A Sorting Ceremony

[bubblewrapped]

Sorting Ceremony 2012

September 1st 2012. It seems like forever ago, now. A simpler time. Here, now, a moose is just a moose and aurors aren’t looked upon with suspicion. Mr. Pennywise still teaches Potions and the Anonymous Entry is relatively new.

It’s a hot and humid high in the Utah mountains and a heavy haze hangs in the air. Students have been fed and oriented and the day is getting long. The lights along the trails are flickering to life. It’s time for the sorting ceremony to begin. Students new and old make the trek from the lodge to the cave, not a one of them aware of what they will experience – what they will endure - in the years to come.

A fire crackles in the center of the amphitheater where Gooseberry's faculty and staff have gathered to greet the students. Headmistress Bloom delivers an enthusiastic speech, as she always does, promising an exciting year ahead. Gooseberry is your home for the next ten months. Here, you'll find new friends and family, learn about yourself and the world around you in exciting new ways. Here, you will grow. As she speaks, something moves beyond the treeline. Perhaps you caught a glimpse of it – or maybe it was nothing at all. Before you know it, Bloom’s speech is over.

With that, the first name is called. Step up to the cave and be sorted. It’s dark inside, drafty and full of strange sounds.

Take a deep breath before you head inside and remember to be brave.

HOW THIS WORKS

• This is taking place on Sept 1, 2012, the academic year preceding year 1. So, super seniors would be juniors, seniors would be sophomores, juniors would be the incoming freshmen and sophomores are nothing more than an ominous cloud on the horizon.


• This is SUPER LOW PRESSURE. Just have fun playing your kids as babies!!


• The sorting ceremony takes place not long after dinner this year.


• Freshmen and any students who were new to Gooseberry in the 2013 school year would be getting sorted.


• New kids spent the bulk of the day unsorted, it's possible older kids may've tried to recruit you to their house!


• SORTING CEREMONY: Students are called into the cave one by one in alphabetical order. Inside, the emblems of each house assess the student about why they should join their respective house. Their goal is to convince the student that they're a good fit with them, but ultimately the student is allowed to choose where they'd like to go. If the sorting takes more than five minutes, a teacher will go in to hurry things along. After your character is sorted, they go to sit in their house's section of the audience, often to excited cheers.


• After the ceremony, students head back to their campsites with their new classmates for the evening.

Blah blah blah...

» Before the Ceremony: Today was a busy day! Everyone arrived this morning by 11am. There was lunch and orientation, a bit of free time before dinner. What did you get up to?

» The Sorting Ceremony: Students gather in the amphitheater outside the sorting cave to see the newest members of the Gooseberry family learn their new houses.

» After the Ceremony: It's well past sunset, now. Time to head to your campsite and settle in!

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

Comments

OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[bubblewrapped]

Ngl I 100% did this so I could write my characters as disaster babies. I want a baby jay thread.

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[racingstripe]

Sobs my children, my perfect babies.

Jeffy's account expired and his icon selection is even worse than usual oh no

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[bubblewrapped]

I love all these children so much.

Sorely tempted to upload some icons of the old Lucas pb for this.

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[racingstripe]

Ok I need to sort out my work day and also the backtags I've committed to already lol BUT:

Rosy is a new prefect and she's bossy and probably pretty mean. It took some time for the fish to soften ya girl.
Jeffy is under six feet tall, about to be sorted into Azurcrest, and is still a ball of sunshine looking for whoever the bad idea leader is.
Austin is small and pouty and about to be sorted into Ebonhide, which is the right choice. He doesn't like the woods but he has his guitar to hide behind.
Nate hasn't set up shop in the library yet?? He wants some of Takeru's snacks.
Robin lives in the trees.
Dahlia ?????????

MEANWHILE... Riley is having a terrible time with her natural hair color in Hogwarts and Dinah is a fetus.

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[odder]

This is gonna make me cry at work again.
(But you’re all going to see a supermean Jade and Supernerd Ira so get ready I suppose)

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[casperkim]

Omgggg SuperNerdy Ira. ❤️🦊 I...don’t think Heathcliff has changed much. Apart from getting taller.

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[lilwitchhazel]

Aughhhh baby foxes 😭

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[odder]

Ok I should do it right;

Addy is a sophomore disaster who learned what alcohol is frankly too quickly and is coming back from a summer of being grounded and her biggest current goal is macking on cute juniors at the back to school grotto party.
Ferdie is a newly minted prefect who’s frankly terrified of spending his year in such close proximity to Rosy Stoker
Leo is a junior and a beater and totally sucking up to the senior captain this year. I want him to have a girlfriend at this point for max weird but that’s a possible handwave
Jade is planning to conquer this school like she did all the others. She’ll pick out the biggest threat and tear her down. And then Azurcrest will throw her for a loop
Ira won’t talk to a single person or he’ll get in a fight, maybe both.

I would also like to thread with you

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[bubblewrapped]

So in 2013...
Lucas is an absolute disaster of a human being, timid anxious weirdo disaster, and he's about to get sorted into Azurcrest which seems like a mistake.
Nia is a newly minted prefect pretending that she's totally fine in the wake of her life falling apart over the summer.
Yancey is actually here!! And is a scrawny nerd that looks nothing like Chord Overstreet.
Danny is also a scrawny nerd that looks nothing like Chord Overstreet but he's less nice about it.
Zav definitely brought something to cronch on during the ceremony.
Takeru may have fallen asleep on one of his roommate's shoulders.

And for the record, Dimi is King of Gryffindors, Griffy is King of Squonks and Nisha somehow still hasn't been kicked out of Wampus yet.

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[magitechnically]

HEY FISHLIPS AND URSULA ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CLOSE THIS YEAR

and january and danny are presumably still awful together

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[bubblewrapped]

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[novelling]

You have so many characters Jenny holy shit

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[magitechnically]

oh my god okay

Essie is a super mousey shy child preparing to embark on a year of being Diego's literal shadow and finishing off the year with an ill-fated crush on Jesse McBride.
Sun-mi has a year of prefecting under her belt, but is honestly even more lax than she was her senior year. She's just your Cool Big Sister partner-in-not-crime to Ravi!!!
Ursula hates being back here, is even more prissy, and is generally following Coralee's lead. She's pretty awful.
January is actually here! She doesn't kiss girls yet. She spent freshmen year forcing a bunch of boys to date her for a week before dumping them. Danny and Ferdie among them.

And in other news, Jacob has just been named prefect, is weeks away from making the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, and generally starting on the Worst Year Ever and Pear is trying to not murder her sister back at Ilvermorny.

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[bubblewrapped]

3 Proposals:

1. Danuary are shitheads at the sorting ceremony. January manages to get Danny yelling about something and they lose the first points of the year for Coppertale.
2. Seafood Soup does ....a thing???
3. Lucas and Essie obviously fight about something dumb.

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[destructobot]

oh gosh cuuute ♥ ;-;

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[graysanatomyforkids]

I love these kids and I hope they were all terrible this year.

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[goosemods]

btw jenny i think this year is actually 2012 :o

since Year 1 was 2013-2014
and Year 2 was 2014-2015

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[casperkim]

If you want any of mine, hit me up! :) I'll be busy with work for a while, but...

Cecil is a junior prefect at this point and more comfortable with his role this year! He just wants everyone to get get along, he's starting to lean into being a big brother to other students (both in terms of looking out for them and spoiling them), and he's excited about the new baby birds! He probably brought homemade cupcakes.

Ty is a junior fox, a cheerboy (not yet a captain), a flirt, and an excitable person! He's really happy to be back at Gooseberry after a long summer at home, so he'll be all over his roommates and anyone that will pay attention to him. He's about to meet his baby sister for the first time maybe? :o ♥

Casper is a returning Quidditch player, a new prefect (he's still wondering how that happened??), and even more prickly now than he was as a junior/senior. He's trying to figure out how he feels about his responsibilities and Ms. Rhee's apparent trust in him.

Cole is even more of a quiet space cadet at this point and he's almost certainly drawing on his hands in marker while this is going on. He made the choice to come to Gooseberry to get away form his overbearing brother...but he seems to be a bit lost without him. He'll be caught off-guard to end up in a different house from Micah, who was his roommate at Ilvermorny.

Heathcliff is PUMPED to be here and eager to meet new people, especially his roommates! He won't be surprised at all to end up in Coppertale. I mean. DUH??? He probably looks like a sophomore or a junior because he's still a Big Guy.

Lachlan is still at Hogwarts and Balthazar is still a bb getting home-schooled. :(

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[readingrainbows]

i just remembered that zach was a hatstall??? and look at him now cheep cheep ;u;

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[stclair]

ok i'm at work but i'll run through mine real quick

ravi is a junior prefect who's looking forward to seeing which fishies join this year!!!
mina is a junior who's cheering loudly every time someone sorts into ebonhide. BEAR HOUSE BEST HOUSE
sy is a soph who just made the jump from reserve to starting chaser for coppertale, so he's Very Proud of himself.
micah is an incoming fresh jay who will sort into azurcrest like... asap.

my other ones aren't at school yet!! but lmk if you want to do a cute scene

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[evercreep]

Ahhhh so cuuuute! ;o;

Diego is a junior Azurcrest! He's currently dating Tabitha Ogletree, and in about, oh, 6 months he's going to fuck that up real bad. On the outside they seem like the couple that's definitely getting married right after high school.
Rafael is a junior Coppertale prefect who thinks he has Head Boy in the bag next year. He's very happy to greet the new Coppertales. His older brother, Ricardo, is a VERY popular senior Coppertale. Rafa is currently dating Quinn, and Ric likes to torment her for it.
Neil is here, unfortunately!!!! He's a junior Ebonhide and he's a huge loser with an unearned ego and a love of ghosts.
Reid is a lonely, quiet Sophomore Coppertale who acts like an asshole to hide that he's just shy and struggles with speaking. He and Sy hate one another at this point. He coasts through his role as Seeker, and isn't very reliable.
Mackenzie is a sophomore Azurcrest who's perpetually content with her life. She's very spoiled, and is having a ball as a full on mean girl rich bitch. Today she's looking for fresh blood.
Calvin is a baby Ribbonfin, and currently absolutely awful. He's Draco Malfoy with none of the money. He hates all of you and thinks he's better and smarter than you. Boys make him panic. He's right on the heels of a not so healthy relationship, as as well as tension with his beloved older brother. His self-confidence is at an all time low and he's coping with it by lashing out!
Ophelia is a grubby tomboy looking girl who just got stuck in Ebonhide. Very emotional, very insufferable, very uncool. So like normal Ophelia before she decided people would like her more if she got hot.

Spencer is going to beat the shit out of a competitor and trash his reputation, which will land him at GB next year. :')
Archimedes is not living a great life at this point, and next year will take that out on all his classmates via Amortentia.

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[lilwitchhazel]

I have no self control and I wanted to post this even though I should be doing work oops

Hazel is a freshman and even though she's sad to leave home she's so excited!!! And happy!!! And feels responsible for no one but herself!!!! She'll be your friend and tell you to shut up probably!!!

Ramon is also a child and just praying he's not in the same house as Sofia (sorry, Sofia). He looks unimpressed with everything but is actually glad to be here.

Jaime is very very stupid and very very ready to party his little sophomore brains out. Also, he'll maybe make Quid reserve this year?? I have no idea what his quid life is like whoops. Incredibly reckless, loves everyone.

Phi is a baby soph with no responsibilities and has just learned/is about to learn that Heathcliff is here, I just realized!!!! They haven't talked in 2 years????

Eileen is a much happier/slightly nicer soph person who is dating Sandy or is about to "bully" him into it. She makes the coppertale quid team this year as keeper!!! She thinks this is boring but came anyways to quietly heckle the new kids.

Asher is a junior and thinks he's going to work on his paper again this year but he's not :,) he's dating his terrible girlfriend Seraphina who is very nice on the outside and very not nice on the inside.

Rupert is being offended somewhere in Canada.

I am up for anything!!!! When I'm not at work whoops

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[gwenniepop]

I have no idea if I am doing anything with this yet BUT

Gwen is an awkward sophomore with Rapunzel hair who is coming off a freshman year where she sneezed the entire time. She is terrified of her roommates and is about to embark on an ill-advised friendship with Calvin, against his will.

Teddy is about to be sorted into Ebonhide and is very chill about that. He thinks a girl in his class is very cute.

Juniper is planning a murder back in NY at her day school but it's really all in theory.

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[chryseis]

Cricket just spent a summer in London being unbelievably gay and now she’s pretending that she didn’t like it and she’s not in love with Maggie. She likes dumb boys. Definitely. For sure.

Jesse is drunk and hates Ricardo

Lilika is in Tulpehanink framing her cheating ex for drug dealing and getting him expelled. She flees to Gooseberry soon!

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[professionalcorpse]

guys. guys i'm so late to and lost at everything.

but, um. 2012?

roxie has just had the strange and stunning realization that she's possibly going to be staying at this school for more than three minutes total. she's quiet and hesitant and probably had zero friends.
bash is an anxious mess. this is the longest (& farthest) he's been from his sister ever and there's nobody around to tell him what to do. he teeter-totters back and forth between talking too much and possibly physically clamping a hand over his own mouth. generally harasses some emblems.
and antigone is an infant. and probably sleeping on a beach.