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❝ . FIRST // THE BASICS .

name // scarlett brooke keller. DON'T call her scar pls she gave up nicknames in forth grade.

age // twenty-one. made a pact to herself to not drink until her twenty first birthday so when that came it was ... a complete mess. she was drunk before 2pm i'm sorry.

occupation // in school as a general studies major cause she's indecisive as shit but she'd prob major in math cause she aces it ?? also works at the library for a work study cause it seemed the easiest option. the old hag that runs it is always in the back office and who comes to the library anyways ?? so basically her job is just to mess around and surf the web and read wayy too many books.

secret // not going to lie she had some girl from alabama message her asking if she could possibly send a pic of her with a thumbs up cause she had been using her insta pics and sending them to a sugar daddy ??? and she just... completely went with it and now she's probably fifty something old men's fantasy girl ?? which isn't as bad as it sounds she's so dumb...

traits explained // utopian: modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic / credulous: having or showing too great a readiness to believe things; naive / reticent: not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily; reserved / haughty: arrogantly superior and disdainful; arrogant.

family relations // has a mom and dad, naturally. honestly they are so disgustingly cute it makes her want to scream. she calls them larry and tabitha even though she knows damn well that's not their names. also has an older brother. he's like... alright. i tell you they are a ~ classic ~ american family. they are so close literally they have a group message and they tell each other EVERYTHING. tmi 24/7 in the keller fam.

❝ . MIDDLE // AN OVERVIEW .

honestly it's a shock to scarlett that she hasn't been murdered yet HONESTLY. like seriously she's pretty sure there's a ghost in her dorm room and all she does is taunt it. she falls for anything i swear you tell her there's mermaids at the bottom of the lake she's swimming cause she thinks that's where she belongs. book smarts and street smarts are two completely different things and she's only got room for one smarts, and she loves books more than the streets so guess what. full of herself and shows it off like it's something to be proud of. imagines that the world is perfect and crazy and she's probably a princess from some country that got ambushed when she was a baby so she's undercover here. come on, she can dream. covers up serious questions and conversations with jokes and acting dumb. doesn't know if she's always completely acting, though. she's like an onion, with a bunch of layers that make you cry when you peel them away. only wears cute clothes for pictures, has to take 1000 pictures a day of herself. natural redhead but does have boxes of red dye stored in her bathroom cabinets in case she's feeling vibrant.

❝ . LAST // WANTED .

friends // honestly she's vv needy and wants attention all the time so she need the buddies okay. and she loves to give attention to people and just. she needs friends i'm terrible at this. i would love a childhood friend/neighbor plot with a boy that she used to hang out with 24/7 then they got older and... ya know, were a boy and girl and weren't allowed to be friends ?? like buddies ?? idk where it would go yeah but it'd be cool idk.

enemies // i think honestly scarlett would pick fights just to do it i swear she's out to get herself. she also loves to argue with people. about anything. especially if she doesn't know anything about what she's saying.

*   ━  ━     have  you  met  brattleboro's  very  own  BOTANY STUDENT / HORTICULTURAL APPRENTICE  yet   ?   if  you  haven’t,  let  me  introduce  you  to  OLEANDER “OLLIE” MICHAEL SMITH   —  a  TWENTY - TWO  year  old  CISMALE,  he  was  last  seen  ARTFULLY PLATING SUGAR CUBES & ORANGE SLICES FOR HIS DAILY BREAKFAST WITH THE BEES whilst  listening  to  HERE COMES THE SUN.  oft  described  as  soft-spoken,  mild,  breezy &  acquiescent,  he  won't  ever  tell  you  that  A FINE SELECTION OF BRATTLEBORO’S BEES HAVE TAKEN UP RESIDENCE IN HIS HAIR, A RESULT OF HIS LONG-STANDING PROTECTION PACT WITH THEM: IF THE BEES ARE THREATENED IN ANY WAY, HE WILL NOT HESITATE, BITCH !   ;   at  least  that's  what  the  rumour  is  around  town.    //     TARJEI SANDVIK MOE.

here’s the buzz concerning oleander smith :

randy is a bee. he is ollie’s very best bee friend. he takes the cake when it comes to loyalty and priority, and if you cannot handle that, then ollie concludes your presence can probably be best made useful elsewhere.

if his bees don’t trust you, game over. sorry, ollie doesn’t make the rules !!

he’s studying botany, looking to get his masters! so in the meantime, he’s also working a paid apprenticeship with brattleboro parks & rec, maintaining the local butterfly gardens in the town center. catch him watering the plants daily, taking very frequent breaks to smell the flowers and whisper to them about how pretty & special they are!!!

he has mfing bees?? living in his hair?? like a boss tbh. and when they’re really happy and/or he’s asleep, they form a lil halo around his head and it’s 2 cute to handle. basically, the bees and ollie have a mutual protection pact, the details of which i’ll briefly outline below.

adores children, so whenever little kids come to the gardens for field trips or whatever he’s always stooped in the dirt with them, introducing them to butterflies that casually perch on his fingertips. i swear, this kid is the friggin’ flower/insect whisperer.

how the arrangement came to bee :

so a young 5 y/o ollie got stung by a bee one day. he cried a lot, not about the sting but rather about the bee dying?? so baby ollie held a full funeral service for it near its hive and then began bringing bereavement meals (sugar cubes, etc.) to the bees in the wake of their loved one’s absence, as is obviously customary when one mourns the loss of a fallen bee. he started visiting the bees more frequently, having his breakfasts outdoors in his family’s back yard just to chat with them.

in elementary school, ollie got bullied pretty badly because kids caught him talking to ‘no one’ (aka his bees). he’d always been picked on for his size and for having two moms, but this one awful kid decided to continue this teasing further than small comments and jeers. so one day, cute lil fetus ollie tries to play kickball with the other kids and is instead kicked in the shins. his balance was awful so he toppled to the ground, scraping his knee and his left cheek in the process. the other kids found this hilarious -- ollie’s walk home featured slumped shoulders and an abundance of sniffles.

his moms didn’t really do much about it tbh?? beatrice and debbie don’t believe in aggravating others; they’re pacifists at heart. so they encourage ollie to “talk it out” with his aggressor.

a similar physical teasing happens the next day. instead of telling his moms about it, ollie returns home and goes straight to the hive to tell his bees. they are BUZZING with anger. 

ollie goes to school the next morning. same shit, different day. this trend continues for about two weeks before the bees finally decide enough is enough. one of ollie’s bestest bee buddies, randy, tags along to school without making himself known. he hides away in the hood of ollie’s sweater. the bully kid tries his usual teasing at recess and manages to shove ollie onto the blacktop when ollie tries to reason with him. he’s about to do more damage with his freakin’ buzz lightyear light-up sneakers when wham!!  he’s stung! by a bee! right on his nose!

the kicker is this kid was like... hella allergic to bee stings? so he nearly died and never messed with ollie again. and from then on, the bees have vowed to protect ollie because they don’t buy into humankind’s capacity for kindness.

they casually alternate shifts living in his hair, y’know? casual. and they ADORE his current line of work, so it’s a winning situation for everyone involved.

personality ?   more like  personali-bee, am i right ladies ?? :

honestly people around town probably think he's got some marbles loose because more often than not he will converse with the bees out loud?? but they've got this ~ emotional bond ~ too, which makes communicating non-verbally just as effective? 

he's such a nerd, adores everything about botany and flowers and biology. 

lil sunshine gumdrop. but his bees WILL attack people who wrong him, or threaten him, or give off the vibe of being capable of hurting him. 

ollie is such a pacifist but he doesn't force his bees to abide by the same moral code.

you can routinely find him outside the local grocery store asking for donations to save the bees !!  

also catch him lecturing the locals on how bees have pure hearts, therefore humans should not be afraid, nor should they deem killing them the answer !!!

lavender macaroons are his favorite.

any sweets, also.

he takes his tea with milk and honey, and a dollop of sunshine.

he has a habit of humming to himself when he’s gardening.

will routinely pose questions with an unironic “huh?” at the end.

christopher robin in another life, probably.

he’s always wearing some form of gentle color. baby blues, lavenders, etc. 

he has an adorable little gardening hat. and probably always has dainty little gardening gloves tucked into the back pocket of his jeans because you just... never know when you might encounter a plant in need, ok??

very not used to being the center of anyone’s attention, so he’s very softspoken. like, even the silent evening air is like, could you pls speak up, lil gumdrop?

blushes like, all the time?

his best trait is def his smile. it just blossoms across his features and lowkey some people think the town gardens are flourishing so much just because of his sheer capacity for peace, luv, & joy.

* BLACK EYED  P E A S  BEES VC * hive got a feeling ( whoo hoo ) that tonight’s gonna bee a good night :

pals! he’s such a Soft Boi

people who wholeheartedly despise bees, even if it’s just in an effort to make ollie squirm.

fellow nature enthusiasts!

his mail carrier? because i have this headcanon where they’ll have the most basic conversations in the morning, but they’re always so uplifting and cute?

someone who anticipates his tendency to forego a grocery basket and then spill everything as he tries to juggle it all toward the register.

bad influence!! he’s so innocent? someone attempt to lure him to the dark side?

“ excuse me miss, pls stop stepping on the flowers... if you can? if it’s not too difficult? it’s just -- they’re not exactly privy to moving out of your path, and they prefer to be alive and not be crushed. so if at all possible..... it would mean a lot to them.”

someone who calls him to take care of spiders/caterpillars/other insects that are in their home. they’re all freaked and ready to kill, but ollie just rolls in and gingerly picks up the lil guys, coos a bit. maybe asks them how their day was, what got them into this house to begin with. turns to his friend, informs them that their spider pal here came inside because they really wanted to get a better look at their interior design -- they embroidered pillows in the living room are so tasteful.

She went to Ohio State and majored in journalism, even though her father wanted her to stay at home. It was the first taste of freedom she’d ever really had, and it changed her life. For the first time, Mar saw the world as it could be, and she thrived in it. Confident and optimistic, she found herself with a wide circle of friends, all of whom thought her naivety about the world adorable rather than weird, and, well...there were the boys.

It was a boy she moved to Brattleboro to avoid; him, and her parents, who hated the new person she had become. A part of her thinks that her move was to make it easier on them, but the truth was that no state was far enough from Ohio for her. She’d move to the other side of the world if it meant never having to sit in stifled silence at her mother’s dinner table again.

As for the boy - well, he was charming, and oh-so-romantic, and turned out to be almost engaged to a girl he’d been seeing since high school. Martine only found out when she received a furious message on Facebook from the would-be fiancee; as heart-breaking as it was, there was relief in the way she packed her backs and took a flight to the suburbs. At least here she won’t ever have to see him again; there will be no reminders.

And that was when the girlfriend showed up in her basement, dead.

In the last year, Martine has learned fast. She’s been hired by the Brattleboro Express, but is finding that any story she suggests that portrays the town as less than perfect - for example, the recent serial killings - is rejected. She doesn’t go to church anymore, though she lies in her weekly phone-call to her parents and says she does. She buys shitty paperbacks from the local book-store, and then she goes home and tries to coax the ghost in her basement into either telling her what she wants, or just leaving; she’s had no luck with either, so far.

WEALTH —

$  financial :  wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty ✚  medical : fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / non applicable ✪  class or caste :  upper / middle / working / street trash / slave / unsure ✔  education :  qualified / unqualified / studying / other ✖  criminal record :  yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no/

FAMILY  —

◓ marital status : married happily / married unhappily / engaged or betrothed / partnered / single / divorced / separated ◒  children :  has a child or children / has no children / wants children / verse dependent ◑  relationship with family :  close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings / ◔  affiliation : orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parents / not applicable

TRAITS  +  TENDENCIES  —

♦  extroverted / introverted / in between ♦ disorganized / organized / in between ♦  close-minded / open-minded / in between ♦  calm / anxious / in between ♦  disagreeable / agreeable / in between ♦  cautious / reckless / in between ♦  patient / impatient / in between ♦  outspoken / reserved / in between ♦  leader / follower / in between ♦  empathetic / unempathetic / in between ♦ optimistic / pessimistic / in between ♦  traditional / modern / in between ♦  hard-working / lazy / in between ♦  cultured / uncultured / in between / unknown ♦  loyal / disloyal / unknown ♦  faithful / unfaithful / unknown

BELIEFS  —

★  faith :  monotheist / polytheist / atheist / agnostic / it’s complicated ☆  belief in divine right to rule: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care ✮  belief in an afterlife :  yes / no / don’t know / don’t care ✯  belief in the supernatural :  yes / no / undecided ❀  philosophical :  yes / no

SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION  —

❤  sexuality : heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual ❥  sex : sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favourable / naive and clueless ♥  romance :  romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable / naive and clueless ❣  sexually :  adventurous / experienced / naive / inexperienced /curious / destructive

ABILITIES  —

☠  magical skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none   ≡  literacy skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✍  artistic skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✂  technical skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

HABITS  —

☕  drinking alcohol :  never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ☁  smoking :  trying to quit / never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ✿  other narcotics : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ♣  gambling : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess

THE MUN —

*   ━  ━     have  you  met  brattleboro's  very  own BAKER  yet   ?   if  you  haven’t,  let  me  introduce  you  to  MONROE  FINNEGAN  KELLER   —  a  TWENTY-FOUR  year  old CISMALE,  HE  was  last  seen MIXING CAKE BATTER IN THE GIANT WITCH’S CAULDRON HE BOUGHT ON CLEARANCE FROM THE DOLLAR STORE LAST TUESDAY  whilst  listening  to  MR. SANDMAN.  oft  described  as  GULLIBLE,  EFFERVESCENT,  WINSOME  &  ICARIAN,  HE  won't  ever  tell  you  that  HIS NIGHTLY  ‘ LIGHT READING ’ CONSISTS OF ANTIQUATED BOOKS OF SPELLS & POTIONS, THE INSTRUCTIONS OF WHICH HE’S BEEN FOLLOWING IN ORDER TO SECURE A 2042 LOTTERY WIN ;   at  least  that's  what  the  rumour  is  around  town.    

this post is gonna be bare bones and hella disorganized because i want to start interacting ic asap and i am blessed with limited time!! hooray social life (not)! some basics about monroe include the following:

tbh goes by monty most of the time? but won’t be upset if you call him monroe. or asshole. or idiot. he’s flexible.

he is scarlett’s older brother! if you want an example of how close these siblings are, let’s just present you with EXHIBIT A: as is characteristic of the keller family, monroe does have natural red hair! but one night when they were kids, scarlett dyed his hair while he was asleep to secure her special spot as the family’s token redheaded child. and, upon seeing his new brunette locks, monroe actually dug them?? so he promised to always let scarlett have the redhead glory -- his hair now is canon what gregg’s looks like, with just a touch more auburn in the sunlight.

monroe, lowkey: * zeke from high school musical vc *   well if troy can tell his secret, then i can tell mine. i bake.

he was friggin terrified to tell his parents he wanted to own his own bakery instead of going to uni? so he structured the whole entire confession as a huge deal -- making them dinner, baking a cake, buttering them up with the, “you know i love you, and i’ll always want you to be proud of me... but i have to come clean about something important” speech. so they def assumed he was coming out?? what they didn’t count on was for him to come out as a baker. and soon after he opened his own bakery in town, whipping up decadent treats & lovely conversation for the locals!

his bakery is called ‘ sweet nothings ’ and it’s honestly adorable?? chill, cozy vibes. even if the baker is constantly running around from the back to the register, icing streaked across his face. it’s fine! it’s quirky! people dig it!

an absolute dork?? think the naive side of jake peralta meets ned from pushing daisies?

falls in love with someone every 2 seconds. a gentle bean.

okay so!! he found this BOGUS spellbook in the stupid public library, but somehow he trusts the thing wholeheartedly. he goes to farmers markets and picks up weird shit, learns the chants... he could literally do spells for anything. anything in the world. and this bish chose a future lotto win. the kicker???  he’s not even gonna friggin keep the cash!!  he wants to win big in 2042 and then donate the entire winnings to animal shelters in the area.

a snuggly bernese mountain dog in human form.

does he eat brown sugar cubes as snacks? is that even a question?

a terrible flirt. he blushes, stutters, ducks his head. repeat.

always involved in some sort of bullshit yet adorable feat. “ take your succulent to work day ”  and  “ get mugged:  byom mondays ”  are two of his stupid ideas that have somehow done really well?? who knew!

volunteers at the local shelter in his free time. wants a dog v badly. but is also v sniffly and allergic.

rolo’s minis are the best candies ever. and if you deny it, he might cry. just a little.

adores the oldies. sashays around with his pans and bowls as he bakes. if any customers catch him mid-batch, it’s quite the show.

he always smells like fresh mint and lavender with a hint of lemon.

monty at 2am on a tuesday: “ hey, i saw your snapchat and it looked like you were having a rough night, so i brought you some cupcakes and a listening ear ”

real soft!! real trusting !!  someone break him.

he’s got this calming presence? like when the sunshine just begins to pierce through after-rain clouds -- soft, fresh, ambient. inviting.

he’s a baker but he also loves to cook all things! let him take care of you! :’) def the type to bury his own stresses by worrying about other people!

lowkey lies awake at night wondering if he’s sold a baked good to the killer. and then worries himself wondering whether or not his baked goods were adequate enough for their taste.

named daniel edgar sutter.    with hope he’d accomplish something that’s worthy of such strong caucasian name but.     nicknamed danny,  dan if you want to activate his customer service  /  obnoxious dad mode and be called  honey  back.

aged  twenty - two and has a bit of a clue of what to do.      studies film but acts like he’s a philosophy major and works past-time as a useless clerk at the bookstore.

tropes include  devil in plain sight,     pretty boy,     pastime proves personality,     affably evil,   extreme libido   &   unreliable narrator.

has nothing to lose aside from his sanity.    an ironic fascination for the paranormal  /  anything spooky is gorgeous from ghosts to ghouls  &  films the shits with his death - seeking squad of demon huntin’ fucks.    a car that’s not good for anything besides fucking in local transport.       a muffled suspicion he might be one with a demon who acts up more than ever lately   —   but he’d never say that out loud.    a raging semi that never goes unnoticed.     smooth hands you don’t trust for all reasons.     an unfortunate monotone voice he corrects by exaggerating his expressions.      his dad’s sheriff hat to seduce his girlfriend with.

+   smells faintly of coconut for godawful reasons related to those smooth hands of his and organic lube choices,  do the maths.

  +  WHOMST’D’V’E DO YOU CALL  ?     /     WANTED  CONNECTIONS     ↷     GET  SOME  OR  GET  GOD - MODDED     ⁽  ʲᵏˢ  ⁾    !

the rest of the demon huntin’ idiots      /      title says it all.   it’s a group of bored fucks who have and make time to take trips out of town to locations with alleged high paranormal  activities  -   preferably demonic, to be exact   -   to  “ investigate ”  ,  “ study ” and  “ document ”.       so far it’s danny editing and filming and trixie as a honey  /  demon trap.     more editors, camera / sound peeps, researchers, mediums, aspiring demonologists, transport, etc.       every and all additions are HOT.

his sibling      /      half, adopted or full  —  we stan regardless. they live together in his mom’s home with a recently absent father that they don’t speak about for whatever self - imposed reason   —   danny’s being,      he doesn’t like wondering what happened in fear that he might know after all and thinks they’re doing just fine anyways   —  their relationship is anything from default sibling relations to ignoring each other.

his neighbor      /      this could go from bestfriends growing up that could’ve drifted apart or not,     to   ‘   i remember what you don’t when you’re puking your guts out in my trashcan because you cannot hold your fucking liquor and i hate that you think it’s a skill you can build still, you weak fuck   ’   and danny trying to choke the embarrassing truth out of them,       or other related terrible concepts !

          Greetings and salutations !! I’m Nysa ( gmt+3, 18, she/her ) a.k.a. the Trash™ sometimes the Mess™. I’m a college student who spends way too much time on this weird blue website. -- Let me introduce u to my problematic child Matilda. I’m just gonna list a few things about her below if you want to plot you can go ahead and make that heart go red and I’ll come at you !! or you can message me !! 

about.

She is blunt, obsessed with success, bossy, and a control freak but she hides her negative traits so well. 

Matilda is the only daughter of a successful writer and a socialite. From the outside, the family looked close-knit, like a perfect family but the truth was her parents were selfish, vastly, controlling people. She hates them but at the same time, she always wanted to please them. 

When she was four, her mother wrote a book series called matilda and the five ballerinas, just bc she wanted to say her inspiration for the stories were her daughter she enrolled matilda in ballet. tilda has always thought the stage is perfect for her because she gets a huge amount of attention when she is on it.

She is an art student at Brattleboro college and a pre-professional ballerina. She has been training ballet for sixteen years. Last year, when she was auditioning for a part, she got paranoid about not getting the role and poisoned her rival dancer. The girl survived but she was too scared to audition for the part again or ever be in the same place as Matilda. In the end, the director had no choice but to choose her. This once again proved she’s got no limits when it comes to success.

wanted connections.