this is Salem, a land filled with magic and maladies. It is a place where witches and their elemental familiars gather, a home to legend and
lore that predates time itself. Yet of all the wicked and wonderful stories the past can tell us of, the most magical are the ones yet to happen.
This is Salem - this is the start of your very own journey. Welcome to starfall
Starfall is an animaga witch roleplay set in mostly modern times. Members play as witches in a world plagued by monsters, where the only safe spots are walled cities. Starfall strives to be a character-driven roleplay with expansive lore and a highly interactive plotline. We want to allow members to
create and look back on a magical journey, and mold the site and its plot as their characters grow.
[attr="class","persondetails"] Luke Valentine is not a kind man, nor will he ever claim to be one. Indeed, there is no hidden heart of gold to find, though you're certainly welcome to try. While like any other person, he can be moved by surprise or sympathy, he is motivated primarily by self-interest, if not the occasional whim.[break][break]
As a member of coven Leviathan, he's not the easiest to get to know or find, but rumor has it that the quickest way to meet him is to get in touch through pigeon mail.
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[attr="class","personsec2"] FRIENDS
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There is little reason to wish to befriend him, as there is little benefit in doing so. Luke isn't exactly chatty, and he doesn't treat his friends that much differently than he does any other person on the street – with a hint of easy humor and an air of disregard. Sure, he's more obliged (and willing) to lend a hand or ear, but if you're looking for someone obviously affectionate or expressive, you'd best take your search elsewhere.[break][break]
At the end of the day, though you will gain neither special treatment nor absolute loyalty, he's known to treat those he calls his friends with his own brand of respect and fairness, which is more than he promises to those that he does not.
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[attr="class","personsec2"] LOVERS
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If one were to ever list Luke's weaknesses, love would be among the first to be named. His sexuality is perhaps his biggest insecurity, and one that he takes great pains to hide, if only because he wasn't raised to know any better. Though he's had his own share of sexual encounters, it's easy to assume him disinterested in anything romantic or lustful, as women do not excite him, and men are considered forbidden to him.[break][break]
He has no qualms with playing with a girl's feelings if he ever notices her attention. On the other hand, acting on his own attractions is a different story entirely, and will most likely require some degree of inebriation and great amounts of vehement denial.
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[attr="class","personsec2"] ENEMIES
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Animosities are perhaps one of the few types of relationships that Luke knows how to create intentionally. One of his most identifiable sources of entertainment involves mocking others, leaving him sharp-tongued and insensitive. Some might even call him cruel. Whether the ridicule is deliberate or not (in fact, many times it really isn't), Luke was not raised to be thoughtful. He is quick to form opinions, whether positive or negative, and often does not feel it necessary to bother with tact.[break][break]
Helios Knights of any sort often get clumped together under a negative generalization as he is under the impression that most gained their status by riding familial coattails. People who are obviously attracted to members of their own sex also invite his coldness through no fault of their own.
Post by nike blackwell on Apr 21, 2017 18:03:52 GMT
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[attr="class","crowcred-info"] They are both similar in a way that it would be surprising that they're not siblings ore related in anyway. I feel like both Luke and Nike would get along surprisingly well that they sometimes confide with each other, go on missions directed by the leader of the leviathan
[break][break]they both prefer to be on their lonesome, and perhaps one way of contact with the other is that either one has come into contact with a pigeon that was injured by either magic or attacked by a familiar. [break][break]not really much of friendship, but they benefit from one another, nike's unsavoury taste to have someone nearby to talk to other than her familiar and luke can benefit from perhaps having someone close to him who suffers the same issue (in this case their sexuality).
[break][break]there isn't much i have for this plot, but, i wanted to try and plot with luke since he seems like a really cool character!
i think they'd get along well too! at the very least, luke would probably come to like nike as a person, and he's not so easily intimidated that he would have reason to give her distance. i can definitely see them doing missions together, and as both friends and confidants since luke would enjoy stopping by her cafe for tea every now and then just to show his face or something.
i do have a plot for these two!! though not a necessarily happy one /sweats luke suffers from a lot of internal homophobia. perhaps while spending time with nike whether on missions or in the cafe, luke slowly begins to notice that nike seems to have a thing for women? maybe he catches her eyes lingering on someone one too many times or something, and puts two and two together?
in that case, luke might casually drop some questions regarding her sexuality. if nike denies being homosexual, luke would immediately see her as someone like him: an anomaly who thinks herself abnormal, and people who would understand each other the most. being in denial, he'd grasp at any reason to believe he can be more normal like all the other hets, and see nike as the woman who is his other half. they're both anomalies who weren't meant to be happy bc they were both made wrong.
long story short, i'm proposing that these two enter an unhealthy romantic relationship. kinda like a "if you're not gay, then prove it by falling in love w me since we're both the same anyway" sort of deal. as luke would put it, if neither of them can be happy chasing the opposite sex, they might as well be unhappy together with someone who'd understand their struggles. other than that whole mess i'd say yee friends! just friends hurting each other bc they don't know how else to deal w this thing.
y/n?? add/subtract? feel free to do either, and lemme know what you think!!
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[attr="class","crowcred-info"]omg, i love your ideas. a++ i already falling in love with an unhealthy dynamic between the two. especially how they're both uncertain about themselves and can't seem to fit into their skins properly.[break][break]
nike does tend to linger her gaze on women for far too long and sometimes, she shows more of a helping hand towards them. and as she tries her best to conceal her sexuality, it seems more observant people, like luke for example, are capable to see that this person is phenomenally gay.[break][break]
with the amount of questions falling onto her from someone she has considered a friend, it would appear that she would deny these outrageous things (and this is 100000% true in her case as she isn't so sure if she should even acknowledge her affection towards the same gender); thus, his "if you're not gay, then prove it by falling in love w me" statement.[break][break]
there is a plot winter (rhea gale) and i are doing that would make this a huge mess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i hope you're prepared omg...[break][break]
i love the idea! we can definitely start a thread soon ^^ if you have discord feel free to add me <3 just pm me and i'll give it to you.
mmm yes, messy is good... and the more the merrier ofc!! would you say the two would attempt to come across as a couple for outward appearances despite both understanding that neither truly likes the other romantically, or nah?
but yes, we should thread!! would you like to start it or shall i? also i will add you on discord soonish, gotta run for now ;;
so they're in the same coven and have avian familiars...but apart from that, they're nothing alike.
oh, except being plenty prideful and very insensitive. to make things worse, rhea's very open about liking women. and they're in leviathan, of all the tight-knit covens in the world. so yeah, luke has seen her around and has probably formed a negative opinion of her (?)
which is fine but rhea doesn't know this. and now she's extroverted and she has a gang mentality so she's obviously out to befriend fellow leviathans, especially those in the same "batch" or rank as her. except she won't really be met willingly by luke, and thus forms a rivalry?
especially because well... in the future, nike and rhea may have something together...and to luke, it might feel like she's 'whisking away' his closest friend... what if it originally starts as like, rhea and nike somewhat getting along, and nike being the mediator between rhea and luke who do not get along. at the same time, they're 'friends by association' and do things together when they need to. and then it escalates.
Oh my god?? Yes, yes, yes! I can definitely picture them arguing all the time for the smallest, dumbest things—Vera would probably be really belligerent with Luke, try to pick up fights out of nowhere, just because he insulted her cooking once. [break][break]
I don't mind whether it is because he actually doesn't like her food or because of that misunderstanding, but I do agree with Luke in the sense that it'd encourage her to try harder and come up with something he'd approve of. In fact, if they do see each other often, she's very likely to follow him around with different plates until he's finally forced to admit her food's not so bad. [break][break]
Wouldn't it be adorable, too? Having her bug him all the time with questions about "Okay, fine, what kind of food do you like then?" or "What kind of person doesn't like pickles?" Replace pickles with whatever silly food Luke just doesn't like. Or is allergic to, even. [break][break]
She'd just be so annoying. [break][break]
I couldn't help noticing that there were some #plots to be had with nike blackwell. Maybe Nike's café is where they meet? Vera's just helping out one day and she just so happens to prepare Luke's order and even serves it to him because she's a huge dork who wants to see the reactions of people upon eating her food... and Luke just Does Not Like It. Does Not Approve. (Q pls confirm if we're allowed to do this.)
