Headmaster Brockert
July 09, 2015 11:36 AM
Midsummer Concert Sign Ups. by Headmaster Brockert
So far in Mortimer's reign as Headmaster, the Midsummer events hadn't really needed much participation from students. They had merely been events for the students to enjoy even though undoubtedly, they weren't necessarily going to be everyone's cup of tea. Granted, balls were such by nature. He didn't like them all that much himself.That was not to say that there would never be a student run production again. On the contrary, this year's Concert would utilize the students. Though it would remain a volunteer event. Mortimer really did not want to have to hear people complain about being forced to do things they didn't want to do or forced to work with people they didn't like. He supposed things like that could still happen if someone signed up after someone who disliked them did or someone could be forced by their parents for whatever reason or even some overachiever who disliked this kind of thing and was masochistic enough to do it even though they really didn't want to because they were after a badge or just had to be involved in everything for whatever reason. None of this was Mortimer's fault. Or problem.
ATTENTION STUDENTS
This year's Midsummer Concert will be three acts made up from each level of students at Sonora:Beginners (Years I-2), Intermediate (Years 3-5) and Advanced (Years 6-7). Participation is voluntary. Please sign up below if you are interested. The Beginners group will be led by a staff member who will not be getting on stage but is there solely to supervise.
OOC-Please sign up under the appropriate group below.
Subthreads: Advanced Sign Up (nm) by Headmaster Brockert with Emrys Lucan, Arnold Manger, Chloe Jareau, Ji-Eun Park, Charlie B-F-R, Portia Dobson, Julian Umland
Intermediate Sign Ups (nm) by Headmaster Brockert with Liliana Bannister, Jake Manger, Aiden O'Neil, Jamie Park, Duncan Brockert, Chaslyn Brockert, Scarlett Brockert, Makenzie Newell, Lionel Layne, Joella Curtis
Beginner Sign Up (nm) by Headmaster Brockert with Ginger Pierce, Caelia Lucan, Jemima Wolseithcrafte, Laila Kennedy, Gia Donovan, Sammy Meeks, Emilia-Louise Scott
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July 09, 2015 11:37 AM
Intermediate Sign Ups (nm) by Headmaster Brockert
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Liliana Bannister
July 09, 2015 9:14 PM
Signing up! by Liliana Bannister
When Liliana walked into Cascade Hall that morning, she noticed that sign-ups for the school concert were up. She vaguely remembered the program from when she was a beginner student and was sad to see that the years weren’t mixed as she had enjoyed working with older students when she was younger. However, she didn’t mind it being year restricted either since it would mean she would get a chance to work with both Duncan and Atlas should they decide to sign-up versus having to head her own group while Duncan headed his own. As a prefect she felt slightly obligated to sign-up, on the other hand, she enjoyed entertaining other people—from a young age she had always soaked up the spotlight when Grandmère asked her to dance for the family and now as a Keeper she reveled in being able to make good saves should the opposing team Chasers ever make it down to her end of the pitch.So, she threw her messy scrawl up on the board under intermediates only frowning slightly when she realised that the “th” of her Liliana Bannister, 5th year looked more like a misshapen pitchfork than anything and turned to go get something to eat. She was so hungry and the smell of breakfast foods was only causing her mouth to water more. However, before she left she noticed one other name on the sign-up sheets, the little Teppenpaw Keeper who seemed to be very excited over joining up. Liliana smiled to herself before looking around the dining hall. Her friends didn’t appear to be there and if they were she didn’t see them. However, she did spot Ginger’s dark hair and made her way over to sit down. They really needed to get together to play some Quidditch.
“Hey,” she said with a smile, nonchalantly piling some french toast on the plate that had appeared in front of her. “Could you pass the pumpkin juice, please?”
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Jake Manger
July 11, 2015 5:41 PM
Hoping for a boys' club. by Jake Manger
He blinked. Then he blinked again. Once more. He rubbed his eyes.Every time his eyes came back into focus, Jake found the same results: his brother had signed up for the Concert. By himself. Out of his own free-will. Man, Arnold was so unpredictable this year! Jake had never thought his older brother would start and run his own club, nor did he anticipate him volunteering for stage time. That was really weird, but Jake was really excited about it. Specifically, it meant that he didn’t have to secretly write Arnold’s name for him and then tell him about it later as he had been planning. They wouldn’t be in the same groups, but they’d both be involved, and it was going to be awesome.
So far in the Intermediate group, the only person signed up was Liliana Bannister, a girl. A pretty girl. Damn it! But Jake was pretty sure he could handle it. He was getting better at keeping his glances short and, oddly enough, starting to feel a little less awful about looking. Since he couldn’t stop himself, he was beginning to think it wasn’t really even his fault, and as long as he didn’t do anything weird, it was okay to look, right? Right?
Plus, an audience would be staring at him, so maybe he’d be so caught up in being looked at that he would forget to look back. That would solve the whole problem entirely. He just had to make it through rehearsals with Liliana and any other girl who signed up. But maybe it would end up being mostly boys. Maybe no other girls would sign up at all. Jake was going to be optimistic.
Jake Manger, fourth year, he scribbled quickly. Then he shuffled away from the signup sheet, vowing not to look again until it was closed and rehearsals were planned.
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Aiden O'Neil
July 12, 2015 8:01 PM
Signing up. by Aiden O'Neil
Aiden has always been an excitable child. Everything that happened was always something that brought him joy and every change was a full of possibilities for him. That hasn’t changed despite becoming an official teenager a few months ago. Aiden still jumped in excitement for all the little things. He still grinned with such ease and confidence no matter what the situation was that was put in front of him. Aiden had a cheery disposition. It was probably the very reason he had been placed into Teppenpaw instead of Pecari.His personality made people probably really like him or really hate him. Of course, in Aiden’s world, everyone liked him. He would never be able to understand why someone wouldn’t like him just because he was always so friendly. He didn’t understand the concept that not everyone enjoyed being around someone who was so easily excitable and all around happy. If he did ever figure out that part of people, Aiden would be truly flabbergasted. Wouldn’t they want someone who was happy over someone who was moody?
Not thinking of anything else that would be the least bit distracting to Aiden, he found himself looking at the concert signups. He had no idea what this would entail but he thought that it might be a little fun. He wasn’t really talented in anything, but he could help out behind the scenes if they needed him to or maybe be a tree in the background. He’d be willing to do that. Aiden didn’t mind doing whatever was needed as long as he was helping out his group that’s what mattered.
With a pleased grin on his face, Aiden dug through his bag until he found a working quill and pulled it out so that he could sign the sheet.
Aiden O’Neil, Third Year
He wondered who would be the person to pull them all together if only the Beginners had a Staff Representative… he didn’t think anyone would follow along with him (not that he had any ideas anyway) being that he was only a third year, but would anyone just follow along with whoever decided to take charge? Oh, they probably would if they were signing up for this in the first place.
Aiden shook his head and dropped his quill back into his bag. With that task completed, he walked into the hall to grab a bite to eat before classes started.
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Jamie Park
July 13, 2015 8:17 AM
I don't want to by Jamie Park
This was going to be so humiliating. Jamie had no desire to get up on stage and prance about. But he remembered coming to see Ji-Eun’s stupid concert when she’d been a second year. Families were invited. And if Ji-Eun did the concert - which she obviously would - and he didn’t, there would be hell to pay. He was weighing up whether the fury from his mother outweighed the teasing he was likely to get from Uzu. It was a close run thing. It really hinged on whether he got prefect next year… If he did, any past sins would be forgiven and forgotten. If he didn’t, they would be dredged up forever as the reasons he’d failed to achieve what his sister had. He also wouldn’t know about the prefect badge until after summer, so he’d have to put up with the suggestion that he might have jeopardised his chance at it all summer regardless.His other slim hope was the Uzu might sign up herself. She was so into her dancing, and such a show off. However, she was always snooty about the school events and… well, pretty much everything. He didn’t think she’d take kindly to the idea of being part of a group instead of star of the show. Uzu didn’t really play well with others…
Resigned to a humiliating year, he signed up.
Jamie Park, 4th year Pecari.
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Duncan Brockert
July 21, 2015 8:17 PM
Signing up by Duncan Brockert
Normally, Duncan didn't think he'd sign up for the concert, never having any sort of inclination towards anything that was performed on stage. However, the prefect badge weighed heavy on his robes, and while he was proud and his dad was proud of him, he knew there were certain responsibilities. Though this hadn't been listed as one of them, the Teppenpaw still felt an obligation to sign-up.He put his name down on the list.
Duncan Brockert, fifth year
Then he scanned the other names. He hadn't done this first because it didn't really matter exactly who had joined, he felt like he had to do it anyway. Though Duncan did note that neither Theodore nor Isaac had felt so inclined themselves. Which was fine with him.
He was pleased to see, however, that both Liliana and his new roommate, Jake, had. Both would be fairly easy to work with and seeing as he and his fellow prefect might end up having to be the ones to take charge of the whole thing, he was glad to have back up.
As for the other two, well, Duncan didn't know Aiden O'Neil well, just that he was a Teppenpaw and friends with Savannah. The former fact was sure to at least make him likely pleasant to be around. The final name, he noted, was Jamie Park. He...well, seemed to be rather the opposite of Jake or Aiden. Duncan was slightly worried that they were going to have a tough time with him, that he'd give attitude and be disagreeable.
With a sigh, the fifth year walked away, he was locked into this now and a difficult fourth year was not going to change that.
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Chaslyn Brockert
July 21, 2015 9:00 PM
Signing up by Chaslyn Brockert
The fact that the concert this year included student involvement had made Chaslyn feel sick to her stomach. She had no choice but to sign up whether she wanted to or not. Parents would surely be coming to watch and it wouldn't have occurred to her to lie and claim she'd been in it when she hadn't been even if they weren't. The Crotalus was a terrible liar anyway.In fact, sometimes it didn't even seem that Mother believed her when she told the truth. Every time that Chaslyn wasn't the best, wasn't perfect in every way, her mother would berate her for lack of practice, and while she did, while she always did and told Mother just that, Mother would throw back that it sure didn't seem like she had and tell she needed to practice more , that what she was doing wasn't enough. So Chaslyn would practice harder in that particular thing and then not do as well in something else, because she'd been practicing the first thing.
Thanks to Professor Carter's lesson on the Endurance Potion, the Crotalus was getting a bit more done, though she still wasn't sleeping or eating enough. She wanted these things, she was tired and she was hungry. And even with the help it was giving her, it still didn't seem to be enough. It would never be enough, Chaslyn to not just beat her peers in everything but she had to have perfect scores .
Still, being in the Concert would add to her already heavy load-which this year included the addition of another club, she hadn't had to join the science club because she'd found out it was a muggle thing, Mother didn't approve of anything Muggle- but while it was optional for everyone in general, it wasn't for her. The fact that Chaslyn basically hated being on stage, performing in front of people, that she had a tendency to choke in front of scrutinizing eyes including the most scrutinizing pair of eyes of all-Mother's, didn't make having to do this any easier.
Nor did the list of people already signed up. Her heart sank as she looked at the other participants, it was nobody she knew well. While having a cousin signed up made things better, Duncan really didn't count because Chaslyn didn't know him well. Jake was the step-brother of one cousin and the cousin of three other cousins and Aiden was friends with Savannah and roommates with Liac, but she didn't know them really any better than she did Duncan. Then there were the two Pecaris. Liliana was a boisterous outgoing incredibly popular sort and Jamie Park was.....well, he didn't seem like a very nice boy. What if he laughed at her?
With a lump rising in her throat and her hands shaking, Chaslyn signed her name to the list.
Chaslyn Brockert, fourth year.
Now to see if she could get something to eat quick while she studied potions. Her last quiz had not been up to the standards that had been set for her. She could only hope that Liac or one of her cousins decided to sign up for the concert as well.
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Scarlett Brockert
July 23, 2015 8:05 PM
Signing up by Scarlett Brockert
Scarlett had a tendency to be rather impulsive but this didn't always mean she chose to do things right away. She had probably passed the concert sign ups over a dozen times before she gave them a second thought. Or really, rather noticed them at all.This time, however, even though she'd entered the Hall with omelettes on her mind, the sign-ups managed to distract her. As with most decisions that the Pecari made, this one took but a split second. She was going to do it. Scarlett had always liked being the center of attention, standing out, being recognized. Having an identical twin sort of gave her that need. She loved Savannah more than anyone on Earth, but it was important for them to show that they were not the same person, to have their own identities apart from each other.
It was healthier and it was something that her parents had always encouraged. Even as babies they'd been dressed differently. Color-coded, with Scarlett in pink or red and Savannah in blue. Of course, this was largely done so their parents wouldn't get them mixed up. It stopped happening when they were old enough to know which of them was which. At that point they had occasionally dressed alike at parties because Mother thought it was cute and so did other people. Now the only thing that both twins wore the same was their school robes with their house badges to tell them apart.
She looked over the list. Her sister wasn't on it, which was fine, as she'd never thought this was Savannah's thing, but of course Chaslyn was. Scarlett didn't think it was really the fourth year's thing either but that was different. The twins had options to choose what they did or did not want to do-within reason-their cousin did not.
But Chaslyn's name on the list cemented her decision to sign-up, even though she wasn't having any doubts to begin with. Her cousin needed her. The Pecari placed her name on the list.
Scarlett Brockert, third year
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Makenzie Newell
July 31, 2015 3:53 PM
Sign me up! by Makenzie Newell
Makenzie had gone back and forth about signing up for the Concert for a handful of days now. What exactly the group would be doing was still an unknown factor, and while she could not imagine the school allowing them to present anything too humiliating, but nonetheless, not knowing made her nervous. What if it wasn’t ladylike?It wasn’t her own standards she worried about meeting, however. It was Dustin’s. Since he got here, he had been a hovering nuisance. She had to do what was right by him, which was almost unachievable, it felt. Dustin’s standards were impossibly and ridiculous; he complained about her handwriting, her posture, and, most recently, her breathing, which, according to him, was too deep and made her seem like she was “trying too hard”.
But beyond those layers of imposed self-consciousness, the redhead thought, plain and simple, that the Concert sounded like fun. And even despite every standard placed upon her, Makenzie felt that she deserved to have a little fun. Everyone did, right? She could be stuffy and boring when she was old, but right now, she was only thirteen years old, and, with a stroke of defiance, she wanted to do this.
Makenzie Newell, third year, she wrote in her sloppiest print. Dustin would surely love it.
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Lionel Layne
August 04, 2015 12:33 AM
Signing up. by Lionel Layne
When it came to special talents, Lionel would be one of the first to admit that he did not possess a wealth of them. He had attended a Muggle school as a child because both of his grandparents had jobs and couldn’t afford to have him privately tutored and that had involved simple lessons in music and art, but he had not been the best in his classes even at rattling those striped shaker things (he could never remember what they were called) in time or at attaching tiny fins to clay fish in a timely manner. He knew that last one for a fact; his grandmother still had the fish, which only had one side fin. His teacher, trying to hurry him up, had explained that some of the greatest works of art in the world seemed unfinished in some way, specifically mentioning Venus de Milo, but even at eight Lionel had not been naïve enough to believe his clay fish sculpture was a great work of art. His music teacher, on the other hand, had never either specifically discouraged him or tried to give him false hope; indeed, she had mostly ignored him, focusing her attention on the students who were truly gifted or truly atrocious. He had never tried theater unless reading lines in a one-act play in reading class once counted, but since he usually had his feelings all over his face, he didn’t think he had a hidden genius for that, either. He was very…normal.Because he was aware of all that, he was also aware that he probably had no business joining the Concert, but he was interested in it whether he had any business being interested in it or not. The last one just barely predated his arrival at Sonora, but he had always gotten the idea that it was a really fun event, a time where they could meet people they might not otherwise meet or get to know very well and work with them long enough to maybe bond – if his cousin Alicia was capable of waxing sentimental about the event, the odds had to be better than average. Plus the acts themselves just sounded fun to work on even if they weren’t very good.
He thought though all that, and then forgot to actually sign up for a while. That, he had to admit, did not really speak well of his chances of being deemed Most Awesome Intermediate Group Member, but he signed up when he remembered just the same. Most Awesome was more his cousins’ type of title than his anyway.
Lionel Layne, 4th year
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Joella Curtis
August 14, 2015 4:35 AM
Last minute decisions. by Joella Curtis
Joella had been um-ing and ah-ing over signing up to the intermediate midsummer concert group ever since she'd laid eyes on the notice. Not only could it be quite fun, she also realised it might give her the chance to hang out with people she wouldn't otherwise do so. Despite this notion she did regularly check the list for names of classmates she was more familiar with. Liliana was encouraging and then Scarlett had signed up, and Lionel... And then others like Jake Manger who she knew to be interested in Quidditch but had never had much of a chance to familiarise herself with.Joella Curtis, 3rd year
She scrawled her name and year on the appropriate section of the sheet, finally making up her mind. Because why not? She couldn't think of a reason not to take part in the concert. She'd get to have fun with other students outside of the classroom, some who she already knew and others that she would be keen to get to know.
Joella was naturally quite an outgoing character and whilst she didn't seek attention in the same way some of her extended family members did, she had never been one to shy away from an audience.
She wasn't entirely sure as to what kind of act her group would be performing exactly but the notice seemed to imply that it was their choice, considering the beginners only required a professor for supervision.
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