#polisaptgv

Jonathan Murphy was born to Alex and Ellen Murphy and he grew up a happy kid, really. He was loved GREATLY by his parents and things were well. They had migrated here when the both of them married and got a little house, where they eventually had John.  It was a shock, therefore, when one day one part of the family was GONE. Their little boy had a cough, and Alex was worried for him, because it didn't seem to lessen. So he went out to a night shop to get something against the cough but ended up in the middle of a fight. A stray bullet ended his life and during the trip to the hospital, he was lost to them.

John became quiet after that time, missing his father around. His mother instead fell into a deep depression and sought comfort in the bottom of a bottle of alcohol. During this time, she started blaming John for the death of his father, thinking that if he had never gotten that cough, Alex would still be with him. John suffered through the mental and physical abuse for three years before he found his mother dead in the house after returning from school. In a panick and scared that he somehow would get the blame for his mother's death, he fled the town with a bag and just a bit of money.

He set to the streets for a while, becoming street smart before he messed up. When he got found, everything crashed around him. From one foster home to another, he became closed, guarded, beat stuff with sarcasm and dark humour. And though he proved to do well at school,he never quite get his mind into it.

When he was old enough, he got his own place, work, tried to keep going to school but ended up dropping out of college because he didn't know what he wanted. Ended up being fired of the job after a stressful few weeks and finally ended up with two part times jobs and a new little place in the Polis apartment, which frankly wasn't so bad at all.

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                        When it hasn’t been your day,              your week, your month or even your year                                     I’ll be there for you

The Pitch

Welcome to Polis Apartments at 100 Dropship Ave. Located above Arkadia Bar, the building hosts 3 floors of 2-3 bedroom apartments. Boasting a rooftop terrace ( loosely using the term ) Polis is home to residents looking for a good deal and a close-knit community where doors are usually open and residents are rarely found alone or in their own apartments. If either of those sound good to you- Polis is where you want to be.

But be warned: the elevator is always out-of-service, hope you like stairs.

The Plot

#polisaptgv is a general apartment verse set in an indeterminate large city. Ground floor is the bar, then three floors of 4 separate apartments above, all of which are open for new residents to apply. We’re looking to make this a fun, chill GV filled with connections and friendships and romances and co-workers and in-character drama. This is a player-heavy GV, you’re free to suggest events and things like that, and I’ll try to come up with a couple from time to time to keep things movin’ and groovin’. 

You can have up to 3 muses but no more than 2 to room together to encourage branching out. Your apartment can be a 2 or 3 bedroom and you can plot who you want to room with in dis/co. We have a server for plotting and planning, and IC activities will be dash-based for the time being. You are free to have your character work at any of the 8 locations or create new ones of your own that you’re free to ask be added to the list. 

Louis Warren  at 100 Dropship Ave Apt 401

Louis is basically a wild child trust fun baby. Born to a set of litigation attorneys, including one that traded in her dreams of being a judge for a reality of being a senator, Louis is the youngest of 4, and the least accomplished, a title he holds dear. Oldest sibling Lizzie is a lawyer like her parents, cutthroat and ruthless enough to make Attila the Hun sweat. Second eldest Stephen is a professional baseball player. And third eldest is rarely home, preferring to be out in the world with Doctors Without Borders, bringing home tales of her altruism and the less fortunate of the world that she discusses over hand washed china at tables that cost $2000 a head. 

A hypocrite of the highest degree, Louis scorns his wealthy upbringing while attending the same expensive parties and the same hoity-toity events, though he’ll claim it’s family obligation in reality it’s just a chance to cause a scene. 

Fighter by day and fighter by night, blood and gore is as embedded in his DNA as wealth. Louis started fighting illegally in a fight club situation when he was 14, was caught at 19 and given the choice by the arresting officer of jail or going straight. He chose to go straight, but the rules and regulations of MMA feel stifling to him, and never fully silence the monster in his belly. So he fights and trains for MMA by day, and every other Thursday he returns to the pit where he first learned to tame the beast inside. 

CONNECTIONS:

@headstrongblake - Octavia Blake, best friend, ride-or-die, roommate.  @damnfoxed - Fox Haddock, best friend’s best friend and friend of his.   @ontcri - Ontari Blackblood, what a babe, fellow child of the elite, ex-girlfriend and current roommate. Got together over passion and intensity, broke up because of passion and intensity... and toxicity. What could go wrong rooming together?  @survivormoves - John Murphy, hottie with a scowl, a favorite of Louis’ to take to his family’s events to fuck shit up with.  @pyrrhicmessiah - Clarke Griffin, hottie with a scowl only for him, flirtasionship based in derision ( her ), intelligence ( both ), and a neverending optimism ( him ).  @headstrongblake - Nicklas Williams, also a hottie, they train together for their respective careers and Lou’s starting to get into the idea of joining Nick in the ranks of fire-fighters.  @sororanimarum - Bailey Carter, gym hottie, they tend to get... competitive. To put it lightly. You want to play with these two? Hope you've been working on your stamina. 

[ unknown ] “Fox” Haddock at 100 Dropship Ave, Apt 302 

Please see [ her modern bio here ] for the full story, but sparknotes version: 

Fox was caught stealing at 14 and given over to the system. She spent the entirety of her time with The Colonnas , who had one biological daughter, another foster daughter and two foster sons all the same general age as Fox and who lived in the same school system so that Fox didn’t have to leave behind her best friend Octavia Blake and Octavia’s other best friend Louis Warren. It was at the Colonna’s that she overlapped with John Murphy during his brief stint at the same house who was taken away for accompanying Fox on a routine delinquency trip to try to force a confrontation with her parents. It turned out that what was routine for Fox, cost Murphy his spot in the house. Thankfully he showed up at Polis in his own apartment and she has a chance to make it up to him. 

Post Colonnas she got a job at Sanctum Diner thanks to a head line cook who did his time at the same foster home years ago and has a soft spot for strays. There she got to know some of her regulars: Nicklas Williams, a cute in-training firefighter she has to fight the other waitresses to get into her section, Nina Wilde, a fellow waitress who left with a tab owed on broken dishes, and Clarke Griffin, a med student who became her roommate alongside Nina. 

She also works at Eligius Nighclub alongside her childhood friends, her the waitress in their dancer-waitress-bouncer combination, and is also where she got to know Peter Colton, a musician who plays on occasion. While Octavia is adamant that dancing pays better, with her two jobs she’s satisfied for the moment as a mostly-clothed waitress. But who knows what the future holds. 

CONNECTIONS: 

@headstrongblake - octavia, listed above @myhiraeth - louis, listed above @survivormoves - murphy, listed above @headstrongblake - nicklas, listed above @motherlcss - nina, listed above @pyrrhicmessiah - clarke, listed above @rainkilled - listed above

2:41 AM

[ sms - nicky ] i’ll get u ur money soon ok

[ sms - nicky ]  disregard that

octavia blake - 21 - dancer // student

    octavia blake is a loose cannon, determined to live by her own set of rules. she moves into the polis apartment buildings, searching for a bit of herself but what she finds is friendship unlike anything she’s ever found before. she finds family within the apartments and while she’s often barging in without knocking, borrowing cigarettes without asking, and over staying her visits with a bottle of liquor there’s absolutely nothing she wouldn’t do for her friends and roommates. octavia’s room is always unlocked for her friends, but enter at your own risk – at any given time nobody knows what or who she’s doing behind closed doors. octavia’s most interested in finishing her journalism degree at Polaris University because she believes getting that degree secures her life exploring the world. at night octavia strips at the eliguis nightclub for rent, to put herself through school and to fund her rambunctious adventures she’s constantly dragging her friends on. 

CONNECTIONS :

@rainkilled : peter ; ex’s, they realized together they were too destructive but are still friends to this day.

@myhiraeth : louis warren is her ride or die, her best friend and roommate. If you’ve checked for octavia in her bed and can’t find her, try louis.

@damnfoxed : childhood friends, octavia will do anything for fox.

@ontcri : her chaos sister. her roommate. catch the girls on the floor braiding each others hair and octavia admiring ever inch of clothing ontari owns.

@survivormoves : it’s hard to explain murphy and octavia. they’re not family but the way those two act, you’d sure think murphy’s last name was blake. he’s her pseudo brother and she’d kill for murphy.

@nobledeath : octavia met graham through the grape vine and quickly began showing up at his window for different party favors. unless other wise said, the adderall o is taking is for sure coming from the room beside hers. she gives him discounts at the club for her time. he gives her discounts on his stuff. they’re messy but o’s not about to stop.

@damnstory : octavia’s big brother. despite any fights they ever have or any chaos octavia’s brought to her brother’s world ( and she knows it’s a lot ), octavia loves her brother and would do anything for him. if anyone has anything to say about her brother that isn’t nice : they best not say it around octavia.