Hello! Welcome to my SYOC - a story where you submit the characters! The plot line to this story currently is: The Dumping Ground faces a new threat of being shut down. This time, the likelihood of saving Elmtree is scarily low, but who will be the first to find out? Mike, Gina and Tracy take the kids on a camping trip for an unknown amount of time, to keep them distracted and happy while the threat of being split up looms over them. Meanwhile, while the children are away from their home, Elmtree House is being inspected and judged.

Now, this is where you come in. There'll be a few of the current characters, depending on how many of you submit characters. I want this to be built around YOUR characters, though. To clear up a few things, here's some rules:

- No Mary Sues/Gary Stues. Basically, your character can't be the most beautiful, or most intelligent, or most friendly, and ESPECIALLY not all of them. I'm not saying they can't be extremely intelligent, but what would I do if two characters were submitted with the 'most intelligence'?

- Not everyone can have a crush on Liam/go out with Liam/be an ex of Liam. He's not a player, guys D:

- Be creative :3 I don't want to sound all strict and boring, I just had to clear a few things up. Your character can be any age, gender, have any disabilities, look however you want and be however you want. They CAN be beautiful and they CAN be smart, but be creative!

- I'll stop now. Promise.

- (First Beaker fic, btw D: )

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Appearance:

Personality:

Type of people they're friends with:

History:

Reaction to camping:

If I do include the TBR characters, who would your OC be friends with?

Family:

Other: (Things they can't live without, quirks, etc.)

I'll post the people sharing tents when I get enough characters, and I won't necessarily group them with their friends, but with people they don't like. Sometimes, not all the time. Just to mix things up. Submit as many charas as you like (Example: if your character has family or significant friends, do a form for them too.)


Gina slumped down into her chair in the office, head in her hands as she lay the letter on her desk with a sigh. What would they do? Elmtree had been at risk a few times in the past, but not like this. They had never been so determined and set upon closing down the Dumping Ground. Even now, the sound of giggling filled her ears and she thought of the children outside her room, the ones whose last hope was this home. They were so innocent and clueless that the place they called home, the people they called family could be dragged away from them at any moment.

Something had to be done. If the Dumping Ground didn't have much time left, then they'd make advantage of whatever they did have left. These last weeks that they had would be something to hold onto, even if it was the last they had. At that moment, as Gina pondered this thought, Tracy and Mike came stumbling into the room. Mike closed the door tight shut and they both took a seat.

"We've heard the news," Tracy informed her after a moment, a sad expression on her face. "It's all right, though, it's not the first time this place has been down for closing. We'll just-"

"No, Tracy," Gina shook her head. "It's different this time. They're determined to shut us down. There's not much we can do."

"But we have to do something! We can't just let them do this," Tracy insisted, leaning back in her chair and thinking hard. "There's got to be something."

"Gina's right," Mike finally spoke. "We can't do much about this. If they don't shut us down, they'll cut our numbers. We'll be sending kids away."

"I have been thinking though," Tracy sat up straight when Gina said this. "We could do something. Something for the kids, in case anything does happen. I'm not sure what exactly..."

The three of them mused over the possibilities; particularly Tracy, who was back to leaning against her chair with her eyebrows furrowed. Much silence ensued, until Tracy sat high and proud in her seat with her eyes wide open and a grin across her face. "Camping. We'll take the kids camping. I've heard loads of people say that it's a good bonding experience, and a perfect way for the kids to make their final memories with the Dumping Ground."

Nobody spoke.