Philyan Family Secrets

I'm not exactly sure how group stories work but I would like to be a part of this if possible.

@ fitzpleasure
Group writes are basically co-writes but with more than two people which is why discussion takes place on a thread. A posting order is created and you use that order to know when it's your turn to update and such. But absolutely no real different from a co-write.

And it depends on what the other two authors think. I honestly don't mind as long as you're committed and active enough because I will not let this die.

@ Nyx;
Not necessarily because Emmeline's power could be trigger when she's two or three years old and see maybe her mother sad and she projects something happy in order to influence her mood to make her happy. Siblings don't have to be the key to unlocking, it was just said because they're children and would probably spend more time with each other than anyone else, thus being the most likely candidates to unlocking each other's curse, and that I had decided the eldest brother and Genevieve will be unlocking each other's curse.

@ castiel's vessel
OKay, yeah. I see what you're saying. (I blame tiredness for not thinking straight these past couple of days ) So we're thinking Ada's curse is going to be unlocked because it's not really a controlled thing, but purely touch. And a curse like Emmeline's would be unlocked later, because it is more of something she would have to purposely want to do.

Speaking of which, we haven't given the boys curses....

@ fitzpleasure
I don't mind if you join either ^-^ I agree with the 'as long as you're active enough'. There are still two characters, both boys, who could be played. We're trying to figure out birthdays and curses at the moment.

@ Nyx;
Yeah, with Ada's and Genevieve's curse they wouldn't be willed like Emmeline's would be from what Molly's put. I was thinking that Genevieve's would be unlocked when she's about 2 years or so because she'll need to be able to think herself, however basic, and even though a child under the age of two would think, I don't think she'll be able to have the mental capacity to accept other people's thoughts into her own mind.

And with Ada's curse, as it's death, what are you think of age-wise for her to have it unlocked? Would she have to experience a death (like in the royal court, etc.) or something?

The boys will be sorted out when we've sorted ours out. Molly was doing the boy twin's curse and bio and I was doing the eldest boy's bio but if someone else is joining, it might be shaken up.

@ castiel's vessel
Yeah, I don't think a baby is just going to be born seeing when someone's going to die and when right off the bat. I think it should be experiencing a death that does it. It's doesn't even have to be a person, I would think. Maybe they have a cat or something that brings dead animals in sometimes? Maybe she's too young to really realize any better and picks it up. If not something like that, then I do think somone's death in court would trigger it

@ Nyx;
Yeah, and then whoever is watching her could see her with the dead animal in her arms and make her drop it, while in the process having skin-on-skin contact and thus she sees her first death?

@ castiel's vessel
I like it! I think it would kind of make sense too. The poor cat... She probably wouldn't want to be near it after that.

@ Nyx;
True. I think I'm going to write up a page that could be in the family history book about the curse once we've decided everything about it. That way whoever has a scene where they're reading a section from the page can just take bits from what I included to use it. So once we established what happened to make the curse be put on the mother's family and how far back it was put on, I'll start the page and post it once I'm done. Then you and Molly can check over it and tell me whether anything would need to be used and I'll stick it in the first post for reference (because I'm going to be editing that post extensively once all character bios and curses and backgrounds are in because it's messy at this moment in time).

@ castiel's vessel
Okay. That makes sense. And let me know if you need any help with anything, or need me to do something. I feel like I should contribute ^_^

Okay, about why the curse was put on the family... Do you think it was on the parents of their mother, or further down the line? Maybe she comes from a long line of men, then finally a girl's born and they're scared, because of the curse and how her children will end up being. I'm just throwing out ideas for that. But we need to think of the why too

@ Nyx;
Yeah, I think we discussed that before. It'd be placed on like a century or longer before the mother was born, and they had all been boys that were directly related to the bloodline that has the curse, and when she comes along and breaks the long run of boys but also inherits their curse for her children.

@ castiel's vessel
Okay, I didn't know if that had been discussed yet or not. Okay, so then.... This is pretty old, and I think we can safely say the family did something bad to someone to have that curse put on them.

Well I wouldn't want to shake anything up. I just thought this sounded interesting.

@ castiel's vessel @ Nyx;

I know I feel so bad for their mom xD

I think maybe the twins unlock each others? Like Emmy is feeling sad, and Henry forces her emotions to make her happy, and then maybe Henry has a bad dream and Emmy makes him see something else? So they basically are the key to each other?

@ fitzpleasure
I meant the shaking it up comment in regards to the two brothers if you were to join because you might have wanted to write a female character.

@ Properly Improper
Wait, what is Henry's curse?

@ castiel's vessel
I'm better at writing male characters. My females tend to be divas.

@ fitzpleasure
That's fine with me. I think Molly's just got to agree with someone else joining in but I'm sure she will. Would you want the eldest boy, the twin or would you like us to reevaluate the siblings to fit in elsewhere? It'd be no hassle either way.

The oldest will be fine. I'm going to read through this entire thread and get a good feel for the whole thing.

@ Properly Improper
@ miki-kat
@ fitzpleasure

Alright, so can I get a proper character bio of all your characters. I know you've given one Molly, but this time I want their birthdate included (stick with the 1800s in terms of the year), at what age they discovered their curse, who did they discover it with, how they discovered it, not to mention all details about your character that is necessary. Including a picture is optional but I do want a brief description of their looks. I'm going to compile a bio for Genevieve as well. I just need all details for your character in one post so that it's easier to get everything in the first post without missing something which might be important.

EDIT: Here's a picture

For names I was thinking either Ezra or Thaddeus. Actually, I really like Thaddeus. He was born on December 1 of 1802 since he's the oldest. I was thinking of some sort of healing power. Like he can take away someone else's pain but in turn it hurts him. He's really sensitive and reserved but feels, as the eldest male, he's responsible for his family and acts more courageous and self-righteous than he actually is. As mentioned in a previous post Genevieve unlocks his curse. When they were younger he causes her to get hurt (accidentally) and he wants to be a good big brother and unknowingly takes her pain away. I'm going to find a picture for him so I will edit this post once I do. If there's anything else I should add just let me know.