Post by PUN on Jun 24, 2013 9:23:59 GMT -8
give the demons and angels purpose ,
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, border-top: 5px solid #000000; border-bottom: 15px solid #000000; width: 450px; background-color: #ffffff; background-image: url(http://24.media.tumblr.com/0478144b9f16c95a37367d1aca56b45c/tumblr_mkfax8tDxp1s97ldco1_500.png); padding: 10px;] liam nolan kealey , 25. EDITOR. CLEVER. MOUTHY. LAZY. PROTECTIVE. ANTAGONISTIC. BOSTONIAN. BIG BROTHER. MARRIED. so, this is liam. he's originally from a dodgy neighbourhood in boston and had a bit of dodgy adolescence, which involved a fair bit of lawlessness and nasty heroin addiction, but he's on the straight and narrow now. he's been in brunswick for four years after he moved for college, and is staying even now that he's graduated. he's kind of a writer, holds a degree in english and is currently working for a publishing firm, so he pretty much knows his shit when it comes to literature and generally has a lot to say about it. though to be honest he kind of has a lot to say about pretty much everything. he's opinionated, and something of an intellectual who savours mental pursuits more than physical ones, which is a nice way of saying he's lazy but mouthy. he's also fiercely overprotective and sees himself as everybody's big brother. he likes to look after people, especially people who strike him as innocent or vulnerable, but paradoxically, he's not good at emotional or touchy-feely things, so his capacity to actually look after people in any meaningful way is pretty limited. he has a bit of a volatile temper, and though he works hard at keeping it in check he's not always as calm and collected as he'd like to be. liam can be impatient, hypocritical, jealous, irrational and slightly intolerant of people who are a little different from himself. but he's also not a bad person. his intentions are almost always good, even if his actions or words might not seem that way. probably his main redeeming trait is his exceptionally deep capacity for love - he cares too much about the people he holds close, and finds it very hard to let go of them. for friends, this is always open. he likes to take younger, slightly vulnerable sorts of people under his wing, because of his pathological need to be a big brother. he can be pretty antagonistic, even with the people he likes, so he can't really make nice with people who are easily offended and / or struggle to hold their own when it comes to banter. he prefers to avoid enemies, but is pretty good at making them. he can be kind of a tool for many of the reasons mentioned above, and it's likely that he'd clash or butt heads with people on a regular basis. as for lovers, that's pretty much closed. he's recently married with a baby on the way, because daniam 5eva. there's room for past lovers, because it's very probable he had relationships / flings / hooks up during the three and a half years of college before daniam happened, so ex's are very welcome. john "jack" holden , 28. BODYGUARD. ARMY VETERAN. BRITISH-AMERICAN. COLD. UPTIGHT. AWKWARD. DAMAGED. SINGLE. and here's john. or jack, as he prefers to be known by the few people who are close to him. he's an army brat with dual british and american heritage, though identifies more as british and in fact served in the english army for five years. he was medically discharged at the age of twenty three after he was shot in the head and miraculously survived. he was never the same after the incident, which basically shattered his already slightly fragile psyche and turned him into a cold, unfeeling robot of a man. after taking a year to recover, he eventually moved back to the states and became a bodyguard. he arrived in brunswick a few months ago now, after an incident in los angeles where his current client was nearly kidnapped in a restaurant. though he's been in town for a little while, he's still very much an outsider. he's pretty difficult. he's very jaded and bitter, and doesn't much like other people. crowds make him nervous and individuals make him contemptuous, so to say he's antisocial would be an understatement. his demeanour is rather cold and his default interaction with people is a mix of physical intimidation and long drawn out silences. he's uptight, stiff, judgmental, emotionally repressed and permanently uncomfortable. but at heart he's not bad. he's naturally quite a quiet, contemplative man. he's gentle, and only aggressive when forced to be. if you somehow manage to worm your way past his considerable armour, he's also endlessly loyal and devoted. if you can put up with his emotional scar tissue and social quirks, he's a worthwhile person to be around. so for friends, it's going to be very few. he's been in town long enough that he may have thawed out around a select handful of people. maybe ones he sees everyday, like neighbours or something. he's not one for autonomous social interaction, but if you talk to him, his ingrained politeness will make him talk back to you, so he could have a few acquaintances here and there. as for enemies, he's really just a little too apathetic to go about making them. it's possible he's disliked, because he really doesn't seem like the approachable type. however, the only way to really get under his skin is to present some kind of threat to his client, in which case, you'll probably get to taste the full extent of his wrath. re: lovers, jack is basically asexual. he has little to no sexual or romantic interest in anybody lucas "luke" harper , 18. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. ATHLETE. DUMB. NAIVE. EXCITABLE. PEOPLE PLEASER. CLUELESS. DATING. and here is the bb of my bunch, luke. he's seventeen, and was born and raised in indiana. he moved to brunswick for the beginning of his junior year (last summer) because his little sister died after a long battle with cancer, and his mom had several mental breakdowns. the aim of the move was to get away from it all, but that didn't really work. his dad works a lot and luke pretty much cares for his invalid mom by himself, but that's depressing so it's not something he shares with anybody else or even really lets himself think about too much. luke is fairly avoidant of the things that make him sad or uncomfortable, and much prefers to focus on the brighter aspects of life. he's extremely active - athletically gifted, even - and is always excited about something or on the move. he's pretty chatty and sociable, and it's nearly impossible to get him to shut up, but in the same breath he's also a little bit awkward, especially around girls. it can be hard to get luke to take things seriously, and even harder to get him to slow down and think for a second. he can be reckless and rarely thinks before acting or speaking, and even if he did think he probably wouldn't get very far. to be perfectly honest, luke isn't the brightest kid around. he's usually asking for some kind of clarification or explanation, because a lot of stuff goes over his head. his general lack of understanding at times and his excitable nature sort of combine to give him a rather innocent outlook. he's quite childlike for his age, and is generally a very sweet boy. he's generous with his time and affections, and very selfless when it comes to friends and family. he likes to make other people happy and will bend over backwards to do it... which can be a bad trait in certain situations, because he'll always be more of a follower than a leader and can easily be coerced into behaving like an obnoxious bully when he's with the wrong crowd. so yeah! luke needs lots of friends. he's pretty immature so he wouldn't have a lot in common with older people, but who knows? he's willing to give everyone a shot. mostly though, i see his friends being other high schoolers. he tends to stick with his crowd of jocks, but is definitely not averse to making conversation with anybody who makes the mistake of sitting near him in class or accidentally making eye contact with him in the cafeteria. he's fairly likable and pretty inoffensive, so he shouldn't be too hard to get along with. but then he also has the potential to be very annoying, so that could make him more than a few enemies. he's a hyperactive moron who regularly puts his foot in his mouth, so that could definitely rub people the wrong way. as for love, little bb's involved with the indomitable whitney collins and isn't the kind who'd stray, so for now, this is closed. evelyn "evie" banducci , 26. DENTIST. VIVACIOUS. INQUISITIVE. NOSY. WEIRD. SCATTERBRAINED. BOSSY. IMPULSIVE. MARRIED. here's evie, short for evelyn, short for evelyn banducci. her maiden name was evelyn kennedy, which yep, makes her the big sister of savannah kennedy. right now she's still in the derpy newly married stage of introducing herself with a random mishmash of her old and new surnames. evie grew up here in brunswick, but left for college in new york eight years ago and only moved back a few months ago. she's currently working quite happily as a dentist, and enjoys trolling her patients far too much. that's kind of evie all over. she's a very strange person who likes to say whatever comes into her head, even and perhaps especially if it'll make other people awkward. very few things are taboo with her and she'll just talk and talk and ask nosy, invasive questions and make strange comments until people get sick of her. though she has the capacity to be very annoying because of this, she doesn't have a mean bone in her body and even her attempts to make people awkward aren't done with any malicious intent. evie can act impulsively and without thinking, but she generally does so with the best of intentions. she's scatterbrained and distractable, but despite this seems to think she knows what's best for everybody and is always bossing people about. she's endlessly curious and pretty meddlesome, but overall she's just a nice, helpful person who wouldn't consciously hurt a fly. evie is the kind of person who isn't happy unless she has a great deal of friends. she grew up in brunswick, so it's probable she knows a good few natives through childhood / school. she meets a lot of people through her job (because who doesn't go to the dentist?) and is always attempting to befriend them, so new friends works just as well. and yeah. basically anything goes here. for enemies, there'd be plenty of people who'd find her annoying as hell. she doesn't generally go in for hate, but she can be pretty feisty when riled, which could be a lot of fun. basically the only way to get under her skin is to mess with either her sister or her husband, in which case she'll turn into a rampaging mama bear and will eat you alive. as for lovers, eh. we could maybe work in an ex or a high school fling or something, but she's been away from brunswick for a long time and is now married and fully committed to her husband, so she won't be straying. eleni "leni" vrettos , 27. LAWYER. GREEK-AMERICAN. SMART. INTIMIDATING. INTUITIVE. HEADSTRONG. PERFECTIONIST. SINGLE. this is eleni, though she prefers to drop the first letter and go by leni. she's a twenty seven year old criminal defense lawyer. despite identifying as greek due to her parents' strong influence on her, she was born and raised in brunswick, so long term residents of the town may well know her. she comes from a very rich family, was the stuck up bully of a queen bee all throughout high school, is ivy league educated and has connections to the irish mob, so it's reasonable to assume that she might be a little intimidating. leni is pretty intimidating when it comes right down to it, and not just because of what she has or who she knows. she's very clever and enjoys banter, but doesn't suffer fools and isn't afraid to call people out if they're wrong or... well, if they're just boring her. she's not as much of a bitch as she was in high school, but she's still not exactly an angel. she can be rude and offensive, but often only does so in the name of wit. she's a stubborn perfectionist who's hyper critical of both herself and everybody around her. it isn't wise to give leni anything but your best, or she'll dismiss you as nothing. she can be a touch superficial and more than a little vain and conceited, but that doesn't make her bad, necessarily. because though she might be abrasive, she's actually quite a vulnerable person. she has bipolar disorder and is constantly a victim to her own erratic moods. being in control is very important to her, so not being able to control her manic highs and then feeling so low she can't even force herself to get out of bed is very difficult for her. to those that don't know her well, she passes off these low spells as 'chronic migraines', because she doesn't want to deal with the mental health stigma. leni has a good few friends. some of them are likely fake ones or frenemies, but i can see her having some genuine enough companions. on the whole, she enjoys two kinds of people: those that she'll butt heads with and who can challenge her, and "projects". as leni has matured and recognised that not everyone has had her advantages in life, she's become quite generous with her time and money, and she kind of likes finding the submissive and / or downtrodden and treating them like charity projects. she likes to take people under her wing and encourage them to be better - or what she views as better, so... more assertive, better dressed, well read... She likes to take people and instil in them the things she values, basically. for enemies, oh boy, hit me with them. she can be kind of a bitch and used to be a mega bitch, so there is so much potential for some really good antagonism here. i'd love to get leni's hate on, so yeah. and for lovers, she slept around a lot in high school, but she also met the love of her life there. she was due to marry him this summer, but he was shot the night before the wedding, leaving her completely and utterly devastated. lovers is now open for leni, though obviously it would take some time before anything could develop here. daisy carolanne weaver , 21. HOTEL MAID. WALLFLOWER. CAUTIOUS. SELFLESS. GENTLE. MARTYR. VICTIM. MOTHER OF ONE. SINGLE. daisy here is your typical shrinking violet. she works as a day maid in a local inn, where she generally keeps to herself. she's a mother to four year old mason, who she had when she was seventeen, and doesn't really have much of a life outside of her son. she works and looks after him and occasionally puts in a volunteer shift with an organisation that helps vulnerable young mothers / mothers-to-be, which (as one might imagine) is a cause close to her heart. daisy here has had a bit of a rough life. she grew up very wealthy but not necessarily very happy. she was the oft-ignored middle child, sandwiched between her troubled big sister and her innocent baby sister. when she was sixteen, said big sister committed suicide, which daisy blames herself for. she was then sexually abused by her stepfather, who - lo and behold - is the father of her child. poor bb. some of the things she's gone through means she's inclined to see herself as something of a victim, and tends to get trapped behaving as such. she's also rather mistrustful of men for obvious reasons, and is twice as uncomfortable and socially awkward around them as she is women. which is saying something because she's pretty socially awkward all the time. daisy is very shy and quiet and prefers to be left alone, but she's not rude about it. she has friends and she's willing to make conversation with people. she's a very sweet and gentle kind of woman who's always willing to bend over backwards to help the people around her. she's extremely accommodating like that, and can indeed be a bit of a doormat. for friends, i think she'd have a few. women, because she really does not like or trust men, on the whole. with daisy it's either all or nothing, so she wouldn't have many casual friends. just close ones and then acquaintances. she's really very sweet though, so it's hard not to like her. which is why she won't have many enemies. i literally can't think of a thing for this because she avoids confrontation so much and just tries not to piss people off all the time. if you have anything for this, i'd love to hear it, but yeah. and for lovers, daisy does not have them, has never had them and doesn't really want them. she does have a final, though, so this is kinda closed, but yeah. conor declan callahan , 36. COP. IRISH. EASY GOING. EXTROVERT. FRIENDLY. GOOFBALL. FATHER OF TWO. HAPPILY MARRIED. and here we have my lovely irish expat, conor. at thirty six, he's a little older than most of the other characters round these parts, but never fear, because you're only as old as you feel and conor feels forever seventeen. he's a cop, but probably the most ineffective one in brunswick. he doesn't like confrontation and is fairly lax about people breaking the law, so often is just tempted to find some way to let any petty criminals walk with nothing more than a slap on the wrists. conor has been in brunswick for just over six years. he first moved here with his ex-wife, who was pregnant at the time. six months after their son was born, they divorced and she disappeared. he's now remarried and is living quite happily with his third wife and the kids, finn (6) and carly (4). conor is an easy guy to get along with. he values little more than a sense of humour and doesn't expect much from people, so as long as you can laugh at things, you're golden. he's always messing around or goofing off and often has trouble taking things seriously. he still laughs at innuendo and spends more time playing games with his kids than conversing with other adults, so it's safe to say he's pretty immature. but he's a good guy. he's friendly, exceptionally open and accepting, and a complete extrovert. he's very talented when it comes to wrangling people out of their shells and getting them to talk to him, so for that reason alone he's a natural at making friends. most of his friends would probably be people he or his wife work with, or other parents, because those are the people he's going to be around most. he can be a big brother, dad substitute, or just a buddy. he's pretty good at recognising what people need / want from him, and is usually willing to accommodate. he's always open when it comes to friends. but for enemies, it'd have to be something pretty special. it's really hard to piss him off in the first place. he can't stand treachery or backstabbing and it isn't wise to mess with his family, but otherwise he lets most petty annoyances slide. he's not a combative person and it's very hard to make your way into his bad books. but conor holds grudges for a very long time, so once you find yourself in his bad graces, you're there to stay. and for lovers, we're closed. he's had quite the interesting love life and he's on marriage number three, but that's all in the past and he's happily married right now. oscar "oz" woodall , 25. BUSINESSMAN. HEIR. SENSIBLE. MILD MANNERED. NUMB. CHAMELEONIC. SPINELESS. ENGAGED. this here is oscar, or oz as he is known to literally everybody who isn't his mother. he's twenty five and he works in business management. he comes from a wealthy, ruthless kind of family and has an ivy league education under his belt and a little bit too much money to his name, which one might think would make him kind of an asshole... but honestly, he's pretty much not. more than anything he's a bit of a pathetic character. even at his age, he's still kind of stuck under the thumb of his exceptionally domineering mother, because he doesn't really have much of a backbone and isn't very good at standing up for himself. he's also a bit of a strange guy and is kind of hard to pin down, because he's kind of... fake? oz is one of those people who is exceptionally good at recognising what other people want / expect from him, and is always willing to provide that. he's a social chameleon and alters himself drastically to fit whoever he's with, because he doesn't like the idea of being disliked. his default personality is a little bit dry - he's pretty sensible, cautious, doesn't take many risks or say anything too extreme, but due to some frankly worrying mental health issues he has it in his head that he doesn't really exist when other people aren't around for him to play off against. like i said, he is strange. but he's all right. and it'd probably be very hard to spot the weirdness that goes on in his head, considering how good he is at turning on the old superficial charm. so for friends, yeah... quite a few. anyone will do. literally anyone, from all walks of life, because of his fickle, liquid kind of personality. his friendship probably won't be all that close or genuine, but he'd get along with plenty of people on a superficial level. as for enemies, being as his whole chameleon bit is to pretty much avoid making them, i can't see many. i'm open for plots, but having people not like him is very uncomfortable for oz and so he'd go out of his way to try and fix any enemy plots we could get going for him. as for lovers, he's currently engaged to the lovely elsie sinclair, though considering she's cheating on him, that may not be a permanent thing. we'll see! so i guess for lovers, we're semi open. i should also mention that oz is bisexual (well... mostly homosexual. big old kinsey 5, at least). his orientation has caused him some small problems in the past, not least driving him to attempt suicide while in college, so it's not something he's comfortable with. but it might be interesting to explore man-crushes or something of the like. yeah. maximilian "max" schultz , 26. TEACHER. ENTHUSIASTIC. SOCIAL. so this lovely creature here is maximilian schultz, more commonly known as max. he's twenty six and works at brunswick high school, where he teaches french and whatever other language electives happen to be in demand. you see, max is a polyglot, meaning he has an innate and incredible ability to grasp foreign languages. he was classified as a genius when he was a child, and surpassed the intellect of the rest of his family by the time he was eight years old, which lead to him being an incredibly arrogant, obnoxious child. he has, fortunately, mellowed out by now and though he is a little on the cocky side, he's much more bearable to be around. max is extremely enthusiastic about his job, his students, learning... and well, life, pretty much. he gets excited about just about everything. he's very social and will talk to everyone, though he's relatively shallow and is often drawn to larger-than-life personalities like himself. he also has a few problems with attachment. his late parents were historians, but for academics they were very hands on and max spent his childhood being moved around europe so that they could study and research different things in different locations. all the traveling has left him with an exceptionally open and accepting personality, but he finds it difficult to accept that people he gets close to won't be disappearing from his life and so forming lasting friendships or relationships is difficult for him. he moved to brunswick a year ago for a change of pace and is pretty happy here and settling in well, but is still adjusting to the idea that this is a place he might stay. so yeah, max needs friends. and this is totally open, because max straight up doesn't care who you are, as long as you can hold a conversation he'll be your friend. like i said, he's drawn immediately to charismatic people, but he has something of a soft spot for the quiet, shy and downtrodden and likes to act as a savior and be the guy who coaxes people out of their shells. for enemies, oh god, well hit me with it. max can be exceptionally obnoxious. he's mostly grown out of his ego, but there are still moments where he can come across as a pompous jackass. he hates being wrong or not knowing things, so all you have to do is prove him wrong on something and he'll dislike you. sometimes he develops the capacity to laugh about it, but even the slightest trace of smugness in a correction will ensure he hates you for life. as for lovers, max's attachment issues meant he was a bit of a playboy in the past. or at least he got around a little bit. he's quite charming and all that. so maybe an ex or two? for a year he's been dating teagan riemer, one of his students, which is his secret, so anything serious is out. perhaps he may have dated as a cover, though? that could be fun. if you have a single gal that'd like to be or have been max's of-age beard, that'd be cool. c: nathaniel "nate" holloway , 45. PROFESSOR. INTELLIGENT. ECCENTRIC. ERRATIC. DOMINANT. SHAMELESS. FATHER OF 3. WIDOWER. and forgive me, but this is nate. he's forty five years old and is a professor at bowdoin university, where he teaches in a number of sociolinguistics related disciplines. to put it mildly... nate is awful. at his best, he could be described as a bully. at his worst, a narcissistic sociopath. he's arrogant and mean and selfish, and isn't really someone anyone wants to spend a lot of time around. that's fine with him though, because he doesn't generally want to spend time around anyone else. to be fair to him, he can care about others in his own slightly bizarre, acidic way and if you can tolerate his so for friends, i suppose not many. he may have a passing amicable relationship with coworkers. it's also likely he had friends over the past twenty years he's lived in town, but has probably managed to push many of them away at this point. so perhaps we could do something about that. anyone who still wants to be friends with nate would have to be very patient, but it'd be nice if he had a genuine amigo or two. for enemies, um, everyone. likely a lot of his students would hate him because he's such a bully and is inclined to belittle people in his classes just because he can. also likely a lot of other people wouldn't like him, because... yeah. he's just not really a nice person a lot of the time. and yeah. we can think of something for hate, i'm sure. XD and for lovers, well as i said, his wife just died. he was by no means faithful to her during their twenty five year marriage and had a bit of a penchant for jumping into bed with his grad students, so we can do something with that if you want. now he's officially widowed, he's been sleeping around a little bit. he's not discriminating about who he hooks up with - anyone he can somehow charm to bed with him, really. he's kind of going through a midlife crisis, so stupid young woman are his calling in life right now. he'll eventually fall into a dysfunctional relationship with his son's girlfriend, because yolo, but until then, this is pretty open. >.< vivian "viv" yorke , 19. COLLEGE STUDENT. BALLERINA. DETERMINED. SELFISH. BOLD. MANIPULATIVE. ENGAGED. at long last, we come to my bratty little viv. vivian is nineteen years old, just going into her sophomore year at bowdoin. she's majoring in women's studies with a minor in philosophy, because she's going for the most useless degree of all time, because... well, she never plans to use it to get a job. viv is filthy rich, engaged to a filthy rich man, and plans to do little more with her life than just be rich and enjoy it. viv is a little... difficult. in some ways she's kind of pitiful. her parents are very strict and controlling and don't allow her much freedom from their constant demands for perfection. she wants nothing more than to just get away, but she's been so crippled by their dictating her entire life that there's no way she could survive on her own. in other ways, she's just an unsymapthetic bitch. she doesn't let her vulnerable side come out to play very often, so the side that most people see of her is spoilt, arrogant, demanding, manipulative and cruel. she's catty and petty. she likes to play with people just for the sake of it. she was a bully in high school and though she's busier now she's at college and doesn't have as much time to torment people, she can still squeeze in a little bit of pointless cruelty here and there. not that she's all bad. vivian is just... a product of her environment. she knows what she wants and she doesn't care who she hurts to get it. she often takes her frustrations out on others. but... she is also fairly entertaining, and is usually the bold, blunt kind of girl who'll say what everyone is thinking but no one else has the she-balls to say out loud. once you've got her on your side, she is by no means there to stay - fickle and disloyal aren't even in it with viv - but you'll be well looked after while you remain in her favour. she is generous to her friends and definitely keeps them well protected. so for friends... few. only a select number of people are going to be able to put up with her, and to be honest, she's not the most tolerant of people in the world either. she tends to band together with other headstrong brats like herself where she has a choice. she may have a few casual acquaintances from classes or high school or whatever, but it's unlikely they'll be close. as for enemies, whoever works for this. she is pretty much fearless and doesn't ever recognise that there are certain people she shouldn't mess with. she'll go for anyone, if she feels like picking a fight. enemies can be people she's bullied or clashed with or who just plain don't like her. to be honest, this is just gonna stay wide open. XD as for lovers, viv is engaged. there is a wanted ad for her fiance here. she's also cheating on him with someone else, however. so she's pretty much got her hands full when it comes to love. christopher "kit" thompson , 29. COMIC BOOK ARTIST. GEEKY. FUNNY. SWEET. IMMATURE. STUBBORN. BIG-HEARTED. MARRIED. here we have christopher, or as he prefers to be known kit. kit's a nice, easy going kind of guy. he's a mega geek and has been all his life, which makes him something of a promoted fanboy because he now works in the comic book industry as an illustrator. kit would probably have a lot of friends, simply because he's good to other people. it's too much effort to behave otherwise, and he has better things to do with his time. he's somewhere between outgoing and introverted, so occasionally he might strike up a conversation / make the first move, but usually he just lets other people do so. it's probable that kit would have a good few friends. he's been in brunswick since he was eight years old, never really left it, so some childhood / high school friends would work. he's been around a while anyway so we can easily work something out for this. as for enemies, not a lot. he's not the most confrontational of people and it'd take something special to make him lose his head, but maybe we can figure something out, idk. as for lovers, he is happily married and that doesn't look likely to change for now. cassandra "cassie" nadeau , 34. CRIMINAL PROFILER. FRENCH CANADIAN. SERIOUS. GENUINE. MATERNAL. SKITTISH. TRAUMATISED. SINGLE. COMING SOON! brandon "bran" navarro , 20. COLLEGE STUDENT. SLAM POET. SOCIALLY ANXIOUS. FRIENDLY. GOOFY. ACCOMMODATING. SINGLE. COMING SOON! |
