Young Writers Society

RESERVING A SPOT!

Name: Luna Rae

Gender: Female.

Age: 16

Appearance: Luna has natural dark blond hair with red streaks through it. Her big ocean blue eyes stand out from her pale complexion. She is always wearing her favourite beanie and sometimes puts on black eyeliner and eye shadow. She has scars on her arm and doesn’t like it when people make a deal about them.

Personality: (Strengths, Weaknesses, Likes, Dislikes, etc.) Luna likes cats. She doesn’t really like much. She is very insecure and doesn’t like people staring at her. She trusts no one.
Her weaknesses are people that judge her, water (she can’t swim too good) and bossy people, making friends, she isn’t good at that, but she will be kind to the people who are kind to her.
Her strengths are sharpening objects, picking locks, going days without food… she has been doing that throughout her life. And using her hands to make things.

History: Luna has had a hard life being a slave; her owner would treat her like dirt. She was shipped to this island after she tried to kill herself. She is a very hurt and sad girl. So be careful what you do or say.

Primary Skill: Good at making fire (not sure if I’ve done this one and the bottom one right..)

Secondary Skill: Good at keeping wild animals calm and fighting.
Up For Love?: Yesh, but she pushes people away, so be persistent, she need someone to love her. Straight.

Other: She carries her knife everywhere.

Name: Alphonse R. Q. Johnson, nicknamed “Alph”.

Gender: Male

Age: 26

Appearance: Great big round jolly guy. Round nose, sparkly wide-set hazel eyes, goatee, thick red hair, big ears.

Personality: Really nice guy, always making jokes and making compliments. He would never intentionally hurt anyone’s feelings. Really likes fishing, walking, cooking fish he caught, reading, eating fish he caught and cooked, engineering, and serving other people the fish he’s caught and cooked. Dislikes mud, hunting, cheese, swearing, and birds. As he’s a great big guy, one of his strengths is his weight: he can fight well against other big people or things. He can also swim rather well. He can’t, however, run very fast or long, as he’s very out of shape.

History: Originally worked at Lowe’s as a clerk to help pay his college tuition (he’s studying to be an engineer). He went on a fishing trip one day and got caught in a storm (he refers to it as "The Storm").He was kncked out, tossed overboard, and, because he was so fat, he floated, and was washed up on the island shortly afterwards.

Primary Skill: Fishing for food.

Secondary Skill: Building tools and such for survival; he is, after all, studying to be an engineer.

Up For Love?: I guess?

Other: This might turn out to be comic relief, just because of my writing style.

Reserving a spot!

Name: Mike Lewis

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Appearance: He is slim, lean, and well cut. Not buff muscular, but relatively athletic. His dark brown hair hangs straight almost to his shoulders, flipping off to the right of his face, giving it the apearance of almost always blowing in the wind. It sometimes gets in his eyes, giving him this obnoxious twitch, which is him just flipping the hair from his deep brown eyes. His skin is tan, and unmarked, save many scratches he aquired from being on the island for a month, and the deep scar accross his back from his crash landing. He landed on the island with a leather jacket with many pockets, a swampy colored green tee shirt, and a pair of jeans. All that remain to him are these clothes, and his assortment of pointed objects.

Personality: Mike is a loyal person, who's personality tends to vary depending on the situation. Under normal circumstances he has a very dry sense of humor, and is always cracking jokes. Sometimes he's obnoxious. He's also somewhat convinced that he's invincible, due to his inhumanly high threshold of pain. He is also very unemotional, at least on the outside. After getting to know him, however, you would soon discover that he is very deep, and somewhat sensitive. He likes to think that every problem has a solution. His instincts are keen, and his survival skills sharp. However, he has very high standards of friendship. Despite this, however, he will accept you as his friend very quickly. This he takes as an unbreakable bond, almost an unspoken vow. To break this bond through backstabbing, deception, and trickery, is unforgivable.

History: His arrival on the island were the result of a Contest that he one, a Helicopter ride over the sea, through the Boy Scouts of America. He was a good scout, one of the best. He absorbed information about the wilderness like a sponge, and had once gone a week in the wild without resources as a scout chalenge. He had just reached the rank of Eagle scout when he entered the Contest, and won at random after having his name drawn from a digital box. However, the Helicopter pilot had a heart attack while they flew over the atlantic. Mike was forced to crash land the copter on the island. Miraculously, he survived, suffering only a deep cut from glass across his back. After surveying the wreckage, he discovered several survival items inside: a mirror, a compass, fishing line and a hook, some thin metal wire, a radio broken beyond repair, and a hunting knife. He took what he could salvage, including a machete he found in another compartment, and made camp near a lake.

The camp he drew up was in what Mike could only describe as the perfect location. He set up on the small beach of a lake, where it is met by a thin river that flows into it. At night, he douses his fire and sleeps in a fork in the trees. When it rained, he would put a tarp in between three branches, one in the middle to syphon off the water. Here he could catch fish with a makeshift fishing pole, and set several snare traps using saplings and the wire he collected from the wrecked helicopter. The mirror, a circle of reflective mirror hung from a ribbon, he hangs in his "treehouse" for when he'll need it. However, he hasn't seen a lowflying aircraft pass the island since he landed. It has been 32 days.

Primary Skill: Survival and Wilderness wisdom; he has an inept knowledge for hunting, setting traps, finding water, and building shelter, as well as identifying plants and navigation. Being a boy scout, he also knows how to build an assortment of usefull gadjets.

Secondary Skill: Climbing. He can scale anything with the slightest handholds. His upper body strenght is more than it looks, allowing him to climb (if he needs to) using only his arms, for a short distance.

Up For Love?: Yes, straight.

Name: James Anderson or Glunk (refers to himself as Glunker, which is his alternate personality.)

Gender: Male

Age: 46

Appearance: He is an old man, with long gray hair, a long beard, and yellowing teeth. He is usually caked in a layer of dirt and grime and wears only a pair of ripped, worn-out shorts. He had a shirt when he landed on the island but after so many years there he eventually used it for something else. He tends hunch or be hunched forward often and is very skinny, you can count his bones. Though he may appear weak, he actually is pretty strong, though not in the greatest shape.

Personality: He isn't the sharpest stick in the mud if you know what i mean. He often does things that to a normal person, would seem totally strange. Glunk is great at inventing and likes it. He has a large curiosity when it comes to unknown things. Glunk also has a case of alternate personalities. He usually is Glunk, but sometimes his true personality of James Anderson comes out. When in the personality of James, he is a sweet, kind man who cares for those around him and wishes to help those stranded on the island. As Glunk, he is crazed and often speaks to himself and can be a bit non-caring and mean, but still like his true personality, he cares for the safety and well-being of others.

History: Glunk, who used to be known as James Anderson, was a great inventor and an excellent doctor who tried to help out in the war. After the war James wanted to escape it all. So he set out on a boat to travel to another country to find himself a new life there. While at sea, the boat was caught in a terrible storm and crashed. After crashing James noticed an island in the distance and swam to it. On the island, James found himself to be the only survivor and to be completely alone. Being alone and the only survivor, Glunk soon became mad and lost his mind. Although his mind may be lost his true personality comes out sometimes. Since he was on the island so long he knows it very well. He often talks to himself and mutters incomprehensible chatter, a thing caused by being on the island for over 15 years.

Primary Skill: He is very good at designing things and building. He is pretty skilled in medicine and first aid.

Secondary Skill: He knows the island like the back of his hand.

Up For Love?: Not really.

Other:

Name: Blaze David
Gender: Male.
Appearance: Blaze is a rather intimidating figure. He stands at 6'3", is barrel-chested, and his body is layered with lean muscle. His hair is sun-faded black and a lengthy mess and his eyes are amber and often narrowed. His facial features are sharp, but not very memorable. His skin is tan and riddled with scars. He was dumped on the island in a pair of black cargo pants, a gray t-shirt, a wool coat, and hiking boots. He's managed to keep track of his clothing and keep it in good repair, used to unfortunate situations by this point.
Age: Twenty.
Personality: Blaze is a terminally serious person playacting as a comedian. He's all smiles and good humor until you've done something he considers wrong, and then he's at your throat. He normally doesn't break, but he can on occasion, and it normally ends with anything in the nearby area decimated. He doesn't like being toyed with and has a strict moral code.
History: Raised by a single mother, had few friends, bullied in school but rose up fighting and become someone to be feared. Otherwise? Blaze David was a--well, he was one of the proteges of Ioann Nagel (alias Jonathan Carpenter), a U.S.S.R. scientist. He was tested in various ways beforehand, normally involving dank confinement or labs, and he doesn't mind the fact Ioann has apparently decided surviving on an island is his next task--at least there's sun.
Primary Skill: Resourcefulness. If you're in a situation you don't want to be in, you want Blaze nearby. Of course, if he dislikes you, he can also be quite inventive in finding ways to "punish" you for perceived wrongs.
Secondary Skill: Fire starting. He was a bit too fond of fire before, finding the irony delicious, but it comes in handy now.
Up For Love?: I suppose. He's pansexual. He would make a very loyal, if cold, partner.
Other: Nada?

I'll join this if there is a spot open for a girl? *reserves spot*

Name: Katie Stone

Gender: Girl

Age: 7

Appearance: Brown hair that stop at her shoulders. Big blue eyes and a small button nose. She is tiny for her age and very skinny. She came to the island wearing a pink shirt and a purple skirt with her pink Dora the Explorer flip-flops.

Personality: Katie is really shy and quiet. She doesn't really talk to anyone but her brother. She can usually be found in her brothers arms or in the water. She loves to swim so if you bring that up, you might have a chance of talking to her.

History: Katie's older brother was cleaning their parents boat when Katie came out to tell him it was dinner, when she got on the boat and they where swept away to sea in the huge storm. They ended up on the island and away from her parents and friends.

Primary Skill: Tying knots

Secondary Skill: Swimming

Up For Love?: Eww no! Boys have cooties.

Other: Katie is pretty quiet and kinda rely's on her brother for everything.



Name: Colin Stone

Gender: Boy

Age: 15

Appearance: Colin has brown hair that hangs into into his eyes. He often has to flip his hair to get it out of his eyes, but he's OK with that. He has blue eye's just like his sister and a slight tan. He isn't super buff but he has an athletic build. He stands a height of 5'9 and is usually carrying or holding his little sisters hand. He arrived at the island in a UNC sweat shirt and jeans with his Nike tennis shoes.

Personality: He is a really happy kid. He always has a smile on his face and is a real sweet heart. He is very caring and pretty funny. He talks, a lot, and he's OK with that. He is pretty laid back, almost to laid back if you ask me.

History: Colin was home schooled with his sister. The day of the storm he was cleaning his parents boat with Katie when the storm picked up and pulled them out to sea.

Primary Skill: Running

Secondary Skill: His strength. He doesn't look strong but he could carry up to 200 pounds if he needs to.

Up For Love?: Yeah sure (Straight)

Other: Nopeeee

Name: Raven-Blue

Gender: Girl

Age: 16

Appearance: Raven has black hair, which reaches her waist, it also has a blue tint to it. She is 5ft 6in.
Her eyes are a deep brown, which almost looks black. She wears her black leather jacket over everthing she wears, black jeans and a blood red vest top. She favours her combat boots to complete the outfit.
She only wears mascara to make her eyes stand out. She has a pale complexion, free of any blemishes.
Her lips are a natural deep red colour. Raven has one long, deep 8 inch scar across her back, which she prefers not to speak about. It is always covered up.

Personality: Raven is by no means quiet, she will stand up for herself and anyone close to her. She finds it hard to trust people, after being raised in a rough background of her parents constantly fighting.
Once you get to know her, she is the most loyal and trustworthy person you could ever meet. Just don't get on her bad side, she can be brutal if need be.
Her strengths involve a strong and accurate instinct, which should never be ignored. She is a strong swimmer.
Her weakness is being let down and going anywhere without covering up her back.
Raven likes to swim, and was involved in the schools swim team at home. she also likes to make things out of anything she can find. She is very creative. She dislikes judgmental and snobby people. She has a phobia of small, enclosed spaces.

History: Raven ended up being stranded on the island after being on holiday with her sister and brother in law.
She fell overboard during the night, and saw the island in the distance, she swam over in hopes of finding help.
Before being stranded, Raven lived with her sister and was getting ready to start college in London. She was originally from Newcastle but holds no particular accent.

Primary skill: She is good at making anything from almost nothing, as she is very creative and pays attention to every detail. She is a strong swimmer and fast runner.

Secondary skill: She can cook and build/make.

Up for love?: Yes, but she has to be certain she can trust them before getting involved. Being friends beforehand is the best way to work up to a relationship with Raven. She is straight and limits a relationship to a 3 year age gap.

Other: Raven never goes anywhere without a piece of string tied to her thumb, and a pocket knife kept in her boots.

Reserving spot #9

Name: Alex Casidin

Gender: Male

Age: 27

Appearance: Loose fitting shirts and blue jeans, is fairly strong but slender. His dark blonde hair is short barely covering his neck and dark green eyes. Alex is forty five inches (5 feet, 5 inches), his skin is lightly tan. He wears several silver bands around his fingers, a silver crest moon necklace.

Personality: He is Quiet, serious, sensitive, kind, clever, and honest. Does not prefer conflict or provoke such. Loyal and faithful, has extremely well- developed senses, and aesthetic appreciation for beauty. He hates to lead or control others, though flexible and open-minded. Originality is no problem with his creativity, while he lives in the moment.

History: Alex has been practicing art in his spare time but is pushed to follow his dads footsteps and be a lawyer in america. While taking a cruise, to focus on his art and get away from the crude life as a lawyer, he somehow ended up on the island.

Primary Skill: Great with his social skills that let him often counsel individuals or small groups.

Secondary Skill: He has the clever and creative mind to improve anything that isn't working properly or isn't at it's most efficient rate.

Up For Love?: Yes, straight and really reserved

Other: You can ask him about almost anything because of his artistic views and honesty.

I would like to reserve a spot please.

Name: Celest Keating

Gender: Girl

Age: 12

Appearance: Celest has dark skin that tans very easily. Her hair reaches her lower back. She usually keeps her brown hair up in a pony tail or a french braid. She wears a hot pink hoodie with a plain white tee shirt. She also wears her favorite jean capris and pink sneakers. Most importantly Celest wears a gold chain and a silver charm bracelet,that was given to her by her grandmother.

Personality: Celest is an optimistic girl who tries to look at everything in a brighter perspective. Though she is nice,she is not stupid and not naive. She can tell the difference between nice people and self-centered ones. Celest is also smart and strategical,but has a tendency to let her temper get in the way. Usually she is viewed by others as a born leader and can also work independently. She is also persistent nd is focused on surviving this island with the hope of seeing her family again.

History: Before Celest came to this island she lived with her mother Tara on their beach side home,while her father was in the navy. On her twelfth birthday her mother took her on a cruise that go her out of school for a week. As they left the port on the cruise she was doing her homework in her room. After about 5 hours into the cruise the captain's voice came urgently on the speaker about an emergency evacuation. She ran to the deck and was given a life boat and jacket. She had sailed to the nearest island and came upon this one.

Primary Skill:Her wide view of life allows her to easily get out of tough scenarios

Secondary Skill: She is agile which allows her to fit into tight spaces and get up high

Up For Love?:No she finds boys a nuisance and a waste of her time

Other:Celest uses her brown belt as a whip sometimes and can run pretty fast

Name: Rainy Poblar (poh-bl-are)

Gender: Female

Age: 6

Appearance: Rainy is very short, even for her age. She has a very light complexion with freckles dotting her cheeks and dimples that show when she smiles. Rainy has big, beautiful brown eyes and naturally curly, dark brown hair. She normally wears her hair down with a headband or in pigtails. She can normally be seen wearing sun dresses or nice shirts with skirts or skorts.

Personality: Rainy loves attention, though she won't admit it and she doesn't go fishing for it often. She is extremely kind and outgoing, and generally cares about others. She is somewhat intelligent, but relies on her older sister, Santana a lot. Rainy is fun-loving and generally care free for the most part, though she does worry about her older sister sometimes. Though she is very young, Rainy is already very musically inclined. She is a great singer and plays piano/keyboard. Rainy isn't very comfortable around new people, but it doesn't take much to get her to come out of her shell.

History: Rainy"s older sister Santana pretty much just takes care of her. Their parents are abusive alcoholics who openly cheat on each other and fight constantly. Their father beats their mother and them, their mother is verbally abusive and over critical of everything the girls do. This is what led Santana to grow up early, and she is very protective of her little sister, acting as a mother and father to her. Because of this, Santana has no guidance, no one to be there and help her. Since their parents are always fighting, one, or both, of them are gone most of the time with another random lover, often bringing the suspicious characters back to the house. Santana does what she can to shield Rainy from the awfulness that goes on in their house and has stepped up as a mother figure so Rainy doesn't have to grow up as quickly as Santana did. After yet another meeting with the school psychologist, the family was ordered to bond without fighting, so they rented a large boat and went sailing one weekend. The ship crashed in a horrible storm, killing their parents. But, as usual, Santana kept Rainy as safe as she could, so she took most of the injuries. They eventually wash up on shore on the island, except they aren't together, so Santana searches frantically until she is finally reunited with Rainy. She now has two problems: how to keep them both, although more so Rainy, alive; and how to get off of the island.

Primary Skill: She's small so she can hide easily, even in the smallest of places, and climb higher in trees than most people. And music of course, but that won't help.

Secondary skill: Rainy is a really fast runner.

Up for love?: No, she's only 6. That would be frowned upon in most modern societies. What she needs is a friend.

Other: I don't think there's anything else.

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Name: Santana Poblar

Gender: Female

Age: 15 (turns 16 a few days later)

Appearance: Santana is fairly tall and very thin. She has a noticeable lack of sleep in her large, dark brown eyes. She has a fairly light complexion, although she is tanner than Rainy, no freckles, but she has the dimples. She has long, straight, very dark brown hair that she wears down with a headband(you see where Rainy gets the idea?!). Santana can normally be seen wearing jeans and a semi-nice T-shirt with a black leather jacket and her favorite pair of black character shoes.

Personality: Santana does not trust very many people and is very shy. It takes a lot for Santana to come out of her shell, and even after she does, even longer for her to actually trust you. She is extremely protective of Rainy and is like a mother to her, being that their own parents are more of a burden to her than they are helpful. Santana is very stressed and worries a lot, however when she does take some time to herself, she loves writing. She loves writing novels and short stories more than anything, but writes songs on occasion. Santana is messed with a lot at school, and it often brings her down. If she was being completely honest, Santana would say that her sister is literally the only thing keeping her here, and she really is. Santana tries to be strong for Rainy as much as she can, because she doesn't want to worry her younger sister, but sometimes everything just catches up to her and she has a meltdown. What Santana needs more than anything in the world is a friend, someone who she can talk to, and to find out what love is, though she's afraid that someone might take advantage of her because of what she's been through. Santana always keeps a pocketknife with her, just in case.

History: Same as above

Primary skill: Survival skills, and writing, but yeah.

Secondary skill: Knife throwing

Up for love?: Santana desperately wants to know what love is, since she's never really been loved before, except for Rainy. She really needs someone who will listen because she has a lot going on.

Other: I believe that's everything.

James/Glunk --- (32 days ago...)

The wind tossed my long hair back as it brushed against my head. The large mass of clouds caused the sky to be darkened. The rain fell and crashed against the ground like liquid stones. Here and there, flashes of lightning lit the evening air. Trees swayed, leaves rustled, rain fell. The storm was growing.

A sudden flash of light revealed a faint image flying in the distance. The shape seemed familiar, but it wasn't something that I, Glunker, could recall ever seeing before at the island. The image neared and become more visible. It was metallic, that was certain. The four beams atop the object swirled quickly in constant circles. Yes, familiar, but not remembered. I stared at the thing in the sky, something was wrong, that I was sure of.

The thing was nearing the ground at an unhealthy pace. It would crash! What is it thinking? Does it wish to crash? That doesn't make sense. A sudden memory filled my mind and I remembered more about the device. It was a helicopter. Why a helicopter would come to this forsaken island I would never know. Too long have I been here. Ugh, why must I be losing my mind!

The helicopter as I seem to remember it soared over my head. Soon it would crash. I watched as it fell and crashed into the forest. I knew that area, just as I knew the rest of the island, it was near the small lake over on the south-western side of the island. I listened to the noise of the crash. Oh well it was just a vehicle, not like a creature or person got hurt. Wait! People! Helicopters carried people! They could be hurt! I need to get over there!

I rushed through the foliage toward the site of the crash. The storm, which was still going strong, poured droplets of water upon my uncovered back. The ground was starting to become muddied and I almost tripped as I ran. Soon, I arrived at the site of the crash.

The two people laying within the wreckage were motionless. A quick check of pulses confirmed my fears. One of them was dead. But, luckily, the passenger was still breathing, I inspected his body and found a deep gash, caused by the glass, across his back. I hefted his body from the wreckage and sat it against a tree. After surveying the area I found some herbs to null the pain and help the wound heal.

I applied the herbs and used a piece of fabric that was in my pocket to bandage the wound as best I could. No one deserved to be in pain. As I finished patching the wound I sat and waited. Soon the young boy started to awaken.

"Hello, young one. What's your name?" I asked.

"M-Mike," He stammered, confused and dizzy.

"Well Mike, welcome to the island that you might not ever leave." I said sadly. The island you might not ever leave was right! I've been here for what has seemed an eternity.

Mike started to lose consciousness again. Well, He's no longer in immediate danger so I think I'll leave him. As Mike fell into the darkness, I also disappeared into darkness.

James/Glunk --- (32 days laters... Present Day)

After that night, I kept a close eye on Mike. He made a camp near the crash site by the lake. He may not know it but if I hadn't helped him that day, he wouldn't be here. That would be a shame. A young man like him doesn't deserve such a death. Not at that young age.

Soon, I plan to reveal my presence to Mike. It seems he is beginning to start to have trouble. That just won't do... Not at all... It's not easy living on the island. I should know.