#pobil

Michael Umbrella

--Clarinet. Wants to show up, play, and leave. (Plays the opening clarinet run to Rhapsody in Blue - and ONLY the opening run, at least 4x per rehearsal. The band/orchestra have never officially played this piece and likely never will).

“Remember the visual change on page 13?”

“No.”

Cocknies

--Literally all trumpets trying to out scream each other. (The gossips of the band. Between these three and the “typing pool” of the guard it’s amazing anyone has any secrets.)

Pobil

--Flute. Enjoys its intricacies. Is constantly trying to hand his case to someone else (but has been seen carrying Juan’s tuba case for him). Has to keep said case away from Steve because he finds the assembly of the flute quite complex and has managed to put the flute together backwards on more than one occasion. No one is quite sure how he managed.

Jewell (FOC)

—Marching captain. Drum captain. No nonsense (Hester and Bevan approve. Monty does not). The ACTUAL center snare (Masterson is full of shit). Also plays piccolo (usually during the ballad) and trumpet (lord help him if he hears another peep from one of the trumpet trio. Willie is also on thin fucking ice). Is the only thing between the Drumline and total anarchy. Probably. (You do NOT want a talking-to from Jewell. He won’t raise his voice. Won’t shout. Won’t belittle or scream. Just very succinctly take you apart until you feel three inches tall, before calling you a good lad, patting you on the back, and sending you back to your spot.)

Seraph crew! - drum line

Lieutenant/Douglas (Charles track)

—Tenors/Quads. Constantly interrupting. Constantly questions everything. Constantly tuning and re-tuning. Insists on running the cadence after every rehearsal. Is about to explode if Masterson says one more stupid thing. Has been made responsible for keeping Steve away from the cymbals.

Navigator/Walker (Bevan Track)

—Bass 3. Always knows what drill set they’re in and what comes next. Always has the instruction/information correct. Knows EXACTLY where his dot is. Knows exactly where YOUR dot is. 100% will call people out (even if he’s not supposed to). Gets impatient when others wander off-task.

Submariner/Bosun (Jean Track)

—Bass 2. Often confused about where they’re starting. Never knows what’s going on. Highly distractible. Is in the center of the bass line for a reason.

Submariner/Coxun (Monty Track)

—Bass 1 (had to be talked out of Bass 5 because they couldn’t lift it). Complains about the weather no matter what’s happening outside. Keeps losing their shako and plume. (Jewell has threatened to glue it to his head.)

Bartender

—Trombone. Constantly making faces when he’s not playing. Enjoys making “womp womp” sound effects when someone else messes up. Loves trying to make others break while in formation.

Ivor

—French horn. Since when did we have marching French horns? (Since Ivor joined band, apparently.) They’re still trying to persuade him to switch to mellophone (all attempts have been unsuccessful so far). Can be found frantically writing in notebooks any time his section isn’t being worked with. Constantly on about turning their marching season into his premiere documentary film. Splits time between band and table-tennis (Bevan just loves that explanation).

Shoeshine boy

—Piccolo. You know why. Always needs spare change for the vending machine and isn’t afraid to ask

Fusty Admirals

—On-field judges who are Very old-fashioned and don’t understand all this “dancing and movement! Whatever happened to straight lines and traditional marching?! Why are there boys dancing? Whoever heard of a female drum major? Why are there ladies in the drum line? I say this is all highly irregular!” (It’s not)

(The entire band wants them to shut up.)

Tub Johnson

—Baritone. Talented and hard-working (but struggles to be noticed among the low-brass). Hangs out with the flutes and tubas. Does not like the words “again” or “one more time”. Eager to perform but complains about his part and asks at least once per day why the mellophones can’t just play the awkward stuff. (Has a weird pseudo-competition thing going on with Charles - no one is quite sure why [least of all, Charles himself, who has never had more than a single conversation with the other boy] and has no idea what went wrong]) Dislikes Monty. A lot.

(Once Charles lost his glasses for ten minutes while in uniform and no one could tell them apart EXCEPT Monty. Nobody liked that)

Deborah

—The most stereotypical flute/piccolo ever (absolutely LOVES getting to play the descants - Monty [VERY hypocritically] calls her a “show off”). Friends with the guard girls. Monty keeps trying to shove her in front of the tuba line.

Hel

• gay

• genderqueer (this isnt projecting I swear)

• he/they

• he’s still kinda in the closet about the last two tho

• in a secret relationship with Jose and wants to go public with it but Jose does not (if anyone makes a Jose blog and doesn’t want this dm and I’ll stop)

• autistic - their special interest is the human body

• his favourite colour is green (ofc)

•Haseldon introduced them to sangria and they’re low-key addicted to it

•taught himself good English bc England is (allegedly) where all the best coroners are

I have joined tumblr to see what’s going on and I may occasionally share facts about the maravilloso human body

OOC UNDER CUT