Young Writers Society

Name: Moira Kimberly Holtzman
Age: 27
From: Born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Currently living in New York City.
Occupation: Receptionist at a Manhattan luxury gym by day. She spends her nights and weekends writing poetry and short stories, whenever she can motivate herself to do so.

Appearance: Moira is petite, at 5'2. She has shoulder length black hair, bangs, wide blue eyes and freckles. Obviously, surviving the shipwreck changes her.

Before // After

Personality: Moira can be abrasive when you first meet her, but that's really a wall that she puts up so that other people don't hurt her. She's been through a lot tin her life, and knows that the world can be a tough place. Because no one stuck out for her growing up, she doesn' feel like the world owes anyone anything. This can be interpreted as coldness but to her it's practical. Past all of that, she's a warm, caring and empathic person. If she allows herself to trust you, she will be ride or die, all the way. She tries to look at the big picture of life and not get too caught up in things that don't matter.

Likes: Her favorite writers are Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas and Aldous Huxley, and ignores people who try to tell her they were just moody white men. To her, there's a deep truth in their writing. She also loves Bob Dylan and is fascinated with the Greenwich Village art scene of the 1960s.

Beyond her art, she likes baking (any dessert food, really), wine, jogging and travelling. She's not huge into fashion or makeup but loves getting dolled up when she has the opportunity.

Dislikes: Fake people. Materialism. People who are in love with the sound of their own voice. People who talk during movies. Music of the last twenty years. So yeah, people pretty much suck? Also, she's getting really tired of New York City as a whole and is thinking she wants to move sooner rather than later.

Cruise Background: Moira is on the cruise with her best friends Anya and Jill. Anya is recently engaged and the girls planned the trip as a last hurrah before Anya goes off and gets married. Secretly, Moira would have rathered they went to Hawaii, but Anya and Jill didn't want to spend multiple days at sea and she was outvoted.

Still, after months of enduring her terrible job, the cold and a bad roommate situation, the only thing getting her and her friends through was the trip on the horizon. As much as she loves her friends and is happy that Anya is engaged, she wants the same thing for herself. She hoped to find a cute guy to to have a hookup, but other than a flirtation with an Irishman at a bar, nothing of the sort happened.

Name: Jack Hodgson
Age: 33
From: Westminster, London, UK
Occupation: Part-time HVAC-electrical-plumbing technician, part-time stay-at-home dad

Appearance: Standing at 6'3" [190.5 cm], Jack towers tiny-Olivia and has exercised enough to be able to easily swoop her up and pick up heavy objects, but not enough to ever have abs. He works outside a lot, so he's got a bit of a farmer's tan going on, fully completing the dad bod experience. He has dark hair always cut short and a pretty healthy beard that he maintains. He has a soft smile and chocolate-colored eyes hiding behind round black-rimmed glasses, but his hands are the complete opposite: rough and calloused. When not wearing his work uniform, he's usually lounging around the house with shorts and tees, only wearing button-ups and slacks when Olivia makes him go to a fancy event.

Before // After // IRL

Personality: introverted; thoughtful; forgiving; independent; tends to take care of things for other people before they even have to ask; doesn't like to be the center of attention; ADHD "always have to be busy" kind of person; gives unsolicited opinions; inadvertently tries to "fix" everything; hates confronting uncomfortable situations head-on; not very emotional; pretty oblivious to social cues

Likes: playing with his kids, home improvement, woodworking, browsing the internet, video games
Dislikes: drama, social media, deadlines, math, staying still, not knowing what to do next

Family: Jack is married to his wife, best friend, and high school sweetheart, Olivia. They're both like yin and yang and opposite sides of the coin, but it's because of it that they make a great team. While Jack takes care of the kids and brings in some quick money, Olivia is a theoretical physicist at a university, performing research and teaches every once in a while. Meanwhile, Jack is an engineering drop-out since he can't handle the deadline or math, but he is very good at working with his hands and often helps Olivia with her experiments' set-up since she barely even knows how to use an Allen wrench. Their marriage is as strong as ever, even when they're sometimes stressed rearing up two daughters, Maxine and Sophie, ages 8 and 5. They're a bundle of joy, and Jack loves playing with them. He hasn't always taken the best care of his health, but now with two kids, he has become more of a health nut, vowing to live as long as possible so that he will be there for them as long as possible.

Cruise Background: Jack came to the cruise with his wife so they can have a nice relaxing week without screaming children running around the house. It also happens to be their ten-year wedding anniversary, so he's going to try to be more romantic than usual. (Which is not at all, in case you were wondering.)

Other: Unless he is working with machines, Jack is always wearing his wedding ring, a simple gold band.

Name: Elizabeth Hamilton (Eliza)
Age: 22
From: Born in Concord, New Hampshire, USA. She currently lives on MIT campus in Cambridge, MA, USA, and she hopes to move to NYC
Occupation: College senior; receptionist on campus
Major/Minor: Neuroscience/Science, Technology, and Society

Appearance: Eliza is 5'11, one of the tallest girls in her class. She has black, waist-length hair, which she cuts after she gets shipwrecked. She usually puts a bow on it. She has green eyes. She is the second child, and her father wants her and her older brother to help him a lot. So she's developed some muscles, although they are not very noticeable.

Before // After

Personality: Eliza is extroverted, optimistic, deeply loyal. She stands up for herself. Her chemistry professor shamed her roommate's boyfriend for hanging out with his girlfriend instead of focusing on his classes, but Eliza stood up for him. They both got in trouble. She tries to live a healthy lifestyle, but she's taking so many classes because of her major that she gets stressed out really quickly. She tries to make a good impression, and she tries to make a situation funny if she finds something scary. She's kind, and she doesn't get mad too often, but she has a limit. And she will blow up.

Likes: Animals, Spring, reading, animated tv shows, comfy clothes and pjs.
Dislikes: Ignorant people, her chemistry professor, really hot or cold weather, blankets falling off

Cruise Background: Before they go off to senior year of college, Eliza, her roommate Martha, and Martha's boyfriend, John want to spend one week of peace before classes dehumanizes them.

Other: She used to be a Girl Scout. She's the President of the Debate team and leads many activism groups at MIT. Whenever she gets any spare time, she writes fiction, and she even publishes them in the school paper. She is a chocoholic, and she always carries around a cup of tea.

Susan Reyana Danvers(HarryHardy)
Name: Susan Reyana Danvers
Age: 19
From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Occupation: Nothing...fresh out of school.

Appearance: She's exactly 5 feet tall (not a millimeter/ 0.039 inches) more than that. Shoulder length bright red hair (outrageously red to the point that someone would be skeptical if its real). Blue eyes. She's about average size for her age, not muscular but not exactly a walking skeleton either. She's also very pale.

Before // After

Personality: Susan is quite shy and has to seriously pluck up her courage to actually start a conversation. She's not the greatest at making friends and hasn't really found anyone that wanted to be genuine friends with her. Most people are only friends with her to get help with their work. And after discovering recently that she's lesbian its made her even more awkward around people.

She's very loyal to those she cares about and likes nothing more than to see them happy going out of her way to make them feel special when she can and so she absolutely pampers her little sisters and is very close to her parents.

Susan tends to have a very positive outlook on everything always finding happiness even in something as simple as a cloud in the shape she likes. This along with her parents pampering her quite a bit has given her a very innocent outlook on life and she hasn't really experienced too much hardship besides being lonely due to her lack of proper friends.

Likes: Mathematics, Reading, Writing, Spending time doing all sorts of silly things with her little sisters

Dislikes: Subjects that require you to memorize a bunch of things (Biology, Chemistry), Large groups of people, People that try to use her as an answer guide, Very loud people, Bright Sunlight (oh wait a minute...they're going to be in permanent bright sunlight aren't they?...did someone bring a hat?)

Cruise Background: She's on this cruise as a last bit of relaxation before attending college. Her mother stayed behind with her two younger sisters but her father (Rest in Peace) is with her on this cruise. She's missing her two sisters terribly but is enjoying the peace and break from studies.

Other: Susan is very good at math and most sciences in general and her parents want her to go onto become an engineer but personally she wants to be a writer and plans to do it at least part time while in college for an engineering degree.

Despite being really shy and sometimes closed off to most people simply because she's too scared to strike up a proper conversation, she's hoping to meet someone that can be her friend or maybe even something more. She craves closeness although she's too scared to really express it.

• Goes by Cap, Sir, or Mr. Morgan (just saying his name is considered disrespectful)
• Died over 300 years ago and has been haunting ever since
• As a pirate does, his main goals in life were to plunder, rob, and steal all that he could in the name of wealth and fame. He spent his entire life on the sea, following in the footsteps of his parents. They, as he eventually would, died together when the seas claimed their ship as its own.
• He has a sort of sentience that allows him to communicate with the living. He doesn't, however, have any interest in befriending them, but rather uses them as vessels for his own enjoyment as he's stuck in the afterlife for all of eternity.
• He speaks solely in rhyme and lyrics, often trying to confuse those listening to him. He is a jokester by heart, and is neither friend nor foe to anyone that happens to be a passerby.
• Being that he is so old, he often gets confused by some modern day technology and slang. Please do not hate him he is trying his best.
  
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