PROM COURT NOMINEES

[goosemods]

Drum roll everyone! During lunchtime, an Event Committee member puts up the official prom court nominees on the bulletin board in the lodge. Glitter rains down softly from the prom title headings, and doesn't seem to ever stop. (Is there actually an infinite glitter charm?!)

PROM QUEEN

Sofia Delgado
Lilika Ignacz
Gweneth Popplestone
Veronica Powers
Mackenzie Prince

PROM KING

Ferdinand Ayers
Webster Knox
Casey Patterson
Ulysses Quayle
Oscar Zabinsky

PROM PRINCESS

Liberty Chan
Madison Ives
Hazel Keating
Estella Morales-Tran
Jade Otterwell

PROM PRINCE

Jefferson Key
Lucas Kowalski
Sebastien Lacroix
Todd Skynner
Micah St. Clair

PROM DUCHESS

Dinah Dixon
London Holloway
Paris Holloway
Nisha Lewis
Natalie Prince

PROM DUKE

Balthazar Doyle
Miguel de la Guardia
Archimedes Rose
Tobias Rush
Rupert Wick

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM VOTING

• This is only the list of who will be on the ballot. Voting will open May 7. Prom will be Sat, May 26. You must get your votes in by Fri, May 25.


• Each individual character will get one vote, i.e. if you have five characters, you'll be able to vote up to five times. Everyone will be allowed to choose their first and second choices in every category.


• First choice will be worth 1 point, second choice will be worth 0.5 points. This will make the voting slightly unpredictable, to account for freshmen and NPCs! Someone who's everyone's second choice could take first if the voting is otherwise very divided.


• Please vote in-character. If all of your characters vote for the same person who happens to be played by your OOC bestie, it's a bit suspicious. We can't really enforce this, but please try to be honest. However, you can try all sorts of vote-rigging machinations IC if you want!


• Remember: you may not ask for votes OOC. If you do it in the comms, the mods will scold you.


• All votes will be screened. It will never be revealed who your character(s) voted for.


• Your character may vote for themselves.

» REACTIONS: Please place any IC scenes or reactions here.

» OOC - DISCUSSION

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REACTIONS

[goosemods]

Miguel

[colitaderana]

When the announcement is posted, Miguel's reaction is succinct and very to the point.

"What the hell."

Re: Miguel

[taxation_is_theft]

Quentin reads the bulletin over Miguel’s shoulder. He doesn’t expect to see his own name and isn’t really surprised by the line up. This was a popularity contest. But. Miguel’s name is up there. “Wow. You didn’t even campaign. What a shocking, unforeseen plot twist.” He forgets to sound shocked. “Good thing you asked me to the dance before you realized a fuck ton of people like you enough to vote for you. No take backs.”

Archie

[cherubic]

Archimedes smiles when he sees his name on the wall, and then smiles that much more when he sees Nisha's as well.

Archie & Nisha

[godzillabutworse]

Having not yet learned where the middle ground is between giving people room to exist and attempting to also occupy their exact point in space-time, Nisha doesn't give a second thought to draping her arms over Archie from behind. She props herself up on tiptoe and reads the list over his shoulder. And then she laughs, delighted. "You're gonna wear that crown super well."

Already her head is bubbling over with ideas. Time to run for prom duchess and prom overlord.

Ulysses

[ulixes]

Was 100% confident his name would be on this list until approximately 6 seconds before he actually read it, at which point he experienced a wave of bowel-quaking panic and began to frantically rationalise all the reasons why he didn't actually want to run anyway.

But then it was fine. Gosh, for a second there it was almost like he might not get everything he wants every single time. 😇

Ulysses & Kenzie

[princeprincess]

Mackenzie slides up to Ulysses, quiet as a mouse, and slips an arm through his. She leans in (and a little bit down) to speak quietly into his ear. She's a prefect now, so she has to be polite about these things. "Ready for your coronation? This is your year. I can feel it." Her smile is beautiful but cold as she sizes up his competition. "Bless their hearts, but Ferdie, Webster and Oz don't stand a chance against you or Casey. Nice guys really do finish last."

Lucas has a lot of thoughts and I haven't written a monster tag in a while.

[bubblewrapped]

Lucas pulls off his glasses when he rereads the list a third time, absently wiping the lenses off on the untucked portion of his shirt. A lot of thoughts compete for space in his brain and...okay, there's a solid forty-five seconds where he's just standing by the list, spacing out and daydreaming about how good his boyfriend would look in a crown. Like, goddamn. A real good look. I mean, you'd probably let that one win out for a bit, too, right?

ANYWAY, reluctantly, Lucas returns to planet Earth. And there he is. On the prom court list. Lucas Kowalski. It's weird. Like hearing a stranger say your name in a public place and knowing they aren't speaking to you. Except at the same time his brain is shouting no and every nerve is firing and oh boy this is bad. This is a mistake or, worse, a prank and how could anyone be so...

He stops. Breathes. Tries to steer his brain. Writing nominations for prom sucks. Why would anyone waste time putting him in as a prank? And if they did, doesn't that just mean they think of him? And why wouldn't his friends nominate him? It's not like he's under threat of winning, anyway. Maybe he can just...enjoy it. And harass Bash about campaigning for that crown he'd look so good in. Lucas grins. And, maybe, it's a little more confident than normal.

Lucas has a JAY ATTACK

[stclair]

Micah whoops loudly when he sees the list, not because he had the least bit doubt that he'd make it, but because all of his friends (and Todd) are nominated too. Look at that!! Azurcrest domination!!!!

"PRINCE LUCAS!" Micah shouts as he launches himself at his taller friend for an arm around the shoulders, and pulling him down for a clumsy hug. This probably happens at least twice a day to all of Micah's giant roommates. "You're gonna be like seven feet tall if they put a big shiny crown on those bountiful locks," he teases.

Spooky List?

[odder]

Jade wrinkles her nose. Her name is on the list but there’s one important name that isn’t. And Ari, this year, is the main reason she wants any of this in the first place. But there’s other good things. Lucas and Bash are both listed. That creates...another sort of issue, but she can only see past it right now, and she has a plan that she immediately lights at Lucas’s elbow to relay.

“So if they insist on the princess thing, what we need to do is get at least one of you voted, and then me, and then I’ll go into a small speech about how outdated this system is, and how the other one of you deserves the crown more. While I’m talking, I’ll get into a tragic guillotine accident, and you or Bash can pluck the crown off my head, and wear it in my memory.”

It took a left turn but the fundamentals of a plan are there.

Riley Mae

[riledup]

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Re: Riley Mae

[holdmyearrings]

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Tobias

[norush]

Also ????????????????????????, but for the opposite reason from Riley Mae.

Tobias & Riley

[riledup]

Riley basically stomps on Toby's foot to get his attention. Did she need to do that? Probably not. But she fucking did.

"Boys are gross," she says to an Actual Boy. "Win or I'm putting you up for adoption."

Liberty

[ghostbluster]

"Tā mā de," Liberty mutters as soon as someone draws her attention to the sparkling announcement. There are 39 better girls for this in the junior class. If you remove the other four on the board, there are still 35. Ophelia wasn't even on there, and she had actually put up posters. Liberty is pretty sure this is some kind of joke that she just hasn't figured out what the punchline is yet. "I guess I have to go to prom now," she muses.

Bert & Ari

[novelling]

Ari's not surprised she wasn't nominated. She's not exactly popular, and she doesn't have the backing of Azurcrest house like Jade does. But she is a little disappointed. The idea of running alongside Jade had been... well, something. She doesn't reflect on it for too long, because there's no use crying over spilt milk or lost votes.

Still, Liberty is surprising. She would've expected Ophelia, out of any of her roommates. "I wonder who nominated you," she wonders aloud as she checks the list over Bert's shoulder.

Ursula

[cecaelian]

Ursula squares her shoulders against the pang of disappointment from not finding her name on the list. It hurts, even if it isn't a surprise, but no one needs to witness that. The feeling is short-lived though, replaced with something light and giddy when she finds Ferdie's name at the very top of the king list. She doubts he'll share the sentiment, but she's positively delighted: a school-sanctioned excuse to be utterly obnoxious about her boyfriend. She can't wait to start plotting with Rosy.

OOC 👑 QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[goosemods]

Re: OOC 👑 QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[browbeats]

the holloways are both nominated and I'm so excited

Re: OOC 👑 QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[threatens]

how many people are going to be like "i want to vote for the holloway in ebonhide" but they can't remember which one it is

just pick at random, you get a 50/50 chance of getting it right

Re: OOC 👑 QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[gonnabefamous]

Prepare for War.

Re: OOC 👑 QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[godzillabutworse]

Yancey is making prom posters for each of them but putting the wrong Holloway on each one

Re: OOC 👑 QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[stclair]

hey can i just vote in a three-headed chickabro for prom prince :<

Re: OOC 👑 QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[browbeats]

the only humane option

Re: OOC 👑 QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[riledup]

Riley is now going to aggressively campaign for her giant son Toto.