#nrpgaccepted

Welcome to the island, SAM! You’ve been accepted as ALANA with the faceclaim of Abigail Cowen.

I am beyond delighted to see you bring our bleeding-heart mer to life! I can tell just how much you’ve thought about Alana and how much love and care you’ve spent fleshing out all the things that make her tick! ‘Unlike merfolk, who could be so stagnant and boring sometimes, humans were constantly changing. It was fascinating how many situations they put themselves in every single day’. Alana brings an important counter-balance to the nature of the merfolk. I cannot wait for you to pull at all our heartstrings as we stalk her interactions on the dash!

Welcome to the island, VINCE! You’ve been accepted as IANTHE with the faceclaim of Anya Chalotra.

Make way, the head merfolk in charge has arrived!! Here we have another merfolk app that just oozes with excitement over the character! I know you have endless ideas and musings for Ianthe, and based on what you laid out in the app, I am so extremely excited to see them come to fruition! It can be dangerous at the top, especially when it comes to the merfolk. ‘The island to her is akin to a chess board, one she looms over as she twirls her hair and watches the pieces move around, shifting them in her favour whenever given the opportunity. Peter, Hook, they’re all the same in the end – pawns’. I am so here for the hints of madness and gothic horror goodness that make up our merfolk leader!

Welcome to the island, LEO! You’ve been accepted as RUFIO with the faceclaim of Charles Melton.

As always, you took the skeleton bio and wrote an app that gave me everything I could have hoped to see and even more out of Rufio. ‘He hasn’t been here long but the competitive urge to keep himself as the most special is pushing him on – too much for him to take a break and realise that he would have been welcomed with open arms until he made everyone his enemy’. I’m beyond excited to have this powder keg of a Lost Boy join the dash!

Welcome to the island, EMILY! You’ve been accepted as BRAMBLE ROSE with the faceclaim of Lovie Simone.

I absolutely adore your writing style and the way you wielded it to bring your interpretation of Bramble Rose to life! The elements of fairytale and gothic romanticism and horror were weaved through every headcanon and detail of the app in a way that I just couldn’t get enough of! ‘Her faith in the traditional ways of Small Folk magic died with the love of her life. And with that death came the call of the putrid center of the island: that which coveted life force for life force’. I don’t want to give away all of your headcanons, but there is so much stunning imagery and symbolism tucked into them! I am so pleased to welcome this mad little fae to the chaos that is Never!

Welcome to the island, HARPER! You’ve been accepted as HELEN with the faceclaim of Amita Suman.

Welcome to the island, LEO! You’ve been accepted as TRISTAN NAJJAR with the faceclaim of Mena Massoud.

As we all know, time is malleable for the sake of a fun narrative around here and I absolutely adore all the bits of history you put into shaping Tristan! ‘Despite the rich contradiction in his decision to enlist as a seaman, he’s a pacifist who hates violence and killing. He found this out a bit too late; overwhelmed by the noises, the shouting and the cannons and the explosions – let alone the guilt, the crushing agony of trying to sleep when you’ve turned a pair of eyes from ferocious to empty through a simple motion with a sword.’ I’m delighted that the Jolly Roger’s crew finally has their  surgeon. I fear they’re going to need him a lot!

Welcome to the island, SAM! You’ve been accepted as “BANDIT” NATE with the faceclaim of Herman Tømmeraas.

Not that I’m at all biased or anything, but I am so happy to have another rambunctious Lost Boy on the island! You have poured so many thoughtful details into your OC! ‘He never leaves the (tree)house without his HAT – a particularly worn, black baseball cap. There have been a few hats through the years; he hangs onto one until it completely falls apart, then replaces it. It’s kind of his subconscious security blanket’. And knowing some of the more long term arcs and plots you have planned, I can’t wait to read them as they unfold!

Welcome to the island, VINCENT! You’ve been accepted as FLETCHER with the faceclaim of Jung Jae Wong.

Welcome to the island, HARPER! You’ve been accepted as JAMES ‘HOOK’ with the faceclaim of Luke Arnold.

Welcome to the island, HARPER! You’ve been accepted as VICTOR BRAXTON with the faceclaim of Aneurin Barnard.

I know there is a certain smallfolk who is going to be positively salivating when they see that Victor will be stepping onto our little gruesome stage! I am so thrilled that you decided to apply for Victor because words simply cannot express how much I adore every single aspect of your interpretation of him. 'He is rotting from the inside out, his body turning foul and putrid as the very thing that kept him alive slowly drowns him, filling his lungs and eating him from the inside out as his body shreds itself, lesions he will never see coating his organs. And yet, despite that, he is permitted to remain on the ship, sailing it however far he can before going the other way again'. You are so masterful with gothic horror and I can't imagine anyone better suited to bring our sailing master to (a doomed) life!

Welcome to the island, EM! You’ve been accepted as ACE with the faceclaim of Kodi Smit-McPhee.

Ace is such an important facet of the Lost Boys as a group and also as a mythos at large! Through reading your app, I feel like you really clocked all the different reasons why Ace is one of Peter’s favorites and why he’s been able to last on the island and thrive for so long compared to the others: ‘Ace loves Neverland and he loves the Lost Boys and he loves Peter. Losing that frightens him, but being forced to go back to the Other World is a fate worse than death, and he will do what he always has to survive’. I know you’ve already got a handful of plot ideas for Ace and I can’t wait to see them shake out!

Welcome to the island, HARPER! You’ve been accepted as TINKER BELL with the faceclaim of Jeanne Goursaud.

Welcome to the island, LANCE! You’ve been accepted as SAWYER with the faceclaim of Froy Gutierrez.

You had me sold the moment I read that Sawyer tries to see Pan as an eldritch being! And, honestly, that’s a pretty accurate comparison. I love your interpretation of Sawyer and the through-line of apprehension and cautious optimism in them that runs throughout your app! ‘The ocean mimics their voice, reminding them that they were not happy in the Other World- although wrong, here they had a family’. Also, I’m glad to report that your proposed connection with Cecco and the use of he/they pronouns for Sawyer have both been approved!

Welcome to the island, LEO! You’ve been accepted as NIN with the faceclaim of Piploy Kanyarat.

Leo over here bringing us bits of Thai folklore goodness! Having come from a more isolated and sheltered sort of environment, Nin has such a unique view of Neverland. ‘Amongst other mermaid communities, she was only vaguely aware that [legged folks] even existed, so she’s very wary of getting too close to anyone right now. Behaving a bit like a wild animal, she’ll find someone she’s interested by, inch closer, and the second they seem to notice her she’ll scuttle away’. I'm so excited to find out what sort of effect the island’s inhabitants will have on Nin!

Welcome to the island, MARNIE! You’ve been accepted as ECHO with the faceclaim of Madelyn Cline.

You have given Echo such depth and provided some seriously compelling and wonderfully genre-aligned motives behind the edge that makes her the only girl who can truly call herself a Lost Boy! 'the stakes for echo are higher than they are for most people, and she’s determined not to lose her place in peter’s pantheon of immortal lost boys’. I don’t want to spoil anything so I’ll leave it to you to reveal the details, but I am beyond ecstatic about your interpretation of Echo and I can’t wait to see her in action!

ADMIN NOTE: Okay, okay, okay. So today could have been an incredibly hard decision for me. Two absolutely AMAZING writers put in phenomenal ocs for the one remaining small folk spot! However, I am a rebel, you all know this, and so I’ve decided to accept both because I truly think our island needs the both of them!!

Welcome to the island, HARPER! You’ve been accepted as OAK with the faceclaim of Kit Harington.

You brought me not only Celtic symbolism but also Shakespeare and for that I thank you! Oak’s devotion to the island and his distinctive perspective of how it all works together is such a joy! ‘After all, there’s no point in keeping the Island going if the core of it, its sense of vivacity and mischief, is lost with it. Oak loves to make people smile. It tickles the part of him buried beneath ash. The fact that a grimace and a scream were so close to a smile and a laugh really just makes Oak’s job easier’. The island quite literally needs this energy!!

Welcome to the island, MADS! You’ve been accepted as TICK-TOCK with the faceclaim of Jenna Ortega.

You have this wonderful way of digging your nails into the classic Neverland mythos and reshaping it into something lovely, gothic, and shades darker than it was first presented and I adore that about you! ‘Tick-tock goes the clock but the clock is a croc, counting down your days one by one. the reaper will come knocking with a leathery hand, claws outstretched & canines gleaming. time is death, & death is hungry’. Tick-tock’s connection with the larger-than-life croc is everything I never knew I needed!!