Chapter 0 - Character Creation

@LightOfMidnight are you still working on a character?

Yeah. Sorry getting on paper now. Started work after 6 weeks yesterday and I had a lot of last minute stress, especially as a got very little done that I had planned to.

Re relationships with the others - Emilia would have transferred to the school about a couple of years ago, and got 'adopted' by the popular crowd, and likely won't actively have hung out or spoken with your characters in school except projects.

She claims her parents are buisness people but Bowl's character may know the truth, if they are aware ther delivery driver is visiting her parents farm is in fact Emilia's mother.

It may be possible one of both of you already know/realise she's trying to keep up a facade to fit in.

I kind of like the idea that Robbie knows the truth about Emilia's mother. She hasn't told Emilia, but she wants to be her friend, so she tries to get close to the cool, popular girl and subtly let her know that she doesn't have to lie about who she is. But it hasn't been successful so far.
What's Emilia's mother's name, so I can put her down as my anchor?

If you need any help with the mechanics for your character, Light, feel free to ask me, here or on Discord. But if you can manage Walking Dead, TftL is even lighter.

@LightOfMidnight, thanks for the update. I'm sorry to hear that work has been stressful. I hope things improve soon!

Your character idea is interesting, and I think it will make for a good story.

Lets go with Tyra Åberg

@Dr_B, do you have any thoughts on a relationship between Robbie and Tanya? They're both probably kind of outcasts, so they could be friends because of that. Or for a bit more of an interesting dynamic, maybe they want to be friends because of that but because Tanya is such a quiet bookish girl and Robbie is a more physical, outdoorsy girl, they struggle to really get along.
Maybe they're also this kind of friends where it's actually more their parents that are friends and that's why they hang out.

Open to other ideas as well, though. That's just what first came to my mind.

They could be connected through some kind of unique shared hobby like botany, stargazing, ghost hunting, etc.... Maybe Robbie is focused on doing the activity and Tanya likes knowing lots about it.

Also a fun thought, yeah!

It could be that Robbie stood up for Tanya when she was bullied during Gym class. With her athletic inadequacies, she surely is a bully magnet. Robbie being more physical, she could have protected her?

Right think I just need to sort relationships out. Maybe fiddle with drive and iconic item a bit.

@Dr_B, Do you have any more thoughts on Tanya's anchor, the retired professor? Are they a professor of literature or something else? Since they are retired, how did Tanya meet them?

Yes, a professor of literature sounds good. He will foster the girl's thirst for books.
I thinking a retired University professor that came back to his town of origin after a lifetime teaching in a larger University city.
Maybe he was invited once at school to give a lesson, local celebrity type thing. Tanya found him fascinating, unlike most other kids. She found out where he lived and went to observe the place many times, until the Prof spotted her and invited her in.
She has been visiting him since.

Robbie herself is a target of bullies, so I don't know how well suited she'd be for protecting others from bullies. She's pretty strong, but she's also overweight, so she would probably be decent in gym class, but really self-conscious about performing physical things in gym clothes in front of other students. Maybe she tried to help Tanya and failed and it just led to them both being bullied together. Robbie could have bought ice cream afterwards for both of them to cheer them up.

sure, that works. They are very different and wouldn't normally get close - both being targets made them forge an alliance of sorts

Here are some more thoughts I have about Tanya and Robbie’s relationship. Feel free to disregard them.

- Maybe they both failed to stand up to the bullies and after the gym class incident they discovered a hidden or secluded spot on/near the school grounds where they retreat to when they need a break from the pressures of school life. This could become the group's Hideout.
- There is a specific bully that's targeting both of them and Robbie and Tanya are drawn together because of their common enemy.

yes, I love both of these suggestions, personally

Both sound good to me!

B, what should the hideout be like? Light as well, if you have any idea, since it would be our whole group's hideout.

Maybe in the school there is an unused wing comprising a couple of rooms. It was planned for renovation after some damage, but the budget never made it possible. The wing is kept locked at all times, but we found our own secret entrance to it by accident (probably while running away from the bully).

Oh, that's a cool idea! I like that. Light?

Sounds good

Don't know if you guys wanted to keep it as a thing that you two introduce her two as shenanigans start happening, or alternatively she also found it at some point and would go occasionaly to be able to get a breatehr from everything. When she at one pointe stumbled upon there m there was grudging agree to not rat the others out as then it get closed off fo everyone.

Also on subject of buillies, thinking that while she herself likely doesn't instigate the bullying, the girls she hangs with likely do, so she at best lets it happen. (At least to start)

However if you think this will make it be hard for chars to work together, and can see that, can instead set it to her group likely just pretend yo guys don't exist as you aren't 'cool'

Whichever you guys are comfertable with.