Birchwood Isle Family Roleplay

St. Jude's Staff & Faculty

If you wish to play an adult at St. Jude's, you'll need to fill out the supplement and attach it to your application. At this time, adult roles are more needed at the Orphan Village than at St. Jude's. We ask that you please fill needed roles in the Orphan Village first. Thank you!

Needed Roles

We currently need to fill the following roles at St. Jude's. Please note the following markers that identify how high the need is for characters filling these roles. We ask that you attempt to fill HIGH NEED roles first but also suggest that if you intend to play more than one adult, you may want to mix up the roles you take on!

• 🔥 - NEEDED -- fill immediately if possible!
• 🌟 - HIGHLY WANTED -- fill these next!
• ➕ - OPEN ROLES -- fill other roles first!
• ➖ - NEUTRAL ROLES -- fill other roles first!
• ❌ - CLOSED ROLES -- all roles here are filled!
• 💚 - NEEDED VOLUNTEER -- fill these volunteer slots first!
• 💛 - SUGGESTED VOLUNTEER -- fill these volunteer slots second!
• 💙 - WANTED VOLUNTEER -- fill these volunteer slots last!

If you need further information on any of these roles, please take a look at the St. Jude's profile in Non-Kin Families.

• Heads of House
  • 🌟 Philips House
  • 🌟 Faulkner House
  • 🌟 Bennett House
  • 🌟 Thomas House
  • 🌟 Marcum House
  • 🌟 Vanderbilt House
• Dorm Parents
  • 🔥 Philips House Boys
  • 🔥 Philips House Girls
  • 🔥 Faulkner House Boys
  • 🔥 Faulkner House Girls
  • 🔥 Bennett House Boys
  • 🔥 Bennett House Girls
  • 🔥 Thomas House Boys
  • 🔥 Thomas House Girls
  • 🔥 Marcum House Boys
  • 🔥 Marcum House Girls
  • 🔥 Vanderbilt House Boys
  • 🔥 Vanderbilt House Girls
• Teaching Staff
  • ➕ English Language Arts
  • ➕ Mathematics
  • ➕ Science
  • ➕ Social Sciences
  • ➖ Physical Education
  • ➖ Fine Arts
  • ➖ Music
  • ➖ Drama/Theater
  • ➖ Dance
  • ➖ Foreign Languages
  • ➖ Computer Science/Technology
• Student Support
  • ➕ Guidance Counselor
  • ➕ School Nurse
  • ➕ Librarian
  • ➕ Academic Tutor / Learning Specialist
• Extra Curriculars
  • ➖ Rugby Coach
  • ➖ Football (Soccer) Coach
  • ➖ Lacrosse Coach
  • ➖ Baseball Coach
  • ➖ Dance/Cheer Coach
  • ➖ Drama Coach
  • ➖ Club Advisors
• Support Staff
  • ➖ Administrative Assistant
  • ➖ Receptionist
  • ➖ Janitor/Maintenance
  • ➖ Cafeteria Staff

Application Supplement

[b]What is your role at St. Jude's Academy?[/b]
[b]What Dormitory, Department, or Subject are you responsible for?[/b]
[b]Do you live on campus or commute?[/b]
[b]Do you have special training, certificates, or skills related to your position? What are they?[/b]

[b]Briefly describe your teaching, mentoring, or supervisory style:[/b]

[b]How do you generally build relationships with students?[/b]

[b]Do you particularly enjoy working with a specific type of student?[/b]

[b]Do you struggle with any particular type of student?[/b]

[b]Describe how you see your role in the St. Jude's community:[/b]

[b]Is there anything else we should know about your place at St. Jude's Academy?[/b]

Orphan Village Adolescents

The Orphan Village accepts adolescent residents from the age of 12 to 25. Young Adult adolescents are treated the same as teenage adolescents with the exception that they are permitted to engage with volunteer and career opportunities not available to younger adolescents. Adolescents under the age of 18 are not permitted to volunteer within the Village, but may be able to obtain jobs outside of the Village! If you read elsewhere on the site that the Orphan Village does not accept young adult adolescents, please notify an administrator by taking out a ticket on Discord. We will fix it. This is the most recent file and the final decision on this matter.

Application Supplement

[b]How long have you lived at the Orphan Village?[/b]
[b]Which House do you belong to?[/b]
[b]Are you currently enrolled at the Orphan Village Academy or BWI College?[/b]
[b]What jobs or responsibilities do you have at the Orphan Village?[/b]

[b]How did you come to live at the Orphan Village?[/b]

[b]How do you generally get along with caregivers and authority figures?[/b]

[b]How do you generally get along with younger residents?[/b]

[b]How do you generally get along with your peers?[/b]

[b]Do you prefer to be adopted or remain in the Orphan Village?[/b]
[b]Describe your ideal adoptive family.[/b]

[b]Is there anything else we should know about how you get along in the Orphan Village?[/b]

Member Application

Now that you've decided to join us, you're a few steps away from getting your first character approved! First and Foremost, we require everyone to have a member application on file. If you haven't already, please register an account with your Discord alias. Note that you must use a valid, working email address for this account so that we can reach you! If you register the wrong alias and want to change it, you can always change your Display Name. No biggie!

The next step is to copy the text in the box below. If you click "select," it will highlight all the text and then all you have to do is press Ctrl+C (or ⌘+C on a Mac) to copy the text. Next, you're going to head on over to Who's Who and start a new thread. (You can also click here to go directly to starting a new thread once you've registered an account!) In the subject line, please put your alias exactly as you registered it. For example, you'll see that our Admins Storm and River both have member applications filed in this section and that the subject is their name. Then, click your mouse inside the big text box and press Ctrl+V (⌘+V on a Mac!) to paste your application into the text box.

You need to answer every question. It might help to look at Storm or River's applications to see how they did it!

At the very beginning of your application, you'll see places that say something like [insert your alias here] or [your age here]. You're going to replace the entire thing so that it looks something like this:


Notice how in this example the square brackets have been removed and the entire prompt is replaced with the important details? It reads like a sentence, and that's what we want here. This is the only time you should remove square brackets. The rest of it is BBCode and we don't want to lose that! You should always put your answer outside the closing b tag on any question, too. Hit the space bar to put a space between the [/b] and your answer to keep things legible for all people reading it (and to save Admins time fixing your coding mistakes). If you have any questions, please take out a ticket on our Discord Server!

When you've completed the application, hit "post," check it over to make sure you got everything answered, and then take out a ticket on Discord to let us know it's ready for review!

[center][size=24pt]Member Application[/size][/center]

[center]Hi! My name is [insert your alias here] and I am [your age here]. Please use [your pronouns here] pronouns when referring to me! [/center]

[b]What do you hope to get out of being a member of Birchwood Isle?[/b]

[b]Did you come here looking for someone to care for your inner kid(s)?[/b]

[b]What will you do if you post a thread for your inner kid and nobody replies to it?[/b]

[b]What will you do if an adoption falls through for your inner kid?[/b]

[b]If you are playing an adult character, what will you do if you find an unanswered thread in which a child or adolescent is acting out?[/b]

[b]If the site needs it, are you willing to play an adult?[/b]

[b]Is there anything you want us to know about you?[/b]

[b]Link to your discipline sheet:[/b] [url=PASTE YOUR LINK HERE]click here[/url]


Adolescent Application

There are five main steps to completing your application.

• Complete a member application if you have not already
• Log out of your member account and register your character's name as First Middle Last
• Fill out the application template below
• Add an Orphan Village Child supplement if necessary
• Complete a Discipline Table and link it

We have tried to make this process as straightforward as possible for you. However, we are aware that there may be some tricky parts along the way. The following instructions are intended to help guide you through the process of creating your application so that we can get it approved for you as quickly as possible. We ask that all members at least attempt to do this without help. If you run into issues along the way, try to get this finished and then take out a ticket on Discord so we can address any and all issues at the same time.

Step by step instructions for how to complete the application are included in the following posts in this topic.

The very first thing you should do, before you do anything else is check the Who's Who board to make sure there is a topic with your name on it. This topic is your Member Application, which you must have on file before you can begin. Once you have confirmed that you have a member application on file, do the following in this exact order:

• Log out of your member account.
• Register a new account for your character with their First Middle Last name in proper capitalization.
  • You will need to use a new email address for each account you register. We recommend using Temp Mail.
• Click [Select] above the code box below.
• Copy the application text to your clipboard by pressing Ctrl+C (or ⌘+C on a Mac)
• Create a new topic in this board.
  • You may do this easily by clicking here. It will open in a new window.
• Click inside the big text box, then press Ctrl+V (or ⌘+V) to paste the application from your clipboard.
• Fill out the application but do NOT press [Post] yet!
• Proceed to the next set of instructions found in the post below this one.

Note: You may remove "Orphan Village" or "St. Jude's Academy" Application if your character is not for the Orphan Village or St. Jude's Academy. This section is explained in the following post.

The Application

[center][size=24pt]Adolescent Application[/size][/center]

[center]Hi! My name is [character first middle last name] and I in the [grade in school]. I am [age in numbers] years old. Please use [pronouns] pronouns when referring to me![/center]

[size=14pt]Basic Information[/size]

[b]Full Name:[/b]
[b]Nickname, if Any:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Birthday:[/b]
[b]Sex:[/b]
[b]Pronouns:[/b]
[b]Current Grade/Year in School, if Applicable:[/b]
[b]Current Occupation, if Applicable:[/b]
[b]Special Needs:[/b]

[size=14pt]Appearance[/size]

[b]Height:[/b]
[b]Build:[/b]
[b]Hair Color:[/b]
[b]Eye Color:[/b]
[b]Distinguishing Features:[/b]
[b]Brief Description:[/b] (You should answer this with 1-3 paragraphs about your physical appearance.)

[size=14pt]Personality[/size]

[b]What are your greatest strengths? List 5-10:[/b]
[b]What are your greatest weaknesses? List 5-10:[/b]
[b]What do you struggle with?[/b]
[b]What are your hobbies or interests?[/b]
[b]What do you really enjoy?[/b]
[b]What do you really dislike?[/b]
[b]What are your favorite things?[/b]
[b]What do you fear?[/b]
[b]Describe your personality in 100-500 words:[/b]

[size=14pt]Relationships & Behavior[/size]

[b]How do you normally get along with adults?[/b]
[b]How do you normally get along with teenagers?[/b]
[b]How do you normally get along with other children?[/b]
[b]How independent are you?[/b]
[b]How do you normally react when you get into trouble?[/b]
[b]Link to your discipline sheet:[/b] [url=PASTE YOUR LINK HERE]click here[/url]

[size=14pt]Orphan Village[/size]

[paste your Orphan Village application here, or remove this entire section, including the heading]

[size=14pt]St. Jude's Academy[/size]

[paste your St. Jude's application here, or remove this entire section, including the heading]

[size=14pt]Background[/size]

[b]Describe your history in 150-1000 words:[/b]

[size=14pt]Other[/size]

[b]Is there anything else we need to know about you?[/b]

Supplemental Applications

So far, you've seen the basic applications for Birchwood Isle. These applications give us basic information that we need about every character in your character's age category. If your character is a townie (otherwise not connected to either the Orphan Village or St. Jude's Academy), that's all the information we need about them. However, most characters on Birchwood Isle will start out at the Orphan Village or St. Jude's Academy. For these characters, we need more information! This will help us better care for your inner kid or help people with inner kids better understand how to interact with your adult.

We've attempted to make this process as simple as we can.

In the posts below, you will find supplemental applications for:

• Orphan Village Adults
• Orphan Village Adolescents
• Orphan Village Children
• St. Jude's Faculty
• St. Jude's Students

If you wish to play a character in one of these categories, the supplemental application must be included in your character's application! We cannot accept your character without it!

So here's what you're going to do to include this in your application.

• Start with your application open in a separate tab.
• Find the supplement that applies to your character.
• Click [Select] above the code box to select all the text inside of it.
• Copy the text to your clipboard by pressing Ctrl+C (or ⌘+C on a Mac).
• Paste the text to your application (press Cntrl+V or ⌘+V) where the application says [PASTE SUPPLEMENTAL APPLICATION HERE]
• Complete the supplemental application by filling it out completely.

Please note that the more information you give us on these supplemental applications, the easier it will be to ensure that your character is properly placed in the right situation with the right potential roleplay partners!

If you have any questions at all about how this should work, please reach out to the admins on Discord by taking out a ticket!