Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls
welcome to Dire Tactics
Oddities are individuals born with extraordinary gifts. Because of this they are hated, feared and generally persecuted across the globe. In an attempt to give them a refuge the billionaire Theodore Ashford has created Ashford Isle. Presented as a Sanctuary for the special some believe their to be much darker motives behind his generosity.
Ashford Isle
A state of the art city powered completely by renewable energy, gorgeous modern building erected against the backdrop of a tropical paradise. It has all the luxuries modern technology can afford accompanied by the natural beauty and serenity only nature can provide. This city is open to all Oddities and their families, along with several hundred A.R.I. employees, it boast a modest population of just over 5,000 individuals consisting of a mix between both human and oddity. This wonderful utopia however is shaded in mystery both metaphorically and literally. The United Nations have dispatched several fleets of O.S.E. ships near the island, this gives the coastline a ominous view.
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updates
1/06/23
We would like to welcome our newest citizens to the island! David, Alice, Lynn, & Emmett welcome to paradise!
1/01/23
Ashford Isle is finally recovering from the massive hurricane and officially back open for business!
chapter 79: very prince charming of you all (tagx4)
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Apr 26, 2024 7:02:01 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Apr 26, 2024 7:02:01 GMT -5
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Dr. Cami Q.- Carter
Human
female
bisexual
married to Taylor
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Apr 26, 2024 7:10:18 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Cami Q.- Carter on Apr 26, 2024 7:10:18 GMT -5
She would never understand why her son insisted on dealing with the trash that was Daphne and yet here she was being forced to play nice with her. She fixed her outfit and she spoke to Hunter. "Your father's hair has done this to me," she said to him. Her son's own hair seemed to be in a state of being wild as she took another minute. "Please tell me that we are here to kill Daphne, look I know that we could get away with it and it's not like you need her for anything else anymore. You can't seriously love her, you deserve more." Daphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-Quinzell Mallory Q. Nottingham Hunter Quinzell
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Apr 26, 2024 12:22:55 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Apr 26, 2024 12:22:55 GMT -5
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Madison Nottingham-Quinzell
Human
Lesbian
loves her Mallory
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Apr 26, 2024 12:51:54 GMT -5
Post by Madison Nottingham-Quinzell on Apr 26, 2024 12:51:54 GMT -5
Families never ran smoothly but this one was way more complicated than most. So she was coming to the pier to meet Hunter, Daphne and Cami with Mallory not far behind. She hoped over time things would get easier to deal with but Cami was still unhappy with the situation. She wondered if anybody would be good enough for her boys but this was the reality they had. “Hi Daphne” she said when seeing her. “How are the little ones doing?” she posed. She’d leave Hunter with his mother for now but she did show a lot of concern for Daphne. Being an auntie was the closest she’d get to what her brother had but she did have such a pretty rock in her life. Mallory made everything worthwhile. Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell Hunter Quinzell Dr. Cami Q.- Carter Mallory Q. Nottingham
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Mallory Q. Nottingham
Oddity
female
lesbian
<3 Madison <3
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Apr 26, 2024 16:09:45 GMT -5
Post by Mallory Q. Nottingham on Apr 26, 2024 16:09:45 GMT -5
She'd said about five prayers before coming out to the pier because whenever Taylor or Hunter was involved she truly never knew what she was getting into and seeing Cami and then Daphne she quickly went and stood beside Madison. Shee tried to come and prepare herself for anything but at this point it was honestly up in the air. She also noted Hunter's hair, wow if him and Taylor were not reflections of each other she did not know what else as she eyed him. "Your father would disapprove of that hair," she said as she turned to Cami. "I don't even want to know." Her only other prayer was please, please let that hair that Cami seemed to have tied with bows belong to her and not anyone else. "So, sup?" Hunter QuinzellDr. Cami Q.- CarterDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-Quinzell
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Apr 26, 2024 16:23:46 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Apr 26, 2024 16:23:46 GMT -5
Leave it to his mom to come in and voice her mind which he had expected but it seemed his mom was also, well had something of her own going on as he waved to everyone as they arrived. He carefully looked at her and then noticed her hair and he laughed. "You did awesome blending it in," he said as he played with it a little bit, though the strands burned the tips of his fingers from the touch so he kept his hands to himself. "Mom," he said when he heard Mallory and he rolled his eyes. "Do you not believe in family?" he asked as he turned to Cami. "We need to fix your hate for Daphne, I mean it is a little much and well I love her? he said as he was questioning it still. Did he, like really really because their was a lot of ass on this island. "Yeah okay I love her so what do you have to say about this? Please keep in mind that we are all family and please do not use the word poor." He sat up so he was straight and spoke again. "Economical statuses are not important but what is important is inside the heart," he said as he took a second to fix his hair as the tips of his hands left a watercolor like inking in the strands of his hair as it began to drip down around him but he easily scraped it away with the bottom of his shoe. "Love is art mom," he said as he looked at her. "Do you agree?" Dr. Cami Q.- CarterDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-QuinzellMallory Q. Nottingham
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Dr. Cami Q.- Carter
Human
female
bisexual
married to Taylor
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Apr 27, 2024 6:43:30 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Cami Q.- Carter on Apr 27, 2024 6:43:30 GMT -5
Didn't she raise him better than this, obviously not as she listened to him and then spoke. "Fine," she whispered to him. "You're my darling so I will try but Hunter," she said as she looked at him. She paused thinking and then spoke to Mallory. "It's fine Mallory," she said as she watched Madison and Daphne. "You have a spell on her heart then?" she asked. She knew the ins and outs of magic so she needed the details now. "I know you've been with her the kids make that obvious but her glow seems different." She trusted her son to take care of this. "Her heart? Broken still?" she asked. Mothers knew everything, but it did not seem so. "Did you give her magic?" Daphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-QuinzellMallory Q. NottinghamHunter Quinzell
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Apr 27, 2024 7:38:27 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Apr 27, 2024 7:38:27 GMT -5
"They are fine," she said cautiously. It was hard to trust Cami anywhere as she would stare a hole through her if she thought that it would get anything done but for now she had to be nice. "Why is she here?" she asked. She still also only half trusted Hunter which made this a bit tricky as she shook her head. "Hunter does better when he is not around her," she said to Madison. "I know that the parent child relationship is complicated but he is better without her and not because of me," she said honestly. "If he starts regressing, my children do not need that." She had a little hope that he would not but she could not be sure. Madison Nottingham-QuinzellMallory Q. NottinghamHunter QuinzellDr. Cami Q.- Carter
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Madison Nottingham-Quinzell
Human
Lesbian
loves her Mallory
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Apr 27, 2024 11:24:40 GMT -5
Post by Madison Nottingham-Quinzell on Apr 27, 2024 11:24:40 GMT -5
Daphne did remark to her that Hunter did better when his mother wasn’t around. She also expressed concern that it would affect their children who seemed to be doing fine so far. Curiously enough Hunter sounded like Taylor did when he first got to the island and he was figuring things out with Cami. Perhaps romance did run in the family genes . So replying to Daphne she said “if you need anything let me know. We’ll be here to help”. Turning to Mallory she added “Taylor sounded like Hunter when he just got here and was trying to figure things out with Cami. History has kind of repeated itself”. Daphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellHunter QuinzellDr. Cami Q.- CarterMallory Q. Nottingham
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Mallory Q. Nottingham
Oddity
female
lesbian
<3 Madison <3
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Apr 28, 2024 8:08:14 GMT -5
Post by Mallory Q. Nottingham on Apr 28, 2024 8:08:14 GMT -5
She nodded to Madison. "Yeah except there was no evil step mother in the way," she said. This was weirder as a matter of fact because well did Daphne even want this? Did she even feel like she needed this? Maybe but alas. "It's that fucking romance gene," she said as she watched Hunter and Cami. She heard something about magic and she rolled her eyes. "Yes Hunter did you?" she asked. Daphne had been gone a while to New York right so maybe she had escaped it but maybe not as she looked at Madison and then at Hunter and then at Cami. He did look more prince charming than he had originally which scared Mallory. "Hunter, speak." Hunter QuinzellDr. Cami Q.- CarterDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-Quinzell
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Apr 28, 2024 8:26:18 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Apr 28, 2024 8:26:18 GMT -5
At least they were not fighting so he would take that. "No I did not give her anything, well kids," he said as he laughed. "Uhm, we went to see art and then she left me went to New York but somewhere in between all of that I didn't give Daphne anything. I mean we fight a lot but the time apart probably helped us." Romance was weird. "She took it from me, bottled it as a matter of fact and that's why she's been talking to dad. So you see I didn't give her anything but she does have it in a bottle, three or four bottles worth now? I guess even though she hates it she wants to keep it but I did make her a book," His hands much like his father's were his life line, his way of doing what he could not do with words as he leaned over and found his bag and pulled a book out. Bare covered with a tight binding colored red. "I thought for so long that art had to be something we did together but the children are enough for that, which I need to talk to Sadie, but this book is all for Daphne and the stories in it are hers to experience too." Her art, her power. "As she writes, her art will be active. You see her ability goes across many many ways and in her writing and in her painting she seems more comfortable so her stories we will be able to take a part of. You could say this is her sub chapter," he said as he got up and made his way over to her. "Choices," he said. Daphne had shouted from that mountain many a time. "You do trust me don't you Daphne?" he said right there in front of everyone. Let her stand on her word, let her be a woman. "In front of everyone who has a part in our story, you do trust in us don't you?" He had played it wrong with his temper and his control but he was going to play it right now. "You trust in life after death, trust in the magic of art don't you?" Let her take her trips, let her hold on to the life that she thought she knew for was she brave enough to step into a world of her own decision making, he doubted that. He'd always be just one step ahead of her because to love her was for him to be crazy, but one page at a time. "You said you wanted a love that would go down in history," he said as he took a step closer to Daphne. "A love seen by others," he said as he held the book now close to his chest. Her heart? His mother was right to question that as he could still feel her heart beating, for it was broken still, her time away in New York was evident of that but to fix it? Well he was only a side character in that story, the mains standing here around him. "What do you want Daphne?" Romance was super weird now, still. "Time to stand on your word right here in front of everyone." Walk in your path, stand above everything and make choices that would bind you forever. He knew in his heart of hearts that she did not want to love him, BUT come on surely he could make her right? YES, because he was evil. "Speak on our love Daphne," he said as he smirked. It was true history was repeating itself but the love story that was his father and mother with the happy ending no this was not that. This was the princess who had crossed the prince and taken his magic and thus trapped herself in a love where pain was all either of them knew. Dr. Cami Q.- CarterDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-QuinzellMallory Q. Nottingham
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Dr. Cami Q.- Carter
Human
female
bisexual
married to Taylor
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Apr 28, 2024 8:34:08 GMT -5
Post by Dr. Cami Q.- Carter on Apr 28, 2024 8:34:08 GMT -5
She went to go speak when the ribbons tied to her hair wrapped themselves around her mouth and the cross stiching on her outfight tightened around her body as she tried to actually reach out and tell Daphne to move the second that she seen Hunter move but the magic had turned on her, forcing her to sit there. Hunter was about to trap Daphne into a story that she did not want it seemed as Cami tried to move but was trapped as she shook her head and tried to scream again but nothing happened as the magic pushed itself back against Cami's will and turned Cami blue and finally she screamed. "Daphne move!" not knowing if it was too late or not. Daphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-QuinzellMallory Q. NottinghamHunter QuinzellLOL at Hunter Quinzell being just a complete shit fuck x.x
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Mallory Q. Nottingham
Oddity
female
lesbian
<3 Madison <3
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Apr 28, 2024 16:14:00 GMT -5
Post by Mallory Q. Nottingham on Apr 28, 2024 16:14:00 GMT -5
She was always on a bit of high alert anytime that she was near Hunter so to listen to him, it almost felt like there might be something in his words and it did not help that it made her scales ping a small amount of pain but nothing like when she had seen Daphne in New York. Did this young man even know what it meant to have sincerity in his words she did not know but she carefully looked at Daphne. Her personally she would not trust Hunter at all but then again she would never be so weak for any man to have kids with them so for the moment she watched and then she heard Cami and she watched as Cami went blue. "Ya'll need to stop fucking with this magic," she said. Daphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMadison Nottingham-QuinzellHunter QuinzellDr. Cami Q.- Carter
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Apr 29, 2024 7:09:38 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Apr 29, 2024 7:09:38 GMT -5
She felt strange as she heard him start speaking because it was the truth. She did do that but for him to speak on it now? She felt like that was trapping her but she did not speak yet as he went on. "Hunter you were literally pouring magic on the carpet floor of my hotel room I had no choice." On purpose did he do that on purpose as her hands began to itch but she still stayed. She wanted no gift from him and then he was talking about trust and she carefully looked around. She wanted to but she did not know if she could and that was going to be her do in. Her head and heart were in different places which made it difficult to really know if she could trust him completely still here he was doing some love confession or was it just a trick to get her to agree it was so hard to tell with him. "Want?" she said as she watched him but this was a lot. Doing this kind of thing in front of his family what would she look like if she said no after all that, that she had did to want to make this work but this felt forced, like he was boxing her to make a choice which they had discussed but he had not changed at all, no that part it seemed had been a lie but who was she to say no in front of all of these people. She carefully reached out and took the book from him. "You really want me to say it right here in front of all of them?" she said as she felt her fingers burn as she touched the book and that was when she tried to move as she heard the shout from Cami but she could not move at all. She grunted at him, her anger starting to take over even though it was the last thing that she wanted. She tried to move her mouth but it seemed stuck and she felt her tears coming again. She had not cried in so long but every time that she was around Hunter all she did was cry and that caused her to look at him and she wanted nothing but to burn knives through him and kill him. "You tricked me," she finally said to him as she tried to give him the book back but it seemed stuck to her. "Take this book back," she said as the pages began to open and flap carefully with the gentle wind and the edges of her fingers burned. "Ahh!" she screamed as she looked at him. "Take this off of me Hunter," she said as her face slowly began to cover itself with water coloring paints, coming in and out. "You tricked me into jarring that magic," she said as she shook her face again and watched as the water colors hit his face. "I am going to kill you, you fucking bastard." The water colors went everywhere splashing into the water and the book itself broke, the pages scattering along the island and the covering completely disappearing as well as the water colors soaked into the pages as she found herself free for a second and she went straight after Hunter. "You are no prince charming," she screamed at him and her anger activated her art as her hands covered themselves in a thick, hunter green paint color and she began to choke the life out of him. "You will never be a prince," she said as the pier began to change and the pages began to turn green as well. Madison Nottingham-QuinzellMallory Q. NottinghamHunter QuinzellDr. Cami Q.- Carter
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Madison Nottingham-Quinzell
Human
Lesbian
loves her Mallory
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Apr 29, 2024 14:22:47 GMT -5
Post by Madison Nottingham-Quinzell on Apr 29, 2024 14:22:47 GMT -5
What Madison had just seen way to quickly to intervene in was shocking. Cami has seemed to sense the danger warning Daphne and she was taking action on her own. The book was breaking up and not able to do anything now. Having seen that Hunter wasn’t taking the book of Daphne it did look like he was getting what was due to him. The pier was also changing as the scattered pages changed colour so all she could do was take hold of Mallory’s hand. “If we end up somewhere as a result of this hang on” she suggested. Cami who was now blue might well need to get them back here. So she shouted to Hunter “stop this right now Hunter Quinzell while you have time to do so”. He may have been being strangled by a pissed of Daphne but you could always do something. Dr. Cami Q.- CarterHunter QuinzellDaphne "DJ" Carter-QuinzellMallory Q. Nottingham
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