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Hey guys -- long time no see, right? it's been too long since a post has been made on this blog. 

I'm sure you've all noticed how dead it is around here, and Kendra and I have been talking today about how to revamp Expell and bring it back to an active glory. 

What we discussed was:

A group-wide plot to increase activity and encourage interactions with all characters and writers -- but not something too overbearing, just something to keep the group cohesive and give a direction to members new and old

Re-vamping: housekeeping, deciding which characters you want to keep or not, deleting abandoned characters, revamping open characters, cleaning up the main blog, enforcing the rules, etc. 

Making the group more student-oriented again? It could also involve merging graduated characters and characters still in Hogwarts and propelling them together with a group-wide plot. 

Promotions to advertise Expell and regain interest and newcomers!

And, of course, we're open to ideas! We want everyone to be involved who wants to be involved, and this should be a group effort to restore the RPG that we all know and love.

Right now we (myself, Kendra, and Carly) are in the ooc chatzy talking about this, so feel free to pop in when you see this! 

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TAKEN ROLE: Cohen

Cohen | 23 | Poltergeist | Undetermined

Since his appearance as collateral in the commotion of the Battle of Hogwarts, Cohen has been obsessed with one thing and one thing only: his own indestructibility. Born from the dust of the dead, his so called life is the only thing that remains important to him. Through the years, he’s adopted a makeshift group of other similarly created “friends”, though he sees them as little more than acquaintances. Still, they prove their usefulness in helping him with (or proposing) new schemes and supplementing his already monstrous ego. Still, the life of disaster doesn’t yet sit well with him. He’s always pushing for more, a way to go further, to dig deeper, and those who get the rare chance to see him – and the real terror he wishes to inflict – might believe he will not be satisfied until the world as we know it is burned to the ground, and only he remains. Dust to dust. 

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I see what you're all doing here.

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TAKEN ROLE: Tanner Dean Hill

Tanner Dean Hill | 23 | Muggleborn | Ambiguous | Campie

Tanner Dean was born. If you ask zem what zirs life story is, ze will reply with this. “You were born,” Tanner’s mother whispered at the end of every fairy tale and long winded, tightly woven fable. “You were born, and now you’re here.” There was no need for further explanation. Ze was born, just as zirs brother was born, and just as zirs parents were born, and zirs grandparents, and zirs great-grandparents, and so on. The most fundamental part of life was the first step: and that was making it to the starting line. 

Tanner was raised in the beautiful town of Oudtshoorn, South Africa, lined with mountains and filled with wildlife. Ze was an adventurous child, always running off on adventures with zirs brother, Kevin, and one of the family’s dogs in tow. Ze is the only wizard in zirs family, which led to some confusion upon the notice from the wizarding school that serviced the Southern African area, but now is a common part of life in the Hill household—as is Tanner’s gender and pronouns. 

When Tanner was fifteen, ze told zirs parents that ze did not feel male or female. With more discussion after a homecooked dinner, the matter was settled. Pronouns took a while to grow accustomed to, as did the change of name, but after eight years, the family has grown to adapt to it. Tanner graduated from the African School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at the age of eighteen, and went on to work briefly as a mail carrier in the branch of magical government associated with the school. 

Eventually, the life grew dreary and ze packed zirs things and went traveling, as a very stereotypical coming-of-age person would do. Zirs travels led zem to the United Kingdom, and to the camp located in the forest surrounding Hogsmeade and Hogwarts. It’s been barely a month since ze arrived at the camp, but Tanner has assimilated perfectly, and finds that ze feels quite at home here. 

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TAKEN ROLE: PRINCESS TEACUP CANDELABRA

Princess Teacup Candelabra | 23 | Poltergeist | Undetermined

If you thought Peeves was bad, take a look at this chick. When she popped up on the planet, she took a good look around, then decided to name herself Teacup Candelabra, and even gave herself the title of Princess—though she likes being called Candelabra just as much as any other name of hers. Candelabra is a very silly poltergeist, always drifting around and creating mayhem around her. She’s definitely a bit wackier than her fellow ghoul gang, pulling pranks that could potentially have given the Weasley twins a run for their money if she’d been around during their time.

That being said, life at Hogwarts has never been the same again—and it drives Filch and his assistant absolutely nuts. Candelabra breaks windows daily, constantly makes messes after dinner in the Great Hall, and steals clothing from the students while they’re bathing and showering. Were she not a poltergeist, she’d be expelled and kicked out immediately, but MInerva McGonagall knows it’s not that simple. Peeves, Candelabra, and the other poltergeists are here for a reason—because mayhem was made from mayhem.

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TAKEN ROLE: LILLIAN LA LAURIE

Lillian La Laurie | 23 | Poltergeist | Unknown

Lillian La Laurie is an odd creature, so very unlike the rest of the Hogwarts population. Her most prominent diversity: She does not have a family, and therefore neither a bloodline to identify with. She wasn’t born to parents either magical or Muggle. Because Lillian is a child of chaos. A poltergeist.

It began over thirty years ago, when Harry Potter was introduced to the hallowed corridors of Hogwarts. Ever since he arrived, the entire castle and everything within it seemed to have been laden with a curse. And it only escalated. The constant invasions of the school by evil spirits, alleged murderers, Death Eaters and Dementors caused everybody to panic throughout the confined castle. Eventually it all led up to to the Battle of Hogwarts, and the epic final showdown between The Boy Who Lived and the Dark Lord. 

All that time something had been brewing in the air, forming a sort of electric veil that draped itself over the span of the campus. There was an overwhelmingly powerful energy created by the constant cohesive turmoil that defied even the dimensions of the magical realm—rather three energies; entities. In a show similar to that of the creation of a new planet, these poltergeists were formed.

Lillian La Laurie is an abomination, an unnatural error of magical elements, a physical essence of raw chaos. You could say Hogwarts’ boring streak is over.

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TAKEN ROLE: Theodore Powell

Theodore Powell | 18 | Muggleborn | Heteroflexible | Slytherin Alumni

Though both Powell children, by some necessity, were graced with magic, that is where their similarities cease. One finding her home in Gryffindor, the older found his likes among the cynics and burnouts in Slytherin. When shit hit the fan, he was too old to ignore it. It wore away at him over the years, and stole any chance of his at bravery. A brave man, he sometimes tells himself, would pack his things, take Trinity, and move away. A coward does it alone. Denouncing his father, abandoning his sister, and ignoring any need for direction in his life, this Hogwarts graduate has one goal and one goal only: to get far away from anything that might turn him into his father. But sadly, the running itself is what could very well bring him to become his only fear. 

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TAKEN ROLE: HANNAH HUNT

Hannah Hunt | 19 | Veela | Pansexual | Unemployed

Hannah Hunt is a person. Hannah Hunt cartwheels across carpets of daisies and walks on eggshells. Hannah Hunt smiles and she means it. Hannah Hunt dyes her hair all the colors of the rainbow whenever she feels like it and walks with a spring in her step.

So why is she still not satisfied?

When men look at Hannah and fall under her spell, it’s all for the wrong reasons. She’s a veela, born into a curse she never asked for. When she’s happy, men fall in love with her without knowing a thing about her, and when she’s angry, she turns into a harpy-like creature and can’t control any fits of rage that occur. In fact, her species is so delicate that she’s ever so slightly imprisoned—the Ministry provides a house in Hogsmeade for her, as well as a regular stipend, and she lives off of that in exchange for weekly check-ins and observations. She feels like a lab animal when under the eyes of probing witches and wizards, but it’s Hannah’s life, and that’s how she’s lived since she left her family behind.

Even though Hannah’s allowed to do as she pleases, she still feels bound by the government. And though her face is usually alight with a smile, there are times when she doesn’t know how to cope with what she is.

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STEVE.

As of today, the barman's name is Steve. I'm sure no one will remember this, but it's the thought that counts.

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christinacadwallader replied to your post: christinacadwallader replied to your post: TAKEN...

old sport. you just hit me with a wave of gatsby.

I really want to watch that now... 

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christinacadwallader replied to your post: TAKEN ROLE: CHRISTINA CADWALLADER

AWWW omg thank you <3

Don't thank me, old sport. Thank the charmingly awkward brown-eyed boy who will someday lay his hands upon the breasts of a ginger angel.