This Is Halloween (1x1)

[Ria_The_Wolf12]

T’was a long time ago, longer now than it seems
xxxxxxxxxxIn a place that perhaps you've seen in your dreams.
For the story that you are about to be told
xxxxxxxxxxBegan with the holiday worlds of old.
Now, you've probably wondered where holidays come from.
xxxxxxxxxxIf you haven't, I'd say it's time you begun.
For holidays are the result of much fuss
xxxxxxxxxxAnd hard work for the worlds that create them for us.
Well, you see now, quite simply that's all that they do
xxxxxxxxxxMaking one unique holiday, especially for you.
But once, a calamity ever so great occurred
xxxxxxxxxxWhen two worlds were crossed by mistake.

 

[Ria_The_Wolf12]

It's been 20 years since all the holidays became aware of one another, since Jack tried to take over Christmas for a year. Since then, a new generation of monsters has come to be. Since children are apt to getting into trouble, the doorway out of Halloween Town has had an age restriction placed on it, what with the influx of kids and the fact that with Oogie Boogie gone, Lock, Shock, and Barrel have been integrated into society again, but haven't lost their prankster ways, though they've mild with age. Not to be left out of this boom, Dr. Finklestein, with his new creation/wife, decided to create a child. Considering neither were exactly up for the job of caring for an infant, the child was aged around 5 years old. With inputs from both the Doctor and his wife, a perfectly monstrous little girl was created.

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Nerezza is now 17 and the go-to babysitter of Halloween Town. This isn't surprising, considering the choices amongst the older kids. Her general make-up makes her exceptionally good at keeping an eye on the various younger kids in the gloomy town. Due to this skill, she's in a surprising amount of demand (though she always makes room for her dear 'aunt and uncle') and rarely has a free day to herself. Though she doesn't mind mostly, she occasionally wonders what it would be like to be able to just run around freely and have fun like her friends. It's this lingering thought that aids in Shock's tempting her to join her and her brothers on one of her rare free days. With what? Why, the weakened barrier between worlds, of course! After all, who doesn't want to go see the human world, raise a little goosebumps among the living humans? Besides, they should be just fine as long as they don't connect with a human, right...?

(This is a HumanxCreature roleplay.)

 

[Ria_The_Wolf12]

RULES:

1. PM me your profile
2. DO NOT POST HERE UNTIL YOU'RE ACCEPTED.
3. 5 days with no post/contacting me puts the role up for grabs.


PROFILES:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxNerezza ● Felina ● Finklestein
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ●Creation ● 17 ● Female ●

{ NICKNAME

Lock calls her ‘Kitty’ when he wants to pick on her. Some of the kids call her ‘Nezz’ or ‘Nezzy’

{ DATE OF BIRTH

Oct. 31, 1996

{ ABILITIES

Really it's something like a combination of human and big cat abilities, coupled with strength and speed exceeding that of a human, though not in any ridiculous amount.

{ THINGS SHE LOVES

- Storms
- Nature
- Mystery
- Surprises
- Human movies

{ THINGS SHE LOATHES.

- She really doesn’t like spiders, but she isn’t exactly afraid of them.
- Being bored
- Interruptions when she’s watching movies/reading
- Jerks
- Being told what to do (mostly by her father)

{ BIOGRAPHY

Nerezza began babysitting when she was about 13, and sometimes regrets it as it’s taken up most of her time ever since. She doesn’t mind watching her ‘little cousins’ really, they’re family, but she wished some of the other monsters wouldn’t go out so much! She’d suggest they get a different kid to babysit now and again, but, well…everyone knows how that would go…

{ PERSONALITY

- Kind-hearted
- Mischievous from time to time
- Unafraid to stick up for anyone weaker than herself, or herself if need be.
- Fiery and impassioned when angered
- A dreamer most definitely

{ FAMILY (OPTIONAL)

- The usual

{ PET(S)

- A young Barghest by the name of Koli.

{ USERNAME

Ria_The_Wolf12

Wèijù ● Cage ● Groază
● Human ● 16 ● Male ●

Nickname
Cage, Phobos (Latin for 'fear')

DOB
October 13, 1997 (which happened to be a Friday)

Abilities
Average for a human, although he is slightly stronger than normal. He does, however, like to scare others and has a very strange sense of humor most would call morbid.

Likes
Ξ Running
Ξ Music
Ξ Nature
Ξ Thunderstorms
Ξ Horror Movies

Dislikes
Ӿ Liars
Ӿ Romance (dislikes the childish, corny romance)
Ӿ Spiders
Ӿ Snakes
Ӿ Enclosed spaces

Biography
Grew up as anyone else did, though he did enjoy Halloween quite a bit; when he was seven, he exhibited a startling talent for music by learning difficult rock music by ear. He hasn't, however, flaunted this talent very often around others. He has trained in Tae Kwon Do, although due to his father being in the military, he usually ends up moving around with him often.

Personality
☣ Stubborn
☣ Protective
☣ Observant, although he doesn't always show it.
☣Determined
☣Cunning in Pranks, although he hasn't indulged this side of himself in quite a while (usually only on Halloween)

Family
Areus - Father who dislikes most holidays.

Pets
Deimos, a hawk Cage befriended when it was injured.

Username
Kaosujin Ryu
Character Theme

 

[Ria_The_Wolf12]

"Where, oh where has my little miss gone?" Nerezza called as she walked through the graveyard. Her ears twitched as she heard a poorly stifled giggle behind one of the tombstones not too far away. Tonight she had things easy, watching only one of her little cousins who was too young to appreciate her older siblings musical talent and too energetic to sit quietly in an auditorium at one of their concerts. Nerezza hopped agilely up onto a headstone, her hands on her face and her tail curled up. "Oh my, oh dear, I've lost her! What if something has gobbled her up!" She said dramatically, watching the hem of a dress that stuck out from the little girl's hiding spot. It fidgeted some, until it's wearer popped her head up, waving her arms. "Here, Nezzy, I'm here! Nothing's gobbled me up!" The little child was obviously not human, she was much too skinny and the skin she had was too grey. Not to mention while she had beautiful long hair, currently pulled up into pigtails, she had no eyes. Nerezza gasped, as though surprised. "Oh, Hazel! There you are!" Nerezza skipped across the headstones and scooped the child up. "Goodness, I thought you'd made a yummy snack for some big monster!" She said. The child grinned. "But everyone's a monster here." She laughed. Nerezza laughed and put Hazel on her shoulders. "Well yes, but I mean a big monster! One big enough to eat other monsters!" She said, hopping down to walk through the graveyard. "Or maybe Koli! You're bony like your Daddy, and you know Koli likes bones!" She said. Hazel tugged Nerezza's ears playfully. "Koli wouldn't do that, he's nice like Zero!" She said. Nerezza only laughed and asked what she wanted to do now. When she suggested swimming, Nerezza turned. "We gotta ask Marsha if she minds and get our bathing suits first. I don't think Aunt Sally would be very pleased if I brought you back with your good clothes covered in sticky mud and pond scum." She said, bouncing as she walked.

Her ears perked at once when she heard shrill whistle and a gritty voice call her name. She turned, but it didn't take long to spot the broomstick with three riders zooming towards her. It pulled up next to her, but seemed to have some trouble hovering. That was until the witch steering it shoved the other two passengers off in a slurry of shouts and insults that made Nerezza reach up to cover Hazel's ear-holes. Finally the two on the ground separated themselves and stood up, brushing off. The oldest noticed the child on Nerezza's shoulders and sneered at her, making her grab Nerezza's hair tightly. "Knock it off, Lock!" The girl snapped, bringing the child off of her shoulders and into her arms, her tail lashing. The boy held his hands up. "Relax Kitty, only playing around." He said. The witch, still seated on her broomstick, rolled her eyes. "We were going to invite you to go have some fun, but we can see you'busy." She huffed, her gravelly voice full of exasperation. Nerezza rolled her own eyes. "You guys know I work, unlike you bums." She said. Shock hopped off of the broom, grabbing it as she did so She'd been training with the older witches and had become pretty good at witchcraft, free to actually study it since Oogie Boogie's demise. "Buuuut, you aren't babysitting tomorrow, are you?" She asked. "Because everyone's going to be getting their kids ready for Halloween. Nerezza raised an eyebrow. She wasn't sure she liked that mischievous tone. "Yes, that's right." She confirmed hesitantly. "Great!" Shock said, mounting her broom again and kicking her brothers to get on. "Meet us here around sunset! We've got something awesome in mind!" She said, and just like that, they were gone. Nerezza and Hazel shared a look before the older girl shrugged. "Come on, let's go see Marsha." She said, and headed back off down the path to the gates.

Kaosujin Ryu

 

[Kaosujin Ryu]

Ria_The_Wolf12

●Wèijù Cage Groază●
Human● 16 ●Male

Wèijù exhaled as he walked down the street; he wore his baggy dark burgundy pants and black hiking boots as well as his dark gray vest and crimson tee shirt with a flaming skull on the chest. A very slight smirk crossed his face as he shifted into a low crouch before he pushed off, lightly touching the tips of his fingers to the low granite wall as he vaulted over the wall as he curled into a somersault as he evaded the roundhouse kick from the black suited brunette girl with her crimson hair in a high ponytail. He landed, leaning back into a fluid back handspring as she pushed off with the ball of her foot and turned the missed kick into a hooking kick that whistled just under his feet. He recovered fluidly as he slid a couple of feet down the hill. "We gonna scare the hell out of everyone like usual?" she said with an impish smirk. "Of course; it's comical to see their reactions, not to mention your talent for blending into plain sight," Wèijù deadpanned, shrugging one shoulder. He already had a black cloak lined with thin black lights that would really highlight the skeletal costume he'd chosen for this year, especially since he rarely went for the candy... he just loved scaring people half to death. The bones were stained silver and pale white, the pale white being glow-in-the-dark paint that in the shadows would seem to be 'dripping' off of the bones, adding to the freakish effect as his cloak would most definitely blend into the shadows especially with the dry ice canisters he'd hidden on the outer edges of the cloak to provide a startling ambience. One of his far lesser known tricks was throwing his voice, which he found highly comical to startle people.

 

[Ria_The_Wolf12]

Nerezza slipped to the ground silently. True, everyone would be preparing for the following night and therefore busy, but she wasn't supposed to be out. She'd told her parents that she was worn out and going to bed early. She'd made sure to lock her door before slipping out, her descent a little more graceful than her aunts had been when the room was hers. As she walked, she flipped the hood on her cloak up. She was going to have to walk through town, but hoped amidst the celebration preparations, she wouldn't be noticed.

She walked with confidence, her boots clunking on the pavement. It was the best way to keep folks from sniffing around her. However, as she went, she felt she was being followed and turned to look...and ran smack into something that felt rather like a light-post. However, she knew it wasn't so when the hood was tugged off of her head, her eyes squeezed shut. "Hiiiii...Uncle Jack..." She muttered. "Let me guess, you aren't supposed to be out here?" Her uncle asked as she looked up at him, her ears down. "I'm never supposed to be anywhere except home and working!" She said. "I do have friends, sometimes I'd like to go spend time with them!" She exclaimed, fully intending to plead her case, until Jack held up a hand. "I already know where you're coming from." He said, his eyes closed. "However, I think if you're going to sneak out, you shouldn't wear a cloak that says so. It makes people pay even more attention to you." He said, holding his hand over. With a sigh of relief, Nerezza took the cloak off and handed it to him. She then hugged him tightly around his ribcage. As a kid, she's always been afraid of hurting him. Now-a-days, she knew better. "Thanks Uncle Jack!" She chirped, heading off with a wave.

She made it to the graveyard as the sun was setting in earnest. The other three were waiting, their masks on. The masks seemed to fit better now after they'd grown. "Jeez, finally!" Barrel complained. "We thought you weren't coming." Lock supplemented. "Worried that your only friend couldn't come out to play?" Nerezza asked, tweaking his nose as she passed him. "So are you guys gonna tell me why we're meeting here?" She asked. "Yeah, follow us." Shock said, and headed off. Nerezza ran after her, keeping up fairly well as she ran on all fours. That was until they came to a lone tombstone set apart from the rest. As they got nearer, Nerezza saw they were actually doors down into a crypt. As they stopped, she looked between the three. "Okay, what? Is this...the oldest crypt in Halloween Town? The home of some secretive monster?" She guessed, her hands on her hips. "Better." Shock said and held her hands out. With a blast of strange green light and an electric fizzle...nothing happened. Nerezza looked between them again until Lock walked over and opened the doors to plain darkness. "It's the doorway to the Human World." Shock said, sitting on the rim.

Nerezza's eyes widened. "You're kidding! No way!" She said, backing up. "I am not going there! It's against the rules, we're too young, and I've got a reputation to uphold, thank you very much!" She said, turning away. "Oh, we know you're a kitty-cat, but don't be a scaredy-cat!" Lock spoke, and before she could have a say in the matter, she was grabbed and thrown through the opening. There was a rush of darkness, a whirling, and a crash as she slammed into some concrete doors, which gave way to allow her to tumble onto new grass. Not only was the grass new, but new smells, new sounds, the whole atmosphere was...new. She stood up as the others tumbled out behind her. She looked around. "Welcome Nerezza, to the Human World!" The threesome declared in unison.

Kaosujin Ryu

 

[Kaosujin Ryu]

Ria_The_Wolf12

●Wèijù Cage Groază●
Human● 16 ●Male

Wèijù smirked beneath the mask he wore. It looked like a skull, though with his hood up, it hid the green lenses in the eye sockets that had one-way mirrors behind them that when lit by the ring of LED lights gave the illusion of lightning flaring in the eye sockets, adding to the scare factor. He knew the lights were activated with a twitch of his fingers, while he could activate the dry ice with a flick of his wrists and the black lights were triggered by hidden switches at his collar. He could see Aryn across the street with her scythe and crimson Grim Reaper costume a few feet up the street with their dry ice 'grenades' in hand. That they were push button triggered made refilling them very easy. He saw her bouncing on her toes before she triggered both of the 'nades in her hands, rolling them across the street and allowing the billowing clouds of carbon dioxide fog to spread. He heard the chatter and chuckled slightly as there was little reaction as it was a cool night.

He knew that where they were by the cemetery was excellent for scaring the hell out of people. He deliberately walked slowly forward, hearing Aryn trigger the creepy sounds of moans and cackling as the group entered the 'fog'.

"What are you doing near my resting place?" he growled, activating the lenses which flared to life. Almost immediately he got several startled gasps. "You will join us in eternal sleep!!" he bellowed, moving a little faster as Aryn darted into the fog behind the group, cackling. Startled yells followed as the group scattered, screaming in mingled fear and surprise. He knew the officials of their town knew of their scare show primarily because there were a few others that did the same, though not quite as over-the-top as they did it.

 

[Ria_The_Wolf12]

Nerezza's ears perked as she heard the shouting and screaming. She turned, listening, her ears swivling to pick up the sounds. "Did...Did someone else come through before us?" She asked, turning to the other three. Shock stood to listen as well, her ears not nearly so keen. "Nah, the age spell was still in place." The young witch assured her. Nerezza raised an eyebrow before waving at the three. "Stay here a minute. I'm gonna go check this out." She murmured before climbing quietly up a nearby tree.

While the trees weren't exactly forest material, they were close enough together and thick enough she could stalk through them quietly, having tied her long, billowy skirts up about her waist. It didn't take her long to find the source of the calamity, she just headed past the screaming group. She crouched in the tree, watching the 'monster' responsible for the chaos, her eyes glinting in the dull light thrown off from it. He was no familiar of hers. She wasn't exactly popular among the youths back home, but she'd seen them around. This guy was a stranger and...well, didn't exactly look real. Oh, he was scary enough, but no one glowed like that. It made hiding in the dark difficult and was only good for jump-scares. Good for amateurs maybe, but no one trying to make a career out of scaring humans...

Kaosujin Ryu

 

[Kaosujin Ryu]

Ria_The_Wolf12

●Wèijù Cage Groază●
Human● 16 ●Male

Wèijù deactivated the lenses as he half turned away, the cloak swaying in the breeze as he smirked beneath the mask as the articulated jaw of the mask chattered as his thumb twitched slightly. He noticed a gleam of color for a moment, but ignored it as he sat on the low stone wall and shifted the hood off of the mask; it looked identical to a skull, yet at the same time it didn't, with 'veins' of glow-in-the-dark paint glowing faintly beneath the dull silvery color he'd painted on the skull in a thin layer.

 

[Ria_The_Wolf12]

Nerezza watched the strange creature for a moment, until she heard her name shouted and the tromping of feet through fallen leaves. She growled in her throat and turned to vault through the trees. She'd told them to stay there for a reason! She dropped out of the trees and onto Barrel's shoulders, sending him into the ground as she landed lightly on her feet. "I told you guys to wait!" She said, her voice hushed. "There's something else here, but I don't think he's from back home."

Shock rolled her eyes. "It's Halloween-time Nerezza, people here dress up like us." She said. "No duh, but this guy wasn't wearing a mask like you idiots parade around in." She said. As she untied her skirts, Lock put his mask down, a strange look in his eye. "Well then, let's go say hello to this strange individual." He said, and promptly turned and walked off, his chest puffed out. Barrel followed, as was his wont. The girls exchanged a look, Shock dropped her own mask down, and went to follow them. "Bit of a gloomy spot to hang out at night, ain't it?" The devilish young man called as the strange specter came into view.

Kaosujin Ryu

 

[Kaosujin Ryu]

Ria_The_Wolf12

●Wèijù Cage Groază●
Human● 16 ●Male

Wèijù paused as half turned, seeing a kid that looked no older than fifteen, at least to him, speaking. "Depends on your preferences; I prefer it since it isn't a place most people tend to go all that often," he said in a gruff voice, the jaw twitching as he spoke. He shed the cloak as he spoke, flicking it up over a branch. He did seem to be made of shadows and bones, if one didn't realize what they were looking at.

 

[Ria_The_Wolf12]

Nerezza raised an eyebrow. Maybe he...wasn't a monster. His facial movements were a little wooden. Granted, it was a skull, but she thought of her Uncle, who seemed to be anything but expressionless. "It's also Halloween time. You know, a time to be spent hanging out with the undead." Lock said. "And getting candy!" Barrel added. "Scaring people," Shock said, flipping her broom up onto her shoulder. It wasn't anything new to have all three of them adding their input one-after-another, but they all looked at her. She shrugged. "Fun in general." She supplemented.

Lock shrugged. "But if you wanna stay here with all these stiffs, eh." He said, walking off. Nerezza knew he was fronting, but was it really a good idea to tempt him into following them? She didn't have a lot of time to worry as Shock stuck her broom under Lock's feet, tripping him so as to ruin his illusion of cool-guy. An involuntary laugh escaped her and she hopped over him to keep up with the others. Whether he followed or not, who really cared? They were there to have fun after all, if he followed them, they'd lose him before they got home. Speaking of... She leaned in to Shock's ear. "Do we have a time limit?" She murmured. "We have to get back before 3:33am. That's when the portal's gonna be weak enough for me to get us through again." The witch whispered back.

Kaosujin Ryu

 

[Kaosujin Ryu]

Ria_The_Wolf12

●Wèijù Cage Groază●
Human● 16 ●Male

Wèijù shrugged one shoulder, a very slight smirk flickering beneath his mask. "Why not? There's a few hours 'til midnight... and that's when things really get interesting," he said with a slight shrug as his hand shifted over the base of his 'skull' before he jerked it off in one fluid movement to reveal shaggy dark crimson hair with black streaks. He shifted his weight as he exhaled. He wore a facial mask that hid his throat and face, all but his eyes which were a deep golden color though his hair fell messily over his left eye and hid it.
OOC| I had the idea that five or six generations back, (utterly unknown to Wèijù) that his ancestor was a night hag, hence his desire to scare the hell out of people.

 

[Ria_The_Wolf12]

Lock led them on. While generally Shock was the ringleader, she didn't seem to mind taking a back seat on these kinds of things. She was more of a hatcher of schemes rather than a leader of chaos. They headed towards the most lights and sounds surrounding them, directly into downtown. It was somewhat overstimulating and Nerezza found it hard to look around at first, her ears laid flat against her head. Eventually she got used to it, however. It helped when she spotted something that made her squeal in her throat. She grabbed Barrel (the closest to her) by the arm and dragged him over to a large store window, thus drawing the other two, and pressed her face to the glass.

In the window was a line-up of various horror movies, on display from newest to oldest, to rent. Only recently had her uncle begun bringing back technology from the human world, his curiosity for Christmas sated but now on learning about the different worlds. Nerezza was particularly fond of movies. "We have to go in here!" She exclaimed, before promptly heading in without a thought to the others. She quickly began pawing over the movies, immersed. A clearing of the throat behind her made her jump and spin. "New here?" The clerk asked. Nerezza cleared her own throat. "Uhm, yessir." She said as the trio finally joined her. The man waved her over. "Well then, you're gonna need a membership. First rental's free." He said, digging around for a clipboard.

Eventually he reemerged, clipboard in hand. He got her information and before long her arms were full of movies. She put them on the counter for him to scan before stuffing them in her bucket. "Are you done now? So we can do what we came here to do?" Shock asked. "You mean have fun?" Nerezza countered, sauntering out. "Yeah, let's continue."

Kaosujin Ryu

((That actually works really well.))

 

[Kaosujin Ryu]

Kaosujin Ryu

Ria_The_Wolf12

●Wèijù Cage Groază●
Human● 16 ●Male

Wèijù smirked slightly as he hung inverted from a fire escape. "Continue what?" he said with a snort as spotted the same girl from before. He shifted and somersaulted as he landed before he heard a few yells from younger kids. He sighed as he noticed a couple of the older high school age students messing with eleven and twelve year olds. He grabbed a trash can lid and hurled it like a discus, bouncing it off the corner of a nearby dumpster, then into the face of one of the students breaking his nose as he pushed off into a spinning tornado kick that hit the other guy in the face before he was flipped into the dumpster with an arcing crescent kick. "I got problems with bullies... they have little imagination and less intelligence," he muttered. He walked back towards the movie store.

OOC|.