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 ❝ mm-mm, no, just that sauce -- try the other one, ❞ she reassures her, pointing, as she offers up the paper to-go container toward amara.  ❝ seriously, though -- is that not the best fried chicken you've ever tasted ? it's just out of this world. ❞ glancing over her shoulder, she catches the vendor's eye and gives him an enthusiastic thumbs up, before turning back to amara, eager for her reaction.

"Hmm?" Amara asked looking up from the gigantic drink she was trying her best to finish. Her nose crinkled at the coldness of the crushed ice. Brown hues glimmered with life when Josie had mentioned the food. "Oo, okay!" She took hold of it and put it to her lips before stopping and looking back up at Josie. "Wait, it's not spicy is it? Cause if it is then I can't do it. My lips are still burning from that crab cake I had."

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❝ well, somebody didn't come to new orleans for the nightlife, i see. wrong side of the bed ? ❞ josie taunts lightheartedly. high on excitement from the festival's distractions and slightly buzzed off a margarita slushie, she's unable to tone down her contentment -- even if she's convinced it will irritate the other.  ❝ if you think this is bad, i promise, you don't want to be here for mardi gras season. ❞

“Are people around here allergic to silence or what?” Whether is was laughter, screams of joy or exclamations of happiness lately, Violet was sick of hearing it. It was also getting a lot harder for her to train in the forest with a lot more people walking around, especially the drunk ones. And though she would have liked nothing more than to throw of knife just a hair above their head to shut them up, she chose to constrain herself. Which she was starting to regret more and more. She opened up her bag to shuffle around into it before pulling out her phone, the dagger in front pocket barely making itself visible before she closed it up. “If one more drunk person slobbers all over me, we’re gonna have a problem.” She mumbled to herself. 

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starter for -- open ! setting -- city park, mid-afternoon.

 ❝ oh my gosh, have you tried this ? it’s incredible. best thing i’ve tried all day. ❞ granted, josie’s been saying that about nearly everything she’s eaten today  –  but she really does mean it.  ❝ don’t know what they put in it, must be crack or some kind of magic, but seriously  –  you have to try it. ❞

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❝ that, uh, definitely sums it up ! ❞ all cheerful smiles, josie perks up at the opportunity to share her favorite spots -- especially with someone who thinks the city's all sex, drugs, and mardi gras, like so many tourists do. ❝ i don't know, all depends on what else you're into. museums ? one of those haunted house walking tours ? they're super touristy, but i kinda love it. it's camp ! ❞

❝ now, i’ve been to a lot of places. but this town is more my speed than most of those that i’ve previously been to. music, dancing, drinking, sin. what is not to love? ❞ it made the tourists perfect as little toys for well, anything really. using blood for communication, torturing them, getting high off the human blood. ❝ though i can never get enough, what else should i be doing to squeeze all the fun out of new orleans? ❞

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E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

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introducing ,   josette ‘ josie ’ saltzman.  21.  gemini witch.  twin.  student.  daughter.  monster.

tws  --  family drama, mental health issues, your usual dose of blood, death, and magic.

BASICS .

full name. josette olivia saltzman. known as. josie, jo. age / birthday. twentyone, bday. occupation. college student. species. siphoner witch. gender / pronouns. cis woman, she / her. sexuality. pansexual. additional stats. link tba. pinterest. link tba.

INFO .

essentially canon up until the beginning of legacies  --  raised by caroline and alaric ( more alaric in the later years & with caroline’s absence ), salvatore school since age 7

will need to plot and discuss her high school years before i have all the details, since idk how much of legacies we’re taking vs. making up a new canon

without all that plotting i’ll just say m my josie is very much the josie of lizzie’s shadow, with her compulsion toward care is very much here. all nurturing heart and self-denial. pre-dark!josie because i’d love to explore that more on the dash

basically, josie’s got issues: bit of a least-loved child complex, a competitive nature she suppresses for the sake of being a “good person”, a sense of abandonment and insecurity, a compulsive need to prove her worth and value through acts of service

but on the outside she’s just sunshine josie as always! bright smiles, always has a helping hand, charmed by sunflowers and sticker sheets and glitter gel pens, needs to stop every dog she sees on the street for pets, you get the picture

after graduating the salvatore school, she’s attending tulane uni in new orleans, trying to get away a little, get a little distance from the all-consuming nature of family/supernatural drama

studying biochem with aspirations to be a doctor. but also taking a minor in medieval studies and lots of electives in history, latin, and medieval studies. between family drama and supernatural drama her studies are taking a lot longer than expected and not going nearly as well as she’d hoped. struggling to toe the line between her own deeply human dreams to be a doctor and help people, vs. the pull toward the supernatural and diving deeper into magic, history, and power etc.

is in an especially vulnerable place rn and is having a lot of big, complicated feelings about the merge, lizzie turning into a heretic, etc. on the one hand, she’s relieved ( yay! she didn’t have to die in the merge! ) on the other hand disappointed ( boo! she didn’t get a bunch of new power during the merge! ) and on yet another hand jealous ( now lizzie has witch powers and vamp powers ) and on yet another hand completely despondent ( her twin sister and mother are immortal while she’s going to grow old and die ). but also doesn’t feel like she can express any of this 

PLOT IDEAS .

bad influence  --  josie’s going thru it atm and pretty vulnerable, and also a powerful witch with ~connections~. would love to see someone, anyone, trying to take advantage of that, encouraging her to do dark magic, or otherwise manipulating her

exes, ( unrequited ) crushes, etc.  --  josie falls in love with pretty much anyone who gives her the time of day so i’d love like, 10000 of these if at all possible

witchy pals  --  not exactly a coven, but anyone who can talk shop would be very welcome!

fellow students  --  any current college students in new orleans or any former salvatore school students? idk could be a fun connection especially for ocs if there are any

a roommate or two would be great! could be a new situation or someone she’s lived with since she moved to nola around 3 years ago

friends, fake friends, enemies, everything in between

and ofc i’m happy to read intros and come up with plenty of character-specific plot ideas! would love to brainstorm with y’all

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SYPHONR ,   dependent josie saltzman. written by kit for armageddonhq.   /    intro . starters . inspo . wc .

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HELP I’M ALIVE (ACOUSTIC) METRIC | @ KROQ STUDIOS, 2009

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KATIE DOUGLAS The Walk (2022)