GROUP:Whittemore Estate

AGE:28 yrs old

HEIGHT:5'11"

PRONOUNS:he/him

SEXUALITY:Bisexual

OCCUPATION:Stablehand

PLAYED BY:Mobius

WRITTEN:16 posts

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Full Moon On a Saturday Night (Open)

POSTED ON Mar 10, 2024 5:17:27 GMT -5

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Post by Cory Napolitano on Mar 10, 2024 5:17:27 GMT -5

Back in the day, Saturday nights use to be wild for Cory. Even more wild than Friday nights. The crew he ran with liked to live it up and he went with the crowd, no matter how bad the hangover was on the Sundays that followed. The day Cory walked out of the jail, he told himself that he wasn't going to walk back into the life he used to live. That didn't mean that he couldn't enjoy some drinks on a Saturday night, though. If anything, he looked forward to walking into a bar on a Saturday night more now than he did back in New York City in his heyday of debauchery. His new job was... demanding to say the least and he was having quite the time adjusting to it. In fact, he'd been quite tempted to skip out on drinks altogether and hit the sack early, but he'd heard through the grapevine about 21 & Cup and he thought it was time he checked the place out for himself.

Donning a leather jacket over his work clothes, Cory walked into the bar and was both delighted and excited to see that it was quite busy. He didn't know what the nightlife scene would be like in a town like Breckenwood. Not that he needed a nightlife to be happy now, but it did spark something inside of him that he hadn't expected but that made him happy. Despite how packed the place was, he luckily spotted an empty seat at the bar or, more accurately, one that was about to be freed as somebody got up to leave. Wasting no time, he weaved his way over to it and plopped down. It was an end seat, meaning that there was only a person on his left. A person that he turned his head to and offered a smile. "Mind if I sit here?" he asked in a friendly tone that matched his smile.

(Open to anyone, though preferably somebody he wouldn't have met at Whittemore [I'm thinking it's his first week on the job so].)

Carmen Moreno

GROUP:Townie

AGE:31 yrs old

HEIGHT:5'5"

PRONOUNS:She/Her

SEXUALITY:Homosexual

OCCUPATION:Veterinarian

PLAYED BY:Oxymelon

WRITTEN:4 posts

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Full Moon On a Saturday Night (Open)

POSTED ON Mar 11, 2024 14:45:46 GMT -5

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Post by Carmen Moreno on Mar 11, 2024 14:45:46 GMT -5

Carmen sighed contentedly and sipped her drink. It was rare that she had a night off. Especially on a Saturday. Between her career as a veterinarian and her side hustle as a singer, she almost never had a night to herself. Being a lounge singer was fun but it certainly kept her busy most weekends. It was what it was though, having enabled her to make enough to not only put herself through vet school, but kept her afloat while she'd moved from town to town until she'd settled here in Breckenwood a couple months ago. Hopefully, she wouldn't be moving on again anytime soon.

Why was she here then? At her place of work on her night off? Well the drinks were cheaper for starters, with her employee discount, but she had also come because the thought of going home to her empty apartment was unusually depressing. Normally, Carmen preferred her own company. She was rather mistrustful of people in general, whether they were a stranger or not. If anyone asked why, she would clam up, preferring not to answer. For once, however, she wanted to enjoy the bustle and community of a crowd of strangers and drink until her mind was numb.

Tonight was perfect, the local watering hole being far more packed than usual. Probably because on Fridays and Saturdays they had live music. Nobody famous of course, usually just a local band or for special occasions or holidays they would hire a group from the nearby city. Nursing the glass in front of her, she nodded her head when the bartender asked if she wanted a refill. She tucked her hair behind her ear while she waited and was only barely conscious of patrons shifting on the seat to her right. That is until the new person addressed her. Brown eyes peered at him and she quietly 'hmm'ed at his tattoos and mohawk. "No, I think they just left. All yours," she replied.

Cory Napolitano

Cory Napolitano

GROUP:Whittemore Estate

AGE:28 yrs old

HEIGHT:5'11"

PRONOUNS:he/him

SEXUALITY:Bisexual

OCCUPATION:Stablehand

PLAYED BY:Mobius

WRITTEN:16 posts

POINTS:

Full Moon On a Saturday Night (Open)

POSTED ON Mar 17, 2024 2:33:45 GMT -5

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Post by Cory Napolitano on Mar 17, 2024 2:33:45 GMT -5

[newclass=.breckenwood-post] --Breckenaccent: #a7a9c2; [/newclass]

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CORY NAPOLITANO

I know I'm not the devil 'cause I still can feel the pain

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Having watched the last person who had claimed the seat get up and leave, Cory was well-aware that the seat was free to take. The thing of it was was that he didn't want to make the girl uncomfortable or anything like that, but given her response he was still led to believe that she didn't care. How could she? At a bar, especially one so packed, it was difficult if not impossible to control who you had to sit next to. Luck of the draw. In this case she at least wouldn't have to put up with a creepy sort of guy sitting next to her. Just a friendly one. Maybe a chatty one. It would all depend once he got into the booze. Though when the bartender came over to take his order, he hadn't decided if he wanted to go the beer route or the hard liquor route so he told them that he was still trying to decide. Beer or something like whiskey on the rocks... that was a tough one. "Thanks, I wasn't expecting this place to be hoppin' like it is," he replied with a chuckle, taking a glance around the joint.

It certainly was lively. A lot livelier than Cory thought a bar in a town like Breckenwood would be, but considering they also had a nightclub maybe he hadn't given the town enough credit. "Is it usually like this?" he wondered out loud, but his gaze did return to the woman beside him so it sounded like he was asking her. At that point, the bartender returned, raising a brow expectantly at him. Apparently, from reading between the lines, he realized that drinking was a necessity to sitting at the bar. "You don't have a Peroni, do you?" he asked, eyes widening in surprise when he learned that they actually did. "Perfect! I'll have one of them then." Chuckling, he shook his head at himself. Could take the guy out of Little Italy but couldn't take Little Italy out of the guy.

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Carmen Moreno
notes;; n/a

Carmen Moreno

GROUP:Townie

AGE:31 yrs old

HEIGHT:5'5"

PRONOUNS:She/Her

SEXUALITY:Homosexual

OCCUPATION:Veterinarian

PLAYED BY:Oxymelon

WRITTEN:4 posts

POINTS:

Full Moon On a Saturday Night (Open)

POSTED ON Apr 4, 2024 8:20:18 GMT -5

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Post by Carmen Moreno on Apr 4, 2024 8:20:18 GMT -5

[newclass=.breckenwood-post] --Breckenaccent: #a7a9c2; [/newclass]

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CARMEN MORENO

Said, "Come on, girls, are you ready to play?
Let's have a little more of that swingin' today"

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Carmen shifted slightly to the side to make room for the new patron to squeeze onto the newly open bar stool and took a moment to look at him a little closer. Dark black ink spiraled out from under the sleeves of his leather jacket, weaving down his forearms to his wrists. Both sides of his head were shaved close to his skull and more tattoos were etched into the sides of his head near where a close-cropped mohawk sprouted down the middle of his scalp. Under the jacket was a uniformed shirt she recognised as belonging to the Whittemore Estate staff.

For a moment, she had shrank at his appearance. While she wasn't a stranger to more extreme looks in regards to hairstyles or body ink, in her experience they were only associated with trouble. People who thought they were tough or had something to prove or maybe as a message that they weren't to be messed with. It didn't matter, they were all the same and didn't mind taking it out on smaller, weaker victims. Growing up, she had met plenty of them. But if he worked at Whittemore then clearly Charles had met him, approved of him.

Swallowing a mouthful of her drink, she shook those thoughts from her head. She wasn't back home anymore and maybe the guy wasn't so bad. He seemed friendly enough, mulling over what to drink and speaking in a laid back easy tone. Her curiosity was peaked and when he mused to himself out-loud and she realised he was new to town like her. She couldn't help but take the opportunity to jump in. "Pretty much," she said, "At least on Friday and Saturday nights. Beauty of a small town...there's only a few places for everyone to go so everyone goes." She punctuated the statement with a shy laugh. "I'm Carmen, and you? Are you new here?"

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Cory Napolitano
notes;; okay actually I think these two could get along really well??

Cory Napolitano

GROUP:Whittemore Estate

AGE:28 yrs old

HEIGHT:5'11"

PRONOUNS:he/him

SEXUALITY:Bisexual

OCCUPATION:Stablehand

PLAYED BY:Mobius

WRITTEN:16 posts

POINTS:

Full Moon On a Saturday Night (Open)

POSTED ON Jun 10, 2024 4:54:11 GMT -5

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Post by Cory Napolitano on Jun 10, 2024 4:54:11 GMT -5

[newclass=.breckenwood-post] --Breckenaccent: #a7a9c2; [/newclass]

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CORY NAPOLITANO

I know I'm not the devil 'cause I still can feel the pain

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Cory's look was definitely out of place in the town. He was well-aware of that, and if he were to speak honestly he would have to admit that there rarely was a moment that went by where he didn't feel out of place or wonder what others were thinking about him. Especially at his workplace, but he couldn't blame those people for giving him the side eye. He wasn't the usual type who took care of their expensive horses. They had a right to be suspicious, even if it made him feel small. Heck, they actually did have a reason to be concerned about him. It was a reason that he somehow managed to keep from his boss when he was hired. His criminal record matched his appearance, but he was desperately trying to separate himself from that criminal record and his new job in this new place was the first step to doing exactly that. Hopefully the mind gremlins would eventually go away once he was more settled there, though it had always been notoriously hard for him to not be self-conscious.

It was because of how aware he was of those around him that Cory noticed how the woman next to him seemed to shrink when she got a good look at him, but he tried to act like he didn't notice, becoming engulfed in attempting to choose his first drink of the night. After his order was placed, he returned his attention to the woman, chuckling at her explanation as to why the place was busy. "Makes sense," he quipped, taking a look around at the bustling crowd. Both her introduction and question brought his gaze back to her, though it momentarily went to the bartender when his drink was brought over. After thanking the bartender, he nodded to Carmen. "How could you tell?" he asked jokingly, chuckling again before taking a swig of his beer. "I'm Cory. I just started working at Whittemore Estate, that fancy horse stable." Little did he realize that the explanation wasn't necessary. Everybody in the town knew that place, he just hadn't learned that yet.

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Carmen Moreno
notes;; Me too!!