Chatterbox: Inkwell

K.N.I.G.H.T.S. Solo Write

KNIGHTS stands for Knowledgeable Nines In Graceful, Hazardous Tutelage Studies (if you don't know what tutelage is look it up). Hardly anyone knows about the KNIGHTS and their very training center is hidden away in the mountains and disguised as a girl's finishing school. The girls themselves train in groups of nine, traveling from class to class to learn about combat, agility, strength, loyalty, and disguise. I, Madame Charlotte, am the principal of the KNIGHTS Academy as well as a graduated KNIGHT at the top of my classes. I am the one who scouts out the girls and send their parents a letter like this:

To the parents of Miss (girl's first and last name here),

It has come to my attention that your daughter is doing quite well in her current curriculum. I would be glad to invite her to Knight's Academy, a place to finish girls and make them proud of being a lady. If you choose to send your daughter to Knight's Academy please send an acceptance letter to enroll your daughter and pack our daughter away to the address on this envelope in the coming fall. I have enclosed a list of things to pack as well as a personal note for your daughter. We hope you accept and that your daughter will soon join us here.

Sincerely,

Madame Charlotte

Madame Charlotte, principal of Knight's Academy

I will not reveal to you the note I give to each young lady, but I will include a form:

NAME: 
AGE (12-15): 
APPEARANCE: 
PERSONALITY (TRY NOT TO HAVE MARY SUE CHARACTERS): 
WEAPON OF CHOICE: 
STRENGTHS: 
WEAKNESSES: 
BACKSTORY (I REQUIRE AS ELABORATE AS POSSIBLE): 
MC, SECONDARY, TERTIARY, OR BACKGROUND? (FIRST AND SECOND CHOICE):

Other Notes:

I will be accepting a minimum of 9 characters but if you come in after nine you might be in one of the older training groups. No reservations.

Regarding the character levels,

MC stands for Main Character. The sections will be in third person, but mainly focusing on you. I will accept two of these.

Secondary is the next level down. You are likely good friends with the MCs and stand by their side. You will show up many times. I will accept four of these.

Tertiary not quite the last level, as I said if you come in after nine you will be in an older group. But Tertiaries are often the ones who comfort the MCs, are shifty and mysterious, or a person who is nice but the MCs might be jealous of you. Each Tertiary will have a small yet important role. I will accept three of these.

Background characters are either the people in the older groups, or the instructors. Please ask if you want to be a Madame, and if you are you will either instruct in combat, agility, strength, or disguise.

Sorry for any boys out there! If you want you can make a boy's training center.

There is a minimum of one character per person. 

Also, if you have read this entire thing, congradulations, and please incluse something about rain somewhere in your character sheet. 

And with that I will sign off.

Madame Charlotte

submitted by Madame Charlotte, age Classified, KNIGHTS Academy
(July 2, 2017 - 7:44 pm)

NAME: lillium
AGE (12-15): 12
APPEARANCE: dark-skinned, short haired, dark brown haired, with green eyes
PERSONALITY (TRY NOT TO HAVE MARY SUE CHARACTERS): feirce
WEAPON OF CHOICE: Battleaxe
STRENGTHS: moderately strong, intelligent.
WEAKNESSES: afraid of heights, is a i-hate-you-but-you-are-part-of-the-team charrie
BACKSTORY (I REQUIRE AS ELABORATE AS POSSIBLE): has been on the run since knights in white armor killed her parents, was captured and sent to a orphanage,where she was forced to wear corsets and fluffy dresses,
MC, SECONDARY, TERTIARY, OR BACKGROUND? (FIRST AND SECOND CHOICE): mc, secondary

submitted by Blazestar, age 11, not here
(July 4, 2017 - 11:17 am)

Ah, the traditional wear, hmm? Often extremely infuriating and uncomfortable.

submitted by Madame Charlotte, age Classified, KNIGHTS Academy
(July 4, 2017 - 3:10 pm)

I would like this charrie to be a Madame, preferably in agility. If that doesn't work, you can change her age to 14, edit her backstory, and put her as a secondary or a tertiary character.

Name: Carolina Smith

Age: 25

Appearance: Wavy copper hair, tall and flexible, strong, pale skin with tons of freckles, huge smile

Personality: Kind and understanding, but if she gets frustrated she can become bossy and mean

Weapon of choice: Daggers 

Strengths: Quick, understanding

Weaknesses: When she is frustrated, she can be mean

Backstory: She attended this school when she was young. Her parents were loving, but they died in a car crash when she was 10. She then moved in with her strict aunt. Having miserable conditions at home, she tried to make the best of her time at school, working at recess despite the often rain. When the invitation came to go to the Knight's Academy, her aunt sent her immediately. She loved school and went on to become a Madame there.

Role Desired: 1) Madame, 2) Secondary 

submitted by Kitten
(July 4, 2017 - 4:23 pm)

Fellow Graduate, I welcome you back gladly. Your position as a Madame has been accepted.

submitted by Madame Charlotte , age Classified, KNIGHTS Academy
(July 4, 2017 - 5:29 pm)

Thank you!

submitted by Kitten
(July 5, 2017 - 7:25 am)

Darn! I think I'm #10. I'd love to be in this!

NAME: Selene Akemi Hold

AGE (12-15): 13, almost 14 (could her bday be in this solo write?)

WEAPON OF CHOICE: Sword, a long thin one....a rapier! I think you call it. 

APPEARANCE: Hair that in different light looks auburn, brown, and strawberry blonde depending on the light. It sides more on a light brownish-auburn, but like I said it changes. Her skin is very close to being white but it's actually a bit tan. Once again, harder to tell. She has dark green eyes, and soft arch eyebrows. She's tall, so people often think she's older than she actually is. Her mom is 50% Asian, so Selene is 75%, and you can tell because Selene has a slight epithantic fold.

PERSONALITY (TRY NOT TO HAVE MARY SUE CHARACTERS): Comes across as serious (especially when she's focused) and is reserved around strangers for practical reasons, but once you get to know her she is different. Her humor is a dry kind, sarcastic but not in a malicious way. When she's mad at someone though, she doesn't tend to yell, she just goes over the top with sarcasm and anything subtle to get under someone's skin. This is only when she's in a disagreement with someone though. She doesn't hold grudges or intentionally/quickly makes enemies. She does note things though.

She's awesome at focusing. She's smart in a knowledge type way, as in studying and reading books to gain knowledge. Raw logic doesn't come to her easily.

She's a planner.  When she has to get a job done...

she collects information, and strategizes, although strategy she prefers to do with other people. She runs hypotheticals and tries to plan ahead for things that might come up. They feel less at home in improvisation and more comfortable planning ahead and taking the time to be prepared. Obviously she can improvise with her sword though.  

STRENGTHS: Focus! She's focused in her studies so she's really smart (abstract/creative stuff gives her a harder time...she has to overthink/research before she can get the hang of something like that) and she's very skillful with her sword.

So I guess that includes her intelligence/knack for gathering knowledge and her sword skills. 

WEAKNESSES: Social-wise, she can be a blunt/brutally honest, though she doesn't mean to be. She tends to overanalyze also, which is good sometimess but also causes her to take longer to relax than most people. She's also extremely dependent on her rapier in battle. She spends so much time perfecting it that she's not as skilled in other fighting areas. Also, she's not as good with creative stuff.

BACKSTORY (I REQUIRE AS ELABORATE AS POSSIBLE): 

She is a middle class person living in a home in a neighborhood near a river, so she's comfortable around water. Her mom's always away on business trips since she works for a green energy company and she handles a lot of conference-y-meeting-agreement-y things. Her dad is a surgeon. Her parents have high academic expectations for her. As for everything else, like hobbies and stuff, they didn't want to influence her decisions (her dad felt particularly strong about this, since his parents had different career ideas for him but he chose to be a doctor), so they enrolled her in a whole bunch of things at different times, like over the summer for example, to see what she picked up. Sports, art, theatre, music, writing, STEM, etc. Her favorite thing was fencing. (Get where some of the sword-loving comes from?)

She moved around a lot in elementary, but has been at the same middle school. 

She likes school except when she gets a lot of homework. She takes advanced courses at her school. Sometimes she feels a little isolated because of her intelligence, but nobody is mean to her or calls her out for it. She has some good friends, and knows everyone's names. (She always likes to do that.)

She's in 8th grade and has an older brother in college. That caused some problems, because he got into a bunch of advanced tech/computer programs but he abused it by getting into a bunch of cyber/hacking related problems. She also had an uncle who died in a plane crash. 

She likes rainy days. ;) 

MC, SECONDARY, TERTIARY, OR BACKGROUND? (FIRST AND SECOND CHOICE): Well I mean first choice is MC, second choice is secondary. I'm not sure if I'm 9th.

Let me know if there's any changes I should make to my sheet. I'm excited! This sounds like a cool solo write.

submitted by Owlgirl, age 13, Texas
(July 4, 2017 - 10:59 pm)

You will still be one of the nine, seeing as Kitten's character will be a madame.  

submitted by Madame Charlotte, age Classified, KNIGHTS Academy
(July 5, 2017 - 6:16 pm)
submitted by Yay!!!
(July 5, 2017 - 8:38 pm)

Actually I think I'm 9th, I counted again.

submitted by Owlgirl
(July 4, 2017 - 11:00 pm)

Nope, I'm 10th...Kitten's post hadn't been there when I counted I think, but she must have posted before me so it still showed up.

submitted by Owlgirl
(July 5, 2017 - 9:27 am)

aww, the nine spots are filled... and I'm too lazy to make a backround charrie sheet right now. Sorry Madame Charlotte!

submitted by unsuspectingstrytllr
(July 5, 2017 - 6:18 pm)

well, this thing got me drawing so here's what I imagine to be Madame Charlotte.

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submitted by unsuspectingstrytllr
(July 6, 2017 - 9:10 am)

Hmm, in my youth maybe. I do like the font though.

submitted by Madame Charlotte, age Classified, KNIGHTS Academy
(July 7, 2017 - 9:12 am)
submitted by top, age topper, topping
(July 7, 2017 - 7:34 am)

Here is the list of characters:

MCs:

Allyssa Julette(Lucy B.)

Holly Chase(Moonfrost) 

Secondaries:

Roberta Ellen Schafer(Pepper Star)

Cecilia Whittemore(EG)

Alexandria Neige(Kilim)

Adelise Rivior(September) 

Tertiaries:

Ireland Grace(Zen)

Lilluim(Blazestar)

Selene Akimi Hold(Owlgirl) 

Backround: 

Madame Carolina Smith

I am sorry If you did not get the part you wanted, but not everyone can be an MC. Thank you very much to those for read thought the ENTIRE post and included something about rain in their character sheets. I will post as soon as possible, over the course of the next few days. 

submitted by Madame Charlotte, age Classified, KNIGHTS Academy
(July 7, 2017 - 11:57 am)