Post by carter robert vale on Jul 8, 2013 22:00:07 GMT -8
| [atrb=style,width: 420px; background-color: efefef; background-image: url(http://24.media.tumblr.com/0478144b9f16c95a37367d1aca56b45c/tumblr_mkfax8tDxp1s97ldco1_500.png); padding: 5px, bTable] CARTER R. VALE 28 | HOMOSEXUAL | HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER | TOWNSFOLK | CHRIS PINE THE INTERVIEW HELLO. THANKS FOR COMING IN TODAY. SHALL WE START WITH YOUR NAME? ”Hi, well I had nothing better to do. Most people call me Carter, because it’s a shortened form of my full name, which is Carter Robert Vale. Yeah it’s a strange mix, but blame my parents they’re the ones who gave me it, I know I do. Occasionally I get called Vale, but it’s really only Carter I answer to, feel free to call me something else, but I can’t promise I’ll acknowledge it.” THAT'S A NICE NAME. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? ”Well I’m a high school teacher, I teach two subjects, English and History, boring subjects I know, but I like them. Before I started teaching I worked as a moody mcdonalds cashier, I hated my job but it got me through college and to where I am now, in a great job with a great life, I think I love everything about my life these days.” INTERESTING. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FUN? ”Chandler. Confused much? Other than that great man, I like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain. Okay, okay, a serious answer, well the first one was serious, but anyway. I like guy things, sort of, football and cars, but I assume that’s only because I was brought up to like them, it just stuck. Other than that I enjoy going out, mingling with the drunks, becoming one of the drunks. I might do that a little too often, I like to drag the man out with me, well it’s not really dragging, he comes along without a fuss. I like to watch a great film, I also like to watch bad films and make fun of them, preferably with someone. I find my job fun, sometimes. I like what I teach so it only makes sense that I enjoy teaching it, right? ” WOULD YOU SAY THOSE ACTIVITIES REFLECT WHO YOU ARE? ”Sure, I mean how could it not? You can see that I obviously like to joke around, have you had anyone else quote song lyrics? Most likely. But that doesn’t matter, I don’t like to be too serious, it takes the fun out of everything, serious people have a serious problem, they don’t know how to have fun. And those that do, well they don’t do it right. People tell me that I’m a great guy to go out on the town with, the girls seem to love me but y’know what, they’re not for me, sometimes I like to lead them on though, I know, I know, that’s a bit harsh, but it’s fun and they usually don’t mind once they find out they had no chance no matter what they did. I’m usually a fun guy, I like fun, fun is great, but there are times where I’m serious, yep that’s right, Carter has a serious side, dun dun dun. It’s only sometimes when important things are going down. I’m trying to think up some examples now, I’m always serious when Chandler is mad, I’m kidding I can’t be serious when he’s mad, it’s too funny, he’s adorable. But if he’s seriously angry about something I can put my serious face on and take it. I try to be serious at school, but I don’t want the kids to hate me, so I kid around with them, they probably get away with a lot in my classes, don’t tell the important teachers. I’m a nice guy, at least I try my best to be, I do have a little temper but I control it pretty well, unless I’m in a bad mood or distracted or something like that. I can never hate someone, ever, I’d probably be able to hate myself if I was like that, but I’m not so that was kind of pointless. But yes, crazily hilarious nice guy with a temper, that’s me in a nutshell.“ A COOL CAT LIKE YOU MUST HAVE A TON OF SUITORS FLOCKING TO YOU, HUH? ”You know that guy I keep mentioning, Chandler? Well I love that guy so any attention I get from anyone else kind of goes right over my head. I’ve been told I come across as something of a player, I don’t know how or why, it’s not intentional I swear. The girls seem to love me, I think I mentioned something about them before, but of course I’m not into them, so too bad for them. I’ve been told that a lot of the girls in my classes have taken quite a liking to me too, it’s a little inappropriate, but none of them have acted on it, so I don’t really care. But yes, I only have eyes for Chandler, but that doesn’t mean I don’t look at other men, but that’s all I do, look, sometimes I even bring the man’s attention to them.” COOL BEANS. THEY SAY YOUR FAMILY SHAPES WHO YOU ARE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURS? ”Ah family, I’m not too close to mine, they’re all rather close-minded, weren't too happy when I told them about my boyfriend. I don’t really talk to them, except at Christmas, sometimes I visit, sometimes they visit, and it’s usually a good time. But no, I’m not really close to them. I do talk to my brother though, he’s a little more open minded than the rest of them, but we’ve always been close so it wasn’t such a big deal to him anyway.” AND YOUR LIFE? TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PAST. I'M EAGER TO HEAR. ”It’s not really that interesting, like at all, but if you really want to hear about it then why not? I was born in Chicago, to a caring mother and father who were and still are insane religious nuts. They hated me from the first day, I swear. They never really openly told me that they didn’t like me but I could tell, the way they’d look at me and the way they’d treat me, it wasn’t the same as they did with my brother. I grew up without much support from my family, I was the black sheep of the family, the only one I really got along with was the brother. But that was short lived; we had a falling out when I was fifteen, I don’t really know what happened we just got into a fight and stopped talking. That lasted a while. I don’t know, my life just wasn’t that interesting. It was never interesting and telling it now isn’t going to make it any more so, not even slightly. But I suppose I should continue. It went on boring and tiresome, I did the best I could at school, my parents continued to fail to be parent like and I kind of rebelled, or at least did things that I knew they wouldn’t approve of. Sleeping with pretty much any girl that would have me was one of the things I did, though that was also because I was into guys. I was a guy that was into football and cars, I didn’t want people to know I wasn’t what they thought I was. Back then I was so self-conscious and everything, it was a big deal when I realised it myself. No, I’m not going to tell you the story of how I realised it so don’t bother asking. It was about two years ago that I met Chandler, we were in a bar and I was trying to chat up some girl. It all happened really fast, but it was a great night. I didn’t want to admit it, but that was the night I gave up denying my preferences to myself. The next however long, went by fairly quickly, I was in this secret relationship with a man, something I’d never done before. I was still quite self-conscious of what people thought but when I realised that this was the man I could see myself spending the rest of my life with I came out. I told my parents first, they pretty much disowned me. My brother talked to them though and they came around a little, we still don’t talk much but I’m welcome at family gatherings. Everyone I knew was pestering me about it all so Chandler and I decided to move here, to Brunswick where we’ve been ever since, living a happy life.” What about a secret? Everyone has a secret. ”I don’t like secrets man. Like at all, I really don’t like them. But yes, everyone has one and I’m not exception. You may be wondering how my brother and I made up, since I didn’t tell you already. Well it goes a little like this. I was wandering the streets one day, the back streets because I was a tough guy back then. I was about nineteen at the time. I ran into my brother, like actually physically ran into him. I was super confused for a moment until I saw a necklace fall out of his pocket. When I asked him about it he told me to run and he took off. I followed him; I needed to know what was going on. I followed him to an abandoned shop, he had climbed through a hole in the side, it wasn’t too big but I managed to get through it too. It turned out that he was stealing from jewelry stores and selling the expensive things he got. He made me promise not to tell anyone about it and I didn’t. In fact he managed to get me to help at times, providing him with a getaway car, yep this means that he was doing it all on his own. Say what you want about him but he’s got skills. Please don’t tell anyone I was a getaway driver to a jewelry-thieving idiot. I do love the man though the crime brought us close again.” ALRIGHT. TIME'S ALMOST UP. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DREAMS. QUICK! ”I don’t know, I don’t think about this stuff. I’m more a living in the moment sort of guy. Though it would be nice to get married and have a family in the future. Yeah, that’s something I dream about.” AND THAT'S A WRAP. IT WAS NICE GETTING TO KNOW YOU. ”Thanks, I suppose.” BEHIND THE MASK HAYLEY | 21 | GMT+9:30 | THAT DAMN TARDIS | AMY, SETH, SAMMI, CHRISTIAN, MARK, SCOTT.  |
