Castorp,
Hans
Hans
Castorp, a German emigre, is a Hollywood wunderkind with a thick Teutonic
accent and shoulder-length dirty blond hair. He is having difficulty casting
his next picture.
Combat
of Conquerors
Inevitably
referred to as the COC, a tournament held at the end of each school year. An
advisory board to the COC analyzes every tournament around the country by such
criteria as the number of participants and the number of states from which
these participants come, and jumbles it all together and comes up with the COC
limbs: at certain points in a number of tournaments, perhaps at quaterfinals or
semifinals, or at very big tournaments even at octofinals, COC limbs are
granted. If you make it that far, you get a limb. If you get enough limbs to
stand on—usually two but some years three and some years only one if you have a
ghost limb or a wooden limb (don’t ask!) — then you are allowed to participate
at the Combat of Conquerors.
Cratch,
Bob
The
secretary of the Quilty Prep forensics team. Bob Cratch is a perfect choice for
the position: he is serious without being joyless, and he is capable of
maintaining accurate records, which is more than can be said for many adult
coaches. Even Bob Cratch’s appearance is serious but not joyless: tall and
beefy with his blond hair in a Marine buzz cut, bright red flannel shirt over
faded carpenter pants, giving off the sense of an apprentice lumberjack. This
is his second year as secretary, and in that time he has never missed a
registration deadline and never failed to obtain the maximum number of slots
for his team.
Davidson,
Disney
A vegan
freshman at Northeastern Agricultural Institute, and former Nighten Day LDer.
Devans,
Alida
At six feet
tall, the most formidable coach on the circuit aside from Seth B. Obomash.
Alida Devans, 53 years old, coaches speech at Brooklyn Behemoth. For Alida,
it’s not about competition, it’s about winning. As it is hard to foster a
mindless, prejudicial hatred unless you yourself are somehow tainted by the
thing you hate, it behooves us to point out that Alida was raised a Catholic.
Diamond,
Cartier
Nighten
Day’s contribution to Dramatic Interp. A senior with shoulder-length blond
hair, blazing violet eyes and a honey-soft feline voice. She usually dresses in
black and is tall enough and pretty enough to be a model; Tarnish Jutmoll often
gets the impression that she is only pretending to be a high school student to
bring back notes from the field.
DiBella,
Ellie
Once known
as De Belle of Debate before she settled down with Trat Warner. A Nighten Day
LDer, Ellie often manages to break into elimination rounds. Both Ellie
and Trat are seniors, and have already decided to seek early admission at the
same college. No one doubts that they will be buried together about eighty
years from now.
Dwindle,
Chip
Representing
Farnsworth Catholic’s LD contingent, Chip is his real—baptismal—name.
Presumably there must be a St. Chip, therefore, celebrated somewhere in
Catholic liturgy. Chip’s father, who often judges, is notorious for always
dropping Jasmine Maru.
Farnsworth
Catholic
From
Manhattan, Farnsworthians always dress similarly in blazers and chinos, a
recognizable uniform of exception in the otherwise uniform debate sea of
inclusion of dark gray and blue suits. To a degree Farnsworthians are
interchangeable cogs in their school’s attack on forensics, always running the
same cases at blazing speed, leaving nothing behind but a whiff of incense and
a hint of irony—they are Catholic to the core.
Coach: Haj L. Sworn
Debaters: Chip Dwindle
Fleece,
Had
Six foot
two with a linebacker’s solidly muscular build, he is golden and blond and
chiseled thickly from the WASPiest of blood stocks. Had is neither conceited
nor pompous about his debating success, any more than he is conceited or
pompous about his classical good looks or his consistent high honor roll
average or his perfect 1600 SATs achieved in his junior year. His lack of
conceit and pomposity have made him the most popular boy in his
Toulouse-Lautrec class, another fact about which he is neither conceited nor
pompous.
Fudless,
Gloria
Originally
known as Gloria What, the word that would best describe her first appearance in
Nostrum is undead. Her hair is dyed
black, and she wears black eye makeup and black lipstick. But her voice is deep
and rich. She appears—representing Bisonette Tech—at her first NDL in a short
black skirt, black tights, a black shirt and a black jacket; you can take the
girl out of the night, but you can’t take the night out of the girl.
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