#a midsummer night’s dream (newsies)

[ketterdamswinchester]

Ok so maybe straight people do deserve rights 😒

[lithuanianking]

Oh no I dropped my feminist Literature books (5'10" btw)/ref

My friend asked if my notebook full of monologues was a autism thing,this would only prove his point.

[saveugoodmadam]

Dying over the concept of mythicalsies actually. Like everyone being afraid of Jack because he's this Big Tough Werewolf Guy™ meanwhile literally all he wants is snuggles so they pay no attention to Crutchie who's just stolen their name and firstborn child (or item of equivalent value)

[felt-squirrels]

we just had day 1 of little mermaid rehearsal (granted im just a pit singer im not rlyyy In The Show) (but it's weird to technically be part of the cast and not the crew) (anyway) so i am passing my theatre vibes to you o7

also do you want to sing the entire newsies soundtrack with me 👉👈

Dude the piano was so loud during my audition which is good, because the rehearsal track was really quiet and I was worried i wasn’t going to be able to hear it. I feel like my soul was leaving my body because I was singing so loud. If I don’t get in (which is a possibility, as I’ve never done a show with this high school before and I’ve heard they do some extensive cuts on Fall shows) I’m going to try to assistant stage manage Midsummer Night’s Dream at my school, because I need to get back into tech.

as for the singing, HELL YEAH

[fandoms-my-fandoms]

Here is a list of 50 of my current all time theatre dream roles (musicals and non-musicals) because I am a female acting major who is having trouble in believing my dreams for my future are attainable at this current moment:

1. Christine Daaé - Phantom of the Opera

2. Emily Webb - Our Town

3. Belle - Beauty and the Beast

4. Katherine Plumber - Newsies the Musical

5. Elizabeth Bennet - Pride and Prejudice

6. Veronica Sawyer - Heathers the Musical

7. Maria - The Sound of Music/or/West Side Story

8. Hodel - Fiddler on the Roof

9. Zazzalil - Firebringer

10. Eliza - Hamilton

11. Laurie Williams - Oklahoma

12. Cinderella - Into the Woods/or/Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

13. Narrator - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat

14. Princess Anna - Frozen the Musical

15. Hermia - A Midsummer Nights Dream

16. Elphaba - Wicked

17. Glinda - Wicked

18. Éponine - Les Misérables

19. Winnifred the Woebegone - Once Upon A Mattress

20. Miss Honey - Matilda the Musical

21. Ariel Moore - Footloose the Musical

22. Dorothy Gale - The Wizard of Oz

23. Lucy van Pelt - You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown

24. Princess Fiona - Shrek the Musical

25. Viola - Twelve Night

26. Hermione Granger - A Very Potter Musical Trilogy

27. Ginny Weasley - A Very Potter Musical

28. Eliza Doolittle - My Fair Lady

29. Leading Player - Pippin

30. Natalie Haller - All Shook Up

31. Miss Saundra - All Shook Up

32. Cosette - Les Misérables

33. Princess Ariel - The Little Mermaid the Musical

34. Eva Peron - Evita

35. Maureen Johnson - RENT

36. Mary - It’s A Wonderful Life

37. Sue Snell - Carrie the Musical

38. Truly Scrumptious - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

39. Johanna Barker - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

40. Molly Aster - Peter and the Starcatcher

41. Gertrude Fail - Failure: A Love Story

42. Brooke Ashton - Noises Off

43. Megara - Hercules the Musical

44. Mary Poppins - Mary Poppins

45. Nora Helmer - A Dolls House

46. Queen Elsa - Frozen the Musical

47. Charity Hope Valentine - Sweet Charity

48. Fanny Brice - Funny Girl

49. Anya - Anastasia

50. Jane - Tarzan

There’s probably even some that I forgot to put on this list that should probably be in the place of some of these other roles, but I did want to incorporate roles from non-musicals as well. I do acknowledge that this list is still very much mostly musicals, but I fear I have not read many straight plays. Also, most of the work I’ve already done is musical theatre. Which is why I’m an acting major. I want to be exposed to more pieces of theatre that don’t have singing and dancing. There are a bunch of shows that I would love to be in, but don’t necessarily have dream roles solely because they are either ensemble heavy productions or they would just be really fun projects to work on. For example, my school, Illinois State University, just did Bonnie and Clyde the Musical. That shit was GUT WRENCHING. I would have loved to be apart of that project. I don’t exactly have a dream role in that show because every role in Bonnie and Clyde is so essential to telling that story. I am however, working on my first MainStage production here at ISU. I am playing the Nurse in Equus. Again, not a show that I had any dream role going into being cast in this project. But, this story is very heavy and unique. I have never worked on a show as different and dramatic as this one. I am really excited to be part of this cast, and I will be happy to post information about this show in the weeks to come, or you can message me and ask for more details! Thanks for reading my extra long blog post for today! :)

[cavewretch]

unfinished scribble i really want to work on but my eyes are bugging me so i’m posting this instead. i’ve been watching d20 neverafter and wrote my own character as if i were playing in their campaign lmao . this is peter goodfellow a mashup of puck from midsummer nights dream and peter pan ! character details below the cut :D i’ve never played d&d so i don’t have that stuff in there . some sort of rogue w access to magic and survival skills idk

peter goodfellow (he/they) - fairies call him robin if anyone calls him that outside they’re able to get closer to finding him (enchanted name)

very strict about being called puck bc that’s the only name he chose for himself

appearance details: carries a dagger, scarred face, pseudo mullet ponytail hairstyle (kinda like jim from treasure planet lmao), usually barefoot, burrs in their hair, pocket compass, kinda dressed like a newsie but with plant elements on his clothes

the goodfellows wished for a perfect boy - the fairies thought it would be funny to send them a trickster spirit and see what the trickster would be able to get up to as a human child but he was born with robins wings so his parents left him in kensington orphanage

kensington gardens the fairy realm where titania and oberon ruled amongst other fairies

brief stint as the fairy kings assistant

if he wants to get older he has to steal people’s life force

stuck as 17 years old - not an adult but too old for anyone to want to adopt them

knows about the nature of the neverafter (similar to pib he's a trickster spirit he's just also human) (or fairy) (ooo where are his allegiances oooo)

fairies said it was about time he got older he had enough friends and killed the lost boys to make him 17

in one story jack was his best friend who saw this happen and killed him for it (and afterwards was so horrified at himself he cut his own hand off and became captain hook)

agent of chaos, keeps things moving in stories

"does anyone want to play the penis game" (screams penis) this guy loves 2 prank

moodboard !!!!

[romeoandjulietyouwish]

A bit random and I don't know if this is really the place to ask, but seeing everyone talk about plays and musicals has got me thinking back to when I was in stage craft, though we made stages we didn't learn a lot about the performances we were making them for. Do you have any recommendations for plays or musicals to watch? Sorry if this wasn't okay to ask here.

This is absolutely okay to ask!

Bootlegs are pretty easy to come by, and there are professional recordings of some shows but here's a non-exhaustive list of my essential musical/play viewings"

Newsies

Come From Away

RENT

Our Town

Any shakespeare play put on by the Globe (especially Macbeth or Midsummer Night's Dream)

Into the Woods

Tuck Everlasting

Les Miserables

Guys and Dolls

Chicago

Little Women

Big Fish

Waitress

The Play that Goes Wrong

Angels in America

Noises Off

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Congrats everyone, you outlived the Queen of England

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#4

do you ever think about how like. hamlet and macbeth both want to kill the king, but they're framed in wildly different ways

hamlet is told by the GHOST of his FATHER to kill claudius to avenge his dad's death. the audience already sympathizes with hamlet, and we're on his side. of course he should kill the king! that's the natural thing to do!

the witches tell macbeth that he'll become king, and he (and lady macbeth) decides on his own to do some murder to achieve that goal. he seems like Just Some Guy at the beginning of the play but we quickly (rapidly) decide that we can't support his decisions

the ghost in hamlet is depicted as some poor soul wandering the earth, and yet he proposes something inherently malicious for hamlet to do. the witches are portrayed as The Bad Guys, but they don't actually tell macbeth to do anything that he does

and hamlet is...just like the audience member. macbeth is disconnected. when we're watching hamlet, there's tension because we care deeply about the characters (and ALL of them have their moments to be sympathetic). when we're watching macbeth, there's tension because we already know what's going to happen to this guy, and it's going to be bad

i think . what i'm getting at is that neither is treated with mercy by the narrative and they handle that differently

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My #1 post of 2022

does anybody have a bootleg of the 1596 production of a midsummer night's dream?? :/

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[fireworkss-exe]

uhhhhhh a few days ago I overheard my director saying "keep this for if we ever do newsies" about one of the costumes for Midsummer Night's Dream so. uh. we may do newsies in the future but I'm not getting my hopes up

[amaliabalash]

theatre 2022

The Band's Visit - 1/8, Keller Auditorium, Portland

2. Waitress - 1/15, Hult Center, Eugene

3. Anastasia - 2/12, Keller Auditorium, Portland

4. Fiddler on the Roof - 2/19, Hult Center, Eugene

5. Newsies - 2/26, Crater High School

6. Moon Over Buffalo - 2/27, Oregon Cabaret Theatre

7. Newsies - 3/5, Crater High School

8. R&H Cinderella - 3/12, Ashland High School

9. South Pacific - 3/19, Hult Center, Eugene

10. Once on This Island - 4/23, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

11. In the Heights - 4/25, Oregon Cabaret Theatre

12. In the Heights - 5/1, Oregon Cabaret Theatre

13. Unseen - 5/7, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

14. In the Heights - 5/14, Oregon Cabaret Theatre

15. A Midsummer Night's Dream - 5/22, Crater High School

16. In the Heights - 5/29, Oregon Cabaret Theatre

16.5 In the Heights - 6/11, Oregon Cabaret Theatre - act one only because of a plumbing issue in the building :(

17. How I Learned What I Learned - 6/25, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

18. The Tempest - 6/25, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

19. Revenge Song - 7/16, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

23. Hadestown - 7/23, Keller Auditorium, Portland

24. The Full Monty - 8/7, Oregon Cabaret Theatre

25. The Full Monty - 8/20, Oregon Cabaret Theatre

26. Confederates - 9/3, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

27. Once on This Island - 9/3, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

28. The Tempest - 9/17, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

29. Catch Me If You Can - 9/21, Camelot Theatre

30. King John - 9/24, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

30.5 Mandy Patinkin live - 10/8, Craterian Theatre

31. Sherlock Holmes and the Final Problem - 10/22, Oregon Cabaret Theatre

32. White Christmas - 12/10, Oregon Cabaret Theatre with Oregon Shakespeare Festival

33. White Christmas - 12/11, Oregon Cabaret Theatre with Oregon Shakespeare Festival

33. A Christmas Carol - 12/17, Oregon Cabaret Theatre

34. It's Christmas, Carol! - 12/18, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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[cabaretkel]

All the shows I’ve seen in NYC!

The first time I ever set foot in New York City was in April 2011, ever since then NYC has been fueling my theatre obsession with some amazing shows, from musicals & plays to operas, concerts & cabarets. So I thought I would compile a list (to the best of my knowledge/memory) of all the shows I have seen in this wonderful city.

23/4/11 - Wonderland (musical)

27/4/11 - Il Trovatore (opera)

28/4/11 - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical)

29/4/11 - Orfeo ed Euridice (opera)

30/4/11 - The Addams Family (musical)

10/4/12 - Jesus Christ Superstar (musical)

11/4/12 - Anything Goes (musical)

11/4/12 - Manon (opera)

12/4/12 - Evita (musical)

13/4/12 - Die Walkure (opera)

14/4/12 - La Traviata (opera)

14/4/12 - A Midsummer Nights Dream (play)

15/4/12 - The Book of Mormon (musical)

15/4/12 - Godspell (musical)

2/1/13 - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (musical)

3/1/13 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (play)

4/1/13 - Bare (musical)

4/1/13 - Peter and the Starcatcher (play)

5/1/13 - Les Troyens (opera)

5/1/13 - The Barber of Seville (opera)

5/1/13 - Johnny Gallagher (concert)

6/1/13 - Golden Age (play)

6/1/13 - Annie (musical)

7/1/13 - Turandot (opera)

8/1/13 - Maria Stuarda (opera)

8/10/13 - Pippin (musical)

9/10/13 - The Glass Menagerie (play)

9/10/13 - Romeo & Juliet (play)

10/10/13 - Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (immersive musical)

11/10/13 - Big Fish (musical)

12/10/13 - Eugene Onegin (opera)

13/10/13 - Kinky Boots (musical)

13/10/13 - Johnny Gallagher (concert)

14/10/13 - Norma (opera)

15/10/13 - First Date (musical)

15/10/13 - First Date at 54 Below (cabaret)

12/4/14 - The Realistic Jones (play)

12/4/14 - Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Bloody Beginning (immersive theatre)

12/4/14 - All The Way (play)

13/4/14 - Jasper in Deadland (musical)

13/4/14 - Queen of the Night (immersive theatre)

14/4/14 - Heathers (musical)

15/4/14 - Aladdin (musical)

16/4/14 - The Bridges of Madison County (musical)

16/4/14 - Les Miserables (musical)

17/4/14 - Newsies (musical)

17/4/14 - I Puritani (opera)

18/4/14 - Of Mice and Men (play)

19/4/14 - Arabella (opera)

19/4/14 - If/Then (musical)

20/4/14 - Reefer Madness (benefit concert)

20/4/14 - The Cripple of Inishmaan (play)

20/4/14 - Casa Valentina (play)

21/4/14 - Sleep No More (immersive theatre)

22/4/14 - Easter Bonnet Competition (benefit concert)

22/4/14 - Bullets Over Broadway (musical)

23/4/14 - Violet (musical)

23/4/14 - Cosi fan tutte (opera)

24/4/14 - Cinderella (musical)

24/4/14 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)

25/4/14 - Cabaret (musical)

20/2/15 - The Elephant Man (play)

20/2/15 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)

21/2/15 - A Month in the Country (play)

21/2/15 - Iolanta/Bluebeard’s Castle (opera)

22/2/15 - It’s Only a Play (play)

22/2/15 - Pretty Filthy (musical)

23/2/15 - Brooklynite (musical)

24/2/15 - Ghost Quartet (immersive musical)

25/2/15 - Honeymoon in Vegas (musical)

25/2/15 - La Donna del Lago (opera)

26/2/15 - Nevermore (musical)

26/2/15 - Into the Woods (musical)

27/2/15 - On the Twentieth Century (musical)

28/2/15 - One Day (musical)

28/2/15 - Les Contes d’Hoffmann (opera)

28/2/15 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)

1/3/15 - The Iceman Cometh (play)

1/3/15 - Hamilton (musical)

1/3/15 - Altar Boyz Reunion Concert at 54 Below (cabaret)

2/3/15 - The Dutch Courtesan (play)

2/3/15 - Replay: A Broadway Preview (cabaret)

3/3/15 - Constellations (play)

3/3/15 - This Will Be Our Year at 54 Below (cabaret)

4/3/15 - The Heidi Chronicles (play)

4/3/15 - Cabaret (musical)

5/3/15 - Big Love (play)

5/3/15 - A Very Very Rock Show at 54 Below (cabaret)

12/1/16 - Spring Awakening (musical)

13/1/16 - Fun Home (musical)

13/1/16 - Something Rotten! (musical)

14/1/16 - Lazarus (musical)

15/1/16 - School of Rock (musical)

16/1/16 - The Color Purple (musical)

16/1/16 - Hamilton (musical)

17/1/16 - Allegiance (musical)

17/1/16 - A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (musical)

18/1/16 - Johnny Gallagher & LAKES (concert)

18/1/16 - Spring Awakening (musical)

19/1/16 - Finding Neverland (musical)

20/1/16 - Fiddler on the Roof (musical)

20/1/16 - A View from the Bridge (play)

21/1/16 - The Phantom of the Opera (musical)

21/1/16 - Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (opera)

22-24/1/16 - BroadwayCon 2016 (convention)

25/1/17 - The Front Page (play)

25/1/17 - Roméo et Juliette (opera)

26/1/17 - The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (immersive theatre)

27-29/1/17 - BroadwayCon 2017 (convention)

29/1/17 - Dear Evan Hansen (musical)

31/1/17 - In Transit (a cappella musical)

½/17 - Waitress (musical)

½/17 - Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (musical)

2/2/17 - Sunset Boulevard (musical)

23/2/18 - Romeo & Juliet (ballet)

24/2/18 - The Band’s Visit (musical)

24/2/18 - Cruel Intentions (musical)

24/2/18 - Hello Dolly! (musical)

25/2/18 - Fire and Air (play)

25/2/18 - Sweeney Todd (musical)

28/2/18 - Anastasia (musical)

28/2/18 - Semiramide (opera)

1/3/18 - Elektra (opera)

2/3/18 - Carousel (musical)

3/3/18 - Farinelli and the King (play)

3/3/18 - Kings (play)

4/3/18 - Come From Away (musical)

4/3/18 - Lobby Hero (play)

5/3/18 - Once on this Island (musical)

6/3/18 - Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (play)

7/3/18 - Hamilton (musical)

7/3/18 - Angels in America: Perestroika (play)

8/3/18 - Frozen (musical)

3/1/19 - The Lifespan of a Fact (play)

4/1/19 - Adriana LeCouvreur (opera)

5/1/19 - The Ferryman (play)

5/1/19 - Mean Girls (musical)

6/1/19 - To Kill a Mockingbird (play)

6/1/19 - Clueless the Musical (musical)

9/1/19 - Pretty Woman (musical)

9/1/19 - Network (play)

10/1/19 - American Son (play)

11-12/1/19 - BroadwayCon 2019 (convention)

12/1/19 - The Prom (musical)

28/2/20 - Tina - The Tina Turner Musical (musical)

29/2/20 - Wicked (musical)

29/2/20 - Hadestown (musical)

1/3/20 - The Inheritance Pt 1 (play)

1/3/20 - The Inheritance Pt 2 (play)

2/3/20 - Der Fliegende Holländer (opera)

3/3/20 - Agrippina (opera)

4/3/20 - West Side Story (musical)

4/3/20 - Jagged Little Pill (musical)

5/3/20 - Company (musical)

6/3/20 - Beetlejuice (musical)

7/3/20 - Medea (play)

7/3/20 - Moulin Rouge (musical)

8/3/20 - Little Shop of Horrors (musical)

8/3/20 - LAKES (concert)

8/3/20 - Emojiland (musical)

11/2/23 - Kimberly Akimbo (musical)

11/2/23 - Pictures From Home (play)

12/2/23 - Leopoldstadt (play)

12/2/23 - Cornelia Street (musical)

13/2/23 - SIX (musical)

14/2/23 - Funny Girl (musical)

18/2/23 - A Beautiful Noise (musical)

18/2/23 - Bad Cinderella (musical)

19/2/23 - Some Like It Hot (musical)

19/2/23 - & Juliet (musical)

20/2/23 - Without You (musical/cabaret)

21/2/23 - Parade (musical)

18/10/23 - Back to the Future (musical)

19/10/23 - The Great Gatsby (musical)

19/10/23 - Here Lies Love (musical)

20/2/23 - Gutenberg! The Musical! (musical)

21/10/23 - Harmony (musical)

21/10/23 - Here We Are (musical)

22/10/23 - The Shark is Broken (play)

22/10/23 - Purlie Victorious (play)

23/10/23 - Chicago (musical)

24/10/23 - Merrily We Roll along (musical)

Unfortunately the following shows were Covid cancelled:

12/3/20 - Flying Over Sunset (musical)

13/3/20 - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (play)

14/3/20 - Mrs Doubtfire (musical)

14/3/20 - SIX (musical)

I've also had a couple of snow cancellations - The Hunchback of Notre Dame & possibly one other show I can't recall...

There have also been numerous 'shuttering early' cancellations, which I won't bother listing.

That’s the list so far. Obviously there will be more to come… stay tuned! (Shows booked so far for 2024: Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, The Who's TOMMY, The Hours & Water For Elephants)

[princessasmosprincess]

Guy who has only watched Newsies watching his second Christian Bale film: Getting a lot of Newsies vibes from this...

[starship-squidlet]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Newsies Modern Theatre AU

Summary: Part 3 of the Modern!Theatre!AU. Jack and Crutchie are still working at the World Theatre and living with Elaine and her brothers. March 12, 2020, their whole world changes. It is a summer of life-altering realizations as they all learn more about themselves and each other and hopefully become better people for it. Yes, this is the COVID quarantine one. Very gay. (Rated K. It’s just soft.) *** POSTING WEDNESDAYS ONLY***

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Chapter Two (4/14/21)

Chapter Three (4/21/21)

Chapter Four (4/28/21)

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What you should know going into this story:

While the other two parts of the theatre AU are based off of my own experiences working in theatre, since this story diverges from the theatre itself, it delves more into the realm of fiction. While it has a basis in some of the struggles I went through during the spring/summer of 2020, and things that happened in regards to the theatre, it will be more of an exploration into how the COVID-19 lockdown would affect these characters.

There won’t be quite as expansive of a cast in this story, unlike As You Like It and Twelfth Night, because the characters will be spending most of it in their apartment! This will, however, let us spend more time getting to know each of them a little better in regards to this AU. The characters who will be appearing are: Jack, Crutchie, Davey, Elaine, Alan, Alden, and (maybe) JD. Other characters may appear briefly and will likely be mentioned, but these 6/7 are the ones we’ll be seeing the most of!

Just like Yo Ho, Hero!, I’m writing this story without a chapter plot. This means that it will likely be more meandering and drawn-out than the other two installments in this AU, and that I don’t have a chapter count (at this point).

Disclaimer: I do not own Newsies or anything you may recognize from it. I do not own any characters you may recognize from Newsies. I do not own the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ or any references made to it in this story. I do, however, own Elaine, Alan, Alden, Will, JD, and this story!

FanFiction.Net link coming 4/7/21 | Archive of our Own link coming 4/7/21

This is part 3 of 3 in this AU

Part 1: As You Like It

Part 2: Twelfth Night

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[cursedcatboy]

“I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.” – Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn.

INTRODUCING :  EZRAEL BINX

inspired by: KITTY MINX from LOVE IN HATE NATION. RACETRACK HIGGINS from NEWSIES. APOLLYON from HELLO FROM THE HALLOWOODS. RICHIE TOZIER from IT (2017) && IT: CHAPTER TWO.  PUCK from A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. HOBAN “WASH” WASHBURNE from FIREFLY. // with hints of: john amoroso from the black suits. taako from the adventure zone: balance. aubrey little from the adventure zone: amnesty. jamie taylor from the haunting of bly manor. portia devorak from the arcana. ted “theodore” logan from bill and ted’s excellent adventure. wirt from over the garden wall. sally owens from practical magic. as well as: — the good, comfy vibes you get from a stevie nicks song. — the crisp earthy-sweet smell of damp fallen leaves. — the fog that results from a warm day turning into a cool night. — old black and white monster movies && arsenic and old lace. — this specific color palette. — the warm scent of sandalwood incense burning.

GENERAL

name. ezrael lysander binx. nicknames. ez, ezzie ( to a very rare few ), rae, little cat ( a thackery exclusive ) date of birth. august 13th. age. twenty three. gender. nonbinary. pronouns. they / them. powers. quick reflexes, very good balance. sexuality. pansexual. place of birth. hallow falls.           current residence. elias.          occupation. bartender, aspiring musician. song. we all float down here - four year strong. emojis. 😈 🧡 🎸

APPEARANCE  

height.  6′1″. build. athletic, lean. hair colour/style. shortish, just above shoulder-length & curly; naturally medium brown but they’ve been known to dye it black for funsies.       eye colour. green.         piercings. ears & septum.          tattoos. small black lineart of a crescent moon on the inside of their left wrist, small black lineart of a star on the inside of their right wrist, more to come.       notable markings. a few small scars on their fingers from their whittling phase, a scar just above the right side of their top lip, freckles.            glasses/contacts? neither.       faceclaim. fin argus. voiceclaim. n/a. but there is a lilt of an accent to their voice because of their growing up in thackery’s company.

HEALTH        

allergies. dogs && mangoes. sleeping habits. 6-7 hours a night; sometimes little naps during the day.     eating habits. pescatarian.            dominant hand. left.     drugs / smoke / alcohol? sometimes / yes / only in social situations.

PERSONALITY 

tropes.  lovable rogue, class clown, flirty bard. positive traits. patient, caring, loyal.        negative traits. stubborn, loud, rash.                  likes. bright colors, learning new things, cats, magic, 70s/80s rock, black converse.       dislikes. people who talk over them, being told what to do, tomatoes, most shades of brown.       bad habits. smoking, being reckless. 

RELATIONSHIPS

mother. unknown. father. thackery binx. siblings. n/a. children. none.    significant others. n/a. closest friends. tba.

TESTS

zodiac sign. leo. mbti. enfp.         temperament. sanguine.                  moral alignment. chaotic neutral.       primary vice. pride.       primary virtue. patience.

SKILLS & STATS

languages spoken. english, french, spanish, latin. drive? yes. jump start a car? yes.       change a flat tire? yes.        ride a bicycle? yes.          swim? no.      play an instrument? yes. guitar && piano.         play chess? yes but they hate it. they find it boring.           braid hair? yes.         tie a tie? yes.         pick a lock? yes.         sew? yes.    

here is a playlist for them !! :3

WANTED CONNECTIONS

;; all we are is dust in the wind, dude. | bandmates ! jam sesh buds !

ezrael can play a mean guitar but they can also play the keyboard & sing ! they just need someone ( or several someones! ) to jam with & talk music !! either this can be a Solid Band or just people jamming together & sometimes playing shows - ez is fine with either. music is their passion. 

;; if we shadows have offended. | magic friends !      

just people who have helped/can help ezrael earn more about magic! they've read books and done research but they've stayed more on the Book Knowledge side of things and they've been itching to try a spell or two - nothing major, just for funsies. their dad is thackery after all, they know not to mess with the Big Stuff.

;; the whiskey sure works && lordy i love it. | drinking buddies !  

ezrael is a social drinker and while they do tend to actively make friends while drinking, they much prefer to go out with friends than go out to find​​​​ friends.

;; people who build their houses in your heart. | close friends !  

ezrael is very social & they have friends of all sorts. but i have a feeling that they only have a few close friends - the ones they trade secrets with and always think to text first. midnight slumber party besties y'know? the sort of friends you go stargazing & contemplate life with.

;; the way that i feel, don't try to say it isn't real | exes / flings !  

ezrael is pansexual & can be right flirty when they want to. perhaps they parted ways happily & are still friends! perhaps they Didn't & are anything but friendly. ez doesn't like to burn bridges but they also aren't sure if they like being tied down for too long. their dad must've passed some of his feral cat energy on to them.

&& more, i’m sure!! if you have an idea for a connection feel free to reach out !! :3