her but she annoys relentlessly w friendship because she HATES the idea of anyone actually having bad feelings towards her ... it doesnt sit right like shes so cute n fun how could u ever ... but this would be fucking hilarious bc truthfully penny is ANNOYING MKDSJFSD LMFAO ! 

anyone who works with the beauforts at their bar or distillery! all of the (alive) siblings are always in and out and penny thinks drinks are always free and plentiful, so she’s there fairly often!! and is probably annoying to serve because she thinks she knows what she’s doing so she goes behind the bar to serve herself!