welcome to Midsummer
Welcome to the wilds of Faerie, where deception and intrigue wind through the courts of the fae. Revels overflow with excess, beauty, and betrayal, while the students of the Iris Academy learn to take their place in a world where nothing is ever as it seems. Now, as a blue moon rises, the reigning High Court prepares to make peace with the Undersea, but peace is not something that rises easily from the ashes. Beware wandering into a faerie circle, mortals, and never strike a bargain with the fae; they may not be able to lie, but they are always hiding something.
Midsummer is a character-driven, fae folklore, text-based RPG site, founded 3 September 2023 by admins SeaJem + M. We are a collective of writers from a variety of backgrounds and histories, and we value community, character development, and sharing a love of writing. Feel free to look around and explore—but don’t go too far, or it may be hard to leave.
Site Updates
September 2024 (IC Fall):
Fall is here in Faerie, as the Garden Party and related events continue. Several different plots are beginning as winter creeps in, including the Northern Rebellion, the Viola's Greatest Threat, and the Undersea's Traitor. Information on all of these plots will be released through September and October and all are availiable to all members. The Iris Academy has reopened, and some positions at the High Court have become available, largely those of advisors.
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Site Lore
The Faewild is comprised of four Cardinal Courts, plus the ruling High Court and the Undersea. The Seelie Courts, North and South, are slightly more traditional and straightforward (as much as the fae ever are), which their Unseelie counterparts to the East and West are duplicitous and wild.
Farthest south, beneath the waves, lies the Undersea, home to the pearl-encrusted Sunken City. The Undersea fae are a proud people—perhaps too much so, according to some of their counterparts on dry land. All of the Faewild is ruled by the High Court, whose power is personified in the High King and Queen. By wearing this crown, they take on the spirit of the Faewild; their hearts beat with the heart of the land. Beware, and choose your words carefully: the fae are a capricious and tricky people, as fickle as they are cunning, and their rulers are the most of all.
Guinivere Marcel
Admin
high queen of faerie
Assassin
SeaJem
24
Mortal
Fear will be your enemy and death its consequence
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Sept 9, 2023 16:35:22 GMT
Post by Guinivere Marcel on Sept 9, 2023 16:35:22 GMT
Amend a Character If you want to make changes to a character, simply post them here if their application has already been accepted. You must wait two weeks between amendments. If you want to change something that's not in the code, please contact the admins to discuss these changes.
Amendments cannot break or discount the established canon; therefore, it must be taken into account that the change will affect things in-character. For example, if a character's age is changed, this will affect their past plots and actions.
Use the code below:
[b]Amend a character [/b]
[b]Age change [/b]
[b] Name change [/b]
[b]School change[/b]
[b]Why are you making this change? [/b]
[b] How will this change affect your character? [/b]
[b] How will this change be implemented/explained IC? [/b]
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Sept 9, 2023 16:39:20 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2023 16:39:20 GMT
Amend a character
Age change 119 to 27
Name change
School change
Why are you making this change? To line up the timeline for a backstory plot that was decided on after he was created.
How will this change affect your character? It will make his trauma more fresh and present and therefore having a greater effect on his life. It will also set him up for a long-lost friends-to-lovers romance.
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Annalise Lorelai Luce
Fae Changeling
Combat Instructor
SeaJem
83
Fae Changeling
For I'd get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs as they tried to teach me how to dance.
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Post by Annalise Lorelai Luce on Oct 13, 2023 0:57:58 GMT
Amend a character
Age change n/a
Name change n/a
School change n/a
I am changing Annalise's special situations from nonverbal to partially verbal.
Why are you making this change? I was expecting this to be a character development step but she is more developed than I originally thought she would be
How will this change affect your character? It will mean that she can carrying on short verbal conversations with people depending largely on comfort level. Most of her conversations will still probably be nonverbal
How will this change be implemented/explained IC? She will have started speaking in her ballet studios. By the time she was an adult in the mortal world, she could have fairly regular conversations with her parents. In the undersea they all communicate via sign language mostly, so that wasn't a concern for her, and there will be select people in the high court now that she is comfortable talking to. There are a limited number of those people simply because she hasn't been teaching too long; as the time goes on this number will change.
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Kallias Greyson
East Court
Do it because they said you couldn't.
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Feb 17, 2024 19:42:26 GMT
Post by Kallias Greyson on Feb 17, 2024 19:42:26 GMT
Amend a character
Age change N/A
Name change N/A
School change N/A
I would like to change Kallias' court to east court, as I accidentally put Undersea in his app.
Why are you making this change? I accidentally put the wrong court on his application.
How will this change affect your character? It better reflects which court his family is from.
How will this change be implemented/explained IC? I haven't posted anything with him yet.
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Feb 26, 2024 21:07:03 GMT
Post by Bran Viola on Feb 26, 2024 21:07:03 GMT
Amend a character
Age change
Name change
School change
he's an NPC but I want to change Lucio's fc, even if it won't come up that often
Why are you making this change?
the goal was to find a very angelic, feminine man and I settled on Valery Kotvun, but have found someone I think suits him better: Dylan Fosket
How will this change affect your character?
he will look approximately 15% younger and 10% softer. Valery Kotvun is beautiful, but a bit too masculine.
How will this change be implemented/explained IC?
the power of retcon because Lucio hasn't appeared yet, and is also an npc so this isn't really set anywhere anymore.
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Sapphira Sokolov
North Court
countess of the north
Socialite
SeaJem <3
30
Fae
He got what he deserved. I gave it to him.
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Sept 5, 2024 21:16:06 GMT
Post by Sapphira Sokolov on Sept 5, 2024 21:16:06 GMT
Amend a character Tsukishima Kagome; she is now Luca's full cousin Why are you making this change? It will make things simpler. There was no practical reason to make them second cousins and its confusing me. How will this change affect your character? It won't. They call each other cousins anyway. This will make her Ophelia's cousin as well but everyone is related to the High Court anyway. How will this change be implemented/explained IC? We will just say that her aunt who employs Adem and his family is actually Luca's mother and that Vivica never existed. Other than that, it doesn't need to be explained. Adem Agni Yadav, Luca OleanderAmend a character Albert Alder Coult, Marcus Coult is now Sapphira's deceased husband. Why are you making this change? To further link the Coult's and the Sokolov for ~~plot reasons~~ How will this change affect your character? It won't, really. He never referred to his brother being alive that I remember. How will this change be implemented/explained IC? The power of retcon.
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